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Kay Koplovitz is the Principal of Koplovitz & Company, a national leader in the television and emerging media business, as well as a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist. She was the first woman to head a television network when she founded USA Networks in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports. A sports television visionary, Koplovitz launched major professional and collegiate sports on cable television, negotiating the first ever contracts for Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. Another major contribution was to establish and develop two revenue streams for cable programmers: subscriber license fees as well as advertising. She launched the SCI FI Channel in 1992 and the USA Networks International in 1994. President Clinton appointed Koplovitz to chair the bi-partisan National Women′s Business Council in 1998. She used this platform to launch Springboard2000, her vision for training women to raise venture capital. In 2001, she established an early stage investment fund for high net worth women, Angels4Equity. She is the author of Bold Women, Big Ideas: Learning to Play the High Risk Entrepreneurial Game. Koplovitz initiated the Erase The Hate Campaign and sits on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. Koplovitz earned her master′s degree in communications from Michigan State University, where she wrote her thesis on the impact of satellite communications on government and industry.