Cate Marques

Transforming the in-home coffee experience, starting with a new coffee machine. Conscious, clean, and carefully crafted.

Impact100 is a collective force for good; uniting and empowering women to give together, creating transformational impact, locally and globally.

Client-facing project management through customer lifecycle, specializing in navigating complex work processes, tight timelines, and changing teams; key partner to client project team, facilitating alignment on expectations, timeline, strategy and SLAs; lead cross-functional internal team, ensuring team members are aware of and held accountable for project responsibilities, setting them up to successfully deliver on project requirements; champion continuous improvement by identifying and remediating cross-functional process gaps

Supported leadership team in operationalizing growth strategy, leading high-priority strategic initiatives, and building scalable centralized operating system; led studio opening operational strategy, including budget management, timelines, staffing, and long term planning; manage all instructor lifecycle activities including recruiting, training, onboarding and ongoing schedule creation and management, growing instructor team from three to forty employees; oversee business performance reporting and create best practices across organization

Conceptualized and launched Health and Wellness Initiative, serving 700+ employees and including 20+ events over a two-year period; provided best-in-class support to BCG’s Global Head of Media, including representing media practice area in international conferences; acted as primary point of contact between internal and external C-suite executives

Draft, develop, and copy edit grants, business letters, press releases, advertisements, and professional development curriculum.

In addition to continuing paralegal duties: provide superior administrative support to senior partner and other counsel; act as liaison and maintain communication between attorneys and clients; train other employees in the use of e-discovery databases.

Firm specializes in employment law, business and corporate litigation, real estate, and insurance law. Perform legal and factual research using firm library, WestLaw, Lexis, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority database; identify, organize, and analyze relevant judicial decisions, statutes, legal articles; edit and draft legal documents under strict time constraints; attend hearings and court appearances; update, organize, and maintain case files; interact with witnesses and clients; manage e-discovery databases on Concordance and Stratify; assist in preparation for litigation, mediation, and arbitration.

Research on international politics and law; prepared analyses and summaries of relevant treaties, resolutions, statutes, and articles; revised and edited articles submitted for publication.

Attended the Ninth Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute at the United Nations Headquarters in New York as a representative of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court; kept records of debates, meetings, press conferences, and presentations; facilitated contact between state delegations and non-governmental organizations; prepared briefs for over 2,500 member organizations.

Facilitated global communication between over 2,500 non-governmental organizations; attended and wrote reports on meetings at the United Nations; summarized current events and relevant news daily in English and French for offices in both New York and the Hague, Netherlands; prepared and edited press releases and media briefings.