Beth Polish

Beth Polish has held senior management positions in diverse industries, including media, finance, private investment and technology. She has been president of Anthony Robbins’ Dreamlife, Inc., founding cfo at iVillage, Inc., cfo of Goldman Sachs Ventures, and managing director at KPMG.

Expert at mobilizing and leading teams through such critical junctures as startup, merger and acquisition, strategic planning, financing, and turnaround, she also has extensive experience negotiating corporate partnerships and business development agreements. Ms. Polish has secured initial and follow-on financings from and worked with leading venture capital and strategic investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, TCI, AOL, Allen & Co., and Mitsubishi. She has also advised companies in their fundraising activities totaling over $300 million secured.

She is the publisher of DROOM Books and the author of the DROOM PRIMERS “In The Market For Money: The 5 Essential Stages,” “In The Market For Money: Raising Equity” and the forthcoming “In The Market For Money: Securing Debt.”

A frequent speaker on the subject of “financing growth” and “strategies for growth,” Ms. Polish teaches entrepreneurship at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and is a regular guest speaker on entrepreneurial finance at Columbia Business School. She has testified as an expert witness on company valuation. Ms. Polish serves on the National Advisory Board of the Women's Leadership Exchange and conducts seminars around the country as a WLE “growth guru.” She is the past co-chair of the New York New Media Association’s Venture Downtown Technology Showcase Conference.

Ms. Polish received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.