Cameron Brooks is the Vice President of Supply Development at Renewable Choice Energy. Brooks works with renewable energy producers and carbon mitigation project developers around the world, identifying the best and most effective projects to support. Most recently, Brooks led multi-state investment and technology collaborations for the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), a coalition of public benefit incentive funds responsible for deploying over $4 billion to clean energy companies, projects and market development efforts.
Cameron Brooks graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and holds a MBA from Cornell University.
Ilya Brotzky is an undergraduate student who is working in partnership with Amway Global as an independent business owner.
Ilya Brotzky is an undergraduate student at Cornell University and expects to graduate in 2010.
Ramsey Brous is co-owner of Ithaca Bakery and Collegetown Bagels located in Ithaca, NY.
Ira Brous is a co-owner of Ithaca Bakery. Collegetown Bagels began in 1976 on College Avenue started by three young entrepreneurs from Long Island. The business was sold one year later to a local businessman who also owned and operated Rulloff's next door. Gregar Brous started working for Collegetown Bagels in 1978 during his final two years of college while his parents, Anne and Ira Brous, were professors at Ithaca College. A second location was opened in downtown on Aurora Street in 1979. The stores became available for sale and were purchased by the Brous & Mehaffey family on January 1st, 1980. The five owners include Anne, Ira, Gregar and Ramsey Brous, and Mimi Mehaffey.Brous and Mehaffey
By 1983, CTB Appetizers (now Ithaca Bakery in the Triphammer Mall) was in place, as a gourmet deli and full-service catering center. Seven years later, the acquisition and renovation of the 80-year-old Ithaca Bakery added both a centrally situated, fully equipped bake shop capable of turning out traditional, restaurant-style Italian bread as well as dozens of delicious, creative new artisan breads and pastries. With the addition of the two commissaries Ithaca Bakery and Collegetown Bagels were able to become a full service business with retail, catering, and wholesale delivery of product throughout the area.
What began with a bagel and a dream, has grown into five bustling branches and a workforce of nearly 250 employees. While business keeps growing, one thing remains the same: All of the CTB and Ithaca Bakery locations are independently owned and operated by a family characterized by an unwavering commitment to the local and global community, practicing sustainability in all areas of operation.
Ira Brous is a graduate of Cornell University.
Dan Brown is the Associate Executive Director at Franziska Racker Centers, Inc.
Michael Brown founded Brown & Michaels in 1980 with Ralph R. Barnard (now retired)as "Barnard and Brown". Brown was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1981, and is also admitted to practice in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He has prosecuted many patent applications in a wide variety of fields, from animal vaccines to computer software, avionics and automotive products, household appliances to radio communications.
Michael F. Brown received a degree in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University's College of Engineering. He also holds a law degree from Cornell University.
Katie Brown is an American home and gardening television show host, author, actress, and trained art historian. Brown opened her first store called "Goat", which was located in Los Angeles and Mackinac Island, Michigan. It was a popular antique store and cafe. Katie has been serving up dime-store domesticity on Lifetime Television's Next Door with Katie Brown since October 1997. She has opened her own workshops in Los Angeles, New York, and Bridgehampton. Previously, Brown had a catering business in Los Angeles and raced on the U.S. Ski Team. Katie Brown received her undergraduate degree in Art History from Cornell University.
Diane Brush has extensive professional experience in design. After graduating college, Brush took a position designing children's wear in Manhattan for nine years. She then moved to San Francisco to work on Esprit's children's wear line for five years. As her career in children's wear moved forward, Brush also became interested in home furnishings. She moved to Wisconsin for two years to design Lands' End's home and children's wear lines. After leaving her position there, she moved to Garnet Hill in New Hampshire and revamped the catalog company into a design house. Brush became co-president of the company and executed a new design focus for the brand.
Brush has since left Garnet Hill and is now the design director at MacKenzie-Childs, a ceramics and home furnishings design firm in Aurora, New York.
Diane Brush is a graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Marcus Buckingham is a British motivational speaker, trainer, public leader, researcher and author. He has trained over 2 million people through his books, seminars and lectures.
Buckingham, who is a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management; started as a senior researcher with The Gallup Organization, and helped to develop the Strengths-based approach to management that is now gaining wider implementation.
Strengths Management suggests that any job should be tailored to fit the person instead of the other way around. Buckingham has authored and/or co-authored several books on the subject including "First, Break All the Rules", "Now, Discover Your Strengths", and "The One Thing You Need to Know". He also helped create the "StrengthsFinder" assessment tool that assists individuals in discovering their own strengths.
In 2007, Buckingham set out on a national bus tour taking the Strengths Movement across America. Buckingham was featured in the PBS Special, "Go Put Your Strengths To Work" and on the Today Show.
Marcus Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University in 1987 with a master's degree in Social and Political Science.
Steve Buckley is a senior audit partner with almost 30 years of experience working with fast-growing, high technology clients, including many publicly traded companies. As Director of the New England Life Sciences Industry Practice, he is one of dozen partners in the U.S. who are responsible for coordinating Ernst & Young's services to companies in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries. He is also the former East Region Director of the High Technology Practice for Ernst & Young. Steve has worked with a variety of U.S. life sciences companies that have expanded internationally and with foreign companies that have opened operations in the U.S. As an advisor, he has helped clients anticipate the financial, legal, and cultural problems of doing business overseas and has direct working relationships with some 20 Ernst & Young offices internationally.
Steve is very knowledgeable in SEC accounting and reporting issues, having been responsible for more than 20 IPOs and numerous tender offerings, in addition to first-hand experience with presentations to the Office of the Chief Accountant of the SEC. He has an in-depth knowledge of the issues surrounding deal structuring, financial reporting, and monitoring of strategic investments. Steve has extensive experience in financing alternatives, as well as strategic transactions and alliances that are so prevalent in the life sciences industry. Steve is an active member of the Massachusetts community, both locally and statewide, and has led a number of governmental and charitable initiatives in the markets that we serve. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Massachusetts Society of CPAs. Additionally, Steve was a member of Governor Weld's Governors' Council on Economic Growth & Technology.
<p>Emmy Award-winning musician Peter Buffett has an acclaimed career that spans more than 28 years as a professional musician, composer, philanthropist and author. He began his career as the musical mind behind many of the early MTV bumpers of the '80s, and the climactic crescendo in the memorable "Fire Dance" scene in 1990's Oscar winning film Dances with Wolves. </p> <p>From 1987 to present, Buffett has released 15 records, and has been signed to such labels as Narada, Epic and Hollywood Records. He now owns two independent labels, BisonHead and BeSide Records.</p> <p>Buffett's latest venture is his inspiring new book, Life Is What You Make It. Personal and revealing, instructive and intuitive, Life Is What You Make It is about following passions over conventions, transcending your circumstances or status, taking up the reins of your destiny, and living life to its fullest. </p>
Doris Buffet is the founder of The Sunshine Lady Foundation which is a private family foundation funded through her generosity. The mission of the foundation reflects the midwestern values and no-nonsense approach to decision-making that Doris grew up with in Omaha, Nebraska. Each Sunshine Lady Foundation grant is considered an investment, and the decision to grant funds is always based on an expected successful return. Doris Buffett is grateful to her father and brother (Warren Buffet) not only for providing her with the wealth to fund the foundation but also for their inspirational examples of integrity and generosity.
Buffett is passionate about her responsibilities as a philanthropist and a good citizen and her energy and enthusiasm are boundless. Among her many other roles, she has been a first grade teacher, domestic violence crusader, political activist, mother and grandmother. She is the self appointed Buffett family genealogist and her avocation is historic preservation.
Since its inception in 1996 the Sunshine Lady Foundation has awarded more than $30 million in grants.