About the
women:
Homaira
Akbari - Class of 2008 - Dr.
Akbari is currently CEO of Skybitz the fastest
growing business in Virginia. She has
held senior management positions at Microsoft,
Thales, Cambridge Strategic Management Group,
and worked as a scientist at CERN. She
holds a PhD with honors in particle physics
from Tufts University, and an MBA with
distinction from Carnegie Mellon
University. She is the author of more
than 50 scientific articles and serves as a
judge at the MIT $100K business Plan
Competition.
Kristina
Bouweiri - Class of 2004 - Ms.
Bouweiri is CEO of Reston Limousine, the
nation's capitol's largest transportation
company. She grew the company from 5 cars
to 150 cars in ten years and is award winning
business woman. She has a degree in
International Affairs from George Washington
University and travelled the world as a child
born to parents in the US Foreign
Service.
Frances
Craig - Class of 2006 - Ms.
Craig is CEO of Unanet one of the original
designers of web based time sheets. Ms.
Craig has lead I. T. organizations for Carnegie
Melon University, GTE Telenet and DHL.
She lead the development of the first worldwide
tracing and tracking system used by DHL.
She is active in the professional community and
served on President Bill Clinton's Advisory
Committee for Expanding Training
Opportunities.
Marissa
Levin - Class of 2006 - Ms.
Levin is CEO of Information Experts. An
instructional designer by education, a business
leader and strategist by trade, and a marketer
by temperament, IE founder, Marissa Levin is a
leading proponent of the integrated
communications vision. She speaks and
writes on the subject extensively and leads IE
organizationally on key strategies and
solutions for integrating communications for
organizations across a wide range of vertical
markets.