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Janet Hanson

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Founder & CEO

85 Broads Unlimited LLC

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Meet Janet Hanson

As CEO and Founder of 85 Broads, Janet has built a network of 30,000 multi-cultural, multi-generational women living in eighty-two different countries and working for thousands of different companies. Janet began her career at Goldman Sachs, where in 1986 she became the first woman in the firm’s history to be promoted to sales management. In 1997, she joined other women from the firm’s NYC headquarters at 85 Broad Street in launching what has become the most powerful, intellectually savvy network of women in the world. Janet is also the founder of the $2 billion institutional money management company Milestone Capital Management. She is currently a member of the Kellogg Center for Executive Women’s Steering Committee and a member for the Forbes Executive Women’s Board.

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