Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born on March 10 1949. She is an American investor as well as a speaker and consultant. The Corcoran Group was a New York City real estate brokerage that she started. NRT purchased it for $66 million in 2001. Corcoran eventually left the company. One of the show's first "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in the entire 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank until now. By February 2020, she had completed 53 deals. One of them was a $350,000 investment to Coverplay at 40%. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the second child of 10 in a middle class Irish-Catholic family. [8] Her mother, Florence, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father through Corcoran’s childhood. At times, her family relied on deliveries of food for free from a local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father, a man who sometimes drank too much, and behaved towards her mother in a manner that was disrespectful and condescendingly, particularly after he'd had a few drinks. Corcoran struggled with her education and was later diagnosed with dyslexia. Corcoran was educated in a Catholic elementary school, and later began high school in Englewood at St. Cecilia High School. Corcoran dropped a few classes during her first year and transferred to Leonia High School where she was an A student.