Jessica B. Conolly

Jessica Conolly serves as Director of Business Development at a manufacturing company specializing in sales and marketing leadership. With three years of experience in high-end sales, she began her post-graduate career as an event sales manager at Marriott, where she handled operations, client relations, weddings, and large-scale accounts. She is a graduate of Coastal Carolina University, where she was an art studio major with double minors in marketing and art history, and she made history as the first student to graduate with an arts degree and pursue a Master's of Business Administration in the Wall College of Business. During her studies, she served as a graduate assistant, mentored students, and gained experience in arts administration through exhibitions, gallery work, and an apprenticeship at a music and arts festival in South Carolina. Conolly is recognized for combining her passions for the arts and business in luxury sales environments, and she aspires to become a professor teaching entrepreneurship and women in business. She attributes her success to her high school art teacher Miss Bender, her brother who exposed her to professional environments in New York, and mentors and counselors who encouraged her goals.