POSTPONED until Summer 2020
Event Details
POSTPONED - The founders will share their stories and how their unique perspective on the world drove them to create companies that reflect their vision. Since we are Booth, we will ensure that this conversation is an opportunity to deeply understand the journey from idea to business. Learn about the successes, surprises and pitfalls each founder has experienced and is experiencing during their journey. Light refreshments will be served.
Speaker Profiles
Sachi Shenoy (Speaker) '07
Chief Impact Office and Co-Founder, Upaya Social Ventures
Sachi has a decade of experience in developing social enterprises to meet the needs of the poor and ultra-poor, designing and implementing field interventions, and conducting social performance evaluations and investment advisory for a variety of organizations throughout Asia. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Upaya and on the Advisory Board of the Chicago Booth Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI). Her work has been featured in Wall Street Journal – India and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In 2014, she was named to the Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 Under 40" list, an honor that "spotlights the top business leaders under the age of 40 who excel in their industry and show dynamic leadership."
Swatee Surve (Speaker) '04
Founder & CEO, Litesprite
Swatee is a leader who has developed and launched disruptive technology-based healthcare businesses for Microsoft, Nike, T-Mobile, Premera Blue Cross and Eastman Kodak. These commercialization projects led to several patents including Nike's first wearable technology patents. Surve has an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MSME in Biomechanics from Pennsylvania State University, and a BS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been featured in international, national, and regional media outlets including Huffington Post, International Business Times, NPR's KUOW's Morning Edition, APM: Marketplace, VentureBeat, Kauffman Foundation, and iMedicalapps.
Nicole Vogel (Speaker)
Founder and President, SagaCity Media Inc.
SagaCity Media Inc. is the parent company of the pre-eminent lifestyle brands in Houston, Seattle, Portland, Sarasota, Aspen, Vail, Park City, and Summit County. Houstonia, Seattle Met, Sarasota and Portland Monthly command the largest selling magazines, most visited local lifestyle websites, and staggering numbers of engaged social media followers. Sagacity also proudly produces web content and publications, many of them award-winning, for the DMO's or lodging associations in Portland, Seattle, Asheville, Washington state, Bellevue, Tacoma, and Vancouver. She is a 2013 recipient of the Folio 100 Awards; honoring the 100 Most influential Media Professionals of the year.