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E 25: Executive Director at Old Dominion University's Strome Entrepreneurial Center Nancy Grden
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Nancy is the first Executive Director of the Strome Entrepreneurial Center at Old Dominion University. She has an extensive background in entrepreneurship, development, and marketing across several business sectors and the public sector. She is co-founder and former General Manager for Genomind, Inc., a neuroscience biotech company. She held senior executive positions with Amerigroup (now Anthem), ValueOptions (now Beacon Health), and Bank of America, and has lead start-ups as CEO for Lifescape, LLC, a pioneer in web-based behavioral health care, among others. She advises, coaches, or serves as a board member to start-up/new companies, b-corps, and new business incubators and was appointed to the Virginia Governor’s Council on Youth Entrepreneurship and the University of South Carolina Faber Entrepreneurship Center Advisory Board. Nancy holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina, an MBA from the University of South Carolina, and a BA in Economics from Bucknell University.
In 2014, Hamilton Perkins founded Hamilton Perkins Collection, an independent brand, designing and producing unique and award winning bags and accessories from recycled materials.
Hamilton Perkins Collection exists to create timeless limited edition bags made from recycled plastic water bottles, pineapple leaf fiber, and billboard vinyl. The result is that no two bags are ever the same.
Our first design, the Earth Bag Premium, was created so that our customers would not only carry a bag that was stylish but carry a bag they could be proud of. We surveyed more than 1,000 consumers to obtain their thoughts and feedback for each component of the Earth Bag Premium, which soon became one of our most popular designs.
Perkins was the winner of the Virginia Velocity Tour hosted by the Governor of Virginia, and the recipient of a HUD Community Development Block Grant. The non-profit B Lab honored Hamilton Perkins Collection as a "Best for the World Overall" B Corporation in 2017.
Hamilton Perkins Collection has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Money Magazine, and The Washington Post.
The brand is currently offered in nearly 100 leading department stores and specialty stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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