Linda Kanner is a serial entrepreneur, advisor to CEOs of early-stage,
high-growth companies .. Most recently she was CEO of HBN Shoe, a
venture-funded footwear technology company. Prior to that, she was
involved in two venture-funded Internet companies, first as CEO of
First Business Financial (now OneCore.com) and then as COO of edu.com,
which she co-founded in 1998 with her son, raising $40 million and
growing the company to 125 people before it was sold.
Linda's 30-year career includes senior positions in marketing and
general management at large multi-national companies including Bank of
Boston, where she was Division Exec. of Retail Products and Consumer
Credit, Bank of New England where she was EVP of Retail Banking, and
J. Baker Inc. where she was Group EVP of Footwear and International
Sourcing and subsequently President of Parade of Shoes.
An active board member of both private and nonprofit
organizations, she serves on the board/advisory boards of several
early-stage companies and is a on the board of The Commonwealth
Institute. She is a long-standing overseer of both the Huntington
Theatre Company and the Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital/Care Group
where she serves on the Research Advisory Board. She is actively
engaged as an Executive in Residence at Babson College.
Linda received her BA from Cornell and her MBA from Harvard. She was
diagnosed with MS in 2007.
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