Isabel Maxwell's father, a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, was Jewish and her mother, a French-born Holocaust scholar, was of Huguenot descent.
24 Facts About Isabel Maxwell
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Isabel Maxwell was a pupil at Milham Ford School, Oxford, going on to study at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, graduating with an MA in Law, History, and French in 1972.
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Isabel Maxwell earned a master's degree in Education from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, before beginning her career in film and television production.
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In 1973, Isabel Maxwell made her first film, an adaptation of the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
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In 1981, Isabel Maxwell relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States where she continued to produce and direct documentaries.
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In 1982, Isabel Maxwell wrote and directed Gray's Inn - A Fountain of Justice, narrated by Ludovic Kennedy.
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Isabel Maxwell worked with Djerassi Films Inc on collaborative projects with Dale Djerassi whom she married in 1984.
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In 1990, Isabel Maxwell left the film industry, moved to Berkeley, and began to work with her sister Christine at an internet data company.
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Isabel Maxwell was a co-founder of the company behind early search engine Magellan.
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Isabel joined twin sister Christine Maxwell who was leading a small company called Research on Demand that was online in 1993"[1]".
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Isabel Maxwell changed names to McKinley Group and became a search engine with ratings.
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Isabel Maxwell served as a senior vice president, her second husband, David Hayden, was CEO and her sister Christine was publisher.
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The Isabel Maxwell sisters launched the Magellan web search service in September 1995.
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From 2003 to 2004, Isabel Maxwell was invited by Blumberg capital to become CEO of iCognito, renamed Puresight, an Israeli web content filtering software company.
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Isabel Maxwell turned the company around, and it was sold in 2005 to Boston Communications.
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Isabel Maxwell was a member of Israel Venture Network, an organization founded in 2001 by Eric Benhamou.
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Isabel Maxwell spoke on several occasions for and on behalf of IVN at conferences such as WEBBIT in Istanbul in Turkey.
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Isabel Maxwell has been a director of the Peres center for peace and has been involved in fundraising for Soroka Medical Center.
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Isabel Maxwell has served on the board of the American Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center.
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Isabel Maxwell has worked as a consultant for startup companies and venture capitalists.
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Isabel Maxwell is president of Blue World Alliance.
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In 1984, Isabel Maxwell married filmmaker Dale Djerassi, affiliate of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and son of birth control pill inventor Carl Djerassi.
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Isabel Maxwell and Djerassi had one son, Alexander, born that same year.
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In November 2015, after Seckel's death, Isabel Maxwell was declared bankrupt by a British court.