Successful entrepreneur and investor Janet Hanson has spent her career connecting and elevating other women. After graduating from Wheaton College, Massachusetts and Columbia Business School, Janet joined Goldman Sachs as a 24-year-old associate. Eventually, she became the first female in the firm’s history to be promoted to sales management. Janet also founded a female professional network called 85 Broads, named after Goldman Sachs’ former address. As CEO, Janet grew the organization into a 30,000+ member community that spans 130 countries. Following her 14-year career at Goldman Sachs, she founded Milestone Capital Management, an asset management firm that grew to over $2B in AUM and was the only woman-owned firm of its kind in the US. She also served as Managing Director and Senior Advisor on Women at Lehman Brothers. In 2013, Janet sold 85 Broads to Sally Krawcheck and remains chair emeritus of the company now known as Ellevate.
Janet received the Forbes Trailblazer Award, The Isabel Benham Award from the Women’s Bond Club of New York Association, and an honorary degree from Middlebury College in VT. She has been named to Fast Company’s “League of Extraordinary Women” and Forbes’ list of “Women Changing The World.” Her roles have i
ncluded Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and Advisory Board member for the Center for Talent Innovation as well as member of the Kellogg Center for Executive Women’s Steering Committee and member of the Forbes Executive Women’s Board. Janet authored More Than 85 Broads and is featured in Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God: 73 Women on Life’s Transitions, a book of essays compiled by A Band of Women.
Janet’s two children, Meredith and Chris, are her greatest passion.
