There she learned how to manage and organically build a business. She reached the pinnacle of her finance career when she helped Philippe Laffont launch Coatue Management, LLC, a premier technology hedge fund, where she was partner and COO. After a brief stint in the ‘90s working for Ron Galotti at Vogue, Veronica returned to the world of finance. Her first job was on Wall Street in sales and trading. With a head for business and a heart for culture, she is inspired by myriad forms of art and has always enjoyed taking fashion risks. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and studied abroad in Florence, Italy. Veronica Miele Beard was raised in northern New Jersey. Becky lives in Manhattan with her husband Kipp and her children Jane and Brooke. has been featured on CNN,, The Today Show and Good Morning America and in The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, O Magazine and Good Housekeeping for their groundbreaking work in the world of adoption. Under Becky's leadership, has grown from a kitchen-table organization into a strong, national presence with a full time staff of four, board of twenty two, hundreds of volunteers, and thousands of donors. To address this need and help all types of families, they founded in 2007. Sadly, they could not find an adoption grant organization that was based on a mission of equality. After adopting their first child, Becky and Kipp, were so grateful that they had the financial means to adopt that they decided to make a donation to an organization that would help ease another family’s financial burden. Becky and her husband Kipp adopted their daughter, Jane, in 2005, and their second daughter, Brooke, in 2009. In 1999, she founded The Fawcett Group, a full-service public relations and marketing firm with offices in New York City and Philadelphia. After graduating from Franklin & Marshall College, Becky had a successful career in the magazine industry, first for Baltimore magazine, and then for Philadelphia magazine as the director of marketing. Becky Fawcett is the founder and president of, an equality based organization that seeks to reduce the financial burden of adoption by awarding large, life-changing, problem-solving grants.

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