Guest Speaker Liz Hamburg

Our Guest speaker at the 12th Annual BAF Reception was Liz Hamburg; a “serial entrepreneur” with extensive experience as an entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor to entrepreneurs and small businesses.  She is the founder and President of Upstart Ventures, where she has consulted to and incubated many start-ups including her latest venture, ApplyWise, an online college admissions counseling company.

Liz is the co-host on WOR radio (WOR 710AM) of “New York Uncovered” and “Launchpad”, a weekly radio segment focusing on entrepreneurs and small business. She also blogs about entrepreneurship and small business for the Huffington Post. Liz is New York’s SBA Small Business Journalist of the Year.

Liz was Chairman and Founder of Hypnotic, a broadband content and branded entertainment company and was one of the founding managers and Director of the Board of Vimpel Communications (NYSE:VIP), the leading cellular company in Russia.

She has launched new products for Reuters Tokyo and Fujisankei Communications, one of Japan’s largest media conglomerates, where she worked on the first international television home shopping show and played a leading role in the introduction of Fuji’s Nintendo game software into the U.S.

Liz received an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.A. from Brown University.  In 2010, Liz attended the Executive Education program in Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford Business School.   She is Chairman of the NY Board of the Women’s Initiative for Self Employment; Member of the Advisory Boards of the Brown University Entrepreneurs Program and the New York board of Astia; and a member of the Advisory Panel of the Columbia Business School's Eugene Lang Entrepreneur Initiative Fund. She is a frequent lecturer on topics concerning entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses.


If you would like a copy of Liz' presentation, send an email to Doreen@b-a-f.org.