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Today’s Agenda
Welcome Remarks
2:45pm Just Another Day in the Quantum-Phys Lab
Kathy Kiely | President | The Ad Club
Tom Ashbrook | Host: On Point | WBUR, NPR {moderator} Nergis Mavalvala | Quantum Astrophysicist & MacArthur Genius Award Winner | MIT
12:30pm The New C-Suite
Scott Kirsner | Innovation Economy Columnist | The Boston Globe {moderator} Bettina Hein | Founder & CEO | Pixability Nataly Kogan | Vice President of Consumer Experience | WHERE, Inc. Daphne Zohar | Founder, Managing Partner | PureTech Ventures
3:15pm Taking Control of the Wheel
1:00pm “On Pins and Needles” Maya Luz | Fashion Designer | Project Runway
3:45pm A Gamble and a Stir
1:30pm That’s Right, I’m a Woman... Next Question Emily Green | Chairman | Yankee Group {moderator}
Gloria Cordes Larson | President | Bentley University Pam Hamlin | President | Arnold Worldwide
Mary Kaye | Founder | Comeback Moms {moderator} Subhadra England | Founder & President | ThinkFlex, LLC Diane Piette | Attorney | Former Assistant DA for Norfolk County Beth Tauro | Business Development Manager | Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Barbara Lynch | Chef/Owner | Barbara Lynch Gruppo
4:15pm Award Presentation and Closing Remarks Kathy Kiely | President | The Ad Club 4:30pm Cocktails, Networking and Book Signing
2:00pm Making a “Big” Difference in a Thousand “Little” Ways Renée Landers | Professor of Law | Suffolk University Law School
Silent Auction for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
5:30pm Silent Auction Closes 2:30pm Coffee Break
Silent Auction for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Welcome Remarks
1:30pm
Kathy Kiely | President | The Ad Club
12:30pm
That’s Right, I’m a Woman... Next Question Emily Green | Chairman | Yankee Group {moderator} Gloria Cordes Larson | President | Bentley University Pam Hamlin | President | Arnold Worldwide
The New C-Suite
Faith Whittlesey once said, “Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but
Scott Kirsner | Innovation Economy Columnist | The Boston Globe {moderator} Nataly Kogan | Vice President of Consumer Experience | WHERE, Inc. Bettina Hein | Founder & CEO | Pixability Daphne Zohar | Founder, Managing Partner | PureTech Ventures
backward and in high heels.” Hear from two modern day examples of Ginger Rogers – females leading the way in business at iconic Boston establishments: Bentley University and Arnold Worldwide. Hear about their personal paths to success, and learn more about what it truly takes to make it to the top.
Scott Kirsner is the go-to expert in the tech and start-up fields. He’ll tell you that Massachusetts has the highest rate of female founded companies in the country (27% as compared to the 8% nationally). Scott speaks with three of the most
2:00pm
ambitious female entrepreneurs in Boston who are representing the new C-Suite
Making a “Big” Difference in a Thousand “Little” Ways Renée Landers | Professor of Law | Suffolk University Law School
of “She-E-Os.” Hear what it takes to build a company from the ground up, and
Suffolk University Law Professor Renée Landers is a busy woman with much
discover some of the challenges and advantages that come with the territory of
responsibility. Even with the multiple hats she wears as a lawyer, educator,
being a female in the tech, start-up and venture capital worlds.
wife and mother, she still makes time to give back to the Boston Community. Renée shares the story behind her involvement in the Big Sister Association,
1:00pm
and tells us about her experience as a “Big,” mentoring a young girl in the
“On Pins and Needles”
Big Sister program. Renée seized the opportunity to make a difference for her
Maya Luz | Fashion Designer | Project Runway
“Little” by providing her with the support and encouragement to keep believing in her dreams.
Maya Luz was a young fashion designer and recent Massachusetts College of Art & Design graduate when she agreed to participate on the hit show, Project Runway. Luz proved herself wise beyond her years when she made the decision to leave the competition early. Hear how the whirlwind experience and bold decision have led her to develop her talent and design perspective into what they have become today.
2:30pm
Coffee Break Silent Auction for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
2:45pm
Just Another Day in the Quantum-Phys Lab
3:45pm
A Gamble and a Stir
Tom Ashbrook | Host: On Point | WBUR, NPR {moderator} Nergis Mavalvala | Quantum Astrophysicist & MacArthur Genius Award Winner | MIT
Barbara Lynch | Chef/Owner | Barbara Lynch Gruppo
While Tom Ashbrook has interviewed countless national celebrities, he’s never
to discover that street smarts and instincts are a winning recipe for success. Using
found himself face to face with a quantum astrophysicist. In this segment,
those principles, she turned her name into one of Boston’s best-known personal
Ashbrook sits down with MacArthur Fellow, Nergis Mavalvala, a woman who is
brands. Lynch shares the story behind her career ambitions, tells us what’s at the
breaking all gender stereotypes as a thought-leader in quantum astrophysics.
forefront of innovation in restaurants and dining, and discusses her new book, “Stir:
Mavalvala will tell the story behind her passion and career path, describe her day-
Mixing It Up in the Italian Tradition.”
Barbara Lynch isn’t a marketer by profession, but her Southie upbringing led her
to-day life in the lab, and share what’s to come in the realm of astrophysics.
4:15pm
Award Presentation and Closing Remarks Kathy Kiely | President | The Ad Club
3:15pm
Taking Control of the Wheel Mary Kaye | Founder | Comeback Moms {moderator} Subhadra England | Founder & President | ThinkFlex, LLC Diane Piette | Attorney | Former Assistant DA for Norfolk County Beth Tauro | Business Development Manager | Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
4:30pm
Cocktails, Networking and Book Signing Silent Auction for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
If you are unemployed or at a crossroads in your career, this is a segment you won’t
5:30pm
Silent Auction Closes
want to miss. Mary Kaye (navy pilot turned corporate director turned mom turned entrepreneur) is making it her mission to help women who are looking to re-enter the workforce. Panelists will each describe their own unique career ups and downs, discuss the turning points in changing their careers, and tell us how they learned to take control of the wheel to get back into the workforce.
speakers
Tom Ashbrook
Gloria Cordes Larson
Host: On Point | WBUR, NPR
President | Bentley University
Tom Ashbrook is the host of the fastestgrowing NPR show in America, “On Point.” Tom was raised on a farm in Illinois, studied history in India, and was a surveyor and dynamiter in the Alaskan oilfields before taking his first job in news at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. An awardwinning journalist in print and broadcast, he served as a top-ranking editor at The Boston Globe. He spent ten years in Asia, and has worked as a correspondent around the world in Beijing, Moscow, Mumbai, the Balkans,
Rwanda, Somalia and more. In the 1990s he was co-founder of homeportfolio.com, a start-up chronicled in his 2000 book, “The Leap.” In 2001, Tom was enlisted to host emergency coverage of the 9/11 attacks for NPR. That coverage grew into the national news and interview show “On Point.”
Gloria Cordes Larson, JD, prominent lawyer, public policy expert and business leader, was elected to the presidency of Bentley University in 2007. She is an advocate for education and job creation, a commitment evident in her work as co-chair of the board of the non-partisan think tank MassINC; co-chair of the Great Schools Campaign, a school reform partnership; and her role in Global Massachusetts 2015, a multi-year leadership initiative to create a vision for economic success over the next decade. Larson recently served as co-chair of Governor Deval Patrick’s Finance Commission, charged with recommending revenue sources to fund his education reform proposal. She presently serves as a member of Governor Patrick’s Council of Economic Advisors, as well as chairman of the Education Working Group for the Progressive Business Leaders Network, an association she helped found. She has been honored and recognized by many groups for her contributions and commitment to civic engagement, particularly with respect to raising awareness of the need for public education reform and for promoting the role of business in changing that landscape.
Larson was appointed by Governor Mitt Romney in 2005 to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Board, where she currently serves as a vice chair. Larson presently holds the post of president of the Massachusetts Women’s Forum, as well as president of the Massachusetts Conference for Women, which annually hosts a leadership forum for more than 5,000 professional women from across the state. In addition, she is a board or advisory council member of several organizations including the University of Massachusetts Center for Collaborative Leadership, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Rosie’s Place, a Boston shelter for women and children. She is a member of the Bar in Massachusetts and Virginia. Larson received her Bachelor of Arts with honors from Vassar College and earned her juris doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law. She is married to Allen Larson, an attorney. They have three English Labrador Retrievers, Harry, Sally and Teak.
Subhadra England
Emily Green
Founder & President | ThinkFlex, LLC
Chairman | Yankee Group
Subhadra England is the founder and president of ThinkFlex, a placement firm that primarily connects professional mothers with employers that provide flexible work options in the Boston area. Earlier this year, ThinkFlex began a pilot internship program for professionals who have been out of the workforce for more than five years. This new program is designed to allow interns the opportunity to update their skills, expand their network and gain confidence. As a working mother who re-launched her career, Subhadra is very excited about the program because of her personal experiences with the difficulties of rejoining the workplace after taking time off. Subhadra has 14 years of experience in the investment industry. The majority of her career was spent with John Hancock Advisers in a variety of roles within institutional marketing, risk management, performance measurement and equity investment management. After leaving John Hancock, she took a career break for 3 ½ years to raise three daughters before launching ThinkFlex.
Subhadra loves being an entrepreneur within the work-life arena because it has enabled her to make a difference with her life’s work and strike a balance between professional and family commitments. Through her work at ThinkFlex, she has also discovered an interest in urban education, and now sits on the New England Advisory Board for Let’s Get Ready, an organization that prepares and empowers low-income high school students to get into college. Subhadra is a graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Business.
Emily Green is chairman of the board at Yankee Group Research, Inc. In this role, she helps guide the firm’s direction, speaks to the market and works with key clients. As the firm’s CEO from 2005 to 2010, she partnered in its acquisition with primary investor Alta Communications and led its transition to the global connectivity research vision it calls “Anywhere.” In her long and varied career in technology as an engineer, entrepreneur, marketer and analyst, Green has become widely respected as a thought leader on the impact of connectivity on networks, enterprises and consumers.
Green received a Bachelor of Science cum laude in linguistics from Georgetown University and a Master of Science in artificial intelligence and computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering. She also currently serves as the vice-chair of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX), the U.S.’s largest Internet advocacy council; as a member of the Executive Committee of the John Adams Innovation Institute; and as a member of the governor’s Mass Tech Hub Collaborative, for which she chairs the communications working group. “Anywhere,” her book on the business impact of global connectivity, was published in January 2010.
Pam Hamlin
Bettina Hein
President | Arnold Worldwide
Founder & CEO | Pixability
Pam Hamlin is the president of Arnold Worldwide’s headquarters office in Boston. She has spent her 24-year career as a marketer, building brands in almost every category including beverages, computers, cruises and mutual funds. She was named president in 2006 after serving as a managing partner and director of account management at Arnold, where she was responsible for leading the 100-person account management department and overseeing the accounts for Fidelity Investments, Royal Caribbean, Gillette and Ocean Spray. Pam joined Arnold from Leonard/Monahan where she was a partner and the director of client services from 1990 to 1998. There, Pam was responsible for providing strategic leadership to the agency’s accounts and driving new business efforts. She began her career at Ingalls, Quinn & Johnson in 1986, first in media, then in account management on the NEC Computer account. She then moved to HBM/Creamer in 1988 where she was responsible for managing the Digital Equipment Corporation global account.
A 1986 cum laude graduate of the Boston College Carroll School of Management, Pam was identified by the Boston Business Journal as one of the “40 Under 40” top business leaders in 2003. She was a recipient of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Leading Women Award in 2007. Pam was also recognized nationally as one of Advertising Age’s “Women to Watch” in 2008. Outside of the office, she is currently a member of the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts and a member of the Dana Farber Women’s Cancers Program Executive Council and has served on numerous other boards. Pam currently resides in Hopkinton, MA with her husband, Tom, and two children, Jack and Katie. She is an avid runner and skier and enjoys summer weekends on Cape Cod and winter weekends in New Hampshire with her family.
Bettina Hein is the founder and CEO of Pixability, Inc., a company that helps businesses increase sales by using online video. Bettina is a repeat entrepreneur based in Cambridge, MA. Prior to Pixability she co-founded SVOX AG, a venture-backed speech software. Bettina was the initiator of START, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship among college students. START won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She is also the founder of the SheEOs, a network of women entrepreneurs.
Bettina holds a Master of Science degree from MIT where she was a Sloan Fellow, a law degree from the University of Constance and a degree in business administration from the University of St. Gallen. Bettina is a frequent speaker on the topics of online video, marketing and entrepreneurship. She has been featured in publications such as The Boston Globe, Inc. Magazine, Fortune, Xconomy, BNET and many others.
Mary Kaye
Scott Kirsner
Founder | Comeback Moms
Innovation Economy Columnist | The Boston Globe
Mary Kaye is a career coach and the founder of Comeback Moms, where she inspires women to realize the work that’s right for them. Mary is passionate about matching the talent resource of at-home moms to the needs of our evolving world. She believes in the strength, imagination and influence of mothers. She’s not your typical career coach. Mary graduated from Villanova University and began her career as a U.S. Navy pilot. She was one of 10 women trained alongside 1000 male aviators. As an aircraft commander, Mary flew P-3s to 23 countries of the world. She brought her love of flying to United Airlines as a 727 pilot and then as a private flight instructor. Mary became convinced that helping people reach beyond their perceived abilities was her life’s calling. Mary transitioned from a career in flight to work in the corporate world. As a corporate director she specialized in training, recruiting, strategy and leadership development. During her decade of corporate experience, Mary led programs at Fortune 500 companies including GE, Campbell Soup Company, and Diageo. While examining her work and life choices, Mary decided to be at home with her family, and took an eight-year motherhood hiatus.
When considering re-entry into professional work, Mary recognized the need for a customized approach for at-home moms who want to get back to paid employment. Her coaching skills and entrepreneurial spirit led her to launch Comeback Moms based around this powerful force of women. Through research, interviews and practice, Mary developed her program, which helps women leverage the lessons taught by motherhood and apply their own unique passions and strengths to work that truly matters to them. Mary is a true Comeback Mom with a thriving business, a husband and three young children. She is delighted to have found a work and life integration that fits her passions, strengths and family needs.
Scott Kirsner is a journalist who writes about innovation and entrepreneurship. His “Innovation Economy” column appears Sundays in The Boston Globe, and he also writes a companion blog at boston.com/innovation. Scott has been a regular contributor to Fast Company, BusinessWeek, Variety and Wired. Scott’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Salon, The San Jose Mercury News and Newsweek, among other publications. Scott serves as the
program chair for two regional events on innovation: the Nantucket Conference, held each May since 2000, and Future Forward, held each fall since 2001. He is the author of the 2009 book “Fans, Friends & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age.” His earlier books include “Inventing the Movies,” a technological history of Hollywood, and “The Future of Web Video: New Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers.”
Nataly Kogan
Renée Landers
Vice President of Consumer Experience | WHERE, Inc.
Professor of Law | Suffolk University Law School
Nataly is an experienced entrepreneur, early-stage investor and product development executive. She is currently the vice president of consumer experience at WHERE, the leading location media company whose location discovery application is used by more than 4 million people. At WHERE, Nataly oversees the consumer product and runs the UX team (known as the “UX Ninjas”), working to create the most engaging and fun experiences for users. Prior to WHERE, Nataly was a senior program manager with the Future Social Experiences Labs at Microsoft, where she worked with small teams to build innovative social, location-based and real-time applications. Before working at Microsoft, Nataly founded a media company whose flagship
site, workitmom.com, is the largest online community for working moms. Nataly spent five years as a managing director with an early-stage venture firm in New York, where she led investments in software and Internet service start-ups including Constant Contact and Scanbuy. She started her career as a business analyst with McKinsey & Company. Nataly graduated with honors from Wesleyan University. She currently lives in Boston with her husband and daughter but is forever a New Yorker at heart.
Renée M. Landers is professor of law at Suffolk University Law School and teaches administrative, constitutional and health law. She is the faculty director of the school’s Health and Biomedical Law concentration. President of the Boston Bar Association in 2003-2004, Landers was the first woman of color and the first law professor to serve in that position. She has worked in private practice and served as Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration. She was a member of the Supreme Judicial Court’s committee studying gender, racial and ethnic bias in the courts. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and has served as President of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Before entering government, she taught at Boston College Law School from which she also received her law degree. Landers was president of the board of directors of the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston from 2000 to 2003, was president of the Board of Overseers of the Shady Hill School
from 2006-2009, was a trustee of the Massachusetts Health Care Security Trust Board and is a director of WGBH. She is a member of the Board of Overseers for the Dartmouth Medical School and trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Landers has received awards from Radcliffe College, Boston College Law School, the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, the Boston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, and the Women’s Network of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Landers is married to Thomas L. Barrette, Jr., and they are the parents of Nelson Landers Barrette who is a student at Milton Academy.
Maya Luz
Barbara Lynch
Fashion Designer | Project Runway
Chef/Owner | Barbara Lynch Gruppo
Maya Luz captures feminine power through the expansion of internalized vision. Born Maya Luz Molina De Araujo in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she grew up between New York City and New England. Grounded by the roots of her artistic family, Maya was encouraged toward free expression from an early age. She began designing and constructing apparel and accessories in her early teens. Her unique take on design created a quiet storm of DIY enthusiasm. Upon graduating in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, she traveled
to London to assist some of the fashion capital’s forefront designers. Her experience and travel throughout Europe has given this young designer a multifaceted conceptual edge, and she is catching the attention of the most discerning eyes in the industry. Maya currently resides in New York City. Maya Luz is represented by New York showroom, L’Armoire Du Styliste.
Barbara Lynch is regarded as one of the country’s leading chefs and restaurateurs. While growing up in South Boston, Barbara, at the age of 13, got her first kitchen job cooking at a local rectory. It was in high school, however, that an influential home economics teacher and a job working with Chef Mario Bonello at Boston’s esteemed St. Botolph Club piqued her interest in one day becoming a professional chef. In 1998, Barbara opened a restaurant of her own, No. 9 Park, in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. The restaurant immediately received rave reviews from publications around the country and was named one of the Top 25 New Restaurants in America by Bon Appétit and Best New Restaurant by Food & Wine. Barbara expanded her presence in Boston by opening two restaurants in the South End in 2003: B&G Oysters and The Butcher Shop. Barbara continued to grow her culinary empire by opening three unique concepts in succession: in 2005, Niche Catour, a catering company; Plum Produce in September 2006; and next door, Stir, a demonstration kitchen and cookbook store in 2007.
In fall 2008 Barbara launched two concepts in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood: Drink, a bar dedicated to the craft of the cocktail; and Sportello, Barbara’s modern interpretation of a diner. Her catering company, 9 at Home (formerly Niche Catour), relocated to Fort Point in 2008 as well. In spring 2010 Barbara and her team opened Menton, a fine dining restaurant. Menton has received several accolades, including being named one of the best new restaurants of the year by Bon Appétit, Esquire and GQ. As the CEO of Barbara Lynch Gruppo, Barbara oversees the operations of eight concepts and employs over 200 people. In addition to running her company, each year she dedicates time and resources to a number of philanthropic missions including the Crittenton Women’s Union, Common Threads, The Greater Boston Food Bank, Share our Strength, and several other neighborhood organizations around the city of Boston.
Nergis Mavalvala
Diane Piette
Quantum Astrophysicist & MacArthur Genius Award Winner | MIT
Attorney | Former Assistant DA for Norfolk County
Nergis Mavalvala is a physicist whose research links the world of quantum mechanics, usually apparent only at the atomic scale, with some of the most powerful, yet elusive, forces in the cosmos. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997. She was a postdoctoral fellow and
research scientist at the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2002. She joined the physics faculty at MIT in 2002. She is now a professor of physics at MIT, and a recipient of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows Programs Genius Award.
Diane Piette was one of the pioneers of women in sports broadcasting. In 1979, with a degree in journalism from the University of Houston and a love of sports, Diane convinced a Houston television sports anchor to take her on as an unpaid intern. Four months later she landed a full-time sports job at a television station in nearby Beaumont, Texas. She was shooting, writing, editing and delivering her reports covering high school, college and professional sports. It was the beginning of a 15-year career in broadcasting. In the late 1980s she opened her own production company, DCP Productions. She produced, directed, wrote and was talent for a wide variety of projects. Clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies to NBC, Major League Baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals, and the National Football League’s Kansas City Chiefs. Diane spent 5 weeks in Seoul, Korea covering the 1988 Olympics for both NBC and KSDK-TV, created pregame shows and specials for the Cardinals and Chiefs, and developed award-winning videos for her corporate clients. She took home two Emmys for her work with the Cardinals and Southwestern Bell Corporation.
In the mid-1990s Diane made the decision to stay at home with her two daughters. Seven years later, when the youngest daughter was about to enter high school, Diane began to explore career options again. So, 23 years after graduating from college, Diane went back to school. Her daughters graduated from high school in 2003 and 2005, and Diane graduated from law school in 2004. With her daughters off to college, Diane began her legal career by clerking for a District Court judge in Minnesota for two years. From January 2007 to 2011, she was an assistant district attorney for Norfolk County. During her four years as a prosecutor she was a member of the Motor Vehicle Homicide Task Force, Head of the District Court White Collar Crime Unit, and General ADA handling all facets of prosecuting from arraignments to jury trials.
Beth Tauro
Daphne Zohar
Business Development Manager | Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Founder, Managing Partner | PureTech Ventures
Elizabeth H. Tauro started her career as a corporate lawyer, first with Hale and Dorr and later as the Associate General Counsel of Arthur D. Little, Inc., an international consulting company. Beth is currently the business development manager for the business law department of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, a worldwide fullservice law firm. In this role, she manages all marketing and business development activities for the business lawyers including developing in-house events for clients, sponsorship opportunities, marketing pitches, development of website and collateral materials and the budgeting for all initiatives. Her transition into a new career path came
after a ten-year hiatus at home with her two daughters, during which she also did significant volunteer work and sat as a trustee for a variety of educational institutions. Beth is a member of the board of directors of the Special Olympics of Massachusetts and on the Executive Committee of the Association of Class Leaders at Brown University. She is a graduate of Brown University and Cornell Law School.
Daphne Zohar is the founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a Bostonbased venture creation firm specializing in translating breakthrough research from top tier academic institutions into therapies that will impact human health and wellbeing. PureTech’s senior partners include entrepreneurs and leaders from the highest echelon of pharma, biotech and academia. In 2010, Ms. Zohar was recognized by Fierce Biotech as one of the Top 10 Women in Biotech by BioWorld as one of 28 leaders predicted to be the “movers and shakers” of the biotechnology industry over the next twenty years, and by the Boston Globe as one of the Top 15 Innovators.
A successful entrepreneur, Ms. Zohar created PureTech and assembled a leading team to help implement her vision for the firm. She sits on the Board of Directors of PureTech Ventures, Enlight Biosciences (a technology development company whose backers include leading pharmaceutical companies), Follica Inc., Libra Biosciences (where she is Founding CEO), Vedanta Bioscience, Mandara Sciences (where she is Founding CEO), Karuna Pharmaceuticals, Tal Medical, and Satori Pharmaceuticals. She also sits on the Technology Development Fund Advisory Board at Children’s Hospital Boston, the Tufts University School of Medicine Advisory Committee for Drug Discovery and Development, and is an Editorial Advisor to Xconomy, a national technology news blog.
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like you mean business No matter what you do for a living, you’ll stand out in designer and brand name fashion from Marshalls and T.J.Maxx. And since you’ll save up to 60% off dept. and specialty store prices every day, you’ll also prove you’re as smart as you look.
For the store nearest you, visit tjmaxx.com or marshallsonline.com
Styles will vary by store — we promise. © 2011 The TJX Companies, Inc.
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need A PRInTeR WHO CAn dO IT ALL FOR YOU? Most people know that UniGraphic offers digital and offset printing, complete pre-press services, large and grand format graphics, and even a full-service mail house. And that we have an extremely experienced team ready to work for you. But did you know we also specialize in state-of-the-art online services such as Web To Print? Or that we always take the time to inform our clients about the convenience and cost savings these new technologies can offer?
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The Benefits of Web To Print • Request all types of marketing collateral in an on-demand environment. Items like business cards, brochures, and direct mail, are accessible 24/7. • Create 1-to-1 marketing pieces that substantially increase response rates, customer retention and brand awareness. • Maintain control over your company’s key branding components with elements that are fixed and others that are flexible. • Lower costs and improve turnaround time through automation.
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There are moments in life when sound bites just won’t do. Moments when you want to know, really know. And for that you need to go beneath the headlines and beyond the chatter. That’s where we live. Where tireless research reveals not just facts, but opportunities. ©2011 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Where you’re exposed to perspectives that enable you to make the right choices for your family, your career, your life. To live every day informed, prepared, inspired.
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Grape is a fruit. Not a flavor.
Whole Concord grapes—skin, seeds and all—give Welch’s its extraordinary antioxidant power. ®
When people learn Welch’s 100% Grape Juice is made from whole Concord grapes, they’re pretty surprised. All those little grapes add up to one healthy juice. And there’s no added sugar, colors or flavors. Because when nature gives you the perfect recipe, you don’t mess with it. To learn more, visit WELCHS.COM.
Made from Concord grapes grown by our family-farmer owners.
Call For Entries We invite you to nominate yourself or your company to be recognized at The Rosoff Awards. This important event is one of New England’s premier diversity awards, created to recognize companies that have meaningful diversity, mentoring and inclusion programs. The spirit of the Rosoff Awards is expressed in our continuing message to the business community; In the 21st century, workplace diversity is more than a means of achieving social justice; it is an essential business strategy.
visit adclub.org/rosoff to nominate your company
Entry Deadline Friday, March 25th Categories Diversity Initiative Internal Diversity Initiative External Mentor Award Champion of Change Award Marketing to a Diverse Audience
Event Details May 16th, 2011 6:30pm to 10:00pm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Art of the Americas Wing 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
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In loving memory of our good friend, business partner & supporter. She will be greatly missed.
Nina Gaertner Gorman Advertising Media Manager | Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
1959 – 2011
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