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Corporate Council

Founded in 2006, The White House Project’s Corporate Council fulfills a unique mission: to engage senior business women on issues that arise at the nexus of government policy, private philanthropy, academia, and business, and to facilitate engagement between senior business women in the private and public sectors.

Members are corporate women who are active agents of change within their corporations, and are in, or have access to, their executive suite.  Members bring their intellectual and social capital to changing the perception of women leaders, and to advancing women’s leadership in both the private and public sectors.

Over the next year, the Council plans to raise the visibility of women business leaders in the media and within national and international venues, build relationships across sectors to further the reach/impact of the Council’s efforts, and communicate on the status of women’s leadership in America.    

Corporate Council 2008 Co-Chairs:
Corporate Council 2007 Companies and Representatives

  • American Express—Susan Sobbott (Co-Chair) and Melinda Wolfe

  • Ariel Capital—Mellody Hobson

  • Aetos Capital, LLC—Mayree Clark

  • Best Buy—Laura Bishop

  • Bowne and Co.—Susan Cummiskey

  • Chadick, Ellig Executive Search Advisors—Janice Reals Ellig

  • Ernst & Young—Karyn Twaronite (Co-Chair), Beth Brooke and Carolyn Buck-Luce (Founding Member)

  • HBO—Michelle Boas

  • Johnson & Johnson—JoAnn Heffernan Heisen

  • Katten, Muchin, Rosenman LLP—Lisa-Marie Monsanto

  • Lehman Brothers—Anne Erni and Rose Shabet (Founding Member)

  • Lifetime—Meredith Wagner and Toby Graff

  • Merrill Lynch—Subha Barry, Deborah Tsai-Munster, and Terri Ludwig

  • Microsoft—Linda Zecher and Julie Ovadia

  • Morgan Stanley—Linda Riefler and Audrey Choi

  • McLaughlin Partners—Susan McLaughlin

  • Ovations—Joyce Larkin

  • Temin and Co.—Davia Temin

  • The Hartford Financial Services Group—Eileen Whelley