Sheila Lirio Marcelo
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Marcelo in 2014
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| Born | 1970 Philippines |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brent International School, Baguio |
| Alma mater | Mount Holyoke College, Harvard Business School/Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | Founder, Chairwoman & CEO |
| Known for | Care.com, WomenUp.org |
| Awards | Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award |
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 PandoMonthly Fireside Chat with Sheila Lirio Marcelo
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo (born 1970) is a Filipino-American entrepreneur. She is the Founder, Chairwoman and CEO of Care.com, the world’s largest online destination for finding and managing family care.
She is a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute (Class of 2012) and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011. Marcelo is the youngest recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award (2014) and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from her alma mater, Mount Holyoke College.
Marcelo is an active Filipino-American philanthropist supporting Filipinos and Filipino-Americans and is on the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Development Foundation (formerly the Ayala Foundation), a non-profit that works with the Philippine government on education, innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives.
Marcelo was born and raised in the Philippines, growing up in an entrepreneurial household that was involved in a number of businesses from coconut mills to mango and banana plantations to transportation and coal production. Part of her early childhood was spent in Houston with her five siblings. When Marcelo was 11, she attended Brent International School in Baguio.
She graduated magna cum laude from Mt. Holyoke College with a degree in Economics and received M.B.A. and J.D. degrees, with honors and the Dean’s Award from Harvard University. It was during her undergraduate years at Mt. Holyoke that Marcelo had her first child, Ryan; her second son, Adam, was born right after graduating from Harvard Business School. While attending Harvard she also spent 30 hours a week on community activities, worked on several campus businesses and provided consulting services for the design of Harvard’s Spangler center.
Prior to founding Care.com, she served as a consultant at Monitor Company, Pyramid Research and Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, a teaching fellow at Harvard Business School, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Upromise, an online service helping families save money for college, Vice President and General Manager of TheLadders.com, an online service helping people find jobs and entrepreneur-in-resident in the Bosto n office of Matrix Partners.
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