Robin Wolaner

Robin Wolaner is the founder of Parenting magazine, the most successful magazine launch of the decade and later sold to Time Inc. Parenting’s founding is documented in one of the most popular case studies by Harvard Business School. She has broad experience in startups and managing companies. She is the author of Naked in the Boardroom: A CEO Bares Her Secrets So You Can Transform Your Career (Simon & Schuster 2005).

Robin is the former Chief Operating Officer of WeCare Solar, a pioneering nonprofit working to insure that every mother can give birth with essential power and light. She was the CEO of Vittana, a nonprofit which pioneered higher education loans in the developing world.

Her career encompasses publisher of Mother Jones Magazine; heading magazine development for Time Inc.; CEO of Sunset Publishing; executive vice president of CNET; founding TeeBeeDee, a social network for people over 40; and advising early-stage tech startups. She has been on the board of directors of Credo Mobile, the social-impact company formerly known as Working Assets, since 2000. Robin holds a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.