Smart Women and Small Business

Ginny Wilmerding is currently a Director with the Brunswick Group, a leading international financial and corporate communications consultancy with 500 employees and 19 offices worldwide. Ginny is based in Hong Kong. All the entrepreneurial skills she used to build her own companies and the corporations where she was employed, she has now put to use advising Brunswick and its clients build their businesses in Asia.

Before returning to the Asia-Pacific region in 2009 (Ginny lived and worked in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1990s), Ginny sold her company, which engaged in trading and sourcing in the PRC and sold products to U.S. retailers. Smart Women and Small Business was published in 2006, in between entrepreneurial ventures, both of which Ginny exited successfully by selling her ownership stake. After publishing this book, Ginny focused for a period on being a speaker, consultant, and writer on women's entrepreneurship issues and still enjoys doing these things when she has time.

Ginny's prior business background includes senior executive roles at small private enterprises and Internet startups in the Boston area as well as leadership roles at large corporations in the United States and China (Lucent Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.). She is a former research associate at the Harvard Business School and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Originally from Asheville, NC, she is now settled in Hong Kong with her husband and two children.