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Carol Atwood
Founder and President of Spartacus Media Enterprises
carol@spartacuscapital.net
Carol Atwood is a seasoned entrepreneur and a recipient of many awards, including “NYC Entrepreneur of the Year”, which was sponsored by NASDAQ, Kaufmann Foundation and Ernst and Young. Ms. Atwood formerly owned and operated TMG Solutions, an international marketing company that developed programs for Fortune 500 companies such as the luxury goods sector, including jewelry sector clients such as Tiffany & Co. TMG Solutions also had a specialty in providing premium value through market positioning to commodity business sectors such as computer chips (Intel was a client) and fibers (DuPont Lycra was a client). In 1997, TMG was named Company of the Year by the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies and ranked among the top 100 women-owned businesses by Working Woman magazine, placing between Martha Stewart and Oprah Winfrey.
Ms. Atwood holds several board and advisory positions with organizations that reflect social and environmentally sound business practices. These positions include serving as Chair of the Advancement Committee for the Calvert Foundation. Ms. Atwood is also the Secretary of King Arthur Flour (KAF), serving as a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Finance Committee. KAF was a early adopter of the b corporation principles, a environmentally, socially and governance (ESG) responsible designation. Her involvement with King Arthur Flour, the second largest branded flour company in the U.S., has provided Ms. Atwood with a keen understanding of building premium pricing into a commodity driven business sector.
Ms. Atwood is a founding board member of IW Financial which offers web-based applications that empower advisors and money managers to quickly identify social and environmentally sound investments. Ms. Atwood also recently joined the US advisory board of the Ubuntu Institute in South Africa, led by Cedza Dlamini, the grandson of Nelson Mandela.
Ms. Atwood has been a member of Investors Circle (IC), a non-profit national network of angel and institutional investors seeking to achieve financial, social and environmental returns. She served as the Chair of the Research Committee where under her direction a Harvard Business School/ McKinsey partnership evaluated IC members’ return on investment over the past ten years of angel investing in for -profit social entrepreneurs.
Ms. Atwood was also recently a partner in the network of The CSR Group. The CSR Group is a consulting and communications firm that works with businesses and organizations to address issues of corporate social responsibility. Finally, given Ms. Atwood’s personal passion to utilize media as a tool for social change, she currently serves as Chair of the Filmmaker’s Collaborative in Boston, MA, a fiscal sponsor for some of the most highly awarded documentary films in the United States.
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Paola Abello
COO of Spartacus Media Enterprises
paola@spartacuscapital.net
Paola has been collaborating with Spartacus Media since 2002. Ms. Abello brings more than fifteen years of project leadership, strategy development and entrepreneurship experience in industries ranging from venture philanthropy to financial and retail business engagements. Ms. Abello’s expertise is in analyzing a client’s current business practices and designing a strategy and partnerships to help maximize their social and earnings potential with a keen understanding of the alignment between a clients need and market trends.
One of Paola’s current projects with Spartacus is designing and launching a pioneering investment fund that is driven by the increasing market demand for ethically sourced jewelry, which includes influencing better environmental, social and governance practices from ‘mine to market’. In previous engagements Ms. Abello successfully improved the operations of a $10mm commercial real estate portfolio, developed the operational infrastructure for two organizations, created and implemented a philanthropic education program and managed over $300,000 in grant distributions.
She also owned and operated her own restaurant, profitably growing the business and eventually selling it to a successful restaurant entrepreneur. Paola graduated cum laude with an MBA from Babson College and earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from Boston College. Ms. Abello is fluent in Spanish, actively involved in the nonprofit community and a marathon runner.
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Betty(Suxiang) Peng
Vice President of Eco-Gold Events--A division of Spartacus Media Enterprises
betty@spartacuscapital.net
Betty has been part of Spartacus Media Enterprises since 2008. Prior to Spartacus Media, Ms. Peng was heavily involved in two startup businesses from strategic development to operations. She worked for a venture backed company: Chemeng International, a Chinese version of AAA.com. Before that, Ms. Peng was the owner of Greenfairy Beauty Shop which ranked top 12th in revenue on eBay(China) in the health and beauty category in 2003. In Spartacus Media, Ms. Peng focuses on finance and accounting; specifically budget and cash flow management.
Ms. Peng attended Babson College on a Babson Fellowship and earned her MBA in 2008. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Zhengzhou University. Ms. Peng is fluent in Chinese, and also enjoys skiing.
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