This
is my (totally) eclectic background: upon graduation from the
University of California Berkeley with an Anthropology and Art degree, the only job I was qualified for was a bookkeeper for a rice import/export company. A couple of years later, thinking I wanted to be a stock broker, I took the National Securities
Dealers test. Small problem, major brokerage firms didn’t hire
women as brokers. So, I went to work for
Capital Funding, an investment firm, in marketing. This later landed me at a pension investment firm - Certified
Portfolios Inc. – as Marketing Vice President.
On a whim, my husband and I quit our
corporate jobs in San Francisco and
became ski bums in Sun Valley Idaho. Between
ski runs, I got a job to create (and curate) a (new) movie theater. Thus began my love of film.
Back
in San Francisco, IBM recruited me as Account Manager for Bank of America’s
International and Securities and Currency trading divisions, then was promoted to Corporate Staff to work on the Memorex v IBM anti trust
case.
Switching
gears I went to D’Arcy,
MacManus & Masius Advertising (now D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles) to
manage copywriters and graphic designers on branding and other corporate projects.
Next, Coopers & Lybrand
(now PricewaterhouseCoopers) made me a Principal of the Business Analysis Group
which provided financial analysis, expert testimony, and computer modeling for
major litigation.
Knowing nothing about
publishing, I founded Waters Edge Press and went on to publish several non-fiction books and won the Publishers Marketing
Association’s award for excellence in editorial and design.
Besides
authoring publications and papers, I’ve been a guest speaker at conventions,
seminars and on radio and television and have served on the Boards of a number of
non-profits. I co-founded and ran a Film Series for 10
years and am an arbitrator for the Bar Association of San Francisco and included in Who’s Who and Two Thousand
Notable American Women.
