Larraine Segil

Larraine D Segil (''née'' Wolf; born June 14, 1947) is a South African-born entrepreneur, attorney, advisor, lecturer, author, board member and urban farmer. She is CEO of The Little Farm Company, a Los-Angeles based family holding company which was mentioned in ''Forbes'' magazine. Segil has been a commentator for CNN and CNBC and has been featured in ''Fast Company'' magazine and ''Bloomberg Business''.

Segil is CEO of the Exceptional Women Awardees Foundation, past chair of the C200 Foundation, and past vice chair of the C200 Governing Board, a global nonprofit group of women executives, and a member of the APCO Worldwide International Advisory Council (IAC). She was for 13 years a member of the Board of Frontier Communications and formerly on the advisory board of Edgecast, a content delivery network (CDN) company which sold to Verizon in 2013. In 2009, Segil was appointed to the board of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tropical Diseases Group (TDR), in Geneva, Switzerland where she served for 3 years. Provided by Wikipedia