Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born on March 10, 1949. She is an American investor and speaker as well as consultant. She founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly after, she left the company. One of the original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in all 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank to date. In February of 2020 Corcoran was involved in 53 deals, the biggest being a $350,000 investment which was able to cover 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was second of a family of 10 kids and was raised in Edgewater.  Her mother, Florence, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., her father, was always changing jobs during Corcoran's entire life. Sometimes, the family relied on the delivery of food for free from a local grocery store. Corcoran recalls her father, a man who sometimes drank excessively, and behaved towards her mother with disrespect and condescendingly, particularly after he'd had a few drinks. Corcoran was a struggle throughout her education, later learning that she was dyslexic. She was a student at the local Catholic elementary school, and then began high school at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. Corcoran was proficient in a variety of courses during her freshman year. She transferred to Leonia High School and graduated with a grade of D.