Debra, worked in financial services industry for twelve years before deciding she had had enough number crunching and went to law school. She spent seven years at a Wall Street law firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Realizing she would never get away from number crunching, she left her law career behind to devote her time to raising her two daughters. An avid traveler, Debra was born and raised in Manhattan and she and her husband love museums, the opera, the symphony, Broadway plays, jazz clubs, and entertaining native New Yorkers and visitors.