Women CEO In Reflection

Jennifer Marvin is Vice President of Women in Engineering at Online Leadership Training, a career coaching and leadership training company and a Senior Project Engineer at The Boeing Company. She is also the Founder and Owner of BossBabe Yoga a boutique yoga studio near Seattle, Washington. Jennifer also serves as the President-Elect of Housing Hope a non-profit ending homelessness.Jen makes mental health a priority following her brother’s death to suicude and her own diagnosed mental h...

Bridgette L. Smith recently retired from her executive role at Google and became Founder and CEO of Founder Playbook, a micro-accelerator for diverse founders where she helps them become investor-ready and get access to capital and Investor Playbook, a micro-accelerator for women investors. Since launching her popular Investing With ConfidenceTM workshops in May 2023, Bridgette has launched two new angel groups and has educated more than 3,000 women on how to invest in private companies ...

Cheryl Mobley is the CEO & Founder of reCalibrate, a boutique advisory firm for those who dare to lead - especially those who have what it takes to lead against the current. Her firm identifies chokepoints so leaders can take their organizations to the next level.Prior to reCalibrate, Cheryl was a hospital president, where her hospital consistently excelled and hit 99th percentile performance in their metrics which led her to create the Be99 Guiding Questions Framework to share with leade...

Liz Waller is the "CEO" of her family helping her husband, children & grandchildren navigate through the challenges & joys of life and soon audiences will get to know them when BAM FAM, a reality TV show starring the Waller family premieres in December on Amazon Prime Video.

Mariam Ispahani is the Founder and CEO of Sonali Bioplastics, a climate tech company solving the plastic pollution problem with plant based products which reduce carbon emissions leading to a healthier planet. Mariam is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded a few startups in the technology space and founded two startups in the renewable space. She is also a member of cohort 1 of Founder Pitch Week.

Stephanie Louis is the Co-Founder and CEO of SOTRO Innovations, a hair care technology company, launching a proprietary line of hair care tools designed to mimic a spa-like, professional salon experience in the comfort of one's home. Their flagship product is a patent-protected, first-of-its-kind collapsible micro mist hair steamer and hooded dryer combo that consolidates the ability to treat, moisturize and style hair all within one travel and storage-friendly machine. Stephanie won the gran...

Kelly Ann Winget is an innovative, emerging manager in the private equity space, and the founder of Alternative Wealth Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm focused on blended portfolios of alternative assets. Hailing from a fifth-generation oil and gas family, Kelly's upbringing exposed her to diverse groups early on. From working at a car wash at 15 to managing valet teams, radiology offices, demolition crews, tanning salons, and bounce houses, Kelly consistently sought out challenge...

Cheryl Contee is CEO at The Impact Seat Foundation, where she leads early stage portfolio companies to success, provides resources for underrepresented founders, and helps build a new investment paradigm. In addition to her role at the TISF, Cheryl is the Founder and Chair of Do Big Things, a mission-based digital marketing agency. She was also the National Board Chair for Netroots Nation, the co-founder of Attentive.ly, and a New Media Ventures board member. In 2023, Cheryl is launching the ...

Melissa Bradley is a General Partner at 1863 Ventures. Serial entrepreneur, investor, professor and researcher. Expertise in (impact) investing, technology, financial services, (social) entrepreneurship, venture capital, social responsibility and media. Significant start-up experience, successful investments facilitated for start-up and emerging companies, extensive board leadership and engagement and aspirational golfer.

Arlan Hamilton, founder at Backstage Capital and HireRunner.co, is a serial entrepreneur, author, and prolific speaker.She founded Backstage Capital in 2015 to invest in founders who are people of color, women and/or LGBTQ. Since its founding, Backstage has raised nearly $30 million and invested in 200 startups led by underestimated founders. Arlan is also the founder of HireRunner.co, a startup that connects outstanding employee talent with inclusive companies.Arlan published her book, “It’s...

My name is Carmen Febres Cordero, I am from Venezuela, I am a mom, wife, creative, entrepreneur, worker, daughter, friend and multitasking! These are the tags that I considere for myself. I am not a big fan of the numbers but I grow up in a town that have one of the best universities in my country, and I choose to study accountant for my bachelor degree, although my real dream was become a journalist. In order to start something similar I decided the last year, study a Master Degr...

Alicia Wilson, Esq. is the Managing Director and Global Head of Philanthropy for the North America Region for JPMorgan Chase. At JPMorgan, Alicia oversees the local philanthropic strategies across 40+ markets in North America, collaborating intentionally with senior leaders across the firm’s corporate responsibility and business units to drive meaningful impact across JPMorgan’s business footprint in the U.S. and Canada. This includes helping to steward the $2 billion philanthropic comm...

As president and director of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Fay Twersky is a trusted, values-aligned leader, working with the Blank family, defining areas of giving and directing philanthropic resources in service of a better world. Fay also serves on the Executive Leadership Team of the Blank Family of Businesses – the full portfolio of socially minded enterprises, including the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United, PGA TOUR Superstore, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and AMB West, a collection of...

Kathleen is an entrepreneur and investor focused on helping to find, incubate, and grow ideas for solving our greatest challenges. As a Partner and founding team member of Builders + Backers, Kathleen leads the Idea and Venture Development Team, working with hundreds of early-stage Builders to turn their ideas into ventures. To date, this team has deployed nearly $1.5M in funding to over 400 Builders.As an investor, Kathleen focuses on early-stage startups developing technologies that disrupt...

Currently, Dana serves as a Program Manager at the Emerson Collective. There, she manages a wide range of relationships between community partners, government stakeholders, philanthropic institutions, and equitable development entities as part of her work on the Sycamore and Oak equitable development project. Sycamore and Oak will grow from a 26,000 square foot retail village to a 250,000 square foot redevelopment site that includes Black and locally owned small businesses, office space, mixe...

Former Peace Corps volunteer Rahama Wright is a social entrepreneur who works at theintersection of beauty, business development, and policy. Her entrepreneurial journey hasspanned bootstrapping, securing venture funding, landing retail deals, and navigatingmanufacturing, supply chain development, marketing, and sales. She is the Founder/CEO ofYeleen Enterprises (Shea Yeleen, and the Yeleen Beauty Makerspace). Shea Yeleen, a socialimpact beauty brand, manufactures pure plant-based shea butter...

Nora Aly - Nora is Vice President of LMN Printing, a family business of Trade and Commercial printing specialists for over 45 years. Nora is also a Yoga Therapist, Yoga Teacher and Instructor. Studying yoga since the age of 15, she is in continuous education of Yoga Mind and Body practices and its connection. Today, Nora is focusing on the healing of physical, emotional and mental health through Yoga Therapy with her clients. Nur Health www.Nuryoga1018.com

Allison London Brown is the CEO and co-founder of LUMINELLE, and a co-creator of the device, which is an advanced endoscopic system with a camera and biopsy tool that allows physicians to perform gynecological procedures in their offices more safely and more efficiently. With Luminelle, women and their doctors can identify problems sooner and get a prompt diagnosis of cancerous tissues without hospitalizations.Allison has 20+ years of diverse medical device, consumer and pharmaceutical experi...

Lisa Curtis is the Founder and CEO of Kuli Kuli Foods, the leading brand pioneering the sustainable superfood moringa. Lisa began working on Kuli Kuli while serving in the Peace Corps and has grown it into a multi-million dollar social enterprise. Previously, Lisa wrote political briefings for President Obama in the White House, served as a United Nations Youth Advisor, and worked at an impact investment firm. She has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Inc Magazine’s Top ...

Angie Mizzell is an author, speaker, and conversation catalyst who helps high-achieving women release a lifetime of ‘shoulds’, pave their own way, and come home to themselves. Her memoir, "Girl in the Spotlight", is a coming of age story about breaking cycles of the past and stepping into a life of courageous freedom. Through her speaking engagements, memoir, and weekly newsletter Hello Friday, Angie shares personal stories that encourage readers to let go of false identities, meet and face g...