IN THIS BUSINESS, YOU NEED A FRIEND
More than a decade ago, two women in private equity met on a deal. The first, Christine Hommes, was a young and ambitious associate at the time who decided to reach out for lunch and advice from the other, Olivia Wassenaar, who was a rising private equity principal a...
BUILDING YOUR PERSONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS? SAVE A SPOT FOR A FRIEND.
Who should you include on your Personal Board of Directors? Begin with a friend. High-powered lawyers, mothers, wives, and community leaders, Hope Newsome and Noni Holmes-Kidd are two women who “do it all and do it well.” They both operate at the epicenter of the...
POWER SISTERS PART IV: CHANTELLE & KEMI ABDUL
Chantelle and Kemi Abdul are two sisters in a family of five children who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. Both women have emerged as leaders in the power industry and exude positivity and grit, crediting their entrepreneurial mother for lighting a fire and showing them how...
POWER SISTERS PART III: SARAH SCHWARZSCHILD & ANNE DUGGAN
Sarah Schwarzschild, Co-Head of Metropolitan Real Estate and Partner at The Carlyle Group based in New York, believes in championing women. That includes her younger sister, Anne Duggan, Senior Principal at Partners Capital, a $30B global outsourced investment office...