Ilana Edel­stein was born in South Africa and emi­grat­ed to the U.S. in her late twen­ties. She worked her way through the ranks and estab­lished her­self as a suc­cess­ful busi­ness woman. She was inti­mate­ly involved in the cre­ation of Patron tequi­la. Today Ilana runs a suc­cess­ful com­pa­ny, IE Finan­cial Ser­vices, pro­vid­ing Finan­cial and Retire­ment ser­vices to hun­dreds of teach­ers and school employ­ees across California.