A woman of influence: American Heart Association’s Marie Lopresto helps grow Circle of Red


Editor's note: The Silicon Valley Business Journal is honoring 100 Women of Influence on May 16 for their impact on their professions and in their community. This is a profile of one of the women being recognized. Click here to read all of the profiles as they are published.

Few can claim to have found their passion by age 13, and fewer can claim that their passion found them, but Marie LoPresto may qualify.

Having undergone heart surgery as a teenager in 1959, followed shortly by her father’s…

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