Seth Flowerman is founder and president of Career Explorations, LLC (CE). CE offers a residential summer internship program with sessions in Boston and New York City for high school students from around the world. Participants live at The Juilliard School in the heart of New York City or Emerson College located on the Boston Commons. During the day, participants intern for top organizations in a field of personal interest; and attend group activities such as concerts, sporting events, and an array of other activities in the evenings.
Flowerman has been actively involved with entrepreneurship since he won a national business plan competition run by Saint Michael's College as a 16 year-old. Since then, he was named International Student Entrepreneur of the year in 2004 by JA Worldwide for his work with Career Explorations.
Seth Flowerman is currently an Applied Economics and Business major at Cornell University. He is scheduled to graduate in 2008.
Jay Fluegel is Vice President of Product Development at Event Innovation. In this role, Fluegel shepherds the product roadmap and leads the development team. His responsibilities include crafting detailed product requirements, managing a team of over 50 developers, and defining the architectural direction of the company's platform and products.
Prior to Event Innovation, Fluegel spent ten years at Microsoft in product development, management and strategic planning roles for some of the largest online services on the planet. He played a primary role in architecting and launching "Windows Live", combining the best of MSN web and Windows PC experiences into a single offering. As an international suite of services, Windows Live caters to over 430 million users with 33 languages in over 50 countries including Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger, Spaces and Events. He led strategic partnerships enabling Ebay, ESPN, Citibank, Match.com and several others to achieve their primary goals and business objectives.
Fluegel began his career as Director of Business Operations at Jump Networks which developed the Web's first free, completely-connected calendar, email and address book service, and was later acquired by Microsoft to bring that technology to Hotmail.
Jay Fluegel obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and a MBA in Technology Management from The University of Washington.
Simone Fojgiel offers a wide variety of services for multimedia projects, especially created for hitting the Hispanic market. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay she is nowadays the most exported voice that her country ever had, and without a doubt, the top Spanish Voice over Female Talent in the US right now. Simone has built a long, rich, successful career over the past two decades, which began while studying Mass & Social Communications at the most prestigious university of her country, Universidad Catolica del Uruguay. After working for 13 years at the #1 FM station, Océano FM, as an On-Air Personality and DJ, Main female Corporate/Commercial Voice Talent, Audio Imaging Director and Creative Copywriter, Simone decided in 2004 to promote her talent on the Internet.
Chris Fong is the founder of Xoogler which provides startup investment for Google alumni who are launching their own companies
Christopher Fong is the Education Vertical Lead at Google.com. In this role, he leads the advertising division's efforts in the education industry. He also volunteers with Google.org on initiatives to find investments to develop utility-scale renewable energy and to aid small and medium-size enterprises in the developing world.
Before joining Google, Fong worked in business development and marketing roles for Expedia's Seattle, Dallas, Toronto and Las Vegas offices.
Bob Forness is a Managing Partner of alTreo. He has 23 years of international experience launching, growing, acquiring and restructuring insurance and reinsurance companies. His areas of expertise include underwriting, business development, operations, capital raising, strategy and M&A. His international market expertise spans the US, Lloyd's/London, Bermuda, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean.
Forness has product experience in property catastrophe, marine, construction, transportation, general and professional liability, worker's compensation, financial institutions, life & health, and alternative risk. His work experience includes eight years with Prudential Insurance, four years at Odyssey Re and eight years at the Imagine Group.
Bob Forness has resided in the US, London and Bermuda, and holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Erika Fowler is the founder of Ithaca Fine Chocolates based in Ithaca, New York. One of the most popular items produced by the company is the Art Bar. Art Bars are organic, Fair Trade chocolate bars that feature an art reproduction by a regional adult artist or an international child artist on a collectible card inside the wrapper. Ten percent of profits from sales are donated to the Kaleidoscope outreach program of the Community School of Music & Arts in Ithaca, NY, and to the International Child Art Foundation in Washington, DC. Ithaca Fine Chocolates aims to promote artists and support art education by bringing together the luxuries of fine art and exquisite chocolate for inspired enjoyment.
A former museum director and art history instructor, Fowler intended to start an art gallery in Ithaca. That plan evolved into Art Bars while she was contemplating how to provide artists with broader exposure.
Fowler received an undergraduate degree from Hamilton College and her Masters degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Fox's interview is one of a four-part interview series of interview with "dot com" entrepreneurs (Micah Rosenbloom, Harold Fox, Zach Thompson, and Tai Nguyen). It documents an Internet start-up, Handshake.com, which was founded in 1999 and provided an Internet service to connect consumers to local merchants.
Elizabeth Francis is the Chief Marketing Officer at Intelligent Beauty Intelligent Beauty creates and operates businesses in the personal care, beauty and fashion spaces. The company believes in a better way to launch and grow businesses in the marketplace today, utilizing technology and a disciplined approach to brand building.
Elizabeth Francis has more than a decade of marketing and advertising experience, both offline and online. As CMO of Intelligent Beauty she manages the Interactive Agency, IB Interactive, supporting all divisions of IB Inc. including JustFabulous, Dermstore and SENSA. Intelligent Beauty spends over $60 million annually in advertising across all businesses. In addition to being CMO she is president of IB's newest business, JustFabulous, an online fashion company offering virtual personal styling and hand-selected fashions for customers. She is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the business, driving strategy and marketing. Prior to joining Intelligent Beauty, Francis was a vice president at Alena, a Fox Interactive company and director of marketing at LowerMyBills.com, an Experian Interactive company.
Elizabeth Francis is a graduate of Cornell University.
Cheryl Francis has been the Vice Chairman of the Corporate Leadership Center since 2002 and an independent business and financial advisor since 2000.
From 1995 to 2000, Francis served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, a print media company. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Morningstar, Inc., HNI Corporation and Hewitt Associates.
Francis holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Robert Frank is a Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson School. In addition, Frank is a monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times.
Until 2001, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board, fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was Professor of American Civilization at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Frank's books include Choosing the Right Pond, Passions within Reason, Microeconomics and Behavior, Luxury Fever, and What Price the Moral High Ground? The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and was included in Business Week's list of the ten best books for 1995.
Frank holds a BS in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MA in statistics from UC Berkeley and a PhD in economics, also from UC Berkeley.
Dr. Lois Frankel is a professional coach and author.
Her last two books, "Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office" and "Nice Girls Don't Get Rich" are international bestsellers translated into over twenty-five languages worldwide.
Frankel has been featured on the TODAY Show, CNN and CNBC, in the New York Times, USA Today, and in PEOPLE and TIME Magazines. BUSINESSWEEK named Corner Office among its top ten business books of 2004 and Paramount purchased the rights for a major motion picture.
Combining her experience in human resources at a Fortune 10 oil company with insights and information from her Ph.D. in Psychology, Dr. Frankel founded Corporate Coaching International, headquartered in Pasadena, California. Her client list reads like a who's who of multinational corporations, including Amgen, British Petroleum, McKinsey & Company, Inc., Procter & Gamble, Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company and Goldman Sachs to name just a few of the hundreds of companies that have invited her back time and again.
Lois Frankel holds a PhD in Psychology from University of Southern California.