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Women in Entrepreneurship Lunch & Learn Seminar with Deborah Quazzo & Brooke Elliott

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Date
Apr 16, 2021   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Speaker
Deborah Quazzo with Brooke Elliott
Cost
Free, but register in advance for Zoom link.
Registration
Registration
Contact
Valeri Werpetinski
E-Mail
werpetin@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Brooke Elliott, Associate Dean of Online Programs & EY Distinguished Professor in Accounting, will moderate a Fireside Chat with special guest Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner at GSV Ventures & Co-Founder at ASU+GSV Summit. Don’t miss this virtual session with a venture capital investor focused on “Moving from B.C. to A.D.: The Dawn of the Age of Digital Learning.” Open to ALL.

Deborah Quazzo is the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures, a venture fund investing in education and workforce skills technologies that are disrupting this $7 Trillion sector. She is also Co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit, which in its 12th year, celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and talent landscape and attracts over 5,500 attendees. Deborah currently serves on the boards of Aakash Educational Services Ltd, Ascend Learning, ClassEDU, Create and Learn, Degreed, The Educational Testing Service, Intellispark, Mighty, PhotoMath, QuillBot, Remind, Stride, Turnitin, and Valenture Institute. She is a board observer at CLI Studios, CreativeLive, Fairygodboss, Lightneer, Outlier.org, RaiseMe, and Toucan. She is a member of the boards of The Common Ground Foundation, The Falling Walls Digital Education Jury Board, The Khan Academy Thought Leadership Council, The New Profit Prophets Education Advisory Group, Oriental Education Institute, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and the Strada Institute for the Future of Work Advisory Committee. She previously served on the board of a number of education organizations including The Chicago Board of Education and KIPP: Chicago. Deborah graduated cum laude with a BA in history from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard. 

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