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DARYA ALLEN-ATTAR
Broads Circle Founder
Financial Advisor
Los Angeles, CA

With 22 years of experience in financial services, Darya's forte is specialty-investment management with a focus on financial planning and restricted stock and asset management for foundations. She is a CPA and Personal Financial Specialist (PFS). 

Darya obtained her MBA from Fordham University, where she focused on finance and portfolio management. She has taught as an adjunct professor of finance at New York University and has authored many financial planning articles.

Darya is married with three children, lives in Pacific Palisades, CA, and currently serves on the Board of the Westside YMCA and the United Way Women Leaders in addition to her position as Broads Circle Founder and Chairman of the Board.

CHERYL A. CALHOUN
Managing Director, Tax & Business Management
CBIZ Accounting Tax & Advisory Services, LLC
Los Angeles, CA

Cheryl specializes in business management, business consulting, tax, and financial planning for small and medium-sized businesses and high income and/or net worth individuals. Cheryl has practiced for over 25 years and her expertise includes all facets of the entertainment industry, with a particular emphasis in film and television.  She represents talent, production companies, entertainment service companies, media service companies, publishing companies and executives in varied tax and business matters.

Her range of services include: outsourcing of chief financial officer duties including the provision of day-to-day supervision of finance and accounting decisions and transactions; contract negotiation and review; production, domestic and international distribution, and participation accounting; guild compliance; development of equity and debt financing plans; executive compensation planning; state and local sales, use, business tax planning, compliance and controversy; domestic and international income tax planning, compliance and controversy; business valuations; employee benefits; etc.

Prior to joining the firm, Cheryl spent four years in the audit and tax departments of KPMG (Peat Marwick Mitchell). Additionally she spent one year as a senior corporate tax consultant in the Tax Planning department of Teledyne, Inc., and ran her own tax and business management practice for several years.

JOY CHUDACOFF
Founder
Smart Women Smart Solutions
Pacific Palisades, CA

Joy Chudacoff founded Smart Women Smart Solutions with one purpose:  To help women everywhere create extraordinary lives—both at work and at home. Joy is a certified professional coach, motivational speaker, highly skilled group leader, business consultant, and the author of Reflections, a weekly ezine.  Helping women realize their dreams and achieve better ways of living is her passion, her purpose, and her business.

Joy works with women one-to-one (coaching) and in groups (Success Circles) to help them define success on their own terms, identify outlets for their creativity, develop businesses, and manage careers that are anchored in their most important values.

Prior to launching Smart Women Smart Solutions, she founded and ran Future Medical, a Los Angeles based equipment leasing company and Wellness Marketing Group, an international nutritional products marketing firm. Joy received her coaching certification from The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and trained as a circle facilitator at Peer Spirit on Whidbey Island, Washington. She is also a member of the International Coach Federation.

CAROL GEFFNER, PhD
CEO
ArpegioHealth, LLC
Denver, CO and Irvine, CA

Carol J. Geffner, Ph.D. brings over two decades of executive management and consulting experience working with health care organizations including hospitals, nonprofit organizations, Fortune 500 businesses and start-up organizations. Dr. Geffner’s unique approach combines deep experiences as both an operating executive and a senior consultant resulting in practical and client focused solutions to complex business issues. 

At present, Carol is Chief Executive Officer of ArpegioHealth, LLC, a national health care management consulting firm and manages the Irvine, California office for the company.  She is responsible for leading ArpegioHealth’s strategic consulting focus on transforming health systems including integrated delivery systems, health care technology companies, governmental agencies, insurance companies, nonprofit organizations, public policy institutions and multidisciplinary medical practices. 

Her focus in her consulting practice has been within the health care arena, leading transformation efforts around health information technology and new approaches to organizing health systems as well as providing executive direction to a medical revenue cycle management company and best in practice leadership training and coaching for senior and mid level management.  A recent focus is in bridging the generational gap between “baby boomers” in management and millennial generation employees in both management and line positions.

DANA HOLLINGER, JD
Life Insurance Advisor
The Dana Hollinger Group
Los Angeles, CA

Dana Hollinger focuses primarily on advanced wealth and business succession planning. A former attorney with more than 20 years experience in real estate and finance, Dana specializes in designing life insurance policies and capital transfer strategies that protect and maximize the assets of successful entrepreneurs and other high net worth individuals.

In 1984, Dana earned her JD at Southwestern University School of Law and was admitted to Practice Law in the State of California. She earned a BA in 1980 from American University, Washington D.C., Deans List; California Real Estate Broker Licensed, 1988; and was admitted to Practice Law in Federal Court, 1994.

Honors: 

- The Suzanne Mubarek Women’s International Peace Movement and the Women’s Leadership Board of Harvard. Ms. Goldinger participated in a January 2006 joint conference held in Cairo, Egypt, “Towards Peace and Prosperity, Women: Engines of Change.”

- Harvard University Women’s Leadership Board. In 2004, Dana was asked to join a group of extraordinary women by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The Board is an external group that advises the dean and supports women’s initiatives at the School, including the Women and Public Policy Program and the Council of Women World Leaders.

- Orange County United Way Women’s Philanthropy Fund and the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way in Los Angeles.

- Founding Board Member of the Women’s Leadership Council in Los Angeles (WLC).

- CLUB 1800/John Anderson. Dana was personally selected by John Anderson of the Anderson School of Business and noted Philanthropist to join a group of 30 leading business women and female philanthropists, 2000-Present.

- Presidents Club Lincoln Benefit Life, 2004.

- Top 50/PMLI (Provident Mutual Life Insurance), 2002 and 2003.

- 1990-1991 WHO’S WHO In American Law.

TRACY OLMSTEAD WILLIAMS
CEO
Olmstead Williams Communications
Los Angeles, CA

Tracy Olmstead Williams has 25 years of public relations and crisis communication experience. As president and principal of Casey Sayre & Williams from 1998 to 2008, Williams established a reputation as a leading communications expert in the areas of business-to-business communication, technology and life science companies, as well as for financial and professional service firms. Williams has in-depth expertise in crisis communications and litigation support.

Williams began her career at Hill and Knowlton, Inc. in Washington, D.C., where she helped guide U.S. and European defense manufacturers through the government acquisition process. She developed programs aimed at key decision makers in Congress, the Pentagon, State Department, and federal agencies.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1988 and represented technology companies including Hewlett-Packard, Computer Sciences Corporation, Acer Counterpoint Inc. and Citizen American Corporation.  She guided the launch of numerous technology companies and provided strategic communications counsel to established infrastructure companies such as Oberthur Cards Systems and academic institutions including the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Her fields of expertise range from identity and security to technology and life science.

Williams served on the Workforce Investment Board of Los Angeles; the Board of Directors of the Downtown Women’s Center, The Advertising Club of Los Angeles and the Board of Trustees of St. Matthew’s Parish School. She resides in Pacific Palisades and is married with two children.

NEDA RAZAVI
Marketing Manager, BioTherapeutics Analytics
Baxter Bioscience
Los Angeles, CA

Currently the Marketing Manager of BioTherapeutics Analytics at Baxter, Neda Razavi has nearly eight years of Healthcare and Biosciences experience. In her current role at Baxter, Neda is responsible for Marketing Analytics, Sales Allocation and Sales Reports, Tender Management, Market research and Strategic Products’ Portfolio Analysis. 

Neda  previously served as an analyst  for Amgen, where she provided analytical pre-launch support and market expansion strategy in undeveloped or under developed market. Prior to that, as a Director of Sales and Marketing for EKG, a Medical Laser Company, Neda directed all sales and marketing activities and strategies. Her career in life sciences began in 2000, where she has held multiple positions as Microbiologist and Biochemist in Medical and Industrial laboratories.

Neda earned her MBA from Pepperdine Business School of Management and her Bachelor of Science degree in Cellular & Molecular Microbiology at Tehran Azad University. She initiated and led “Global Business Club” and served as a VP of Special Planning for NAWMBA (Woman MBA club) at Pepperdine University.

JOCELYN TETEL
Vice President of Advancement
Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA

Jocelyn Tetel is Vice President of Advancement at the Skirball Cultural Center. Upon arriving at the Skirball in 1997, Tetel established the Advancement Department and became a member of the executive management team. Today, she works closely with the Skirball’s Founding President and CEO to advance the organization’s mission through fundraising, strategic planning, government relations, and public affairs. She is responsible for managing the Advancement Department, overseeing fundraising activity that supports the Skirball’s general operations, temporary museum exhibitions, and capital campaigns. Her focus is on initiating and nurturing relationships with philanthropists, foundations, corporate donors, and government entities.

She serves as Director on the following Boards: Exceptional Children’s Foundation, Southern California Foster Family and Adoption Agency, and Mayme Clayton Library & Museum. Tetel is committed to help ensure the fiscal stability of these nonprofit organizations.

Prior to the Skirball, Tetel served as Vice President in the Los Angeles branch of Johnson & Higgins, at that time the largest privately owned insurance brokerage firm in the world.  During her thirteen years in the insurance industry, she specialized in sales, account management, and marketing. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Tetel earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire.