Pamela Ryckman is the author of Stiletto Network: Inside the Women's Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business. She has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, Fortune.com/CNNMoney, The New York Observer, and The New York Sun, among other publications.

Before becoming a journalist, Pamela performed internal strategy work for Merrill Lynch's Global Markets and Investment Banking Group, and for Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Equities Financial and Strategic Management group. She began her career at Mitchell Madison Group, a management consulting firm.

Pamela earned her A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and her Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University.