Catch Marcia Dawood on the #PirateBroadcast™

After spending an award-winning career in sales, marketing and operations for one of the largest education providers, Marcia Dawood now works on making people’s dream come true.Marcia is an investor in over 200 early stage private companies. In addition to her own investing, she is a Venture Partner with Mindshift Capital and a part of the investment committee for Next Wave Impact Fund. She also serves as a board member and advisor to Zive and Misfits Bakehouse. SheEO is an organization Marcia actively supports.Previously, she was the COO of Portfolia (one of her portfolio companies) as well as a managing partner at BlueTree Capital Group where she was responsible for investment strategy, diligence research and member education. She was also a member of Golden Seeds in NYC and Dallas.She currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of the Angel Capital Association (ACA) with a co-chair position on the membership and marketing committee. She will become Chair of the Board in July 2021. Marcia also is a founding member and current chair of the Growing Women’s Capital group building syndication and collaboration among US investment groups focused on women-led companies.She received an MBA from the Global Executive program at UNC’s Kenan Flagler’s School of Business, OneMBA.During her graduate studies, her group acquired the franchise rights to a new sports team. She served on the Board of Directors and managed financial and legal matters for the organization. This gave her experience as an entrepreneur from the start through the exit of a business.Prior to becoming an active investor she was with Kaplan Higher Education for over 16 years.Connect with Marciahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/marciadawood/https://angels-live.simplecast.com/https://www.angelcapitalassociation.org/https://www.portfolia.co/https://goldenseeds.com/https://republic.co/https://www.ourcrowd.com/https://sheeo.world/Connect with Russ https://russjohns.com/https://thepiratesyndicate.com/https://nextstepnext.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nextstepnext/Please subscribe to the #PirateBroadcast™ YouTube channel!!!Live Stream Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPTvV2_JLjE