Ms. Shandell is a Venture Partner at Opus Capital where she focuses on sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities. Hildy brings to the firm a unique combination of expertise in leading corporate growth, operations, finance and legal.

Before joining Opus Capital, Hildy was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Genesis Microchip from September 2006 to March 2008. In that role, she accelerated the realignment of corporate strategy and, in January 2008, she was instrumental in the acquisition of the company by STMicroelectronics, the world’s fifth largest semiconductor company. The transaction was achieved with the largest premium for the sale of a semiconductor company in recent years. Prior to joining Genesis, Hildy was the Vice President of Corporate Development at Broadcom Corporation, a $3.5 billion global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, from September 2002 to September 2006, where she directed on-going corporate development activities, including strategic acquisitions, investments and alliances. Hildy drove significantly higher success rates than industry averages with 80% of acquisitions out-performing all targeted sources of value and 95% retention rates.

Hildy was Chief Financial Officer and then promoted to Chief Operating Officer at 3Dlabs Inc., a public company providing graphics semiconductors for computer-aided design, digital content and visual simulation. From 1999 to 2002, she worked to return the company to profitability, helping to grow annual revenues from $4 million to approximately $100 million. She also restructured and strengthened all aspects of that company’s finance, legal and HR functions. Previous roles include Of Counsel with the global law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where she handled over $2.5 billion of public and private equity and debt financings, acquisitions/dispositions and joint venture transactions for high technology companies, Managing Director of The Renaissance Fund, a $150 million private equity fund focused on high technology and infrastructure investments related to Israel, and Partner at the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski.

For the past two decades Deborah Fine has consistently demonstrated her General Management acumen across five diverse consumer businesses dedicated to all stages of a woman's life, in multiple medium. She has led each of these in varying stages from development and launch to maturity, to record growth and profit. Each entity has encompassed a broad range of lifestyle categories ranging from beauty, fashion, health, entertainment, home, finance, philanthropy and travel, to both luxury goods and mass consumer products. All have required significant brand building vision, underscoring her deep knowledge of multiple consumer segments and the ability to both develop strategy and leverage it into measurable execution across all disciplines.

Deborah Fine joined NBC Universal Digital Media in 2006 as President, iVillage Properties, where she leads the world’s first and largest online community for women. With 27 million members globally, the iVillage portfolio of businesses is comprised of iVillage.com, Your Total Health.com, Gardenweb.com, iVillageUK.com, Astrology.com, and Gurl.com. She executed a complete turnaround of this $100M business resulting in operating break even for the first time in 12 year history, with +35% in revenue, outpacing the industry by 30%, 20 consecutive months of year-over-year traffic growth and +91% increase in brand awareness.

Previously, Fine was the Chief Executive Officer of Victoria's Secret PINK. She led PINK into a diverse lifestyle brand achieving nearly $1B in incremental sales and set the stage for the development of new beauty and accessory categories. Additionally, Fine led the development of a multi-channel web strategy for PINK resulting in an unprecedented +39% response rate and new customers to retail.

Fine was the Founder and President of Avon Future from 2001-2005, where she created and launched the Mark business, a global cosmetic and accessory brand designed to attract the next generation of Avon buyers and sellers. In the first 18 months of operation, Mark achieved over $150M in incremental retail sales and attracted a new demographic for the first time in Avon’s history. From brand development and customer intimacy to retail and direct sales, she leveraged the internet to help redefine the Avon model for Mark, creating the strategy for retail and international expansion.

Prior to joining Avon, Fine spent 23 years in the media business, holding executive positions with Condé Nast Publications, including serving as Vice President and Publisher of Glamour and Publisher of Bride's, their two largest businesses. At Glamour she achieved record profit and at Bride's she successfully repositioned the brand and executed a business-wide turnaround, achieving the publication's first profit level in a decade. Fine also created and executed weddingchannel.com and Federated Department Store relationship as Bride's first online initiative. She has also served as Director of Fashion and Retail Advertising for Vanity Fair, and held management positions with The New York Times Company and News Corporation.

Fine has received diverse and numerous honors including the Luella Bennack Volunteer Award from The United Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Girl Scouts of America Woman of Distinction, the Avon Chairman’s Award for Business Performance and product development awards from InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Self and Allure. She was the recipient of the American Legacy Foundation Corporate Leadership Award, Women's Wear Daily "Beauty Biz Award for Best Executed Launch Strategy", Cosmetic Executive Women Achiever Award, and the New York Hometown Hero Award. She has also been named one of Advertising Age's "Women to Watch", and a "Top Player" by Media Industry News.

Fine is a Summa Cum Laude Graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is a personal and passionate member and fundraiser of the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, The Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and The American Lung Association. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Faith Popcorn Brain Reserve, and is the creator of the Hope Foundation Children’s Day of Hope Program. She is a U.S. State Department / Fortune Magazine Mentor. Fine was recently profiled as “The Boss” in the New York Times and in What’s Next: The Experts Guild to America’s 50 Most Compelling People. She is a member of the Distinguished Speaker Series at Harvard, Yale, Wharton and Columbia.

Fine resides in the New York area with her husband and two children.

Rosemary Ellis was appointed editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping in July 2006.

Prior to joining Hearst, Ms. Ellis was senior vice president and editorial director of Prevention magazine. At Prevention since 2003, she played an integral role in turning the magazine around, garnering a National Magazine Award nomination from the American Society of Magazine Editors for “General Excellence” in 2006 and landing the publication on the prestigious Advertising Age “A-List” in 2005. She also directed the re-launch of the magazine’s Web site, Prevention.com, which produced a 123 percent jump in traffic in 2005.

At Good Housekeeping, Ms. Ellis oversees all content for the magazine, which reaches 26 million readers each month; Good Housekeeping’s highly-trafficked Web site (www.goodhousekeeping.com); and the venerable Good Housekeeping Research Institute, which opens a state-of-the-art new, 20,000 square foot facility in summer 2006. The Good Housekeeping Research Institute, founded in 1900, is the consumer product testing facility that evaluates products appearing in the magazine’s articles and advertisements. The Good Housekeeping Seal, established in 1909, is a highly recognized statement of the magazine’s renowned Consumers’ Policy, which, states that if a product bearing the Seal proves to be defective within two years of purchase, Good Housekeeping will replace the product or refund the purchase price. Thousands of products are covered by the Good Housekeeping Seal.

Ms. Ellis significantly raised the profile of Prevention with twice-monthly branded segments on NBC’s “TODAY,” prime-time health specials on ABC, an ongoing partnership with USA Today, and appearances on “Good Morning America,” “The CBS Early Show” and CNN.

Previously, Ms. Ellis served as a consultant to Real Simple and the AOL Web Properties division. Prior to that, she was Founding Web Site Director and Executive Editor of Expedia Travels. She also was executive editor of Time Inc. Interactive and Time Inc. New Media, where she oversaw a group of 14 Web sites, with 22 million weekly page views.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Ellis held senior editorial positions at Working Woman, Self and Travel & Leisure magazines.

Ms. Ellis is on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and on the boards of two non-profit organizations, Engender Health and the Center for Work Life Law.

Jeff is currently head of Random House's Publisher Services division, which provides sales, distribution and IT services to a $250 million portfolio of leading independent publishers.

Prior to Random House, Jeff was recruited to head the Book Industry Study Group, a leading industry trade association.

In the mid 90's, Jeff founded and ran Optimedia Electronic Publishing Solutions and established it as a leading provider of electronic publishing services to STM publishers, with sales offices in Oxford and New York City.

Joanne Davis founded Joanne Davis Consulting, Inc. in 2000. The consulting firm specializes in strategic communications and message optimization and presentation, business development and sales coaching. In five years, consulting clients include and have included Bausch and Lomb, BlueCross BlueShield, Colonial Pipeline Company, Federated Department Stores (Macy’s), Fidelity Investments, Ford Motor Company, IBM, Interpublic Group of Companies, Jim Beam Brands, Merrill Lynch, Miller Brewing Company, Office Depot, Smith Barney, Subway Restaurants, Vanity Fair Apparel and Wilmington Trust Company. She spent 18 months working for the U.S. Department of Defense on best practices for communications and over a year with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Trust Company on communications optimization, and several months with the law firm of Holland & Knight.

Joanne has done extensive work with senior executives including Founders, Presidents, CEOs and Managing Partners to fine-tune and craft their written and spoken messages to internal and external audiences.

Her work for several professional services firms has included group business development workshops for Managing Partner, Senior Partner and Partner levels as well as one-on-one presentation coaching including collaborating on the content and delivery of the “pitch.”

A popular speaker and writer, Joanne speaks regularly for the Association of National Advertisers, American Association of Advertising Agencies and the American Advertising Federation.

She has led workshops for senior executives on four continents on Winning More by Putting Yourself in the Shoes of Your Audience.

Her most recently publications are "Build a Better Financial Relationship with Your Agencies: A Marketer's Guide to Best Financial Practices and Audits to Achieve Success," "Optimizing Client/ Agency Relations" and "A Marketer’s Guide to Conducting an Agency Search" (also available at www.AAAAgencysearch.com).

Prior to founding Joanne Davis consulting, Joanne spent 20+ years as either an agency owner, president, board member or in management in domestic and international advertising and marketing communications agencies including Bozell Worldwide (a top ten US agency at the time), Wells Rich Greene (a leading creative agency), OMON (an international creative boutique) and DDB (a top ten agency).

During her agency career, Joanne helped build brands and businesses for clients including Chase, Mobil, IBM, Xerox, Ray-Ban, Andrew Jergens Company and Toyota. In her global business development capacity she helped her agencies with double-digit growth in new business from clients including Bank of America, IBM, Philip Morris, MCI, Sheraton, and Verizon.

She is on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The Advertising Club of New York. She is a former President of The Club and Chair of the Foundation. She was selected by the Advertising Age as one of the "25 Women to Watch" in the first year of the awards program and profiled by USA Today as one of the five best woman rainmakers.

She is writing a book on What Clients Want based on her deep experience in listening with all her senses to client needs.

She holds a BA in English from the College of New Rochelle and also studied at the Graduate School of Business at NYU. Joanne and her husband, Bruce Matthews, live in New York City.

Steve is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Of Both Worlds, Inc, an innovative career counseling and coaching company focused on assisting college students and recent graduates in finding and preparing for their first jobs. Prior to this, Steve was the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust (SFAFT), which created advertising and marketing programs designed to build profitable sales and promote the image of the SUBWAY® restaurant chain, the world's largest submarine sandwich franchise, with more than 31,500 locations in 86 countries. Steve was appointed directly by the SFAFT Board of Directors to steward the growth of this independent, franchisee-led global organization, and his functional responsibilities include leadership of all infrastructure functions, including finance, legal, global governance, human resources, information technology, facilities and security. Before joining SFAFT, Steve was a partner at HayGroup, a leading global management consulting firm servicing 7000 clients worldwide in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. While at Hay, Steve was selected by the firm's CEO to build and lead a new practice focusing on increasing clients' capability through organizational change and human capital interventions. He also served as Head of the US Financial Services practice and was accountable for Sector-wide revenue generation, client relationship management, consulting solutions delivery and client satisfaction. His additional industry coverage included the telecom and healthcare sectors.

John is the founder and managing director of Swan Advisers, a consulting firm focused on financial services companies and technology. Prior to starting Swan, John spent six years in the consulting and investment management business, with an emphasis on operations and processes and outsourcing. Before that, John was with Zurich Financial Services, holding senior executive positions at both the holding company and operating company levels. Prior to Zurich, he spent thirteen years at McKinsey & Company with a leadership role in the banking and insurance practices. He began his career as an attorney with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, after earning his MBA and JD from the University of Chicago.

Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962. He has been a long-time teacher in the Advanced Management Program: International Senior Managers Program, Delivering Information Services Program, and several of the Social Sector programs. He teaches currently in the First Year Financial Reporting and Control course, and Second Year MBA course “Doing Business in China in the Early 21st Century,” as well as in several short Executive Education programs.

In 1973, shortly after his appointment to full professor he, along with four other faculty members, was sent to Switzerland to set up the School’s International Senior Management Program. He returned from Switzerland in 1975 to become Chairman of the Advanced Management Program, a position he held until 1978; and Chairman of all Executive Education Programs from 1977-1980. He was Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research from 1991 to 1995, Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations from 1995-2000, and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Asia Pacific from 1999-2004.

Professor McFarlan’s book, Connecting the Dots coauthored with Cathleen Benko appeared in 2003. Seizing Strategic IT Advantage in China coauthored with Professor Richard Nolan, and Professor Guoqing Chen of Tsinghua University, appeared in 2003 (available only in Chinese). Professor McFarlan’s newest book, Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases (seventh edition), coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin appeared in 2006. Creating Business Advantage in the Information Age coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin appeared in 2002.

Jane Siegel has more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She held a variety of positions with QMed Inc. and its various subsidiaries. Prior to her appointment of CEO in April of 2007, she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of QMed since 2002. During that time she spearheaded the start up of health and wellness subsidiary geared to the employer market and as an adjunct to existing care management initiatives with large health plans across the US.

Her areas of expertise include Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) affairs, business partnerships, strategic planning, and corporate restructuring. She has 15 years of experience in business planning and development, marketing, and operations. Jane is a member of the Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry and served as a Committee Member for the National Health Policy Group. Jane received her Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Seton Hall University.

Professor McFarlan’s book, Connecting the Dots coauthored with Cathleen Benko appeared in 2003. Seizing Strategic IT Advantage in China coauthored with Professor Richard Nolan, and Professor Guoqing Chen of Tsinghua University, appeared in 2003 (available only in Chinese). Professor McFarlan’s newest book, Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases (seventh edition), coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin appeared in 2006. Creating Business Advantage in the Information Age coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin appeared in 2002.