This is an online event.
This webinar can help! The SCORE NYC Advisory Board service, affiliated with the Small Business Administration, is staffed with seasoned professionals who can provide guidance and advice on these issues. These experts have built successful companies, held corporate leadership positions, faced many of the issues that startup companies face and have helped countless entrepreneurs along the way.
If your company is selected to participate, we will build an Advisory Board tailored to meet your needs. Over a period of at least one year, we will provide long-term strategic advice to your organization. As a partner in scaling your business, we can provide strategic counsel in the areas of marketing, raising capital, technology, branding, organizational design, human resources and so much more.
During this webinar, you will hear:
Speakers Include
Karen Lauterstein
Karen launched her healthy snack food company, Sattva Vida, in 2015, combining her love of fresh, healthy food with knowledge she gained from two decades of sales executive experience in the corporate world. Her outside sales experience has included working with companies in a wide range of industries and engaging with all levels of buyers.
Using that experience as a springboard, she has expanded her business to include distribution of her product, Sattva Vida Energy Bites, into 350 outlets due to her cultivation of long-term relationships and reputation for being “easy to do business with.”
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from SUNY Binghamton University.
Craig Buckstein
Craig has been CEO of Geneva Worldwide, a global leader in language solutions for 20 years. He has grown Geneva into the largest provider of interpreters in New York, a Top Five provider of interpreters worldwide, and as a GSA-approved supplier of interpretation services to the Federal Government.
Geneva continues to develop and refine its product offering through its passionate professionals and emerging technology include its Video Remote Interpreting platform. Craig is on the Board of Governors for the 100 Year Association of New York and is previous President of the Association of Language Companies.
He holds an MBA from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College.
Tomoko Omori
Tomoko is the CEO of Go! Go! Curry, a chain of over 75 grab-and-go Japanese comfort food restaurants in Japan and the US. After a career in advertising sales, she was asked to become President of Go! Go! Curry in 2012.
In her eight years with the company she took the restaurant from a company with only $30,000 in the bank and no systems in place to being the large international operation that it is today. Locations include Japan, New York and Cambridge Mass. She is currently supporting new franchisees to expand even further nationwide.
Tomoko received the Nikki BP Woman of the Year Award in 2015.