We define ourselves as a diversified energy company. Financial services is a large division of the company now, she added. In the past 10 years, Clarke started the mutual fund for United Management Company and was named its president and managing director. Many times I was the only lady at meetings. There are far more women in the business community than 10 years ago.
Education is the foundation to career.
After an undergraduate degree, if you can, get all the education you can get, and the better off you'll be. With the right attitude and work ethic, your time will come. Promoting the community Ten years ago, Mary Beth Rainero of Bristol Virginia had just completed an exhilirating run as one of the driving forces behind the restoration and reopening of the Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown Bristol. She won her Tribute to Women award in the arts and education category. Rainero, who came to Bristol as a teenager to attend Sullins College, married and settled in the Mountain Empire, making it her home right away with appearances on Theatre Bristol's stages, and work in the schools her children attended.