New Members 2008-2009

 

Lise J. Buyer ’82

• Founder, Class V Group, CA 2006-present - a consulting firm helping companies navigate the challenges and increase the returns from an initial public offering
• Prior: vice president strategic partnerships at Tellme - a Mountain View telephony company recently acquired by Microsoft
• Prior: director business optimization at Google, 2004-2006 – managed that company's innovative IPO and initial relationships with Wall Street.
• Past: vice president at CSFB Tech Group, 1997-2000
• MBA, The Owen School, Vanderbilt University

 

Kate Wojciechowski Grussing ’86

• Founder, managing director Sapphire Partners, London executive search firm - Sapphire was launched in January 2005 (10 members on the advisory board, 5 members including Grussing on the team)
• Former COO JP Morgan European Equity Division, London  
• Worked in financial services and management consulting, in both London and New York over the last 21 years, holding senior positions at JPMorgan, McKinsey & Co. and Morgan Stanley  
• MBA with honors from the Tuck School at Dartmouth, and has studied at the London School of Economics
• She is a trustee of two medical charities: the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of the UK and the International Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of which she is the treasurer

 

Maia Heymann ’89

• Managing Director, DeVere Management Group
• Managing director at BancBoston Ventures - part of Bank of America’s global private equity group
• Opened and managed BancBoston Ventures' Palo Alto, CA, 1999 to 2002
• Board member: Enigma, Watchfire and WebCT.  She also chairs BancBoston Ventures’ investment committee.
• Board member CommonAngels - a group of 75 leading private investors and several dozen limited partners in two co-investment funds. Prior - board member of Watchfire, WebCT, NetKey, Enigma, and Inventa and a Board observer of Arbinet-TheExchange, BuyerZone, Centric Software, InQuira, Iowa Telecom

 

Dana Fisk Pitts ’68

• Managing director JP Morgan - (one of the most senior women at JP Morgan)
• Head of hedge fund services - manages the Metropolitan Funds Group Runs unit that markets banking products to hedge funds, asset managers and private equity fund
• Twenty-one years experience at JPMorgan, one year in her current position, two years in the Investment Banking Coverage area, twelve years in New York Global Trading Division sales management functions and six years at Chemical Bank, Hong Kong Branch, where she last jointly ran Chemical Hong Kong’s Treasury group
• Previous banking experience was at Citibank in Paris and New York Museology degree from École du Louvre
• Attended the Smith College management program and Chase Executive Development Program Member of the New York Financial Women’s Association

 

Ann Short (Marium Ann Short) ‘77

• COO of a startup financial advisory firm / merchant bank ....target clients are microfinance institutions and other social entrepreneurs focused on the bottom of the economic pyramid (the poor).
• Prior COO of Bank of America's Corporate and Investment Bank, retired in 2006
• NASD (03-05) EVP, compliance information services;
• Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (01-02) COO, North American investment bank
• Morgan Stanley (83-01) headed non-investment grade research, spending time in NY, Beijing and Hong Kong  
• Past member, Wellesley Center for Women  2003- 2007
• Director of High Yield Research, Morgan Stanley, 1983-2001; lived in Hong Kong and Beijing
• MS, MIT Sloan School of Management, ‘83

 

Erna Arnesen ’74

• Vice president Global Services Channels & Alliances at Cisco Systems, 2008-present
• Vice president global SMB, industry & partner marketing, Symantec, 2005-2008
• Vice president, ww channels & north American  sales, Fujitsu Softek, 2002-2004
• Vice president, No American sales and 0artners at CyberSource Corporation, 1999-2001
• Vice president, global channels (1997-1999) and director, global channels, Silicon Graphics, 1993-1997
• Director, VAR/OEM channel sales, NeXT Computer, 1990-1993
• MBA, Harvard Business School 1980
• Member, Leadership California

 

Jenny Brandemuehl ‘85

• Vice President, Global Talent Management & Organization Development, JDS Uniphase (Public Company; JDSU; Telecommunications industry), September 2006 – Present
• Senior Director, Executive Development, Gap Inc. , Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Apparel & Fashion industry  (August 2005 – August 2006)
• Senior Director, Strategic Change, Old Navy (August 2004 – August 2005)
• President, Brandemuehl Consulting Group , Management Consulting (August 1999 – September 2004)
•  Senior Manager, Strategic Change, Hewlett Packard Company   (1994 – 1999)
•  Change Manager, Hewlett Packard Company (1992 – 1994)
• MHROD University of San Francisco, 1994
• Member, Board of Directors, Women's Initiative for Self Employment, 2001 – 2006

 

Sandra Horbach ’82

• Managing Director and Head of Consumer and Retail Group, The Carlyle Group, 2005- present
• General Partner of Forstmann Little ("FL"). She joined as an Associate in 1987, and became a General Partner in 1993.
• Board/Membership Affiliations (present and past): Chair of Investment Committee – Rockefeller University; Member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees (past) – Rockefeller University; Board Member – Yankee Candle Company; Board Member – Dunkin’ Brands; Board Members – Oriental Trading Company; Board of Trustees – The Chapin School; Member of the Advisory Council (past) – Stanford Business School.
• MBA Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

 

Leigh Marriner ’72

• Consulting practice director at Cheskin - a thriving consultancy that guides innovation through a deep understanding of people, culture and change since the 1930’s
• Prior: managing partner at Marriner Associates, vice president marketing at Broderbund Software, WordStar product manager at MicroPro (later WorldStar)
• MBA from Harvard Co-taught the Entrepreneurship course in the MBA program at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley during 2002-2003
• Board member - Bionomics Institute

Jacqueline (Jackie) Shoback ‘88

• Senior vice president of growth segments in marketing at Fidelity Personal Investments - privately held; 10,001 or more employees; FMR; financial services industry - in charge of acquisition marketing in the personal investing division
• Advisory board, Campus U, 2006-current
• Member, business advisory board, Northeastern University for the International School of Business
• Prior: held a senior position developing new products for personal investors, and previously was in charge of sales activities by Fidelity in their branches all over the country and for the representatives in their five or six phone centers
• Senior associate at Citicorp Investment Bank
• Vice president of opportunity markets, Staples, Inc. - the largest office products retailer in the U.S. 1993 - 2003
• Served as head of the Staples.com operations team that launched the U.S. and international websites - responsible for the successful turnaround of under performing stores and the development and rollout of a successful new store formats
• MBA, Harvard Business School, 1993
• One of Boston’s “40 under 40” by the Boston Business Journal

Carol Cheswick Wilson ’80

• Managing director and owner, Cheswick Wright Wealth Management, 1997- present
• Vice president, Scudder Stevens & Clark, 1987-1997
• Management trainee, Citibank,1980-1987 - specialized in high-net-worth clients
• MBA Finance, NYU Stern School of Business ‘89
• Treasurer, Wellesley College Alumnae Association (WCAA)
• Co-chair, Center for Hope Annual Luncheon, 2008
• Past executive board member, Pear Tree Point School

 

Alice F. Yurke ’84

• Partner, McKee Nelson, LLP, 2007-present
• Partner, Morrison & Foerster, 2003-2007
• Partner, Clifford Chance US LLP, 1987-2003
• Member, Structured Products Association; member, Futures & Derivatives Regulation Committee, New York City Bar; member, 100 Women in Hedge Funds; and member, Derivatives & Structured Products Law Committee, New York State Bar Association
• A frequent speaker industry conferences and contributor to legal and trade journals that cater to finance professionals.
• Special gifts chair, Wellesley College Alumnae Association
• Chancellor at St. Bartholomew's Church and vice chancellor, Episcopal Diocese of New York
• JD, Columbia University School of Law, ’87

 

Lisa Lynch ’78

• Dean and professor of economics, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
• Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's board of directors
• Member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a member of the executive board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association
• Research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Economic Policy Institute, and IZA in Bonn, Germany
• Published extensively on issues such as the impact of technological change and organizational innovation (especially training) on productivity and wages, the determinants of youth unemployment, and the school to work transition
• Labor Department's chief economist, 1995-1997 - during the Clinton administration - part of her job was to support the National Economic Council and bring together cabinet secretaries to tackle economic issues that crossed agency lines
• Prior: William L. Clayton Chair of International Economic Affairs, Tufts University (1994, 1998 - 2008); I.R.I. Career Development Chair in Industrial Relations, M.I.T. (1988 – 1992); faculty member, The Ohio State University, and the University of Bristol
• Co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics from 1993-2002 and an associate editor of Labour Economics:  An International Journal from 1991-1996
• Board member: CSWEP (The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession) - founded in 1971 to eliminate discrimination against women, and to redress the low representation of women, in the economics profession
• M. Sc , Ph.D , London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Awards/honors: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2007); Susan C. Eaton Scholar Practitioner Award, Labor Employment Relations Association (2007);  Director, Board of Directors, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2004 - 2009); Who's Who in Economics (2003); Tufts University Outstanding Faculty Award (2000); James Paddock Teaching Award, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1998); MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award (1988); Top Ten MIT Professors for Undergraduate Teaching (1988); Ohio State University Pacesetter Award - Commendation for Research (1985)

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Laurie Shahon ‘74

• President and founder Wilton Capital, PE firm - a private direct investment firm that makes principal investments in later-stage ventures and medium-sized buyouts (1994-present)
• Former Founder and Head of the Retailing and Consumer Products Group, Salomon Bros
• Morgan Stanley, Associate, Corporate Finance (1976-1980)
• Salomon Brothers, Vice President, Corporate Finance (1980-1988)
• 21 International Holdings, MD, private equity investing - one of the first well-known leveraged buyout firms, which invested in Knoll Furniture, Sheller-Globe Automotive, General Felt, Foamex Products, Color Tile and The ‘21’ Club (1988-1993)
• Board Member: Knight Trading Group , Inc.( 501-1000 employees, $897 mil in revenue 2007); The Bombay Company , Inc. (1,600 employees, $536 mil revenue 2007); Eddie Bauer Holdings , Inc; Safelite Group Inc; Safelite Glass Corp. (5001-10,000 employees)
• Past board member: Kitty Hawk Inc, Bradlees, Factory Card Outlet, Homeland Stores, Ames Department Stores, One Price Clothing, Arbor Drugs, Knight Capital
• Knight Trading Group Forbes 500s (Profits) (2001)
• M.B.A., Columbia University 1976

 

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