Gina Hagler earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Connecticut. She worked in corporate finance, managed an investment portfolio and was a financial analyst and strategic planning analyst before starting her own small-business consulting firm. She has helped small businesses prepare business plans and budgets. She has judged business plan competitions and taught basic accounting and personal finance skills to entrepreneurs at a Women's Business Center. You can see her interviews with biotech executives and articles about the business side of biotech at BioSpace.