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Featured Guest: Lisa Ascolese

Lisa Ascolese has been inventing solution oriented products for more than 38 years. She helps her clients, inventors and entrepreneurs develop products from concept to fruition. The process includes consulting, prototyping, and manufacturing. She also takes finished products to national TV shopping networks such as, QVC, HSN and Evine Live, as well as retail stores. In addition, she runs the networking group AOWIE and has conferences and events throughout the year. You can visit Lisa at her websites at: https://www.inventingatoz.com/. 

Executive Spotlight: Deborah Silver

Bio: Deborah Silver is the Executive Director of the Professional Science Master’s Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on all three campuses – Newark, New Brunswick & Camden (2009-). This program offers the Master of Business & Science (MBS) degree which is a combination of a science master’s with courses in business. She has been with the program since its inception and helped found and build the program to include all areas of science and technology. She is also a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, a post she has held since 1988. You can read more about Deborah on the Rutgers University site: https://mbs.rutgers.edu/staff/dr-deborah-silver.

Micah B. Lewis with My Bag Check, the only on-demand baggage pickup and delivery service in New York that allows users to summon a driver to pick bags up and set a delivery time/location to have them dropped off at a later time, at https://www.mybagcheck.com/. 

Pat Guariglia with Roxi app, an easy way to hire freelance bartenders, servers, waitstaff, clean-up workers, and more for private parties and events. Hospitality talent can also use the app to connect with local freelance opportunities, at http://www.roxiapp.com. 

Ben Mathew with Dovtail app, is revolutionizing the way organizations voice their needs to donors and how donors donate to organizations. Through this app, social organizations can easily receive the donations they truly need from donors, and for donors, making a monetary gift through the app is as easy as sending a text, at http://www.dovtail.org/.