Join us as we have a discussion about what it means to be on a corporate board and what you need to do to get there

Featured Speaker

Kelly Hoey

Kelly Hoey is a founder of Women Innovate Mobile, the first accelerator program for women founded (or co-founded) startups focused on mobile technology or mobile applications. She sits on the Women’s Advisory Board for Stone Creek Entertainment and the advisory boards of Lion’esque Style and The Levo League.

A business strategist and connector, Kelly focuses on creating engaged, valuable networks that leverage the power of trust, reputation and shared value. She has worked with The Carlisle Collection, The Simply Bar, Hypatia Capital, The KAP Group and NewsCertified Exchange. From 2009-2010, Kelly was a full-time consultant to 85 Broads, a global business networking group of 25,000+ women and its CEO and Founder, Janet Hanson. Prior to her entrepreneurial leap, Kelly was immersed in law firm management, building out alumni and professional development functions at global law firm, White & Case.

Kelly is a corporate attorney. She is a graduate of The University of British Columbia Law School.

Community involvement has played a central role in Kelly’s career in New York. Kelly was on the Board of Directors of inMotion (New York City based not-for-profit which provides legal assistance to women and children in domestic crisis) as well as GEMS (a New York City not-for-profit assisting girls who have been commercially sexually exploited and trafficked domestically). She has sponsored StaringBloc’s aspiring social entrepreneurship fellows and participated on numerous not-for-profit benefit committees from arts incubator, The Kitchen to arts-in-education initiative, The Community Word Project to The Skin Cancer Foundation. Currently, she is on the advisory board for The Wunderglo Foundation.