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<IMG STYLE="margin: 0px;" ALT="" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/68569881/shestartedit4.png" WIDTH="600"> 96% of venture capitalists are men<A STYLE="color: #482a80;" HREF="#sources" TARGET="_self" REL="nofollow">1</A>. Women still account for less than 10% of founders for high growth firms<A STYLE="color: #482a80;" HREF="#sources" TARGET="_self" REL="nofollow">2</A> & earn only 12.9% of computer science degrees<A STYLE="color: #482a80;" HREF="#sources" TARGET="_self" REL="nofollow">3</A>. "She Started It" gives a new face to the image of the tech entrepreneur: a female face. Join Johnson & Johnson Innovation JLABS for a film screening of "She Started It", a new documentary film that follows five trailblazing young female entrepreneurs through their journeys of entrepreneurship. View the trailer for the film <A STYLE="color: #482a80;" HREF="http://www.shestarteditfilm.com/about-the-film/trailer/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">here</A>. Students & families are welcome to attend. The movie screening will be followed by a short panel discussion featuring the filmmaker, Nora Poggi, & local influential women in business. 1<A STYLE="color: #482a80;" HREF="http://fortune.com/2014/02/06/venture-capitals-stunning-lack-of-female-decision-makers/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Fortune</A> 2"Sources of Economic Hope" by Kauffman Foundation 3<A STYLE="color: #482a80;" HREF="https://www.aauw.org/files/2015/03/Solving-the-Equation-report-nsa.pdf" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Computing Research Association study</A> Event Partners: <A HREF="https://www.hbanet.org/chapters/NYNJregion" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noreferrer nofollow"><IMG ALT="" SRC="https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/23031a18201/4f80a5ab-9c44-422a-85e8-81dc32b4091b.gif?ver=1494430836000" HEIGHT="61" WIDTH="151"></IMG></A> <A HREF="https://www.startuphealth.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noreferrer nofollow"><IMG ALT="" SRC="https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/23031a18201/f1e58535-844d-4726-a9bb-b7a201cb783b.gif" HEIGHT="38" WIDTH="150"></IMG></A> Speakers: (Moderator) Nora Poggi | Director, She Started It <A STYLE="font-size: smaller; color: #482a80;" HREF="#s1" TARGET="_self" REL="nofollow">read bio</A> Marcia Hendrickson | CEO, Mitogenetics <A STYLE="font-size: smaller; color: #482a80;" HREF="#s2" TARGET="_self" REL="nofollow">read bio</A> Maria Luisa Pineda, Ph.D. | CEO, Envisagenics <A STYLE="font-size: smaller; color: #482a80;" HREF="#s3" TARGET="_self" REL="nofollow">read bio</A> Grace Soyao | Founder & CEO, Self Care Catalyst <A STYLE="font-size: smaller; color: #482a80;" HREF="#s4" TARGET="_self" REL="nofollow">read bio</A> Agenda: 4:00 PM | Registration Open & Networking Reception 4:30 PM | Film Screening of "She Started It" - 60 mins 5:30 PM | Panel discussion featuring filmmaker Nora Poggi 6:30 PM | Program Close Fees: $5 | General Public FREE | Children 12 & under Location: New York Genome Center 101 6th Ave. 1st Floor New York, NY 10013 Speaker: <IMG ID="s1" STYLE="float: right; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;" ALT="" SRC="https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/23031a18201/d23bd059-ec4d-4308-903c-b8408a956a88.gif?ver=1492115328000" HEIGHT="150" WIDTH="150"> Nora Poggi | Director, Producer Nora Poggi is a French journalist with a background in film production who has been interviewing key players in Silicon Valley for the past four years. After graduating from French top schools Sciences Po Paris & La Sorbonne, she moved to San Francisco to work for French social network Viadeo.com. She then went back to her first love, films, with the production company Lucky Dragon Productions, where she trained in all areas of film production & promotion. At the same time, she started freelance reporting for Examiner.com on major Silicon Valley events, producing video interviews with tech industry players. She now also writes about entrepreneurship & tech for French newspaper Usine Nouvelle.
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<IMG ID="s2" STYLE="float: right; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;" ALT="" SRC="https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/23031a18201/bf739e0f-7405-44f1-a8d7-8a7c59abf64f.gif?ver=1494352621000" HEIGHT="150" WIDTH="150">Marcia Hendrickson | CEO, Mitogenetics Marcia Hendrickson has served as the President & Chief Executive Officer of Mitogenetics since January 2013. She also serves as Vice President & partner with Val-Add Ventures, an investment company in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She brings expertise in several facets including, intellectual property assistance, competitive intelligence, market analysis, financial analysis, strategic development, business planning & capital sourcing. Ms. Hendrickson was the founding Executive Director of the South Dakota Enterprise Institute which served as a virtual incubator for commercialization of research & growth oriented start-up businesses. Ms. Hendrickson has helped launch many successful start-up technology companies. During her tenure as Executive Director of the Enterprise Institute, she also developed an extensive angel network. She was appointed by former South Dakota Governor Rounds to the Value-Added Finance Authority in 2007 & by current Governor Daugaard in 2015 for a third-year term. Marcia graduated from South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology & is also a Certified Public Accountant. Marcia & her husband, Chuck, live near Chancellor, SD. They have three children: Ann Hoffman- Lennox, Katie Daniel-Sioux Falls & Joe Hendrickson-Chancellor. 
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<IMG ID="s3" STYLE="float: right; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;" ALT="" SRC="https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/23031a18201/12b9126a-fb14-44f4-85e6-6fe868821f94.gif?ver=1494353032000" HEIGHT="150" WIDTH="150">Maria Luisa Pineda, Ph.D. | CEO, Envisagenics Dr. Maria Luisa Pineda is currently the CEO & co-founder of Envisagenics a bioinformatics start-up company spinout of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She has led the company to obtain paying customers in the field of RNA therapeutics, an SBIR Phase I award from NIH, a pre-seed investment from Accelerate Long Island, the LIET Fund, the Breakout Labs by the Thiel Foundation. Maria is a cell & molecular biologist with over 10 years of research experience. She received her PhD from the Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as an Arnold & Mabel Beckman graduate student & a William Randolph Hearst foundation scholar. For her undergraduate studies she graduated from Barry University with a Bachelor of Science & a minor in Mathematics. As an undergraduate student she was able to acquire an endowment of $2 Million dollars from the Goizueta Foundation & lobby the foundation to renew it after her graduation. She was the first recipient of the Goizueta Minority Science Scholarship & was a NIH fellow with the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC U*STAR) Award. After her doctorate, she decided to combine science & business together with her interpersonal skills by acquiring experience in investment of technology & life sciences startup companies at Canrock Ventures & Golden Seeds.
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<IMG ID="s4" STYLE="float: right; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;" ALT="" SRC="https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/23031a18201/58745cdb-e215-4dfa-b142-3d0e9b132711.gif?ver=1494353359000" HEIGHT="150" WIDTH="150">Grace Soyao | Founder & CEO, Self Care Catalysts Grace Soyao, Founder & CEO of Self Care Catalysts is leveraging her more than 20 years of commercial marketing & strategy experience from major Pharmaceutical & Consumer Packaged Goods companies to build a cloud-based patient intelligence, analytics & insights company to empower patients, impact healthcare outcomes through real world behavior evidence that could transform drug development, market access, reimbursement, commercialization & post marketing activities. She leads, mentor & drives a high-performing team that builds a highly challenging but inspiring environment that fosters a culture of entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity & commercialization
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