Beth Stewart

Beth Stewart is a director of Carmax, Inc and a former director of General Growth Properties and Avatar Holdings. In total, since starting as a director at the age of 36, she has attended hundreds of corporate board meetings. Until recently, she was almost always the only woman and often the youngest person in the room. Over the course of her career as a director, she has served on every type of board committee. She has been an audit chairperson three times, participated in the transition and replacement of four CEOs, the bankruptcy process from beginning to end for one company and a major restructuring for two other companies. She is currently the CEO of Trewstar Corporate Board Services, a firm which specializes in the placement of women directors.

Beth graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 and started her career at Goldman Sachs as one of the first analysts in the investment banking division. After graduating from the Harvard Business School in 1982, she re-joined Goldman Sachs as an associate in the Real Estate Investment banking division. Since her ‘retirement’ from Goldman Sachs in 1993, in addition to her directorships, she has pursued many professional investing and consulting activities as well as teaching at the Columbia Graduate School of Business. She has five children ( ages 15-24 ) and one husband.

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