Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a businesswoman, investor and speaker from the United America. The Corcoran Group is a New York City-based real estate brokerage. In 2001, it was transferred to NRT at $66 million. Corcoran quit the firm shortly thereafter. Corcoran has been a part of 12 of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. In February of 2020 Corcoran was involved in 53 deals, the most significant being a $350,000 deal that was able to cover 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was second of the family of 10 children and was raised in Edgewater. Florence Corcoran's mother was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father through Corcoran's early years. Sometimes, her family relied upon free food delivery from a friendly local grocery store. Corcoran is still able to remember her father as someone who drank occasionally and was rude to her mother. Corcoran struggled throughout her schooling and later discovered that she had dyslexia. Corcoran attended an Catholic primary school within her community and started the high school year in St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran was a failure in several courses in her first year of high school, was transferred to Leonia High School. There she was awarded a D.