Twelve-Minute Risk Management: Halls of Ivy LLC

Ivy Walker is a serial entrepreneur, multi-award-winning author, and an award-winning director/executive producer of documentary films. She is a founder and co-founder of successful businesses in the ethics, temporary staffing, and technology industries. She has run for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, bootstrapped, angel-funded, and venture-backed businesses, and businesses that had fewer than five and more than 100 employees. The diversity of her experiences gives her with a unique understanding of launching, operating, and scaling a business.In addition to her entrepreneurial pursuits, Ivy's background includes successful stints at Fortune 500 companies in consulting and investment banking, private equity, and a global social venture in health technology. She holds an MBA in accounting and finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Community Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds an adjunct appointment at Kellogg, where she teaches risk management to entrepreneurs in the Executive Education Program, and an adjunct appointment in the Business Institutions Program at Northwestern University, where she teaches an ethics and leadership class to undergrads. She was awarded Kellogg's Entrepreneur Supporter of the Year Award and the Anti-Defamation League's Rising Star award in 2011 and 2009, respectively.