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The Trailblazers event attendees included the honorees, the venture capital community, FWE Board and Advisory Board members, FWE sponsors and partners, and members of the media. Event keynote speakers included Denise Brosseau, CEO and Co-Founder of FWE; Jennifer Gill Roberts, FWE Co-Founder and National Board Chair and General Partner at Sevin Rosen Funds; and Cynthia Ringo, CEO of CopperCom, FWE National Board Member, and recipient of the 2000 FWE Entrepreneurial Achievement Award.

"We're thrilled to honor such a successful group of women entrepreneurs at this second annual event," said Denise Brosseau. "The past year has been especially challenging for young companies, with the recent market correction and a slowdown in venture funding, so we are incredibly proud to celebrate such tremendous successes for our member companies."


2000 Trailblazer Honorees include:

Pamela Bergeson, Founder & Chairman, Bid4Vacations,
www.bid4vacations.com

Katarina Bonde, CEO & Chairman, Glides, www.glides.com

Suzy Brown, CEO & Co-Founder, Atlantes, www.atlantes.com

Allyson Campa, President & CEO, Bravanta, www.bravanta.com

Nell Cote, CEO & President, Hudson Williams, www.hudsonwilliams.com

Renee Courington, Founder, All Bases Covered, www.allcovered.com

Mia Di Giovanni, President & CEO, SmoothSale, www.s5technology.com

Kim Fisher, Co-Founder & CEO, AudioBasket, www.audiobasket.com

Lauren Flanagan, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, WebWare Corporation,
www.webwarecorp.com

Christine Flores, Co-founder & VP of Business Development, @Manage,
www.atmanage.com

Stephanie Fohn, President & CEO, SecurityFocus.com, securityfocus.com

Lissa Franklin, Co-Founder & Director of Marketing, Telespree
Communications, www.telespree.com

Ellen Gonser, Co-Founder, NetUPDATE, Inc., www.netupdate.com

Maria Gudelis, Executive VP & Co-Founder, 3i Networks,
www.3inetworks.com

Seema Handu, Co-Founder & VP of Research & Development, PharmQuest,
www.pharmquest.com

Lorraine Hariton, President & CEO, Beatnik, www.beatnik.com

Sheryl Hawk, Co-Founder & VP of Business Development & Sales, Kurant,
www.kurant.com

Lisa Henderson, Founder & Executive VP, LevelEdge, www.leveledge.com

Lisa Hjorten, President & CEO, Pacific Edge Software,
www.pacificedge.com

Wanda Ionescu, President & CEO, R&D Logic, www.rdlogic.com

Gretchen L. Jahn, President & CEO, Aegis Analytical Corporation,
www.aegiscorp.com

Linda Jenkinson, Co-Founder & CEO, iSaySo, www.isayso.com

Anne-Marie Kim, CEO & President, HolaMujer.com, www.holamujer.com

Jennifer King, Founder, BioSpace.com, www.biospace.com

Michele Klein, CEO & President, Boxer Cross, Inc., www.boxercross.com

Heather Koshinsky, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Investigen, Inc.,
www.investigen.com

Juanita Lott, President & Founder, Bridgestream, www.bridgestream.com

Jennie Mather, Founder & CEO, Raven Biotechnologies, www.ravenbio.com

Lori Mirek, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Currenex, www.currenex.com

Nancy Moore, Co-Founder & Executive VP, Corporate Development, Signet
Assurance, www.signetassurance.com

Robin Nakamura, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, Brodia,
www.brodia.com/platform

Anoo Nathan, Co-Founder & VP Product Management, ePeople Technologies,
Inc, www.epeople.net

Maura O'Neill, Chairman & CEO, ImproveMyBusiness.com,
www.ImproveMyBusiness.com

Cindy Padnos, Founder & Executive VP, Vivant Corporation,
www.vivant.com

Punita Pandey, Founder & CEO, netCustomer.com, www.netCustomer.com

Ileana Perez, CEO & Co-Founder, CraniaMania, www.craniamania.com

Lisa Petrucci, Co-Founder, COO, & Vice President, Business
Development, CommerceFlow, www.commerceflow.com

Nancy Phillips, Founder & Executive VP, ViaWest, www.viawest.net

Pamela Reilly Contag, Co-Founder, President & Co-CEO, Xenogen,
www.xenogen.com

LaVonne Reimer Young, President & CEO, Cenquest, www.cenquest.com

Cynthia Ringo, CEO & Board Member, CopperCom, www.coppercom.com

April Rivkin, President & CEO, Slingshot.com, www.slingshot.com

Kerri Lee Sinclair, Co-Founder & Managing Director, AgentArts,
www.agentarts.com

Krishna Subramanian, CEO & Chairwoman, Kovair, Inc., www.kovair.com

Karen Talmadge, Executive VP & Co-Founder, Kyphon Inc., www.kyphon.com

Cheryl Traverse, President & CEO, Taviz Technology, Inc.,
www.taviz.com

Aleksandra Vikati, President & Co-Founder, FileFish, www.filefish.com

Natalie Wood, CEO & Founder, MizBiz.com, www.mizbiz.com

Sponsors for the Trailblazers 2000 event included Ernst & Young,
Panasonic Digital Concepts Center, The Citigroup Private Bank and UPS.



About the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs

Founded in 1993, the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) is the premier entrepreneurial organization for women building and leading high-growth technology and life science companies. Our mission is to accelerate women's opportunities to start, build, manage and invest in market-leading companies. FWE has offices in the Bay Area, Seattle, Colorado, Dallas and Southern California, and membership numbers 1,300. For more information, please visit www.fwe.org.


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