Helen Alexander
Chief Executive The Economist Group
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Since January 1997, Helen Alexander has been the Chief Executive of The Economist Group. The Economist Group is the owner of The Economist, the CFO group of magazines, Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, European Voice, The Journal of Commerce and a variety of other regional and special interest magazines, database services, conferences and the worldwide publishing businesses of The Economist Intelligence Unit. In her sixteen-year career with the company, Alexander has also served as Managing Director of The Economist Intelligence Unit, and as International Circulation and Marketing Director for The Economist Newspaper Ltd., among other positions. She originally joined The Economist as Marketing Manager in 1985.

Just prior to her MBA studies, Alexander worked in sales for Faber & Faber Publishers Ltd., and in editorial for Duckworth & Co.

Alexander is a member of the Ethics Committee of University College Hospital, London, a director of Writers and Scholars (International) Ltd, the publishers of Index on Censorship, and a Trustee of the Tate Foundation. She is a non-executive director of British Telecommunications plc and Northern Foods plc.

She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, Hertford College, Oxford, and earned an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

Christiane Amanpour
Chief International Correspondent
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CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour has worked in most of the hot spots of the 1990s. Her most recent assignments have sent her to Belgrade Albania, Macedonia and surrounding countries. She has received wide acclaim for her extensive reports on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

Amanpour exclusively interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev in November 1999 for the 10th anniversary of the fall of communism. She also interviewed Jordan's new monarch, King Abdullah in May 1999 and was the last journalist to interview the King's father, the long-reigning King Hussein, days before his death earlier this year. She also secured an exclusive interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton in May as well as an exclusive interview with President Khatami in December 1997. She has reported extensively from Sarajevo, Haiti, Algeria and Rwanda, where she covered the civil unrest and political crises in those countries.

Having spent years on one of the most dangerous assignments journalists have faced in recent history, Amanpour has brought the Bosnian tragedy into context and to the world's attention. No American network correspondent has reported as continuously from this ethnically torn region.

Amanpour has been awarded a number of prizes, which include the Peabody Award in Journalism, received in May 1999, the Sigma Chi Award (SDX) in the Continuous Reporting of a Breaking Event category for her reports from Goma, Zaire; two George Polk Awards for Excellence in Journalism for her coverage of Bosnia in 1994 and for her work on the CNNI special "Battle for Afghanistan" in 1997; and the Nymphe d'Honneur at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

Amanpour's reports from the former Yugoslavia have received a News and Documentary Emmy, two George Foster Peabody Award, George Polk Award, Courage in Journalism Award, Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival Gold Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She was named the 1994 Woman of the Year by the New York Chapter of Women in Cable and Telecommunications. In addition, she helped the network win a duPont Award for its coverage in Bosnia and a Golden CableACE for its Gulf War coverage.

Amanpour's Gulf War reporting also received the Breakthrough Award from Women, Men and Media. Her contribution to the 1985 four-week series, "Iran: In the Name of God," helped CNN earn its first DuPont award.

Her reputation as a world-class correspondent began with her reporting on the dramatic changes occurring in central Europe during 1989 and 1990. During her assignment in the Persian Gulf she covered the Gulf War, from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 to the US bombing of Baghdad and the Kurdish refugee crisis on the Iran/Iraq border that persisted after the cease-fire. She also covered the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent war in Tbilisi. In December 1992, Amanpour briefly left the former Yugoslavia to report live from the shores of Mogadishu, Somalia, as U.S. troops launched Operation: Restore Hope.

Amanpour began her CNN career in 1983 as an assistant to the network's international assignment desk in Atlanta. She has worked in CNN's New York and Frankfurt bureaus. She is also a contributor to CBS News' "60 Minutes" - the first ever reporter to broker this kind of dual deal.

Recently, Amanpour was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists. This honor recognizes significant contributions to journalism.

Before joining CNN, Amanpour worked at WJAR-TV, Providence, R.I., as an electronic graphics designer. From 1981 to 1982, she worked as a reporter, anchor and producer for WBRU-Radio, also in Providence.

Amanpour holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island.

Anne Asensio
Chief Executive The Economist Group
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Anne Asensio joined General Motors in October 2000 as executive director of the brand character center, the studio that charts the future designs for all seven of GMâs domestic brands ö Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Hummer, Pontiac and Saturn.

A native of France, Anne Asensio, had begun her college career in sculpture but then switched to industrial design, graduating in 1986 with a bachelorâs degree from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Apliques et Metiers. Soon after graduation, French automaker Renault paid her way to the prestigious Center for Creative Studies in Detroit for one year of further training in automotive design.

Before joining GM, Anne Asensio, 38, worked at Renault. She was a part of the Renault Design Board team that achieved great success with the popular Megane Scenic minivan, Clio subcompact and Twingo minicar. In 1997, Automotive News named Anne Asensio ãAutomotive Woman of the Year,ä and recognized her again in 2000 as one of the top 100 women in the automotive industry.

When sheâs not designing, Anne Asensio likes to drive a minivan for her family, a sports car for commuting, and a motorcycle for fun.

Maria Bartiromo
Anchor, Street Signs, CNBC
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As solo anchor of CNBC's first hour of "Street Signs" (2-3 p.m. ET) and co-anchor of "Market Wrap II" (5-6 p.m. ET), Bartiromo sets the standard for business news programming throughout America and the world, delivering the stories behind every great deal. Bartiromo also covers breaking news from CNBC's New York Stock Exchange bureau during the network's "pre-game" financial show, "Squawk Box." Her morning reports are presented live from the NYSE floor, beginning prior to the opening bell on Wall Street. And, when warranted by vigorous stock market activity, Bartiromo provides business news reports to NBC's "TODAY" Show, CNBC sister network MSNBC, NBC flagship station WNBC and other NBC affiliates nationwide.

In June, CNBC announced that Bartiromo will anchor and produce a new weekly half-hour business news program to air Friday evenings at 7 p.m. ET. The program, to be launched later this year, will repeat throughout the weekend on the network.

Bartiromo joined CNBC in 1993 after five years as a producer and assignment editor with CNN Business News. Additionally, she writes monthly columns for Individual Investor and Ticker magazines. In 1996, Bartiromo was nominated for a CableACE Award for her three-part series on the Internet and its implications for investors. In 1997, she received the Coalition of Italo-American Associations' Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award. Harcourt Brace will publish her first book, on women and the brokerage industry, in 1999.

Carole Black
President & CEO, Lifetime Entertainment
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Carole Black is President and CEO of Lifetime Television, the premier network for women's programming. Dedicated to providing women with contemporary and informative television, Black is responsible for the company's marketing, new media, research, strategic planning, and sales operations.

Black most recently served as president and general manager of NBC4 in Los Angles, becoming the first woman to head a commercial station in the L.A. marketplace. Under her leadership, NBC4 enjoyed unparalleled success, rising from second in the market to a dominant number one in less than two years.

After graduating from Ohio State University, Black began her career in brand management with Proctor & Gamble. Starting in 1983 she worked at DDB Needham in Chicago, where she rose from Account Supervisor to Senior Vice President, Management Representative.

In 1986 Black entered the entertainment industry at the Walt Disney Company, holding the office of vice president in both worldwide home video marketing and television marketing. At Disney, Black led the marketing effort to sell "Home Improvement" into syndication, making the comedy series one of the most profitable shows ever sold.

Active in the television industry, Black currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society, the National Association of Television Programming Executives, and American Women in Radio and Television.

Rt. Honourable Kim Campbell
former Prime Minister,
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Kim Campbell was educated at the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics. Trained as a lawyer and as a political scientist specializing in international politics, she has held office at all three levels of government. In addition, she has experience in private business ventures and Soviet government. Ms. Campbell's career spans academia, the practice of law, administration, and public election in Vancouver before going to Ottawa. In January 1989, Kim Campbell was appointed by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Kim Campbell became the first woman to be named Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada on February 23, 1990. In recognition of her accomplishments in the Justice portfolio, the Law Society of Upper Canada awarded Ms. Campbell an honorary Doctorate of Law degree in 1992. In December 1993, Ms. Campbell was elected an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics. In January 1993, Kim Campbell was named Minister of National Defense and Minister of Veteran's Affairs, the first woman to hold those portfolios.

In March 1993, after the resignation of Brian Mulroney, Ms. Campbell announced her candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party. She was elected its leader at a national convention on June 13, 1993. The Right Honorable Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's nineteenth, and first female, prime minister on June 25, 1993. Internationally, she participated in major meetings including those of the Commonwealth, NATO and G-7. Prime Minister Campbell called the general election on September 8th for October 25, 1993, having achieved the highest approval rating for a prime minister in 30 years. Ms. Campbell and her party were defeated in the general election. In December 1993, Kim Campbell stepped down as leader of her party. Ms. Campbell spent 1994 as a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. During the spring semester she was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics and she returned to the Kennedy School in September as a Fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Ms. Campbell is a member of the Committee to Visit the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and was co-chair of its annual conference in Talloires, France, June 22-24, 1995 and speaker at the 1996 and 1997 conferences. She has been named Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine in which capacity she spent two weeks as a visiting scholar and lecturer in 1996. In September 1996, Ms. Campbell was named Consul General for Canada in Los Angeles. The Canadian Consulate General in Los Angeles serves the States of California (with satellite offices in San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose), Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Hawaii.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Former First Lady of the U.S. & current U.S. Senator representing New York
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After graduation from Wellesley College in 1969, Hillary enrolled in Yale Law School, where she met Bill Clinton, a fellow law student. They married in 1975, and their daughter Chelsea was born in 1980. Chelsea is now a student at Stanford University.

Living in Arkansas, Hillary practiced law and worked on a number of initiatives benefiting families, including education and health care. In Bill Clinton's second term as Governor, she chaired the Arkansas Education Standards Committee, which resulted in increased support for public education, higher standards and teacher testing. She founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and introduced to the state the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, based on a program she first observed while visiting Israel.

Hillary served on the Board of Directors of several successful companies such as Wal-Mart and TCBY; non-profit organizations, including the Children's Defense Fund and Arkansas Children's Hospitals; and the Center on Education and the Economy, then based in Rochester, N.Y. She was named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in America by American Lawyer Magazine.

Sally Davis
President, BT Ignite Products and Marketing
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As President of BT Ignite Products and Marketing - a division in the recently formed BT Ignite business unit serving the broadband data and Internet Protocol solutions needs of European businesses, Sally Davis is currently engaged on an aggressive expansion program. In building strong partnerships with key partners like Microsoft, Lotus Development Corporation and VeriSign, Davis' work will enable companies to access a wide range of market-leading applications hosted on BT Ignite's network, the largest of its kind in Europe. These include email and collaborative tools, supply chain and e-trading applications and facilities to ensure secure transactions. Davis joined BT in 1999 as Director of Internet and Multimedia Strategy, and she worked with her unit to define and deliver product and system propositions; lead strategic business development activities; and source content deals and relationships.

Davis has a strong and varied history of success in multimedia, data and Internet initiatives, and in growing businesses from start-up to IPO. Prior to BT, Davis was with Bell Atlantic in New York, where she was Vice President, Corporate Evolution, responsible for developing major data and internet-related initiatives for the corporation. Her initial work in the telecom industry was in marketing for Mercury Communications in 1983. In 1987, she left to become Managing Director of Cable London. Davis then joined NYNEX CableComms as Executive Director of Strategy, Business Development and Regulatory Affairs, working on their IPO, among other things. In 1996, Sally moved with NYNEX to New York, initially working on the business development and strategy in their international division, before becoming Vice President, Corporate Evolution, with the NYNEX/Bell Atlantic merger.

An English graduate and now a Fellow of University College, London, Davis' initial career was in journalism and consulting.

Joe W. Forehand
Managing Partner & CEO Accenture
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Before being named to his current position as Managing Partner & CEO on November 1, 1999, Forehand was the managing partner for the organizationâs Communications & High Tech market unit. In that role, he managed key components of Accentureâs global eCommerce efforts and led a unit responsible for 25 percent of the organizationâs revenues in 1998.

As Managing Partner & CEO, Forehand serves as Chairman of the Accenture Executive Committee and the Global Leadership Council, a group he established to bring together the organizationâs leadership partners. Forehand has also served on the organizationâs Board of Partners since 1994 and served as chairman of the Boardâs Finance Committee.

Forehand first joined the organization in 1972 in the Atlanta office, becoming a partner 10 years later. In 1990 he moved to Dallas to become the office managing partner. He became head of the Americas Products group in 1994, was named managing partner for Products in 1997, and in 1998 he was named managing partner for the global Communications & High Tech market unit.

As Managing Partner & CEO, Forehand represents Accenture in a number of external venues, including the World Economic Forum held each year in Davos, Switzerland. Forehand has been chosen by InformationWeek as one of the 15 most inspirational figures in the information technology industry.

Born in Alabama, Forehand graduated from Auburn University in 1971 with a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering. He received his master of science degree in industrial administration from the Krannert School at Purdue University in 1972.

Carolee Friedlander
CEO, Carolee Designs, Inc.
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Founder and CEO of the internationally successful jewelry company Carolee Designs, Carolee Friedlander has turned business acumen and creative talents into a multi-million-dollar enterprise. After 27 years in the business, Friedlander is still considered a trendsetter in the fashion accessories world. For her numerous achievements in both business and the community, Friedlander has been recognized with several awards. She was named Woman of the Year by The United Jewish Appeal, and the National Association of Women Business Owners honored her as National Woman Business Owner of the year. In 1998 Friedlander received another honor: an appointment to the President's Export Council, the natioal advisory committee on international trade.

David Gergen
Professor of Public Service, Kennedy School of Government
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Commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and adviser to presidents - for 30 years, David Gergen has been an active participant in American national life. He served as Director of Communications for President Ronald Reagan and held positions in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. In 1993, he put his country before politics when he agreed to first serve as counselor to President Clinton on both foreign policy and domestic affairs, then as special international adviser to the President and to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, before returning to life as a private citizen in January 1995.

Mr. Gergen currently serves as Editor-at-Large at U.S. News & World Report and as a regular analyst on ABC: Nightline. He is also a Professor of Public Service at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Co-Director of KSG's Center for Public Leadership. This fall, he published a book, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton.

Between 1984-1993, Mr. Gergen worked mostly as a journalist as Editor of U.S. News, and as a political commentator on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, where he teamed with Mark Shields every Friday night for five years. The two were a popular political team and won numerous accolades for their political coverage.

Among his current non-profit boards, he was elected by alumni to serve on the Yale Corporation, and is Chairman of the National Selection Committee for the Ford Foundation's program "Innovations in American Government." He frequently lectures both in the United States and overseas, and holds five honorary degrees.

A native of Durham, North Carolina, Mr. Gergen is an honors graduate of Yale University (A.B., 1963) and the Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1967), and a member of the D.C. Bar. In addition, he served for three-and-a-half years in the U.S. Navy, where he was posted for two years to a ship home-ported in Japan.

Married since 1967 to Anne Gergen of England, a family therapist, Mr. and Mrs. Gergen have two children, Christopher and Katherine. They live in McLean, Virginia and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Clare Hamill
VP, Global Women's Business Nike
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As VP of Global Women's Business, Clare Hamill oversees Nike Women's Business; integrating efforts across footwear, apparel and equipment. Her number one focus is to position the brand through the eyes of women in the marketplace; and find a point of view around Nike that works for women.

Hamill's first position at Nike was as a technician in Nike's Sports Research Lab (Exeter, New Hampshire) in 1981. After that she made several stops within the company on the way to Women's Business, including Product Line Manager, Running Footwear ; Director, Product Marketing, Nike Europe; Director, Men's Apparel Merchandising); VP/GM, Global Footwear; and most recently, VP, Nike Equipment.

Hamill is also a member of Nike's Executive Diversity Leadership Council and pioneered Nike's Human Resource Planning process. She has been the chairman of the board for the Children's Cancer Association since 1995, which raises funds, develops and delivers innovative life-improving programs for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.

Hamill earned a B.Sc. in Exercise Physiology from the University of New Hampshire in 1977. She went on to get her M.Sc. in Exercise Physiology at Pennsylvania State University in 1979. Before she started her career at Nike, Hamill worked as an exercise physiologist at Mass General Hospital in Boston.

Ellen Hancock
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exodus Communications
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As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ellen Hancock has built Exodus Communication's market value to $25 billion and its web hosting capability to #1 managing websites for Yahoo, eBay, Priceline.com and Merrill Lynch. In 1999, under Hancock's leadership, Exodus climbed from #76 to #11 in Business Week's "Info Tech 100" profiling the "hottest of the Hot" businesses of the information technology industry for the year.

Previously Hancock was with Apple Computer as Executive Vice President, R&D and Chief Technology Officer, National Semiconductor as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for the company's technology, applications, and product development and for 29 years with IBM serving in various staff and line executive positions. Her last position at IBM was as Senior Vice President and Group Executive responsible for the networking hardware division, the networking software division and the software solutions division.

Hancock is a member of the boards of directors of Colgate Palmolive, Aetna, Marist College, the American Electronics Association and the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group.

Myra Hart
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Harvard; Founding Officer, Staples, Inc.
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Myra M. Hart is Harvard Business School's Professor of Management Practice and a leader in the effort to develop new teaching materials that feature women as the key decision-makers. At Harvard, she serves as co-chair of the Entrepreneurship and Service Management faculties and teaches two MBA courses: Women Building Business and Starting New Ventures . The latter course earned her and co-creator Professor Iansiti the 1998 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

A graduate of Harvard's MBA and DBA programs, Hart is also the creator and faculty chair of two executive education courses: The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum.

Hart's interest in entrepreneurship and women business leaders is deeply rooted in personal experience: Hart was one of the four founding officers of Staples, the $11 billion office superstore. In 1985 she joined Tom Stemberg to raise the initial venture funding for Staples, and served as the company's first Vice President of Operations. In 1987 she became Group Vice President of Growth and Development, serving in this leadership role until she returned to Harvard in 1990.

Hart draws on this real-world executive experience as director of the Majorie Alfus/Committee of 200 Case Writing Initiative, a project dedicated to developing teaching materials that reflect the prominence of female leaders in today's business world. The initiative, undertaken in 1998, has already produced more than 30 new cases and videos for use in MBA and executive classrooms.

Goldie Hawn
Academy Award winning actress, Producer, Director; CEO of Cherry Alley Productions
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America's favorite funny woman, Goldie Hawn has played everything from a spunky army newbie in Private Benjamin to a vengeance-seeking divorcee in The First Wives Club, charming audiences and earning countlesss fans along the way. Hawn, an Academy Award winning actress, has maintained her appeal well into the '90s with films like Housesitterwith Steve Martin; Death Becomes Her, with Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis;and Woody Allen's musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You. In 1997, she made her debut behind the camera as director of the television movie Hope. In 2000 Hawn teams up with her former Shampoo costar Warren Beatty in Town and Country, also starring Andie MacDowell and Garry Shandling, just more proof that this acting, directing, and producing dynamo still has a few high kicks in store for her fans.

Sally Helgesen
Author
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Sally Helgesen is a premier thinker about the role of women in the new economy. Author of the best-selling The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, widely hailed as "the classic work" on women's leadership styles and used as a standard text in many colleges and universities, Helgesen was the first to focus on what women had to contribute to organizations rather than how they needed to change and adapt. In the years since that book's publication, she has studied women entrepreneurs, examined the exodus of high potential women from traditional organizations, and identified strategies by which women can achieve greater success while adding value to their organizations. Her most recent books include Everyday Revolutionaries: Working Women and the Transformation of American Life, and The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, cited "one of the best books on leadership ever published" by The Wall Street Journal. In August 2001, her latest book, Thriving in 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work, will be published by The Free Press.

J.C. Herz
Author
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J.C. Herz is the author of Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds (Little Brown 1997) and the CEO of Joystick Nation Inc., which applies the principles of game design to the development of networked applications in the business world. Prior to founding the company, she was a columnist at the New York Times, where she wrote a weekly essay on the art and science of interactive entertainment. Herz sits on the National Research Council's Committee on Creativity and Information Technology and advises a number of Internet start-up companies.

Betsy Holden
President and CEO for Kraft Foods, Inc.
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In May 2000, Betsy Holden was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Foods, Inc., at $17.5 billion in sales the largest U.S.-based food company in the world. In this role, Holden oversees all of Kraft's business units and also leads the company's policy decision-making board, the Operating Committee, a position that earned her the #23 ranking on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list.

Holden has worked on many of Kraft's well-known brands. In 1982 she was Assistant Product manager in the Desserts Division. Three years later she was Brand Manager for Miracle Whip. In 1993 she became President of the Tombstone Pizza Division and five years later President of the Kraft Cheese Division. In December 1998 Holden was elevated to Executive Vice President of Kraft Foods, Inc. responsible for Operations, Procurement, Research & Development, Consumer Insights & Communications, and E-Commerce.

Degrees come in threes for Holden. She received a B.A. in education form Duke University, an M.A. in education from Northwestern University and a Masters of Management and Finance in marketing from Northwestern's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Mae Jemison
Founder & CEO, The Jemison Group and first woman of color in space
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Mae C. Jemison became the first woman of color to go into space when she blasted into orbit aboard the shuttle Endeavour, September 12, 1992-just one of many accomplishments for this dynamic woman, who entered Stanford University at 16 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering.

Jemison served as a NASA astronaut for six years, including a stint as science mission specialist on the STS-47 Spacelab J flight, a US/Japan joint mission. She currently heads The Jemison Group, Inc., focused on the beneficial integration of science and technology into our everyday lives. Jemison started The Earth We Share*, an international science camp, and is Director of the Jemison Institute for Advancing Technology in Developing Countries and Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College.

Before joining NASA, Jemison practiced medicine in Los Angeles, and spent two and a half years as Area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia. Her numerous honors and awards include induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame; Johnson Publications Black Achievement Trailblazers Award; and the National Medical Association Hall of Fame. She is a Director of Scholastic, Inc., The Keystone Center and the National Urban League.

Find Where the Wind Goes Moments From My Life, autobiographical anecdotes written by Jemison, will be published in Spring 2001.

General James L. Jones
Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
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General Jones has served as Commandant of the Marine Corps and a Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since July 1, 1999. Jones began his career with the Marines immediately after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1966, when he was commissioned a second lieutenant, participated in advanced officers' training and was sent to Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander. His career includes posts as Company Commander at Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, DC; Marine Corps Liaison for the United States Senate; Senior Aide to the then Commandant, Al Grey; Service in Northern Iraq after Desert Storm; and, prior to his current assignment as Commandant, Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. General Jones' personal decorations include: the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star Medal, Legion of Merit with four gold stars, Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V", and the Combat Action Ribbon.

Adriana Kampfner
SVP, StarMedia Network, Inc.
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As one of the founding members of StarMedia Network, Adriana has been responsible for developing the company's global sales operations since its inception. Before being promoted to her current position, Adriana initiated and established StarMedia as the most important Internet company in Mexico. Previously, she served as the company's Director of Sales for North America, developing key relationships with national and international clients. She currently heads the company's operations in Mexico and is also responsible for business development throughout the Latin American region. Prior to joining StarMedia, she served as senior analyst for Chase Securities, Inc., where she conducted industry research for Fortune 500 clients, and also developed and executed financial strategies for multi-million dollar acquisitions. Adriana is Mexican and holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

Yue-sai Kan
Chairman, Yue-Sai Kan Cosmetics
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Dubbed "the most famous woman in China" by People magazine and "the Queen of the Middle Kingdom" by Time magazine, Chinese American Yue-Sai Kan's full life bridges East and West. In 1992, Kan created and founded Yue-Sai Kan Cosmetics, China's leading cosmetics company. The company now employs over 1,200 people, having formed a strategic joint venture with the $1.7 billion Coty division of John.A.Benckiser GmbH in 1996.

Kan, also a television personality and producer, introduced Eastern cultures and customs to an American audience in 1978 when her Yue-Sai Kan Productions developed Looking East, a weekly series. In the mid-80s, Kan hosted PBS' first live broadcast from China on the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China, and produced One World for CCTV, China's only national network. She has continued to produce series and documentaries for both Chinese and American television, including the Emmy award-winning China Walls and Bridges.

Kan has established a scholarship fund for outstanding female students at Beijing University and Hunter College of the City University of New York. She is the author of three books (available only in Chinese language): One World, Yue-Sai's Guide to Asian Beauty and Etiquette for the Modern Chinese. Kan's next book, which will be published concurrently with the launch of her international "Yue-sai" brand, is Celebrating Asian Beauty.

Kan was born in Guilin, China. She has a degree in music from the Brigham Young University in Hawaii.

Christine Lagarde
Chairman, Baker & McKenzie
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As the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the largest law firm in the world, Baker & McKenzie, Christine Lagarde is tracking new ground. Lagarde has been a Partner in the Paris office of Baker & McKenzie for 13 years and served as Chairman of the European Regional Council from 1997 to 1998. In 1995, Lagarde was nominated to the Executive Committee, on which she acted as the Committee liaison for 11 Western European offices and chaired the Professional Development Committee until 1998. In addition, she served as the Co-Managing Partner of the Paris office from 1991 to 1995, while being a member of the European Regional Council. Since 1981, Lagarde has practiced competitive and employment law. She has been involved in various merger filings, several European anti-trust investigations, and she has assisted a number of international clients on major restructurings involving new distribution systems, corporate reorganization, and large redundancy programs with high-profile political issues.

Pat Mitchell
President & CEO, Public Broadcasting Service
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In February 2000, Pat Mitchell became the first woman and first producer to serve as CEO of the nation's largest and only noncommercial broadcasting service. A former network correspondent, independent producer and Time Warner Executive, she now oversees the operations of a $1 billion national enterprise made up of 349 member stations whose mission is to enrich the lives of all Americans and strengthen social capital in the communities they serve.

In her first year at the helm of PBS, Ms. Mitchell invigorated the primetime programming and revitalized the PBS schedule with moves aimed at growing the television audience in an increasingly competitive media and technological landscape. She has also led groundbreaking collaborations with ABC News Nightline, Fox Studios, and created a new on-air and strategic alliance with National Public Radio.

Ms. Mitchell is recognized as a proven business leader and respected executive in the entertainment industry. This past year, Forbes magazine named her one of the Magnetic 40 corporate executives, was included in Electronic Media's "12 to Watch," Hollywood Reporter's "Top 40" Women in Entertainment, and named "Woman of the Year" by Women in Cable and Telecommunications.

With a long history of activism in her community and in non-profit organizations, Ms. Mitchell serves on the Board of Trustees of the Sundance Institute, the Women's Leadership Advisory Council of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the National Board of Girls, Inc. She is one of the founding members of the American chapter of Mikhail Gorbachev's environmental organization, Green Cross International. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia with a Masters Degree in English Literature, she received an honorary PhD in Arts and Humane Letters by Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts in May 2000. She was inducted into the Business Hall of Fame at Georgia State University and most recently joined the Bank of America's Board of Directors

Read 'Giving Back to Build Our Future' by Pat Mitchell

Josie Natori
CEO, The Natori Company
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Like all successful entrepreneurs, Josie Natori has never allowed herself to be limited by convention or tradition. As founder and CEO of Natori Company, Natori has built her empire on intelligence and instinct, transforming the fashion industry with her elegant designer lingerie.

Always a risk-taker, Natori boldly walked away from a six-figure salary as Vice President of Merrill Lynch in 1976 and set up her own fashion company, literally, in her living room. Within a few years she was working out of an 11,000-square-foot loft on New YorkÍs 34th Street with a showroom and design workspaces.

Although she had no experience in fashion or manufacturing, Natori intuitively understood what modern women wanted-to look feminine but independent. She soon became known for vibrant colors, bold patterns, and sophisticated designs. Her hallmark, the detailing, embroidery, and appliquÚ work of her native Philippines, remains integral to her designs. So does her homeland, where she now employs close to a thousand local craftspeople.

For her inspirational achievements, Natori was presented the Galleon Award by Philippine President Corazon Aquino in 1988. The honors have continued to accumulate: In 1998 Natori was chosen as the New York City Partnership's Business Woman of the Year, and she served as a delegate to the Clinton Economic Summit Conference in Little Rock and as a commissioner to the White House Conference on Small Business.

Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Chairman & CEO, Carlson Companies, Inc.
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Marilyn Carlson Nelson is the president and CEO of Carlson Companies, one of the largest privately owned companies in the world. Recognized as a worldwide business leader, Nelson is responsible for managing Carlson's global business portfolio, which includes service companies in travel, hospitality, and marketing.

Nelson began her rapid journey to success in the '60s as a securities analyst at Paine Webber. Shockingly, in those early years of women entering the workplace, she was requested to use the abbreviation "M. C. Nelson" on all correspondence to disguise her gender.

But Nelson refused to be held back as a woman, rising to the position of Senior Vice President of Carlson Holdings by 1988 and leading the company toward unprecedented international growth resulting in systemwide revenues of more that $22 billion in 1998.

A dynamic leader, Nelson has also devoted her boundless energy to community programs. Most notably, as chair of the Minnesota Super Bowl 1992 Task Force, she succeeded in the daunting task of bringing the Super Bowl to Minnesota in the dead of winter - an accomplishment that generated more than $100 million for the state's economy.

A second-generation American of Nordic ancestry, Nelson has also been active in promoting Minnesota's historical ties to Nordic countries. For her achievements, Nelson was awarded the Order of the White Rose by the President of Finland and the Royal Order of the North Star by the King of Sweden. These awards represent the highest honor these two nations can bestow upon an individual.

Merle Aiko Okawara
President, eBay Japan
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Merle Aiko Okawara was described in a Forbes Magazine article (1997) as an individual who climbs mountains just because they are there. And, indeed, building a successful business in the mid sixties in a male-oriented Japan that favored large businesses, to the detriment of the entrepreneur, was as arduous as trekking up Mount Everest.

A third generation Japanese born in Hawaii to a successful businessman, Okawara was brought up in a "Can Do" environment. The more people insisted that she could not succeed, the more determined she became. Overcoming language and cultural barriers, Okawara expanded JC Foods into the nation's top supplier of frozen ethnic foods, including Italian Pizza, Indian Naan & Curries; Arabian Pita Bread and breaded Fish Sticks and Cheese. The company was listed over the counter in Tokyo in 1993, making her only the second woman to achieve this in Japan.

An American educated in the US and Europe, and having lived in Japan for over 30 years, Okawara is proud of being a citizen of the world. She strives to act as a bridge drawing the US and Japan closer together by her work as governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and member of the council of the Japan-American Society. She attended Northwestern University in the U.S. and has a law degree from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her book, When Women Create Companies, became a best seller when published in 1995.

Dr. Federica Olivares
Publisher & CEO, Edizioni Olivares
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Federica Olivares is the founder and CEO of the Edizioni Olivares publishing house, publisher of some of most influential authors on management issues. In 1997, the company received the Financial Times Global Business Book Award for its books on emerging markets.

Edizioni Olivares has also achieved prominence in visual and performing arts printing, publishing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. Beginning in 1999, the company has published the book-catalog for the New York Film Festival Retrospective at Lincoln Center.

In addition to her publishing responsibilities, Ms. Olivares has been a management consultant for several international consulting firms. She is also associate editor of The International Executive, an international management review.

A native of Italy, but educated in England and the US, Federica Olivares served on the Board of Directors of RAI, Italy's largest television network, from 1996 to 1998. Her achievements included the launch of digital satellite television in Italy and the creation of free thematic channels.

Olivares is founder and president of the professional network "Women on Career." Since 1991 she is the president of the Foundation Européenne des Femmes, a gathering of female state representatives from the major European countries.

Tom Peters
Author and Lecturer, tompeterscompany!
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Author of the acclaimed business treatise, In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters has single-handedly turned the world of corporate management on its head. A self-described prince of disorder, champion of bold failures, maestro of zest, and professional loudmouth, Peters' profound effect on corporate America has prompted The Los Angeles Times to name him "the father of the post-modern corporation." Fortune called him the "Ur-guru" of management. The Economist says he's the "uber-guru." And his unconventional views led Business Week to describe him as business's "best friend and worst nightmare." Tom is the author of dozens of books, including the category-defining business book In Search of Excellence.

Dawn Riley
CEO & Captain, America True
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Whether she's on the stormy seas off Auckland, New Zealand or behind the podium at a motivational seminar, America True Chief Executive Officer Dawn Riley is never one to shy away from taking the helm. It's Riley's thirst for challenge, combined with her unequivocal determination, that have allowed her to become the first woman in the world not only to captain an America's Cup team, but also to manage an entire America's Cup Syndicate.

Riley sailed into the forefront of the yachting world when she served as the watch captain/engineer on Maiden, the first all-women's team in the 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race. Indeed, first is a word you often hear about Dawn Riley: the first woman to have an active role on an America's Cup team, first place in the 1992 Women's cup in Italy, and one of the first founding members of the International Women's Match Racing Association.

In a field historically dominated by men, Riley is a world-class sailor who defies gender stereotypes. Riley is the only American, man or woman, to sail in two America's Cups and two Whitbread Round the World races.

When you can find her on land, Riley serves as a consultant for the United States Sailing Association and the Women's Sports Foundation in addition to her America True responsibilities. She has penned numerous articles in major sailing and boating periodicals and details her experience as skipper of the all women Heineken in her book Taking the Helm.

Anita Roddick
Founder and Chair of Body Shop International, PLC
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One of the most high-profile women in business, Anita Roddick provides an inspiring example of both professional success and personal integrity. As the founder of the Body Shop, Roddick is responsible for a skin- and hair-care enterprise that spans 47 countries, 24 languages, and 12 time zones. Yet this British entrepreneur remains firmly grounded in the values she established as a "morally outraged" youth.

Roddick started the Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for herself and her two daughters - a survival situation that she claims nurtured her creative thinking. In only 22 years, her vision of high-quality, naturally based beauty products grew from that first small shop in Brighton, England, to more than 1,600 outlets worldwide.

Despite the unprecedented growth of her brainchild, Roddick keeps human relations and personal values at the forefront of the Body Shop's operations. Her passionate belief in social responsiveness, human rights, and environmental and animal protection can be seen throughout the company, from its commitment to challenging beauty stereotypes to its vocal campaigning against animal abuses in the cosmetics industry.

Recently, the Body Shop has developed a Community Trade program that creates sustainable trading relationships with communities in need. This means purchasing raw materials such as cocoa butter or babassu from marginalized producers, as well as buying massagers from India and baskets from the Philippines.

Roddick also takes considerable pride in The New Academy of Business, which she launched in 1997 with the aim of reforming business education for the next century.

Irene Rosenfeld
President, Kraft Canada, Inc.
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As President of Kraft Canada, Irene B. Rosenfeld is responsible for bringing such familiar brand names as Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Miracle Whip, Oscar Mayer, Post, and Maxwell House to the kitchens of countless Canadians. Under Rosenfeld's leadership, the $2.2 billion subsidiary of Kraft Foods has revitalized it consumer focus and marketing strategy, recently earning Marketing Magazine's Marketer of the Year Award.

A native New Yorker with a Ph.D. in Marketing & Statistics, Rosenfeld began her career in advertising as Associate Research Director at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample in New York. In 1981 she joined General Foods (now Kraft Foods) in marketing research, moving into marketing in 1984.

By 1991 Rosenfeld was named Executive Vice President and General Manager of the beverage division, earning the position of Executive Vice President and General Manager in the desserts and snack division by 1994.

Rosenfeld's success has earned her considerable attention from the media. She was featured in the Fortune Magazine article "When Will Women Get to the Top?", has appeared on "Good Morning America" in a segment titled "Breaking the Glass Ceiling," and was featured in the Wall Street Journal article "Broken Glass - Watershed Generation of Women Executives is Rising to the Top." Most recently, Rosenfeld was spotlighted in the Financial Post's annual review of corporate leadership.

Harriet Rubin
Author, The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women
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Harriet Rubin is a best-selling author, lecturer, and marketer who believes in taking risks. Rubin's first book, The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women, became an international success, appearing on the Business Week and USA Today bestseller lists. For most of 1998, it was one of the top three best-selling books in Germany.

Rubin has made appearances on "The Today Show," "Politically Incorrect," NPR, Fox News, and other national programs. She also publishes extensively in such leading magazines and newspapers as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Inc. Currently she is a contributing editor and writer for Fast Company.

In the publishing industry, Rubin has been a leader in recognizing business trends. In her 10 years at the helm of Currency, a division of Doubleday, she was responsible for developing several of the decade's most influential and profitable business books from such leaders as Max DePree of Herman Miller Inc. (author of Leadership Is An Art), Peter Senge of M.I.T. (author of The Fifth Discipline), and Andrew S. Grove of Intel (author of Only The Paranoid Survive).

In November 1999, Rubin's new book, Soloing: Realizing Your Life's Ambition, will be published by Harper. She is currently working on a new book on the roots of power and freedom, due out in 2001.

Cristina Saralegui
Television Personality
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Cristina Saralegui, veteran journalist and host of the number one talk show on Spanish-language television is the most trusted personality for Hispanic Americans. Considering her commitment to quality programming and her emphasis on giving back to the community, it's an accolade that's well deserved.

Born in Cuba in 1948, Saralegui was introduced to journalism by her grandfather, magazine publisher Don Francisco Saralegui, known throughout Latin America as "The Paper Czar." She attended the University of Miami and interned with the Spanish-language magazine Vanidades.

In 1979, while working for three of the most successful magazines in Latin America, Saralegui was named Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan En Espa-ol. She left Cosmopolitan En Espa-ol in 1989 to become executive producer and host of her own Spanish-language talk show, "El Show de Cristina." With the success of 100 million watchers worldwide, Saralegui began a communications empire that now includes the monthly magazine Cristina La Revista, the daily radio show Cristina Opina, and a bilingual Web site, cristinaonline.

In 1995 the American Foundation for AIDS research honored Saralegui for her commitment to AIDS education in the Spanish-speaking world. In 1996 the National Organization of Women in Communications named Saralegui Outstanding Communicator of the Year. And more recently, Saralegui was honored with her very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Marjorie Scardino
Chief Executive Officer, Pearson PLC
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This past year Marjorie Scardino, first women CEO of an FTSE 100 company, topped Fortune's list of most powerful international women executives. When she assumed leadership of Britain's Pearson in January 1997, she lost no time in revamping the conglomerate. She bought $8.5 billion in new businesses and sold $3.6 billion in assets, turning Pearson into a media and education powerhouse with $5.3 billion in revenue. Among its stable of media properties can be found the FT, The Economist and Pearson TV, producer of Baywatch among other notable sitcoms, Penguin Books and Recoletos, a Spanish media company. On the education front, Pearson has added Simon & Schuster and National Computer Systems during Scardino's reign. Scardino started at Pearson as president of North American operations of The Economist in 1985 and worked her way up to CEO 8 years later. Journalism is in Scardino's blood. Previously she and her husband unsuccessfully attempted to turn around the Georgia Gazette, a small Savannah-based weekly newspaper.

Muriel Siebert
Chair & President, Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.
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Muriel "Mickie" Siebert is the president of the nation discount brokerage firm that bears her name, Muriel Siebert & Co. She established the firm in 1967, when she became the first female member of the New York Stock Exchange. Today the firm is the only woman-owned NYSE brokerage firm with a national presence in the U.S.

Beginning in 1977, Siebert served five years as the first woman Superintendent of Banking for the state of New York. Although her tenure coincided with a period of steadily rising interest rates, she was able to successfully prevent bank failures by implementing a variety of regulatory measures. She was also responsible for restoring fiscal order to the Municipal Credit Union, which serves all New York City employees.

Always a pioneer, Siebert was the first woman to serve as a director of the Manhattan Savings Banks and the first woman to chair the general campaign of the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In June 1998 she was elected president of the New WomenÍs Agenda, a nonpartisan coalition that provides a unified voice for women on all New York City issues and policies.

Throughout her career. Siebert has been actively involved in a range of nonprofit, civic, and womenÍs organizations. Reflecting her commitment to philanthropy, she set up her own charitable program in 1990: the Siebert Entrepreneurial Philanthropic Program, already responsible for almost $5 million in contributions.

Kate Spade
Designer/Partner, Kate Spade
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Founder of the handbag and accessories company that bears her name, designer Kate Spade has created such a stir in the fashion industry that she is known as the woman who "reinvented the handbag." One of the success stories of the '90s, her company continues to produce products that embody Spade's unique personal style: classy, no-nonsense, with an element of surprise.

Born Katherine Brosnahan, the Kansas City native began her fashion career after college, when she moved to New York and began working at Mademoiselle in 1986. When she left the magazine six years later, Spade had developed a keen understanding of the accessories industry.

What Spade recognized was a void in the market: a need for classically shaped handbags in interesting colors and fabrics. In 1993, with then-boyfriend Andy Spade as her business partner, Spade crossed her fingers and launched a line of boxy, no-nonsense nylon tote bags that stressed sophistication and utility. A modern classic was born.

In 1996 Spade's fashion savvy was recognized by the Council of Fashion Designers (CFDA), who named her America's New Fashion Talent in Accessories. That same year, Spade opened the first kate spade shop in New York's Soho neighborhood. By 1998, branch stores were flourishing in Los Angeles and Boston, and Spade was again honored by the CFDA, this time as Accessory Designer of the Year.

Today kate spade is thriving, with the original collection grown to include raincoats, pajamas, scarves, stationery, and shoes. Despite her success, Spade hasn't lost her sense of where she came from (each kate spade bag is still named after a friend or family member), nor her commitment to design that is always stylish, never trendy.

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Dean and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
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Kathleen M. Sullivan is Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Professor Sullivan's specialty is constitutional law. She is co-author with Gerald Gunther of the Thirteenth Edition of the classic casebook Constitutional Law and the casebook First Amendment Law. She is also a co-author of New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution. In addition to publishing articles on constitutional law and theory in a wide range of law reviews, she has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The American Prospect and The New York Review of Books. She has also commented on legal matters on television news programs, including the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, Crossfire and This Week. And she has been active in constitutional litigation, serving as co-counsel in numerous cases before the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts.

Kathleen Sullivan received a B.A. in 1976 from Cornell University, a B.A. with first-class honours in 1978 from Oxford University, which she attended as a Marshall Scholar, and a J.D. in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where she won the Ames moot court competition. After clerking in 1981-82 for Judge James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, she practiced constitutional and criminal law in Boston for two years before joining the faculty of Harvard Law School. At Harvard, she served as Assistant Professor from 1984 to 1989 and as Professor of Law from 1989 to 1993, when she joined the Stanford faculty. She was the first recipient of the Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence at Harvard, and she has also received the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford. In 1996, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Pamela Thomas-Graham
CEO, CNBC
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As President and Chief Executive Officer of CNBC.com, and Executive Vice President of NBC, Pamela Thomas-Graham leads the management team responsible for the online activities of CNBC, the worldâs most recognized business news and information network in the United States and 140 countries throughout Europe and Asia. Ms. Thomas-Graham is the highest-ranking female line manager at NBC.

Before her appointment in August 1999 to head CNBC.com, the Internetâs premier site for business news and analysis, Ms. Thomas-Graham was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, and leader of its Media and Entertainment practice. She worked 10 years at McKinsey & Company, having joined the worldâs largest management consulting firm in 1989 and becoming its first black woman partner in 1995.

Ms. Thomas-Graham serves on the boards of the New York City Opera, the American Red Cross of Greater New York, the Inner-City Scholarship Fund and the Harvard Alumni Association.

In 1999, she was named one of the ãTop 10 Consultants in Americaä by Consulting Magazine and one of the ãTop Forty Under Fortyä by Crain Communications, Inc. Ms. Thomas-Graham also is a popular commentator on business and marketing issues in the U.S. and abroad.

In addition to her corporate work, Ms. Thomas-Graham is the best-selling author of the critically acclaimed ãIvy League Mystery Series,ä which includes two novels published by Simon & Shuster: A Darker Shade of Crimson and Blue Blood.

Ms. Thomas-Graham is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College, the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Law School where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review

Mary Tolan
Managing Partner, Accenture
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Mary A. Tolan is the managing partner of Accenture's Resources Market Unit, which generated more than $1.6 billion in revenue in 1999.

As the managing partner for Resources, Tolan leads the firm's initiatives in the Chemicals, Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities industries, helping large, multinational clients chart their future by developing growth strategies and aggressive reinvention agendas focused on innovation on top-line growth, as well as bottom-line growth. Under her leadership, the 8600 professionals in Resources have teamed with more than 1300 clients to move aggressively into the new economy, winning customers, exploiting information and improving asset utilization. In the eCommerce world, Accenture's Resources Market Unit is a recognized front-runner in the marketplace with its innovative approach to creating business-to-business exchanges, including breakthrough work with ChemConnect, the world's leading chemicals marketplace, FuelQuest, a leading wholesale marketplace for petroleum fuel, and Silicon Energy, a global leader in enterprise energy management solutions.

Before being named to her current position, Tolan was managing partner of Growth & Strategy and prior to that was managing partner for the Retail Industry Segment.

Lillian Vernon
CEO, Lillian Vernon Corporation
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Founder and CEO of her namesake corporation, Lillian Vernon has been a pioneer in the catalog and online retail industry for the past 49 years. Her multi-million-dollar company, the Lillian Vernon Corporation, publishes eight catalog titles, offering merchandise in specialty areas ranging from household and gardening to Christmas and kids.

Born in Germany, Vernon fled to the U.S. with her family before the onset of World War II. In 1951 she started her company with $2,000 of wedding gift money, placing an ad for a personalized handbag and belt in Seventeen Magazine. She received $32,000 in orders and her business was launched.

Today the Lillian Vernon Corporation serves more than 22 million customers throughout the U.S., earning revenues of over a quarter billion dollars. One of the first companies to offer personalized merchandise by mail, the Vernon Corporation has attracted such notable customers as Hillary Clinton, Tipper Gore, Betty White, Loretta Lynn, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

For her achievements in her field, Vernon was inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame and the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Additional honors include the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Big Brother/Big Sisters National Hero Award. Always willing to give of herself, Vernon has donated funds and merchandise to more than 5,000 charities.

Sheila Wellington
President, Catalyst
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Having broken new ground for women in her own career, in 1993 Sheila Wellington joined Catalyst, the nation's premier nonprofit research and advisory organization on women's private sector leadership. Wellington's extensive management background includes a pioneering stint at Yale University, where she was the first woman to serve as secretary and vice president, one of only six university officers. Previously, she worked in the public health arena for over 20 years, serving on the faculty of Yale Medical School and as director of two major mental health facilities. In both cases, she was the first non-psychiatrist and the first woman to serve as chief executive officer.

Author will shortly be added to Wellington's long list of credentials. Drawing on Catalyst know-how and connections with senior women, in February 2001 her book, Be Your Own Mentor, is slated for publication.

She is a trustee of the Nuveen Select Portfolios and a director of the Business Council of New York State, the Institute for Women's Policy Research and the Tri-State United Way. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, Wellington received concurrent Master's degrees in public health and in urban studies from Yale.

Richard Whiteley
Principal, The Whiteley Group
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Richard Whiteley is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and award-winning author.