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Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership. WIE Connect Event. Featured speaker: Lisa Marsh, Founder and CEO of Ms. P's Gluten Free. Oct 11, 5-6 pm, 2011  BIF, 515 E Gregory. Connect to resources, opportunities, and people in the Illinois entrepreneurship ecosystem. Learn more and register: go.gies.illinois.edu/WIE

Women in Entrepreneurship WIE Connect Event

Event Type
Other
Sponsor
Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Gies Business
Location
2011 Business Instructional Facility, 515 E Gregory Dr
Date
Oct 21, 2021   5:00 - 6:00 pm  
Speaker
Lisa Marsh, Founder & CEO of Ms. P's Gluten Free
Registration
Registration
Contact
Valeri Werpetinski
E-Mail
werpetin@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-7158
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WIE Connect is a recurring Women in Entrepreneurship community-building event hosted by Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership. It provides a venue for women to connect to resources, people, opportunities and networks in the Illinois entrepreneurship ecosystem and for women entrepreneurs to present to a supportive community and obtain feedback on their ventures. Events include a 6-min presentation by an entrepreneur, a 20-min interactive Q & A between the presenter and the community, and time for making connections during a mixer with light refreshments. Featured guest speaker is Lisa Marsh, Founder & CEO of Ms. P's Gluten Free. 

More about the Presenter: 
Lisa Lorraine Marsh was born February 14, 1966 in Chicago IL, she is the eldest girl of her six siblings having one brother older than her. She attended Florence B. Price Elementary, Martin Luther King, H.S, and Western Illinois University in Macomb Illinois where she received her bachelors in Law Enforcement Administration. Lisa worked 27 years in Federal Law Enforcement and retired December 2017, to run MsPsGFree Inc as the founder and CEO.

Mrs. Youlas Lorraine Patterson-Brown, Lisa’s mom is the inspiration for the company, she bore, nurtured and raised six children along with her dad. MsP is the reason that Lisa works so hard to eat healthy and maintain an active and well-balanced lifestyle. MsP passed away at sixty (60) from congestive heart failure. James Patterson, Lisa’s dad, passed away at 42, from a stroke, and on October 23, 2018, Lisa lost a sister Venita (CoCo) Statam to a heart attack, Venita was 51, this vicious cycle must be broken.

Lisa has been gluten-free since 2009, formulated MsPsGFree.Inc after working farmers markets and taking a cohort at Sunshine Enterprises. Lisa structured the business in December of 2015, and the delicious, nutritious and healthy, products were on the shelf at Whole Foods Market, Englewood by September of 2016.

Lisa is determined to take her family’s generational tragedy and turn it into triumph. MsPsGFree.Inc has products sold in 23 Whole Foods Market locations in and around Chicago-land. MsPsGFree also has items on Amazon, and on their ecommerce website.

Lisa Marsh and MsPsGFree.Inc belong to many organizations and meet ups, please check our website at www.mspsgfree.com, for our community partners, products and pricing, and feel free to request a B2B listing.

Lisa is married, she and hubby have a blended family of two boys and two girls, they also have four wonderful grandchildren. All of whom Lisa plans to be around to see graduate from college, get married and successfully run their own businesses.

MsPsGFree.Inc is on a mission for optimal health and happiness, and inviting you join us!

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