Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born March 10 1949. She is an American investor and speaker as well as consultant. She was the founder of The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage located in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly thereafter exited the company. Corcoran is among ABC's initial Shark Tank investors. As of now she has appeared on every 12 season of Shark Tank. As of February 2020 she had closed 53 deals. The most significant of these was a $350,000 investment to Coverplay at 40%. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the second of 10 children in a middle class Irish-Catholic family. Florence was her mother, who was a homemaker. Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., bounced between jobs throughout Corcoran's childhood. Her family was sometimes dependent on food deliveries from an artisanal local grocery store for free food. Corcoran remembers her father as a man who occasionally consumed too much alcohol and was rude to her mother and condescension, particularly when he'd been drinking. Corcoran struggled in school, and she was later told that she had dyslexia. Corcoran entered the high school system at St. Cecilia High School Englewood, after she left her Catholic elementary school. After flunking several courses during her first year of high school, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School and received a grade of D.