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 Michelle
Lipka - President
At 18
years of age, Michelle Lipka moved to NYC from San Jose, California with
$350 in her pocket and no job skills other than the “do you want
fries with that?” variety. Since then, and in true entrepreneurial
spirit, she worked her way up from a receptionist to the President of
lipka.com, inc. which has grown to one of the most prestigious privately-owned
court reporting firms in the United States, with offices on both Coasts.
Michelle was inducted into “Who’s Who of American Businesswomen”
in 2001.
Michelle,
a member of MENSA, started lipka.com in 1997 with the goal to create a
boutique firm that specialized in the most difficult nationwide cases
requiring the most advanced technology, yet still maintaining a small
company feel to both clients and employees. Her philosophy stems from
the “Ben and Jerry’s” school of management -- giving
10% of the firm’s annual profit to charity, performing free deposition
reporting for pro bono cases and offering unusual employee benefits (from
pottery classes, to gym memberships, to six week sabbaticals to do volunteer
work).
Michelle
is also a classically trained coloratura soprano, and has studied privately
with vocal coach G. Crandall Waid for over a decade. Her recent credits
include New York’s After Dinner Opera Company’s production
of Mozart’s The Magic Fluteas "Papagena", and she also
recently starred in the critically-acclaimed cabaret show Piano Bar Hell-o
at Don't Tell Mamma in Manhattan.
When
she's off duty, Michelle is active in animal rescue, acting as a foster
parent for homeless basset hounds through the Tri-State
Basset Hound Rescue League. Together with her own dogs, Henry Lee
and Ceci, she is also certified pet therapy volunteer through The
Bide-A-Wee Home in Manhattan.
Michelle and her finance, Andrew, share their homes in Manhattan and Oregon's Cascade Mountains with 2 dogs, 2 cats, 3 roosters, 7 hens, and a disabled bunny rabbit.
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