<p>Lynn Calpeter was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NBC Universal in May 2004. She is responsible for overseeing NBC Universal's financial planning and operations and plays a key role in the company's strategic business initiatives. She reports directly to Bob Wright, the chairman and chief executive officer of NBC Universal.</p> <p>Calpeter had served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of NBC since July 2003. Before that she had been chief financial officer of the NBC Television Stations Division from 1999 to 2001, after which she served as vice president of the GE Corporate Audit Staff in Fairfield, Connecticut. </p> <p>Calpeter is a veteran GE executive, having joined the company in 1986 after graduating from college. After graduating from GE's Financial Management Program, Calpeter spent six years on GE's Corporate Audit Staff, where she was involved in several operational and financial audits at a number of GE businesses, including Aircraft Engines, Plastics, and NBC. In 1993, Calpeter joined GE Plastics, where she served in a number of positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in her appointment in 1998 as Manager, GEP Global PSI. </p> <p> Lynn Calpeter is a graduate of Cornell University with a B.S. in business management and applied economics.</p>
Daniel Cane is President, CEO and co-founder of Modernizing Medicine. Daniel was named the 2013 Sun Sentinel Excalibur Awards Palm Beach Small Business Leader of the Year, honored as a Palm Beach County Ultimate CEO by the South Florida Business Journal, and as an exceptional leader and innovator with a "40 Under 40" award.
He has grown Modernizing Medicine from inception with three rounds of financing, the most recent round occurring in August 2013 with a $14 million investment by Summit Partners, a global growth equity investor. Since founding the company in 2010, Daniel has led his team to raise a total of nearly $30 million in funding and to hire almost 170 employees.
Daniel Cane has a BS in Applied Economics from Cornell University, where, as an undergraduate, he co-founded Blackboard Inc., raised over $100 million in venture capital and in 2004 helped take the company public on the NASDAQ (BBBB). In 2011, Blackboard was sold for $1.6 billion.
John Cannon is the Business Development Director at Nestle USA. Prior to his role in business development, he spent 25 years of his career at Nestle in sales, with the last 12 running their largest market - New York.
John Cannon is a graduate of Bloomsburg University.
<p>As an Image and Body Language Specialist, Sara Canuso, President of A Suitable Solution, empowers individuals to use non-verbal communication, image, and body language as tools to communicate effectively with others and to understand not only what others say, but to discover the unspoken messages and feelings behind their words and actions. Her insightful keynote presentations, business seminars and one-on-one coaching on the Impact of Image deliver new ideas and practical tools in the areas of creating powerful first impressions, developing a positive self image, dressing for success, and inspiring confidence. </p> <p>Canuso is the creator of Campus to Corporate, a program held in area colleges to help students prepare to enter the workplace. She is a certified seminar leader and known for her informative and popular column in Philadelphia Maven and her Winning Look articles in the Legal Intelligencer and the Burlington County Straight Word. </p> <p>Sara Canuso attended Temple University.</p>
Rhonda Carniol is an attorney with Wolff & Samson. She counsels entities in all aspects of media, advertising, technology, corporate and computer law. Her clients include multinational publicly traded companies, advertising agencies, software companies, data and media providers, and start-up ventures. She is the author of many articles on subjects ranging from outsourcing and privacy issues to financing and Internet topics. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of legal and trade publications including the National Law Journal, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, E-Commerce Law Report, Cyberspace Lawyer, the Health Care Strategic Management Newsletter and New Jersey TechNews. Rhonda was selected as a '2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Technology' based on her AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. In 2012, Rhonda was named by NJBIZ as one of New Jersey's "Best 50 Women in Business." She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and received her J.D. from Emory University School of Law where she was the writing editor of the Emory Law Journal and a member of the Order of the Coif.
Marci Carris is Senior Vice President for Customer Management at Sprint. She is responsible for postpaid and prepaid customer care operations, planning and delivery; call center management; collections, payment operations and fraud; customer experience improvement and call volume optimization; and call center efficiency. Her 15 years at Sprint include several executive positions in Customer Finance Services, both within the Finance and Customer Management organizations.
Before she joined Sprint in 1998, she held manager, analyst and director positions in finance, strategy, call center operations during an 11-year career with Ameritech in Chicago and Troy, Mich. Before that, she spent four years as an associate and manager with Peterson Consulting, Chicago.
Marci Carris holds two degrees from the University of Michigan - a bachelor's in business with a concentration in accounting and an MBA with a concentration in finance and strategic planning.
Kathleen Carroll started the Branding Clinic in 2000 with a mission to unearth consumer insights for Fortune 500 companies to help their brands achieve double-digit or higher growth. The U-Promise program developed for Citibank and its partners is one of her most recognized and successful in-market concepts. Kathleen began her career in brand management with Procter & Gamble in the food and health & beauty divisions in the US and Europe for 7 years. She has also worked for H.J. Heinz, a management consulting firm, MCA (Marketing Corporation of America) and was the CMO for two internet start-ups: the internet grocery precursor sold to Peapod and CNBC.com, which Microsoft bought. She earned at Cornell University a B.S. and MBA in their 5-year joint degree program.
John Casella has served as Chief Executive Officer of Casella Waste Systems since 1993. He also served as president of the company from 1993 to 2001. In addition, casella has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Casella Waste Management since 1977.
Casella is also an executive officer and director of Casella Construction, Inc., a company owned by Mr. Casella and Douglas R. Casella, which specializes in general contracting, soil excavation and related heavy equipment work.
John Casella holds an Associate of Science in Business Management from Bryant & Stratton University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Education from Castleton State College.
<p>Jim Cassio is a career information and workforce development consultant and author of the Green Careers Resource Guide and Green Careers: Choosing Work for a Sustainable Future (with co-author Alice Rush). Jim has been commissioned to conduct hundreds of labor market studies over the course of his career and has published numerous research reports, occupational resource books, and training directories. </p>
Pablo Cavalcanti is Partner and CEO of Inmetrics in Brazil, a company born out of the perception that managing application performance, in addition to being a major challenge, required a result-oriented service approach. The company started in 2002 at the Softex Society Campinas incubator and was emancipated in 2005. Nowadays, Inmetrics is a standard in the Brazilian market in the area of application performance.
Cavalcanti worked for many years in the IT industry, in particular as a software architect and developer for service providers in various sectors including finance.
Pablo Cavalcanti holds a BS in Computer Science from UNICAMP.
John Cayer has worked in Brand Management at SC Johnson for the past 10 years.
John Cayer is a graduate of Cornell University.
Jordan Celkupa is a Financial Planner with Robert J. Oberst, Sr. & Associates. Mr. Celkupa joined the firm in 2004 as a Financial Planner. He is a Registered Representative with SagePoint Financial, Inc., and earned his Certified Financial Planner designation in 2007.
In addition to developing financial plans and managing investments, Mr. Celkupa specializes in optimizing the financial situations of those who are contemplating retirement. He helps individuals affected by a mid-career job separation to assess their options and manage their risks.
Mr. Celkupa has worked for AT&T in the Corporate Treasury department where he managed the company's debt and fixed income derivatives portfolio. Prior to obtaining his M.B.A., he worked for Kwasha Lipton, an Employee Benefit consulting firm, whose successor entity became part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Jordan Celkupa received an M.B.A., from the Chicago Booth School of Business in 1997, and a B.S., in Applied Economics from Cornell University in 1990.