2020 Forbes Small Business Virtual Summit

Jovita Carranza

26th Administrator

U.S. Small Business Administration

Jovita Carranza serves as the 26th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). As a member of President Trump’s Cabinet, she advocates on behalf of the 30 million small businesses in America. In her role as Administrator, she leads a team of professionals dedicated to ensuring entrepreneurs located across America have the support and resources they need to start, grow, and expand their small businesses, and recover in the event of a declared disaster.

Prior to leading the SBA, Administrator Carranza served as Treasurer of the United States at the U.S. Department of the Treasury under President Donald J. Trump. In her role as a principal advisor to Secretary Mnuchin, Carranza focused on increasing participation in our vibrant economy by fostering financial capability and sustainability.

Administrator Carranza is a Chicago native and founder of a small business consulting company. She previously served as the Deputy Administrator for the SBA under former President George W. Bush, where she received a bipartisan, unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate.

Before her first SBA appointment, Carranza had a distinguished 30-year career at United Parcel Service (UPS), where she was the highest-ranking Latina in the history of the company. She started as a part-time, night-shift box handler and worked her way up to President of Latin America and Caribbean operations.

Administrator Carranza earned her MBA from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida and received executive, governance, management, and financial training at the INSEAD Business School in Paris, France; Michigan State University; and the University of Chicago.

U.S. Senator Cory Booker, ​(D-NJ)

Cory Booker believes that the American dream isn’t real for anyone unless it’s within reach of everyone. Booker has dedicated his life to fighting for those who have been left out, left behind, or left without a voice. Booker grew up in northern New Jersey and received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University. At Stanford, Booker played varsity football, volunteered for the campus peer counseling center, and wrote for the student newspaper. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to study at the University of Oxford, and then Yale Law School, where he graduated in 1997. Instead of working for a corporate law firm, Booker moved to Newark after law school and started a nonprofit organization to provide legal services for low-income families, helping tenants take on slumlords. In 1998, Booker moved into the Brick Towers housing project in Newark, where he lived until its demolition in 2006. Booker still lives in Newark’s Central Ward today, where the median household income is less than $15,000. At 29, Booker was elected to the Newark City Council, where he challenged the city’s entrenched political machine and fought to improve living conditions for city residents, increase public safety, and reduce crime. Starting in 2006, Booker served as Newark’s mayor for more than seven years. During his tenure, the city entered its largest period of economic growth since the 1960s. In addition, overall crime declined and the quality of life for residents improved due to initiatives such as more affordable housing, new green spaces and parks, increased educational opportunities, and more efficient city services. In October 2013, Booker won a special election to represent New Jersey in the United​ ​States Senate. In November 2014, Senator Booker was re-elected to a full six-year term. As New Jersey’s junior Senator, Cory Booker has brought an innovative and consensus-building approach to tackling some of the most difficult problems facing New Jersey and our country. He has emerged as a national leader in the effort to fix our broken criminal justice system and end mass incarceration, helping craft the most sweeping set of criminal justice reforms in a generation, the First Step Act, which became law in December 2018. Booker sits on the Judiciary Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, and the Environment and Public Works Committee.

Sheryl Sandberg

Chief Operating Officer

Meta

Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Meta, overseeing the firm's business operations. She also serves on Meta’s board of directors. Prior to Meta, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Clinton, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank.

Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School.

Sheryl is the co-author of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy with Wharton professor and bestselling author Adam Grant. She is also the author of the bestsellers Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and Lean In for Graduates. She is the founder of the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to build a more equal and resilient world through two key initiatives, LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org. Sheryl serves on the boards of Facebook, Women for Women International, ONE, and Momentive.

Sheryl lives in Menlo Park with her fiancé and their five children.

Carla Harris

Vice Chairman and Managing Director

Morgan Stanley

Carla Harris is Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where she serves as senior client adviser and founder of the Multicultural Client Strategy Group. Previously, she headed the Emerging Manager Platform at Morgan Stanley, the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries. Ms. Harris has extensive industry experience in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and health care sectors. Ms. Harris was appointed by President Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council. She is the author of the books Expect to Win and Strategize to Win. She is an accomplished singer with 3 albums, 5 sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall and a sold out concert at the Apollo Theatre under her belt. Ms. Harris holds an AB in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tim Armstrong

Founder and CEO

the dtx company

Tim Armstrong is the Founder and CEO of the dtx company, where he is focused on empowering consumers and brands to build direct relationships.

Armstrong founded a Boston newspaper after graduating from Connecticut College. In 1995, he moved to Seattle to join Paul Allen’s first internet company, Starwave, which was acquired by Disney. Armstrong moved to New York with Disney and worked at ABC/ESPN Internet Ventures. After Disney, he joined Florida Governor Rick Scott’s health-focused cable and internet company, America’s Health Network, which was later sold to News Corp. Armstrong then went on to be a founding team member of Snowball, which went on to IPO on the Nasdaq. Armstrong left Snowball in 2000 to join Google as its first New York employee; he left Google after almost a decade serving as President of the Americas and as a member of Google’s global executive team.

He joined AOL as Chairman and CEO to spin the company out of Time Warner and launch AOL as a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. After turning AOL around and outperforming the S&P 500 during his tenure as CEO, he sold the company to Verizon Communications. Armstrong joined Verizon as CEO of its digital media division, Oath, and served as a member of its executive team.

Armstrong serves on the boards of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ), Tech:NYC as co-founder, Greenwich Academy for Girls as Chairman, Connecticut College Athletic Club as co-founder, Waterside School and US Olympic & Paralympic Foundation as trustee. He also serves as a loving husband and dad, as well as lacrosse and basketball coach. Armstrong is an avid New England sports fan and Massachusetts native. He is part Camel (Connecticut College graduate) and part Spartan (Lawrence Academy graduate)

Asahi Pompey

Global Head of Corporate Engagement and Chair of the Urban Investment Group

Goldman Sachs

Asahi Pompey is Global Head of the Office of Corporate Engagement (OCE) and Chair of the Urban Investment Group (UIG). As Global Head of OCE, she serves as President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and Goldman Sachs Gives. Ms. Pompey leads the firm’s community engagement initiatives, including 10,000 Small Businesses, 10,000 Women, One Million Black Women, and Community TeamWorks. As Chair of the UIG, she oversees UIG’s portfolio as a part of the firm’s community development financing activities under the Community Reinvestment Act program. Ms. Pompey is a member of the Management Committee and serves as global sponsor of the Women’s Network.

Previously, Ms. Pompey was Co-Chief Compliance Officer of Goldman Sachs & Co and Global Head of Investment Banking Division Compliance.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Pompey was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where she worked in the New York and Frankfurt offices.

Ms. Pompey serves on the Board of Managers for Swarthmore College and Board of Trustees for the Brooklyn Museum and Loomis Chaffee School. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of Glamour Women of the Year and the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream.

Kenny Dichter

Founder and CEO

Wheels Up

Kenny Dichter, a serial entrepreneur, is the Founder and CEO of Wheels Up, the leading brand in private aviation. Since Dichter founded Wheels Up in 2013, the company has achieved an enterprise valuation of over $1.5B, serves over 8,000+ members, and owns and manages a fleet of over 300 aircraft.

Prior to Wheels Up, Dichter co-founded Marquis Jet in 2001, introducing the first-ever fractional jet card program, which generated $4B in cumulative revenue and was sold to NetJets, owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

In 2010, Dichter co-founded Tequila Avion, an ultra-premium brand which was acquired by Pernod Ricard for over $100M. Dichter is also a founding investor in Juice Press, an organic food and juice company that grew from one Manhattan store to 86 U.S. locations. Earlier in his career, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dichter co-founded Alphabet City, a sports-marketing and music company that was sold to SFX Entertainment in 1998.

Today, Dichter continues to lead the aviation industry with his pioneering vision of democratizing private aviation.

Rebecca Minkoff

Designer & Co-Founder

Rebecca Minkoff and The Female Founder Collective

An industry leader in accessible luxury handbags, accessories, footwear and apparel, Rebecca Minkoff’s
modern bohemian designs are inspired by strong, confident and powerful women who are drawn towards a west-meets-east sensibility.

After developing an affinity for design while in the costume department in high school, Rebecca Minkoff
moved to New York City at age 18 to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer.

In 2001, Rebecca designed a version of the “I Love New York” t-shirt as part of a five-piece capsule
collection, which appeared on The Tonight Show and became an overnight sensation. In 2005, Rebecca designed her first handbag, which she dubbed the “Morning After Bag,” a.k.a. the “M.A.B.” This iconic bag ignited Rebecca’s career as a handbag designer and inspired her edgy, feminine creations in the years to come. Rebecca’s success was further enhanced by the support of her brother, the company’s CEO and co-founder, Uri Minkoff, who helped usher in and pioneer the company’s industry-leading innovations with technology and fashion.

After four years of designing statement-making handbags and accessories with her trademark leathers,
studs and hardware, Rebecca returned to her roots of apparel design and introduced her first ready-to-wear
collection in 2009.

Today, Rebecca Minkoff is a global brand with a wide range of apparel, handbags, footwear, jewelry and
accessories products. In the spring of 2017, Rebecca Minkoff Watches was launched, reimagining the
category through their decidedly downtown, rock-and-roll aesthetic.

The brand has 3 national retail stores, eight international locations, and is distributed in over 900 stores worldwide. In 2015, Rebecca Minkoff stores unveiled the first ever “Magic Mirror” technology, where customers could interact with mirrors installed in the dressing room walls of her store and tap to pick out additional sizes, colors and styles of clothing.

In 2011, Rebecca won industry recognition when she was awarded the Breakthrough Designer Award from
the Accessories Council. She is an active member of the CFDA, and supports multiple philanthropies
including Baby2Baby organization. In August of 2017, she was announced as a member of the first-ever New
York State Council on Women and Girls, in the company of other female industry leaders including
Refinery29 founder Christene Barberich, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan and Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert. Rebecca is dedicated to bringing women together to enact positive change.

In September of 2018, she established the Female Founder Collective, a network of businesses led by
women who invest in women’s financial power across a socio-economic spectrum by enabling and
empowering female-owned businesses.

In 2020, Rebecca will launch a diffusion line of children’s clothing called ‘little minkoff”, marking a foray into designing a truly sustainable and environmentally friendly collection. She will also launch a new name sake fragrance to be sold at retailers nationwide.

Rebecca is married to director Gavin Bellour, and they reside in Brooklyn with their three children.

Alda Leu Dennis

General Partner

Initialized Capital

Alda brings over a decade of investing and legal experience to both Initialized and our portfolio companies. Prior to joining Initialized, she was a managing partner at 137 Ventures where she led investments in Planet Labs, Wish, Coupang, CourseHero, and Work Market (acquired by ADP). Additionally, she made personal early-stage investments in companies such as Maven, Common Networks, Legalzoom (acquired by Permira), SpaceX, and Osaro. Previously she was COO at Airtime, General Counsel at Founders Fund, Assistant General Counsel at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital Management, and practiced as a litigator for IP disputes at WSGR. She graduated from Stanford with BAs in economics and political science, and a JD from UCLA.

Steve Forbes

Chairman & Editor-in-Chief

Forbes

Steve Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media.

His new book, which he co-authored with Nathan Lewis and Elizabeth Ames, is entitled Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad and How To Fix It.

Forbes broadcasts a popular webcast called What’s Ahead, where he gives insightful analyses of events as well as engaging the world’s leading newsmakers, politicians and pioneers in business and economics in captivating conversations.

He helped create the award-winning documentary In Money We Trust? which was produced under the auspices of Maryland Public Television. The film was inspired by the book he co-wrote, Money. He was executive producer of the new, highly acclaimed documentary Coolidge: Rediscovering an American President. He also recently launched a series on the educational website Izzit.org/Forbes that presents inspirational stories and lessons from history’s greatest innovators—many largely forgotten—whose achievements have shaped modern life.

Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of “Fact and Comment.”
A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times for the accuracy of his economic forecasts.

In 1996 and 2000, Steve campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a stable dollar, a new Social System for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense. He continues to energetically promote this agenda.

Katia Beauchamp

Co-Founder & CEO

Birchbox

Katia co-founded Birchbox in 2010, driven by a fascination with the business dynamics of the beauty industry and a mission to redefine the way people discovered and shopped for beauty online. Today she is more passionate than ever about building the destination for the everyday consumer who is not passionate about beauty and grooming. Birchbox, which is best known for its monthly subscription of personalized samples, has more than 2.5 million active customers, 500 beauty and grooming brand partners, operations in six countries, and retail experiences in select Walgreens locations across the US.

Katia holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in International Studies & Economics from Vassar College. Prior to graduating business school, she worked in structured finance and commercial real estate. She has been honored with accolades including Advertising Age Women to Watch, CEW Achievers Award, Fortune 40 Under 40, Inc. 30 Under 30, Marie Claire’s New Guard, WWD Digital Innovator of the Year, and YMA Fashion’s Entrepreneur of the Year, among others. In 2016, Katia was featured as an investor on Lifetime TV’s “Project Runway: Fashion Startup” series. She is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, meeting with students and faculty as an official advisor on campus.

A native Texan, Katia lives in New York City with her husband and four children.

Lauren Stovall

Legacy Preserver

Hot Sam's Detroit

The daughter of CEO/ Co-owner of Hot Sams Tony Stovall, Lauren Stovall is the business lead and the legacy preserver of the store. Lauren is not a fixture in the store as her work takes her outside the doors of the store engaging in community partnerships and outreach opportunities. Her overarching objective is to preserve the rich legacy of Hot Sams as the oldest men’s clothing store in Downtown Detroit, while combining old tried and tested traditions with new and innovative ideas to exemplify and acknowledge an appreciation of the past which helped to sustain the present which builds a strong foundation for the future.
Lauren is determined to live a fulfilling life of service.

Lisa Mensah

President & CEO

Opportunity Finance Network

Lisa Mensah is President and CEO of the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). OFN helps CDFIs leverage public funding with private investment from mainstream financial institutions, socially responsible investors, and philanthropic partners in underserved communities across America. Mensah joined OFN in March 2017.

In 2014, Mensah was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the US Senate for the position of Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development. Before this appointment, Mensah was the founding Executive Director of the Initiative on Financial Security at the Aspen Institute. Mensah began her career in commercial banking at Citibank before joining the Ford Foundation to manage the country’s largest philanthropic grant and loan portfolio of investments in rural America.

Mensah holds an M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from Harvard University

Jacqueline Reses

Chair, CEO, & Cofounder

Lead

Jacqueline Reses is the Chair, CEO, and Co-Founder of Lead, an FDIC chartered bank building financial infrastructure for fintech, consumer and digital asset companies. Lead is one of the most active banks in the crypto sector.

Previously, she was Executive Chair of Square Financial Services, Head of Square Capital, and Head of the People Team at Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.). Before that, she served as Chief Development Officer at Yahoo!, was a Partner at Apax Partners Worldwide, and spent seven years at Goldman Sachs.

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the co-author of Self Made Boss (McGraw Hill), a guide for small businesses on launching, running, and scaling their ventures. Additionally, she holds multiple patents in payments, credit, and cryptocurrency.

Lauren Cooks Levitan

CFO

Faire

Lauren Cooks Levitan is Faire's first Chief Financial Officer and brings over 25 years of strategic, financial, and operational experience at the most transformative brands in retail.

Lauren was the CFO at Fanatics 2015 - 2019, helping the company secure multiple financing rounds including equity stakes from the NFL and MLB, and oversaw the integration of six strategic acquisitions. She was the managing director for specialty retail equity research at Cowen and Company before she joined Moxie Capital. Previously, she was a managing director at Robertson Stephens. She has also worked at Gymboree, Crate & Barrel, and Goldman Sachs.

Throughout her career, Lauren has played a critical role in the future of retail and cultivating female leaders in business. Her background in scaling growth-stage brands is helping Faire strengthen the marketplace and empower the thousands of small business entrepreneurs who rely on the platform to grow their wholesale and retail businesses.

Maneet Ahuja

Editor-at-Large & Founder, Iconoclast

Forbes

Maneet Ahuja is Editor-at-Large at Forbes, where she covers the intersection of Wall Street, billionaires & entrepreneurial capitalism. She is also the Founder of ICONOCLAST, Forbes' premier global investor summit that convenes the world’s most iconic industry titans, institutional investors, dealmakers and celebrities with collectively over $20 trillion in AUM for high-level conversations on the most critical issues impacting our economy and markets today. Before joining Forbes, she was awarded the prestigious Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia Journalism School and had over a decade-long tenure at CNBC, where she co-founded the network’s flagship annual Wall Street summit Delivering Alpha and launched coverage on hedge funds and alternatives at Squawk Box. Prior to CNBC, she was a part of the Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing team and began her career on Wall Street at the age of seventeen working at Citigroup—which is where she earned the nickname “Wall Street Maneet.” She was also the host of Spotify's special-edition podcast Megatrends (Gimlet media, 2019) and author of The Alpha Masters: Inside the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds.

Ali Koplar Wyatt

Co-Founder

The Female Founder Collective

Ali Koplar Wyatt is a veteran of the start-up world, having worked in a leadership capacity at iconic lifestyle and culture shifting companies like Goop, Refinery29 and most recently, launching Female Founder Collective with Rebecca Minkoff. With almost 15 years of digital experience, she is a business builder, advisor to start-ups and an investor in female funded businesses.

Ali was one of the first employees at Refinery29, Wyatt was tasked with building an ad and brand partnership business from scratch, subsequently assembling a world-class team that integrated custom collaboration with brands on editorial, product, design, and consumer marketing. Under Wyatt’s leadership, the sales team grew from a few hundred thousand in advertising revenue to well into the tens of millions of dollars in just four years, securing a spot for Refinery29 on the Inc500 for three consecutive years.

She left Refinery29 to become the first CRO at Goop, where she architected and launched the business in the US, introducing brand advertising that included a mix of native content, immersive experiences, and integrated media alongside beautifully constructed content. Staying true to her entrepreneurial spirit, she then turned to starting a company from scratch, joining forces with Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso to launch a female-focused media business called Girlboss, which hosts thousands of women at cross-country rallies and galvanizes the voices of women in key life transition points in countries throughout the world.

Through her journey, she has become passionate about not only supporting start-ups through advising, but also through investing in female-led companies as an angel investor. Past and current investments include The Wing, Tia Women's Health Clinic, The Wonder, Good Mylk, Forward Space, Summersalt, Hatch Collection, Refinery29, Sunscoop, Girlboss, Goop, Golde, iFundWomen and Heymama Co. She is proud to invest in women to build a better future for themselves and their families.

Dayna Isom Johnson

Trend Expert

Etsy

Dayna Isom Johnson is the trend expert for Etsy and a judge on the NBC primetime series 'Making It', hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman.

In her role as a trend expert, she is in constant pursuit of new and unique finds and is passionate about helping shoppers find special pieces that showcase their personal style. She is responsible for keeping her finger on the pulse of the latest and greatest designs, while shining a spotlight on the incredible community of 3.1 million small business owners on Etsy.

She has expertise across a multitude of categories of handmade and artisanal items – from home decor to fashion and accessories – and often demonstrates DIY projects for all ages and skill levels.

She makes frequent appearances on national television and satellite radio shows, and is regularly quoted as a resource in lifestyle and news publications. In her free time, you can find Dayna in the kitchen whipping up sweet treats or bike riding around New York with her husband and dog Mojo.

Ruth Umoh

Reporter

Forbes

Ruth Umoh is a reporter at Forbes covering the many aspects of diversity and inclusion in business and society at large. She was previously a reporter at CNBC, focusing on leadership, strategic management and the future of work. Her articles have been featured in New York Daily News, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance and Time Out. She’s a proud alumna of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Marni Levine

VP, Seller Operations and Engagement

eBay

Marni Levine is Vice President of Seller Operations and Engagement for eBay Americas, responsible for seller acquisition, seller engagement, growth, marketing and events. Prior to this role, Marni was VP of Merchandising and oversaw the company’s B2B business, as well as its Electronics, Automotive Parts & Accessories, Home & Garden and B&I categories. She joined eBay in 2017 after having worked for large retail brands like Macy’s, The Gap and Zulily. With more than 25 years of experience in merchandising, planning, e-commerce, business development and strategy, Marni has been at the forefront of an ever-changing retail landscape.

Lauren Debter

Staff Writer, Retail

Forbes

Lauren Debter is a staff writer covering retail at Forbes. She writes about trends impacting the retail industry, the changing way we shop and more. She joined Forbes in 2013, first covering markets, investing and financial technology companies and more recently reporting on the world’s billionaires.

Sadé Muhammad

VP, Representation & Inclusion Practice

Forbes

Sadé Muhammad is Vice President of the Representation & Inclusion Practice at Forbes. The practice is designed to unite marketers with leading voices to challenge systems and processes for true equity.

In her role, Muhammad brings the full breadth of Forbes’ platforms – Forbes.com, BrandVoice, Insights, LIVE events, social and more – to bear for brands seeking to create meaningful and engaging conversations with Forbes’ audience for the purpose of eradicating racial injustice by reimagining and transforming business worldwide.

Muhammad works with brand partners who believe, as Forbes does, that representation and inclusion drives meaningful systemic change for diverse identities in business and entrepreneurship. As a leader in this space and a champion of change, Muhammad crafts custom strategies, programming and content that will foster tangible representation & inclusion outcomes fit for the new decade and beyond.

Muhammad reports to Forbes’ Chief Revenue Officer, Jessica Sibley, and works closely with Ruth Umoh, Forbes’ Diversity and Inclusion reporter, and Brianne Garrett, Assistant Editor and the editorial lead for Forbes’ For(bes) The Culture community.

Muhammad formerly served as Associate Director of Content Partnerships where she developed operational practices to drive content marketing strategies with client partners.

Prior to Forbes, Muhammad held various roles in marketing and advertising at NBCUniversal, Inc. Muhammad has her roots in journalism, making this her focus at Syracuse University and working at Black Enterprise News as a freelance writer. She also underwent NBC’s prestigious Page program.

Maggie McGrath

Editor

ForbesWomen

Maggie McGrath is the editor of ForbesWomen, the Forbes vertical dedicated to covering all angles of female entrepreneurship. She loves a good Forbes list: she is the editor of the 50 Over 50 and the World's 100 Most Powerful Women, and previously edited the 30 Under 30 Food & Drink list and the Just 100. She's worked at Forbes since 2013 and in that time has written on everything from the student debt crisis to Triple Crown-contending (and winning) horses. Before coming to Forbes, Maggie worked with TODAY show financial editor Jean Chatzky.

Moira Forbes

President & Publisher, ForbesWomen and Executive Vice President

Forbes

Moira Forbes is the Executive Vice President of Forbes, one of the world’s largest media brands, where she is responsible for driving new business initiatives across the company’s diverse media platforms and branding Forbes events worldwide. Today, Forbes, which is synonymous with “success” in almost every country around the world, engages 140 million people across every platform every month–the most in its 104-year history.

Moira also serves as the President and Publisher of ForbesWomen, a multi-media content channel dedicated to successful women in business and leadership which she founded in 2007. Moira oversees Forbes’ annual list of the World’s Most Powerful Women and the annual Power Women’s Summit which she launched in 2013.

Across Forbes’ global editorial platforms, Moira convenes preeminent thought leaders for timely perspective and analysis around today’s most critical issues. She hosts "Success with Moira Forbes," a Forbes interview series spotlighting dynamic changemakers and industry innovators as well as “The Takeaway,” a new Forbes simulcast series featuring how top minds are navigating these defining times and explores what’s ahead within their respective arenas.

Moira is a Governing Trustee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and serves on the Board of Trustees for the St. Andrews School. She currently lives in New York City with her two sons.

Steven Bertoni

Assistant Managing Editor, Founders

Forbes

Steven Bertoni is an award-winning journalist who has spent the last decade chronicling the world's top leaders and entrepreneurs. He currently heads Forbes' Founders team, covering leading entrepreneurs and the Forbes Under 30 and Creator franchises. Bertoni is an expert at cross-platform storytelling through print, digital, video, social media, live events, communities, and podcasts. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, C-Span, and CNBC, where he has served as guest host on Squawk Box. As host of the Forbes Interview podcast, he created and moderated more than 50 episodes starring some of the biggest names in business and technology.