Living life open to new ideas and with a desire to grow. I’m a strong believer that every person has the opportunity to be uncommon and take risks to achieve success. 

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INVESTOR, OPERATOR & SALESWOMAN

Thank you for your interest in learning more about me, and the ways I’m striving to help build communities that support the dreamers, the makers and the risk-takers who dare to create their own destinies and achieve great things. 

I grew up in Upstate NY and graduated form the Newhouse program at Syracuse University. After college, I spent a decade in the newsroom, where I learned how to combine research with the art of storytelling, and share stories in a fast-paced environment that can only be compared to startup life. I witnessed the birth of Charlotte’s startup ecosystem, embedded myself within the hustle of Boston’s high-growth activity, and returned home to help rebuild Upstate NY through entrepreneurship. I’m now combining it all together to help lead a national Movement in support of women having equal opportunities. 

I’m honored to be the COO / CMO of the entrepreneur-led nonprofit, Upstate Venture Connect, which connects high-growth founders to the resources needed to succeed. I also help founders and investors build meaningful relationships “story-selling” as the Managing Owner of Peacock Media. Most recently, I co-founded Chloe Capital, an early stage VC firm focused on decreasing the gender gap in entrepreneurship. In partnership with universities, foundations and corporations, Chloe Capital moves capital to women-led innovation companies in each city we visit on the #InvestInWomen tour. These efforts, and more (I’m not done yet!), I hope will someday make a difference.

That said, I live my life open to new ideas and with a desire to grow. There have been no shortage of mentors who have helped me on my journey, and inspired me to continue down this path. Ewing Marion Kauffman believes every person has the opportunity to be uncommon and take risks to achieve success. I hold tight to this, and recognize through experience, that one person can make the difference between living a life of fulfillment and a life of compromise – a person who sees the value and meaning in someone’s life. While I still have a long way to go, I’m blessed to receive this support from my family and mentors. As my own story continues to write itself, I’m more focused than ever on paying to forward. And if I, or someone within a community I help build, becomes that person, that believer, for just one entrepreneur, somewhere, sometime, then my crazy, worldwind, lucky, exhausting life, will be fulfilled. This is the yardstick I use to measure success.

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