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Retired President and CEO, Catalyst

Clues to Ilene Lang’s future success as an entrepreneur, executive, and women’s advocate were evident in her teens. The oldest of three children in a devout Jewish family in Chicago, she ran a business tutoring Hebrew to boys preparing for their bar mitzvot, participated in student government, and applied to the college she’d determined was the best in the country: Radcliffe.

“I was a feminist early on,” says Lang, whose life’s work includes building a picture-framing store and a photo business, blazing a trail as a high-tech leader, raising three children, and advocating for women.

Lang entered the nascent world of technology in 1982 when she joined Symbolics, an all-male, MIT-led, artificial intelligence startup. She had learned about computers working as a technical writer after earning a degree in history and literature from Radcliffe. “I was the only MBA, and I grew with the company,” says Lang, who became VP of software and he Technical Research for ERISA Pros - ERISApedia BELYV