Janice Dru is a graduate of Princeton University with an A.B. Degree in Politics and Certificate in Visual Arts. Janice has managed marketing for corporations and divisions of companies of various sizes in financial services, information services, and higher education. She has structured multi-million dollar budgets and worked closely with Sales, Finance, HR, Legal, Product Management, and IT Executives to enhance departmental initiatives.

Janice has completed Master's degree coursework in IT Leadership, Project Management, Data Warehousing and Analytics and was the former Director of Marketing at New England Institute of Technology (www.neit.edu). She is also co-organizer of the DisruptHR Rhode Island event with RI SHRM (www.disrupthr.co/rhode-island). Janice has also lead marketing initiatives for a technical college in New York City, managed a marketing team in the B2B legal software space, and served as a VP of Marketing in private banking through the economic downturn and during the transition of a corporate acquisition.

As an entrepreneur, Janice has ventured in a number of direct sales and network marketing opportunities. She has also developed and introduced a set of web-based products and services to help other business owners as board President of a technology startup, Inkwhy (www.inkwhy.com).

Janice also volunteers for a number of social initiatives, starting a group of nonprofit executive directors, preparing PR strategies and conducting marketing outreach for The Center for Election Science (www.electology.org). As a mother of two boys, Janice believes in creating value in the world to sustain future generations.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/janicedru

Education

• A.B. Politics | Princeton University