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Out To Lunch: NOLA Girl Biz

Marin Tockman, Kelly Claverie and Peter Ricchiuti.
Alison Moon
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It's New Orleans
Marin Tockman, Kelly Claverie and Peter Ricchiuti.

Here in the United States we like to think of ourselves as world leaders. But we’re not ahead of everybody in everything. England, Germany, India, Israel, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand have all elected women presidents and prime ministers.

In business in the U.S. we’re still fighting for equal pay and figuring out what equality means - from bathrooms to board rooms.

And so - as it has done many times before - America turns to New Orleans to lead the way. We brought the nation opera, jazz, Mardi Gras, and the go-cup. And now we’re giving them women owned and women-centric businesses. Namely, The Girls Guide to New Orleans, and Dashing Bicycles.

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.