Join us as 4 successful women share their entrepreneurial experiences! This panel discussion is specifically created for alumnae and the wider community at Emory that identify as a woman entrepreneur or even those that may be interested. The purpose of this panel is to create a space where attendees can engage, hear entrepreneurial experiences and ask questions from a panel of highly successful women entrepreneurs. We believe that this will be such an impactful event where there will be discussion of where women in entrepreneurship stand today, the hurdles that are faced and ways to get beyond them. The panel program will be all about women empowering women to fulfill their entrepreneurial goals. You don’t want to miss out on this in-person event! **Venue has changed to room W525 at Goizueta Business School.
Join us on Wednesday, March 8 at 6:00 PM for this program that will include a cocktail hour in addition to the panel.
Students: Free, Alumni: $10, Guests: $15.
Moderator
Monica McCoy 01Ox 03C
Monica McCoy 01Ox 03C is a highly sought-after award-winning global speaker, business strategist, and consultant. In 2017, McCoy founded Monica Motivates LLC. The Monica Motivates organization offers education and consulting services to women and underrepresented entrepreneurs, providing the tools and knowledge they need to grow and scale their businesses. Recognizing that gender and race play significant roles in determining access to capital for women business owners and underrepresented founders, her vision is to remove barriers that negatively impact founders and close the opportunity gaps that exists due to lack of education, resources and access to capital. A former Global Director of Strategy and Innovation for the McDonald’s Division for The Coca-Cola Company, McCoy left to pursue her own dreams in 2017, after 15 successful years. Now her business focus is helping individuals identify their purpose and passion, while showing them how to best leverage their newly found knowledge for the benefit of their companies and themselves. As a result, McCoy founded Pitch University, an award-winning interactive workshop, featuring strategies and tactics shared by current and former executives of major multinational companies. In addition, McCoy held the first annual Global Supplier Diversity Conference (GSDC) in September 2018 providing the strategic framework for founders to identify, prepare, and secure corporate contract opportunities. The 5th Annual GSDC was held on September 22nd, 2022. McCoy was named the 2019 Start Up Atlanta Equity Champion, a 2020 American Express Founder of Change, and was most recently among the 2021 Porsche Driven Women. Monica attended Emory University in Atlanta, GA., and holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology.
Panelists
Morgan Villar 25T
After graduating early from Columbia University, Morgan bet on YouTube as an emerging market and founded her first digital media company, Carman Hall, in 2013. Carman Hall mobilized social media influencers, strategic partners, and proprietary digital sites to provide clients unmatched organic digital exposure that compelled targeted audiences to embrace and share branded content. Morgan’s brainchild oversaw the execution of influencer campaigns for global brands including McDonald’s, Coca Cola, and Clinique. The company also offered specialty consulting to brands targeting the Latin American market through content creators. While at Carman Hall, Morgan consulted Fox Digital Studios, optioning scripts and casting influencers for their projects including Mono. Morgan went on to lead influencer strategy and execution at the award-winning agency, PMG, in Dallas. She focused on developing branded content and experiential channels across all agency clients including Ralph Lauren, Old Navy, Athleta, and others. Morgan then returned to her hometown of Los Angeles to take a position as Director of Growth for Community, the celebrity text message platform. She worked with culturally significant talent, as well as brands with a unique POV and voice to build text message communities. Morgan oversaw the launch strategies for many of the company’s CPG, fashion, and beauty brands, as well as elite influencer talents like Addison Rae and Evan the Card Guy. Morgan went on to become the Sr. Director of Partnerships at Spotter, where she closes 8-figure deals with the elite YouTube creators. In addition to her partnership with Spotter, Morgan continues to consult brands, startups, and influencers on the digital landscape. Morgan has a history of investing in real estate. She and her husband invest in and flip single-family properties, and recently started a 28,000-square-foot, mixed-use commercial space in Smyrna, GA. In 2022, Morgan began conceptualizing Dignity Homes, an affordable housing project that builds beautiful, sustainable, long-term communities for the housing insecure. She plans to develop the pilot community in Atlanta, GA in 2023. In her spare time, she volunteers with foster youth, attends seminary at Emory University, and spends time with her husband & 5 fur babies.
Angela Fusaro 01C 17B
Angela Fusaro 01C 17B, is an Emergency Medicine physician and the Co-Founder and CEO of Physician 360, a company that transforms neighborhood pharmacies into urgent care centers by empowering them with access to an on-demand telemedicine platform, a national clinical network and testing kits for urgent medical illnesses. Under her leadership, Physician 360 was recently accepted into the Morgan Stanley Multicultural Innovation Lab. A pioneer in healthcare innovation, Dr. Fusaro was previously a faculty member at the Emory University School of Medicine, where she designed and implemented two entrepreneurship courses for medical students and led a national workshop that helps physicians translate clinical insight into marketable products that can save, and improve the quality of, patients' lives. She also has extensive leadership experience in organized medicine, previously serving on the board for EMRA, the second largest Emergency Medicine organization in the world. Dr. Fusaro received her MBA from Goizueta Business School, was awarded a 2017 National Poets & Quants Best and Brightest honor, and was an Emory University '40 Under 40' recipient. She has become a thought leader on digital health and has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, HuffPost, The BBC, Atlanta Business Radio, and The Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Lisa Allen 01B
Lisa Allen 01B uncorked an unexpected professional path in the wine industry while living in Dallas, TX following her undergraduate studies. After a couple of years working for an industry trade group and a fine wine retailer, Lisa knew more studies were paramount regardless of her career path. So, in 1999 she arrived back in her native Atlanta at the Goizueta Business School. During the full time program, she enjoyed an internship at Beringer and that’s when the wine bug bit!
Upon graduation in 2001, she opted to remain in Atlanta and founded her first wine-centric company. And for the next 13 years, she would blaze a trail as a female-founder in the wine industry until selling her second start-up to a large competitor in the wholesaler-distributor space. Her sales, marketing and operations experience led her to CA where she was recruited to oversee sales & distribution of a portfolio including several legacy domestic brands. After several years of chasing sales goals of more than 2MM cases, she was ready for something more nuanced where she could lead a team to build a small brand out of Sonoma producing fewer than 2,000 cases of wine. In 2021, she returned to Atlanta to run her third start-up, Wine Insite a boutique wines & spirits wholesaler with a focus on private labels and other niche categories.