About the Event
Join us for the inaugural TalkIQ, a series of virtual fireside chats with thought-leaders and renowned tech investors, operators, and entrepreneurs.
We at the CBS Fintech Initiative, together with The Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics, are please to announce the launch of TalkIQ, a new series of curated conversation with distinguished trailblazers to help untangle complexity, identify trends, and codify skills necessary to succeed in today's fast-changing world.
Each chat will include a discussion on market dynamics, short- and long-term investment and career opportunities, lesson on the analytical mindsets, mental models, and leadership styles essential to adapt and advance a purposeful career.
For our Spring 2022 program, we will feature four events with outstanding women and venture capitalists, all with prior experience as operators and/or entrepreneurs. See the schedule below for dates and times for each of our events.
TalkIQ is conceived, planned, and moderated by Prof. R.A. Farrokhnia, and is brought to you by Columbia Business School’s Advanced Projects and Applied Research in Fintech and The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics.
About Jennifer Fonstad
Jennifer Fonstad is a serial entrepreneur and veteran venture investor with more than two decades of experience in early-stage technology investing, including energy and digital health. She co-founded and leads the Owl Capital Group, an early-stage investment firm, and earlier co-founded Aspect Ventures. Jennifer also served as a Managing Director with Draper Fisher Jurvetson for 17 years where she helped grow the firm from $150 million under management to more than $350 billion. She has invested in 40 software and healthcare companies with five IPOs and six M&A exits, including Athenahealth, Flurry, Nanostring, Sutro Bio, and the Real Real. Jennifer is also a co-founder of Broadway Angels, a San Francisco-based angel network with more than 40 investments and 60 women members drawing from the VC and technology communities. Her success as an investor has landed her on the Forbes Midas List twice, and in 2016, she was named Deloitte's "Venture Capitalist of the Year." In 2017, Working Mother named her one of the "50 Most Powerful Moms." Jennifer is a graduate, Cum Laude, from Georgetown University and holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Prior to venture investing, she was a consultant with Bain & Company and spent a year teaching math to high school students in Kenya through the Harvard Institute for International Development. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member for the Mastercard Foundation, a $45 billion foundation working to create 30 million jobs in Africa by 2030. Her favorite role is as a mother of four children.
Upcoming Events in the Series
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