OTS 219: Purpose-Driven Community - Gerry Poirier

Today’s guest is a champion of female empowerment and gender equality. With her 20 years of experience in the finance industry, she has been a FINTECH industry leader at companies such as Credit Suisse First Boston, Lazard Freres, and Equity Growth Partners. She has been a catalyst for positive change serving as a senior-level executive and leading numerous corporate turnarounds of VC-backed portfolio companies. She has served as Vice Chairman of the Serious Game Institute at George Mason University which has a focus on women and girls in technology and coding. She founded Angelink, the first social crowdfunding platform inspired and powered by women. Angelink is a purpose-driven community to empower people around the world, transform lives, and restore faith in humanity. Please join me in welcoming Gerry Poirier. In this episode we discuss: her thoughts on leadership: “Leaders are courageous and sympathetic. They have to make decisions based on imperfect information. Good leaders are not scared to make mistakes.” her trip around the world for over four months with her little brother and friend, taking charge and building her self-confidence. her background in finance and how she landed a job in finance at the interview based on how risky her resume was. her passion to be an entrepreneur and do something that would help women, especially who were under-represented in the world of finance. her reason to start AngeLink and how her background in gaming and coding helped her build community. the challenges of building AngeLink outside of the main tech hubs in the United States and how her network helped her get some (back) doors open. her bucket list wish to meet Sara Blakely, inventor of Spanx. her strategy to nurture her network and the risk-taking required to make the first move. Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com - episode 219. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices