Operations and Strategy professional with 25 years of analytical and operational experience managing teams in marketing and finance departments in consumer-facing industries. She spent the past 16 years running her own pricing advisory firm, supporting restaurant industry clients. L.K. has simultaneously managed a Boston condominium building, including several renovations and a multi-year roof/deck replacement and fire escape construction project on behalf of 10 owners. Previously, L.K. held roles in strategic planning, finance, and brand management at Dunkin’ Brands for 5 years. She applied her analytical, process, presentation, and team-building skills in all of these positions, which required significant interaction with corporate counterparts and large franchisee organizations. She has successfully automated many work processes and is proficient in Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, QuickBooks, and many of today’s key web-enabled services and applications including Mailchimp and WordPress. L.K. has an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School and a BS in Econ/Marketing/Entrepreneurial Management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Experienced Sales and Marketing Director with over 20 years of experience. M.G’s diverse background most recently was in the event planning and consulting business in New York City working with clients to increase market share and revenue by creating tailored sales and marketing plans for her clients. She has extensive event planning experience working with vendor negotiations, budgeting, staff hiring, training, and execution. Prior to that, she worked in manufacturing for custom-engineered components with plastics, foams, and composite materials in the medical, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets. She also has experience in the retail market with luxury goods bringing products to market internationally via big box and specialty stores honing in on COGS, margins, and YOY growth. MG holds a Bachelors degree from California State University, Long Beach.

High-level architect and scientific research professional with strong communication and organizational skills and over 20 years of project management experience. Her work has been published in scientific and architectural journals. J.K. started her biochemical research career at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, where for over three years she developed assays and protocols for clinical and basic research projects in the laboratory. Her work at Harvard University for two years in the Department of Biochemistry was subsequently published in Nature Medicine. She is familiar with working at the bench, lab protocols, research, and experiment design. J.K. is also an accomplished architect in the Boston area with years of experience as a designer and project manager in the field. She has been responsible for architectural projects large and small, ranging in project costs of $100,000 to $50 million, both independently and collaboratively as part of a team. She is proficient in AutoCAD and other architectural and project management programs. She has a Bachelor of Art in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Maryland, College Park.

L.C. is a seasoned paralegal with 9 years of experience in both the corporate and non-profit sectors in NYC and the surrounding area.  Over the last 5 years, she has held positions at two nationally ranked law firms, supporting technology practice groups with respect to corporate transactions, legal compliance, and corporate governance matters.  In her most recent position, she became the firm’s first Tech Group Paralegal and supported over 200 startup clients.  She has vast experience drafting formation and equity documents, in addition to, overseeing cap table management.  In 2015, she joined the corporate practice at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati where she supported a team of 3 partners and 7 associates on all stages of financing transactions; the hiring partner went to a new firm within the year and recruited her.  From 2011-2015, she worked at Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, helping lower-income individuals navigate their legal issues; initially, she was an Intake Paralegal where she interviewed prospective clients and prepared case reports for matters related to housing/eviction, government benefits, disability, elder, and family law.  In 2013 she was promoted to a new role as a court-appointed advocate in the White Plains Family Court, where she provided oral and written translation services and court appearance advocacy for victims of Domestic Violence.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College with a major in Psychology and minor in Spanish.

Seasoned, enterprise software marketing professional with more than twenty years of experience. Respected as a manager, she is equally comfortable as an individual contributor. An unusually versatile writer, she has been a freelancer since 2009, producing web copy, data sheets, case studies, technical whitepapers, press releases, and email campaigns for long-term clients in software. Her most recent in-house job was as the Director of Marketing for a product group at an enterprise software company in Bedford, MA. She managed product marketing, communications, programs, inside sales, and a multi-million-dollar program budget. She was at that company from 1998 to 2009, recruited into different divisions to bring new product lines to market. From 1996 to 1998, J. M. was a Product Marketing Manager for a document management software company, recruited by a previous boss. Before that, she was the International Marketing Manager for Dragon Systems, a large vocabulary speech recognition software company. One of her earliest software jobs was at XyQUEST; doing technical support for their word processor, XyWrite. The eighth person hired, she spent eight years there, moving from support into marketing and then management. J. M. has a Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University.

A.K. is a driven, hard-working young professional with over 10 years of experience in administrative roles and 6 years of excellent liability supporting C-Level Executives. She is currently an Executive Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools for a municipal town in the state of Massachusetts. Prior to her role as an Executive Assistant, A.K spent 2 1/2 years as an Office Manager for Corporate Ink, a Public Relations Agency in downtown Boston. As an Office Manager, A.K. tackled many roles including serving as a Benefits Administrator and Bookkeeper for the company. Prior to Corporate Ink, A.K spent 3 years as an Office Administrator at PowerAdvocate; a technology company specializing in analyzing cost and spend intelligence for energy companies. At PowerAdvocate, A.K. was responsible for coordinating office and company events for a staff of 140+, maintained consistency and structure within the office, implemented software training of the company’s time and expense module to staff, organized and managed the company’s Co-op Program through Northeastern University and supported the company’s CEO and CFO with travel and calendar management. A.K. also has a Customer Service background working at several retail stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Steve Madden. A.K. is extremely proficient in Microsoft Office, G-Suite, and Adobe Creative Cloud. She has a B.A. in English from Northeastern University.

L.G. is a program manager with expertise in association management, marketing, and business operations. For the past 15 years, she has advocated the benefits of social connection, inclusion, and health through tennis, first as part of the sport’s national governing body where she managed capacity-building programs, and most recently, for the county parks department, where she managed facility operations, staff, and year-round programming and events. During her tenure, she received one of just two employee excellence awards presented annually by the countywide parks and recreation advisory board.  In years prior, she worked on behalf of municipal governments and local elected officials, overseeing an association’s national membership recruitment and retention program, and supporting delivery of member benefits through advocacy and education conferences, state chapter partnerships, and volunteer leadership committees. She has an MBA from The George Washington University School of Business and Public Management and a BA in English from Kalamazoo College.

H.R. (Dunn Loring, VA) has 25+ years of sales experience with both small and large pharmaceutical and medical diagnostic companies. She is skilled at cold calling, networking, and closing deals. She spent the first decade of her career working for large pharmaceutical companies, representing some of the most well-known brands. She then transitioned into medical diagnostics which allowed her to develop and independently manage her own 5 state territory.  She was recruited to represent 3 multi-state addiction treatment programs. For the past 3 years she has been a successful realtor with Keller Williams Realty.  She has a BA in Political Science from Dickinson College.

J.A. has 8+ years of financial analysis and project control experience with government contractors.  For the past 15 years she has worked in the real estate industry as a Realtor, and she is eager to transition back to a focused analyst role. As a Realtor, J.A. kept her contract review, cost analysis, and pricing skills sharp. During her time working with government contractors, she was regularly given new or problem contracts which required special attention or a delicate hand with the client. While working with three government contractors, JA was responsible for reporting, forecasting, billing, and vendor payment authorization for multiple contracts. She is proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point) and Adobe. J.A. has a BS in Business Management from Virginia Tech.

K.L. (Fairfax, VA) is currently VP of Accounting reporting directly to the CEO of a mid-sized public company. She has 20+ years of accounting, analysis, and business management experience. K.L. has been with her current company for almost 8 years, initially as a part-time Consultant, promoted to full- time Controller and then VP of Accounting. She manages a staff of five and is responsible for running accounting department operations, financial reporting and analysis, as well as budgeting and audit management for a home warranty company that enrolls over 60,000 new warranties annually.  She provided financial leadership as the company transitioned from a private to a public company.  From 1998-2004, K.L. was the Controller and VP of a commercial mortgage company with over $80M in annual revenue and over $600M in assets. She began her career in public accounting as an auditor with Arthur Andersen.  K.L has advanced Excel skills and is proficient in the use of various business and accounting software systems.  K.L. earned her MBA and BS in Accounting from Virginia Tech. She is currently in the process of reactivating her CPA license and expects to have an active CPA license by July 2020.