Announcing our panelists for the 10/21 Bay Area Career Reentry Event

Stanford University, October 21, 9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

We are excited to announce our panelists for the Bay Area Career Reentry Event on 10/21 at Stanford! Click here to register! Note you do NOT have to be a Stanford or Kellogg alum to attend; this event is open to all returning professionals.

Christina Kramlich Bowie (KSM '98)

Co-head, Marketplace Investments and Investor Relations, SoFi

9-Year Career Break

Christina held senior business development roles for NextCard, one of the first online credit card companies, and MoodLogic, one of the first online music recommendation engines, following her graduation from Kellogg School of Management in 1998. She then took a nine-year career break before relaunching her career as Director of New Product Development for biopharmaceutical analytics consultancy Integrated Insights. She is now co-head of Marketplace Investments and Investor Relations for SoFI (Social Finance, Inc), the fastest growing marketplace lending platform, which raises funds from alumni and institutions to offer innovative loan products to early career professionals.

Alison Cormack (GSB '93)

Operations Manager, Google

10-Year Career Break

After graduating from the GSB in 1993, Alison Cormack spent several years at Hewlett-Packard where she held roles in finance, sales, and operations. She stepped out of the paid workforce for 10 years to raise a family, during which time she also ran a $76 million political campaign and a $4 million private fundraising campaign. She now works at Google as the chief of staff for two VPs in the global sales business.

Kim Dunn (KSM '97)

Director of Development, Live Oak Waldorf School

15-Year Career Break

While earning an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Kim Dunn managed IT projects in the banking and telecom industries in the U.S. and overseas. Stepping back from her career to raise a family, Kim transferred her extensive project management skills to a variety of volunteer efforts including starting a new independent private K-8 school in Florida. When Kim relocated her family to northern California, she refocused her volunteer energies to her children's new school and contributed to fundraising, marketing, and finance committees. With this first-hand experience, Kim was well positioned to take on a newly created position of Director of Development for the private, non-profit school. Re-entering the workforce after 15 years, Kim currently oversees fundraising, grant writing, marketing and outreach, alumni relations and new initiative development for the school.

Jamie Schein (GSB '91)

Director of Strategy and Curricular Support, MBA Program, Stanford Graduate School of Business

6-Year Career Break

Following her graduation in 1991 from the GSB, Jamie worked in Product Marketing and Management at Silicon Graphics and Vantive. She stepped back from a full-time career while her children were young, working independently as a technology marketing consultant. She returned to full-time work as CMO at Model N, then took a six-year career break. During her break she served as president of an education foundation and on the governing board of a K-8 public school district.Jamie relaunched her career as an entrepreneur, founding "The Mix A Frozen Yogurt Treatery" with a fellow GSB alum. In 2013 she transitioned to higher education, and joined the GSB as director of strategy and curricular support for the MBA Program.

Carol Fishman Cohen (HBS '85)

Panel Moderator and Keynote Speaker

C0-Founder, iRelaunch

11-Year Career Break

Carol Fishman Cohen worked first in manufacturing and then in corporate finance before stepping out of the full time workforce for 11 years. Carol relaunched her career at Bain Capital in their high yield debt management group. Subsequently, she left that role, became the subject of a Harvard Business School case on career reentry, secured a contract to co-author career reentry strategy book Back on the Career Track, and co-founded iRelaunch to connect employers with returning professionals through career reentry programming.