Janet Hanson is an American financier and the founder of 85 Broads,[1] a global network community of 30,000 women.
[3] She then founded Milestone Capital, a money market fund company managing over $2 billion in assets.
After recovering from a serious health issue in 2002,[4] Hanson became a Managing Director and Senior Advisor to the President & COO of Lehman Brothers.
[6] After an investment of about $5 million,[7] the network evolved to include women from other companies, professions and countries to have about 30,000 members in 2014.
She is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Talent Innovation.