Panelists: Alternative Careers In Finance

Janet Hanson,
Founder and CEO,
Milestone Capital Management

Following her 14-year career with Goldman Sachs, where she was named the first woman Sales Manager in the firm's history, Janet Hanson founded Milestone Capital Management in 1994 -- an investment management company which today manages over $2.5 billion in assets for institutional clients and remains the only woman-owned firm in the country to specialize exclusively in the management of institutional money market funds.

In 1999, Ms. Hanson founded 85 Broads, a global, online network of current and former Goldman Sachs women professionals which has grown to over 3,200 members worldwide. Her latest initiative is Broad2Broad -- an innovative, network-based co-mentoring program for women MBAs at leading graduate business schools.

Ms. Hanson received her M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and her B.A. from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she graduated cum laude with a major in Government. She is the recipient of the 2003 Isabel Benham Award from the Women's Bond Club of New York, in recognition of her "significant contributions to benefit all women, locally, nationally and internationally" and was a finalist for Ernst & Young's 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

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