Women 2.0 ? Boston Angel Investing Training Launches 10 Pipeline ...

By A. Lauren Abele (COO, Pipeline Fellowship)

Editor?s note: The Pipeline Fellowship hosts a 2011 Boston Pipeline Fellowship Conference on angel investing in Boston on Friday, December 2, 2011. Women 2.0 members receive 50% off tickets with discount code ?women2?. For more info and to register, click here.

The Pipeline Fellowship, which trains women philanthropists to become angel investors, has announced its inaugural Boston class.

The 2011 Boston Pipeline Fellowship Conference features a series of educational presentations and engaging panel discussions on the angel investing process. Regina Pisa, the Chair and Managing Partner of Goodwin Procter LLP, will provide lunch remarks.

Aspiring angels, current investors, and entrepreneurs are encouraged to attend.

We have been warmly welcomed by the Boston startup community and we?re excited to work closely with local industry experts, change agents, and thought leaders during the next six months as we train our first Boston class. Be on the lookout for these ten women: our inaugural Boston Pipeline Fellows will undoubtedly help shape the face of impact investing in the Boston community.

Maureen Bouchard is the Chief Compliance Officer of The 1911 Trust Company LLC. She has a background in the financial services industry as a former Series 7 licensed financial adviser and as a former CPA working with Deloitte & Touche in Boston. Maureen has served in the CFO and Controller position for several startups in the Boston area and participated in the successful IPO of a startup in 1998. She has taught accounting and investing classes for the RISE department of Rivier College and the Center for Women and Business in Boston. Maureen currently serves as a director of the Memorial Drive Investment Fund of Boston. She holds a BA in Business from the University of Maine Orono.

Katherine Collins is the Founder and CEO of Honeybee Capital, an investment research firm focused on sustainable investment issues. She is an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity and has held numerous volunteer positions with Wellesley College. Katherine holds a BA in Economics and Japanese from Wellesley College and an MTS from Harvard Divinity School.

Nancy Cremins is a litigator and employment lawyer with the law firm Gesmer Updegrove LLP, where she works with entrepreneurs and startups. Nancy currently serves as President of the Women?s Bar Association of Massachusetts, an organization committed to achieving the full and equal participation of women in the legal profession and in a just society. She is a wife and a mom to two children, ages 3 and 1. Nancy holds a BS in Biology from Boston College and received her JD from Northeastern University School of Law.

Susan G. Duffy, PhD is the Executive Director of the Center for Women?s Leadership (CWL) at Babson College, a collaborative living laboratory of research, education, and practice that advances women as entrepreneurial leaders of economic and social impact everywhere. Before joining Babson, Susan launched the undergraduate program in entrepreneurship at Simmons College, where she was named the 2011 ?Professor of the Year.? Currently she serves on the board of directors of the International Council for Small Business, the Center for Women?s Business Research, and Venturing Out, a Massachusetts nonprofit that teaches entrepreneurship to incarcerated and court-involved adults and high-risk youth. Susan earned her PhD from The George Washington University (GWU) in Management and Organization, a Master?s degree in Applied Behavioral Science from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor?s degree in Nutrition Science from Pennsylvania State University.

Linda Moraski is the President and CEO of PeopleSERVE, a technology services and staffing firm based in Chestnut Hill. She is a board member of Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE), a member of Women?s Presidents Organization and is active in several charitable organizations, including The Children?s Trust Fund, Crittenton Women?s Union, Cape Ann Food Pantry, and Girls on the Run. Linda received her MBA from Northeastern University.

Mary-Helen Nsangou is the Executive Director of the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation. Her community development background integrates private sector investment with social outcomes in affordable housing, individual asset growth, and small business development. Mary-Helen completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School and is pursuing her MBA at Bentley University. Mary-Helen holds a BA in Ethics from Wesleyan University.

Linda Pizzuti Henry recently created and co-produced an Emmy nominated television show for a regional sports network, which was then picked up by the MLB Network and will air in spring 2012. She is working on additional shows that tell inspirational stories about people who work hard and give back to the community. Linda is a passionate community activist, serving as a director of the Red Sox Foundation, the Liverpool Football Club Foundation, Boston Public Market, and the John W. Henry Family Foundation, which supports many charitable organizations throughout Boston, New England, and Florida. She also serves on an MIT Visiting Committee. Linda has been involved in real estate development and investment for over ten years specializing in energy efficient buildings. She received her BS from Babson College and her Master?s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Camille Preston, PhD, PCC is the Founder and CEO of AIM Leadership, a coaching and training company focused on improving individual, team, and organizational effectiveness by developing leadership capabilities from the inside out. She is also an author whose works include Virtual Effectiveness, The Science of Complexification, Random Acts of Appreciation, Virtual Influence, The Art of Optimization, Authentic Encounters, and Virtual Authenticity. She serves as an adviser, guest speaker, and mentor for Compass Partners, a nonprofit collegiate organization that helps develop responsible entrepreneurs. Camille holds a BA from Williams College and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Virginia.

Padmaja Raman was born and brought up in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. She currently focuses on taking care of her two young children. Padmaja previously worked at Environmental Futures, a boutique consulting firm affiliated with Citizens Energy, where she focused on marketing new environmentally-safe products. She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and a Master?s degree in Cross-Cultural Education from Lesley University.

Janet Simpson Benvenuti is the Founder and CEO of Circle of Life Partners, a firm that helps families successfully support aging parents and maintain their financial health. This follows a career as a scientist, pharmaceutical executive, and management consultant. Janet also serves on several nonprofit boards including the Marino Center for Integrative Health; the Women?s Health Advocates, Brigham & Women?s Hospital; and, the Nashoba Brooks School. Janet holds an MS in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Editor?s note: Got a question for our guest blogger? Leave a message in the comments below.

About the guest blogger: A. Lauren Abele is COO of Pipeline Fellowship, a program aiming to diversify the investor pool and connect women social entrepreneurs with investors who get them. Lauren holds a BA in English Literature and Environmental Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and an MPA in Economic Development and Comparative and International Affairs from Indiana University?s School for Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA). Follow her on Twitter at @laurenabele.

Source: http://www.women2.org/boston-angel-investing-training-launches-10-new-pipeline-fellows/

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Egyptian protests, violence overshadow elections

An injured protester is aided by others during clashes with Egyptian security forces, not pictured, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

An injured protester is aided by others during clashes with Egyptian security forces, not pictured, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

CORRECTS DAY OF WEEK TO SATURDAY - A young Egyptian man holds a national flag while standing on a rooftop between Tahrir Square and the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Egyptian soldiers stand behind a barbed wire fence while guarding the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

The sculpture of a lion on the Qasr el-Nil bridge wears an eye patch symbolizing protesters wounded in clashes with security forces, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Protesters eat below a giant banner reading in Arabic, "we won't leave the martyrs' rights," in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

CAIRO (AP) ? Fresh clashes between security forces and Egyptian protesters demanding the military step down broke out Saturday in front of the Cabinet building, leaving one man dead, as violence threatened to overshadow next week's parliamentary elections.

Meanwhile, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of the ruling military council that took power after Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February, met separately with opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei and presidential hopeful Amr Moussa, who was the former head of the Arab League. Egyptian state TV reported the meetings but gave no details.

The new prime minister, whose appointment by the military on Friday touched off a wave of anger among protesters accusing the army of trying to perpetuate the old regime, also held a series of meetings trying to sway youth groups to his side.

State TV said Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri, who is unpopular in part because he served under Mubarak, offered Cabinet positions and is pondering the formation of an advisory council to be composed of leading democracy advocates and presidential hopefuls.

The suggestion however failed to disperse the protesters, with nearly 10,000 packing into Cairo's central Tahrir Square as organizers called for another mass rally on Sunday.

Twenty-four protest groups, including two political parties, have announced they are creating their own "national salvation" government to be headed by ElBaradei with deputies from across the political spectrum to which they demanded the military hand over power.

ElBaradei said in a statement that he would be willing to form a such a government to manage the country's transition, and that if he were officially asked to put a government together, he would give up the idea of running for president in order to focus on the current phase of transition.

Outside the Cabinet building, hundreds of protesters set up camp, spending the night in blankets and tents to prevent the 78-year-old el-Ganzouri from entering to take up his new post. Early Saturday, they clashed with security forces who allegedly tried to disperse them.

An Associated Press cameraman saw three police troop carriers and an armored vehicle firing tear gas as they were being chased from the site by rock-throwing protesters.

The man who was killed was run over by one of the vehicles, but there were conflicting accounts about the circumstances surrounding the death.

The Interior Ministry expressed regret for the death of the protester, identified as Ahmed Serour, and said it was an accident. Police didn't intend to storm the sit-in but were merely heading to the Interior Ministry headquarters, located behind the Cabinet building, when they came under attack by angry protesters throwing firebombs, it said in a statement. The ministry claimed security forces were injured and the driver of one of the vehicles panicked and ran over the protester.

One of the demonstrators, Mohammed Zaghloul, 21, said he saw six security vehicles heading to their site.

"It became very tense, rock throwing started and the police cars were driving like crazy," he said. "Police threw one tear gas canister and all of a sudden we saw our people carrying the body of a man who was bleeding really badly."

Officials say more than 40 people have been killed across the country since Nov. 19, when the unrest began after a small sit-in by protesters injured during the 18-day uprising that ousted Mubarak was violently broken up by security forces. That sparked days of clashes, which ended with a truce on Thursday. It wasn't clear whether the melee on Saturday was an isolated incident or part of fresh violence by security forces trying to clear the way for the new prime minister, and protesters frustrated by what they believe are the military's efforts to perpetuate the old regime.

"El-Ganzouri was pulled out of his grave. He was a dead man," said a 39-year-old employee Ahmad Anas as chants against the head of the military council filled the air outside the Cabinet building: "Tantawi and el-Ganzouri are choking me." A banner hanging over the building gates read: "closed until execution of field marshal."

El-Ganzouri served as prime minister under Mubarak between 1996 and 1999. His name has been associated with failed mega projects including Toshka, an ambitious and expensive scheme to divert Nile water at the southern tip of Egypt to create a second Nile Valley. The project has cost billions and barely gotten off the ground.

The military's appointment of el-Ganzouri, along with its apology for the death of protesters and a series of partial concessions in the past two days suggest that the generals are struggling to overcome the most serious challenge to their nine-month rule, with fewer options now available to them.

Hala al-Kousy, a 37-year-protester, vowed that protesters will not leave the square until the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the formal name of the military's ruling council, gives up power.

"They are willing to wait and so are we," al-Kousy said.

Egypt's first parliamentary elections since Mubarak was replaced by the military council are slated to begin Monday. The vote, which the generals say will be held on schedule despite the unrest, is now seen by many activists and protesters to be serving the military's efforts to project an image of itself as the nation's saviors and true democrats.

However, boycotting elections is a hard choice for many youth groups who rose up against Mubarak's autocratic regime in hopes of ushering in democracy, fair and free elections. Others have been engaged in awareness campaigns or are fielding candidates. Many said that even if they vote, they will continue their sit-in.

Mohammed el-Qassas, one of the founders of The Egyptian Current party, which was born out of the revolution, described the general atmosphere, as "saddening," but said he will vote just to "put my voice in the ballot."

A member of another youth group, Injy Hamdi, 27, said "we will all go to the ballot boxes, vote and then come back to the square."

Mohammed Abdel-Moneim, 38, said the protesters would not allow any election tampering, allegedly widespread during the past regime.

"We protect the ballot boxes with our bodies and lives if we have to. We fought hard for this right to vote," he said.

The next parliament is expected to be dominated by the country's most organized political force, the Muslim Brotherhood. The group decided to boycott the ongoing protests to keep from doing anything that could derail the election. However, the outcome of the vote is likely to be seen as flawed given the growing unrest and the suspension by many candidates of their campaigns in solidarity with the protesters.

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Associated Press writer Maggie Michael contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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