Entrepreneur Panel: It's Time To Get Fearless!
:: Ever think about starting your own company?
:: Do you have a great idea but don't know how to get started?
:: Are you already in the initial phase and looking for funding?
:: Want to know what kinds of challenges you'll face?
Hear perspectives from successful female entrepreneurs who've been down these paths. Hear about the challenges they've faced, the solutions they've found, and the successes they've reaped. Ask all your burning questions, get tips, and get inspired. See you there!
Starla Sireno and the Fearlessness Team is back to kick off our 2009-2010 Entrepreneur Course.
PANELIST:
Bibby Gignilliat, Founder & CEO of Parties that Cook
Bibby Gignilliat, a corporate convert, transformed a career in marketing at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. into an enormously satisfying career in professional cooking. She launched her formal training at Tante Marie's Cooking School in San Francisco. Bibby has taught cooking classes at HomeChef® and at Tante Marie's and currently teaches at Sur La Table, Ramekins and Draeger’s cooking schools. Bibby's experience in the professional kitchen includes hands-on training at Insalata's and Kokkari.
Ke Norman, Owner of Nailphoria Spa
Ke always loved and admired the beauty industry; however college bound at age 17 (SJSU) and then beauty college couple years later. Ke holds a degree from SJSU, Sociology, with a Minor in Marketing. A licensed Nail Tech and Skincare Specialist studied in CA from SFIEC. After working years within customer service, Ke and family began Nailphoria Day Spa to offer Downtown Oakland a different approach to spa-ing… Customer service and Professionalism is FIRST.
Tawana Nichols, Owner of Sinless Sensations and Step Change Enterprises!
Tawana is a finance professional in Corporate America and an entrepreneur. After graduating from Howard University with a B.B.A. in Accounting in 1999, Tawana joined The Clorox Company’s finance team and has spent the past ten years. Entrepreneurialism runs in the family and was encouraged early on while helping to run the family business as a teenager. While in college, Tawana started Step Change Enterprises, with the goal of branching into several entrepreneurial endeavors. Always spending free time indulging her creative side, Tawana took it a step further in 2003 in launching Sinless Sensations, a bakery specializing in no sugar added desserts.
2008-2009 Fearless Program Alumnus: Preethy Padmanabhan, Co-Founder of "GloSmart" and Team Leader & Cisco.
Preethy Padmanabhan is the Co-Founder of “GloSmart” – a web site to teach children about different countries, cultures and languages from around the world. GloSmart is currently in pre-launch stage. Preethy is targeting a soft launch of GloSmart for end of 2009 and a mega launch early 2010. Preethy also works as a Team Lead in Cisco’s voice solution engineering team.
Preethy has a BS in Chemical Engineering and MS in Information Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India. Preethy lives with her husband and 4 year old son in Santa Clara.
MODERATOR: Han Pham
Han Pham is a creative catalyst, speaker and writer who finds new answers to “Where do great ideas come from?” In asking this question with her clients under the helm of the Found Creative Group and during her one-hour “Viable and Sustainable Entrepreneur Lunches,” she has ignited conversations including how to tackle burnout while creating more exciting results and how to help everyone from youth to entrepreneurs step outside their initial comfort zones to be on top of their game, naturally. She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and current design and business editor for Hyphen magazine. She currently serves on the boards of Young Women Social Entrepreneurs and Nest-SF, two organizations connecting socially-conscious inspiration to business.
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