Meet the team

michelle patterson

CEO/Founder – The Real Share
President – California Women’s Conference

Lauded business and community accelerator Michelle Patterson is the Founder & CEO of The Real Share, and the California Women’s Conference. As the former CEO of media and production company Women Network LLC, she served as the exclusive event producer of the California Women’s Conference. The author of “Women Change the World,” Patterson is a sought-after media commentator for Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business News, ESPN, HuffPost and numerous other outlets. Los Angeles Business Journal recognized Patterson as its 2016 Corporate Advocate of the Year, and World Boxing Council named her its 2017 “Woman of the Year.”

janeane bernstein, edd

President – The Real Share

Janeane Bernstein is a journalist, speaker, author and radio host with KUCI 88.9 and the new series Outside the Box. She was a 2021 Age Boom Academy Fellow with the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center & Columbia Journalism.

Her first book, GET THE FUNK OUT, %^&* Happens, What to Do Next! offers strategies and life lessons on ways to nurture self-care and build resilience through life’s curveballs. She recently launched a Mentoring program for students affected by the pandemic and the CARE Initiative to spotlight the mental health pandemic and strategies to improve mental health and educate others on how to become better humans. www.janeanebernstein.com

KIMberly Kovacs

CFO – The Real Share

Kovacs serves on the board of The Arcview Group, an equity investing company focused on the cannabis and hemp industries; she was its CEO until 2021.
In 2021, at age 54, Kovacs joined the industrial hemp manufacturer Santa Fe Farms as chief strategy officer.
The company manufactures hemp into high impact chemical and physical ingredients that can be used for products, including nutrition and health and wellness products.
Kovacs is also managing director of Arroyo Ventures, a venture capital and strategic advisory firm focused on female investors and founders.
Throughout her career, she has founded six companies, and says she’s raised upwards of $120 million, and made multi-million dollar exits.

Conner Kupferberg

Chief Producer of The Real Share

Conner Kupferberg is a digital media and marketing producer, with over two years of experience in video editing, live streaming production, email marketing, social media management, digital graphics, event promotion, web design, and more. He graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelors in Political Economics, and is passionate about the myriad of political issues of the day. His primary focus areas are in Cannabis, business and investment, health and wellness, meditation, and esoteric thought. He is also a lover of music, art, and the outdoors.

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