Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born on March 10, 1949. She is an American investor and speaker as well as consultant. She was the founder of The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage located in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly thereafter , the company was sold. Corcoran has participated in 12 episodes of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. In February of 2020, she had signed 53 deals. The largest of these was a purchase of $350,000 to Coverplay at 40 percent. Corcoran was born in Edgewater (New Jersey) as the second child of ten from a working-class Irish Catholic family. Florence, Corcoran's mother, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. her father, was a multi-talented worker throughout the years of Corcoran's childhood. Her family often relied on free food deliveries from a local grocery store. Corcoran claims her father was a drunken man who was rude to her mother and disrespect. Corcoran was a struggling student throughout school. Corcoran later found out that she was dyslexic. Corcoran attended the local Catholic elementary school and started the high school system in St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. Corcoran dropped a few classes during her first year before transferring to Leonia High School where she was a D student.