<p>Alison Gerlach is a successful entrepreneur and business executive with expertise in and passion for building businesses. After doing extensive research in optimizing the business start-up process, Gerlach went on to build businesses in industries including technology, entertainment services, consumer packaged goods, and professional services. Prior to her entrepreneurial endeavors, she was a strategic management consultant and an overseas investment banker. </p> <p>In addition to building and growing her current venture, "Allie's Edibles", Gerlach spends a great deal of her time teaching, consulting to both start-up and large corporations, and giving lectures to both business and academic audiences on optimizing the business start-up process. </p> <p>Alison Gerlach earned a BA in economics from Cornell University and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.</p>
Amy Gershkoff, PhD is the Director of Customer Analytics & Insights for eBay.
Prior to joining eBay, Gershkoff was the Chief Data Scientist for WPP, Data Alliance, where she worked across WPP's more than 350 operating companies worldwide to create integrated data and technology solutions. Previously, she served as the Director of Media Planning at Obama for America, where she was the architect of Obama's advertising strategy.
A successful entrepreneur, Gershkoff co-founded Changing Targets Media, an advertising analytics company. For Changing Targets Media's success, Gershkoff was named one of the nation's "40 under 40" leading entrepreneurs and named one of the Top 50 Women to Watch in Tech.
Amy Gershkoff holds a Ph.D. and a Master's in American Politics and Methodology from Princeton University, and she received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Government from Cornell University.
Not so long ago, Susan Gibbs left a career as a network news producer in New York City in search of something more authentic. A chance encounter with a book about raising sheep sealed her fate. With a great deal of hard work and a towering stack of How-to-Farm books, Susan developed a flock of Cormo sheep and a beautiful herd of angora goats. Today, Juniper Moon Farm is home to a herd of lovely angora goats, some fat, spoiled sheep, two Maremma livestock guardian dogs, and the world's first yarn CSA. In her spare time, Susan does consulting for would-be farmers and has written dozens of published articles on food and farming. But her full-time job is shepherding the flock and blogging about her experiences.
Tom Gibson has been a pioneer in the field of risk capital for small and medium enterprises in developing countries. From 1989 through 1999, Mr. Gibson was founding President, then Chairman of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) and chaired a number of SEAF's funds. Mr. Gibson is currently president of the Institute for SME Finance, a group of financial and legal professionals who promote the greater availability and more effective use of risk capital for Small and Medium Sized Entreprises (SMEs) in developing and transitional economies.
Since its founding in mid-2000, the Institute has provided training to more than 300 practitioners in risk capital finance in developing countries and advisory services to a wide range of organizations and governments in the development of SME risk capital funds. Through his work in some 40 countries, he has held in-depth interviews with more than 500 SMEs and some 50 SME equity funds on five continents.
Barry Gilbertson is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers where he leads the real estate and hospitality & leisure teams within the Advisory practice.
After qualifying as a chartered quantity surveyor in 1974, Gilbertson became a partner in private practice in 1983. He later headed the professional services department at an estate agency before becoming managing director of a property investment and development company. Gilbertson then joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1992 as national property adviser, which merged with Price Waterhouse in July 1998 to form PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In 2004, Gilbertson was elected to serve as President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) which has over 110,000 members worldwide.
Steve Gilfus is the Chairman and CEO of Event Innovation. Gilfus, together with Event Innovation's President Ron Dinwiddie, developed the idea and software design for Event Innovation, founding the company in 2007 to provide sports, entertainment and arts venues with better information about attendees and attendees with a better overall experience at events.
Gilfus is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, and noted software designer and inventor. Prior to founding Event Innovation Steve was co-founder of D.C based Blackboard Inc. (nasdaq:BBBB). Blackboard's flagship products are used by millions of instructors and students across more than 3,600 institutions in 70 countries. He has been noted as being instrumental to the development of the eLearning market space and making Blackboard a leading provider of e-Learning software and services.
Steve Gilfus received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University where he was an academic scholar and founder of the Cornell Entrepreneur Organization.
Rhonda Gilmore began her career at the furniture design company Herman Miller. In the mid-1980s Gilmore founded her own sole proprietorship, Rhonda Gilmore Design Consultant, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Gilmore closed her business after six years to return to school and pursue a teaching career. Currently, Gilmore is a lecturer in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell. Rhonda Gilmore received her B.S. from the University of Cincinnati in 1982 and her M.A. in Interior Design from Cornell University in 1994.
Carla Ginsburg is a gastroenterologist who runs her own private practice in Boston. In addition, she is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School where she teaches students two months a year. Prior to starting a private practice, she focused on the research and administration areas of gastroenterology. These varied experiences provide her with a unique understanding of many different aspects of the medical field.
Dr. Ginsburg received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her medical degree from Yale University.
Daniel Glickberg joined Fairway Market full-time in 2005. He helped open the Red Hook Brooklyn store with great success in 2006 and has since helped open three more new stores. Danny also runs Fairway's marketing department and the Fairway Wines & Spirits operation. In 2008, he launched Discover Fairway, a video-focused website featuring food tips and monthly cooking segments with Mitchel London, Fairway's Chef de Cuisine. Danny and London also host a weekly cooking segment on NBC's LX New York, and, in 2011, Danny launched a new food segment, "At the Table," on News Talk radio 710 WOR with Joan Hamburg.
Daniel Glickberg is a graduate of Trinity College.
For more than 30 years, Howard Glickberg has led Fairway Market in achieving the high standard of excellence established when his grandfather founded the market before World War II. Howard came back to the family business in 1974 when it was clear that Fairway was suffering under absentee management.
Howard and his dedicated team spent the next 20 years adding specialty food items, expanding the space, and building Fairway Market into a New York City icon.
He has been named Entrepreneur of the Year from Deloitte & Touche and Business of the Year by the Westside Chamber of Commerce. With his partners, he was named to the Top 50 Influential Businessmen in NYC by Crain's in 1997.
Michael and Karma Glos began their small, diversified organic farm in Berkshire, New York, located 20 miles east of Ithaca, in 1996. Since then, three of those years have included commercial operations.
They specialize in producing free-range organic meat (poultry, pork, beef) and organic herbs and specialty vegetables, and are certified by NOFA-NY Certified Organic LLC. All the vegetables, herbs and poultry are certified; the pork and beef are raised according to organic standards after 6 weeks of age.
The Glos' launched their business with no formal training, but relied on a love of farming and their experiences as farming apprentices.
<p>Brent Gloy is a professor of agricultural finance and agribusiness management at Cornell University. He teaches an undergraduate course in Agribusiness Strategy and a graduate course in Agricultural Finance. He co-teaches a two-week international field study that allows students to gain exposure to the food and agribusiness systems in foreign countries. In the past three years, groups have traveled to Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Australia. He has also participated in farm management study trips to California, Florida, and Georgia and has been actively involved with the Farm Credit Fellows program.</p> <p>In addition to his activities at Cornell, Brent remains involved in the family farming operation located in southwestern Nebraska.</p> <p>Brent Gloy received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University.</p>