July 9, 2008

Meet Philanthropic Cyclist, Ellen M. Kirk

Ellen transplanted from the Bay Area to San Diego in 2004 and was soon befriended by Robin Stark, her SVP connection. She was a….vocal…member of the 2008 IWG and now serves as the PWG liaison to new Investee ElderLaw. In addition to her SVP activities, Ellen is actively involved with numerous other philanthropic organizations including Cazadero Performing Arts Camp and the AMD Advisory Council of the Shiley Eye Clinic at UCSD and serves as a strategic advisor to Equinox Center.

Ellen’s greatest philanthropic passion is the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (http://www.pmc.org/, her rider ID is EK0035), a two-day, 192-mile cycling event that raises money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The PMC allows Dana-Farber to invest in the latest technology, to develop and test new therapies, and to give its patients and their families a wide range of services that improve quality of life. Ellen takes this challenge seriously and, for the people in her life and others who are fighting their own battles with cancer, trains each year to ride as part of the effort to search for a solution.

Professionally, Ellen is a technology executive with more than 25 years of domestic and international experience ranging from start-up companies to established multinational corporations spanning a diversity of industries including wireless operations and technology, broadband, and investment banking. She began her career as a refinery process engineer.

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