EDUCATION SESSION #700
More Than 100, More than Finance: The Past, Present and Possibilities of Our Organization
What does it mean to be part of this global organization of 100 Women in Finance? How are women making an impact across the globe and how can we have an even greater presence in our own region? 

Join Amanda Pullinger, CEO of 100 Women in Finance, and Diane Schrader, Board Member, to discuss the vision, maturity and growth of 100 Women in Finance. Learn about the organization's reach far beyond local networking and education events to next generation programming, philanthropic partnerships and senior practitioner opportunities.
DATE
1 March 2017
TIME
3:00 PM Registration   
3:30 PM Event Begins

We will begin  promptly  at 3:30 PM; please arrive early. Since it is disruptive to everyone when latecomers enter the session, those arriving after an education session has begun will only be admitted at the discretion of 100WF and the host. Please note the start time on this invite and plan to arrive early. 

Networking and cocktails will follow.
LOCATION
Pillsbury Law
4 Embarcadero Street 
Suite 2200
San Francisco , CA
PARTICIPANTS

Amanda Pullinger 
100 Women in Finance

Diane Schrader 
100 Women in Finance

Ildiko Duckor
Moderator 
Pillsbury Law

HOST

Pillsbury Law
pillsbury
 
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BIOGRAPHIES
Amanda Pullinger
CEO, 100 Women in Finance

Ms. Pullinger is the Chief Executive Officer of 100 Women in Finance (previously 100 Women in Hedge Funds). She leads a small staff team and manages over 350 volunteer practitioners globally, overseeing the operations of the organization, which now has over 15,000 members in 21 locations. 

Ms. Pullinger is a former principal of Aquamarine Capital Management, where she was responsible, over a period of seven years, for managing marketing, investor relations and back office administration for two private investment funds. 

Ms. Pullinger is currently Chairman of the Board of The HALO Trust (www.halotrust.org) and she also serves as a Director on the Oxford University Alumni Board. She previously served on the Boards of SkillForce, NYU Cancer Institute and Girls’ Prep, and was on the founding Board of 100 Women in Hedge Funds (now 100 Women in Finance), serving as its President for two years. She is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 

Ms. Pullinger graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Modern History. She earned an MBA from La Salle University, Philadelphia, in 1998, and received the Academic Award for MBA student of the year as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma designation.

Diane Schrader
Board Member, 100 Women in Finance

Ms. Schrader was raised in an era when girls were told they could do anything. She has been at it ever since. She grew up with natural strengths in math and art. In pursuit of a career in animation, Ms. Schrader studied figurative painting at San José State. Most influential was being in the Silicon Valley. There were no computer science classes for artists, so she taught herself to code, and joined the budding 3D computer graphics industry. Her technical skills led her to Autodesk, which was launching a new 3D animation platform for the games industry. Though she began as a technology evangelist, her ideas seeded a new global business for training and education, products and services, which she led for almost a decade. 

When she left Autodesk, stock options in hand, she realized that she knew a great deal about developing a business, but little about the capital markets. Building on her experience, she began to explore the similarities in the graphical nature of price charts. Within a few years, she had developed a systematic trading platform for index futures, launched a family office and was leading 100 Women in Finance’s San Francisco location, for which she now serves on the Board of Directors. 

Drawn to opportunities with an environmental impact, Ms. Schrader recently launched THIRDact, a real estate marketplace that enables micro investments in small commercial properties. Their focus is to fund energy efficiency improvements, with the goal of reducing energy consumption in the largest segment of commercial building stock in the nation. 

In Ms. Schrader’s spare time, she advises startups with a strong mission. She is deeply involved in the finance/cleantech industry, speaking at such conferences as Behavior, Energy and Climate Change, The National Adaptation Forum, and the SALT Conference, as well as numerous 100 Women in Finance events. In support of young women in STEM, she has led workshops for Design Your Future, sponsored by Autodesk, and spoken for the non-profit She Heroes, which introduces middle school girls to women executives in tech. She’s a member of the US Green Building Council and is an advisor to Prospect Silicon Valley and Hackers/Founders.

Ildiko Duckor  
Partner, Pillsbury Law

Ms. Duckor is co-leader of Pillsbury’s Award-winning Investment Funds & Investment Management practice, which won HFMWeek’s “Best Onshore Law Firm – Hedge Fund Startups 2016,” one of several consecutive service awards. She oversees the Emerging Manager Program, which provides packaged launch solutions to hedge fund startups. 

Ms. Duckor, a former in-house counsel at a global investment firm, provides hedge fund managers, investment advisers and CPOs with strategic advice on fund structuring, formation, operations, management, and U.S. and offshore private fund activities. She prepares and negotiates managed account, funds-of-one and subadvisory agreements; side letters with institutional and sovereign investors; and seed capital arrangements. Ms. Duckor also handles securities regulatory compliance matters, including registrations and filings, broker-dealer issues, and advises on trading practices, internal controls and issues affecting quantitative asset managers. 

Pillsbury’s Investment management regulatory and fund-formation practice works with hedge funds, private equity and other alternative investment vehicles as well as institutional investors. It is a global practice with 20 offices in the US, UK, Asia and the Middle East. They draw support from other practice groups for derivatives and financing, ERISA, profit-sharing, tax, defense/litigation, among others.

ABOUT

Pillsbury Law
Across the firm’s 21 offices in the U.S., UK, Asia and the Middle East, Pillsbury's Investment Funds group works with leading business and litigation lawyers across the firm to provides strategic and legal advice to hedge fund managers, other investment advisers and commodity pool operators with regards to the structuring, operation and management of their advisory firms and domestic and offshore private funds. We advise funds of all types in a variety of strategic, regulatory, compliance, investigation and enforcement matters as well as institutional investors in connection with alternative investment transactions.

100 Women in Finance
100 Women in Finance is a global, practitioner-driven non-profit organization serving over 13,000 alternative investment management investors and professionals in 20 locations through educational, professional leverage and philanthropic initiatives. Formed in 2001, 100 Women in Finance has hosted over 500 industry education events globally, connected more than 350 senior women through Peer Advisory Groups and raised over $38 million for philanthropic causes in the areas of women's and family health, education and mentoring. 

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