Linda Choong is Senior VP, Global Retail Development for the National Basketball Association.
As senior vice president of the NBA's global retail development group, Linda Choong manages the global multi-channel retail businesses for the NBA, WNBA, and NBA Development League. Choong oversees the strategy and execution for league-branded retail, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer channels. Her areas of responsibility include merchandising, traditional and digital marketing, operations and international expansion. Choong joined the NBA in 1998 to help establish and open the flagship NBA Store on Fifth Avenue, the first retail store to be owned and operated by a North American professional sports league. Choong has also been responsible for the completion of the league's e-commerce partnerships and has overseen several site launches and redesigns.
In July 2008, Choong oversaw the opening of the NBA Store's first retail locations outside the U.S., with two stores in Beijing, China. She also introduced a new global retail design with a new store in Shanghai, China during the 2010 Shanghai Expo. Choong has held several positions at the NBA, including vice president of retail, senior director of retail, and director of e-commerce business operations.
Prior to joining the NBA, Choong was the director of planning at A|X Armani Exchange, where she was responsible for merchandise planning for the U.S. business and served as the primary lead for four Asian buying offices. Before that, she held various planning positions at Ann Taylor.
Choong received a bachelor's degree in design and environmental analysis from Cornell University.
Jean-Yves Chow is an Industry Analyst at Rabobank. In this position, he acts as an advisor and industry analyst for Rabobank and corporate clients in north East Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea).
Prior to this role, Chow was an Industrial manager at EVIALIS where he worked in the Animal Nutrition & Health area.
Jean-Yves Chow received a Master's degree in food business & technology from Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Techniques des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires.
Cliff Christophe is an Assistant District Attorney in Nassau County in New York State.
Cliff Christophe received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He received a combined JB-MBA from Howard University.
<p>Angela Ciborowski is an Assistant Director with Ernst & Young and has been with the firm for eight years. During her career with E&Y, she has recruited for five Advisory Services practices as both an Experienced Hire and Campus Recruiter. Currently, she is a Campus Recruiter for the Business Advisory Services practice and oversees the group's MBA recruitment efforts at Cornell. In addition, she has experience recruiting MBA's into the practice at a national level.</p> <p>Angela Ciborowski is a graduate of the University of California, Davis </p>
Nancy Clark is the owner and designer of Clark Design Group and the owner along with her husband, J. Thomas Clark, of the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, which is the largest sheep dairy and creamery in North America. Nancy's two businesses are on the farm in Old Chatham, New York. The farm has 850 milking ewe along with replacement animals rounding out to approximately 1200 sheep. The animals are raised on 600 organically maintained pastures in Columbia County, New York. Nancy Clark received her undergraduate degree and Master's degree in Education from Cornell University.
Bob Clark is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cooperative Business International, Inc. (CBI). In addition to 8 years as President and Chief Executive Officer of CBI, he has over 25 years of extensive experience and success as a Division Manager, Regional Manager, Turnaround Specialist and Vice President of International Operations for a $2.5 billion corporation.
Bob Clark received his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and his MBA from the University of Dayton.
Laura J. Clark is a Principal at Front Barnett Associates in Chicago. In this role, she serves as investment counsel to individual and institutional clients as well as a portfolio manager.
Prior to her position at Front Barnett, Clark worked for 12 years at JP Morgan. From 1992 to 1998, served as Vice President in equity sales with responsibility for institutional clients in Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. From 1985 to 1992, served in a variety of areas involving corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, undergraduate recruiting, and cash management.
Laura Clark received a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University.
Kempton Coady is President of ViVA Skin Care Inc.
Previously, Coady has held multiple management positions including President of Sona MedSpa Massachusetts, Principal and owner of Medical Device Kempton & Associates, Inc., Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Deltex Medical Group plc and Senior Managing Director at Quintiles MTC/BRI Corporation, a medical device contract research company.
Coady's comments are from a panel discussion of Medical and Healthcare Entrepreneurship from the Entrepreneruship at Cornell Celebration event held in April 2010.
Kempton Coady holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry/Biology from Bates College, and an M.P.S. degree in Health Care Administration and an M.B.A. degree, both from Cornell University.
Maggie Coffey is the former CEO of Tetragenetics. At the time of this interview, Tetragenetics' mission was to bring to the marketplace a new technology for the large-scale production of recombinant proteins for use in human and animal medicine.
Coffey received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke, her MBA from Harvard Business School and her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University.
Alisa Cohn is founder of Alisa Cohn Coaching and is a Business Coach with more than ten years of professional experience in large and small corporate environments. Prior to starting her own company, her professional experience included working in the Middle Market Advisory Services Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Alisa Cohn earned her MBA from Cornell University, where she was awarded the Fried Fellowship for Leadership and Academic Excellence. Alisa is also a Certified Public Accountant.
David Cohn is Director, Business Informatics at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. He supervises a research team focused on modeling, transforming and integrating information and business structures for on demand solutions. He directs IBM's worldwide research strategy in support of on Business Design & Implementation.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Cohn was Director of IBM's Austin Research Laboratory which focuses on exploratory VLSI design, electronic CAD tools and high-productivity system design and is home of IBM's Low-Power Initiative. He also served as Director, Strategic Projects at Armonk assisting the Chairman and corporate executives in formulating and assessing IBM's worldwide business strategy. Before joining IBM, he was Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame.
David Cohn received his undergraduate and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Laura Colosi is Chief Operating Officer for ThinkWorks. Additionally, she is an Extension Associate at Cornell University where she works to improve parent education for the statewide Cooperative Extension Administration. She is also developing an assessment and reporting system for parent education programs in New York in hopes of developing a model for national implementation. In addition to her work at Cornell, Laura serves as a consultant to external organizations on applying systems thinking to evaluate educational and outreach programs.
Colosi's prior research interests included the impact of social policies on parents and their children, with a particular interest in low-income families. She has conducted evaluations of several New York State programs including: parent education series such as the Parenting Skills Workshop Series, the Strengthening Families Program and the Literacy Institute; the statewide Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program, Eat Smart New York; a 3 year evaluation of the Teenage Homelessness Prevention Program in Ronkonkoma, New York; as well as the NYS Citizens' Coalition for Children's Post Adoption and Preservation Services.
Laura Colosi holds both a Masters in Public Administration from Cornell University's Institute for Public Affairs and a Ph.D. from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell.