Columbia Women's Business Society 6th annual conference
10am ⋅ Feb 27 2010 ⋅ Low Library, Columbia University
Our Keynotes
Marianna Olszewski
Marianna Olszewski has helped many women to stop struggling with their money and live the life of their dreams.
She is the author of the national bestseller Live It, Love It, Earn It: A Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom. With its nine steps, Live It, Love It, Earn It provides the tools for readers to get back on track financially and recapture their dreams of a happier, richer future.
A renowned motivational and financial speaker, Marianna regularly presents seminars for and delivers keynote addresses to women’s associations, universities, and national conferences. Marianna is founder and CEO of Madison Financial Management LLC a registered broker dealer and hedge fund marketing company. In a relatively short period of time and in her early thirties Marianna grew Madison into a multi-million dollar business. Prior to Madison, Marianna worked with a number of financial institutions, including IBM Pension Fund, Bloomberg Financial Markets and Paulson Partners LP. Marianna has an MBA in International Finance from Fordham University and a BS in Finance from Rutgers University.
As part of her mission, Marianna is involved with many worthwhile causes and serves on the board of a number of charitable organizations. Marianna is involved with Dress for Success, Girl’s Quest, Step- up Women’s Network and other organizations. With the launch of Live It, Love It, Earn It, Marianna will be donating a portion of her royalties to nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering, educating and assisting women and girls.
Marianna is featured in the media, financial publications, and newspapers including Fox & Friends, Fox News, and MSNBC, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Hedge Fund Alert, Vogue, Women Entrepreneur, Esquire, GQ, Panache, Avenue, Social Life, Tatler.
For more information, please visit: liveitloveitearnit.com
Kim Martin
President and General ManagerWE tv & Wedding Central
As president and general manager of WE tv and Wedding Central, Kim Martin oversees all aspects of WE tv and sister network Wedding Central, including marketing, programming, production, scheduling and digital media. Ms. Martin’s efforts are directed at further cementing WE tv as the premier source for women looking to satisfy their curiosity with fascinating, original stories and entertaining, fresh content that is relevant to key stages of their lives, and Wedding Central as the first and only destination where today’s women can engage and connect with aspirational and emotional dating, relationships and wedding content.
Ms. Martin was named president of WE tv in September 2008 and expanded her role with the launch of Wedding Central in August 2009. She previously oversaw WE tv as executive vice president and general manager since December 2004.
Under Ms. Martin’s leadership, WE tv has seen tremendous increases in ratings, including delivery of younger women. She is credited with the continued growth of WE tv, now available to more than 75 million U.S. households (Source: Nielsen Media Research). Under Ms. Martin’s tenure, WE tv’s original programming slate has also grown significantly, with hit series including Bridezillas, The Locator and Raising Sextuplets. She also spearheads the brand’s multiplatform strategy, including WEtv.com and GuySpeak.com, a new online destination that provides an interactive forum for women to have their most fascinating questions about the opposite sex answered by real men. WE tv On Demand is the brand’s VOD service and features original series and specials from the network. Ms. Martin is also passionate about WE tv’s public affairs initiative WE Empowers Women, which is dedicated to creating programs that foster and celebrate women’s strength, confidence and diversity. WE Empowers Women’s current initiative, WE Volunteer, motivates women to become more involved in their communities by connecting them with local causes that they are passionate about and encouraging them to volunteer.
Prior to joining WE tv, Ms. Martin served as executive vice president of distribution and affiliate marketing for Rainbow Media Holdings LLC. In this role, she was responsible for the distribution of all the company’s networks, including AMC, Fuse (now managed by Madison Square Garden), IFC (The Independent Film Channel), WE tv (then known as WE: Women’s Entertainment), and Rainbow original VOD services at that time - Mag Rack and sportskool. She also worked with allied distributors in the marketing and promotion of the networks’ product. Ms. Martin joined the company in 1999 as executive vice president of affiliate sales and marketing for AMC Networks, overseeing distribution and affiliate marketing for AMC and WE.
Before joining Rainbow Media, Ms. Martin was senior vice president of affiliate sales for Discovery Networks where she was responsible for managing affiliate sales for the United States and Canada. She was instrumental in promoting Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Animal Planet, Travel Channel and Discovery Health Channel, as well as developing and maintaining relationships with regional and corporate multiple system operators. Ms. Martin’s leadership resulted in overachieved sales goals every year since joining Discovery in 1992. Ms. Martin’s positions prior to joining Discovery Communications, Inc. include financial advisor for The Legend Group in West Palm Beach and senior sales representative for Mead Johnson & Company, Pharmaceutical Division in Atlanta.
Ms. Martin holds a Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from Georgia College. Ms. Martin serves on Women in Cable Telecommunications’ (WICT) national board of directors as chair of the Development Committee, is a graduate of WICT’s Betsy Magness Leadership Institute (BMLI) and has served as a WICT executive mentor. She is also a member of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM). Ms. Martin was named by CableFAX for four consecutive years as one of the 50 most powerful women in cable and is a Multichannel News & WICT Wonder Woman.
Vicki Salemi
Vicki Salemi is the author of Big Career in the Big City: Land a Job and Get a Life in New York (to be released this May) and The ABC’s of College Life. She rocks out to writing and covers careers and business for the New York Post’s @work section, ForbesWoman, Ca- reerBuilder, Yahoo! HotJobs, and more. She also writes for AOL Health. No stranger to the red carpet, she loves loves loves entertainment/fashion/pop culture reporting. She’s the founder and CEO of Vicki Salemi Enterprises, focusing on career consulting and recruiting tax accountants, auditors, and economists. As an empowering career coach for individuals and groups, she bolsters clients with strategic advice. This internationally recognized career expert has appeared on 60 Minutes in France, Dateline Australia, and SKY tg 24 in Italy. (Sidebar: LinkedIn is one of her favorite websites!) Vicki possesses more than 13 years of corporate experience by working at KPMG LLP where she was a national recruiting leader. She also worked in international HR during which time she briefly worked in London, and began her career at KPMG in training/development. She’s a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the New York Press Club, the Newswomen’s Club of New York, New York Women in Communications, and the Step Up Women’s Network. Vicki graduated from Lafayette College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and earned her manager certificate from Cornell University. In her downtime, this New York City gal cheers on her Yankees and loves window shopping for jewelry (total eye candy!), handbags, and yes -- shoes.