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Ms. Darragh is Director of Entrepreneurship Programs and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Ms. Darragh teaches the New Venture Lab and the Social Entrepreneurship Lab and has been a coach for the New Venture Challenge, Chicago Booth�s successful business plan competition. Recently, Ms. Darragh launched the global version of the New Venture Challenge that assists Executive MBA students on the London and Singapore campuses to start and expand entrepreneurial businesses. She also initiated the Entrepreneurial Immersion trip series that went to China in 2007 and to India in 2008.
Prior to this position, Ms. Darragh taught entrepreneurship courses at the Kellogg School of Management from 1999 to 2005. Ms. Darragh was also Vice President of the Women�s Business Development Center (WBDC) up to 2003. At the WBDC, Ms. Darragh assisted high growth women business owners. She organized Springboard: Mid-West, a nationally recognized investor forum for women entrepreneurs, in both 2001 and 2003. The forums in combination raised over $85 million. Her work with women seeking equity investment led her to initiate the Ceres Venture Fund in which she is an investor.
Ms. Darragh recently received the Illinois Technology Association�s Citylights Award given to an individual that has made a significant impact on the Illinois technology community. The Chicago Sun-Times recognized her as one of the top 100 people influencing technology in Chicago for 2001, 2002 and 2003. Ms Darragh received the US Small Business Administration's Women's Business Advocate of the Year Award for Illinois and the Midwest in 2002 and the US Small Business Administration's Financial Services Advocate of the Year Award for Illinois and the Midwest in 1998. She is also the recipient of the Illinois State Treasurer's Award for 'Business/Technology/Finance Trailblazer' in 2002.
Ms. Darragh received her M.Sc. (Pl) from the University of Toronto and her BA from Queen�s University. Ms. Darragh is currently a Board member of TiE Midwest, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, Illinois Technology Association, Accion Chicago and the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago & NW Indiana.
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