Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman. The Corcoran Group was a New York City real estate brokerage she established. NRT purchased it for $66million in 2001. Corcoran eventually left the business. Corcoran has participated in 12 of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. As of February 2020, she had signed 53 deals with the show, the largest being a $350,000 investment to purchase 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran is the second of 10 children from a family of Irish Catholics who worked hard, was born in Edgewater in New Jersey. [8] Her mother, Florence, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., her father, was constantly switching jobs throughout Corcoran's career. Her family frequently relied on free food deliveries from a local grocery store. Corcoran recalls her father as a man who sometimes was a drinker and was rude to her mother and condescension, particularly after he'd consumed alcohol. Corcoran struggled with her education and was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia. Corcoran was educated at a Catholic elementary and then started high school in Englewood at St. Cecilia High School. Corcoran was absent from several classes in her first year, and then transferred to Leonia High School where she was an A student.