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About the AuthorGinny Wilmerding is a serial small business owner as well as a speaker, consultant, and writer on women's entrepreneurship issues. After publishing Smart Women, Ginny started a new wholesale importing and distribution business in 2007, Global Gift and Garden LLC, offering eco-friendly pottery and containers to the garden and floral industry. 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. Ginny has negotiated the purchase of small businesses and has professionally authored business plans, private equity placement memorandums, and business cases. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 1991. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, she now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. |
In Short..."A wonderful guidepost for any woman seeking an entrepreneurial career."
--Mellody Hobson, personal finance expert,Good Morning America
"A must read for women looking for life options that include economic success while balancing family obligations."--Betsy Myers, former director, Office of Women’s Business Ownership, SBA
"A remarkably useful book. Wilmerding is particularly adept at blending action plans with stories and resources."--Sylvia Ann Hewlett, economist, author, and President, Center for Work-Life Policy
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