ACG 101 August 27th 2025 Women In Corporate Growth Luncheon

Joanna McFarland is the CEO and Co-founder of HopSkipDrive, the B2B technology company driving the $30 billion school transportation industry into the future and solving one of the most pressing challenges facing kids, families, schools, and communities in America. HopSkipDrive’s mission is to create opportunity for all through mobility, and the company currently partners with school districts across 14 states and supports more than 10,000 schools. Contracting directly with school districts, the company offers a network of highly vetted drivers from the local community through its care-centered transportation marketplace, and sells routing software called RouteWise AI, that solves districts’ fragmented transportation plans at scale. Joanna is on the board of LA-Tech.org, a nonprofit that connects LA’s tech community to talented, underrepresented individuals in the community and drives economic opportunities and job creation for underserved LA residents. She is on the board of Sidecar Health, a company revolutionizing health care and putting power back in the hands of the consumer. She is also an investment partner at XFactor Ventures, where she leads pre-seed and seed-stage investments in female-founded companies. Before co-founding HopSkipDrive in 2014, Joanna spent over 15 years in product management, investment banking and private equity, building and scaling businesses for top technology brands, including WeddingChannel, Green Dot, and YP.com. Joanna has an MBA from Stanford University and a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and her two boys.

LERETA, headquartered in Pomona, California, is a leading national provider of real estate tax and flood services for mortgage servicers. The firm serves more than 4,000 clients nationwide, processes $17 billion in tax payments annually and monitors more than 25 million loans for flood determinations. Over the past three years, the company has met 99.9% of its service level agreements for all customers and in the past year increased its loans under service by almost 20% with the addition of several new clients.