Connie K. Duckworth

Connie is a retired partner and managing director of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where she was named the first woman sales and trading partner in the firm’s history during her 20-year career. She is a trustee of Equity Residential and a director of MP Materials. She also serves as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.

Connie is currently a director and the past chairman of the board of NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois, the first woman to have held this position. She is a past chair of the Committee of 200, the organization of leading women entrepreneurs and corporate business executives in the U.S. She is also the author of The Old Girls Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man’s World (Basic Books 2003), a primer on how to start a business.

The recipient of numerous awards, Connie was named a 2008 Skoll Foundation honoree for Social Entrepreneurship. She holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from the University of Texas.