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Wharton Women in Business Conference
Tracy Shanbrun Lerner,
W’81, has worked until the
day she delivered each of
her four children and immediately
after their births.
So it’s not surprising that
the founding partner of
Chesapeake Partners L.P.,
a Baltimore-based hedge
fund, has delegated the food
shopping. But Lerner also
eats breakfast and dinner
each day with her kids and
her husband Mark, W’80/
C’80, and has never missed
a play, concert or parent/
teacher conference.
Lerner shared her wisdom
on balancing a hectic
career and family life at the
29th Wharton Women in
Business Conference, held
last fall in Philadelphia. A
keynote speaker at the conference
with Travelocity
president and CEO Michelle Peluso, W’93,
Lerner urged conference attendees
to pursue their passions
and prioritize what’s
most important to them.
She also offered some of the
helpful details that have allowed
her to be present at
home and at work, such as
packing her children’s lunch
boxes in the morning while
talking to her traders to
agree on the day’s strategy.
WWIB conference panels
and workshops also addressed
entrepreneurship,
globalization, non-profit
and socially responsible career
alternatives, technological
advancements and
women and Wall Street, as
well as negotiating to win
and managing personal finances.
Conference organizers
also awarded the WWIB
Kathleen McDonald
Distinguished Alumna
Award to Eileen Naughton,
WG’87, Google’s director of
media platforms. Naughton
develops and executes crossplatform
solutions for
sales, marketing and operations
across Google’s nonsearch
businesses, including
Google’s content network
and YouTube, and its newer
efforts in audio, mobile,
print and TV.
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