Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman from America. In 2001, she launched The Corcoran Group in New York City. The company was sold to the company to NRT for $66 millions. Shortly thereafter she resigned from the company. One of the original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in the entire 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank until today. In February 2020 Corcoran was involved in 53 deals, with the most significant being a $350,000 investment which covered 40% of Coverplay. Corcoran was the second of a family of 10 kids, and was raised in Edgewater. [8] Her mother, Florence, was a household worker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., her father, was always changing jobs during Corcoran’s life. In times, her family relied on deliveries of food that was free from a friendly local grocer. Corcoran is still able to remember her father as someone who was drunk often and treated her mother with disrespect. Corcoran was a struggling student in school. Later, she discovered she was dyslexic. Corcoran was a student at an Catholic primary school within her neighborhood and started the high school year in St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran dropped several classes during her first year and transferred to Leonia High School where she was a D student.