As a former senior executive of the world’s largest reinsurance company, Donna dealt with disaster preparedness, risk management and business continuity strategies. This experience proved critical when she launched her own small business, which business was in the immediate vicinity of the World Trade Center on 9-11. She not only kept her own business up and running, she helped many others to recover. In this book, she shows you how.
Donna Childs founded and led a small business, focused on expanding access to sustainable financial services for the poor. That business was located in the immediate vicinity of the World Trade Center on 9-11-01. Donna holds a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from Yale University, an M.A. in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. She has worked on insurance industry issues in both academia and Wall Street. She began her career as a research associate for the financial institutions course of the Harvard Business School, was an investment banker in the financial institutions group of Goldman, Sachs & Company, and, more recently, lived in Zurich, Switzerland where she was a director and member of senior management of the Swiss Reinsurance Group. A recognized authority on risk finance, Donna was the associate editor of Risk Financier and a frequent speaker at reinsurance industry conferences. In 2007, the National Association of Women Business Owners named Donna its “Woman Business Owner of the Year”. In that same year, Donna graduated from the Owner President Management Program of the Harvard Business School.
Donna’s experience as the owner of a small business in Lower Manhattan working through 9/11 is featured in the Ready for Business campaign of the Department of Homeland Security.