A true global CEO

Humberto C. Antunes is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Galderma Laboratories, leading one of the world's largest dermatology pharmaceutical companies. After joining Galderma in 1997 to head up its Latin American business from in his native Brazil, he went on to manage Galderma's North American operations, and in 2004 was appointed to his current position by Galderma's Board of Directors.

Mr. Antunes - twenty-plus years of experience spans the globe, beginning his career with Sandoz Pharmaceutical division (now Novartis) in the United States. In the years that followed, he accepted positions of increasing responsibility that took him and his family through the United States several times, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina, Colombia, Germany and France.

Commitment to dermatology

His commitment to dermatology extends beyond his duties heading up Galderma. An active member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the International Society of Dermatology, Women's Dermatologic Society, the ASPDT : American Society for Photodynamic Therapy, he has also volunteered in several committees, task-forces and boards such as the Texas Neurofibromatosis Society and the Brazilian Salvation Army. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the FIDE : Foundation for International Dermatologic Education and the American Skin Association. In addition, he often acts as speaker in business and scientific forums, earning him several industry service awards.

Education

After obtaining a degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, Mr Antunes continued his management studies at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and the IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.

A true global CEO, Mr. Antunes is fluent in six languages and shares his time between Paris, France, Lausanne, Switzerland and Fort Worth, Texas, the home cities of Galderma's corporate services office, world headquarters, and U.S. headquarters respectively. He is married and has three children.

A renowned speaker and lecturer

Olivia's passion for communication has brought her to lecture at Harvard, Yale, MIT and the United Nations; and to be frequently interviewed in print (for publications such as BusinessWeek), radio (for stations such as Sirius Satellite Radio) or television (for channels such as Bloomberg). She is the author of the too-often-sold-out Pocket Guide to Becoming a Superstar In Your Field.

Previous experiences

Before founding Spitfire Communications, Olivia directed international relations for the Circle of American Nations, representing this organization in New York and negotiating their international partnerships. Prior to this, she handled international relations for a global network of 40,000 expatriates. Olivia also lived for a year in South America, initiating projects in fields as diverse as teaching English to children placed in emergency shelters, or rebuilding a village's roads to permit emergency access.

Education and degrees

A former legal counsel, Olivia has worked with an Am Law 50 law firm, as an in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 company, and as a solo practitioner. Her education includes three Master's degrees in French, German and European Business Law respectively. Olivia has both French and American nationalities; she has lived and worked in 7 countries and is fluent in 4 languages.

Olivia is on the Board of Editors of the National Law Journal monthly publication, Marketing the Law Firm, where she is a regular columnist. She is also on the Board of Editors of Strategies, and is an Advisory Board Member of Colombia University's AIESEC Council. Olivia is the youngest person ever to have been named Foreign Trade Advisor to the French Government.

Kimberlie L. Cerrone has extensive venture, operations, management, strategic planning, deal-making and international business and legal experience, including over twenty-five years experience in structuring and executing many types of strategic alliances, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and partner, licensing, customer and vendor relationships for life science and high technology companies. She is expert in developing and executing intellectual property protection strategies and in acquiring, managing and exploiting valuable intellectual property, and technology and product rights

Kimberlie has significant startup, industry, venture and major law firm experience. In 1987, she co-founded Neurobiological Technologies, Inc. Kimberlie led this biotechnology company's business development, regulatory affairs and financing efforts for its first three years, and served on its Board of Directors prior to its initial public offering in 1994. She has served as Chief Financial Officer or General Counsel at seven venture capital-backed companies; two of which she saw from the initial startup phase through public offerings and beyond. She is a licensed California and patent attorney who practiced licensing law from 1994 to 1998 at Gunderson Dettmer and Venture Law Group where her practice emphasized high technology and life sciences companies, including Yahoo!, Ariba and Target Therapeutics. Kimberlie was the Managing Member of The Angels Forum, a group of early-stage equity investors, and the Managing Partner of The Halo Fund and The Halo Fund II, early-stage venture capital funds headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Several venture capital firms regularly introduce Kimberlie to their early stage portfolio companies. She often joins these companies as an executive, consultant or advisor in order to help them establish intellectual property portfolios, perfect their distribution, sales and licensing strategies, establish legal and financial methodologies, and execute their early strategic, international, vendor and customer deals.

Kimberlie graduated from the University of Illinois where she was recognized as an Edmund James Scholar. She earned a Master of Science degree in biochemical pharmacology from New York University. She was awarded a Master of Business Administration degree from University of San Francisco and was admitted to the National Beta Gamma Sigma Society. She graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Kimberlie is admitted to practice patent law before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Kimberlie serves on several business advisory boards of both high tech and life science companies, and is a director or trustee of several for profit and nonprofit organizations. She is currently consulting to a few Fortune 500 companies as well as advising several venture-backed startup companies. She has authored several articles and book chapters on business strategies that maximize the strategic value of intellectual property and is frequently invited to speak around the world at business and venture capital conferences.

Global accelerator for women's entrepreneurship

Quantum Leaps is a global accelerator for women's entrepreneurship, which shares best practices and spearheads positive change. It was founded with a seed grant from the Kauffman Foundation, the preeminent foundation in the U.S. supporting innovation in entrepreneurship. Quantum Leaps is an outgrowth of two major international conferences on women-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs) put on by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris in 1997 and 2000.

A fervent advocate for the support of women entrepreneurs and small businesses

Ms. Littlejohn, Quantum Leaps Co-Founder and CEO, has served as the OECD's Senior Advisor for Women's Entrepreneurship since 1996. She played a major role in organizing both their 1997 and 2000 conferences in Paris. In 2004, she organized and co-chaired the OECD's Accelerating Women's Entrepreneurship Forum in Istanbul. Recently, she has worked with the OECD on women entrepreneurial training in the Middle East and North Africa, concentrating on awarenessraising and advocacy skills.

Ms. Littlejohn has decades of experience in fostering the growth of women's entrepreneurship, both domestically and internationally. In the U.S., she coordinated the lobbying program that resulted in the funding of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Women's Business Ownership, and was the SBA's first National Women in Business Advocate of the Year in 1980. She organized the first two National Public Affairs Days for the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) in 1982-1983, served as National President in 1984-1985, and received NAWBO's first Women in Business Advocate of the Year Award in 1986. She was a founder of what is now the Center for Women's Business Research, and was one of three architects of the legislation that created the Women's Business Centers, the census of womenowned businesses, and the National Women's Business Council (which advises the President, the SBA and the U.S. Congress), on which she served for two terms. Currently, she and Quantum Leaps are working with the U.S. government and all the major national women's business associations to spearhead creation of a U.S. Strategic Framework for Women's Enterprise Development from now to 2020. In addition, they are working with many Global 500 corporations to get certified women-owned businesses into the global supply chain in key regions and countries around the world, including North America, the European Union, India, China, Brazil, South Africa and Russia.

Developing specific services for entrepreneurs

In the United States, Ms. Littlejohn has served on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Council on Small Business, and the Board of the Small Business Legislative Council. She has been a delegate to all three White House Conferences on Small Business (1980, 1986 and 1995), and served as a state co-chair for the 1986 conference, and on the White House Conference Steering Committee in 1995.

In the corporate and entrepreneurial sectors, Ms. Littlejohn has served on the American Express Small Business Advisory Board, where she and her colleagues advised Amex on creation and development of many financial, informational and travel product and service offerings for SMEs that were subsequently developed. She served on IBM's Advisory and Research Board, to provide advice on technology products that would be useful to SME users. She also helped IBM develop alliances and sponsorships with women entrepreneurial organizations in 16 countries in all regions of the world.

A global leader in women's entrepreneurship since 1984

Ms. Littlejohn has been a global leader in women's entrepreneurship since 1984, when, as President of NAWBO, she represented the United States on the World Committee of Presidents of Les Femmes Chefs d'Entreprises Mondiales (FCEM, or the World Association of Women Entrepreneurs). She later served on FCEM's Steering Committee, and as Vice President of the 40-country organization. In addition, Ms. Littlejohn helped the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE, affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) launch and organize a 60- country conference on women's entrepreneurship for developing and transition economies in 1997, as well as for a follow-up conference in 2000. Sharing best practices in women's entrepreneurship is her life's passion, so that countries, organizations and governments don't have to reinvent the wheel

Ms. Littlejohn is married, and has two sons living in Brazil and Vietnam.

An orthopedic surgeon with an entrepreneurial flair makes fashionable and functional luxury shoes

Taryn Rose changed the footwear industry in 1998 by creating a line of luxury shoes that are as fashionable as they are functional. Her idea of being well dressed with a sense of well being touched a nerve with women from coast-to coast, creating a dedicated following for her footwear collection.

After her first year of business, she opened a boutique in Beverly Hills, California in 1999. Women traveled from as far as New Hampshire and purchased up to 20 pairs of shoes before returning home. This inspired Rose to immediately open a second boutique in New York and by 2002, opened a third in San Jose, California. Most recently adding a fourth store at the Forum Shops in Las Vegas.

Formally trained as an orthopedic surgeon, Rose saw patients with many serious foot problems that were caused by fashion footwear, high heels and pointed toes. Being a lover of beautiful footwear, her own feet ached after 14-hour days in shoes with three-inch heels.

With her own appreciation of designer goods, Rose created her collection using the most luxurious materials available and crafted the line to be worn with the finest clothing. The shoes are made by highly skilled artisans in Italy, with almost three hours of hand labor in each pair.

In fall 2003, Rose launched a complete men's collection that spans from dress to casual. Celebrated by retailers, the men's collection is carried in select specialty stores and Taryn Rose Boutiques.

Taryn Rose in the media

Rose has been featured on CNN News Night with Aaron Brown, Oprah, Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, Discovery Channel's Berman and Berman, National Public Radio All Things Considered, Fine Living Network's Radical Sabbatical, Later Today Show and news shows across the country. Recent editorial profiles include Fast Company, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, Entrepreneur and Los Angeles Times Magazine. Fashion editorials include Instyle, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, WWD, Cargo, Vitals, Entertainment Weekly, LA Magazine, Shape and Real Simple.

Education and honors

In addition to earning her medical degree from University of California School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Taryn Rose has been recognized for her numerous honors: Women's President's Organization and Fast Company magazine ranked her first in a new entrepreneurial competition of distinction, "25 Women Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The Game" (2005). New York Moves magazine recognized her as one of the most powerful women in New York City (2005), distinguished role model and entrepreneur in the city of Los Angeles during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (2003); recognized by the Women's Venture Fund as an outstanding entrepreneur during the Highest Leaf Awards in New York (2003), and by the Small Business Administration as one of four outstanding women entrepreneurs honored during the 50th Anniversary of the SBA in Washington DC 2003).

A committed CEO

Close to her heart, Rose regularly participates in projects to support the Breast Cancer Research Center in New York City, The Joyce Eisenberg Keefer Breast Center at John Wayne Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Aids Project Los Angeles and the Clothes Off Our Back Organization.