TiE NY Mentor Session - Virtual TiE Women Eve...

Apr 21, 2020
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (America/New_York)

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We hope you'll be able to join our Women's Mentorship Panel, in honor of April being TiE Women's month. The panel will take place virtually (on Zoom) this upcoming Tuesday, April 21 from 6 PM to 7:30 PM EST. Our featured panelists will be Judith Erwin (Founder & CEO, Grasshopper Bank), Adrienne Meisels (CEO & Founder, MyPlanIt), and Maricielo Solis (Founder, BLENDtw). The theme is "Women-led Startups Speak About Business Impact during Uncertainty". Our Executive Director, Lauren Sunshine, will be moderating the panel. Biographies for the panelists can be found below. 

Judith Erwin is the founding CEO of Grasshopper Bank, the first digital commercial bank in the United States. Judith was on the founding executive team for Square 1 Bank in 2005, responsible for venture capital services globally. Square 1 successfully went public in 2014 and was later sold to Pacific Western Bank. She previously worked at Imperial and Comerica. After 35 years in banking, Judith knew it was the time to make significant changes in the commercial banking industry. Her strategy was to build a bank from scratch providing both a modern technological framework and intuitive user experience for the digital entrepreneurs Grasshopper serves. Grasshopper Bank opened its doors on May 13, 2019 becoming the first US digital commercial bank, first new bank in NY in ten years, and first de novo with a female CEO, female CTO, and female CFO.   

Adrienne Meisels, CEO and Founder of myPlanit, is keen on taking the digital world to the next level via the “Internet of You,” which delivers highly personalized, predictive services catered just to you. myPlanit for Real Estate, a virtual mobile assistant for agents, boosts agent productivity, increases brokerages’ profitability, and has received multiple industry awards. Adrienne is the inventor on nine granted patents. Prior to starting myPlanit, she was the Vice President of AOL's innovation team, which was tasked with creating large profit generating digital businesses in nascent spaces. She previously worked at Shearman & Sterling, as a corporate attorney, and at Lotus Development Corp. and Accenture, as a software developer. Adrienne has a J.D. with honors from the Fordham University School of Law, a B.S. Ec with honors from the Wharton School and a B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania.

Maricielo Solis is the CEO and Founder of BLENDtw. Over the span of nearly a decade, Solis has gained extensive experience in the media space, specializing in digital media, TV news production, technology, and entrepreneurship. Starting out, Cielo was a Page for NBC Universal, where she had the opportunity to work at the Today Show, MSNBC, Late Night with Seth Myers, Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and even SNL. From there, she expanded her horizons to CNN, facilitating the morning show for CNN America. She also wrote content for NBC Latino. All these achievements culminated into the launch of BLENDtw. As the media company’s Founder and CEO, Cielo is in charge of the editorial content for the publication, recruitment, and team management. In addition to that, she serves as a Motivational Coach and Speaker who has given a multitude of talks at various prominent conferences pertaining to the intersection between tech and media. On top of that, she is writing the script for her debut film as well as working on the launch of MYVOS (My Voice, Our Story) Interview Talks. No matter what venture she undertakes, Cielo’s number one vision is to empower people to step into their best selves.

The Mentoring Program is absolutely free, and is available to all TiE NY Active Members. The April Mentor Event is free for all members, and $20 for all guests to attend. To register, visit the link on our site or click the button below. All confirmed registrants will receive the Zoom meeting information via email within 24 hours of the start time. We hope you can join us!

Many thanks,

Craig and Sab

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About the Mentor Program

Our mentoring program provides one-on-one guidance to budding entrepreneurs by assessing their needs and matching them with TiE Charter Members who are seasoned entrepreneurs, executives and functional experts across different industries. Whether you are looking to jump into entrepreneurship as a recent college graduate or a mid-level corporate professional, or are in the middle of your startup journey and need help to take your startup to the next level, our highly committed Charter Members are available to provide you the necessary guidance. Mentees can benefit from "Flash Mentoring," where they meet an assigned mentor for some one-time advise mentees need in a particular area, or from "Ongoing Mentoring," where mentees meet on a regular basis to get guidance on a wide range of topics from their assigned mentors.  

The Mentoring Program is absolutely free, and is available to all TiE NY Members. 

How Does The TiE NY Mentoring Program Works?

Our Mentoring Program is driven by Mentees. They work with the TiE Mentoring Committee to explain their requirements, identify their Mentors, coordinate with their assigned Mentors to schedule their one-time or ongoing meetings, and keep the Committee up-to-date on their evolving needs and any required changes they wish to make on their mentoring arrangement. 

In order to get started, we suggest the following steps to new Mentees:

1) Attend our monthly mentoring event that is typically held every third Tuesday of the month.

2) Use the event to learn more about our Mentoring program and network/socialize with various TiE NY Charter & Board Members, other Mentees and the broader TiE NY community. 

3) At the event, explain our Mentoring Committee members about your needs, and identify and meet, if possible, a potential Mentor available in attendance during the event.  

3) If you did not meet any potential Mentor who is a fit for your needs during the event, our Mentoring Committee will identify someone from our broader Charter Member community and introduce you to that Mentor.

4) Coordinate directly with the Mentor to schedule your mentoring meetings. 

5) Keep the Mentoring Committee updated about your ongoing mentoring with your assigned Mentor. 

6) If and when you need to change your mentor for whatever reason, please inform the Mentoring Committee and you will be assigned a new Mentor. 

7) Attend our monthly Mentoring events, which provide you valuable learning opportunities from expert speakers on various topics and other fellow entrepreneurs and mentees. Topics covered in past events include: How to Best Benefit from Mentoring, Finding the Product-Market Fit, Legal Issues Facing Entrepreneurs, etc.  

If you are interested in becoming a mentee or mentor please register to attend the next event so we can get to know you and fill out the appropriate mentor or mentee intake form for us here


About our Mentors

Our mentors are committed volunteers whose primary goal is giving back to the community. They also realize that the mentoring process can help them maybe as much as it helps the mentees they are advising. These volunteers are seasoned entrepreneurs, executives and functional experts across different industries. They have agreed to volunteer up-to four hours per month of their time in order to help budding entrepreneurs within the TiE NY community.

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