Today we welcome Rachel Stevens. Rachel is an entrepreneur, cofounder of Vienvie, a fashion marketplace for women over 45, and also a VLOGGER with Unfinished Product, a VLOG that shows her entrepreneurship journey while it is happening…
We will take Rachel back in time, to this night she had this bad feeling that something is about to happen to her. This night of bad sleep followed by a Monday morning phone call…
Today we welcome Gilbert La Fuente and Irshad Mecca. Gilbert and Mecca are longtime friends who met in college at Tufts University. Today Mecca is the CEO of Farida, a large shoe manufacturing company in Chennai India, and Gilbert is an expert in Child Protective Services living and working in California. In the 90s, a few years after college, Gilbert made a call to Irshad which prompted a OneMoment… In the end, this is a story about friendship, love, traveling the unknown, and the combining of cultures. So, we will go back in time… to that phone call.
Socrates Rosenfeld is co-founder and CEO of Jane Technologies, veteran, husband, and a dog owner. Gayle first met Socrates while he was an MBA student at MIT Sloan and he spilled into her office with one of his best Sloanie friends for a resume review. The two of them were quite a pair bringing a lot of humor and energy. They both were recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Socrates’ one moment led to the building of Jane Technologies. So, let’s go back in time, to that conversation he had with his wife…
Jennifer Rikoski is a Partner at Ropes & Gray, a leading law firm where she is a partner in the employment, executive compensation, M&A, and employee benefits practice group. She also chairs the firm’s pro-bono practice and has focused much of her pro-bono work on working with refugees and immigrants. Jenny has successfully represented several dozen refugees and asylum-seekers and regularly lectures and leads training on immigration law and policy.