Meet the
EY Entrepreneurial
Winning Women™
North America | Classes of 2008–14
In collaboration with:
Introducing the
EY Entrepreneurial
For our Entrepreneurial Winning Women, the sky’s no limit
Congratulations to the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2014! On the following
pages, you’ll meet this extraordinary group of 12 women entrepreneurs from the US and
Canada and be reintroduced to the 60+ women entrepreneurs from the classes of 2008
through 2013.
Launched in 2008 in the US and expanded to include
Canada, EY’s North America Entrepreneurial Winning
Women Program identifies a select group of high-potential
women entrepreneurs and helps them acquire the know-how
to think big, secure resources and scale their businesses to
their full potential.
The experience, through a national competition and
evergreen leadership development program, works.
Program participant companies’ total 2013 revenue was
63% higher than their total revenues in the years when they
joined the program. Individual participants average 20%
revenue growth annually; in the second year of participation,
when they begin to really internalize and deploy the advice
they acquire, their revenue growth can reach 50%.
Contacts, resources and business advice
Beginning with the annual EY Strategic Growth Forum,
we provide immediate opportunities for these entrepreneurs
to expand their professional relationships, by introducing
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their corporate and personal brands and positioning their
companies with established entrepreneurs, top executives,
business advisors and prospective investors who can guide
their decision-making and contribute to their success.
We also offer our strategic business counsel, gleaned over
many years as the world’s leading advisor to high-growth
entrepreneurs. Our advice starts with think big and be bold,
and expands to include topics such as accessing outside
capital, developing infrastructure and talent, building an
advisory board, and many other critical steps.
Drawing on the knowledge we have gained in working with
the entrepreneurs and new survey data from the Babson
College Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership, we
also recommend adopting three “force multipliers” that can
accelerate growth in women-led companies:
1. An authentic purpose. A purpose is the company’s
North Star, guiding it in every aspect, from recruitment
to customer management to product development
and sales.
Winning Women
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2. A strong community. Communities offer women
entrepreneurs much-welcomed affirmation, know-how,
peer-to-peer guidance and, ultimately, role models.
3. A flexible, adaptive leadership style. A small start-up
requires different characteristics in its leader than a
100- or 1,000-person company. Entrepreneurs need
the self-awareness to know when they need to change
their focus, and how.
You can read more about these accelerators, along
with practical advice for how to deploy them, in our
latest report, Force multipliers: how three fundamental
adaptations can help women entrepreneurs scale big.
We’ve also teamed with Babson to sponsor their recent
trailblazing research on venture capital funding for
women entrepreneurs, Women Entrepreneurs 2014:
Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital.
Read more
Force multipliers
How three fundamental adaptations
can help women entrepreneurs scale big
You can read more about these
accelerators, along with practical
advice for how to deploy them,
in our latest report, Force
multipliers: how three fundamental
adaptations can help women
entrepreneurs scale big.
We’ve also teamed with Babson to sponsor their recent
trailblazing research on venture capital funding for
women entrepreneurs, Women Entrepreneurs 2014:
Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital.
Join us in welcoming the 2014 Class of Entrepreneurial
Winning Women. The sky’s no limit to what they can
accomplish, individually and together.
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2008–14
EY Entrepreneurial
Winning Women
Meet the class of 2014:
Elena Bajic
Sarah Kauss
Beth Chase
Christine Lantinen
Kathy Cheng
Stella Ma and Amy Norman
Robin Ferracone
Sabina Teshler
Lisa Hufford
Britnie Faith Turner
Tonia Jahshan
Kristen Wood
Ivy Exec, Inc.
c3/consulting LLC
Redwood Classics Apparel
Farient Advisors LLC
Simplicity Consulting Inc.
Steeped Tea Inc.
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S’well Bottle
Maud Borup Inc.
Little Passports
SET Creative
Aerial Development Group, LLC
The Ten Spot Inc.
Meet our
2014 judges
Cynthia Cohen
CEO, Strategic Mindshare
Mike Cohen
Managing General
Partner, VG Partners
Laurie Cunnington
President, Cunnington &
Cunnington (former President
of Ward Williston Oil Company)
Joy Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO,
TayganPoint Consulting
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2014
Elena Bajic
Beth Chase
Ivy Exec, Inc.
c3/consulting LLC
New York, NY
Nashville, TN
Ivy Exec is a highly selective and curated career community
that offers career advancement resources to global
business leaders, as well as recruitment, employment
branding and market research to leading universities
and companies across industries. Although the company
accepts only 40% of their applicants, membership has
grown to half a million high-caliber professionals. Ivy
Exec leverages their technology platform and curated
community to offer innovative recruitment solutions to
clients such as Google, eBay and The Economist, as well
as members of the Fortune 1000 and rapidly growing
entrepreneurial companies. Their recruitment services
typically reduce the cost per hire by over 30%, in addition
to shortening the time to hire.
c3/consulting is a management consulting firm working
with Fortune 1000 and growth companies to successfully
navigate critical inflection points, like mergers and
acquisitions, strategy shifts, emerging competitive or
market pressures, significant regulation changes, and
scaling infrastructure for growth. The company works
as an extension of private equity firms and the C-suite to
ensure important change happens. Their secret sauce is
very different from traditional consulting firms: c3 acts
as a catalyst to drive transformational change, bringing a
unique, roll-up-your-sleeves, people-centric approach to
align teams and accelerate execution. They have a 90%+
client retention rate and have doubled their revenue over
the past three years.
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2014
Kathy Cheng
Redwood Classics Apparel
Toronto, Ontario
Redwood Classics Apparel is one of North America’s few
vertically integrated apparel manufacturers, proudly
producing on Canadian soil. They help premium retail and
designer brands by focusing on quality, low minimums,
speed to market, flexibility and a collaborative approach to
product development and bulk production. By considering
each client a business partner, clients are freed to focus
on their core competencies, while Redwood Classics helps
them execute efficiently and effectively.
“Our research and experience
show us that women need
a rich network of advisors
and seasoned role models
to help break through the
barriers to rapid growth and
entrepreneurial success.
They need access to mentors
who can challenge and
encourage them to think
bigger. We are raising the bar
and changing the game
for women entrepreneurs.”
Maria Pinelli
EY Global Vice Chair of Strategic Growth Markets
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2014
“Our Entrepreneurial Winning
Women Program helps bridge
the gap for an area we call ‘the
missing middle’ — those secondstage women business owners
whose companies have emerged
from the start-up phase but face
a crucial inflection point in their
growth journey. By providing the
right information, networks and
guidance, we’re able to help these
talented women access capital,
identify strong business advisors
and put the processes in place to
radically expand their companies.”
Kerrie MacPherson
EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Executive Sponsor
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Robin Ferracone
Farient Advisors LLC
Pasadena, CA
Farient Advisors is an executive compensation
and performance consulting and data company.
They are retained primarily by Fortune
500 compensation committees and senior
management to design executive pay programs
that support the strategy and performance
of the business while providing reasonable
compensation for the performance delivered.
Additionally, they capture, publish and sell
compensation data subscriptions around pay and
performance alignment. Farient gets to know their
clients extraordinarily well, establishing trust and
delivering advice supported by strong analytics.
They enjoy a retention rate of close to 100%.
2014
Lisa Hufford
Tonia Jahshan
Simplicity Consulting Inc.
Steeped Tea Inc.
Kirkland, WA
Ancaster, Ontario
Companies today must stay relevant and go to market
faster in an ever-changing and increasingly competitive
business environment. Simplicity Consulting has the
solution. They deliver scalable, integrated, custom
marketing talent solutions to Fortune 1000 companies
in the technology, retail, health care, financial services
and wireless industries. Simplicity’s teams are powered
by experts in social media, digital PR, content marketing,
campaign management, data analytics and sales
enablement. The company has successfully completed
thousands of projects with Microsoft, T-Mobile, Amazon,
HP, Ericsson, Russell Investments and others, resulting in
powerful brand experiences with their customers.
Tea is poised to overtake the coffee market by 2020.
Taking advantage of this trend, Steeped Tea has driven
3,000% revenue growth in the last two years by direct
selling loose-leaf tea at in-home parties. Through the
company’s 5,000 North American consultants, they’re
creating entrepreneurs every single day.
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2014
Sarah Kauss
Christine Lantinen
S’well Bottle
Maud Borup Inc.
New York, NY
Minneapolis, MN
Sarah Kauss designed and developed the first “hydration
accessory” bottle, which keeps drinks cold for 24 hours
and hot for 12. S’well bottles are sold in 35 countries and
thousands of stores, including J. Crew and Nordstrom, and
to direct customers such as Facebook, Microsoft and the
TED Conference. S’well is the only bottle that looks great
and does good, with donations made to charity partners for
every bottle sold.
Maud Borup is a wholesale food gift manufacturer
specializing in gourmet candy, snacks and beverage for
specialty and mass retailers like Target and Walmart.
They provide a high level of customer service to retailers
and wholesalers through custom product design and
development, a lean supply chain and green manufacturing
practices. In 2014 alone, Maud Borup produced 3 million
gift sets and brought 150 new items to market. The
company takes pride in packing its gifts in the US and
sourcing a majority of its food and packaging components
in the US. Maud Borup’s factory is located in LeCenter, MN,
where they additionally provide contract packing and are
GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative)-certified.
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2014
Stella Ma and Amy Norman
Little Passports
San Francisco, CA
Little Passports inspires children to learn about the world
through monthly subscription-based products. Each
month, children receive a package in their mailbox from
Little Passports characters Sam and Sofia. With the World
Edition, children learn about a new country each month.
With the USA Edition, they learn about two new states
each month. Every package arrives filled with activities,
stickers, souvenirs, photos and access to online games and
activities. All content is unique, high-quality and created inhouse, resulting in customer retention that is 4 to 6 times
the industry average and tripling revenue year over year.
Little Passports has partnered with companies such as
Facebook and the National Geographic Society as they seek
to build the next major global multimedia children’s brand.
“Thinking bigger is the
key to setting higher goals
and putting in place the
team and infrastructure to
scale. Through the program,
the Entrepreneurial Winning
Women start to fix their
sights higher — and then
we see their companies
really take off!”
Lisa Schiffman
EY Americas Director, Brand, Marketing and
Communications, Strategic Growth Markets
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2014
“This program totally
changed my definition of
‘big’ and opened my eyes
to the true growth potential
for our company. I’m
thinking entirely differently
about how we measure
being the market leader.”
Amy Buckner Chowdhry
CEO, AnswerLab
Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2011
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Sabina Teshler
SET Creative
Portland, OR
SET Creative is an experiential agency. They specialize in
creating engaging experiences at retail and live events that
connect consumers to brands — experiences that result
in sales, social media sharing and building brand equity.
SET works with world-class brands such as Nike, Google,
Victoria’s Secret and BMW. They are passionate about
creating meaningful, best-in-class experiences, holistically
incorporating the digital and social components that are
present in our everyday lives. Most important, these
immersive experiences make consumers lifelong fans of
the brand.
2014
Britnie Faith Turner
Kristen Wood
Aerial Development Group, LLC
The Ten Spot Inc.
Nashville, TN
Toronto, Ontario
Aerial Development Group is Nashville’s largest infill
residential real estate development company. Aerial buys
up transitional areas of the urban core, revitalizes them
and makes them the fastest-appreciating areas of town.
The company has grown to $30 million in revenue with $90
million in assets in its first five years. Aerial has expanded
into three other cities and has global ambitions. Britnie
bought her first rental property at the age of 18 after a trip
to Africa, where she was moved to make a real difference;
real estate development is her means to do that.
The Ten Spot is a quickly growing chain of upscale beauty
spas, offering impeccably executed manicures, pedicures
and waxing services in an ultra-clean and hip environment.
The spa industry is a $14 billion market, and The Ten Spot
has perfected the first turnkey franchise model that allows
franchisees to easily open, successfully operate and readily
grow their locations. The company’s goal is to be known as
the most reputable and recognized beauty bar in the world —
in other words, they want to be the Starbucks of spas.
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2013
14
Karri Bass
Julia Beardwood
Illumination Research
Beardwood&Co. LLC
Cincinnati, OH
New York, NY
Illumination Research is a nationally
recognized, award-winning market
research firm that helps many of the
world’s top companies grow their
sales by better understanding their
customers’ needs.
Beardwood&Co. LLC is a strategic
branding agency that elevates and
integrates communications to connect
brands with people on an emotional level,
online and in stores, through advertising
and design.
Jennifer Blumin
Adrienne Choma
Skylight Group
Saladax Biomedical, Inc.
New York, NY
Bethlehem, PA
Skylight Group is an event space
development and operations firm that
brings a roster of clients such as Google,
Nike and Ralph Lauren into venues
created from a portfolio of real estate
holdings so inaccessible that money
alone cannot buy access.
Saladax Biomedical, Inc. develops and
commercializes novel diagnostic tests
for the practical delivery of personalized
medicine, including improved cancer
drug dosing, resulting in a better quality
of life, fewer adverse side effects
and improved treatment results for
chemotherapy patients.
Jamie Kern Lima
IT Cosmetics
Raegan Moya-Jones
aden + anais, Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
New York, NY
IT Cosmetics works with plastic surgeons
to develop innovative, clinically proven
makeup and skin care products and
is one of the fastest-growing prestige
beauty companies in the US, with annual
retail sales north of $150 million in 2014.
aden + anais, Inc. is a global lifestyle
brand in the infant and juvenile sector
whose products are as versatile and
useful as they are beautiful.
2013
Corin Mullins
HapiFoods Group Inc.
Phyllis W. Newhouse
Xtreme Solutions, Inc.
Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
Atlanta, GA
HapiFoods Group Inc. has created a
sustainable business around a healthy
food product – Holy Crap, the world’s
most amazing breakfast cereal –
thereby serving as a role model for
other businesses.
Xtreme Solutions, Inc., founded in 2002,
is an end-to-end IT services and solutions
provider with offerings that range from IT
professional services to state-of-the-art
cybersecurity consulting and forensic
analysis services.
Kelsey Ramsden
Belvedere Place Development Ltd.
and kelseyramsden.com
Joy Taylor
TayganPoint Consulting Group
West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
TayganPoint Consulting Group is a niche
management consulting firm focused on
driving business transformation for clients
in industries such as life sciences, health
care, financial services and energy.
From international construction to
international keynotes, Kelsey Ramsden
starts, runs and coaches multimilliondollar businesses in growth and both
long-term and bottom-line success.
Lambertville, NJ
Dr. Lisa Williams
World of EPI, LLC
Denise Wilson
Desert Jet
Chula Vista, CA
Thermal, CA
World of EPI, LLC teaches multicultural
understanding among children through a
line of books and the Positively Perfect™
doll line.
Desert Jet is the private car service of
the sky, utilizing the unused capacity
of privately owned jets to help aircraft
owners offset the cost of ownership while
offering private flyers a smart alternative
to jet cards and fractional and whole
aircraft ownership.
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2012
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Allyson Ames
Wonderland Lifestyle Brands
Emily Armenta
Armenta
Newport Beach, CA
Houston, TX
A national favorite of families,
celebrities and the White House, the
brand has expanded beyond baking
to include merchandising, media and
entertainment properties.
Armenta is a global luxury brand that
produces high-end, handcrafted jewelry
and hardware for exotic skin leather goods.
Kari Warberg Block
Earth-Kind, Inc.
Leslie Firtell
Tower Legal Solutions
Bismarck, ND
New York, NY
Earth-Kind, Inc. is the first consumer
pest control brand to preserve the good
and prevent the rest by making natural
effective.
Tower Legal Solutions is a legal staffing,
consulting and managed review company
that optimizes project efficiency and
controls legal spending.
Fiona Gathright
Wellness Corporate Solutions, LLC
Kara Goldin
HINT Inc.
Cabin John, MD
San Francisco, CA
Wellness Corporate Solutions, LLC is
a nationwide corporate wellness and
biometric screening company committed
to providing high-touch wellness
programs that reduce health care costs.
Hint Inc. is the leading unsweetened
flavored water and the fastest-growing
flavored water in the United States,
making it easier for people to drink more
water rather than processed beverages.
2012
Michelle Marciniak/Susan Walvius
SHEEX, Inc.
Allison O’Kelly
Mom Corps
Irmo, SC
Fort Washington, PA
SHEEX, Inc. shook up the bedding
industry in 2007 by inventing a whole new
“Performance Sleep” category in home
textiles, thus becoming the world’s first
performance fabric bedding company with
globally patented technology.
Mom Corps is a national professional
staffing company that specializes in
professional job opportunities that offer job
seekers better work-life satisfaction and,
as a result, enables its clients to attract and
retain experienced, high-caliber talent that
is proven to be more productive.
Ellen Stang, MD
ProgenyHealth®
Tammy Tedesco
Edibles Rex Management
Conshohocken, PA
Detroit, MI
ProgenyHealth® is a health care
management company, working with
insurers and employer groups to improve
the quality and lower the costs of health
care services provided to premature and
medically complex newborns admitted to
a neonatal intensive care unit after birth.
Edibles Rex Management Services is a
healthy school food service provider,
serving more than 10,000 nutritional,
quality, made-from-scratch meals per
day while accommodating federally
guided budgets.
“This program is an ongoing leadership and learning opportunity. I have
connected with a network of incredible advisors who have provided
strategic advice on raising my company’s profile. I’m so proud to be
included in a program that truly helps female entrepreneurs think big.”
Leslie Firtell
President and CEO, Tower Legal Solutions
Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2012
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2011
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Dr. Patricia Adams
Zeitgeist Expressions, Inc.
Amy Buckner Chowdhry
AnswerLab
San Antonio, TX
San Francisco, CA
Zeitgeist Expressions, Inc. is an innovative
one-stop network for individual, family,
corporate and military clients seeking
overall health and wellness services.
AnswerLab uncovers trusted customer
experience insights that help the
world’s leading brands achieve greater
engagement and ROI from their digital
products and marketing.
Dr. Mary Jo Gorman
Advanced ICU Care
Lani Hay
LMT Inc.
St. Louis, MO
Vienna, VA
Advanced ICU Care provides innovative,
high-quality, cost-effective telemedicine
services to hospital intensive care units
(ICUs), enabling hospitals to meet the
recommended around-the-clock standard
of care for ICU patients despite the serious
shortage of professionals in the field.
LMT Inc. provides innovative mission
support consulting solutions aligned
with our national security interests for
government and commercial clients
worldwide.
Patty Klein
A-Plus Meetings & Incentives
Stephanie Point
Point 2 Point Global Security, Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
Addison, TX
A-Plus Meetings & Incentives provides
value-added meeting planning and
incentive travel services, driven by its
leadership team’s business and consulting
experience, to Fortune 500 clients such
as Staples, Ryder and DHL.
Point 2 Point Global Security, Inc.
provides a wide array of security services
to Fortune 500 companies, private
businesses and government agencies,
strategically protecting people and assets
with its expert military specialists, armed
and unarmed security officers and offduty police nationwide.
2011
Lisa Stone
BlogHer
Dr. Rebecca Thomley
Orion Associates
Belmont, CA
Golden Valley, MN
Reaching 100+ million unique women
monthly, BlogHer leverages quality
storytelling, social community leadership
and predictive analytics to deliver
authentic consumer attention at scale
for brands.
Orion Associates provides a full range
of management infrastructure services,
primarily to social service organizations
nationally.
Alexa von Tobel
LearnVest
Laura Zander
Jimmy Beans Wool
New York, NY
Reno, NV
Widely recognized as one of New York’s top
venture-backed start-ups (having raised
over $73 million) and a disruptive player in
the personal finance industry, LearnVest
is an award-winning subscription-based
program designed to help people make
progress on their money.
Jimmy Beans Wool, the Official Yarn
Supplier to the U.S. Snowboarding and
Freeskiing Teams and the creator of
the Stitch Red campaign against heart
disease in women, is a five-time Inc. 5000
company and a market leader in the
multibillion-dollar fiber arts industry.
“The connections I made at Strategic Growth Forum are
undoubtedly going to change my life. I met with incredible CEOs
and came home not only with meetings set for next steps, but also
approximately one billion ideas on ways to grow my business.”
Laura Zander,
CEO, Jimmy Beans Wool
Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2011
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2010
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Lisa Bair
Quantuvis
Ali Brown
Elevate/Ali International LLC
Gladstone, NJ
Scottsdale, AZ
Quantuvis is a market-driven softwareas-a-service business providing the
industry standard platform for soliciting,
capturing and evaluating rebate contract
negotiations between payers and
pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Ali Brown is a small-business expert
providing resources and coaching
to more than 250,000 women
entrepreneurs globally.
Amy Gonzales/Kelly Caldwell
AK Environmental
CPT (Retired) Dawn Halfaker
Halfaker and Associates, LLC
West Trenton, NJ
Washington, DC
AK Environmental, which grew to $24 million
and was recently acquired by NV5 Company,
is an environmental construction project
management and inspection company
focused on providing technical support to
the energy industry.
Halfaker and Associates, LLC creates
innovative and practical technology
solutions in the areas of advanced analytics,
software engineering, IT infrastructure and
cybersecurity to help organizations perform
their critical missions.
Lili Hall
KNOCK Inc.
Jessica Herrin
Stella & Dot
Minneapolis, MN
Burlingame, CA
KNOCK Inc. is a creative agency that uses
strategic focus and smart creative to
elevate brand experiences.
Stella & Dot offers its boutique-style
jewelry and accessories exclusively
through its social selling channel,
a network of more than 11,000
independent stylists who sell Stella & Dot
products online and through in-home
trunk shows.
2010
Barbara Levine
Exam Coordinators Network
Elisabete Miranda
CQ fluency
Boca Raton, FL
Hackensack, NJ
Exam Coordinators Network provides
independent medical evaluations to assist
employers and insurers in verifying the
legitimacy of medical claims, aiming to
reduce substantially these claims’ human
and financial costs.
CQ fluency provides Fortune 500
companies, government and world
organizations with translation,
interpretation, linguistic-technology
and multicultural solutions that infuse
meaning and feeling into cross-cultural
communications for US and global markets.
Darlene Panzitta
DSP Clinical Research
Susan P. Rice
Cavanagh Services Group, Inc.
Parsippany, NJ
Salt Lake City, UT
DSP Clinical Research is a contract research
organization that manages all aspects
of early- to late-stage clinical trials for
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device
companies, utilizing a fixed-cost billing
model that saves clients time and money.
Cavanagh Services Group, Inc. specializes
in cleaning up the environment by
managing the logistics of transporting
nuclear waste to safe locations
throughout the US.
“Thanks to the Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program, I am now
100% focused on a three- to five-year vision that includes building
out our expertise, the possible acquisition of complementary
companies and investment capital to allow us to scale.”
Lisa Bair
Founder and CEO, Quantuvis
Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2010
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2009
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Karen Barbour
The Barbour Group LLC
Carole Borden
CB Transportation
Westminster, MD
Chester Springs, PA
The Barbour Group LLC is a nationally
licensed insurance agency specializing
in contract and commercial surety and
commercial insurance for clients ranging
from start-ups to Fortune 1000 firms
throughout the US and internationally.
CB Transportation provides multiple
logistics services to Fortune 500
companies, growing manufacturers and
retailers throughout North America.
Michelle Tunno Buelow
Bella Tunno
Sherry Stewart Deutschmann
LetterLogic
Charlotte, NC
Nashville, TN
Bella Tunno is a bright, modern baby
accessory company whose products are
carried by over 4,000 top retailers.
LetterLogic provides multi-channel
transactional communications to
businesses nationwide and has been
named an INC 5000 company for eight
consecutive years.
Talia Mashiach
Eved Services
Vicki Raport
Quantum Retail Technology
Skokie, IL
Minneapolis, MN
Eved provides event commerce solutions
to automate the buying and selling for
meetings and events.
Quantum Retail Technology creates and
delivers omni-channel optimization and
predictive analytic software solutions that
are transforming the way leading retailers
buy, position, move and sell merchandise,
helping them improve revenue, customer
experience and profits.
2009
Shabnam Rezaei
Big Bad Boo and Oznoz.com
Jennifer L. Scully
Clinical Resources LLC
New York, NY
Atlanta, GA
Big Bad Boo Studios produces children’s
cartoons (PBS’ Mixed Nutz, Teletoon’s
1001 Nights) and distributes over 4,000
hours of programming on its propriety
channel, Oznoz.com, in 12 languages,
including exclusive shows Sesame Street,
Elmo’s World and Bob The Builder.
Clinical Resources LLC, recognized
for five consecutive years as an INC
500/5000 company, operates nationwide
as a specialized health care, medical
staffing and executive search firm,
providing high-quality and competent
personnel to serve the growing senior
care market and affiliate organizations.
Susan Wilson
The Judgment Group and FundHer
Stevensville, MD
The Judgment Group’s proprietary solution
leverages advances in personal information
and technology to get judgments paid;
FundHer helps women entrepreneurs secure
funding for their companies.
“My selection as one of the Entrepreneurial Winning Women really
boosted our credibility and visibility. More importantly, we attribute
a portion of new sales as being largely the result of relationships
and opportunities that EY has gone above and beyond to facilitate.”
Sherry Stewart Deutschmann
Founder and CEO, LetterLogic
Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2009
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2008
Alison Barnard
in-jean-ius
Jill Cartwright
Brixy
Boston, MA
Jamaica Plain, MA
in-jean-ius is a unique, service-centric
women’s retailer focused on helping
women find the perfect jeans to fit their
specific bodies.
Formerly CEO and founder of Go
GaGa, Jill now serves as the Executive
Director of Brixy, a trade association
that combines the buying power of
independently owned stores in the
children’s retail sector to give them
better leverage in negotiating prices and
developing products.
Janet Chien
Dyad Systems
Linda Smith
CERES Technology Advisors
Cambridge, MA
Needham, MA
Dyad Systems executes clinical trials,
reducing the time to market for
biomedical companies conducting
clinical research.
CERES Technology Advisors provides
merger and acquisition advisory and
business valuation services to photonics
companies.
Kathleen Utecht
Core Innovation Capital*
New York, NY
Former entrepreneur Kathleen Utecht is now
Partner at Core Innovation Capital, investing
in financial technology that empowers the
everyday American.
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Results and impact
of the North American EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ Program
63%
Participant companies’
total 2013 revenue was
63% higher than their total
revenues in the years before
they joined the program.
+20%
revenue
growth
Year 1
Top 2%
Participants are in the top 2%
of women entrepreneurs in
terms of revenue.
+50%
revenue
growth
Year 2
$10m+
Individual
participants average
20% revenue
growth annually.
In the second year
of participation,
revenue growth can
be up to 50%.
50%
with $10m+
in revenues …
$100m
$75m
$50m
$25m
$5m
… with some rapidly
closing in on $100m.
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Welcome 2014 Entrepreneurial Winn
Steve Howe, EY Americas Managing Partner, welcomes the 2014 Entrepreneurial Winning Women at their orientation.
ning Women
Thank you to our
collaborating
organizations.
Around the world
The Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program is expanding around
the world, with programs launching or in development across
every continent.
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Contacts
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Women Executive Sponsor
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Maria Pinelli
EY Global Vice Chair,
Strategic Growth Markets
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EY Americas Director, Brand,
Marketing and Communications,
Strategic Growth Markets
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EY Entrepreneurial
Winning Women Program
Manager, North America
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Canada
Carrie Marchitto
EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women
Program Sponsor, Canada
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EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women
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About Americas Strategic Growth Markets
EY’s worldwide Strategic Growth Markets
Network is dedicated to serving the changing
needs of high-growth companies. For more than
30 years, we’ve helped many of the world’s
most dynamic and ambitious companies grow
into market leaders. Whether working with
international mid-cap companies or early-stage
venture-backed businesses, our professionals
draw upon their extensive experience, insight and
global resources to help your business succeed.
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