Abbie grew up outside of New York and attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism (BA). Abbie led Northwestern’s Women’s Basketball to a 2020 Big Ten Regular Season Championship and went on to play three years of professional basketball in Europe. She competed for FC Barcelona and Club Deportivo Zamarat in Spain, along with the Caledonia Gladiators in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Off the court, she contributed to brand identity and growth for sports lifestyle start-ups round21 and Athena Interactive. She worked on brand strategy projects for Nike, Masterclass and Colgate while at SYLVAIN, a strategy and design consultancy. She also founded Wild Works Connects, a 501(c)(3) non-profit with the mission of empowering the next generation of female athletes that has become an international host family network.

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Abbie first joined the Counterpart Team as a Transition Play fellow, a talent bridge started by Alana Beard that connects women athlete professionals to companies. After leading the operations behind the Counter IV Conference in 2023, Abbie joined the Counterpart Team full-time. She primarily organizes content and events on the Counter Club, our community of corporate venture capitalists, while also supporting support general deal flow, marketing and fund operations.