Sup Boston ladies! Clear your calendars, Rise is celebrating International Women's Day with an evening of festivities, food & drinks, and an incredible line up of rising women building Boston.
Rise,
Head of Partnerships
Lauren leads Sales and Partnerships at Rise, a flexible work platform for leading women. She brings together innovative companies, disruptive brands and top female talent to form the modern workplace. Before joining Rise, she worked for UBS, JP Morgan and Vestwell, holding positions in client portfolio management, sales and client experience.
Formlabs,
Business Development
Before Lizz joined Formlabs, she built her career in the Fashion Industry, most recently as the Director of 3D Prototyping at Coach, where she led a team of technical designers 3D print fashion accessories hardware and jewelry for the brand. Lizz is passionate about connecting young women with 3D technology and has partnered with organizations like Tech Girlz, Girls Who Code and the Fashion Institute of Technology to teach workshops on digital design for jewelry. When she's not 3D modeling jewelry for her side business, Toolry, you'll find her teaching herself one of your grandmother's past times- knitting, soap making, embroidery or calligraphy.
Chewy
Product Designer
Liz’s passion for UX sparked early on in life as a marketing intern, teaching herself HTML and CSS on lunch breaks. By the time she graduated from Penn State, Liz joined the General Assembly's UX Design Immersive in Boston and started her career as a UX Designer and Researcher. She continued chasing new challenges and became a Product Designer at Chewy, the online pet retailer--designing, drinking the free IPAs & petting office dogs for about a year!
ASICS Digital,
Product Manager
Melissa started out in recruiting, helping startups scale their organization before moving to product focusing on how products can drive value. Some of her projects included creating ‘tech talks for nontechnical people’, launching 15 new ASICS country specific websites across Europe, and rolling out a rewards points program in Japan for ASICS eCommerce and retail stores. Outside of work, she can be found walking her adorable new puppy around Boston, doing a movie marathon at the movie theater (don’t tell AMC), and traveling whenever she can.
LearnLux,
Founder
Rebecca is the founder of LearnLux, a startup that empowers modern workplaces to offer financial wellness tools and education as an employee benefit. She is also on the advisory board of HubSpot, and has been honored with accolades such as the 2016 Forbes “30 Under 30” list for education. She has lived in Kenya, studying microfinance in an informal economy, and completed research in Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Rebecca worked at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, founded Take Back the Tap at Clark University to reduce half a million plastic water bottles from landfills, and has spoken around the country about the future of work.
Formlabs
Executive Recruiter
Aybike is an entrepreneur, ex-COO and proud mom of two school age boys. She co-founded Solectria Renewables, a solar inverter design and manufacturing company in 2005, spearheading operations and facilitating the growth of the company to 250 people, 100,000 sq.ft of manufacturing space and $100M annual revenue that resulted in a successful exit in 2014. Aybike was drawn to Formlabs when, in 2017, she came across a small intricate 3D printed part that was printed on a Form 2 printer at Tufts. Her passion is to build and grow successful teams, and balancing that with being an involved parent can be tough to achieve. Working part time at Formlabs as an Executive Recruiter, she considers herself fortunate to have found that balance.
Embark Vet
VP of Marketing
Isabelle has been a growth marketer for 15+ years specializing in using technology, design, and consumer insights to deliver profitable marketing campaigns. Previously at Care.com, Treatwell, and TripAdvisor, she is now the VP of Marketing at Embark Vet, working to end preventable disease in dogs. When not working or playing with her 6 month old son, Isabelle is passionate about helping minority founders and sharing the benefits of yoga & meditation as a registered yoga teacher and founder of Mukta Wellness.
DraftKings
VP of Engineering
Elaine has 20 years of experience working in data, and is the Vice President of Engineering, Data Platform for DraftKings. In her current role, she leads the data engineering, data science engineering, and marketing engineering teams, focusing on enabling actionable decisions and driving better experiences for customers. She is fortunate that, in addition to building effective teams and designing data platforms, she is able to foster her passion for mentorship. Prior to DraftKings, Elaine served in data roles at Comcast, Monster, and Vistaprint. She lived and worked in Spain from 2012-2015, managing data teams in Barcelona, and Winterthur, Switzerland - a role that also gave her the opportunity to travel and to try great restaurants, two of her favorite hobbies!
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