Peg Fradette
CEO & Founder
Visionary, customer-centric, energetic, and tenacious, Peg is a motivational leader with extensive experience in worldwide sales, marketing, professional education, new business development, start-ups, and turnarounds, spanning family-run to Fortune 50 companies. With over 50 years of Medical Device experience, including 25 years at Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon), she has launched stand-alone businesses and/or products in crowded markets: biosurgery, general surgery, plastic surgery, urology, and spine. She has led global teams and served on leadership teams for two acquisitions at significant multiples of sales. A serial entrepreneur, she is launching her 5 th company after placing in the top 11 (out of 57) in a USAF innovation Challenge for female aviators. She and her co-founder are currently advancing a urology product for nocturia for women 60+ who should not or cannot safely get up at night to urinate.
How to Successfully Find a Co-Founder
Starting a business requires far more than one person’s expertise. Successful founders recognize that turning an idea into a thriving enterprise often depends on partnering with someone whose strengths complement their own. The right co-founder can bring sharper strategy, stronger execution, and greater focus to the business journey. In this interactive workshop, two entrepreneurs will share why they made the strategic decision to bring on co-founders and how those partnerships contributed to their success. Participants will learn the criteria they used to select the right partner, the expectations they established from Day One, and the practical steps they took to build cohesive, productive, and high-performing working relationships.
