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Panelist Bios:
CAROLE RICHBOURG
Carole Richbourg, GG, FGA, ASA, Master Gemologist Appraiser® is an independent jewelry appraiser serving the San Francisco Bay area since 2005. A full-time appraiser since 1989, she has over forty years of broad experience in the jewelry industry including store management, merchandising, retail sales, appraising, jewelry design and jewelry fabrication. She is an Accredited Senior Appraiser/Master Gemologist Appraiser® (ASA/MGA) accredited through the American Society of Appraisers (ASA).
After 14 years managing an AGS guild jewelry store, Carole developed and managed the company’s appraisal department for four stores before establishing Carole C. Richbourg, Fine Jewelry Appraisals and Consulting, Inc. in 2005. Carole earned the Graduate Gemologist (GG) title from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in 1987, and earned the title of FGA (Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain) in 2009.
TERI BROSSMER
Teri Brossmer earned her ASA Accreditation as a Master Gemologist Appraiser in 2005, after completing the Appraisal Studies Certificate Program at the University of California Irvine presented by ASA. She added the ARM-GJ designation in 2015. Teri was elected to the ASA-GJ committee for many years, serving in all positions, from member-at-large through Discipline Committee Chair. While serving as GJ Education Chair, Ms. Brossmer put together a team and contributed to an update and overhaul of the GJ POV courses. In 2015, Ms. Brossmer co-developed the GJ216 class, a comprehensive principles of valuation course designed for international presentation. Over the ensuing 3 years, she and her colleague Mary Reich, ASA, taught the 10-day GJ216 class four times in Shanghai, China.
In 1981, after earning her Graduate Gemologist diploma from the Gemological Institute of America, Ms. Brossmer launched her independent gem and jewelry appraisal practice, Gem Appraisals Unlimited, LLC, located in Glendora, CA. Her client base is diverse. Teri provides gem and jewelry valuation services to Federal law enforcement agencies regarding seized and forfeited property, litigation support and expert witness services in the legal arena, and consultation and valuation of gems and jewelry for individuals and members of the gem and jewelry trade.
In 2018, Teri became an Appraisal Qualifications Board Certified USPAP Instructor. She has been a member of the G.I.A. Alumni Association since 1992 and the National Association of Jewelry Appraisers since 1995. Ms. Brossmer currently serves as President of the Accredited Gemologists Association.
JULIE SIMPSON
Julie Simpson could best be described as a person who straddles many worlds, always with an eye trained on generating and recognizing beauty. She is a collector of mid-century art and design, especially fine European jewelry from the 1960’s and 70’s. The emphasis of her jewelry collection is jewelry designed by established full-time fine artists and jewelry designed by goldsmiths and jewelers with a non-traditional vision.
Julie was raised in the California Bay Area and still maintains close ties there. She was just designated a Lifetime Trustee of the U.C. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive [BAMPFA] and after years of service, an Honorary Trustee of Alice Waters’ The Edible Schoolyard Project [ESYP].
She spent her 20’s teaching design in Nagoya, Japan and then working for Sotheby’s London and New York auction houses in the Japanese Art and 20th Century Decorative Arts Departments.
Julie has a B.A. in design (1986) from UCLA, and an M.B.A. (1994) from NYU. She spent her 30’s as “Girl-for-Hire,” a qualitative research and strategic planning consultant for the wine, fashion, and technology sectors.
In 2010 Julie earned a degree in nutrition from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition [IIN] accredited with State University of New York [SUNY] and spent her 40’s working as a nutrition counselor, and sometime raw food guru in Venice, California. She is currently developing a new platform in this arena for women on the verge of menopause or deep in it.
Julie resides in New York City.
Didier and Martine Haspeslagh
Didier Haspeslagh and Martine Newby Haspeslagh launched their gallery, Didier, Ltd. in 2006, specializing in jewels designed by leading Modern Masters, painters and sculptors who are recognized internationally for their art. The couple has garnered an international reputation for sourcing exceptional pieces that all testify to the greatness of art jewelry. The works in their collection represent visionary, revolutionary architectural forms, scaled to fit the human body. And the best of them capture the creators’ radical sensibilities. As their peers testify, Didier and Martine are the ultimate experts on art jewelry created by leading artists, sculptors, and architects of the 20th century.