Contact
Nga Do, Women's Business Center DirectorRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center
415-348-6305
ndo@rencenter.org
Women's Business Center presents
Renaissance Women's Network
3-part series
The first evening was a success!
Join us for the second and third evenings of mingling, storytelling and connecting with other women business owners!
Your Moderator: Lynne Leahy
Lynne is a successful business leader and serial entrepreneur. She has started, operated, and sold six companies, including a technology company that eventually was acquired by Oracle Corp.
Featured Guest Speakers for Wednesday, May 13th
Guest Speakers:
Sahar Nafal
Sahar is the founder of The Bright Side of Life, an event series for women. Sahar is known to be a community building expert and speaker who has devoted her business to assisting women develop stronger, deeper, and more passionate communities. Sahar took business training classes at WISE and graduated in 2009. Since then she started Bright Side of Life and was named Women-Owned Business of the Year by Women’s Initiative for Self Employment and was featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Melissa Cohen
Melissa is the CEO of eatsaltysweet.com, a cookie company, which she had started after quitting her 10 year career in the finance industry.
Melissa's business took off after her boss started sending her cookies as gifts to clients, and after many years of perfecting her secret cookie recipe Melissa was finally ready to launch her own business.
Her products are now available for delivery throughout the Bay Area on Munchery, Good Eggs, Farmigo and her website. We are proud to present Melissa as a Renaissance graduate.
Jill Giordano
Jill is the owner and designer of grdano.com, a women’s clothing line and boutique, designed and made in Sausalito, CA. Crafted in San Francisco, grdano.com has garnered awards and attention from fashion industry groups, press, editors, and retailers throughout the U.S. for the impeccable structure and easy drape of its designs.
Prior to grdano.com, Jill had a career in Marketing and Advertising but changed gears to start her own fashion busienss, contributes to the fashion community by teaching at Academy of Art and City College of San Francisco for the past 10 years.
When: Wednesdays, May 13th & June 10th from 6:15pm - 8:15pm.
Where: Capital One Cafe
101 Post St, San Francisco, CA, 94108
How Much: $15.00 (free for previous registrants)
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Contact: Nga Do, ndo@rencenter.org, (415) 348-6305