Deborah Jackson

Angel Investor & Founder, Plum Alley & WIM

Deborah began her career at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker. Before she retired from her 21 year career in investment banking, Deborah launched the healthcare technology and internet practice at Shattuck Hammond Partners in the mid 1990s.

Deborah is passionate about seeing women achieve success through the founding of companies.   To facilitate that she most recently founded Plum Alley, a crowdfudning platform for women, and Women Innovate Mobile a female focused Accelerator.

Deborah has been active in early stage companies both as an investor and founder. Her investment portfolio spans from cloud technology, consumer internet, mobile technology companies and drug discovery. 

Carly Zakin

Founder, The Skimm

Carly is the Founder of the Skimm, the daily e-mail newsletter that gives you everything you need to start your day.

Carly fell in love with news at an early age when she became addicted to the Today Show at age 5 (not their target demo).  She started interning in publishing in high school and knew from day one she wanted to make a living out of storytelling. While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, she began interning for NBC News. After graduating, she began work for CNBC's primetime development division and went on to produce MSNBC news documentaries both in New York and DC.

From breaking news and writing for the political unit, to personal finance and documentaries on the Kennedy family, and interviewing Tom Brokaw on the Berlin Wall, she has made a career out of sharing stories.

Carly is a New York native and to top it all off makes a mean chocolate soufflé.

Kellee Khalil

Founder, Lover.ly

Kellee is the founder of Lover.ly’s, a one-stop-shop for wedding planning where brides and grooms find ideas, people to hire and things to buy.

Kellee started the company after realizing firsthand the inefficiencies of the wedding industry.

She moved to NYC, invested her post-grad savings and launched Lover.ly in February of 2012.

Prior to founding Lover.ly, Kellee ran Business Development at Be Inspired PR, the leading PR firm servicing the luxury wedding market. Kellee brings a high level of leadership, vision, and a strong understanding of the tech industry, while providing the team with instrumental enthusiasm and support.

Kellee has a BA in Entrepreneurial Studies from the University of Southern California

Angela Lee

Angel Investor, 37 Angels

Angela is an educator, entrepreneur, and angel investor. She is passionate about education, and has started several companies in that space.

Currently she is the Executive Director of Academic Integration at Columbia Business School and an Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching Strategy and Leadership courses at NYU and General Assembly. Angela has 15 years of experience in marketing strategy, both as a product manager and as a consultant at McKinsey.

Angela is also the Founder of 37 Angels, an angel investment network and training bootcamp for women investors.  37 Angels activates the untapped capital and experience women can bring to investing in male and female-led ventures. They source high potential deals and coordinate due diligence for members to invest between $50K - $200K.  

Angela has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School.