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Access to Capital for Women Entrepreneurs:Practical Advice and Global Trends
How and where do you find the money to start and grow your business? Given the current global financial crisis, is there even money available now for women owned businesses? Today’s guest, Teri Cavanagh, is the best person to ask. She is a global consultant for women entrepreneurs and today she will give us her best practical advice on what women can do to access capital for their businesses and she will share with us what is happening in the global arena for women’s business initiatives.
Featured Guest
Teri Cavanagh is an international gender and business strategist who enables corporations and organizations to unleash the productive power of women’s businesses. A visionary who built one of the most innovative small business
banking programs for women in the U.S., Teri has created models in developing and developed countries to propel women’s business growth. As President of Teri Cavanagh Associates, she advises leaders across the public
and private sectors on how to understand, assess, market to and profit from women’s businesses.
Prior to launching her company in 2004, Teri was SVP and Director of the award‐winning
Women Entrepreneurs’Connection at Fleet Bank. Teri was honored for her work there at a White House ceremony where she was named National Women in Business Advocate by the SBA.
Teri graduated from Harvard University. She has served on the Board of Directors for Ms.
Magazine, the Center for Women & Enterprise, and the Center for Women’s Business Research. She is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board at the JFK School of Government at Harvard.
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