Paula A. Price has 30 years of finance experience mostly from retail and consumer-facing businesses, including as CFO for Macy’s, executive vice president, chief financial officer of Ahold USA, and senior vice president, controller and chief accounting officer of CVS Caremark Corporation. 

Paula has been a full-time senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and served on the boards of publicly traded retail and technology companies since 2014. She has also held senior level roles at other large companies in the United States and abroad, including JPMorgan Chase, Diageo, Kraft and Sears. Paula is a CPA who began her career at Arthur Andersen & Co. A Chicago native, She holds an MBA with specialization in Finance and Strategy from University of Chicago Booth School, and a B.Sc. in Accounting from DePaul University.

Porter Gale is a public speaker with over 20 years of experience in marketing, advertising and independent filmmaking. From 2007 to 2011, she was the VP of Marketing at Virgin America. Currently, she advises a half dozen start-ups including WePay, Zozi, Hint Water, Globality, TrueFacet and more.

Her first book Your Network Is Your Net Worth is available for order on Amazon and other bookstore sites.

She has been quoted or interviewed in numerous press outlets, including; The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, AdWeek, AdAge, CNN and more. She loves photography, networking and hiking.