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Summary
Tiffany Bass Bukow is a 5-time entrepreneur with a business, marketing and technology background. She provides business coaching and management consulting services to executives in high growth industries.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
ASTIA: From 2000-2010, served as a business consultant to dozens of Astia executives in high growth companies that have raised nearly $1B in funding. Tiffany has also been a business plan screener, venture conference panelist and Advisory Board Member for Astia.
BOLSA CHEIA: In 2010, co-founded Brazilian personal finance company that was chosen as one of the most promising socially conscious business ventures in the world by the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, McKinsey Consulting and Insead Business School.
HEALTH SERVICES COMPANY: In 2007, created an online platform that matches professional health services with clients who have unique needs. Profitable in 2009.
THRIVE MEDIA: In 2004, founded a socially conscious life affirming TV and radio media company and sold it to Viacom in 2007 for a healthy profit.
WELLS FARGO: In 2001, closed very profitable million dollar Internet consulting deal with top financial institution in less than 30 days and completed on time and within budget.
MSMONEY.COM: In 1999, raised $2.5M in venture money, made $1M in first year of operation and educated over 10M people in 10 years. Obtained lucrative PR after First Lady Hillary appeared at Launch Event because of MsMoney's socially conscious mission.
TIFF.COM: In 1996, started a Website development company that grew from 1 person to 20 in the first year of business after securing contracts with 5 Fortune 100 companies.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
ASTIA: From 2000-2010, served as a business consultant to dozens of Astia executives in high growth companies that have raised nearly $1B in funding. Tiffany has also been a business plan screener, venture conference panelist and Advisory Board Member for Astia.
BOLSA CHEIA: In 2010, co-founded Brazilian personal finance company that was chosen as one of the most promising socially conscious business ventures in the world by the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, McKinsey Consulting and Insead Business School.
HEALTH SERVICES COMPANY: In 2007, created an online platform that matches professional health services with clients who have unique needs. Profitable in 2009.
THRIVE MEDIA: In 2004, founded a socially conscious life affirming TV and radio media company and sold it to Viacom in 2007 for a healthy profit.
WELLS FARGO: In 2001, closed very profitable million dollar Internet consulting deal with top financial institution in less than 30 days and completed on time and within budget.
MSMONEY.COM: In 1999, raised $2.5M in venture money, made $1M in first year of operation and educated over 10M people in 10 years. Obtained lucrative PR after First Lady Hillary appeared at Launch Event because of MsMoney's socially conscious mission.
TIFF.COM: In 1996, started a Website development company that grew from 1 person to 20 in the first year of business after securing contracts with 5 Fortune 100 companies.
Specialties
Business Coach, Management Consultant, Social Entrepreneur, social media, marketing, technology, personal finance, financial services, speaking, writing, design, media, email marketing, business coaching, website design and development.
Experience
Management Consulting industry
January 2000 – Present (11 years)
Coached dozens of entrepreneurs and business executives over the last decade. As a 5-time entrepreneur, understand first-hand the challenges that businesses face and provide creative solutions to help executives prosper in a challenging business world. Whether it is recommending technology solutions to increase income, offering social networking or media strategies to improve the client base, or providing insights into work-life balance, deliver service in a personable and insightful way that leaves clients thriving.
Tiffany has 2 recommendations (2 clients) including:
Financial Services industry
June 1999 – Present (11 years 7 months)
Hired and managed nearly 100 people and raised millions of dollars in venture money to build #1 Women and Money website that has educated 10 million people in 10 years. Unlike many early dotcom companies, MsMoney.com made over $1M in the first year of operation.
In August of 1999, founded MsMoney and set the goal of having one of the most powerful woman in the world, Hillary Clinton involved. Professional goals also included appearing in favorite news media: Forbes, Fortune, Time Magazine, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. Within just 6 months and with no prior connection to HIllary Clinton, orchestrated her visit to the MsMoney offices for a live TV launch event. Reached PR goals and was profiled in dozens of top news media.
Often called "Ms.Money", because a passionate advocate for financial health. Was a sought after guest by television and radio shows and have appeared in hundreds of articles. Hosted a pilot for a money makeover reality TV show in London called Live Your Life at Half the Price. Was a monthly guest money expert for the live TV show Call for Help; broadcast in 40 million households in 70 countries. Featured in a TV segment on financial tips, called Prescription for Financial Health; broadcast in 250 local news markets and 80 million households. Appeared on ABC News with Peter Jennings, the PBS News hour with Jim Lehrer, PBS's Digital Think, and on CBS News.
Hosted the Sony's Redband Radio Money Talk Show for a year. Wrote a monthly column, about teaching people how to thrive in their lives, which was read by 200,000 newsletter subscribers and also published by ABC News Online reaching millions more. Writings on what it takes to succeed and have it all in life were also published in a book.
www.MsMoney.com
In August of 1999, founded MsMoney and set the goal of having one of the most powerful woman in the world, Hillary Clinton involved. Professional goals also included appearing in favorite news media: Forbes, Fortune, Time Magazine, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. Within just 6 months and with no prior connection to HIllary Clinton, orchestrated her visit to the MsMoney offices for a live TV launch event. Reached PR goals and was profiled in dozens of top news media.
Often called "Ms.Money", because a passionate advocate for financial health. Was a sought after guest by television and radio shows and have appeared in hundreds of articles. Hosted a pilot for a money makeover reality TV show in London called Live Your Life at Half the Price. Was a monthly guest money expert for the live TV show Call for Help; broadcast in 40 million households in 70 countries. Featured in a TV segment on financial tips, called Prescription for Financial Health; broadcast in 250 local news markets and 80 million households. Appeared on ABC News with Peter Jennings, the PBS News hour with Jim Lehrer, PBS's Digital Think, and on CBS News.
Hosted the Sony's Redband Radio Money Talk Show for a year. Wrote a monthly column, about teaching people how to thrive in their lives, which was read by 200,000 newsletter subscribers and also published by ABC News Online reaching millions more. Writings on what it takes to succeed and have it all in life were also published in a book.
www.MsMoney.com
Tiffany has 1 recommendation (1 partner) including:
- Jennifer Hill, Vice President, Astia
Non-Profit; Financial Services industry
1999 – Present (11 years)
MsMoney.com was one of the first three companies incubated by Astia in 1999 (when they served as a physical incubator). Joined the Advisory Board in 2000 and for the last decade have helped Astia devise their business growth strategies.
Screen business plans that entrepreneurs submit as part of Astia's application process. Companies that complete the Astia program and pitch at their Venture Conference, have an astounding 60% funding rate unparalleled in the industry. The latest Astia company just raised $47M in June 2010. Astia companies have raised nearly $1 Billion in capital in the last 5 years.
Coached dozens of Astia entrepreneurs about their business plans, marketing, PR, strategic planning, presentation skills, and networking in order to increase their odds of fundraising success.
Astia is a unique, global not-for-profit organization that provides innovative programs that ensure woman-owned companies gain access to capital, achieve and sustain high-growth, and develop the executive leadership of the founding team. Designed for startups at all stages, the Astia programs are implemented by more than 700 members of the Astia Advisor Network that includes more than 100 former and current CEOs and 125 investors. Astia is an extremely committed community of advisors, investors, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs.
www.Astia.org
Screen business plans that entrepreneurs submit as part of Astia's application process. Companies that complete the Astia program and pitch at their Venture Conference, have an astounding 60% funding rate unparalleled in the industry. The latest Astia company just raised $47M in June 2010. Astia companies have raised nearly $1 Billion in capital in the last 5 years.
Coached dozens of Astia entrepreneurs about their business plans, marketing, PR, strategic planning, presentation skills, and networking in order to increase their odds of fundraising success.
Astia is a unique, global not-for-profit organization that provides innovative programs that ensure woman-owned companies gain access to capital, achieve and sustain high-growth, and develop the executive leadership of the founding team. Designed for startups at all stages, the Astia programs are implemented by more than 700 members of the Astia Advisor Network that includes more than 100 former and current CEOs and 125 investors. Astia is an extremely committed community of advisors, investors, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs.
www.Astia.org
Tiffany has 2 recommendations (2 partners) including:
- Daniel Dietrich, Co-Founder and COO, Hey, Neighbor!
- Barbara Pantuso, Founder and CEO, Hey, Neighbor!
Public Company; Financial Services industry
January 1995 – Present (16 years)
In January 2010, co-founded Bolsa Cheia with native Brazilian cousin Thereza Bukow. Bolsa Cheia is new type of financial services company in Brazil that utilizes online money management tools and content to help empower women financially. Women in emerging markets, such as Brazil, are desperate for help demystifying the money management process and need online educational content and tools that can simplify their lives and help them plan well.
The company plans to provide a goal setting technology platform that helps women define their personal financial goals and encourages them to include charitable donations and micro-lending in their overall money strategies, so everyone thrives
Bolsa Cheia was a global finalist for a 2010 Prestigious Award for Socially Conscious Start-up Companies and honored at the 2010 Women's Forum in Deauville, France. Out of 600 global applications, only 15 were selected for the Cartier Women's Initiative created in partnership with McKinsey Consulting and Insead Business School.
The company plans to provide a goal setting technology platform that helps women define their personal financial goals and encourages them to include charitable donations and micro-lending in their overall money strategies, so everyone thrives
Bolsa Cheia was a global finalist for a 2010 Prestigious Award for Socially Conscious Start-up Companies and honored at the 2010 Women's Forum in Deauville, France. Out of 600 global applications, only 15 were selected for the Cartier Women's Initiative created in partnership with McKinsey Consulting and Insead Business School.
Media Production industry
January 2004 – January 2007 (3 years 1 month)
Created, produced, and promoted life-affirming radio and television that inspired people to live fuller and happier lives. Thrive TV was a proposed cable network of positive entertaining programs. Thrive Media was sold to Viacom in 2007 after talks with some of the biggest global media companies in the world.
Disney launched a competitive network in 2009 nearly identical to Thrive TV called the Live Well Network (www.livewellhd.com). It is the first positive TV network to launch in the U.S. The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is next in line and plans to launch 1/1/11.
Formerly www.ThriveMedia.TV
(Archive seen at: http://bit.ly/gMrDFR)
Disney launched a competitive network in 2009 nearly identical to Thrive TV called the Live Well Network (www.livewellhd.com). It is the first positive TV network to launch in the U.S. The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is next in line and plans to launch 1/1/11.
Formerly www.ThriveMedia.TV
(Archive seen at: http://bit.ly/gMrDFR)
Tiffany has 1 recommendation (1 client) including:
Financial Services industry
August 2001 – March 2002 (8 months)
Hired as an outside consultant to create and build an online educational personal finance resource center for Wells Fargo's 10 million customers. Responsible for managing key elements of their entire website relaunch. Secured and directed a million dollar budget and personally hired and managed the productivity of a staff of 20 people.
Attended and analyzed the Wells Fargo marketing focus groups, reviewed competitor's offerings and designs, implemented new ideas, and hosted the prototyping of the entire new WellsFargo.com website (hundreds of pages) on offsite servers until it was ready to launch globally.
www.WellsFargo.com
(archive version of the 2002 launch can be seen upon request)
Attended and analyzed the Wells Fargo marketing focus groups, reviewed competitor's offerings and designs, implemented new ideas, and hosted the prototyping of the entire new WellsFargo.com website (hundreds of pages) on offsite servers until it was ready to launch globally.
www.WellsFargo.com
(archive version of the 2002 launch can be seen upon request)
Information Technology and Services industry
January 1996 – July 2000 (4 years 7 months)
Was an avid computer gamer and loved technology and programming from a young age. Started college as a Computer Engineer and finished with a Business Degree focused on MIS (Management Information Systems) and Marketing. Fresh out of Graduate School with newly minted Master's Degree in Multimedia Instructional Design, founded one of the first Web Site Design and Development Companies and became one of the only women HTML programmers writing code for the Netscape 1.0 Browser. At the time, only 10% of women were even online, so friends affectionately nicknamed me TiffDotcom.
Within just 6 months, and utilizing a lot of sales savvy to close Fortune 100 clients, grew Tiff.com from 1 employee to 20 people profitably. Instead of accepting a lucrative offer to sell Tiff.com, decided to focus key staff on starting new company MsMoney.com, which had greater financial potential.
Tiff.com focused on Internet marketing, technology, website design and development with well known clients; AOL: Worldplay Entertainment, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Lucent, Xerox, Bechtel, The World Bank, Jurika and Voyles (Nvest), Guardian Life Insurance, Wells Fargo, multiple Venture Capital Firms, Foote, Cone and Belding, Brumfield and Etienne, Snyder Communicatons, and dozens of other companies.
www.Tiff.com
Within just 6 months, and utilizing a lot of sales savvy to close Fortune 100 clients, grew Tiff.com from 1 employee to 20 people profitably. Instead of accepting a lucrative offer to sell Tiff.com, decided to focus key staff on starting new company MsMoney.com, which had greater financial potential.
Tiff.com focused on Internet marketing, technology, website design and development with well known clients; AOL: Worldplay Entertainment, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Lucent, Xerox, Bechtel, The World Bank, Jurika and Voyles (Nvest), Guardian Life Insurance, Wells Fargo, multiple Venture Capital Firms, Foote, Cone and Belding, Brumfield and Etienne, Snyder Communicatons, and dozens of other companies.
www.Tiff.com
Tiffany has 1 recommendation (1 client) including:
Internet industry
June 1998 – June 2000 (2 years 1 month)
Husband, Hans Bukow, founded eWork USA and eWork Scandinavia, which went public in 2008. The idea for eWork came from Tiff.com's experience from 1996-1998 hiring electronic workers (e-workers) around the globe to complete Internet, design and technology projects for Fortune 100 companies.
Tiffany Bass Bukow spoke at the first Internet World in New Delhi, India and in Philippines in 1998 about hiring and managing global e-workers. She also toured technology firms in Bangalore, India long before global technology outsourcing became so prevalent there and across the world.
eWork Scandinavia (a public company):
A $3M investment turned into a $100M IPO in 2008.
http://www.eWork.eu
eWork USA website archive: http://bit.ly/hDpjTe
Tiffany Bass Bukow spoke at the first Internet World in New Delhi, India and in Philippines in 1998 about hiring and managing global e-workers. She also toured technology firms in Bangalore, India long before global technology outsourcing became so prevalent there and across the world.
eWork Scandinavia (a public company):
A $3M investment turned into a $100M IPO in 2008.
http://www.eWork.eu
eWork USA website archive: http://bit.ly/hDpjTe
Recommendations For Tiffany
Business Consultant and Coach
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“Tiffany's dynamic and personable style together with her extreme savvy on business development (and related topics) is made all the more effective by her absolute dedication to the goals and values of her client company or organization. It is easy for many consultants to apply a "one size fits all" manifesto gleaned from personal experience, but it takes a particularly astute and sensitive one to understand the specific nuances that make a "pitch" more resonant (as in the case of our social cause film) or a business model more enduring.
I have no hesitation endorsing Tiffany for any organization that is seeking to take their business to the next level, or find it's ideal positioning in an increasingly aggressive and daunting marketplace.” December 16, 2010
I have no hesitation endorsing Tiffany for any organization that is seeking to take their business to the next level, or find it's ideal positioning in an increasingly aggressive and daunting marketplace.” December 16, 2010
Top qualities: Personable, Expert
Larry Schlessinger,
hired Tiffany as a Business Consultant in 2010
hired Tiffany as a Business Consultant in 2010
“Over a period of several months Tiffany worked with me and my team as a business coach and advisor to our film fundraising project, I was and remain impressed with her in so many ways. From her knowledge and ease with money matters, to her personal and caring guidance, professionalism and, characteristically, her enthusiasm and positive attitude.”December 12, 2010
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable
Jack Gescheidt,
hired Tiffany as a Financial Advisor in 2010
hired Tiffany as a Financial Advisor in 2010
Founder and CEO
MsMoney.com
“Tiffany provided excellent tips, techniques, and advice that made an immediate positive impact for my first appearance on MSNBC. In a very short period of time, she made a huge difference. Thank you again, Tiffany!” May 14, 2010
Jennifer Hill, Vice President, Astia
was with another company when working with Tiffany at MsMoney.com
was with another company when working with Tiffany at MsMoney.com
Business Coach and Advisory Board Member
Astia
“Tiffany's knowledge, experience and guidance has made such a positive impact on the progress of our start-up company. Her genuine interest in helping people is obvious and her positive energy seems endless. I consider myself very fortunate to know her.” December 16, 2010
Daniel Dietrich, Co-Founder and COO, Hey, Neighbor!
was with another company when working with Tiffany at Astia
was with another company when working with Tiffany at Astia
“I met Tiffany when I applied to the Astia program for women-led startups. She was one of the judges and I immediately connected with her. She asked pointed, smart, and tough questions and at the same time, she was also very supportive and encouraging. Since then, she has been an extremely helpful adviser to me and my business partner. She's walked in our shoes as an entrepreneur, she knows the business, she's intuitive and wise, and she's well connected. On top of all that, she's an amazingly nice person and I consider it a stroke of good luck to have crossed paths with her.” December 13, 2010
Barbara Pantuso, Founder and CEO, Hey, Neighbor!
was with another company when working with Tiffany at Astia
was with another company when working with Tiffany at Astia
Founder and President
Thrive Media (sold to Viacom)
“Tiffany combines her sharp mind with a big heart to offer professional consulting and coaching that makes a difference. I've used her services to help make the Positive Music Association the leader in the emerging new genre of Positive music.” December 13, 2010
Top qualities: Personable, Expert
Scott Johnson,
hired Tiffany as a Business Consultant in 2005
hired Tiffany as a Business Consultant in 2005
Founder and President
Tiff.com: Internet Consulting / Fortune 100 Clients
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Creative November 10, 2006
Yvonne Jaramillo Ahearn, Esq., REALTOR®,
hired Tiffany as a Business Consultant in 1996, and hired Tiffany more than once
hired Tiffany as a Business Consultant in 1996, and hired Tiffany more than once
Additional Information
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- Interests:
- Groups and Associations:
- Throughout her career, Tiffany has been a member of the FWE: Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, BAWFT: Bay Area Women In Film and Television, FAF: Film Arts Foundation, WIT: Women In Technology,and on the Board of the AWIC Association for Women In Communications. She has also been active with the NAWBO: National Association of Women Business Owners,FWA: Financial Women's Association and on the Advisory Board of Astia., CNBC
- Honors and Awards:
85 Broads
85 Broads Brazil
Alpha Phi Alumni
Astia Community
Bay Area Women in Film & Media
Bright Ideas & Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur's Network
Entrepreneurs Anonymous
Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) BC
GoBigNetwork Startup Community
International Internet Marketing Association
Mentor Protégé Connection
Mobile industry investors group
NAWBO - Silicon Valley
National Association of Women Business Owners
Social Enterprise Network - MojaLink
Start-Up Phase Forum
Startup Specialists Forum
The Association for Women in Communications (AWC)
Tory Johnson
Women 2.0
eMarketing Association Network
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