Karim, Jacob at the helm
San Luis Obispo County’s two most prominent business organizations are now headed up by women.
Read More →High-tech mapping: VSolveit garners USDA awards
Mapping company VSolvit recently garnered national USDA awards.
Read More →They shatter glass ceilings: Firm coaches women to negotiate
Coaching firm She Negotiates teaches women how to negotiate for pay raises and advancement .
Read More →Kathy Ireland to female entrepreneurs: ‘Don’t let rejection stop your dreams’
Swimsuit model turned fashion mogul Kathy Ireland was in downtown Santa Barbara on Dec. 5 to tout her new jewelry collection. Ireland, who was a model for Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue for 13 consecutive years from 1984 to 1996, is now the CEO and chief designer of Kathy Ireland Worldwide, a $1.4 billion clothing Read More →
Read More →Dialing up success: Firestone leads Tempest Telecom to clear skies
Jessica Firestone has built a business by making sure that your e-mails, text messages and phone calls get where they’re supposed to be going, and fast. In five years, Firestone has grown Goleta-based Tempest Telecom Solutions from a four-person startup to a 100-employee firm with operations across the country. Tempest pulls in about $30 million Read More →
Read More →Lopker tells her story at CSUCI
Today, Pamela Lopker is the founder, president and chairman of the board of Santa Barbara-based QAD, a $220-million-a-year manufacturing software company with 1,300 employees. But back in the in the 1970s, Lopker, the daughter of a U.S. Navy engineer, was coding software at a defense subcontractor when she realized she had brighter career prospects. “As Read More →
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