Introducing swib’s 2024 Women’s conference
Join us for this year's Stern Women in Business Conference!
This year's event will feature topics including career transformations, women-led entrepreneurship, and the future of women at work. We welcome folks of all identities to come and look forward to spending the day learning with members of the NYU and NYC community.
Light bites and refreshments will be served, with a happy hour to follow. Please see the agenda and speakers below.
Register here!
Agenda
12:30 - 1:00 Registration & Welcome Espresso Cart
1:00 - 1:05 Welcome address by Conference Team
1:05 - 1:35 Keynote: 'Ted Talk' Presentation with Sheila Lirio Marcelo
1:35 - 2:20 Panel 1 | Pivot Point: Reshaping Professional Paths
2:20 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:00 Keynote: Moderated Conversation with Anu Duggal
3:00 - 3:30 Interactive Networking Activity
3:30 - 4:15 Panel 2 | From Idea to Impact: Female Founder Stories
4:15 - 4:45 Mimosa Hour
4:45 - 5:00 Present Alumni Award
5:00 - 5:45 Keynote: Fireside Chat + Q&A with Elissa Ellis Sangster
5:45 - 6:00 Closing Remarks from SWIB Co-Presidents
6:00 - 8:00 Reception / Happy Hour
Introducing our keynote speakers!
ELISSA ELLIS SANGSTER
CEO of the Forté Foundation
Elissa serves as CEO of Forté , a non-profit that wants to see more women leading. Through business education, role models, professional networks, and leadership training, Forté shows women how to build the credibility, skills, network and confidence to thrive as leaders and change the status quo. Forté is financially supported by leading companies, top business schools and pioneering donors.
Elissa brings to the role extensive knowledge of issues affecting women’s abilities to seek, prepare for and attain business leadership positions, drawn from her prior experience as Assistant Dean and Director of the MBA Program at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. There she oversaw all activities related to the full-time McCombs MBA program including marketing, admissions, student services, and alumni relations. Elissa received her MBA and her B.A. in English from Texas A&M University, where she was the Assistant Director of the MBA Program until 1997.
Elissa currently serves as Treasurer on the board of the Thirty Percent Coalition, a national organization focused on the demand side of board diversity, and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards' Women's Initiative Council.
Sheila Lirio Marcelo has more than 20 years of leadership experience in internet consumer marketplace businesses, including as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ohai.ai, a cutting edge technology startup leveraging generative AI to improve the lives of families. She was a former Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and is a founding board member of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF). Ms. Marcelo previously founded Care.com in 2006 and took it public in 2014; she was Chairwoman and CEO until early 2020, when the company was sold to IAC.
Ms. Marcelo has been honored with numerous accolades. She was just on Forbes 50 Over 50. She was one of Fortune’s "Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs" and appeared at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit. She is a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ms. Marcelo earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, which also conferred upon her an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2015. She has a J.D. and M.B.A. with honors from Harvard University. In 2014, Marcelo became the youngest recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award.
ANU DUGGAL
Founding Partner of the Female Founders Fund
Anu Duggal is the founding partner of Female Founders Fund, the first early-stage fund for female founders. She launched Female Founders Fund in 2014 to start a movement to diversify venture capital and direct more dollars to female founders. Over the last seven years, Anu has played an instrumental role in not only investing in female founders, raising seed capital with over $4 billion in enterprise value, but shifting the VC industry as a whole to make more investments in female-founded companies. She has led Female Founders Fund in two funds and invested in over 45 of the fastest growing female-led companies nationwide. These include category leaders like Zola, ELOQUII, Billie, Co-Star, Peanut, Real, BentoBox, Tala, Maven Clinic, WinkyLux, and more.
Anu has been honored in Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list and Crain’s “Notable Women in Tech” list and been included in Business Insider’s “Ultimate List of Female Startup Investors” and “Top 4 Venture Firms Investing in Women.” Anu has appeared in leading outlets like The TODAY Show, Bloomberg TV, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC Squawk Alley, Fortune, Inc, Yahoo! Finance and is the host of the podcast, The 2%. She has spoken at the Milken Institute, Vogue Business x Google Summit and TechCrunch Disrupt. Anu holds board member/observer roles for Maven Clinic, Billie, VIOLETTE_FR, Co--Star, and WinkyLux.
Prior to starting Female Founders Fund, Anu co-founded Exclusively.in, a private-sale e-commerce company backed by Accel Partners and Tiger Global, which was acquired by Indian fashion e-commerce company Myntra in 2011. Her first entrepreneurial venture was in 2005 with the launch of India’s first wine bar, The Tasting Room in Bombay. She holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Vassar College.