Nancy Gerrie is a partner in the Employee Benefits Practice Group at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, where she started her practice as a summer associate in 1987. She advises companies and individuals on employee benefit matters and speaks and writes frequently about employee benefit topics. Nancy was appointed Partner-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the law Firm in 2010. Among the many initiatives that Nancy has developed inside and outside her Firm, Nancy has committed herself to improving gender diversity in large law firms. Under her leadership, McDermott has developed policies and initiatives …
San Francisco is the best city for female entrepreneurship according to the Intuit blog. The 48 largest cities were evaluated …
The United States places 12th among the top 26 developed countries on a “Glass-Ceiling index” devised by British publication The …
The current discussion of women’s lives focuses too much on work life, too little on the rewards of family life, …
Judy Nam is an executive with Google Inc. in Chicago. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, she also attended the year-long Google Marketing Academy conducted with The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
You’re at a company for which many of your peers would love to work. Can you give me an idea of your role with Google and how your career path brought you there?
My title here is product marketing manager. That means that I work on communicating our products to the business community to help …
1. Name: Beth Doane
2. Current job, past jobs: Founder of RainTees; owner of Andira Consulting; author.
3. Last school attended; major: Eastern Michigan University; Theater, Communications, Writing.
4. Did you need to have an internship to help get your jobs? No, but I did write for my college newspaper and later sold advertising, which were valuable in teaching me skills I use everyday now in my career. I also did a lot of customer-service-related jobs when I was younger, which are always so amazing at teaching us how to handle a range of …
1. Names: Sabrina Scandar (at left in photo) and Silvia Scandar Mahan, sisters and cofounders of sewlove.co [a “community for artists and lovers of artistic, fashion-forward, custom-designed clothing”].
2. Current job, past jobs:
Sabrina: Currently, Co-founder/COO of Sew Love. Previously, Senior Product Manager at Open English; Research and marketing for a clean energy company, and Dept of Justice contractor.
Silvia: Currently, Co-founder/CEO of Sew Love. Previously, Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP.
3. Schools attended; major:
Sabrina: B.A. in Government, Georgetown University
Silvia: A.B. in Economics, Harvard University; JD from Georgetown University …