Women & Entrepreneurship: The Role of Emerging Technology
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at 2:30 p.m - 5:00 p.m.
Place: Duques Hall Room 651 (6th Floor), George Washington University School of Business, 2201 G Street NW, Washington DC 20052
Presented by the C-PET Institute for Innovation, the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CFEE), and the GW Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).
What impact will the growth of woman entrepreneurs in the developing world have upon business creation and job growth? Recent research argues that women-owned businesses are one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial populations in the world (Bruin et al., 2010).
This roundtable will discuss how entrepreneurial women can use emerging technologies to create new ventures and develop their businesses. Panelists with experience in the public and private sector will engage participants in topics related to emerging technology, minority entrepreneurship, small business development, and the implication for public policy. This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP today with name, affiliation, and contact information to elisabeth.doherty@c-pet.org
Schedule:
2:00pm - 2:30pm - Registration
2:30pm - 2:45pm - Opening Remarks
- Ayman El Tarabishy, Executive Director, ICSB
2:45pm - 4:15pm - Panel: Women & Entrepreneurship: The Role of Emerging Technology
- Shelly Porges, Senior Advisor for the Global Women's Business Initiative, U.S. Department of State
- Amy M. Wilkinson, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business and Government, and Public Policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center
- Ana Recio Harvey, Head of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership, SBA
- Moderator: Nigel M de S. Cameron, President and CEO, C-PET: Chairman
4:15pm - 5:00pm - Networking Reception
Shelly Porges
Senior Advisor, Global Women's Business Initiative
US Department of State
K. Shelly Porges is a Senior Advisor leading the Global Women's Business Initiative at the US State Department. She is a recognized expert in marketing and strategy development with significant experience in launching products, brands and companies, and with particular expertise in the banking and financial services industries. As a senior executive, she has led some of the nation's leading financial institutions in developing and executing marketing strategies in both start-up and turn-around environments, including the internet and new media. As a consultant and advisor, she has also consulted with numerous Fortune 500 company executive teams and financial services organizations on marketing and product strategy. Presently, after a successful career as a corporate executive, consultant and entrepreneur, she serves full-time as an investor and board member in a variety of organizations.
Ms. Porges' career highlights include a ten-year stint at American Express, culminating as executive head of marketing for American Express Canada, followed by three years as Senior Vice President of Retail Product Management for Bank of America during its historic turn-around in the late 1980's. As Bank of America's chief retail marketing officer, she helped the Bank move from 23rd to #1 in consumer lending in the country, as well as from last to first in deposit and revenue growth among the nation's major banks. Subsequently, as founder and CEO of Porges/Hudson Marketing, Ms. Porges led this well-known and-respected boutique strategy and marketing advisory firm serving major clients in the financial services, telecommunications and other industries.
Ms. Porges has also held executive positions in a number of start-up and internet ventures, including Executive Vice President of Strategic Marketing for a subsidiary of Wachovia Bank (then First Union), where she ran a strategic alliance business, and launched an internet lending business which grew to over $100 million in its first full year of operation. She served as Executive Vice President-Marketing for Third Age Media, at the time, a leading Internet portal site that was named one of the Top 10 Most Popular Sites on the Web in 2000, and also served as Chief Marketing Officer of Scudder Weisel Capital LLC, a specialty investment firm joint ventured by investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners, and Zurich Scudder Investments, one of the largest asset managers in the world.
From 2003 to 2008, Ms. Porges was a co-founder and managing partner of Global Payments Experts LLC, a consulting firm providing business strategy, risk management, marketing, and product development consulting to leading companies in the payments and financial services industry.
Ms. Porges holds both a Bachelor of Science and MPS degree from Cornell University. Quoted frequently over the years on marketing topics in a variety of national and industry publications (e.g., New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune and the American Banker), she was also a contributor to such books as The AMA Handbook of Services Marketing, If It Ain't Broke, Break It!, and How to Run a Small Business. A long-time member of the Financial Women's Association, she served as the organization's 49th president in 2004, and has served on both corporate boards as well as a variety of nonprofit boards. Since 2006, she has been Chair of the Board of Directors of Count-Me-In for Women's Economic Independence, leading non-profit aimed at catalyzing growth of women-owned businesses.
Amy M. Wilkinson
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business and Government Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Amy M. Wilkinson is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business and Government and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Fascinated by how leaders and individuals alike must reinvent their approaches to excel in an entrepreneurial age, Amy is writing a book on entrepreneurial effectiveness. Her essays have appeared in CNN.com, FoxNews.com, BusinessWeek.com, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Oregonian, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Wilson Quarterly and The Huffington Post. In addition, she writes an expert column for 85Broads, a global professional women's network.
A senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business and Government and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Amy has spoken on innovation and entrepreneurship at The Economist Innovation Summit, Harvard University, MIT and the Library of Congress as well as appearing as a commentator on Fox & Friends, ABC-Channel 8 News, and the Dialogue Radio and Television program.
Previously, Amy served in the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) as a White House fellow and senior policy advisor. Her business background includes consulting at McKinsey & Company, investment banking at JP Morgan, and founding Alegre, an international art-export company. She began her career as the chief of protocol for the United States Embassy in Mexico. Amy holds a BA in political science and English, an MA in sociology, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Ana Recio Harvey
Director, U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership
As the U.S. Small Business Administration's assistant administrator for women's business ownership, Ana Recio Harvey is the director of the SBA's Office of Women's Business Ownership. She oversees the agency's efforts to promote the growth of women-owned businesses through programs that provide business training and counseling, access to credit and capital, and multiple business and networking opportunities.
Harvey manages a nationwide network of women's business centers that provide training and counseling to hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs in nearly every state and two U.S. territories. Her office also works with representatives in every SBA district office to oversee operations of the women's business centers and to coordinate services for women entrepreneurs.
After working as a translation consultant from 1991 to 2000, Harvey established Syntaxis, LLC, a highly successful SBA 8(a)-certified multilingual communications company with clients from Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Harvey successfully grew her company from a single English-to-Spanish translation agency into a full-service multilingual communications firm with 75 employees handling communications and translations in 25 languages.
While still managing her company, Harvey served for two years as Latino programs director with Latino Programs Director for Cultural Tourism DC, where she developed relationships with community-based organizations and Latino audiences in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. She developed and implemented tourism promotions and activities that highlighted Latino-based cultural tourism sites and programs in Washington's historic neighborhoods.
In 2007, Harvey was named president and CEO of the Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a post she held until President Obama appointed her to lead the Office of Women's Business Ownership. At the Chamber, she set the direction and provided the leadership that helped the organization fulfill its philosophy, mission and strategy, and enabled it to achieve its annual financial goals and community objectives. Harvey holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston.
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