She has worked in Fortune 50 corporate legal departments and Am Law 100 law firms like Cadwalader and O’Melveny & Myers. She has served on the boards of the Federal Bar Council, the New York County Lawyers Association and Opera Singers Initiative. Her interest in startups and early-stage companies has grown since being on the winning team at Startup Weekend NYC in the summer of 2011. Madeleine has a BFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis and an MS in International Relations and a JD from Rutgers. She lives in fabulous Jersey City with her husband, two daughters and Shetland sheepdog. Lorraine Herr