Francine Hardaway

[Francine Hardaway] http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_side_proauthor of [Foster Mom] http://www.amazon.com/Foster-Mom-Self-Discovery-Francine-Hardaway/dp/0595314317/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218496690&sr=8-6 is an adviser to and investor in early stage technology companies through her company Stealthmode Partners. [ [http://www.stealthmode.com Stealthmode] ] She is also the founder of the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation [ [http://www.otef.org Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation] ] and the producer of the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conferences.

Biography

Francine Olman Hardaway, writer, blogger, entrepreneur and angel investor, was born in New York City on May 14 1941, the first child of Chauncey Samuel Olman and Sybil R. Olman. Her early childhood was spent in Washington Heights, after which the family moved to Riverdale and later to Carnegie House on 56th Street in NYC. She attended the Bronx High School of Science, Cornell University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and Syracuse University (Ph.D).

In 1968, she moved to Phoenix, Arizona where she was a college professor for ten years at the Maricopa Community Colleges, writing three books ("Writing Through Reading", " [Creative Rhetoric] http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Creative%20rhetoric:3003775625;_ylc=X3oDMTB1c21tcDhkBF9TAzk2NjMyOTA3BHNlYwNmZWVkBHNsawNib29rcw--", and ) with John M Hardaway, her husband and department chairman at Phoenix College.

In 1980, she founded Hardaway Connections, later Hardaway Marketing Services, which became the largest public relations firm in Phoenix.

In 1996, she joined Intel Corporation as Worldwide Press Relations Manager, leaving in 1997 to become VP Marketing for Innovative Environmental Products. In 1998, she and Edward S. Nusbaum started Stealthmode Partners.

Hardaway is also the author of "Foster Mom", a memoir about her foster parenting experiences. She is the mother of two daughters, Samantha and Chelsea Hardaway, foster mom to 3.

She blogs at Stealthmode Blog [http://blog.stealthmode.com] and has also written Francine's [Hip Replacement Blog] [http://francine-hipreplacement.blogspot.com/] and The Personal Blog of Buppy the Puppy [http://www.buppythepuppy.com]

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