Business Ventures
Paradise Bakery, Metropolis Media, healthcare ventures, and ongoing investments.
Entrepreneurship
Business leadership that funds art and humanitarian work.
The official biography identifies Trish Duggan as an experienced businesswoman and entrepreneur whose ventures and investments have supported her museum, art, and philanthropic initiatives.
Trish Duggan was involved in Paradise Bakery, a chain of 40 bakeries. The bakery was sold to Chart House in 1987 and is now owned by Panera Bread.
She was also an investor in her son’s company Metropolis Media, now owned by French advertising group JCDecaux.
Trish Duggan and her former husband, venture capitalist Bob Duggan, participated in and were shareholders of Intuitive Surgical and Pharmacyclics, best known for its discovery and production of a breakthrough cancer treatment later sold to AbbVie Inc.
Today, her business and investment work is connected to the larger arc of her public life: funding humanitarian projects, supporting artists, and expanding access to contemporary glass art through institutions such as Imagine Museum.
Purpose
Entrepreneurship is presented as a way to support humanitarian and art projects.
Creative Link
Her own quote connects artists and entrepreneurs through creative thinking.
“Both artists and entrepreneurs share the ability of creative thinking. With this they create new worlds to be explored.”Trish Duggan