WorkPlace Stories

Interviews, stories, and reports from the front lines
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Jacqueline Cooper •
Executive Director of Financial Education Associates

Jacqueline Cooper is a true force in Boston-area real estate, though mostly behind the scenes and out of the headlines. She is the Executive Director of Financial Education Associates (www.money-classes.com). She and her team provide a steady and rich menu of workshops and courses to home borrowers get to know the basics, the perils as well as the possibilities, and the way the system works. First time buyers and distressed owners at risk of default are prime

Sheila DeWitt •
Biotech Scientist & Entrepreneur

Dr. Sheila DeWitt earned her BA at Cornell and her PhD in Chemistry at Duke University. She has since had a distinguished career as a scientist pioneering strategies for pharmaceutical R&D including combinatorial chemistry, nanotechnology, computational chemistry, and deuterated drugs and also as an entrepreneurial business leader. She led turnarounds at three companies and has been founder or cofounder of five biotechnology companies.

Albert M. Erisman •
Former Boeing Director of Technology

Since taking early retirement from the Boeing Company in 2001
Al Erisman has been Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor at the Seattle Pacific University School of Business and Economics. He earned his BS in Mathematics at Northern Illinois University, his MS and PhD in Applied Mathematics at Iowa State University. He is the author or co-author of two technical monographs on advanced mathematics and author of many books and articles on both