Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran, born on March 10, 1949, is an American businesswoman and investor. She is also a public speaker, consultant, columnist syndicated to a speaker writer, author and television presenter. The Corcoran Group is a New York-based real estate brokerage. In 2001, the company was sold to NRT at $66 million. Corcoran resigned from the company within a short time. Corcoran was one of ABC's initial Shark investors has been part of each episode of Shark Tank. Corcoran has signed 53 deals in February, 2020. The biggest deal she signed was her $350,000 investment in Coverplay for 40%. Corcoran was the second of 10 kids born to an Irish-Catholic couple working in the middle class located in Edgewater, New Jersey. Florence, her mother was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was a mover from one job to another throughout Corcoran's youth. Her family was sometimes dependent on food delivered by a friendly local grocer for free food. Corcoran remembers her father as a drunkard who sometimes treated her mother with disrespect and disrespect, especially after having consumed alcohol. Corcoran struggled at school and later found out she was dyslexic. Corcoran went to an Catholic elementary school in her community and started the high school year in St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran graduated from Leonia High School with a diploma in English, despite not completing several classes in her first year.