1st Successful Woman Entrepreneur - Katherine L. Adams from USA
2nd Successful Woman Entrepreneur - Sophia Aggelonitis from Canada
Sophia Aggelonitis is a Canadian woman and successful women entrepreneur in the world in Souces business. Now, She is also a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Hamilton Mountain and is the province's Minister of Revenue in the Liberal government of Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Subsequently, Aggelonitis has served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade. In addition, Aggelonitis has served as a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, as a member of the Standing Committee on Social Policy, the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs and was appointed by the Premier as the Chair of the Restaurant and Hospitality Caucus.
Lynn Jurish is 32 years old young and successful woman entrepreneur from USA. holds an MBA and BS from Stanford University. She is the co-founder and president of SunRun, a residential solar financing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Previously Lynn was a member of the investment team at Summit Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm with over $9 billion under management. During her tenure at Summit Partners, Lynn completed investments with an aggregate market value of over $900 million in the financial services and technology sectors.
4th SuccessfulWoman Entrepreneur - Anousheh Ansari from Iran
She received her Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and her master's degree at George Washington University in Washington D.C.
Telecom technologies was acquired by Sonus Networks, Inc. in 2001 in a stock-for-stock transaction for 10.8 million shares of Sonus stock. Anousheh Ansari became "a vice president of Sonus and general manager of Sonus' new INtelligentIP division.
5th Successful Woman Entrepreneur - Tan Le from Vietnam
Born in Vietnam, Tan migrated to Australia as a refugee with her family in 1982. Tan was awarded a KPMG Accounting Scholarship at the age of sixteen, and entered Melbourne’s Monash University in 1997. She went on to complete a combined Bachelor of Commerce/Laws (Honors) in 1998 and started her career with one of Australia's leading law firms. Tan Le was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 2000.
As president of the Vietnamese Community of Footscray Association, she made a number of contributions to charities and newspapers throughout Melbourne.
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