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Selected Forbes 30 Under 30 List - Finance

An investor in residence at Alpine Investors, Hydery Burke is responsible for deploying $150 million of its $4.5 billion private equity fund. Across her career, Hydery Burke has closed 19 transactions across venture, growth, M&A buyouts, fund commitments and co-investments. After five years in various roles, Hydery Burke developed a thesis in the fertility space that inspired her to join the founding team of Turtle Health, an online platform offering medical grade, at-home fertility testing. She left Turtle Health to start her MBA program, out of which she was recruited by Alpine.

Women's History Month - Poets & Quants Stanford GSB Spotlight

On her investment team, she was usually either the only woman or one of two women. “At the GSB, all of a sudden I was surrounded by 200 women who were all super ambitious, came from professional backgrounds, and wanted to make an impact,” she says.

Alongside Arora, she became co-president of the Women in Management Club. In order to continue amplifying female voices, Hydery believes that it’s important to continue having clubs like it in the post-business school world – and have men be part of the conversations, too. Plus, like Arora and Sullivan, she thinks that mentorship is key. “One of the most fulfilling things I do now is serve as a role model by proactively helping women in their application processes,” says Hydery.

For women who are in the process of applying – or even thinking about applying – to business school, Hydery has some advice. “Frame the MBA admissions process as a journey of self-reflection and try to write the application for yourself rather than for the admissions team,” she says. “Depersonalize the admissions results as much as possible; the decisions you receive are not at all an indication of your worth.”

Read more at: Poets and Quants Spotlight

Selected Stanford GSB BOLD Fellow

“I hope to improve leadership diversity by continuing to build women’s healthcare solutions and invest behind diverse founders.”

Stanford Graduate School of Business is a place where anything and everything is possible. It’s where the boundaries of knowledge are pushed beyond what’s imaginable — where diverse ideas and perspectives aren’t just accepted, they’re encouraged and embraced. The mission of the Building Opportunities for Leadership Diversity Fellows Fund is to further Stanford University’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Interview with FinUprise - Excerpt

"How can we run the world if we don't own the world?"

What do you want to say on the topic of women investing?

Here are some eye-opening facts: Women control 70%-80% of all consumer purchasing today. Women are also projected to inherit 70% of the coming “Great Wealth Transfer” between Boomers and our generation. Yet while women earn more than ever before, and are expected to inherit even more, they invest 40% less, on average, than men. And we lose out on big gains over our lifetimes as a result. Women retire with two-thirds as much retirement [1] income as men do, despite living six to eight years longer [2]. I’m surprised by how little this is discussed relative to the gender wage gap. Unlike our wages, we have full control over our investing and we are leaving money on the table: $100 per day, $4 per hour, $3,000 a month [3].

In addition to providing for retirement, money has become a clearer source of power and instrument for change. Aside from being a store of value, money finances integral parts of society such as elections, new businesses, old businesses, and academic research. So between politics, entrepreneurship, public company boards, and healthcare research, it’s no coincidence that these are also areas where women do not have equal representation at the table. In short, women’s reluctance to invest in the markets diminishes our voice – and our vote – in the global economy. How can we run the world if we don’t own the world?

Jury of the Women in Tech COVID Grants and Emerging Tech Grants

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed societal and industrial vulnerabilities and diverse perspectives are vital to address these unique challenges. The COVID-19 Tech Grant was designed to fund women-led ventures focused on solving the biggest health, education, employment, civic engagement, and financial issues related to the COVID-19 global pandemic.

The Innovation Grant was awarded to Patientory, a population health data management and analytics company that leverages blockchain to gather siloed healthcare data to empower patients, medical professionals, healthcare organizations, and employers with actionable insights into healthcare data to improve population health outcomes.

The Impact Grant was awarded to Caribu, the leading educational family entertainment platform, specifically designed for kids ages 1-13 to have a virtual playdate, allowing them to draw simultaneously and play games in real-time with family and friends when they can’t be physically together.

Sponsored by Google, Johnson & Johnson (Innovation JLabs), and Women of Wearables

Emerging Technology Grant coming soon!

Wharton/Penn - Smart Woman Securities meets Warren Buffett

“We sat across Buffett for a private three-hour roundtable dinner, solely with us members of SWS, at his favorite steakhouse, Gorat’s. As we were the first student group to meet with Buffett after the release of his most recent Annual Shareholder’s Letter, questions arose about his past investments, future projections and succession plan. My most valuable takeaways, however, came in the form of his sage life lessons. Buffett did not preach specific tenets or formulas, but rather he offered three thought experiments that we could use to reassess our worldly outlooks, self-awareness and communities.”