Elizabeth Barry is an energetic pioneer of new ideas and a recognized marketing expert. She is the founder of Elizabeth Barry & Associates, a strategic marketing firm and design agency. Her specialties lie within building strategies for first-time launches and re-powering the brands of top performing business owners through her Power Session. She is the curator of TEDxHoboken, she leads the ever-growing and popular Hoboken Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Council, and was named 2012 Hoboken Woman in Business of the Year. Elizabeth runs a brand division called Branding Brilliant Women. She is looking to meet females who wish to breakthrough towards fearlessness in their companies. She will help get them to their NEXT level.

Siri Skøien is a graduate of the BI Norwegian Business School, specializing in company development and entrepreneurship, and has international experience of brand-building and market introductions. Siri Skøien is the founder of Comlight AS, a company which, through five years of research and development, has patented and launched a unique environment-friendly outdoor lighting technology onto the global market. The firm’s founder and CEO set about growing the company from day one, despite a lack of relevant expertise in the lighting market or start-capital. Over many years as an entrepreneur, she has achieved impressive results and acquired solid experience. Siri Skøien is proof that the impossible is possible, but underlines that success requires the right attitudes and plenty of enthusiasm. In recent years Ms Skøien has won a number of awards for innovation, attracted a great deal of press coverage, and was named Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry. Siri Skøien is a popular speaker, consultant and motivator. She is known for her infectious enthusiasm for entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation processes.

Lifelong New Jersey resident Debra Taeschler traces the impetus of her professional success back to when she was just 12 years old. It was then that her father passed away and her mother was forced to enter the job market. Those experiences, coupled with her mother’s philosophy, “Do it right or don’t do it at all,” touched her in a way that has guided her ever since. After graduating from Rutgers (summa cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa), Debra entered the advertising world, working her way up from mechanical artist to vice president of account management. In 1986, she launched her own state-certified, woman-owned company from the basement of her home. Over the ensuing decades, as countless New Jersey competitors came and went, GráficaGroup flourished — primarily due to Debra’s uncanny ability to inspire. Under her stewardship, it has become the agency of choice for many FORTUNE 1000 companies and New Jersey’s leading corporations and associations. Debra has contributed greatly to everything from the American Red Cross to Dress for Success to the Delbarton School and, Rutgers. She is a mentor to all of the young women (and men) who have joined the ranks of GráficaGroup and an inspiration for all.