Melody Biringer has a flair for getting things started. At the sweet age of 18 Melody embarked upon her first entrepreneurial adventure by masterfully merchandising her family’s berries into more than 50 gourmet food products and making Biringer Farm a household name.

As Melody has grown in years, so have her businesses grown in numbers. She has founded several companies—from a furniture store to a fitness studio—and earned a coveted spot on Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list.

Determined not to let hard work mean no play, Melody invested her startup smarts in CRAVE Party ™, a business devoted to fun and pampering for hard-working women. Now in 15 cities internationally, CRAVE Party ™ features premium spas and retailers and brings women together to chat, nosh, sip, laugh, indulge and relax.

Melody dreams big and she knows that other women too. Remaining true to her entrepreneurial spirit, Melody has created forums to help women turn their aspirations to reality. She brought Ladies Who Launch (the national organization that fosters entrepreneurship and creativity as lifestyle) to three cites. Just now hitting her stride, Melody recently co- founded startup junkie, an entrepreneurial education and services company providing women with the tools and know-how needed to help their businesses soar.

In addition to a keen business sense, Melody possesses a passion for travel and a talent for discovering beautiful boutiques, serene spas and elegant eateries in her favorite cities.

As the visionary and publisher of CRAVE Guidebooks, Melody melds her love of travel and her discerning eye with her industrious spirit and her interest in women owned businesses. With all her endeavors—fun or financial—Melody aims first and foremost to elevate and celebrate the wonderful works of women.

Meet our CRAVE girls:

Ericka brings a diverse array of event planning, marketing and promotional experience to each Crave Party in Portland to ensure success for the local boutiques and designers that she partners with. As a special event expert specializing in connecting like minded individuals, Ericka launched Social Enterprises, Inc. in 1997 - an events planning and promotions business created to raise funds for Bay Area charities. She used her passion for events and expertise in driving revenue to help local nonprofits raise money through special events for important charity programs. Ericka gains her best experience from the "internet boom" in San Francisco driving revenue and marketing programs for companies like AOL/Oxygen Media, Doubleclick, SmartPlanet (Ziff Davis University) and CNET Networks. She has done extensive volunteer work planning events as a Board Member for the Seattle Direct Marketing Association, the American Marketing Association/Portland, San Francisco Women on the Web and the American Cancer Society/San Francisco. She now resides in Portland and is a "mama-praneur" with two daughters under the age of 2 that keep her running.

Samantha Graham has had over ten years of combined experience in marketing, advertising, and event planning in a variety of different roles. She also worked in a number of different industries including advertising, education, non-profit, and media such as magazine, newspaper and the Internet. Samantha, a busy working mother, understands how hard it can be to balance a professional and family life while still finding the time to connect, unwind and recharge with her gal pals. To address this, she is bringing the CRAVE Party experience to the Sacramento region – so she and a few hundred of her closest gal pals can have an outlet. As an experienced marketer, Samantha also recognizes the woman consumer’s buying power and as a result she is putting her marketing, advertising and event planning skills to use with Crave Party Sacramento to bring together the elements of shoppin’, primpin’, relaxin’, noshin’, minglin’ under one roof that make a girl’s night out FUN!!! Seriously, what more can a girl ask for?!  Being a burgeoning entrepreneur herself, Samantha can identify with other women business owners and the difficulties of getting a product to market. While Crave Party is not limited to just women-owned business, she would like Crave Party to serve as a platform to assist other women business owners get their product out there.

As the owner and main designer of Montreal based Event Management Firm, Principal Planner, Azar Jazestani fuses her background in Human Relations with her love for event planning everyday. Growing up in Montreal, a trendy city full of charm and artistic innovation, had a large impact on her interest in fashion and design. After attending a brief seminar hosted by a leading Event Designer, she fell in love instantly. It was then that she became intrigued with the event planning industry as it fused her two favorite things; design and people. She now designs and coordinates events of all kinds and is also the producer of Montreal's own CRAVE Party!

Cynthia Martyn, Crave Party Producer for Toronto think's every girl should live the good life! With a diverse background ranging from the stock trading floor of one of Canada's largest banks to building one of Toronto's most successful wedding & event planning companies, Cynthia was eager to bring Crave to Toronto out of her love for shopping, girlfriend get-together time, and the opportunity to meet more of the amazing artisans and boutique owners that thrive in Toronto.   When not planning the next Crave Party event, she leads the Toronto chapter of Ladies Who Launch, an organization dedicated to women launching new business and creative ventures, and also mentors women launching businesses of their own. Cynthia loves pink cashmere sweaters, lip gloss and and jetting off to Paris for a shopping weekend at least once a year.  Ooh la la!

After working more than 10 years as a Product, Marketing & Key Account manager in an international company, my desire to change my life around grew more and more every day. After my 5 year stay in Seattle, USA I became inspired by my friends who own businesses and especially by Melody Biringer and her CRAVparty concept. I decided this was something I could bring to the Netherlands and potentially Europe. So in June 2007, I decided to quit my job and start my own company StyLiesh - concepts for women. One of the concepts is CRAVEparty which has been successfully introduced in Rotterdam in September 2007. This year we will organize 4 CRAVEparty's in the NL in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and the Hague.

Cheri was NOT one of those women that had been out in the work force for years “making it happen”. A stay at home Mom for 12 years, she decided at the age of 37 that it was time to get out and prove to herself what she knew in her heart she was capable of accomplishing. After reading about CRAVE Party in Entrepreneur Magazine, Cheri decided to jump in with both feet by launching an event planning business and CRAVE Party Denver. After a year of constant learning and growing, and with the help of likeminded, strong women as a support system, she accomplished her goals by winning “Best of Denver” in Westword magazine in 2007 for “Best Beauty Fix” with CRAVE Party Denver, and by finding her niche in the non-profit arena helping to raise funds and organize events for many well deserving non-profits in the Denver Metro area. She now resides in Denver with two teenage boys, proving that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.