Brenda Mizgorski
Founder - MBA ZoNe

Brenda Mizgorski is a self-proclaimed Internet geek.  She was hooked the moment she heard "welcome" as she signed onto AOL as a charter member in January 1994. 

Envisioning this "WWW thing" would be pretty big, she taught herself some HTML and her first project was to upload the 1995 Christmas letter for her and her husband, Marc.  Although it was fun, coding done in notepad and geeky stuff like that, she wanted to create a website that people would actually visit.  Tapping into her CPA skill-set, she decided an index-driven directory of accounting-related resources would be her first online foray and in March 1996 Brenda founded CPAnet, an Internet research resource and virtual community for CPAs.

Shortly after starting up CPAnet, Brenda set off to pursue her MBA and was accepted at Wharton.  Leaving beautiful Pacific Grove, California in their wake, Marc & Brenda and beagles Samantha & Spreckels, embarked on a journey to Philly to attend the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.  Brenda graduated from The Wharton School in May 1999 with an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management and has been pursuing her virtual community interests full-time ever since.

During her stint at Wharton, Brenda found time to write a book for Prentice Hall entitled Prentice Hall Finance and Accounting Internet Guide.  Prior to Wharton, she worked at Coopers & Lybrand as Audit Manager and upon her departure in 1994 she started her own accounting outsourcing business.