The 85 Broads Boston University Chapter presents its annual Spring Conference. This year the theme is "Confessions of an Entrepreneur," where various CEO's and founders share their obstacles and victories in starting their businesses and start-ups! 

This year's conference is held on Saturday, April 2, 2011 in the Boston University School of Law. This is an all-day event from 9AM - 5PM; breakfast and lunch are provided through Catering on the Charles! Tickets are only $10 if you register through eventbrite, and $15 at the door. Dress code is business casual.

We will be featuring about 30 speakers in total who are CEO's, CFO's, founders, and presidents of various companies!

Start building your professional network now! Attendees will be able to network with each speaker after each break-out session; many of these speakers will be offering (in addition to great advice and perspectives) internships/jobs!

Additionally, there will be one-on-one resume workshop sessions throughout the day provided by Caroline Chiang and Diane Riemer, expert career counselors at the Boston University School of Management Feld Career Center. Sign-ups are in the morning, so please bring your resume if you would like great resume-building advice/critiques!

We are extending our invitation to not only Boston University students, but also students within the Greater Boston area - students attending Northeastern, Harvard, MIT, Simmons, Tufts, Bentley, Babson and more. This is also a great opportunity to meet other students from different schools and build your collegiate network! 

**Although 85 Broads is a women's network, we are of course open to having male attendees!**

Please print out your eventbrite ticket stub or have it ready to show us on your phone.

For those of you who have never heard of 85 Broads - please see the description on this page. We are a professional women's network with more than 25,000 members worldwide. 85 Broads promotes networking, mentorship and career/personal advancement amongst women. Please also see the official website if you are interested in joining 85 Broads: www.85broads.com. There are various chapters throughout the world, and the Boston University Chapter is one of the collegiate chapters.

Spring Conference 2011 Speakers (See all the way below for speaker bios!)

Morning Keynote: Karen (Kari) Firestone (President/Co-founder of Aureus Asset Management)

Topic: Kari will be speaking on how to balance work and life, the difference between men and women in business, working for people vs. having people work for her, and the qualities needed to succeed in financial services.

Afternoon Keynote: Bonnie Marcus(Certified Career Coach, Professional Speaker, Self-promotion Expert)

Topic: "Step Up and Own Your Success" : Bonnie will be speaking about the self-promotion of women in the workplace, how to develop and grow your personal brand, and how to break societal barriers for women promoting themeselves in the corporate world.

Ending Keynote: Jeanne Dasaro (Co-founder/COO of New Prosperity Initiative)

Topic: Jeanne will be speaking about the importance of building relationships, lessons she has learned about setting and achieving goals after becoming an entrepreneur, how to figure out what we want, taking action and not waiting; celebrating successes and being comfortable in our own skin.

85 BROADS SPRING CONFERENCE ITINERARY

 BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

765 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON, MA 02215

BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION: 9 AM - 9:45 AM (Barrister's Hall, 1st Floor)

WELCOME ADDRESS: 10 AM - 10: 15 AM (Room 1270, 12th Floor)

MORNING KEYNOTE: 10:15 AM - 11 AM (Room 1270, 12th Floor)

BREAKOUT SESSION I: 11:15 AM - 12 PM (Please see below for panel times/locations)

LUNCH: 12:15 PM - 1 PM (Barrister's Hall, 1st Floor)

AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: 1:15 PM - 2 PM (Room 1270, 12th Floor)

BREAKOUT SESSION II: 2:15 PM - 3 PM (Please see below for panel times/locations)

BREAKOUT SESSION III: 3:15 - 4 PM (Please see below for panel times/locations)

ENDING KEYNOTE: 4:15 - 5 PM (Room 1270, 12 Floor)

PANEL TIMES AND LOCATIONS

BREAKOUT SESSION I (11:15 AM - 12 PM)

• ERNST AND YOUNG ACCOUNTING PANEL (Room 532, 5th Floor)
• MARKETING PANEL (Room 520, 5th Floor)
• FASHION PANEL (Room 570, 5th Floor)

BREAKOUT SESSION II (2:15 PM - 3 PM)

• FINANCIAL SERVICES PANEL (Room 520, 5th Floor)
• HEALTHCARE PANEL (Room 532, 5th Floor)
• SOCIAL MEDIA PANEL (Room 570, 5th Floor)

BREAKOUT SESSION III (3:15 PM - 4 PM)

• PUBLIC RELATIONS PANEL (Room 520, 5th Floor) 
• HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTING/LAW PANEL (Room 532, 5th Floor)
• EDUCATIONAL NONPROFIT AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PANEL (Room 570, 5th Floor)

SPEAKERS

Finance Panel:

1)      Karen (Kari) Firestone (President/Co-founder of Aureus Asset Management)

2)      Karil Reibold (President & CEO of Whaleback Systems)

3)      Rudi Scheiber-Kurtz (CEO of Next Stage Solutions, Inc.)

Social Media Entrepreneurship Panel

1)      Jeanne Dasaro (Co-founder/COO of New Prosperity Initiative)

2)      Christine Liu (Community Manager at Urbanspoon)

3)      Adaora Asala (Writer, Blogger and Activist at Spectra Speaks and Founder/Director at QWOC+ Boston)

Career-Building and Resume Workshop

1)      Caroline Chiang (Career Advisor at the Boston University School of Management Feld Career Center)

2)      Diane Riemer (Career Advisor at the Boston University School of Management Feld Career Center)

3)      Bonnie Marcus (Certified Career Coach, Professional Speaker, Self-promotion Expert)

Marketing Entrepreneurship Panel

1)      Paige Arnof-Fenn (Founder and CEO of Mavens and Moguls Marketing)

2)      Karen Miller (President & Co-Founder of Doink.com)

3)      Rochelle Seltzer (Founding Partner/President at Seltzer Design Inc.)

Fashion Entrepreneurship Panel

1)      Monika Desai (Co-founder/CEO of Open Runway, Inc.)

2)      HeatherJean Macneil (CEO of Proxy Apparel)

3)      Barbara Thornton (President at Designershoes.com)

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Panel

1)      Tessa Misiaszek (President of Nous Foundation, Inc.)

2)      Amy Yu (CFO for Ambassadors for Sustained Health)

3)     Magdalena Leszczyniecka (President/CEO of STC Biologics Inc.)

Educational Nonprofit & Social Enterprise Panel

1)     Marie Schwartz (Founder and President of TeenLife Media, LLC)

2)      Siiri Morley (Partner at Prosperity Candle)

3)      Veronica N. Chapman (Founder/President of Boxxout)

Human Resources Consulting/Law Entrepreneurship Panel

1)      Kate Thompson (President of Thompson Consulting Company)

1)      Gina Powers (Sole Proprietor, M.D.)

2)      Sarah Worley (Founder of Worley Conflict Resolution)

Ernst and Young Accounting Panel

1)      Emily Clerkin (Assurance Manager at Ernst & Young)

2)      Molly Boyle (Manager, Northeast Assurance at Ernst & Young)

3)      Sonal Shah (Manager, FSO Insurance at Ernst & Young)

Public Relations Entrepreneurship Panel

1)      Christine Perkett (Founder/CEO of PerkettPR)

2)      Julia Tanen (Managing Director of KCSA Strategic Communications)

3)      Nicole Kanner (Founder of All Heart PR)

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85 Broads Boston University Chapter - Spring Conference 2011 Team:

President: Darrin Nandhavan (dnandhavan@gmail.com)

VP of Public Relations: Karen Pham (kpham@bu.edu)

VP of Programs and Events: Christine Gonzales (cgonzales329@gmail.com)

VP of Corporate Relations: Ley Cheung (atcheung@bu.edu)

VP of Marketing: Julie Horowitz (juliebh@bu.edu)

*Please feel free to reach out to our conference team if you have any questions or comments! 

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BU SCHOOL OF LAW

765 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE

BOSTON, MA 02215

Directions by T:  Take the Green Line towards Boston College (BC) and get off at the "BU CENTRAL" stop. BU School of Law is located behind the George Sherman Union (GSU)

Parking: Can park on the side streets; however, parking will cost about $6

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85 BROADS BOSTON UNIVERSITY CHAPTER PANELIST BIOS:

MORNING KEYNOTE -  Karen Firestone (CEO & Co-Founder of Aureus Asset Management)

Karen is President, CEO and co-founder of Aureus Asset Management, an investment firm dedicated to providing contemporary asset management to families and individuals. Previously, she spent 22 years at Fidelity Investments, most recently as a diversified fund manager in the Growth Group with oversight of the Large Cap Fund, Advisor Large Cap Fund, Destiny 1 Fund, and several institutional non-profit and pension funds. Prior to that, Karen managed several sector funds, including the Leisure and Entertainment Fund, the Media Fund, Air Transportation Fund, Transportation Fund, Biotechnology Fund, Health Care Fund, and Advisor Health Care Fund. Karen’s Fidelity career began in 1983 as an assistant fund manager to Peter Lynch on Magellan Fund. Later, she moved to an analyst role in the research department covering numerous industries. 

Ms. Firestone received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is the Chairman of the board of The Commonwealth School. She has served on committees at Harvard University, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 

MARKETING PANEL - Paige Arnof-Fenn (Founder and CEO of Mavens & Moguls)

Paige Arnof-Fenn is the founder and CEO of Mavens & Moguls, a global
marketing strategy consulting firm whose clients range from early stage
start-up to Fortune 500 companies including Colgate, Virgin and The New
York Times Company.  She was formerly VP Marketing at Zipcar and VP
Marketing at Inc.com before the company was sold to Bertelsmann. Prior to
that she held the title of SVP Marketing and was a key member of the IPO
team at Launch Media, an Internet start-up that went public in early 1999
and was later sold to Yahoo.

Arnof-Fenn has also worked as a special assistant to the chief marketing
officer of global marketing at The Coca-Cola Company and held the position
of director of the 1996 Olympic Commemorative Coin Program at the
Department of Treasury, U.S. Mint. Previously Arnof-Fenn worked in brand
management at Procter & Gamble. Arnof-Fenn is a founding Board member of
Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology and she is currently serving
as Board Chair of the Alumni Board of Stanford University.  She is also
the former Vice President of the Harvard Business School Global Alumni
Board and the current Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Sports Museum
at the Boston Garden.  She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from
Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  She is quoted
regularly in the media, was a monthly columnist for Entrepreneur for
several years, is on the IDC Technology Advisory Council, and a Time
Magazine Opinion Leader.

ENDING KEYNOTE - Jeanne Dasaro (Co-founder of New Prosperity Initiative)

Jeanne Dasaro is a social entrepreneur and activist who is interested in using her skills for social change. She has extensive experience in nonprofit management, event and project planning, new media, and community journalism. She studied Anthropology and Economics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and is a Co-founder of The New Prosperity Initiative, Founder of Wonder Women of Boston and an artist at Jeans McQueens Creative. She has been featured in Oprah Magazine as one of “Tomorrow’s Leaders” and The Boston Globe as a “Leading Woman” specifically for her social entrepreneurial spirit.