13th Annual Wharton Women in Business Conference

Gloria Rabinowitz

President & CEO, GCM Group LLC (Moderator)

Gloria V. Rabinowitz is President & CEO, GCM Group LLC., a technology development, strategy, and marketing company.

Before the she founded the GCM Group, she worked for the DuPont Company holding executive level positions across DuPont Strategic Business units in the life sciences and fluoropolymer (TEFLON®) businesses for over twenty-two years.

She is Managing Director, Golden Seeds Angel Investor Forum, a women-friendly angel investor group providing early stage and growth capital to women entrepreneurs across all sectors.

She has judged business plans for The Wharton School’s Business Plan Contest and VIP Program; Temple University’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute; and for the French Government’s Cross Innov Business Plan Competition in Nice, France.

In addition she has held adjunct faculty positions in The Graduate Division, The Fox School of Business, Temple University as well Director, Enterprise Management Consulting also in the Graduate Division, The Fox School of Business.

Her professional and community involvement have included: Current President, Wharton Alumni Club of Philadelphia; Trustees Council of Penn Women; Board of Directors and Mentoring Program Chair, The Forum of Executive Women; Treasurer and Board of Directors, The Walden School, Delaware County, PA; Board of Directors and Business Development Chair for the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children; She has served on Advisory Boards for Temple University’s International MBA and MBA Programs; MidAtlantic Diamond Ventures of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute; Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs, Philadelphia, and PhillyStartUpLeaders.

Ms. Rabinowitz is a Founder of the Women’s MBA Network of Philadelphia.

Ms. Rabinowitz has her MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania and her Masters in Information Science from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

She is married and lives in Wallingford, PA with her husband. She has two sons, both of whom are Penn alumni.

Julie Anixter

CIO, MagaDesign

Co-Founder, Innovation Excellence

A thought leader and versatile innovator with over 20 years of global experience, Julie has helped leaders in the technology, defense, manufacturing, consumer and real estate sector meet activate and realize their innovation strategies. In 2011 she launched innovationexcellence.com, one of the largest crowd-sourced communities for innovation practitioners.

She has created and launched new products, services, and businesses for clients including Anixter Intl., AT&T, Chanel, China Grill Restaurant Group, Equity Office Properties, Fidelity, Glaxo Smith Kline, Fidelity, First American Data Systems, Morgans Hotel Group, P&G, Raytheon, and the U.S. Military.

She is a pioneer in the use of visual information mapping by organizations, and helped launch Maga Design Group’s proprietary approach to creating physical and virtual representations of collective strategic thinking. Her prior roles as CMO for Brand-image, Desgrippes Laga, Managing Director of R&D for Tom Peters, and Chief Learning Officer for Anixter International.

Julie is contributing author to books including The Big Moo with Seth Godin, The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching with Phil Harkin, and Beyond Branding with Nicholas Ind.  She is writing a book on Translating Creativity in the Workplace. Julie holds two degrees: a M.S. from Northwestern University in the Learning Sciences, and an MFA from University of San Francisco.

Linda C. Brigance

Vice President, IT Customs Clearance and Logistics, FedEx Services

Chief Information Officer, FedEx Trade Networks

As Vice President of Information Technology Customs Clearance and Logistics of FedEx Services, Linda Brigance is responsible for the strategic direction and development of key applications and technology innovations that provide enhanced customs clearance and global logistics for FedEx customers around the world. As Chief Information Officer of FedEx Trade Networks, Brigance leads all IT innovations and sets the technology direction for FedEx Trade Networks (FTN.) FedEx Trade Networks is a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation and a leading provider of full-service customs brokerage and value-added services in global distribution.

Prior to her current position, Brigance served as Vice President of IT and Chief Information Officer for the Asia Pacific Region of Federal Express. In this role she was responsible for the development and deployment of systems support for the APAC region as well as the network infrastructure and Singapore Data Center. She played a key role in the successful opening of the newest international FedEx hub in Guangzhou, China.

Throughout her career Brigance has served in leadership roles in FedEx global IT customer interface and systems expansions including manager of International Customer Automation in Brussels and Hong Kong and managing director of the Information Technology Division in Singapore.

Brigance began her career at FedEx in1983 as a programmer. Prior to joining FedEx Brigance worked for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Memphis.

A native of Tennessee, Brigance earned a degree in Computer Information Systems from State Technical Institute in Memphis, Tennessee and a MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Kellogg-Northwestern. Brigance served as the 2008 Chairperson of the Information Technology & Telecom Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and is currently a member of the CIO Executive Council.

Brooke L. Eplee

Director of Strategy & Corporate Development, Global Digital Business, Sony Music Entertainment

Brooke Eplee is the Director of Strategy and Corporate Development for Sony Music Entertainment’s Global Digital Business, based in the record label’s headquarters in New York City.

Prior to joining Sony Music, Brooke was Music Group Global Manager at Nokia, leading the end-to-end global music offering, from strategy and portfolio planning to implementation and rollout in 30+ countries, with strong emphasis on mobile entertainment.

Brooke earned an MBA at Wharton as part of the Japanese track at the Lauder Institute, and joined both NikkoCiti, Citigroup's Tokyo-based investment bank, and Bain Capital’s Tokyo-based team as the firms’ first ever non-native Japanese-speaking summer associate. Prior to Wharton, Brooke developed extensive experience in consulting and financial services with a special focus on Japan and East Asia.

Brooke also holds a BA in Asian Languages and Civilization from Northwestern University, serves on Wharton’s Employer Advisory Board and has volunteered her time to develop innovative fundraising events for various scholarship foundations and non-profit entities.

Stephanie Ferguson

GM of Windows Phone, Microsoft

Stephanie Ferguson leads the Product Management team within Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business. Her team sets the marketing strategy and drives execution across all audiences, partners and geographies for the Windows phone portfolio of products.

Stephanie spent almost twelve years in other roles at Microsoft prior to joining the Mobile Communications Business. Most recently, she was the Business Manager for Microsoft’s Business Division (MBD), acting as “Chief of Staff” to the division president, Jeff Raikes and then Stephen Elop. Before MBD, Stephanie was a director in the People and Organization Capability group within HR, where she spent two and a half years building strategies, frameworks and programs for leadership development. Stephanie also served as director of US Windows client marketing, where she was one of a small group of leaders who built Microsoft’s US Subsidiary marketing organization. In this role Stephanie was responsible for driving the launch of Microsoft Windows XP. Before that, Stephanie spent four years in a variety of product marketing roles in the Windows Server business group.

Before joining Microsoft, Stephanie spent six years developing and implementing IT solutions at IBM and within the insurance industry and two years working in the fashion industry in her family’s business. Stephanie holds an MBA in marketing and strategic management from The Wharton School and an undergraduate degree in economics and computer science from Dartmouth College.

Stephanie and her husband, Eric, live in Bellevue with their nine-year-old daughter, Peggy, and seven-year-old son, Robbie. In addition to coaching Peggy’s soccer team, Stephanie can whip up a mean canoli! Some of her other favorite activities include shopping, cooking, skiing, golf and art.

Deborah Nelson

Chief of Staff, Global Sales and Enterprise Marketing, HP

As chief of staff for HP’s Global Sales & Enterprise Marketing, Deborah Nelson is responsible for governing and overseeing operations across the global sales and marketing teams for HP’s $ 59-billion-a-year business. HP’s goal is to become its customers’ partner of choice for enterprise solutions and the leader in client loyalty. Previously, Nelson led worldwide marketing of HP’s services, software, servers, storage, and networking for five global business units. Prior positions include running global marketing for HP’s personal computers, technical workstations, handheld products, mobile and wireless solutions, and personal storage appliances.

Nelson has held a broad range of leadership positions over her 25-year career. Her experience spans software, services and hardware products, channels and partners, marketing communications, market research, and business development in HP’s Americas and European field and worldwide organizations.

Nelson was honored with the HP Recognition Award by the Connect user group for her dedication, support and advocacy of the HP user community. She received the Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award for her pioneering efforts to drive marketing excellence at HP.

Nelson graduated from Northwestern University and serves on the board of directors for Resource Area for Teachers (RAFT).

Caroline Strzalka

Business Development Director, Sesame Workshop

Caroline Strzalka is the Director of Business Development for Worldwide Media Distribution at Sesame Workshop — the non-profit that creates Sesame Street, and also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Caroline describes the work that she does at Sesame as facilitating “muppet diplomacy” — she looks at how kids and families are using technology, creates business arrangements with the technology providers, envisions the products to be created, oversees their rollout, and also maintains the business relationship — all with the aim of helping the world’s kids reach their highest potential. In her tenure, she has forged relationships with Apple, Google, Netflix, Microsoft, and Warner Interactive just to name a few. Caroline is a Founder of Intellitoys, a digital media toys company that she helped to start while at Wharton. She is also President of the Wharton Non-Profit and Social Impact Affinity group of New York. In her past, Caroline has been a strategy consultant for Christie’s, National Geographic, and the Philadelphia Museum of New York. Prior to business school, she was a financial analyst with Equity Capital Markets at Salomon Smith Barney. A native Philadelphian, Caroline earned her B.A. from Penn with degrees in Economics and International Relations and her M.B.A. from Wharton with concentrations in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management.

Cara Costello

Senior Associate Director, Alumni Services, Wharton MBA Career Management (Moderator)

Cara Costello is the Senior Associate Director of Alumni Services at Wharton MBA Career Management. Cara has a passion for supporting the short-term and long-term career goals of MBA alumni. In this role, she offers MBA alumni complimentary career advising, over 40 online career resources, and strategic on-demand career programs. Prior to her current role, she spent 12 years working with Wharton students and employers in the Media and Entertainment, Real Estate and Travel and Hospitality industries. This past year, Cara has been appointed to Chair a cross-school initiative tasked with increasing the quality of Student and Young Alumni Engagement. Before Wharton, Cara worked as Assistant Director of Career Management at Philadelphia University, the Career Development Office at the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, and Channel 13 in Rochester, NY. She holds a MS from the School of Higher Education at Syracuse University, a BS in Business Communications from State University College at Brockport, and a Wharton Marketing Certificate.

Helen Bamber

Private Wealth Advisor, Goldman Sachs

Helen joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 2009. She advises wealthy families, private foundations and endowments. Prior to joining the Firm, Helen worked as an Executive Compensation Consultant for 5 years and as a Reinsurance Intermediary for 2 years. She earned an MBA in finance and management from Wharton Business School and a BA in Biological Basis of Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a 4 year member of the varsity squash team and member of an NCAA Championship team. Helen serves as a member of the Advisory Board to SquashSmarts, Inc., a non-profit, after-school program serving underserved urban youth.

Daryl Drabinsky

Business Development Manager, Attention

Daryl Drabinsky currently works as the business development manager for Attention, where she manages new business, marketing, and client services for the social media marketing firm. Prior to Attention, Daryl was a brand manager at William Morris Endeavor, where she collaborated with clients including General Motors, Polaroid and Under Armour to deploy their brands within traditional and non-traditional media properties. Daryl received her MBA from The Wharton School in 2010, with majors in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management. While at Wharton, she co-chaired the Wharton Women in Business Conference, and founded the Early Career Club. She spent her MBA summer at McCann Erickson, working in the San Francisco office’s digital strategy and innovation group. Daryl matriculated into Wharton after completing her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University, where she graduated in 2008 with a BA in Political Science. In addition to the above experience, Daryl has worked for various media companies, including Focus Features, Alliance Atlantis, The London Times, and CityTV. Daryl currently serves on the board of the UJA’s Young Entertainment/Media/Communications division.

Jennifer Feinberg

Senior Manager, New Ventures Finance Team, PepsiCo, Inc.

Jennifer Feinberg is a Senior Manager on the New Ventures Finance Team at PepsiCo, Inc., a world leader in convenient snacks, foods and beverages. Ms. Feinberg manages PepsiCo’s joint venture investments in coconut water, including PepsiCo’s majority stake in O.N.E. Natural Experience.

Prior to Ms. Feinberg’s role on the New Ventures Team at PepsiCo, she held other roles within the Pepsi Americas Beverages business unit providing finance and strategy support to the Marketing Leadership Team. Prior to joining PepsiCo, Ms Feinberg worked in Investment Banking at Prudential Securities and as a Research Associate at the Economic Consulting firm of Nathan Associates.

Ms. Feinberg holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, Ms. Feinberg was a Leadership Fellow, a Graduate Assistant, an officer of the General Management Club and a member of the Women’s Rugby Team.

Jean Lee

Consultant, BCG

Jean Lee received her BA in Psychology, summa cum laude, from Rice University and her MBA from Wharton (Class of 2010). She joined BCG’s Dallas office in 2006 and rejoined in 2010 as a consultant in New York. During her time at Wharton, Jean was involved as a WWIB Co-President, Leadership Fellow, DGSAC member, undergrad Marketing TA, and the volleyball and rugby teams. Jean interned at Wetpaint (an online media and entertainment startup), and also co-founded a Chinese language program for adopted children. She enjoys snowboarding, traveling, film-making, and spontaneous road trips.

Laura Yablon Rapaport

Vice President, L&L Holding Company

Ms. Rapaport works at L&L Holding Company, a real estate owner, operator and developer in New York and Washington DC, where she is responsible for capital raising and also focuses on residential and commercial acquisitions and development. Prior to working at L&L, Ms. Rapaport was a director in the New York development group of Tishman Speyer Properties, where she was a project manager of Gotham Center, a 3.5 million-square-foot mixed-use development. In addition, she focused on residential development in New York and nationwide commercial acquisitions. Ms. Rapaport started her career at Lehman Brothers in their Global Real Estate Finance Group in London where she closed over $2 billion in transactions. She also has experience as a commercial leasing broker at Cushman and Wakefield. In addition to her work in real estate, Laura runs The Friends for Kids Foundation, a 501C-3 organization at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and is a co-founder and board member of Penn Women in Real Estate. While at Wharton, Laura was the President of the Real Estate Club, a house manager of Rebuilding Together and a member of WWIB.

Ms. Rapaport graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, and received her MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business.

Sarah Sugarman

Senior Product Manager, American Express

Sarah Sugarman is currently a senior product manager at American Express, managing the Centurion Card. Prior to this role, Sarah was a marketing manager on the Lending Marketplace Strategy team in the OPEN Small Business group at American Express.

Sarah joined American Express after graduating from Wharton in 2008 with a concentration in General Management. While at Wharton, Sarah was a Leadership Fellow, a Graduate Advisor and a member of the rugby team, WWIB and the Marketing Club. Prior to Wharton, Sarah worked in consumer trends marketing research at the international market research company GfK. Sarah holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Carol Curley

Managing Director, Golden Seeds (Moderator)

Carol Curley is currently a Managing Director with Golden Seeds, LLC, a network of angel investors focused on early stage companies founded and/or led by women entrepreneurs. Carol is also President of The Charian Group, LLC, a company formed to provide consulting services to financial intermediaries, non-profit organizations and early-stage companies with an emphasis on women-led or focused organizations.

Prior to forming The Charian Group, Carol was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Westwood Management Corporation, a registered investment advisor. Carol also served as a Senior Consultant to Berkshire Capital Corporation, an investment banking boutique, and as a Director in the Investment Banking Group of Prudential-Bache Capital Funding. Carol was an Adjunct Professor of Finance at The University of Dallas in Texas and Pace University in NY.

Carol holds a BA in Economics from Wellesley College, an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Ellen K. Hazen, CFA

Investment Officer, MFS

Ellen Hazen is an Investment Officer and Equity Research Analyst at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). She is the U.S. sector team leader for Consumer Staples c

During her tenure at MFS, Ellen has also served as the sector team leader for Technology and Financial stocks. She joined MFS in 1999 from Putnam Investments, where she served as a global equity research analyst since 1996. Prior to that, she held positions at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Morgan Stanley & Co.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.

Our portfolio managers are supported by our entire team of investment professionals in six worldwide offices, who apply a proprietary investment process that is research driven, globally integrated, and disciplined.

Ariel Goldblatt

Senior Associate, Apax Partners

Ariel Goldblatt is a Senior Associate in the Healthcare Group. She is based in New York and joined Apax Partners in 2010, specialising in the Healthcare space.

Prior to joining Apax Partners, Ariel was an Associate with TCW/Crescent Mezzanine and an Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group.

Ariel holds an MBA in Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from The Schreyer Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University.

Zineb Guessous

Managing Partner, Almena Partners

Zineb Guessous is the Managing Partner of Almena Partners, a boutique firm focused on investments in emerging markets. Almena provides investment management and due diligence services to a broad range of clients including private equity firms, fund of funds and high net worth individuals. It also selectively helps emerging markets funds access the US investor base. Almena’s international capabilities presently cover markets in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.

Prior to founding Almena in 2010, Ms. Guessous spent 15 years as a direct private equity investor at Alothon Group and Deutsche Bank (Latin America PE) as well as ABN AMRO (French PE). She has extensive experience in growth capital and buyouts in mid to late stage businesses.

Ms. Guessous holds a BA in Economics and Business Administration (with high honors) from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She also received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ms. Guessous serves on the Executive Board of Alwan for the Arts.

Mindy Posoff

Managing Director, Golden Seeds

Mindy M. Posoff has over 20 years experience in global financial services with expertise in strategy development and institutional sales and marketing. Mindy is currently a Managing Director of Golden Seeds an angel investing network dedicated to investing in early stage companies founded and/or led by women. Additionally, she is the founding partner of Traversent Capital Partners, a consulting firm providing strategic solutions for hedge funds and asset managers. Previously, Mindy was co-founder of New Market Capital Partners, a SEC registered investment management company focused on absolute return strategies, a VP at E*Trade and a Director at Credit Suisse First Boston. She currently sits on several boards including HighMark Funds, 100 Women in Hedge Funds, Fels Foundation and Salus University. Mindy holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA from Beloit College.

Jacqueline D. Reses

Partner, Arcadia Investments

Jacqueline Reses is currently serving as a partner at Arcadia Investments, a multi-family office focused on investing in alternative assets. She was until recently the US head of the Media team at Apax Partners, one of the largest private equity funds in the world. Her investments include Cengage Learning (Thomson Learning), Nelson Education, Hit Entertainment, NEP Broadcasting, and Intelsat.

Prior to joining Apax, Jackie served as the chief executive office of iBuilding, Inc., a real estate software business that was sold to Realeum. Previously, she was at Doughty Hanson and also worked for seven years at Goldman Sachs in mergers and acquisitions and in the principal investment area.

Jackie received a B.S. in economics with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the Investment Committee for The Brearley School, managing the endowment for a NY K-12 day school. She also serves on the Board of Trustees and the Investment Committee for the Peddie School, and actively manages their $300m endowment.

Jackie and her husband, Matthew, have three children and live in New York City.

Cynthia DeTar

Principal, BCG (Moderator)

Cynthia DeTar, principal, Washington, DC, received her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a BA in finance from Miami University. During undergraduate studies, Cynthia spent two years at the United States Coast Guard Academy. She joined BCG in Boston in 2003, transferred to the LA office in 2005, and to Washington DC in 2008. Prior to business school, she was a consultant at Deloitte Consulting.

Cynthia has also worked at Raytheon. Cynthia is a member of BCG’s IT, Operations and Healthcare practice areas. Since joining BCG, she has followed a more generalist concentration, but prefers projects focused on the transformation of a company.

Vanessa Z. Chan

McKinsey & Company

Vanessa Z. Chan is an Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company’s Philadelphia Office. Vanessa spends most of her time serving large materials and specialty chemical clients on innovation and strategy related areas. She is a leader of the NA Chemicals practice and is active in the firm’s global initiative to stimulate innovation across a diversity of industries.

Before joining McKinsey in 2002, Vanessa was an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellow in Germany, where her research focused on the interface of nanotechnology and biological applications. Vanessa received her Ph.D. from MIT in Materials Science and Engineering, where she was a National Science Foundation fellow and a recipient of a number of awards, including an IBM fellowship. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Vanessa Dager

Vice President, Latin America IBD Group, Credit Suisse

Vanessa Dager is a Vice President at Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in New York.

Ms. Dager joined Credit Suisse in 2010 from Citigroup’s Global Markets Latin America Investment Banking, where she focused mainly on M&A and equity transactions across several industries including consumer and retail, Oil & Gas and telecom. Ms Dager worked on the privatization of Colombia Telecomunicaciones; the acquisition by Groupe Casino of its controlling stake in Almacenes Exito in Colombia, Ecopetrol’s acquisition of Petrotech in Peru, the sale of Inkafarma to Interbank Group and Nexus Group in Peru, and the sale of Groupe Casino’s assets in Uruguay to Almacenes Exito.

Ms. Dager holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.

Jill Dailey

Partner, Strategy Practice, Accenture

Vanessa Dager is a Vice President at Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in New York.

Jill is a Partner in Accenture’s Strategy practice. She brings over 12 years of experience consulting clients on strategy, organic growth, and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Jill holds a patent for her work on one of Accenture’s key assets, the Merger Integration Playbook, and is the North American Lead for Accenture’s Strategic Planning and Growth Offering.

As a thought capital leader, Jill is the author of Preparing for Growth from Insurance Expansion: Who is the Newly Insured Health Consumer?, Growth Strategies in the New Reality: The Same Success Factors Really Do Still Apply, and The Growth Machine: Why it Pays to Build an In-House M&A Capability.

Before joining Accenture, Jill spent five years at The Chase Manhattan Bank in Private Banking where she set pricing for a $2.6B portfolio of interest bearing products, led global client research initiatives, and developed marketing strategies to attract new clients.

Jill received a Bachelor of Science in Spanish from Georgetown University, a Masters in Business Administration in Marketing from The Wharton School, and a Masters in Management and International Studies focused on Latin America from The Lauder Institute. Jill is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Karen Mazer

Principal, Deloitte Consulting

Karen Mazer is a Principal in the Philadelphia Office. Karen is the National Managing Principal, US Industries. She also serves on Deloitte’s US Board of Directors, and the US Operating Group. Previously, she was the Oracle Service Line Leader for our US Oracle practice, with sales and operations responsibility. Prior to this, she has had various leadership roles as Managing Director of the Philadelphia area Consulting practice, Central Atlantic Regional Manufacturing Lead, the Central Atlantic Regional WIN/Diversity Champion, Global Service Line Leader for our Enterprise Applications practice (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Baan), where she had global responsibility for the development and deployment of our methods and tools, including IndustryPrint, FastTrack, and the establishment of the Business Support Exchange.

She specializes in serving Manufacturing industry clients, with a focus on large scale transformation efforts, including technology implementations and operations improvement. Her clients include Fortune 500 manufacturing and consumer products companies, including Lockheed Martin, Textron, General Motors, Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP), Bank of America, Kao Brands, and WorldKitchen.

Ms. Mazer joined the firm in 1989 in our Boston office, after graduating with her MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School. She has her BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in Decision Sciences and Organizational Behavior. Prior to Deloitte, she worked as a Business Analyst for American Management Systems, implementing large-scale custom systems.

Shilpa Nayyar

Vice President, Credit Suisse

Shilpa Nayyar is a Vice President of Credit Suisse and Program Manager for the Investment Banking Department in the Americas. She is responsible for managing Credit Suisse’s IBD Associate and Analyst populations across 14 product and coverage groups in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

Prior to this role, Ms. Nayyar was an investment banker in Credit Suisse’s Health Care practice, based in New York. As a member of the Health Care group, Shilpa was involved in a broad range of M&A and financing transactions for clients across all sectors of the health care industry.

Ms. Nayyar received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and dual bachelors degrees in Economics and Applied Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Sara Schwerin

Managing Director, Citi

Sara Schwerin is a Managing Director in Mergers & Acquisitions at Citi, and currently leads the firm's Power & Utilities M&A efforts.

Since joining the firm in 1999, Ms. Schwerin has advised on transactions with an aggregate deal value in excess of $100 billion, in industries that include power, chemicals, industrials, and healthcare.

Ms. Schwerin is also actively involved in leadership initiatives at Citi. She is currently co-chair of the Diversity Committee for North America Banking, and co-heads the Wharton MBA recruiting effort. She has also served on the Junior Compensation Committee and the Analyst Compensation Committee over the last few years.

Recent transactions on which she has advised include Berkshire Hathaway’s $10bn acquisition of Lubrizol, Tenaska's sale of a minority interest in a portfolio of gas plants to Tyr/Chubu, and NRG’s successful defense against Exelon’s $15bn hostile bid.

Ms. Schwerin began her career at Chemical Bank in New York, providing debt financing to middle market corporate clients.

She holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1999), and a BA from Dickinson College, magna cum laude (1993).

Anne Libby

Founder, Anne Libby Management Consulting LLC

Anne is a management consultant who works with leaders to optimize general management practices in their firms, and to develop better systems and practices to: hire the right people, manage individual and team performance, develop higher level general management skills, and find solutions in challenging workplace relationships. Her passion for teaching and developing managers spans a 20-plus year career as a general manager, consultant, and senior client relationship manager in a major financial institution.

Her general management experience includes key turnaround roles in a money center bank and in a small Lower Manhattan business following the World Trade Center attacks. She has consulted to executives in investment banking, asset management, insurance, software development, consulting, real estate, and personal services firms, as well as in not-for-profit institutions.

Anne has an MBA University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where she studied finance and entrepreneurship, and an AB in Behavioral Science from the University of Chicago. Anne remains engaged with Wharton as a volunteer, fundraiser, and leader of the Wharton Women in Business Alumnae group. She has held leadership roles in Lower Manhattan community organizations, and is a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s New York Council.

Tracy Brown

CEO & Founder, Evil Genius Designs, Inc.

Tracy Kobeda Brown is the CEO & Founder of Evil Genius Designs, Inc., a spin-off company from the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Evil Genius Designs’ owns and markets a mobile gaming platform that allows any player's mobile or wireless device to engage in games developed by the company. The product is marketed under Get in Line Games which focuses on gameplay experiences for people waiting in lines. Tracy spent a summer working with Activision and is credited on James Bond: Quantum of Solace. She also produced an experimental alternate reality game, The Deep Sleep Initiative, which won 2nd place at Indiecade 2009.

Prior to pursuing her Masters from CMU, she was a corporate executive for American Eagle Outfitters, a $2 billion clothing retailer. During her time there, she was responsible for information security for the entire company as well as the director of information technology for the e-commerce business. She spent years as a technology strategy consultant and worked for Andersen Consulting.

In terms of board advisory relationships, she was the chairman and board director of the Merchant Risk Council, a non-profit organization that educated merchants on how to fight cybercrime as well as a board director for the National Cyber-Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA), a non-profit organization for industry, law enforcement and academia to collaborate on cybercrime topics. She is a professional speaker and has presented at numerous conferences as well as at Quantico for the FBI.

Tracy has been a semi-professional gamer in Call of Duty and Battlefield for the Pandora’s Mighty Soldiers (PMS Clan), the world’s largest all female gaming clan, and is the General of North American PC gaming.

In addition to her Masters in Entertainment Technology from CMU, Tracy holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania concentrating in Decision Sciences and Insurance/Risk Management.

Denise L. Devine

CEO & Founder, Nutripharm

Denise Devine has over 25 years of leadership experience in general management, operations and finance. She has particular expertise in developing technology platforms with resulting commercialized product applications, intellectual property and IP strategy. Her experience spans from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations, international consulting firms, manufacturing operations and software companies. Denise is founder of three companies and one not-for-profit organization. Denise Devine is currently Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nutripharm, Inc. a company with a robust technology platform that has generated a portfolio of composition and process patents to create innovative natural food, beverage, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products that facilitate optimal nutrition and lifelong health. Ms. Devine has executed strategic alliances with pharmaceutical companies, food companies and the USDA. Ms. Devine is also Founder and CEO of an affiliate company, Froose Brands, LLC which is dedicated to developing and marketing patented whole food based natural and organic beverage and snack products for the healthy growth and development of young children.

Ms. Devine’s prior business experience includes executive positions at Campbell Soup Company where she was responsible for executing close to a billion in financings and investment strategy, structuring and negotiating various capital markets transactions, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures in the food business, CFO of Energy Solutions International, a global software company serving the oil and gas industry where Ms. Devine helped prepare the company for sale. Within 18 months the company achieved 50% organic revenue growth, restructured its financings and completed an international acquisition. While at Arthur Andersen & Co. Denise Devine served as a member of the firm’s national closely-held business team.

Ms. Devine, a CPA, received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Taxation from Villanova University and a B.S. in Accounting from Villanova University, where she graduated first in her class. Married and the mother of three, she enjoys tennis, reading, music and fitness activities.

Angelique X. Irvin

Chairman, Clear Align

Angelique has 25 years of professional experience focused on technology driven businesses. Her experience includes successful corporate and entrepreneurial business launches at companies including Clear Align, Coviant, NEC, AT&T Microelectronics, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Angelique leads Clear Align, a company that designs, prototypes, and manufactures custom imaging and laser sensor systems for defense and aerospace customers. Clear Align’s develops day and night vision imaging systems as well as laser system systems used for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance applications. Under Irvin’s leadership, Clear Align has earned a multitude of growth and technology awards including the Inc. 500™ (twice), the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, and the SBA Minority Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Angelique was responsible for a new product launch at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she led a team that built out optical products line that grew to $500 million in five years. Prior to Clear Align, Angelique founded and built Coviant, a world-class electro-optics manufacturing company serving tier-one customers such as Intel, Unilever, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. She developed the intellectual property strategies that aligned the company with fortune 500 technology partners such as Agilent and Rohm and Haas.

Angelique graduated with honors from Alfred University, with a Bachelor’s degree in Ceramic Engineering and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.

Veronika Sonsev

CEO & Founder, inSparq.com

Veronika Sonsev is the CEO and Founder of inSparq.com, a social communication company. She is also the Co-Chair and Founder of Women in Wireless. In her 12-year career as a business development and strategy executive, Veronika has built new business lines, developed strategic partnerships and launched international markets.

Veronika began her Internet career at AOL. During her tenure there, she generated over $400MM in revenues through business development deals. In her last 2 years at AOL, she ran business development and strategy for AOL Mobile and managed strategic partnerships with Verizon and Sprint. After AOL, Veronika joined Jumptap as VP of Business Development. Veronika launched Jumptap’s business in Spain and in Sweden and managed Jumptap’s early advertising sales efforts — generating 80% of Jumptap’s total revenue in her first year. As a result of her efforts, Jumptap evolved from a search provider into a leading mobile ad network. Veronika also created Jumptap's video ad network and developed partnerships with Hearst, E!, Fox and other major publishers.

Veronika earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from American University. She serves on the advisory boards of Jumptap, Thinkstreams and Pocket Hurricane. Veronika blogs about her startup experience at 12monthstolaunch.com.

Ellen Yin

Owner, Fork Restaurant and Fork:etc

Ellen Yin is Co-Owner of Fork Restaurant and Bar, the acclaimed stylish American Bistro in Old City, Philadelphia and Fork:etc, the adjacent upscale gourmet prepared foods store. She is also author of Forklore: Recipes and Tales from an American Bistro (Temple University Press, 2007) which outlines Yin’s ongoing search to create and maintain an American bistro.

Since opening Fork in 1997, Yin and her partner Roberto Sella have received much credit for kindling the rebirth of Old City, which now plays host to the city’s most vibrant scene for dining and nightlife. Fork has won many accolades including being named one of the “Best New Restaurants” by Philadelphia Magazine. U.S.A. Today and the Philadelphia Inquirer have also raved about the new spot. The restaurant was featured in Wine Spectator and was named one of Philadelphia’s “Top Tables” by Gourmet Magazine. The restaurant has also received mention in national publications such as Bon Appetit, Food and Wine as well as Travel and Leisure.

Forklore: Recipes and Tales from an American Bistro describes Yin’s passion for the restaurant business which started during her school days when she worked as a server, bartender and in the kitchens of Philadelphia restaurants such as LaTerrasse and the White Dog Café while attending Penn during the day. After she earned her MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Yin worked as a management consultant to the health care industry as well as at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in hospital administration. Her career also includes stints in advertising, marketing and special events management. Knowing all along that her real passion was to create her own restaurant, Yin left her career to start Fork in October 1996.

Yin serves on the Board of Directors of the Arden Theatre Company, Old City District and the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation.

Diana Robertson

Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School (Moderator)

Diana C. Robertson, Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, previously served on the faculties of London Business School and Goizueta Business School, Emory University. She holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA. Diana’s research centers on business ethics and corporate social responsibility. At present she is conducting research using neuroimaging technology to identify neural activations in the brain associated with moral reasoning.

Diana received the Albert E. Levy Scientific Research Award at Emory University in 2007 and was a finalist for the Journal of Marketing 2007 Harold H. Maynard Award. Diana has also been the recipient of teaching awards at Wharton and Goizueta Business School. Diana’s work has been published in Management Science, Organization Science, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Marketing, and Neuropsychologia.

Lara Galinsky

Senior Vice President, Echoing Green

Lara Galinsky is an author, career expert and senior vice president of Echoing Green—the perfect laboratory in which to study meaningful work. With the mission to unleash the next generation of talent to solve the world’s biggest problems, Echoing Green offers seed funding fellowships to the world’s most promising social entrepreneurs. Over the last two decades, Echoing Green has invested $30 million in funding to 500 visionaries from around the world.

Galinsky is also the co-author of Work on Purpose, which provides readers with a framework for aligning their passions with their talents to achieve personal fulfillment and societal impact through their careers—and the co-author of Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact (2007).

Before joining Echoing Green, Galinsky served as Do Something’s national program director, working with 20,000 educators and 4 million young people to get involved in service learning and community service projects. There, she created the BRICK Award (now called the Do Something Award) to identify and financially support these young leaders.

Galinsky received her Masters in Communications from Columbia University and her Bachelors from Wesleyan University. She is a graduate of the Institute for Nonprofit Management Leadership Development Program at Columbia University, the Public Policy Institute Nonprofit Executive Program at Georgetown and Coro Leadership New York. She currently serves as board chair of StartingBloc.

Elinor Haider

CEO, NovaThermal Energy

Elinor Haider has 15 years of finance, real estate and government experience. In her tenure at NovaThermal Energy, she has led the company to successfully capitalize and execute two significant pilot demonstration projects (in development), initiated comprehensive intellectual property filings, and built a project pipeline that will accelerate technology deployment throughout the MidAtlantic. She has successfully transformed a start-up enterprise into a viable endeavor that will dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in urban areas.

Prior to NovaThermal Energy, Ms. Haider served as Deputy Commerce Director and Chief of Staff for the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development of the City of Philadelphia. Her primary responsibilities were to define economic development policy for the City of Philadelphia and leverage public and private sources of funds to achieve these goals, including innovative energy financing.

Prior to that role, Ms. Haider led the recapitalization of the loan portfolio for the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC). Through a combination of grant, debt, tax credit and securitization programs, Ms. Haider raised over $100 million in new resources, to leverage over $1 billion in private real estate transactions including a first-time award of New Markets Tax Credits. Ms. Haider has combined these resources to finance numerous institutional, commercial, industrial and mixed-use properties.

Ms. Haider holds a MBA in Real Estate Finance from the Wharton School, and MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Katherina M. Rosqueta

Executive Director, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Katherina M. Rosqueta is the founding Executive Director of The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. Before accepting her appointment at the Center in the Spring of 2006, Kat was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she served clients in the areas of strategy development, capability-building, and post-merger management. While at McKinsey, she led several employee volunteer initiatives to support consultant involvement on nonprofit boards.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Kat worked in community development, nonprofit management, and venture philanthropy. She served as a founding team member of New Schools Venture Fund; founding director of Board Match Plus, a San Francisco program dedicated to strengthening nonprofit boards; and program manager of Wells Fargo’s Corporate Community Development Group. She has held numerous volunteer and civic leadership positions including board president of La Casa de las Madres (San Francisco’s oldest and largest shelter for battered women and their children); chair of the United Way’s Bay Area Week of Caring, and co-founder and executive committee member of the Women’s MBA Network.

Her work and comments have been cited in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Money Magazine, and the International Herald Tribune. She is a frequent speaker on issues of social impact management and philanthropy and has lectured at the Wharton Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of California Haas School of Business, and the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management.

Kat received her B.A. cum laude from Yale University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She and her husband Michael Idinopulos live in Philadelphia with their three children.

Katherine Rosenberg

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Grameen America

Ms. Rosenberg joined Grameen America after working as a research coordinator at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Prior to this, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal where she worked in rural health and community development. Ms. Rosenberg holds a B.A. degree from Union College in American Studies and an MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

Nadya Shmavonian

President, Public/Private Ventures

Nadya K. Shmavonian has been President of Public/Private Ventures for more than a year. Her experience includes management consulting and executive coaching, strategic planning and evaluation, leadership and organizational development, meeting facilitation, infrastructure development, human resources management and program design. Immediately prior to joining P/PV, she worked as an independent consultant providing strategic direction and counsel to many private foundations and a broad array of local, national and international nonprofit organizations. She has extensive foundation management experience, most recently having served as vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation. Earlier in her career, she spent 12 years at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where she worked as executive vice president, following several years as a director of administration and a program officer in health and human services. Ms. Shmavonian is one of the first two non-family members of the Surdna Foundation Board, on the Board of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, on the Board of The Alliance for A Green Revolution in Africa (a joint partnership of the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations) and on the Board of Partners for Seed in Africa Fund (an initiative for South Sudan supported by Howard Buffet). She also serves as an Advisory Board member to the National Philanthropic Trust and to the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Ms. Shmavonian holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. in healthcare management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.