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Originally established as Guild Launch in 2006, Launch Media Network relocated from Virginia to Atlanta’s Tech Village in 2015 and recently moved to a larger space in Sandy Springs. “Our goal was to get embedded [in] and connected to the Atlanta tech scene,” Stephen told the Reporter Newspapers. “We saw the explosion of technology here.” TAHIRA DOSANI ’00 is managing director of Accion Venture Lab, a seed-stage impact investing initiative focused on financial inclusion. Venture Lab provides capital and support to early stage startups that leverage innovation to increase access to and quality of financial services for underserved consumers and businesses globally. In addition to driving the strategy and growth of Venture Lab, supporting investment decisions, and leading portfolio management and governance, Tahira works with the fund’s portfolio companies to provide strategic and operational expertise that accelerates their growth trajectories and enables stronger performance. Tahira previously led strategic projects at LeapFrog Investments, a specialist emerging market profit-with-purpose private equity fund focused on financial services. Prior to that, she worked as director of strategy at the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development. Based in Dubai, she drove strategic initiatives for portfolio companies and led new investments in telecoms, technology, and infrastructure in South and Central Asia and the Middle East. She also worked in Kabul at Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications operator, where she was lead of corporate strategy and launched the country’s first mobile money platform. Tahira began her career as a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston. She has also worked at the Bridgespan Group and on various education and health impact initiatives in Pakistan, Tanzania, Kenya and Egypt. Tahira holds an MBA from INSEAD and bachelor’s degrees in international relations, computer science and education from Brown University. CATHERINE WOODLING ’00 was named to Georgia Trend magazine’s 2016 40 Under 40 list, which includes “the state’s best and
1) David Ibsen; 2) Tahira Dosani; 3) One of Olivia Levine Arnold's images from @foodistagirl; 4) Catherine Woodling; 5) Mary Logan Barmeyer Bikoff; 6) Beth Huddleston
brightest in business, government, nonprofits, science, healthcare and education.” Catherine is director of communications and marketing for the East Lake Foundation, an organization that “has turned one of the nation’s most violent public housing projects into a national model for community redevelopment—promoting its mission to break the cycle of poverty.” She also serves as president of her Reynoldstown neighborhood association and as vice chair of the City of Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit. MARY LOGAN BARMEYER BIKOFF ’01 is the lifestyle editor of Atlanta magazine and editor-in-chief of Atlanta Magazine Style Book. She covers style, local and luxury retail and travel. Most recently, she worked on cover packages for the September and October 2016 issues of Atlanta magazine, which included a fashion feature on The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira and a roundup of Georgia backroad adventures, respectively. She also writes long-form features, including last year’s story on the “Queen of Gator,” a fourth-generation alligator tanner in middle Georgia
who supplies leather to luxury houses like Ralph Lauren and Prada. Bikoff lives in an Inman Park bungalow with her husband, David, and their Australian shepherd. BETH HUDDLESTON ’01 has been named general manager of Uber Dallas/ Fort Worth. Her appointment represents the first change in leadership since Uber entered to the Dallas/Fort Worth region in September 2012. Prior to her arrival at Uber, Beth worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Co. She is a graduate of Emory University and received her MBA from Harvard Business School. OLIVIA LEVINE ARNOLD ’04 launched a foodie blog (@foodistagirl on Instagram) in June 2015 when she and her husband, Billy, moved to Atlanta from New York City. Olivia worked for Marc Jacobs Perfume in New York and had just finished an Instagram campaign that piqued her curiosity about how people create and cultivate blogs. So, she decided to dedicate one to exploring Atlanta.
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