Rachel Vouvalis

I have an undergraduate and master's degree in art history, but I started out, actually, in the auction business. I realized that the art field wasn't really it for me, and I was working in administration at the auction house, and I just kind of fell in love with it. Personally, I am a very organized person, I like to plan, I like to make sure that I have all of my details and ducks in a row, and this line of administrative work just came very naturally to me. I worked for a CEO of Whole Earth Brands for 2 years, and he really was a mentor to me in a lot of ways, because he let me in on every level of the business, and he explained to me how every level of the business worked so that I could manage his priorities, but also I could learn the flow of business. I also worked for a nonprofit, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and the department I worked for helped doctors abroad become board-certified in the United States so that they can practice in the United States. My work is really the backbone and the foundation of the operations of the entire enterprise, and if they didn't have someone like me doing all of this administrative work and checking the details and making sure things run smoothly, they wouldn't have a platform for the kind of success that they're able to achieve.