Thank You To Our Board & Founding Members

I’m Catherine Gray – a Producer, Author, TEDx Speaker,  Host of www.InvestInHerPodcast.com, the founder of www.SheAngelInvestors.com, and co-founder of the She Angels Foundation.

She Angels Foundation is designed to support female founded non profits that are helping women and girls.

She Angel Investors is a multi media platform designed to connect female founders and funders. Additionally, She Angel Investors encourages women to become angel investors. We do this through our podcast, films, book, e-course education and events.

My focus is always on empowering female entrepreneurs. My passion is to utilize our multi media platform to fund women, so as to level the playing field, since women are severely underfunded- getting less that 2% of venture capital funding.

Currently, my focus is on producing a documentary about raising awareness of the underfunding of women, and the solutions on the horizon to change this.

And check out my Ted Talk – Fund Women Save the World here!

This is why I produced an e-video online course called “6 Ways to Fund Your Business” about Funding Female Founders. It can be found on our website www.SheAngelinvestors.com along with a free download of tips for funding your business. Or here is a direct link to the course landing page.

Also, I produce and host a popular podcast series called INVEST IN HER, to discuss ways to accelerate the funding of women, and provide resources and inspiration to our listeners. We feature both female founders and funders! It is distributed on Apple, Spotify, IHeart and wherever you listen to podcasts.

In my past, I am so grateful and proud to have produced several award-winning films including the very first documentary film about gay marriage called ‘I Can’t Marry You,’ narrated by Ellen DeGeneres’s mom Betty, which aired on PBS in more than 60 cities nationwide. Also, I co-produced several documentary films for the LOGO network. That led me to start my own production company called Showbiz Shorts aka Corp Shorts, and eventually 360 Karma Productions- before launching SHE ANGEL INVESTORS.

As the top producer in the country in cable television advertising in Miami for 15 years, I left the position to become Vice President of Advertising for the first ever gay cable network and decided from that day forward, all of my ventures would be working on projects for the greater good.

My favorite quote is from Mahatma Gandhi “Happiness Is When What You Think, What You Say, and What You Do Are In Complete Harmony.” I also believe the quote of the Dalai Lama, “The Western Women will save the world”!

Dr. Theresa Ashby is known as a Stratologist, savvy, provocative, and genuine individual, and widely respected for her business acumen. Theresa is an international business and success consultant, advisor, speaker, author, and podcast host who is passionate about driving businesses forward, as this is what she believes helps grow the economy on all levels.

She has spent the past two decades studying what it takes to “Scale Your Business” and is identified by Forbes.com as the Business Scaling Expert. She is the author of Better Implementation Now! Eight Ways Great Strategies Fail and How to Fix Them and Exposing the eLearning Mystery: Secrets To Digitizing Your Business.

Theresa has impacted organizations through her delivery of groundbreaking speeches, consulting, and advisement. Her background includes thirty years of experience in various leadership roles, managing a $50 million budget, overseeing $1.7 billion of capital improvements, implementing operational strategies, serving as VP of operations for a leading healthcare organization, and oversight for nine departments at two hospitals.

She is currently the COO of Kaleidoscope Media Services; She consults companies and individuals on building e-learning courses, digital academies, membership & online community sites for business scalability and success. She works with her clients to systematize and automate their businesses so they can focus on their priorities.

Daryl Twerdahl’s early career in Los Angeles was as a buyer at the famous department store, I. Magnin.  From there she jumped, in 1982, into founding her own catering company, Village Catering, followed by founding the Los Angeles School of Etiquette & Protocol.

In 2002, Daryl sold her Catering company but continued to lead her Protocol team.

In 1989, Daryl’s first association with St. Vincent Meals on Wheels began, first as a volunteer. For 13 years, she delivered meals weekly to homebound seniors, while continuing to run her own business, Village Catering Company. During this time she served as President of Cuisine a Roulettes, the financial support group of SVMOW and chaired the $30 million capital campaign for a new kitchen.

Daryl has served on the board of Meals on Wheels Los Angeles County,  was a founding member of the Meals on Wheels California State Association, serving first as its treasurer and then as its president. In her capacity as President of Meals on Wheels California, she has worked directly with the California Department of Aging, the Los Angeles Department of Aging, as well as Los Angeles Homeless Services Association, the Hollywood Food Coalition and Task Force, Neighborhood Council Network and with Dr. Scott Kaiser and Maureen Feldman on the Isolation Committee at the Motion Picture Television Fund.

After “retirement” from St. Vincent Meals on Wheels, Daryl became Executive Director of Meals on Wheels California, the statewide membership association for all Meals on Wheels programs in the state.

Daryl has been a speaker and presenter at Meals on Wheels America, California Association of Area Agencies on Aging, Direct Marketing Association, and Meals on Wheels State Association Conferences.

Daryl serves on the Executive Board of Executive Service Corps of Southern California, the board of the Hollywood Coalition on Hunger, and of course, on the board of She Angels.

Debra Smalley is one of the most dynamic and recognized real estate brokers in Los Angeles. Clients attribute Debra’s success to her high level of integrity and savvy negotiating skills. As a 3rd generation Los Angeles resident, she has a consummate understanding of the premiere neighborhoods in the L.A. marketplace. This vast knowledge sets Ms. Smalley apart from the rest.

She owned and operated her own commercial real estate company for 10 years before launching an extremely successful career in residential real estate. Her client list includes many corporations; Apple Inc., Paramount Studios, 20th Century Fox, Dreamworks, New Line Cinema and the William Morris Agency. In addition, Debra represents business managers, talent agents and attorneys for such talents as Bob Dylan, Elton John, Drew Cary, David Niven Jr. and The Art Linkletter Family Trust, among others.

Debra has worked with #1 nationally and world-renowned award winning teams at Coldwell Banker, Compass, John Aaroe and Pacific Union. Teams that continually broke sales records and managed high profile real estate transactions for celebrities and entrepreneurs. Debra’s transactions are in excess of $145 Million Dollars.

In 2019, Debra joined Core Real Estate Group where she currently represents both domestic and international buyers and sellers in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Brentwood, Hollywood Hills, West Hollywood, Venice, Encino and Sherman Oaks, as well as many areas located in greater Los Angeles.

Among Debra’s other accomplishments, she graduated and taught at the Center of Early Education before attending UCLA. Furthering her education at the Julian Ann Singer Clinic, Debra was certified to teach children with learning disabilities and behavioral problems, thus developing her strong character.

Debra’s passion for people is exhibited through her philanthropic contributions, supporting and being personally involved with City of Hope, Stop Cancer, The Jewish Home, Cedars Sinai Medical Center and she is a board member of The She Angels Foundation.

Debra Smalley is a consummate mover, shaker and your personal rainmaker.