About the Authors

Sharon Meers

Sharon Meers was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. until April 2005, when she decided that it was time to write this book. In her 16-year career at Goldman, Sharon ran several businesses and became one of the few female managing directors on the West Coast. In addition to mentoring many women, Sharon co-chaired the Women's Network in the Investment Management Division, served on the diversity committees of two of the firm's divisions and developed a mentorship program that linked high-potential women to senior male advisors.

Sharon lives in the Bay Area with her husband Steve, a real-estate developer, and their son, age 7, and daughter, age 4. Sharon and Steve founded the Partnership for Parity at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School which supports Stanford's ongoing work on workplace parity and a similar effort at Harvard University called the Dual-Career Initiative. Sharon also serves on the board of the National Women's Law Center and on the advisory council of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Research on Gender and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of Harvard College, she holds an M.A. in Economics from New York University.

Joanna Strober

Joanna Strober has spent her career in private equity, as an attorney and as a venture capital and buyout investor. She is currently Managing Director of a fund investing in private equity partnerships at Sterling Stamos Capital Management. As one of the few women in private equity in Silicon Valley, Joanna has been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for launching many well-known and successful companies.

Joanna lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Jason, a software entrepreneur, and their daughter, age 10, and two sons, ages 7 and 2. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from UCLA.