Marianne Szymanski is founder and president of Toy Tips, Inc., an independent international child development research group that conducts on-going academic and scientific research on products from the toy and juvenile product industries. Marianne has led her organization in unbiased testing of over 34,000 products from more than 900 manufacturers. She is the 1996 recipient of the Wisconsin Small Business Association Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and a delegate of the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business in Washington, D.C.