PAIA October In-Person Networking Event

This event is free for all PAIA Members. For all non-members, the price of admission is $30. Interested in becoming a member? Click here to explore our membership option. If you are unsure as to the status of your PAIA membership, please email info@portlandaia.org.

Event Details

Registration opens at 4:00 PM allowing a short period for networking before hearing from our speaker about the topic on-hand. Afterwards, feel free to stay behind, enjoy a drink and network as we have the space until 6:00 PM.

Speaker

Caroline is the Managing Partner of Rogue Women, a venture firm investing in early seed-stage women-led tech companies across the US. She is also a Kauffman Fellow and Portland 40 Under 40 recipient. Caroline joined Rogue Venture Partners in 2018 and led a separate fund, that is in top quartile of all funds, to invest in women-led tech companies. Prior to Rogue, Caroline was Senior Director in Strategy and Operations for Global Design, Product, and Merchandising at Nike where she managed a portfolio of strategic programs focused on consumer experience, digitization, and big data. Prior to being recruited to work for Nike, Caroline was a management consultant for Propeller and Hitachi Consulting, working with Fortune 100 companies on enterprise technology implementations and organizational restructuring. Her love for start-ups comes from her early career experience as a founder for an e-commerce business and as a leader at a consumer health product company.

Caroline graduated as a Division 1 Field Hockey player with an MS in Psychology from Davidson College, in Davidson, North Carolina. She then received an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship from Portland State University.