Scott Drassinower is the President of Cloud 9 Internet, Inc. He started Cloud 9 in 1993 after being frustrated by the lack of internet access in his hometown outside of New York City. Pressed for time as a high school student and working out of a cramped office in his father's medical practice, he had incentive to quickly grow the company. Throughout the 1990s, Cloud 9 expanded to provide service to businesses, non-profits, and government agencies in the New York metropolitan area. Drassinower realized that information technology and entrepreneurship are two subjects that can be learned well in the real world, and decided to begin a course of study that is best suited for the classroom: a liberal arts education.
After graduating from Cornell in 2002 with a degree in comparative literature, he continued to build Cloud 9 as it entered its second decade. The company's new focus is information technology consulting for small and medium businesses, with an emphasis on managed services hosted in its own data center.
Ken Dryden holds a degree in history from Cornell University and a law degree from McGill University. He also has received honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Ottawa, Windsor, York, McMaster, St. Mary�[TM]s, Niagara and British Columbia.
At Cornell, Dryden led the Cornell Big Red to the 1967 National Collegiate Athletic Association hockey championship and three consecutive ECAC tournament championships. He was a member of the Sigma Phi Society and vice-president of the Quill and Dagger society.
Dryden was goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team from 1971 to 1979, during which time the team went on to win six Stanley cups. Mr. Dryden is a proud member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame and his jersey number 29 was retired by the Canadiens in Jan. 2007.
Dryden was first elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for York Centre in 2004 and was re-elected in 2006 and 2008. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Minister of Social Development. He is the author of four best-selling books: The Game, Home Game, The Moved and the Shaken, and In School. In 1984, he was appointed Ontario's first Youth Commissioner. Before entering politics, Dryden served as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
T.J Duane is a Principal of Lateral Link. Duane currently oversees Lateral Link's business operations and development for the law firm, in-house, non-profit and government sectors.
Prior to Lateral Link, Duane founded several companies focused on integrating internet and real world communities, including HL Central, Inc. Sheffield Capital and HL Alumni. From 2002 until 2006, Duane was an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York, New York with a practice focused on commercial transactions and securities law.
T.J. Duane holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Jennifer Dulski is the President and COO of Change.org Prior to Change.org, Dulski led the product management team for shopping and product ads at Google. She joined Google in 2011 when it acquired Dealmap, a company Dulski co-founded and served as its CEO from 2007 until its acquisition. Dealmap indexed over 400,000 local deals every day, totaling more than $10 million in savings available from hundreds of sources, including national brands, daily deal websites, local businesses and consumers. Dealmap has since been incorporated into Google Offers. Prior to Dealmap, Dulski served in multiple roles at Yahoo! from 1999 until 2007. Her last position was Yahoo's group vice president and general manager of local and commerce, where she led a $500 million plus portfolio of businesses and a 500 person team across the local and marketplace properties, including local, maps, shopping, travel, automotive and real estate. Additionally, Dulski founded and ran Summerbridge Pittsburgh (part of the Breakthrough Collaborative), a non-profit organization that launches high potential, underserved middle school students on the path to college and inspires high school and college students to pursue careers in education. Since 2008, she has chaired the board of the Silicon Valley site of Breakthrough. She also currently serves on the board of Little Passports, a global subscription commerce company inspiring children to learn about other countries and cultures. Jennifer Dulski received a MBA from S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, also from Cornell University.
Dr. Emmanuel Dumont is a principal investigator at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute in New York City. His research focuses on wearable technologies for chronic disease management. Dr. Dumont is also the founder and CEO of SHADE, a medical-grade ultraviolet sensor with real-time feedback on smartphone for lupus management. SHADE has been backed by the Jacobs Institute, Weill-Cornell Medical College, PCH, and SilverTech Ventures. Dr. Dumont holds a MS in Mathematics and Physics from Mines de Paris (France) and a PhD in biomedical engineering from Columbia University.
David Dunlop, a development officer for Cornell University from 1959 until his retirement in 1997, founded the university's major and principal gifts programs. In the 38 years he served Cornell, he acquired a wide range of annual, capital campaign, and major gift fund raising experience. He created and directed both Cornell's major gifts program for gifts of $1 million and up, and the principle gifts program for gifts of $5 million and up. From 1990 to 1995, Dave served on the senior management team of the Cornell Campaign--which set a record for the college and university campaigns when it received over $1.5 billion in gifts. Since his retirement in 1997, Dunlop continues to serve Cornell as a volunteer.
Over 200 other colleges, universities, and non-profit organizations have called on Dunlop for advice and training in fund raising for what he calls "ultimate gifts." Among them are large national organizations including United Way of America, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, CARE International, and the Easter Seals Society.
The concepts for major gift fund raising which Dave developed and practiced are described in chapters he contributed to the Handbook of Institutional Advancement (1986) (2000),The President and Fund Raising (1989), Educational Fund Raising: Principles and Practice(1993), and Developing an Effective Major Gift Program: From Managing Staff to Soliciting Gifts (1993), New Strategies for Educational Fund Raising (2002), and in several CASE Currents articles.
David Dunlop is a graduate of Cornell 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. Mary Dupuy Smith both worked as a teacher prior to starting the business. She holds Masters Degrees in Education.
Joseph Duva is the founder and President of theserviceauction.com. His company is an auction website where homeowners and licensed contractors connect through a real-time online biding process. This process allows the homeowner to find the most qualified home improvement contractor for their specific needs, at a competitive price. Qualified contractors can find work in a hassle free way from the comfort of their own homes.
Joe Duva is currently a junior at Cornell University. He expected to graduate in 2009.
As former CEO and now Co-Chair Dwyer Group, Dina Dwyer-Owens is also known as a great business leader, a book author and motivational speaker. Her first book, Live RICH How to build success in your company and your life with a proven Code of Values®, then later launched her subsequent successful topic Values, Inc.
John Dyson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Millbrook Capital Management which owns Pebble Ridge Vineyards & Wine Estates, which in turn, operates wineries and commercial vineyards in New York, California and Italy.
Much of Dyson's career has been spent in public service. He created the New York tourism campaign in the 1970s when he was Commissioner of Commerce for New York state. In 1994, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani appointed him New York City Deputy Mayor for Finance and Economic Development, in which position he worked to rebuild the downtown area in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. He served as chairman of the New York State Power Authority and of the Urban Development Corporation and state commissioner of agriculture, where he was responsible for developing the "Grown in New York" program.
John Dyson earned a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University.
<p>Peggy Hart Earle has spent her career designing children's wear. Earle first worked at Cinderella, a Pennsylvania children's design house, for a short time before pursuing her dream of owning her own children's wear company. </p> <p>She founded Hartstrings in 1979 and began to sell her designs in a booth at the local farmer's market, as well as small and large retail stores. Hartstrings is known for an "uncorporate" but efficient business style. The company was recently acquired by Keystone Trading Company.</p> <p> Peggy Hart Earle graduated from Cornell University as a Textile and Apparel Design major in 1974. </p>
Evan T. Edwards currently serves as vice-president of product development for Intelliject, LLC., a biomedical company devoted to developing innovative drug delivery technologies. He is the co-founder of Intelliject and their compact drug delivery system, specializing in all areas of the invention and design process. He is currently one of the primary inventors on more than forty of Intelliject's patents filed both domestically and abroad.
Intelliject, LLC was formed from an Advanced E-Team award from the NCIIA in 2000.
Evan Edwards received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.