Our Experts List

Chemmy Alcott

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As Britain’s number 1 female downhill skier, ranked 8th in the world and 3 time Olympian, Chemmy is the golden girl of British winter sports. With immense passion for her sport, Chemmy conveys a rare mix of steely intelligence and gritty determination with a warm, open and honest persona. Her bubbly try-anything attitude, supreme athletic abilities and photogenic looks means that she is well positioned to take on a wide range of TV and media roles.

Chemmy has become a firm favourite in the world of TV sport personalities, having appeared on Sky Sports News, Sunrise, Fifth Gear, British Eurosport, Ski Sunday, Fit to Ski, Talk of the Terrace, A League Of Their Own, A Question Of Sport, and is currently swapping skis for skates on ITV’s Dancing on Ice. 2012 is looking to be an exciting and busy time for her.

Since her crash in 2010, Chemmy has been focused on getting back to full fitness to start training for the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi and hopefully a podium finish for Team GB!

Wendy Diamond

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Wendy Diamond is an Entrepreneur, Humanitarian, Endangered Animal and Rescue Advocate, World’s premiere Pet Lifestyle expert, Best Selling Author, and TV Personality. Wendy was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, studied at Pine Manor College in Boston and now resides in New York City with her children, Lucky and Pasha. As the tireless voice of disenfranchised animals, Wendy Diamond looks to improve the quality of lives for all animals homeless, sheltered, endangered, or otherwise.

Wendy has been heralded as the “Martha Stewart of the milk and bone dish” (The New Yorker), dubbed “Pet Diva” by the New York Post, crowned the “Canine Queen” by Forbes. Diamond is the pet lifestyle contributor for NBC’s Today Show.
 
Wendy has been rooting for the underdog long before it came into vogue. In 1999, after discovering that 12 million animals were being put to sleep annually, Wendy Diamond launched the premier lifestyle media company for animal lovers to support animal advocacy and rescue. Inspired by her rescued Russian blue cat, Pasha, along with the preeminent rescue Lucky, Wendy used her natural spirit, charm, and business acumen to start an animal lifestyle media company – Animal Fair Media. Animal Fair is the premiere lifestyle media company for animal lovers in support of fairness to animals and animal rescue. Animal Fair is dedicated to highlighting non-profit animal organizationsed Maltese, giving them the opportunity to tell their inspirational stories and connect them with Wendy’s viewers, readers, and followers in hopes of making a tangible difference in the lives of animals worldwide. Wendy believes that change is most effective on an immediate scale, and is especially passionate about helping the local animal rescue efforts across the globe.
 
Understanding that charity cannot succeed without a measure of levity, Wendy created the first-ever pet fashion show and first-ever cocktail party for people and their dogs, all to promote animal rescue. Diamond also created the first pet comedy shows and the Howl-o-ween charity events to help further her message. Of course, she is also no stranger to the heavier side of animal rescue. Wendy has served as the Chairperson of the Katrina Pet Memorial, which aided the animals whose lives were devastated in the wake of hurricane Katrina by reuniting them with their pet parents and finding homes for the abandoned. From being on the New York Columbus Day Parade float for GreenChimneys.org (a nationally renowned non-profit organization) to being Grand Marshal to the world’s largest dog parade - Barkus New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade, if it helps even one animal then Wendy Diamond is on board! Twelve years after beginning her crusade for fairness to animals (it is called Animal Fair after all), the number of animals euthanized annually has plummeted by a whopping 58% to 5 million and the pet life style has boomed into a 48 billion dollar industry!
 
Professional Website: www.animalfair.com
 
Favorite Charities: Humane Society of New York, Coalition for the Homeless, American Humane Association

Ashley Dobbs

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Ashley R. Dobbs is an intellectual property attorney with Bean, Kinney & Korman P.C. in Arlington, Virginia. Before attending law school, Ashley worked for 15 years in business with a large consulting company and with several of her own entrepreneurial ventures, including the Dobbs Group. While in those positions, she worked with corporate leaders on strategic planning, brand marketing, business process improvement and employee communication. Her combined business and legal experience gives her a unique perspective on the intersection of brand marketing, business and the law. Prior to joining her current firm, Ashley was an associate with Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) and at Protorae Law.

Ashley also represents clients in animal-related matters, such as providing for their pets through estate planning. She is the author of “Keep the Promise: A Guide to Planning for Your Pet’s Care When You Can’t Be There,” and founder of a non-profit organization advocating for long term care planning for pets. Ashley is frequently invited to guest lecture on pet trusts for law school classes, financial planning workshops, and pet service businesses. Her past work includes drafting proposed federal legislation related to tax breaks and Pet Trusts, with the Humane Society of the United States.

Ashley also provides non-profit organizations pro bono assistance, and has served organizations such as the Jane Goodall Institute, the Animal Welfare Institute, the Humane Society of the United States, the Doris Day Animal Foundation and local and national animal welfare organizations. Ashley was as a curriculum advisor to the American Prosecutors Association’s and Animal Welfare Institute’s animal cruelty prosecution program, and chairs the educational subcommittees for the American Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee.

Ashley’s commitment to addressing animal protection issues through the legal system was sparked by her personal experience as an animal rescue volunteer and pet service provider. Ashley worked with several of her own entrepreneurial ventures, including a pet services business. She was a Director on the board of the National Association of Professional Pet Sitters, lobbied on behalf of pets and pet owners with local government, and volunteered for animal welfare organizations.

After selling her businesses, Ashley graduated magna cum laude in 2005 from the University of Richmond Law School. While in law school, Ashley helped the city’s Animal Abuse Prosecutor try animal abuse cases in addition to planning and managing first-responder seminars on domestic violence and animal cruelty, while volunteering for multiple animal rescue organizations.

Ashley is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She shares her home with a variety of rescued animals – all of whom have been provided for in her estate planning.
 
Professional website:  http://www.beankinney.com/ashley-r-dobbs.php

Sasha Eden

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 Sasha Eden is an Actor, Producer, and Public Speaker. She is a recipient of The Harlequin More Than Words Award for being a “real life heroine” and was selected by The UTNE Reader as one of the 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.
 
Sasha began her producing career working for advertising giant BBDO, producing national commercials for Pizza Hut, Snickers and Duracell. In 1999, she co-created the critically acclaimed 501c3 non-profit organization WET Productions. With a mission to challenge female stereotypes and advocate for equality, WET Productions has produced and championed premiere work by numerous women writers, directors and actors including: Julia Jordan, Rosemarie DeWitt, Adrienne Shelly, Lucy Thurber, Leigh Silverman, Brooke Berman, Anna Ziegler, and Sheila Callaghan. As WET's Creative Director and Executive Producer, Sasha has developed and produced all of WET’s productions and events featuring celebrated talent Chris Messina, Anna Deavere Smith, Paul Rudd, Abby Epstein, Debra Messing, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lauren Ambrose, Carla Gugino, Andre Royo, Hamish Linklater, Zachary Quinto, and Ricki Lake. Additionally, Sasha co-created and produced WET’s award winning educational program, WET’s Risk Takers Series: a media literacy and leadership program for teenage girls, serving hundreds of girls from over 80 participating New York City schools annually. Outside of her producing work at WET, Sasha has co-produced benefits for the non-profit organizations Choices in Childbirth, and The Adrienne Shelly Foundation, and is a producing consultant for various artists and nonprofits.
 
As a Public Speaker, Sasha served as the moderator for the Q&A portion of WET’s Risk Takers Series, facilitating discussions with guest Risk Takers including Ally Sheedy, Olympia Dukakis, Alison Lohman, Keri Russell, Frances McDormand, Mary-Louise Parker, Kelly McGillis, Nicole Holofcener, Lily Taylor, Kerry Washington, and Audra McDonald. Sasha has appeared on numerous panels on the subject of women in the entertainment industry, media literacy, girls’ self-esteem, and marketing for institutions including UJA, The American Theater Wing, NYU, and Wagner College. Additionally, she teaches her inspirational class “Producing Your Own Opportunities” at schools throughout New York City.
 
As an Actor, Sasha’s work has been featured on stage, television and film. She studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse, BADA, Circle in the Square Theater School, The Actor’s Center with Earle Geister and Ron Van Lieu, and the Upright Citizens Brigade. Select projects include WET Productions’ theatrical premieres of I Stand Before You Naked, Bold Girls, Scab, and BFF; The Women’s Project and The Magic Theater’s world premiere of A Very Common Procedure by Courtney Baron; Moonworks’ acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Theatrical Events: Waitress, written and directed by Adrienne Shelly (with Paul Rudd, Amy Sedaris, Gretchen Mol); The Morgan Stories, written and directed by Adrienne Shelly (with Paul Rudd, Billy Crudup, Ally Sheedy and Jessica Hecht);. Film: Tonight at Noon (directed by Michael Almereyda); TV: “Law and Order,” “Changing Gears” (pilot by Christian Finnegan), and the MTV award nominated video, All My Life, by K-Ci and JoJo.

A lifelong New Yorker, Sasha graduated from The Chapin School and Vassar College. She is a proud member of Actor’s Equity, SAG and AFTRA, as well as WET’s Board of Directors and the Advisory Board for the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. Sasha lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her husband and son.
 
Professional Websites: www.sashaeden.com, www.wetproductions.org

Favorite Charities: Wet Productions, Choices in Childbirth, The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, The Lamp

Joline Godfrey

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Joline Godfrey is the CEO of Independent Means and an innovator in financial education for children and families. Originator of a unique developmental, experiential approach to financial education, her work gives families new tools for developing their human capital and raising children growing up in the midst of abundance.

Godfrey is also the author of Raising Financially Fit Kids, Our Wildest Dreams: Women Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good; No More Frogs To Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls; Twenty $ecrets to Money and Independence: The DollarDiva’s Guide to Life.

In 1992, an article she wrote for Inc. Magazine lead her to launch An Income of Her Own, the first non-profit offering financial education for girls. Over the next few years, Joline became one of the country’s leading experts on girls, women and money and the success of that effort led to the founding of Independent Means in 1996.

Based in Santa Barbara, CA, IMI (www.independentmeans.com) provides financial education for children and families with a rich array of programs, products and services, including The Great Families Program for thought leader families; Camp $tart-Up, DollarDiva and Indie Girls programming; Fashion and Finance; Sports and Money; etc. Independent Means’ clients include Fortune 100 families, leading financial institutions, multi-family offices and boutique investment firms.

A clinical social worker by training, at the beginning of her career, Godfrey was an executive of the Polaroid Corporation where she provided in-house family and therapeutic services to officers and employees. One of the first women in the nation to manage a spin-off from a Fortune 500 company, she launched Odysseum, a spin-off from Polaroid, and sold it in 1990. Odysseum was a creativity training company serving other Fortune 500 firms.
Godfrey is a graduate of the University of Maine and Boston University (where she received an MSW) and was awarded an Honorary Degree in Business from Bentley College in 1995. She was a Kellogg Leadership Fellow and the recipient of the Leavey Award for Excellence, as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma Entrepreneurship Award. Recognized in features for The Today Show, Oprah, Fortune, Business Week, The New York Times, and more, Ms. Godfrey is a frequent speaker and consultant worldwide.

You can follow her blog at www.independentmeans.com/imi/joline
 
Professional Website:  www.independentmeans.com

Favorite Charities: Channel Islands YMCA, NASW Foundation, Direct Relief International

Dr. James Grifo

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Dr. Jamie Grifo is the Program Director of the New York University (NYU) Fertility Center and since 1995 has been the Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at the NYU School of Medicine. He also holds the faculty appointment of Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the NYU School of Medicine. He received his MD and PhD degrees at Case Western Reserve Medical School and completed his residency at Cornell University Medical Center. After completing a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at Yale University, he returned to Cornell and established a medical practice specializing in the treatment of infertility in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology. He is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology, as well as being certified by the Accreditation Council for Gynecologic Endoscopy.
 
A member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) since 1989, Dr. Grifo has served on the Ethics Committee and is past president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART). He chaired the committee, which developed an innovative computer program to collect IVF facility data in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. He has worked closely with the CDC on this project.
 
His scientific interests are focused in the area of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and his team had the first successful delivery in the United States from the embryo biopsy procedure. Subsequently, there have been thousands of babies born by PGD worldwide thus far.
 
His research produced the NYU Vitrification Method, which is different than all other fertility centers. The method was developed in NYU’s research lab by Hui Lui under Dr. Grifo’s direction and was applied to the clinical setting in a study published in Fertility and Sterility. It has been used at the NYU Fertility Center since 2004. Additional research focuses on the use of Germinal Vesicle Transfer as an alternative to egg donation, egg freezing, PGD and stem cells.
 
Dr. Grifo has served as an ad hoc reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Human Reproduction, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1994, Dr. Grifo’s research paper, "Healthy Deliveries from Biopsied Human Embryos," was awarded the SART prize at the annual ASRM meeting. He has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as many book chapters.
 
Professional Websites: http://www.nyufertilitycenter.org/ & http://www.jamiegrifomd.com/
 
Favorite charity: Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation &  Jamie Grifo NYU Research Fund

Babette Haggerty

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Babette Haggerty was raised in a dog training kennel by her mom Betty-Ann and Dad, the dog training pioneer Captain Haggerty. Raised in this environment gave her an unmatched background in training and handling of all breeds of dogs for a variety of jobs.

She handled drug dogs to search the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Her first commercial was the handling and training of a French Bulldog for a Black and Decker commercial featuring former Dallas Cowboy Bob Lilly in 1979.  A commercial that the director said it would not have happened if it had not been for Babette.  Babette was the smallest trainer on the set which was desperately needed to get the action shot that they needed from the dog. Her television credit also includes the handling of dogs for for "The Guiding Light" and "All My Children".  Her first print ad was with several Borzois supplied for a Wolfschmidt Vodka ad. Babette also assisted in the training of the first Australian Shepherd to be used for Guide Dog work.

These experiences gave her the necessary preparation for her move to Palm Beach in 1989 and build what ultimately became the largest dog training school in Palm Beach and Martin Counties and second largest in South Florida. While in Palm Beach she was voted "Palm Beach's Favorite Dog Trainer", selected by Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control to develop shelter dog training programs for the volunteers and staff and assisted with training and behavioral problems for Peggy Adams' Animal Rescue League adoptees.

Her students have included dogs owned by Jimmy Buffet, Jack Nicklaus, Senator Lautenberg, Curt Gowdy and Seth Myers to name a few.
She has been featured numerous times on television, radio including Martha Stewart’s Living Radio and Animal Planet radio shows. Many of her published articles have been featured in Dogs USA and Dog World magazines. Her critically acclaimed book Woman’s Best Friend: Choosing and Training the Dog that is Right for You, published by McGraw-Hill sold out of its first printing in six weeks.

She is working on her fifth dog training book while dividing her time between New York City and Palm Beach with her two children, a French Bulldog, Babe and German Shepherd, Barkley.
 
Professional website: HaggertyDog.com
 
Favorite charities: AKC Canine Health Foundation & Angel on a Leash

Fredda Herz Brown, Ph.D.

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Widely recognized for her extensive and pioneering contributions to the family enterprise field over a quarter century, Fredda Herz Brown has helped to establish standards of professional practice and the body of knowledge which defines the work of the field to this day.

Her work with multi-generational families came out of an early research project while she was heading The Family Institute of Westchester – a world-renowned postgraduate training center in family systems work. The project examined successful first to second generation family transitions.

Fredda is a principal of Relative Solutions, LLC, a firm that helps multi-generational enterprising families effectively manage complex decisions related to their shared assets.

Her distinguished career accomplishments have been recognized by the Family Firm Institute with its Barbara Hollander Award (1996), for her contribution to the family enterprise community, and the Richard Beckhard Practice Award (2002), acknowledging her contribution to professional practice. She has also been honored by the Family Office Exchange as an “Industry Pioneer and Thought Leader” (2002).

Fredda has written, published, and presented extensively on family enterprise topics. Her newest book and its accompanying online interactive tool, co-authored with her Relative Solutions colleague, Fran Lotery, Ph.D., focuses on sustainability in the family enterprise. It will be published later this year by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., with the online tool available through a partnership with Wiley.com.

She is a Fellow and founding board member of The Family Firm Institute.

Professional web site: www.relative-solutions.com

Teresa Pollman

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Teresa Pollman is the Owner of IMD Image and Modeling Development, which is located in Medford, Oregon. Teresa has changed the opinions and ideas that people from Southern Oregon once held regarding the modeling industry. She has made dreams come true for her models and actors by stressing quality versus quantity and by using personal relationships as a foundation.

Teresa moved to Fresno, California when she was 10 years old but moved back to beautiful Southern Oregon at the end of 1997. Teresa started modeling during her high school years in Fresno, California. She continued modeling until she graduated from Fresno State with a business Management Degree. While in college, Teresa also worked for an agency as a Director. She then opened IMD in January 1998.

IMD functions as a modeling and talent agency as well as a career development center. IMD develops its models and actors to work nationally and internationally. IMD's models have been placed in New York, LA., San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Japan, Israel, Taiwan, Austria, Milan and Australia. Placing models with other agencies around the world has really put Medford on the map in the fashion industry. It just goes to show that Teresa is very selective about who she represents.

One of the reasons that Teresa has been so successful is that she always maintains her integrity and high standards for excellence. She demands that her staff be just as dedicated as she is to developing young people into successful professionals. Teresa has committed herself to uphold personal relationships with all her models, actors and their families.  She loves working with children and giving back to her local community.

Teresa’s flare for recognizing potential and developing young people into successful professionals was recognized when IMD received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the IMTA, International Modeling and Talent Association convention in New York City. IMTA is the largest and most prestigious modeling and talent convention in the world.  Teresa only chooses the cream of the crop to participate in traveling to the IMTA Convention. IMD believes in each one of it's IMTA contestants and strives to offer them the best direction possible.

With Teresa's dedication to the industry, IMD has become the successful agency that it is today.

Professional Website:  www.imdmodeling.com
 
Favorite Charities: Kids Unlimited, Sparrow Club

Eleonora Porcu

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Eleonora Porcu has been Medical Doctor and Assistant Professor in Reproductive Medicine at the University of Bologna since 1977. She is Obstetrician and Gynecologist and is the Director of the Infertility and Assisted Reproduction Center at the S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital in Bologna. Her fields of research include adolescent hyperandrogenism and PCOS, endocrinology of infertility, reproductive cryostorage with special involvement in human oocyte cryopreservation. She published a number of peer-reviewed papers, gave several invited main lectures including the ASRM and the ESHRE meetings and received in San Francisco  the International Federation of Fertility Societies 30th Anniversary Recognition Award for significant contributions in Infertility and Reproductive Medicine.
 
Professional website: http://www.unibo.it/Portale/default.htm

Ryan Pulliam

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Ryan Pulliam is a social media and marketing maven, and next generation thought-leader on digital media strategy and brand activation. As a gatekeeper to large networks in the entertainment, technology, and new media sectors, Ryan consistently seeks out unique niche opportunities for brands and their entry into online media and television via cable networks, music partnerships, experiential marketing tactics, and social media. Standing at the nexus of media, culture, and influence, Ryan disrupts the normal go-to-activation points by delivering marketing and branding solutions that are inherently social.

Her expertise in creative strategy, content generation, branded entertainment, and social driven marketing campaigns have led to an extensive and diverse clientele list ranging from startup brands and Fortune 100 companies to celebrities and musicians. Ryan's ability to connect the dots and share a brands story across multiple media platforms has become a valuable asset to her clients.

She has helped launch, 'socialize,' or influence a number of  projects for Lionsgate Digital, ESPN College Football, Popchips, award-winning photographer, adventurer, and environmental advocate, Sebastian Copeland, platinum-selling artist Jem, 90s supergroups Candlebox and LIVE, as well as Aspen Fashion Week, Fashion Los Angeles, The Global Summit, and The Maybach Foundation among others.

Additionally, Ryan advises nonprofit organizations on effective social media and viral marketing strategies, as well as corporate sustainability and environmental initiatives. She is also a contributing editor for various online travel publications, and a ghost writer for customer case-studies in the technology sector.

Prior to her consulting endeavors, Ryan worked in broadcast television as an associate producer for ESPN/ABC College Football and Altitude Sports & Entertainment. She traveled with the #1 football crew throughout the U.S., and worked with on-air talents Bob Griese, Brad Nessler, and Lynn Swann. While working with Altitude Sports & Entertainment, she co-produced an emmy award winning one-hour special on the Starz International Film Festival, including a red-carpet interview for the premiere event of the movie Ray.

Professional Website: www.ryanpulliam.com
Favorite Charity: Gasoline Alley, Wilhelm & Karl Maybach Foundation, Surf Aid International

Robin Raskin

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Robin Raskin has spent the past 30 years exploring what it means to be living in digital times. An author, editor, magazine publisher, blogger, TV and radio personality, and consultant, Raskin says she’s never met a media she doesn’t like, and is happiest when she’s writing about technology’s second citizens: kids, seniors or women and technology.

Raskin is the former editor of PC Magazine and Editor in Chief of FamilyPC. She’s been a columnist for USA Today Online and has authored 6 books about parenting in the digital age. In 2007 Raskin became the founder of an event created in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CES). From this toe-tipping beginning, Living in Digital Times has grown to encompass 7 different “lifestyle meets technology” events and conferences including: Kids@Play, MommyTech, The Silvers Summit, Digital Health, HigherEdTech, Fashionware, The Last Gadget Standing and Mobile Apps Showdown. Many of these are held at the annual CES show in Las Vegas.

Raskin lives in NYC and the Hudson Valley with her husband, her three drop in now and then children, and closets full of obsolete technology.

Professional Website: www://livingindigitaltimes.com

Favorite Charities: Hudson River Greenway Trail and Scenic Hudson

Dune Thorne

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As Managing Director for Silver Bridge, Dune Thorne manages a client team and partners with successful multi-generational families with complex wealth and legacy issues to help them manage, protect and transfer their assets. Working closely with her Silver Bridge colleagues and her clients’ external advisors, Ms. Thorne delivers thoughtful investment and wealth management solutions that integrate her clients’ investment, philanthropic, estate and tax planning objectives.

Based on her research at Harvard Business School, Ms. Thorne launched “A Woman’s Perspective” at Silver Bridge, a unique program designed to educate and empower women of significant wealth on a myriad of wealth management topics, including investments, strategic philanthropy, risk management and effective wealth transfer. The program has since been expanded with the launch of the Silver Bridge Institute, an education platform designed to empower its clients and the broader community to become more engaged in their financial lives. Ms. Thorne serves on the Management Committee and as a Faculty Advisor to the Silver Bridge Institute.

Prior to joining Silver Bridge, Ms. Thorne was the Director of Investments for Circle Financial Group, an investment and wealth management think tank for ultra-high-net-worth women, with combined assets of over $3 billion. Concurrently, Ms. Thorne was a Columbia Business School Private Wealth Management Teaching Assistant. Prior to attending business school, she worked at Oracle Corporation where she represented Oracle’s equity position in joint ventures among other strategic projects. She started her career at Hambrecht & Quist as an Investment Banking Analyst.

Ms. Thorne’s articles have been published in Financial Planning and Forbes.com and she has been quoted in the Financial Times, American Banker, Family Wealth Report, Private Asset Management and in the books “Women and Philanthropy” and “Sevens Pearls of Financial Wisdom: A Woman’s Guide to Enjoying Wealth and Power.”

Ms. Thorne earned an MBA from Harvard Business School where she completed independent studies on women and investing, as well as angel investing, and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. She is a CERTIFIED WEALTH STRATEGIST® (CWS®) professional and a Certified Trust and Financial Advisor (CTFA). She is also a graduate of the Boston Center for Community & Justice Lead Boston Program.

In 2010, Ms. Thorne founded Invest in Girls (IIG), a not for profit focused on financial empowerment for high-school girls and currently serves as Chairwoman of the Board. Ms. Thorne is a member of the Golden Seeds LP Advisory Committee, the Boston Estate Planning Council, 85 Broads and serves as a trustee for the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum and the Dartmouth Club of Greater Boston. She is a member of the Town of Lincoln Finance Committee and the Lincoln Nursery School’s Investment Committee, serves on The Boston Foundation’s Professional Advisors Committee and as a faculty member for Smart Women Securities.

Ms. Thorne, a mother of three, lives in Lincoln, MA and enjoys Telemark skiing and cooking.
 
Professional website: www.silverbridgeadv.com

Favorite charity:  Invest in Girls

Marilyn Weiss

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Marilyn Weiss grew up in New York City and graduated with a degree in art from New York University. She worked as an advertising account executive and ran a popular non-profit program for New York City teenagers in the '90s. A former working Board Member of the Asphalt Green, she recently founded and now runs the Hannah Zwiren Fund for the Sponsorship of Guide Dogs, a division of The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. (guidedog.org). As a painter her work has been displayed in galleries around New York. Married for over 40 years, Marilyn's proud to have raised two successful women in the arts.

Piper Weiss

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Piper Weiss is the author of My Mom, Style Icon, the book based on the blog (momstyleicons.blogspot.com) she created in 2009. A crowd-sourced
vintage photo archive of mothers from around the world, the blog and book have spawned a monthly column in Lucky Magazine. Currently, Piper is a senior editor at Yahoo! Shine. Her writing has also appeared in Glamour, New York Magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and an a tour bus in Times Square (don't ask). In 2011, in a twist of fate, she was an actress and script consultant for the Independent Spirit Award-winning film "Without." She supports WET, the The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Planned Parenthood, Amnesty International.