Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born on March 10 1949. She is an American investor and speaker as well as consultant. The Corcoran Group is a New York-based real estate brokerage. In 2001, the company was sold to NRT at $66 million. Corcoran resigned from the company shortly after. Corcoran is one of ABC’s original Shark Tank investors. As of now she has appeared in every 12 seasons of Shark Tank. In February of 2020, she had signed 53 deals on the show, with the biggest one being $350,000 for 40% of Coverplay. Corcoran was the second child of 10 from a family of Irish Catholics who worked hard, was born in Edgewater in New Jersey.  Her mother, Florence, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. Her father was constantly switching jobs throughout Corcoran's career. At times, her family relied on deliveries of food that was free from a local grocer. Corcoran is still able to remember her father as someone who was drunk occasionally and was rude to her mother. Corcoran struggled at school and later learned that she was dyslexic. She went to a local Catholic elementary school before beginning high school in St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. Corcoran dropped a few classes during her first year and transferred to Leonia High School where she was a D student.