By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
Russian-born, Israeli-bred Natalie Kaminski has moxie. The chief executive and founder of FinCode Solutions came by herself to the United States at the tender age of eighteen, with only a high school diploma under her belt and a desire to build a career; in what, though, she wasn’t sure.
As [...]
‘35 Under 35’ Category
January 18th, 2010, 6:00 am
35 Under 35: Natalie Kaminski, Chief Executive Officer of FinCode Solutions
December 15th, 2009, 1:00 pm
35 Under 35: Laura Bissell, Managing Director, Okapi Partners
By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
“You have to set goals—even if they are little goals—to achieve something. Every day set a goal,” said Laura Bissell, Managing Director of Okapi Partners. She spent her childhood watching her mother, a well-known interior designer in Boston, do just that, growing her fledgling business into a booming [...]
October 19th, 2009, 1:00 pm
35 Under 35: Caroline Doran, Partner, Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP
by Elizabeth Harrin (London)
“Anyone who sees employment law as “touchy feely” probably hasn’t had a HR problem,” says Caroline Doran, partner at London law firm Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP. “HR problems need a lawyer who can be commercial simultaneously as dealing with understandably emotional clients who may be stressed about paying mortgages, school fees or, [...]
September 14th, 2009, 11:00 am
35 Under 35: Alexandra Basirov, Head of Sovereigns, Supranationals, and Agencies for Debt Capital Markets, BNP Paribas
By Elizabeth Harrin (London)
“One of the first pieces of advice I was given was never tell your age to anyone as they could perceive you differently,” says Alexandra Basirov, Head of Sovereigns, Supranationals and Agencies for Debt Capital Markets at BNP Paribas. I won’t tell you her age, but suffice to say that Alexandra has [...]
August 27th, 2009, 6:00 am
35 Under 35: Gayle Tait, General Manager of UK and Ireland business, L’Oréal
For our ongoing series, London-based writer Elizabeth Harrin spoke with Gayle Tait, a 32-year-old executive woman from cosmetics giant L’Oreal, about her career path, her international placement in Paris, and her ascension to general manager of Ireland and the UK.
General Manager of L’Oréal at the age of 32, Gayle Tait has come a long [...]
March 19th, 2009, 6:00 am
35 Under 35: Orla Beggs, Principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
An Oxford-educated Northern Irish woman goes to London then New York and becomes a principal at one of the world’s largest professional services firms in less than 11 years. On sabbatical, she goes to South America—did we mention she also speaks Spanish?—to work with underprivileged women and orphaned [...]
November 6th, 2008, 1:00 pm
35 Under 35: Erika Serow, Partner, Bain & Company, Global Retail Services
by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
Erika Serow joined Bain out of college, looking to consulting to help her figure out what she really wanted to do with her life. Bain sent her to work in London, Sydney, and then Milan, which ultimately allowed her to put her Italian major to good use.
After several [...]
July 1st, 2008, 5:59 am
35 Women Under 35: Lisa Ditlefsen, Head of Search at Base One
By: Elizabeth Harrin
The same week that Lisa Ditlefsen turned 30, she collected her prize at the BlackBerry Women & Technology Awards for the best use of technology by a woman under 30. She received the award for the work she has done creating an SEO (search engine optimization) department at Base One. Not bad for [...]
May 28th, 2008, 7:31 am
30 Under 30: Jessica Zemple, Intellectual Property Exchange International
by Jessica Titlebaum
At 30, Jessica Zemple has taken on a big challenge. Her job is to build the technology infrastructure for the trading of an entirely new asset class. Traditionally, stocks and options for technology corporations derive their price from the market valuation of the enterprise as a whole. Zemple and the Intellectual Property [...]
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