About Us
Melissa Gasnick Cloeter
Melissa Gasnick Cloeter is a co-founder of The Entrepreneur Expose’ and the President of WINC- The Women’s Initiative Network & Connection, LLC. WINC, founded in 2007, is a consulting company that specializes in three areas: Workforce Diversity, Marketing Strategies, and an Angel Investment Networking Group that invests solely in Women-Owned businesses. Ms. Cloeter created WINC after an extensive career history in Sales, Marketing and Business Development by working for Fortune 500 companies and privately owned enterprises, including a magazine and events company where she was the VP of Sales.
Entrepreneur Expose’ is a grassroots effort to help women entrepreneurs who want to start a business or grow an existing business. Through a series of events and online seminars, Ms. Cloeter and her business partner, Linda Wellbrock, help women entrepreneurs in the following areas: locate capital funding, media exposure and business development skills.
Ms. Cloeter is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and currently resides in Hackettstown, New Jersey. She is a recent 2010 Top 50 NJ Women in Business recipient and a panelist speaker at the 2010 NJ Governor’s Conference for Women.
Additionally, Ms. Cloeter is active in her local community and the state. She is a Board of Director Member for YWCA East-Union County, a Board of Director Member for the Women’s Fund of New Jersey, Committee Member of “Make Mine a Million $ Business- New Jersey campaign, Past-Board of Director Member- Warren County Community College Foundation, Past- Catholic Charities Development Committee Member, Past-Participant member of the NJAWBO- Diversity Committee, and Past-Member of The Women’s Association – NJPAC. She is an avid golfer and the mother of two sons.
Linda Wellbrock
is Managing Partner/VP of WINC, co-founder of Entrepreneur Exposé and the President of Her Business- a digital publication focused on female entrepreneurs which is launching nationally in 2010. Ms. Wellbrock created Her Business after an extensive career history as Publisher and Vice President of Business Development for a professional women's publication. In addition, to writing feature articles on some of the most powerful women in the state, her responsibilities focused on managing the sales efforts, launching events and developing and implementing effective marketing campaigns. Ms. Wellbrock began her marketing career in the financial world for Merrill Lynch and Painewebber (now UBS).
Ms. Wellbrock is a Foundation Board Member of Raritan Valley Community College, Past Board Member- New Jersey Association for Women Business Owners (NJAWBO) and Committee Member of The Women's Venture Fund.
Ms. Wellbrock has an MBA with a focus in Entrepreneurship from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ. She is Graduate of Northeastern University, Boston, MA and earned a BS in Communications with a focus in On-Air Journalism combined with a Business Minor.
Ms. Wellbrock was born and raised in New Jersey. She is married and the proud mother of three year old twins. She currently resides in High Bridge, NJ and is an active member of the community.
Sherri Hieber Day
Sherri Hieber Day is the owner of Art Interests Hooked Rugs which she began in 1998. She designs hooked rug patterns, teaches rug making classes and workshops throughout the United States and Britain and executes one-of-a-kind commissioned pieces. Ms. Hieber Day is an advocate of the mentoring process and helps her students assemble all the necessary skills to design and create works that reflect their ideas. Mentoring goes beyond advising and guiding students; mentoring helps the student identify, develop and nurture his greatest strengths. She emphasizes 'losing the fear' and traveling one's unique path. Ms. Hieber Day is a member of the Green Mountain Rug Makers Guild and the Hunterdon Rug Makers Guild. She has shown her rugs nationally including shows at Louisburg College in Louisburg, North Carolina and Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2002 she was identified as one of the country's important contemporary rug designers at a forum held at the American Museum of Folk Art in New York.
Ms. Hieber Day received her MA from New York University in American Folk Art Studies. She has taught art and art history at the high school level and was coordinator of an off-campus, contemporary art program for Drew University. She has also worked for over twenty years in the educational publishing industry as a photo researcher/editor for Pearson Education, Silver Burdett Ginn, Optical Data Corporation, Simon & Schuster and Globe-Fearon.
Ms. Hieber Day currently serves as the vice-chairperson for the Morris County Trust for Historic Preservation and is serving her fifth year on the board; she is a founder, member and past secretary of the Long Valley Trails Association promoting equestrian activities in Washington Township, Morris County; and a past member, secretary, vice-chairperson, chairperson and advisor to the Washington Township Historic Preservation Commission from 1989 until 2002.
Ms. Hieber Day is an active horsewoman and a member of Spring Valley Hounds in Allamuchy, New Jersey. She also teaches riding to members of the Spring Valley Hounds Pony Club. She resides in Long Valley, New Jersey with her husband and daughter.