Roy Daniel is the CEO of Energy Storage and Power, LLC. Energy Storage and Power has patented compressed air energy storage technology.
Daniel has more than two decades of experience in energy project development and power asset operations. His management responsibilities span power plant construction and operation, electricity transmission, generation outage management, power pool relations, power contracting and small business law.
Prior to joining Energy Storage and Power LLC, Daniel was a director of mergers and acquisitions development at Public Service Energy Group (PSEG) Services; director of development ar PSEG Global; president, COO and CFO or Energy Infrastructure and Development and vice president Asia Pacific at PSEG Asia.
Roy Daniel holds a BS degree in Nuclear Engineering and a MS degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University. He also holds a Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School and completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Roy Danis is a veteran of 27 years in the Beverage business. He started his career with The Seagram Company in Dec. 1978 and spent 14 years there rising in the ranks through various sales & marketing positions. He worked on many of the company's key brands including Senior Brand Manager - Crown Royal, the company's number one profit contributor. In 1993, Seagram promoted Roy to the position of Director of Sales & Marketing for their Tropicana Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Seagram. In 1995 Roy was recruited by Diageo, to be their Vice President of Sales, Eastern Division. In 1997 he was recruited by Pernod Ricard to become the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for their U.S. import company, responsible for such brands as Jameson Irish Whiskey and Jacobs Creek Wines from Australia.
In 1998, Roy left Pernod Ricard to start his own wine import company, focusing exclusively on Australian Wines. He did this for 3 years before being contacted by W.J. Deutsch & Sons, Ltd. to head up sales and marketing for this family wine importer, based in White Plains, NY. He was hired as their Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, in October 2001. The Deutsch Co. was selling just over 1 million cases of wine products in the U.S. at that time. In this capacity, Roy was directly responsible for the strategic direction of the entire company's portfolio. Roy was intimately involved with and oversaw the historic launch of the Yellow Tail brand in the U.S., clearly one of the most successful wine brands ever to appear on the U.S. market. Today the W. J. Deutsch Co sells approximately 9.5 million cases of wine in the U.S. In January 2005, Roy was promoted to Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Roy Danis holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration in Marketing from Boston College.
Ava Danville is a recent graduate who is an independent associate of the company Pre-Paid Legal. She began her work with Pre-Paid Legal while an undergraduate student.
Ava Danville is a graduate of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University.
<p>Diane Darling is an author and Founder and CEO of Effective Networking, Inc. She founded the company on the premise that everyone can learn to network, they just need to find their own style.</p> <p>Combining interactive training, strategic planning and an exploration of the natural fears of networking, Darling demystifies the process by providing techniques that can be immediately implemented. </p> <p>She has received rave reviews for her seminars and speeches and is increasingly sought after as an expert resource on the subject of networking. </p> <p>McGraw-Hill commissioned her to write the definitive book on networking called The Networking Survival Guide which was published in April 2003 and went into a 2nd printing just 90 days after the book hit the shelves. The book has been translated into Korean and Taiwanese. In 2005, McGraw-Hill published her 2nd book, Networking for Career Success which has since been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, and Thai. </p> <p>Darling has appeared on NBC Nightly News, in The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe. She is also a monthly columnist for the Boston Business Journal and teaches in the MBA program at Boston University.</p>
Nikki Daruwala is Director of the Social Responsibility program at American Rights at Work. Prior to this position, she was Manager for Advocacy and Social Policy at Calvert, a leading socially responsible mutual fund company. Daruwala is a founding member of the Child Labor Coalition, and has served as Chairperson of the Indigenous Rights Committee and the Diversity Committee at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and on the Shareholder Advisory and Policy Committee Board of the Social Investment Forum. She currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Daruwala is a graduate of Ithaca College and holds an MS in Industrial and Labor Relations from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Prem Das is Director of the Office of Technology Licensing & Industry Sponsored Research at Harvard University. Prior to joining OTL, Prem was Associate Director of the Office of Industrial Affairs at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and was Director of Business Development for Cadus Pharmaceuticals of Tarrytown, NY from 1996 until 1999. He worked with a start-up biotechnology company for several years prior to joining Cadus, first as Director of Research and subsequently as President and acting CEO. He has also worked as a business development consultant in the biochip area.
Prem Das received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Chemistry Department at MIT and has academic research expertise in several areas of modern biology.
Sharon Dauk is a Managing Director of Dauk/Wagner Investments, LLC a private investment company she founded with her husband and partner in 1994. Dauk/Wagner Investments invests in and provides financial and strategic advice to early stage companies in a variety of industries. Of their portfolio companies, Sharon is on the Board of Dotmenu, Inc., holding company of Campusfood.com and Allmenus.com. Additionally, she works as an Executive Coach. Prior to forming Dauk/Wagner Investments, Sharon spent six years on Wall Street first at Smith Barney in their Mergers and Acquisition department and then at Morgan Stanley in their Corporate Finance Group with specific focus on large real estate transactions. Prior to that and after graduating from USC\'s Undergraduate Entrepreneurship program, Sharon started and managed a seminar workshop business in partnership with USC\'s business school. In 1987, Sharon became the first recipient of the Student Agencies Fellowship, which was jointly sponsored by the Johnson School and Student Agencies, a student-run organization whose mission is to provide real-world experience to Cornell students through starting and managing small businesses. During her Fellowship and while earning her MBA, Sharon founded and managed a small Venture Fund directed at student-run businesses; acted as \"Mentor in Chief\" to the student managers; and managed the re-development of 409 College Avenue, a mixed-use property owned by the organization. Sharon remains on the Board of Student Agencies and was Chair from 1995 through 2006. Sharon Dauk earned her undergraduate degree at University of Southern California and her MBA at Cornell University.
Karen Davies is a Commercial Loan Officer with Crestar (which was acquired by SunTrust right before the interview).
Jennifer Davis is a Vice Presidentin the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs.
After graduation, Davis took a job as an analyst at investment banking firm, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette which was then acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston. After spending two years in an Analyst position, Davis returned to school for her MBA at Harvard Business School. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 after completing her MBA.
Jennifer Davis received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from Harvard.
Irwin Davis joined the Metropolitan Development Association in 1968 and has been its top executive officer since 1976, making him the longest serving economic development official in Central New York. Formed in 1959, the association is a nonprofit organization that promotes economic development in the central Upstate region.
Irwin Davis received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Masters Degree in Regional and Urban Development and Public Policy from American University.
Tim Davis is Executive VP and CTO of Kionix.
As one of the co-founders of Kionix, Davis guided the development of products for inertial sensing, microfluidics, and optical switching. Davis was instrumental in the sale of the Kionix optical business to Calient Networks in 2001, serving as Executive Vice President of the new subsidiary Calient Optical Components. Dr. Davis returned to Kionix in February 2004 as Executive Vice President and CTO, and has led Kionix engineering through a period of growth culminating in the sale of the company to Rohm Semiconductor in 2009.
Tim Davis completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1993, and holds a B.S. in Engineering Science & Mechanics from the Pennsylvania State University. His doctoral work focused on stimulated emission from highly energetic electron beams.
Chris Dearnley is the co-founder of Pura Vida Coffee. He has lived in Costa Rica for over 16 years. He coordinates the Pura Vida Partners staff and volunteers in the implementation of Pura Vida's programs for at-risk children and families in Central America. Chris draws on his experience in international business, non-profit and pastoral work in making life-changing impact in the lives of children in need.
Chris Dearnley earned a BA from Wheaton College and a MBA from Harvard University.