Smart Women and Small Business

Ginny Wilmerding is a serial small business owner as well as a speaker, consultant, and writer on women's entrepreneurship issues. After publishing Smart Women, Ginny started a new wholesale pottery importing and distribution business in 2007.

Ginny's prior business background includes senior executive roles at small private enterprises and Internet startups in the Boston area as well as leadership roles at large corporations in the United States and China (Lucent Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.). She is a former research associate at the Harvard Business School.

Ginny has negotiated the purchase of small businesses and has professionally authored business plans, private equity placement memorandums, and business cases. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 1991.

Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, and most recently a Boston-area resident for 12 years, she moved in January 2009 to Hong Kong with her husband and two children. She sold her pottery import and distribution business but will continue to source goods for the new owners in China.