Linda Caruso is Regional Vice President for the New York office of MomCorps, with a background in retail operations, branding, and customer relations. Prior to joining Mom Corps, Linda most recently held the position of Vice President of Retail Operations for Time Inc., a division of Time Warner in New York. As a retail operations VP, she oversaw a multi-million dollar retail area and worked on Real Simple magazine's Get Organized New York, the city's biggest tag sale ever, supporting school libraries and after-school sports programs . Prior to that, Linda served as the Executive Director of Retail Services at Columbia University responsible for sales, marketing, human resources, finance, and operations. Linda holds both her BA and MBA from Columbia University. Linda is the mother of three children who have taught her that there is always room for dessert.

Carol Fishman Cohen is a sought-after expert, speaker and consultant on the topic of career re-entry. She is the co-author of Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work (Warner Books, June 2007) and co-founder of iRelaunch, a company connecting mid-career professionals on career break with each other, with resources, and ultimately, with companies interested in re-engaging them. Ms. Cohen was on maternity leave with her first child in February 1990, when her firm, investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert, dissolved. After five years working part time while having three more children, followed by six years at home full time, Ms. Cohen relaunched her career in 2001 by taking a demanding, full time job at a major investment firm. Although she was thrilled to return to the workplace, she eventually realized it was not the perfect match, and left after a year. Following her departure, Harvard Business School made Ms. Cohen the subject of a case study about a professional who resumed her career after extended leave at home. When the case was published, she began speaking about the topic and initiated the research that culminated in Back on the Career Track. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts with her husband and four children ages 12-17. Ms. Cohen is a graduate of Pomona College and Harvard Business School.

Alfa Demmellash is the CEO and founder of Rising Tide Capital, a Jersey City-based non-profit designed to provide business training and guidance to entrepreneurs from low-income communities, the majority of whom are women. Through her business, Ms. Demmellash has come to realize that in the Jersey City area, insufficient options exist for women interested in arming themselves with the skills and know-how needed to successfully, and independently, operate a business. "There is a significant lack of resources for micro and small business owners in my community," she explained. Her program will offer an eight-week structured business training curriculum and consulting services specifically tailored to meet the evolving needs of women in her community, many transitioning from corporate positions to exploring self-employment opportunities. Her initiative brings a much-needed service to the Jersey City area - a region currently experiencing a surge of financial development - linking the empowerment of women with the revitalization and sustained economic growth of the community.

Sarah Grayson, co-founder of On-Ramps, has over a decade of experience in human capital consulting and people management, serving clients in the financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and technology industries, designing and implementing recruiting and professional development programs. Most recently, Ms. Grayson was an Engagement Manager at Katzenbach Partners, LLC, where she led projects focused on human capital issues and where her work was profiled in The Wall Street Journal. She is also co-founder and Director of Research of Armchair Activist, an e-newsletter designed to inspire and educate its audience about meaningful, creative ways to make a positive impact on the world around us. Ms. Grayson is a graduate of Brown University where she received a B.A. in History. She also has a certificate in Organization Development and Change Management from Georgetown University. She resides in Brooklyn Heights with her husband.

Nicole Knox holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a JD from Northwestern. She is a member of the New York State Bar. Nicole practiced law for four years at the firm of Latham and Watkins in New York City. After the birth of her son, Nicole decided to forgo the big law firm lifestyle to stay home and care for her son. After a year of time off from the practice of law, Nicole realized that she could still work as an attorney while at home with her son, so Nicole developed her own practice, specializing in corporate law. Nicole especially enjoys working with small businesses and helping them get up and running. She has two children and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Nicole Paolini is is an entrepreneur in one of today's fastest-growing industries, network marketing. She also has an extensive 14-year corporate career in telecommunications, where she was able to work from home for 8 of those years. She worked for two Fortune 50 companies in both marketing and operations, managed between 1-110 employees, and achieved several internal awards for superior work--all remotely from her home. She has been married for 11 years and has two children. She launched her network marketing company in February 2006 and built it alongside her corporate job for one year. During that year, she made so much growth in her new "part-time" career that she left her corporate position in March 2007 to focus on her family and her new business. Her mission is to show women that network marketing can be the perfect balance between work and home and can be both personally and financially fulfilling.

Nicole Quiroga is the founder and creative principal of preppymommy.com, beautiful yet practical accessories for women and babies. preppymommy features hip-yet-practical items that are inspired by Nicole's own personal style and spirit; Nicole's designs have been featured on The View and are a favorite of celebrity moms. Nicole launched her business after several years as a stay-at-home mom and manages all marketing, publicity, and design for a boutique collection that is completely updated with new looks each season. Nicole's background was as a flight attendant and later as an HR generalist on Wall Street; she draws inspiration now from both her Southern upbringing and her NYC fashion sense. Visit preppymommy.com to learn more about the line, and about Nicole.

Vivian Steir Rabin is the co-author of Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work (Warner Books, June 2007) and co-founder of iRelaunch, a company connecting mid-career professionals on career break with each other, with resources to update them and, ultimately, with employers interested in reengaging them. After 10 years in business, primarily in finance and human resources, Ms. Rabin took a 7 year career break to care for her 5 children. In 2000, she returned to the workforce as a retained executive search consultant. During the course of her transition from home to work, she saw that there were no resources for others seeking to make this same transition, and formed a long-term goal of "doing something about the reentry problem." As a result of the book and iRelaunch, Ms. Rabin is a recognized expert on the subject of career reentry and a frequent speaker and consultant on the topic. Ms. Rabin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Tacy Paul Roby Tacy Paul Roby has worked in the area of educating women about financial matters for more than a decade. Presently, she leads the women investor's initiatives for Calvert - Mutual Funds That Make A Difference. From 1993-1994, she served as an instructor for the "Women and Investing" course at Northern Virginia Community College Extension Service. As a financial advisor from 1997-2003 with Chevy Chase Bank, and later, Prudential Securities, she gave numerous public presentations about women and investing. Working women who managed their own investments or those of their families comprised forty percent of her client base. Prior to becoming an investment advisor, Tacy co-founded and ran a non-profit organization which helped South Asian women artisans sell their work in the United States. She is a past recipient of a Rotary Foundation Scholarship that enabled her to study economics at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. Tacy received her B.A. in History with Distinction from the University of Michigan and her M.A. in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Tacy, her husband, Scott Roby, and their daughter, Lee live in Potomac, Maryland. Visit calvert.com to learn more about Calvert Investments.

Jane Seibel, CEO of Employmoms, is a mother of three young girls and the inventor of Tidy Table Covers, a product sold nationally by Mom Inventors. She started working on Employmoms in the summer of 2006 after a visit to Nova Scotia, Canada. While in Canada, Ms. Seibel met several mothers at the local pool and had several conversations about the work/life balance that they were all facing. Upon returning to the U.S. she found herself in the same conversations again throughout the rest of the summer as mothers prepared for their children's upcoming school year. She began developing her business plan throughout the next year and exploring the possible solutions to this universal concern of mothers. How do you make it work? Born out of this exploration grew Employmoms, a professional staffing firm for mothers.

Linda Shapiro is the co-founder and Vice President of Moms-For-Profit. She oversees all sales aspects of the company and is the liaison for Hybrid Mom magazine which is published by Moms-for-Profit. She graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in Marketing and has had a successful marketing and sales career. Her experience lies in product and service sales and recruiting. She had a successful online baby boutique business for years and that, coupled with her sales expertise from a career spanning over 15 years beginning in the service industry in a sales management role, makes her an expert in sales and marketing business ideas. Spending many years as an Executive Level Financial Recruiter primed her for Corporate Recruiting at Prudential Financial Services and then at CMP Media where she then moved into an Advertising Coordinator role gaining full knowledge of the sales territory and client's needs. It is this experience that sets the stage for the expertise that she brings to Moms-for-Profit and Hybrid Mom magazine.

Harry Weiner, co-founder of On-Ramps, worked for eight years at the nation's largest alternative asset recruiting firm, Glocap Search, where he was a Partner and Managing Director. As its first employee, Mr. Weiner built and ran the company's Accounting/Operations division, and personally placed COOs and CFOs into many of the world's largest alternative investment funds and their portfolio companies. He is also a co-founder and Director of the Kalai Foundation (www.kalai.org), a not-for-profit organization that raises money for education in Africa. In addition, he serves on the Board of Advisors of R.I.S.E. (www.RISEnetwork.org), a not-for-profit organization focused on improving teacher retention in the U.S. by providing resources to quality teachers in low-income communities. Mr. Weiner earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A. in Paleobiology from the University of Pennsylvania. He resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, daughter and son.

Anne Weisberg, Director in the Deloitte US Firm's Talent organization, involved in the design and implementation of the national strategy for the retention and advancement of women. She is a specialist in the field of diversity, gender and work/life integration, and most recently is the co-author, with Cathy Benko, of Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today's Nontraditional Workforce (HBS Press, 2007).