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> About Us > 2009-2010 Board of Directors
2009-2010 Board of Directors
Beverly Holmes - Chair |  | | | Berverly Holmes |
Founder and President, B A Holmes & Associates
Beverly Holmes is a business leader, strategist, author and activist for women and their financial security. In December, she completed a 25-year career with MassMutual Financial Group. She was honored with her company's prestigious President's Leadership Award in 2000 after the successful creation, development and growth of a business designed to provide 401(k) retirement plans to small and medium size businesses. Under her leadership the new retirement business grew to $4 billion of assets under management. Today it continues as a profitable, growth business for the company. She has a passion for and interest in economic development opportunities for women and has traveled nationally and internationally speaking and advising on economic and retirement security solutions for women. She is a board member of WISER (Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement) and one of the first inductees into the Twenty First Century Women Business Leaders Hall of Fame by Bay Path College. She holds a Bachelors and a Masters degree from Southern New Hampshire University and Cambridge College respectively |
Margaret Smith - Immediate Past Chair |  | | | Margaret Smith |
President, Domus (Los Gatos, CA)
Margaret Smith is the CEO of Domus, one of the San Francisco Bay Area s largest independently owned kitchen and home accessories stores. In 2000, the Women s Hall of Fame recognized her work as a past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and for her work in helping establish a billion-dollar loan fund for women entrepreneurs with Wells Fargo Bank. In 1997, Margaret was elected as one of five world wide vice presidents of Les Femme Chefs D Entreprises Mondiales, a 50 year old international organization representing women entrepreneurs from 38 countries. |
Gayle Watson - Treasurer |  | | | Gayle Watson |
President, Performance Solutions Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Gayle Watson is immediate past-president of the National Association of Women Business Owners and president of Performance Solutions, Inc., a full-service management consulting company established in 1991, specializing in providing performance management programs for the financial industry, and customer care call centers. She is the co-author of the Supervisory Training Program published by American Bankers Association, and a contributing author to the book, Global Impact: Award Winning Performance Programs Around the World, by Sylvia B. Odenwald and William G. Matheny. |
Sheila Brooks - Vice-Chair for Public Policy |  | | | Sheila Brooks |
Founder, President and CEO,
SBR Communications, LLC (Washington, DC)
Sheila Brooks is an Emmy-award winning journalist, entrepreneur, and dedicated advocate for minority and women's issues and small businesses. Ms. Brooks is founder, president and CEO of SRB Communications, LLC, a full-service media and communications agency and post-production facility in Washington, DC. Celebrating 19 years in business, SRB Communications is an award-winning agency that provides creative, branding, and post-production services for the client s print, broadcast and online needs. The agency specializes in social and community issues, especially diversity, education, health care, the environment and public policy. SRB Communications primarily produces and manages cross-platform advertising and integrated communications campaigns for a diverse group of clients, including some of the nation's leading corporations, the Federal government, municipalities, the military, nonprofit organizations and political candidates. Prior to starting her company in 1990, Ms. Brooks built a distinguished television career as a news director, reporter, anchor, and documentary producer at CBS, NBC, PBS and Fox owned-and operated and affiliate TV stations across the country. She has won many awards for journalism excellence and entrepreneurship, and she is a nationally recognized speaker on women and business issues. She serves as National Spokesperson for "Accelerating the Growth of Businesses Owned by Women of Color" Research Project, a multi-year research effort to help "women of color" entrepreneurs grow their businesses, sponsored by the Center for Women's Business Research and Babson College. Ms. Brooks has a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications with a major in broadcast journalism from the University of Washington in Seattle, and a Master of Arts degree in political science from Howard University in Washington, DC. She is an alumna of the Leadership Greater Washington program, the Minority Business Executive Programs at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business and Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business. |
Candida Brush, Vice-Chair for Research |  | | | Candida Brush |
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Babson College (Babson Park, MA)
Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division, holds the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship, and visiting Adjunct to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Dr. Brush has authored four books, four edited volumes and more than 90 publications. A recent book, Clearing the Hurdles, provides strategies and approaches for growth oriented women entrepreneurs. Her research investigates women's growth businesses and resource acquisition strategies of in emerging ventures. She is a founding member of the Diana Project International, which is the 2007 recipient of the FSF-NUTEK International Research Award for Outstanding Contribution to Entrepreneurship Research. She was recently acknowledged as a 21st Century Scholar by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. Dr. Brush serves on several for profit and non-profit boards, and is a frequent mentor for doctoral students and entrepreneurs. |
Jana Matthews, Vice-Chair for Corporate Development |  | | | Jana Matthews |
President and CEO, Jana Matthews Group (Boulder, CO)
Dr. Jana Matthews, founder of The Jana Matthews Group, is an expert on entrepreneurial leadership and business growth. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she works with CEOs all over the world, helping them unlock their company's growth potential. The Jana Matthews Group helps unlock company growth potential. We work with CEOs to develop growth plans, execute them, and hold people accountable for results. We help select and orient people who will accelerate growth. We provide executive mentoring and coaching to CEOs, their Executive Teams, and their emerging leaders. We also host invitational Leader Forums. She is the author/co-author of seven books, has a B.A. from Earlham College, studied at the University of London, did graduate work at Yale University, and received a doctorate from Harvard University. |
Gail McDonald - Vice-Chair for Board Development |  | | | Gail McDonald |
Partner, St. Charles Consulting Group, LLC. (Dallas, TX)
Gail McDonald is a Partner of St. Charles Consulting Group, LLC., a management consulting firm that specializes in executive coaching, team coaching, outcome-driven meeting facilitation, and organizational assessment. Previously, she served as senior vice president of human resources and senior vice president of government affairs and communications at Ryder System, Inc. and held various human resources roles at Xerox Corporation, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Bankers Trust Corporation. She is a past president of the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners. She holds a bachelor's degree from Duke University and a master's degree from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. |
Emily Stone - Vice-Chair for CommunicationsFounder and President, Stone Group (New York, NY)
Emily Stone is the founder and president of Stone Group, a strategic business and licensing consultancy to fashion, design, and consumer products companies. She is an adviser to Aid to Artisans (From Maker to Market), and a member of The International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association (LIMA). |
Roslyn Daum |  | | | Roslyn Daum |
(Boston, MA) Until her recent retirement, Roslyn Daum was a partner at Choate, Hall and Stewart, LLP, a leading Boston law firm, where she represented developing entrepreneurial businesses and venture capital and private equity firms. She is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Center for Women and Enterprise and has also served as a Trustee of the United States Law Firm Group and founding member and a member of the Steering Committee of Inside-Outside, (ISOS), an organization which brings together women lawyers in law firms and in corporate organizations. Roz founded the Massachusetts Harvard Law School Alumnae Network and currently serves on its Steering Committee. Roz has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School and in the Harvard-MIT Joint Program on Health Sciences and Technology. For many years she taught about mergers and acquisitions for the American Management Association. She received an A.B. from Radcliffe College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. |
Kathleen K. Diamond |  | | | Kathleen K. Diamond |
Founder & CEO, LLE (Washington, DC)
Kathleen Diamond is the founder of Language Learning Enterprises, Inc. (LLE), a full-service language company in Washington, D.C. with a mission to provide excellence in foreign languages. The company has grown from a sole proprietorship to a dynamic corporation serving a wide variety government, business and non-profit organizations around the world. She is a former officer of the National Association of Women Business owners and served as a representative at Femmes chefs d'entreprises mondiales (FCEM) World Congresses from 1990 to 1997. In May 1999, she received the FCEM Lifetime Achievement Award for Woman Entrepreneur of the World. Currently, she is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Women's Business Research as well as being active in Women Impacting Public Policy and the US Interagency Language Roundtable. In addition to English, she speaks both Spanish and French, and has earned a Bachelor's and Master's Degree from the University of Florida. |
Patricia Greene |  | | | Patricia Greene |
F.W.Olin Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship, Babson College (Babson Park, MA)
Dr. Patricia Green is the former provost and dean of the undergraduate school at Babson College. She previously held The Ewing Marion Kauffman/Missouri Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and served as Scholar in Residence at the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Patti's research focuses on the identification, acquisition, and combination of entrepreneurial resources, particularly by women and minority entrepreneurs. She is a founding member of the Diana Project, a research group focusing on women and the venture capital industry. |
Janice Hamilton |  | | | Janice Hamilton |
Founder and President, JMH Education (New York, NY)
Janice Hamilton is founder and president of JMH, Inc. the national authority on art and science of educating consumers. Since founding JMH 25 years ago, Janice has built a company that conveys vital education about health, safety, literacy, nutrition, the environment and finance to adults and children around the world on behalf of government agencies, corporations and non-profit associations. Among its distinguished awards, JMH has received the Emmy, the Telly, the EdPress Distinguished Achievement Award and the Gold Camera and Silver Screen Awards from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival. Janice herself has been honored as an Enterprising Woman of the Year, the Woman Business Enterprise of the Year in the New York Region by the Financial Women''s Association and the Signature Award from the NY Association of Women Business Owners. She has also been honored as Businesswoman of the Year for the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS), and has also received its esteemed Leadership Award. As a recognized opinion leader, she has spoken before the United Nations on the topic of global education outreach by the private sector. Janice serves on the Board of St. Mary's Children's Hospital Foundation, the Advisory Board of Be a Students Friend - Inner-city Scholarship Fund and the Advisory Board for Enterprising Women magazine. |
Myra Hart |  | | | Myra Hart |
Dr. Myra Hart recently retired from Harvard Business School where she taught MBA, executive, and alumni courses, co-chaired the Entrepreneurship faculty, launched the HBS Models of Success initiative, directed two major case writing initiatives and authored more than 60 cases. Hart's research on women entrepreneurs has been done in collaboration 4 entrepreneurship professors, who formed the Diana Project. She and her co-authors have published four books, several major research reports, book chapters and journal articles about women leading high potential businesses. Prior to joining Harvard in 1995, Hart was on the founding team of Staples the Office Superstore, serving as VP of Growth and Development from launch through IPO. She currently serves on the board of directors of public companies (Office Depot, Kraft Foods, and Summer Infant) and private enterprises (Nina McLemore Inc and Intellivid). She is a trustee of Babson College and trustee emeritus of Cornell University, a director of the Center for Women s Business Research. She is a graduate of Cornell University (BA) and Harvard University (MBA, DBA). |
Helen Hodges |  | | | Helen Hodges |
President, SSCI (Houston, TX)
Helen Hodges has over 28 years of public and private sector experience in environmental construction and consulting, training, and project management. As owner and operator of SSCI, she has served as manager for environmental remediation projects, including emergency response, groundwater remediation and control, demolition and decommissioning, LPST abatements and removal, subsurface investigations, RI/FSs and RD/RAs (State and Federal Superfunds), detention and storm water facility construction, and storm recovery and reconstruction projects. More recently, general construction and infrastructure repair have been added to SSCI's services. Ms. Hodges awards include Top 50 Women Business Owner, Top 25 Women Business Owner, Woman of the Year, and Woman of Excellence. |
Diahann Lassus, CFP, CPA/PFS |  | | | Diahann Lassus, CFP, CPA/PFS |
Co-founder and President, Lassus Wherley (New Providence, NJ)
Co-founder and President, Lassus Wherley (New Providence, NJ)
Diahann Lassus is co-founder and president of Lassus Wherley, a comprehensive fee-only financial services firm with offices in New Jersey and Florida. She has been named "Top Financial Advisor" seven times by Worth magazine including the most recent in 2008. Ms. Lassus serves as Chair for the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), on the NJ State Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Rothman Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Advisory Board. She was recently named as one of the Top 50 most influential women in wealth management by Wealth Management Magazine. She has served on the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Board of Directors and was national president from 1996-1999.
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Deann Murphy |  | | | Deann Murphy |
Founder and CEO, Craft Clicks, Inc. (Greenwich, CT)
Deann Murphy is the founder and CEO of Craft Clicks, Inc., a consulting and product development company. She is a member of The Executive Committee (TEC), an international network of CEOs who exchange ideas and advice to maximize business growth and profitability, and was a founding member of the American Women's Economic Development Corporation (AWED), the first federally funded program for women entrepreneurs. She presently serves as a member of AWED s chairman s circle and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Women's Business Development Center of Connecticut.
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Laura Henderson (Emeritus)Laura Henderson is the founder and president of Prospect Associates, a health communications and biomedical research firm that was rated by Inc. magazine as one of 36 "Best Small Companies to Work for in America" in 1993. In April 2000, Prospect was merged with the American Institutes of Research (AIR) and she serves as Senior Vice President and Member of the AIR Board. She is a past chair and one of the original founders of the Center and is currently designated as chair emeritus. Among her many awards was her selection as National Woman Business Owner of the Year in 1995 by the National Association of Women Business Owners. |
Susan Peterson (Emeritus) |  | | | Susan Peterson |
President, The Communication Center / Susan Peterson Productions Inc. (Washington, DC)
Susan Peterson is president of The Communication Center, a media and presentation training company that she founded in 1983 after a decade of experience as a network television correspondent for CBS and NBC News. She is a past chair of the Board of Directors at the Center and is a member of Leadership Washington, a prominent organization of leaders the Washington DC area. Peterson is a graduate of the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration. She received the 1998 Leadership Award from the Capital Chapter of American Women in Radio and TV.
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