How on develop a What are your thoughts on using a business growth platform to help take your business forward? Founding a company and turning a startup into a
viable business is not as sexy as everyone makes it out to be. I remember watching “Working Girl” and “The Secret of My Success” when I was young and dreaming about what it would be like to run my
own company. I would think about the problems I
would help solve and the team that I would build. Unfortunately, the journey is more like what Tom Hanks goes through in “Outcast”!! Alone on an
island, feeling stranded, delirious (some days), but always believing it will all work out in the end.
Andrea Oh
CEO at MOVE Improve As the Chief Executive Officer, Andrea is
responsible for leading the development and
execution of short- and long-term strategies,
assessing, monitoring, and minimizing risks to the company, to increase shareholder value. She is the primary voice of the company,
communicating with shareholders, government entities, potential investors, and the public. As a social enterprise, she is focused on
maintaining integrity to social responsibility in
Now that I’m on my next startup, working with a
business growth platform makes the journey feel a
lot more like “A League of Their Own”, where I’ve got a coach on the sidelines who’s been through the same struggles before and who can help me
navigate through the “stuff” that you can’t read
about in textbooks or business workshops. Granted, I’ve had experience with several business
accelerators and accredited programs and have walked away from each as a better Founder and CEO but finding the right platform is important …
one that meets you where you are at and guides you along the zigzag path ahead.
all business activities. With a passion for
getting more people moving, more often, for a
industries. Companies include: STOTT Pilates,
What are the barriers to women entrepreneurs? Have you faced any struggles or barriers in your pursuits of success throughout your career?
Cancer, and Power Plate. Outside of her role
As a “serial” entrepreneur, leading technology-
focused and an active contributor with her
faced many barriers along the way. Many of them
healthier world, Andrea has spent the last 20
years of her career using technology to solve problems in the health, fitness, and wellness
Microsoft, iTECH Fitness, The Ride to Conquer as a career professional, she is community
time and efforts in creating positive impact in a wide variety of ways. She also loves the
outdoors, lacing up her running shoes, and getting miles under her feet
focused companies for the last twenty years, I’ve (I believe) is consistent with what all
entrepreneurs face, regardless of gender. But there are struggles that come to mind that I don’t
believe would have occurred if I wasn’t a woman.
