Caroline Green

Caroline Green
IvanExpert Consulting
Personal Mac Help for New Yorkers
(212) 353-3310
www.ivanexpert.com

IvanExpert Consulting helps businesses and individuals in New York City with their Mac IT needs. Founded by a former Apple engineer, we are Apple Certified Support Professionals and members of the Apple Consultants Network. Not only do we have an unrivalled depth of knowledge about the Mac, but we also know how to explain technical issues clearly, and we offer exceptional client care. We work with individuals and businesses using Mac computers or switching to them, businesses using Macs on a PC network, and businesses who need custom software solutions for the Mac or iPhone. Many of our clients are in creative fields, including graphic and product design, publishing, the arts, and advertising.

Darcey M. Howard

Darcey Howard
LifeStyled, Ltd.
Bridging the Gap Between How You Feel and How You Look
(877) 862-7297
www.getlifestyled.com

If you are your own brand then your wardrobe is your logo! "Personal Branding Through Appearance" is more of a philosophy than just an approach to wardrobe management and personal style development. It is the creation of  LifeStyled owner Darcey M. Howard and the basis for her work with clients individually and in corporate programs, workshops, lectures, the "Essential Guide" DVD, a follow up book and upcoming Training and Certification program.

Dawn Gepfert

Dawn Pasinato Gepfert Interior Architecture & Design
Tel: 203.292.8479
http://www.dawnpgepfertdesign.com/


Dawn P. Gepfert design has been creating sophisticated and functional environments for over twenty five years.  With a degree in interior architecture and experience working with some of the nation’s most prominent architecture and design firms, designing projects as diverse as performing arts centers, civic centers, corporate and professional offices, Dawn has turned her design expertise to the residential market.  Founding her boutique design firm in 2004, she has brought this depth and breadth of design and project management to select residential projects. Services include: masterplanning, space planning, design and color selection, finish and furnishing selection, custom furniture and millwork design as well as project/construction coordination.   A believer that good design transcends aesthetics, that each project is as unique as its client, and the value of good design adds to the bottom line and the quality of life.

Diane O'Connell

Diane O'Connell
Write to Sell Your Book
Helping First-Time Writers Become Published Authors
(718) 268-9282
www.writetosellyourbook.com

Write to Sell Your Book works with entrepreneurs, consultants, and service professionals to brand themselves effectively, turn that brand into a book, and use their book to help grow their business. A publishing professional for over 25 years and author of 5 books, Diane O’Connell knows the publishing world from the inside out. She works one-on-one with clients to help them through every stage of the writing process — from concept to completed book to making the right publishing decisions.

Jessica L. Porter

Jessica L. Porter
Porter Contemporary
Making Art Collecting a Contemporary Experience
(212) 696-7432
www.portercontemporary.com

Launched in 2006, Porter Contemporary is dedicated to showcasing emerging and established artists from around the world whose work embodies both skill and risk taking. The mission of Porter Contemporary continues to be based on founder Jessica L. Porter's vision of opening contemporary art collecting to a broader audience. Over the past five years, the gallery has earned a dedicated following of new and established collectors who value art that pushes boundaries.

In addition to presenting many distinctive exhibitions throughout the year, Porter Contemporary also provides art consultation services, collection management and artwork installation.

Porter Contemporary is located in New York's Chelsea district at 548 West 28th Street, just steps away from the beautiful High Line Park -- like the gallery, a place to experience art and life from a new perspective. The gallery is open Wednesdays 11 am to 6 pm, Thursdays 11 am - 8 pm, and Fridays and Saturdays 11 am to 6 pm.

Julie Kim

Julie Kim
TechFinance Advisory, LLC
TechFinance Strategic CFO services since 2004
(212) 518-6835
www.techfinancecfo.com

Julie is an accomplished senior finance leader with over 20 years experience in diverse corporate finance, M&A and treasury positions in Fortune 50 companies and senior banking positions in top international financisl institutions. Julie has proven expertise in capital raising and mergers and acquisitions having executed over 100 debt and equity financing and M&A transactions during her career. In 2004 Julie founded TechFinance Advisory, LLC to provide strategic and financial advisory services targeted to small and medium sized firms and has acted as interim CFO for a number of clients in diverse sectors including consumer goods, media, technology, business and financial services, telecom and e-commerce.

Kelley Black

Kelley Black
Balancing the Executive Life
Aligning You with Your Best Self in Life and Work
 (917) 586-5554
www.balancingexec.com

Balancing the Executive Life™ is an empirically tested, proven program that provides leaders with the tools to keep yourself and your team resilient.  Kelley Black’s transformative approach to work-life balance and success building has been use by leaders in companies like Booz Allen Hamilton, Microsoft, Pepsi Co. Calvin Klein, Visiting Nurses of NYC and small, emerging companies.  Through Balancing the Executive Life^TM Kelley helps people develop new capacities mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically, that allow them to be better business leaders and strategists. Kelley’s just in time technology ~ Naam Coaching ~ moves her clients beyond their comfort zone, so they can improve risk-taking ability with a high level of adaptability and resilience.  Her work expands the brain’s capacity to hold several thoughts at once ~in memory~ to make the connections required for creative, complex problem solving and new levels of success without sacrificing personal health and well-being. A thought leader in the emerging field of energy management, Kelley continues to advocate for a more conscious approach to work and life.

Lisa Zaslow

Lisa Zaslow
Gotham Organizers
Professional Organizing and Productivity Consulting
(212) 866-9493
www.gothamorganizers.com

The Wall Street Journal reports that the average businessperson wastes an hour a day due to disorganization. Gotham Organizers helps you find that lost time. We help businesses and individuals to be more productive by organizing their time, information, space and stuff. Clients include corporations like Viacom and Oppenheimer Funds and small businesses in a wide variety of industries. Founder Lisa Zaslow’s Less Mess = Less Stress™ workshops and talks have taught thousands of people how to do more in less time, and her advice is regularly featured on programs and publications like HGTV’s Mission: Organization, The New York Times, Entrepreneur and Real Simple.

Lois Barth

Lois Barth
Motivational Speaker, Trainer, Coach
Using humor, energy and science to thrive professionally and personally
(212) 682-5225
www.loisbarth.org


Lois Barth is a Trans-Fun-Mational ™ Speaker, Coach and Trainer, using humor, energy and science to support groups and individuals and create sustainable changes and results in the areas of Stress Management, Leadership, Work-Life Balance and Navigating Change. Lois brings 20 years’ experience as a coach; speaker, health care practitioner, storyteller and comedienne to her work helping clients outwit their obstacles, live lusciously and thrive professionally. A passionate human development expert, she understands that the gap between knowing and doing can be as wide as the Grand Canyon. Her presentations are highly playful and interactive, integrating storytelling, metaphor and psychologically based exercises. A life coach for two of the longest running and most prestigious makeover campaigns in women’s magazines; SELF and FITNESS, Lois has been a source expert for Womansday.com, MSNBC.com, All You Magazine and Weight Watchers, etc. Clients include: American Marketing Association, U.S. Navy, Girl Scouts, and Society of Women Engineers amongst others.

Margaret Prusan

Margaret Prusan
Illumin LLC
Business Consulting for Executives and Entrepreneurs in Transition
(800) 710-2756
www.illumin.biz

Speaker

Illumin provides consulting, workshops, networking and resources to women-owned professional and service based businesses and women in career transition. The hallmark of the Illumin process is the speed at which clients gain clarity of purpose, uncover their value and transform their way of thinking to achieve their professional goals and earn what they're worth. 

Melanie Metzler

Melanie Metzler
Nest Seekers International
Real Estate Broker
646.443.3755
www.nestseekers.com 

Melanie Metzler is VP, Managing Director of Nest Seekers Downtown office. Known for her keen eye, Melanie has an innate talent for spotting and seizing opportunities and best pricing for clients when buying or selling their property. In the toughest real estate environment in recent history Melanie specialized in first time buyers who were responsible for the majority of the years’ transactions. In 2010 she shifted into the quickly rebounding luxury market as a member of the sales team at 100 Eleventh Avenue, the iconic downtown project by Pritzker Prize winning architect Jean Nouvel.  The prices achieved there were some of downtown’s highest that year, and Melanie’s sales skills were instrumental in a number of the crucial early transactions.  In 2011, Melanie garnered the highest pricing to date at the widely-acclaimed 36 Gramercy Park East, where she sold an apartment in need of a full gut renovation for a chart-topping $2,350 per square foot.

Mindi Wernick

Mindi Wernick
Lee Nolan Associates
Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, and Long Term Care Planning
(212) 213-5151 x 362
www.leenolan.com/new/leenolanassociates/ 

Mindi Wernick is a Financial Representative with Lee Nolan Associates. Her expertise is in the area of Insurance Planning – specializing in life, disability income, and long term care insurances as well as health insurance for companies size 5-50. Mindi evaluates the current life insurance needs of her prospects, recommending the right products for their budget and situation. Mindi looks at clients’ disability income insurance whether they are self-employed or working for a corporation and makes appropriate recommendations to protect their most important asset, their income. Mindi takes a holistic approach to insurance planning and often works with her clients CPA’s and trust and Estate attorneys as part of her client’s financial team.

I am a registered representative of and offer securities through MML investors Services, Inc., member SIPC (www.sipc.org).

Nina L. Kaufman, Esq.

Nina Kaufman
Ask The Business Lawyer
Demystifying Legal Mumbo-Jumbo since 1996
(212) 808-7210
www.askthebusinesslawyer.com

Nina Kaufman has saved her small business clients time, money, and aggravation for over 15 years. She’s an award-winning business attorney, infopreneur, stand-up comedy-trained speaker, and Entrepreneur Magazine online columnist/blogger. She works with NYC-based consulting and professional services companies generating up to $5 million per year eager to build a team of professional advisors, manage legal risks, and streamline legal relationships. Common issues include business partnerships, contract terms, using 1099 contractors, and protecting intellectual property.

Stacy Francis

Stacy Francis
Francis Financial, Inc.
Your Path to Prosperous Living
(212) 374-9008
www.francisfinancial.com

Francis Financial is an independent, fee-only wealth management firm that specializes in helping individuals achieve financial freedom. We do not sell financial products, accept commissions or compensation from any other source so clients expect and get unbiased advice. I speak over 40 times a year with top presenters such as Suze Orman, Jean Chatzsky and Kim Kiyosaki. I am also frequently on The Today Show, CNBC, CNN, NPR, BBC News and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Barron’s, Money, More, O, Newsday, Smart Money and many others.

Tonia Misvaer

Tonia Misvaer
3SL Creative
Specializing in Visual Identity Branding
(866) 592 -6511
www.3slcreative.com

3SL is a boutique creative agency located in New York City. For emerging and established companies alike, we provide cost-effective convenient services that seamlessly integrate the creative process with your business objectives. We work with emerging companies with a need for strong visual branding and established companies with a need to re-brand or who have continued visual branding requirements. The services we provide include graphic design and branding, illustration, corporate collateral, web design & programming, and creative process management.