Noah Goodhart is a New York-based entrepreneur who has spent the last 10 years starting, running and investing in internet companies. Along with his brother and partner Jonah, Goodhart started his first internet company at Cornell, an early online advertising company called Colonize.com. He went on to become co-CEO of Smarter Ad Group, a leading online customer acquisition firm. Goodhart was also a founding investor and Board member of Right Media, the leading online advertising exchange which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007.
Goodhart is a partner in WGI Group, a seed stage fund which has invested in over 20 early stage technology companies, and serves on the Board of several portfolio companies. Goodhart recently founded Moat, which is a new type of advertising company. His first internet job was in 1996 as an intern at the White House, where he helped build whitehouse.gov.
Noah Goodhart holds a BA, summa cum laude, from Cornell University, an MA, from Yale University, and is on leave from the PhD program in political science at Yale, which he paused to pursue his entrepreneurial activities.
Marissa Goodman was the marketing manager for Celebrity Brands at Steve & Barry's from 2006-2008 where she oversaw creative production and promotions. Marissa is now an account executive for Verizon at Momentum, an event marketing agency located in New York City.
Marissa Goodman is a graduate of Cornell University.
Jon Gordon\'s best-selling books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous NFL, NBA, MLB coaches and teams, Fortune 500 companies, school districts, hospitals and non-profits. He is the author of numerous books including The Wall Street Journal bestseller The Energy Bus, Soup,The No Complaining Rule, Training Camp, and The Carpenter. Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Fox and Friends and in numerous magazines and newspapers. His clients include The Atlanta Falcons, LA Clippers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Campbell Soup, Wells Fargo, Northwestern Mutual, Publix, Southwest Airlines, Bayer, West Point Academy and more. Jon is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in Teaching from Emory University.
Neal Gottlieb is the founder of Three Twins Ice Cream. Three Twins Ice Cream was certified organic in April 2006, joined One Percent For The Planet and sells to both restaurants and the Berkeley Farmers' Market. The shop also has ice cream pints available in local supermarkets.
As of November 2007, Three Twins Ice Cream can be found in more than 30 different locations and is working on opening its second retail store in Napa's Oxbow Public Market.
Gottlieb previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the old city of Taroudant Morocco from 2002 - 2003. His tenure in Morocco was cut short when the war in Iraq led to the evacuation of the program. Upon returning the States, Gottlieb was employed at Levi Strauss's corporate headquarters prior to starting his company.
Neal Gottlieb is a graduate of Cornell University.
David Gottlieb is the Managing Partner of Noble Bridge Group LLC, a financial consulting company he established in early 2004. Also since 2004, Mr. Gottlieb has served as a Director of ABIOMED, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical products designed to assist or replace the pumping function of the failing heart. From 1990 to 2003, Mr. Gottlieb held various investment banking positions most recently as Global Head of the Medical Technology Corporate and Investment Banking Group of Banc of America Securities. In this role, he was responsible for the sector team covering nearly 300 companies globally in the medical device and hospital supply industry as well as the life science tools, in-vitro diagnostics and diagnostic imaging industries.
Previously, he held a number of positions overseeing investment banking for life science companies, including at UBS Investment Bank and Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated. Mr. Gottlieb has completed more than $45 billion in corporate banking, investment banking and strategic advisory transactions such as mergers and acquisitions in the medical technology, biotechnology and health care services fields.
David Gottlieb's degrees include a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Connecticut College and a Master's in Business Administration from the Columbia Business School.
Pat Govang is a co-founder of e2e Materials, LLC. e2e Materials, LLC is a spin-off from Cornell University and is a 'clean technology' start-up company that produces petroleum-free, biodegradable composites.
While Govang currently works full-time at e2e, he was previously the Director of Industrial Partnerships at the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR). In that role, he was responsible for managing and developing the Center's partnerships with Industry. His duties focused on the development of a viable, broad-based and coordinated outreach program to New York state companies involved in commercial materials research and development.
Prior to that role, Govang was at AM&T, one of CCMR's regional Technology Development Organizations, where he worked with the Industrial Partnerships program. Prior to joining AM&T in November, 2001 he worked for Deloitte Consulting.
Pat Govang is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in Product Design and Development.
Pat Granahan joined the Fish & Neave IP Group of Ropes & Gray as a partner in 2001. Pat's practice includes patent application drafting and prosecution, technology licensing, and providing patentability, patent validity and non-infringement assessments in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, and especially biotechnology and chemistry. Pat has been in practice since 1983 and during that time, has worked with many non-profit academic and research institutes, as well as companies ranging in size from small startups to large multinational businesses, particularly in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Pat is Patent Counsel at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and will continue in this role. Prior to joining the Firm, she was a partner of Hamilton, Brook, Smith, and Reynolds.
Bill Grande is the Director of Research and Development at OhmCraft. He joined Ohmcraft in 2004, after serving on the faculty of the Microelectronics Engineering Department at RIT.
Grande has over twenty years experience in design and fabrication of opto-electronics and MEMS devices as a senior research scientist at Kodak and as visiting scientist at Cornell.
Bill Grande received a B.S. in Electrical and Chemical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of technology and Ph.D in Applied Physics from Cornell.
Bill Grant is the Program Manager of the Technology Management Program at University of California - Santa Barbara's (UCSB) College of Engineering. Grant facilitates intimate working luncheons, 'Leaders in Innovation' seminars, lectures, cable tv, and his "On the Edge" radio program on KCSB91.9FM. Created and hosted by Grant and UCSB students, the weekly show features successful entrepreneurs and innovators and discusses how ideas become inventions.
In 2007, Grant received the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award for his work at UCSB in creating and managing extracurricular activities that enable students to network and share knowledge and experience with successful scientists, entrepreneurs, innovators and other business experts.
<p>Kelli Grant has covered consumer finance since joining SmartMoney.com in June 2005. Her Deal of the Day column and accompanying 3 Tips video segments tell consumers how to save money and spend it wisely. </p> <p>Before joining SmartMoney.com, Kelli worked at MarketWatch.com as a reporter. </p> <p>She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and anthropology from Ithaca College.</p>
Dan Grauman founded DGA Partners, a healthcare management consulting group, after serving as a principal at the Raleigh Group (later Value Health Sciences). Before that he directed the Chicago healthcare consulting practice for Laventhol & Horwath.
Dan holds an MBA and Sloan Certificate in Health Services Administration from Cornell University, Johnson School of Management and a BA in Economics from Temple University.