Westwood, CA
| 6:00-7:00pm |
Networking Reception in C Atrium |
| 7:00-9:00pm |
Panel Discussion in Korn Convocation Hall |
Join us for our inaugural Women in Entrepreneurship Panel, one of Step Up’s major professional development events of the year.
Learn from leading entrepreneurs in retail fashion, business consulting, real estate development, and restauranteering who will speak candidly about their successes and challenges in starting their own businesses.
Moderator:
Panelists:
Moderator:
Amy Swift
Panelists:
Christine Comaford-Lynch
Christine Comaford-Lynch is CEO of Mighty Ventures, an innovation accelerator which helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine’s popular column on
www.BusinessWeek.com/SmallBiz launched January 2007 and recently published her new book
Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality.
Pamela Day
Pamela Day is one of
America’s preeminent young businesswomen. You may recognize her from
NBC’s The Apprentice 2, but she has more to talk about than just Donald Trump. Pamela is an accomplished and well-trained Harvard MBA who has founded two successful companies from the ground up:
Blazent, a successful enterprise software company and
Crimson Holdings, a private investment firm focused on real estate investments and equity hedge strategies.
Jaye Hersh
Known as one of the hottest boutiques in Hollywood,
Intuition is the creation of Jaye Hersh, who has become one of the most sought after experts in the retail clothing business. Regularly featured as the "Celebrity Shopper" on numerous television shows including Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Good Day Live and the Style Channel, Hersh continues to provide insight into the latest trends in fashion and shopping based on her 25 years as a garment industry executive.
Mary Sue Milliken
Inspired by a love for bold flavors and strong statements, Mary Sue Milliken has made her mark in the culinary world with home cooking from all over the world. For over two decades, Mary Sue and her business partner Susan Feniger have transformed street foods and comfort foods into critically acclaimed cuisine and become some of the country's foremost authorities on the Latin kitchen. A natural teacher, Mary Sue shares her passion for food through many media including 396 episodes of the popular “Too Hot Tamales” and “Tamales World Tour” series with Food Network (1995-1999), numerous radio shows and five cookbooks (co-authored with Susan)
Parking Instructions
Inform the kiosk attendant that you are attending the Step Up Panel event at Korn Convocation Hall at UCLA Anderson, and you will be directed to Parking Structure 4. The parking fee is $8. Map attached. PLEASE NOTE that this parking entrance is only accessible via Sunset Blvd. on Westwood Blvd.
There will be signs from Parking Structure 4 directing you to Entrepreneurs Hall of The Anderson School of Management (C Building); a map of the UCLA Anderson School of Management is also attached for your convenience.
DIRECTIONS TO THE ANDERSON SCHOOL AT UCLA
The Anderson School, a complex of buildings A - F, is located in the north central section of the UCLA Campus.
Northbound: Take Interstate 405 (San Diego Freeway) north, and exit at Sunset Boulevard. Turn east (right) onto Sunset at the end of the off-ramp. Turn south (right) onto Westwood Plaza, and proceed to the parking kiosk.
Southbound: Take Interstate 405 (San Diego Freeway) south, and exit at Sunset Boulevard. Turn left at the end of the off-ramp and turn east (left) onto Sunset. Turn south (right) onto
Westwood Plaza, and proceed to the parking kiosk.
Questions?
Please contact Alexa Brandt, Senior Program Manager, at
213.382.8013 or
alexa@suwn.org
