> Renee@2MinutesWith.com

Renee White Fraser, Ph.D. is CEO of Fraser Communications a $45 million full service advertising and marketing firm that provides a full array of advertising services including award-winning creative, interruptive interactive messaging, media planning/buying and exceptional market research. The largest woman-owned agency in Southern California Fraser serves national, and local clients like Toyota, Cedars-Sinai, Aids Healthcare Foundation, East West Bank, the LA World Airports as well as social marketing campaigns like Flex Your Power. Social responsibility is part of the DNA of Fraser. Dr Fraser serves on several non-profit boards including Volunteers of America, NAWBO Enterprise Institute, Girls Inc, WISE and the Harvard Women's Leadership Board.

Honored by Advertising Age as one of the “Ten brightest women in advertising”, Renee is a consumer psychologist who founded Fraser Communications in 1992. It is a full service ad agency with $40 million in billings; clients include Cedars-Sinai, Toyota, Flex Your Power, HealthAsure, East West Bank, Los Angeles World Airport (LAX and LA/Ontario), UCLA Extension, and United Way. The agency is the 15th largest independent in LA and the largest woman owned agency in Southern California.

Throughout a career that has included being President and General Manager of Bozell Inc./Pacific Region, Renee has established a reputation as a brand builder. She has worked with Proctor & Gamble, MGM, Toyota, Rockwell, Asics, Sega, Merrill Lynch, Silicon Systems, Texas Instruments, Chrysler, Warner Brothers, American Airlines, and Kawasaki Motorcycles.

Renee recently gave the keynote address of “Women Lead Differently – We Walk Shoulder to Shoulder” at the 2006 Women’s Leadership Board/JFK School of Government and the Women’s Presidents Organization’s delegation to China and is the recipient of the 2003 Los Angeles SBA “Women in Business Advocate of the Year” Award and the 2004 LA Business Journal “Woman CEO of the Year” Award.

> Betsy@2MinutesWith.com

An entrepreneur for three decades, President and co-founder of Berkhemer Clayton Inc., a retained executive search firm, headquartered in Los Angeles, since 1994, specializing in senior level executive positions in corporate communications, public relations, finance and general management. Corporate clients include Countrywide, Hilton, DirecTV, Disney, Toyota, Edison, Kaiser Permanente, MALDEF, University of Southern California, Chiron Pharmaceuticals, Baxter BioScience, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and more. 

Serving on the boards of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Southern California Leadership Network (SCLN) and NAWBO LA Enterprise Institute, Betsy is immediate past statewide president of NAWBO California.  Her memberships include Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Town Hall of Los Angeles, Organization of Women Executives, Hispanic Corporate Council, UCLA Alumni Association, Women’s Foundation of CA.   NAWBO-Los Angeles honored her for “Lifetime Achievement” in 2006. 

Previously, Betsy launched and built one of the largest public relations agencies in Los Angeles, which was acquired by global PR firm, Golin/Harris.  Her firm handled national public relations for Nintendo, Toshiba, Southwest Airlines, Price Waterhouse, Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream, Mrs. Fields Cookies and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses.  A graduate of UCLA, Betsy began her career as a journalist with Southern California newspapers and worked for Disney Studios and NBC, before launching her public relations agency in Los Angeles.