Douglas Conant served as President and CEO of the Campbell Soup Company until July 31, 2011. Early in his career, Conant worked in marketing at General Mills, before moving to management positions at Kraft. He was appointed President of Nabisco in 1995, and served there until 2000. Conant was appointed President and CEO of Campbell in January 2001, at which time he was also elected to its board of directors. Conant was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in Glencoe, Illinois. Conant earned his bachelor's of arts degree and his MBA from Northwestern.
Steve Conine is the Chairman, Co-Founder, and Chief Technology Officer of Wayfair (formerly CSN Stores). Steve is responsible for architecting and developing software systems that give Wayfair a technological edge in the online retail business.
Prior to that, Steve was a Founder, Member of the Board, and Chief Technology Officer of Simplify Mobile. Before starting Simplify Mobile, he served as Chief Operating Officer for the London office of iXL, a publicly traded global technology consulting firm. Steve previously co-founded and served as a top executive of Spinners Incorporated, an IT services firm, which was sold to iXL in 1998.
Steve Conine is a graduate of Cornell University.
<p>Drew Conklin works in Strategy & Operations for Deloitte Consulting in Washington, D.C. He currently works with governmental clients in the firm's federal practice. </p> <p>He previously completed internships in real estate consulting and investment management with firms in Queensland, Australia and Beverly Hills, California. </p> <p>Drew Conklin is a graduate of Cornell University.</p>
<p>James Connolly is a product line manager for Nike's Global Men's Athletic Training Apparel business. He is responsible for the product creation engine that creates essential training silhouettes for athletes in american football and baseball. In addition James' oversees both the men's and women's LIVESTRONG apparel assortment. This assortment has helped create more than $80,000,000 in revenue for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and its fight against cancer.</p> <p> Prior to Athletic Training James worked as both a Product Line Manager and Associate Product Line Manager for Nike's women's training apparel business. </p> <p>James Connolly received a BS from Cornell University's Department of Applied Economics and Management. </p>
Peter H. Coors is chairman of Coors Brewing Company and vice chairman of Molson Coors Brewing Company.
Pete's professional career in the brewing business follows a Coors tradition that has spanned more than 130 years and five generations of Coors family members. He has served in a number of positions at the company. In 1993, Pete was named vice chairman and chief executive officer of Coors Brewing Company. In 2000, he was named Chairman, Coors Brewing Company, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Adolph Coors Company. In 2002, he was named Chairman of Adolph Coors Company and Coors Brewing Company.
Pete graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., in 1965, attended Cornell University where he received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering in 1969, and earned a master's degree in business administration from the University of Denver in 1970.
Peter H. Coors is the great-grandson of Adolph Coors, who founded the Golden brewery in 1873.
Greg Woodworth and Kelly Coughlin moved their gourmet mail-order bakery, Stony Brook Cookie Company, from Boston to the Finger Lakes region in Geneva, New York. Soon after relocation, the couple was approached by a local farmer about using his butternut squash seeds, which remained from the processing of squash for the farm's ready-to-cook preparation for regional grocery stores.
Working with food scientists from Cornell University at the Food Venture Center, the team worked together to produce an all-natural, 100% expeller pressed butternut squash seed oil. The product debuted in September 2008. It is available in 187 ml and 375 ml bottles, individual or by the case. The non-GMO seeds are roasted in 10-pound batches and pressed with a yield of 20%. The resulting oil is allowed to stand to separate naturally and is then filtered and decanted into retail bottles.
Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, a dynamic nonprofit, Washington D.C.-based organization that has grown to a global network of 46 microfinance partners in 25 countries. Counts became Grameen Foundation's first Executive Director in 1997, after ten years of working in microfinance and poverty reduction, primarily in Bangladesh.
Today, under Counts' leadership, Grameen Foundation impacts an estimated 20 million lives in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Arab World.* Grameen Foundation's annual budget has grown in each year of its existence, from $100,000 in 1997 to over $13 million in 2006, and its breakthrough impact has been chronicled in the Economist and elsewhere.
Counts was a Fulbright scholar who spent time in Bangladesh, where he witnessed dire poverty as well as the innovative solutions that had been developed and applied on a wide scale by the Grameen Bank and other members of the Grameen family of companies. He trained under and worked closely with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, and the 2006 Nobel Laureate.
In addition to working with Grameen Bank in 1988-89 and 1992-1994, he served for three years as the legislative director of RESULTS, an international grassroots citizen's lobbying group working to create the political will to end hunger that has played a leading role in advocating for increased funding and better targeting of resources to support global health, education and microfinance initiatives. He also served as a regional project manager for CARE-Bangladesh for two years.
Alex Counts is a Cornell University graduate, with a degree in economics.
Hannah Coutand is a Business Development Manager at Intel, but got her start in technology after working for telecom firms in the United States, Germany, and Rwanda.
Hannah Coutand is a graduate of the University of Virginia and received her MBA at Cornell University.
James Cowen joined Aeroxon US, an importer and retailer of pest control products, after receiving an MBA from NYU; eventually becoming President of the company and changing its name to Roxide International. He later co-Founded Total Fuel and Energy Services, where he serves as President, to provide local heat, electrician and AC services to lower NY and Connecticut. Through Total Fuel and Energy Services, became involved in Bio Fuel, eventually creating the New York Bio Energy Corporation, joining with Cargill and becoming the exclusive distributor of bio fuel in the tri state area. Two years ago he acquired Web-Cote Industries, a industrial coating company to shift Roxide to being more vertically integrated and to provide a revenue stream independent of the whims of big boxes such as Wal-Mart. When Web-Cote was purchased, the company was in a good deal of debt and would have been declared bankrupt in a matter of months, over the course of the past two years the company has cleared off its initial debts, eliminated toxic accounts and began to earn a steadily growing profit.
Thoughout his time in business, he has gained a good deal of experience from ventures both successful and unsuccessful, providing insight into personal extermination (through starting Sanitation and Extermination Incorporated, a home and commercial extermination service), mail order magazines (though starting Under the North Star, a nautically oriented mail order catalogue) to Real-Estate (through running Total Equities, which utilizing the internal services of Total Fuel and Energy Services is able to provide rental properties with reduced overhead and flip renovated houses with a lower cost).
James Cowen received his MBA from New York University.
Teacher Created Materials is an educational publishing company that was founded in 1982 by Mary Dupuy Smith and Rachelle Cracchiolo. The company experienced tremendous growth since its inception--so much that in August 2004, the company split into two distinct businesses: a Book Company under the name Teacher Created Resources headed by Smith, and a Curriculum Company that maintains the name Teacher Created Materials headed by Cracchiolo. Prior to founding Teacher Created Materials, Rachelle taught kindergarten through sixth grade for nine years in the Fountain Valley School District. She graduated from Cal State Fullerton with a Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Education.
Harold Craighead is a Professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. From 1989 until 1995 he was Director of the National Nanofabrication Facility at Cornell University. Dr. Craighead was Director of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics from 1998 to 2000 and Director of the Nanobiotechnology Center from 2000 to 2001. He served as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering from 2001 to 2002. In July of 2002, he returned to the Nanobiotechnology Center as Co-Director for Research. He has been a pioneer in nanofabrication methods and the application of engineered nanosystems for research and device applications.
Harold Craighead received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University.
In 2010, Nicole Cramer joined McCann Worldgroup as global chief of staff-charged with organizing a sandstorm of key initiatives and strategic imperatives into a highly organized, action-oriented sand castle. In the fall of 2011, she switched focus to serve as McCann's global chief creativity catalyst, responsible for developing the network's creative excellence initiatives as well as launching and subsequently managing the global Creative Leadership Collective. After several years in roles in the entertainment and finance industries, Nicole was recruited back to her roots in marketing and into a global training and development role at DDB Worldwide Communications. She then moved to J. Walter Thompson (JWT) in roles including chief of staff for North America and later as director of the worldwide creative council - spearheading global creative projects as well as the agency's global creative assessment and development programs. Nicole Cramer holds a B.S. in Communication from Cornell University and is a graduate of Mannes College of Music and the United Nations International School. An entrepreneur, Nicole is also the managing partner of Cramer Consultants and the founder of NicNic Productions, a theatre production and training program.