Meet the fab four on the 2023 High Five Grant Judging Panel.🖐🖐🏿🖐🏼🖐These accomplished women will be selecting the eight (8) mom business owner finalists who will receive $22,500 in business grants.
Betty Hines, Women Elevating Women Founder and CEO, is an award-winning Business Strategist, Business Connector, and Certified Advanced Facilitator, who specializes in working with women businesses running multimillion-dollar companies. She founded Women Elevating (WEW), a multinational, cultural, and ethnic organization of women entrepreneurs, CEOs, and professionals, with revenues ranging from six figures and above.
Barbara Cobas began her career in the cruise industry on the high seas with Royal Caribbean International, where she worked for 13 years at sea. As her global travel intensified and her twins turned two years old, Barbara decided to focus on family and growing her husband's successful branding company. In 2017, this led to the creation of Hola Ink, a print and branding agency exclusively for the cruise and hospitality industry. Barbara has since founded over seven companies, including a first-of-its-kind company, Ship2Shore Employ, in 2023, offering former shipboard employees virtual employment opportunities in the cruise industry.
Fran Maier is a serial entrepreneur and Super Founder with over 25 years of experience pioneering category-disrupting B2C and B2B internet businesses. Fran is widely recognized for her leadership as cofounder and first General Manager of the online dating service Match, founder of the privacy compliance tech company TrustArc, and Founder and CEO of her current venture, BabyQuip, the #1 global baby gear rental brand. She is also known for breaking boundaries as a Latina business leader.
Shea Workman is the founder & CEO of Brightbox, an ecommerce company built with the mission to brighten One Million days with easy, affordable care packages. Shea turned her side hustle into a warehouse-based team shipping thousands of boxes a week. Brightbox has served more than 100K customers and has worked with clients such as Discover Financial Services, Target, and Intermountain Health to provide connection and uplifting messages.
