Valisha Graves is an executive director in the institutional securities technology group at Morgan Stanley. She is the product manager for IRIS (Interactive Derivatives Investment Strategies), a Flex data visualization application that allows users to model and analyze equity derivatives strategies. At Morgan Stanley, Valisha has worked with the ModelWare team, responsible for the development and delivery of Web-based applications including intrinsic value (valuation), food chain, profitability analysis, clustering, nearest neighbor and correlation. She was also responsible for improving the efficacy of Workbench, an Excel-based application and managed the Cross Asset Class (CAC)/LBO application. Additionally, Valisha led a team responsible for screening investment ideas, valuation, and due diligence on behalf of the financial sponsors (private equity) and strategic investment groups. In this initiative, the ModelWare framework was used to conduct fundamental, 'bottoms up' investment and capital structure analysis and screen investment ideas across multiple asset classes. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Valisha was a senior analyst with RateFinancials, a private, independent equity research firm that ranks and rates the financial reporting, quality of earnings and corporate governance of S&P 500 companies. Valisha was part of a four-person deal team at Accordia, a $100 MM early stage, quasi private equity e-commerce technology fund. She was a vice president in the finance division of Lehman Brothers, responsible for financial modeling, academic research and data analysis for a global risk equity allocation project. She was a manager in Ernst & Young's financial services consulting practice. She spent 10 years at National Westminster Bank in roles including asset/liability management in the treasury group, where she identified interest rate hedging strategies, recommended proprietary trading strategies using financial futures and options and marketed fixed income, derivative and foreign exchange products. Valisha Graves received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from Columbia University.
<p>Lynn Zuckerman Gray is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Campus Scout, LLC, which provides strategic campus-recruiting services for corporations.</p> <p>For more than eleven years, Gray was with Lehman Brothers in New York, serving from 2002-2008 as Global Chief Administrative Officer of Lehman Brothers' Global Real Estate Group. She also was an active member of Lehman Brothers' Women's Network serving on its Steering Committee and as the Network's Cornell Recruiting Team Captain. </p> <p>Lynn Gray is a graduate of Tufts University and Cornell University Law School.</p>
Megan Gray is an attorney in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include litigating trademark and copyright cases, drafting and negotiating Internet contracts, advising clients on privacy concerns, prosecuting trademarks, analyzing trade secret claims, and defending free-speech cases. Specifically, she works with leading apparel companies with brands of worldwide fame, well-known software companies, toy producers, fabric designers, and jewelers, among many others. Megan Gray received her BA, Masters in Public Affairs and her JD from the University of Texas.
<p>Jonathan Green was recruited to Widetronix in its earliest stage to lead the implementation of market strategy. With an ongoing focus on business development, he has developed partnerships with Fortune 500 customers in the defense and medical device industries. Greene began his career in clean technology at Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm, in 1996 after receiving an MS degree in Environmental Management from the University of Michigan. At Abt he analyzed emerging clean technologies and advised federal agencies regarding commercial viability. Subsequently, as Director of Real Estate Development for Vail Resorts Inc., Greene managed pre-development for a portfolio of mix-use ski resort developments with budgets exceeding $450 million. Upon receiving an MBA from Cornell University in 2004, he became the founding Executive Director of Cornell's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise where he led the administration of the organization and cleantech initiatives. Prior to joining Widetronix, Greene founded two technology ventures based on Cornell patented technology, including commercialization of a micro-fuel cell technology, and has successfully raised more than $4 million in early stage funding since 2004.</p>
Lalana Janleka-Green is the Owner and President of Acorn Technology which she and her husband founded in 1993. Acorn Technology manufactures industrial drive control systems and has subsidiaries that manufacture marine electrical equipment (under the name METCO) and industrial HVLS ceiling fans (under the name Humongous Fan).
Acorn Technology has won the Weatherhead 100 Award (awarded to the 100 fastest growing companies in Northern Ohio) for four consecutive years with sales of over $5 million.
Lalana Janleka-Green is a graduate of Cornell University.
Robert Green is Co-founder of Acorn Technologies.
Robert Green is a graduate of Cornell University.
<p>Jeffrey L. Greene is a Sensory Scientist at Kraft Foods R&D in Glenview, IL. She guides product development by providing a clear understanding of the impact of certain ingredients, technologies, and packaging. Jeffrey supports the Cultured, Cream cheese, and Canadian Peanut butter Business Units.</p> <p>Jeffrey Greene obtained her B.S. in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana. She has her M.S. in Food & Nutritional Sciences from Tuskegee University and her Ph.D. in Food Science from North Carolina State University (concentration in Sensory Analysis and Flavor Chemistry).</p>
The Greig Farm Market was founded in 1975 and specializes in local produce, local products and fresh baked pies and donuts. During the growing season they offer their own fruits and vegetables, fresh picked daily, as well as produce from neighboring farms. They also carry work by local craftspeople including locally spun wool hats and scarves, woven baskets and handmade pottery.
Norman Greig graduated Cornell University's College of Agricutre and Life Sciences in 1973.
Natalie Grillon is the Co-founder and COO at JUST. JUST promotes transparency in fashion supply chains by connecting designers and consumers to ethical suppliers. Natalie has worked with the Peace Corps in Northern Mali as a Natural Resource Management Specialist. She also worked in environmental and sustainability planning for a Massachusetts town government and in sustainability strategy and marketing at SC Johnson. Natalie Grillon holds a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University, and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.
Yaniv Grinstein is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Cornell University's Johnson School.
Grinstein's research and teaching interests are in corporate finance and corporate governance. He has recently completed a stint at the Securities and Exchange Commission as a Visiting Academic Scholar, where he continued his research efforts in these areas. His current projects involve an analysis of the effect of the new governance rules in the U.S. on corporate value, an examination of executive compensation in U.S. corporations, and a look at the role of corporate boards in monitoring firms.
Grinstein has published in several journals, including the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. His research has been widely cited in major newspapers such as The Economist, Financial Times, Newsweek, New York Times, LA Times, Forbes magazine, Times magazine, Washington Post, as well as in Congress hearings on the new governance rules.
Yaniv Grinstein holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon.
Ken Grouf is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York division of City Year. City Year unites a diverse group of 17 to 24 year-old young people for a year of full-time, rigorous community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.
Prior to starting City Year New York, Grouf was the Director of Brand Managment at Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!, Ken was the Director of National Programs and Marketing at Do Something.
In 1993, he founded and served as the Executive Director of Students for Children, a non-profit organization that encouraged volunteerism and child advocacy on college campuses nationwide.
Ken Grouf received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Divya Gugnani started her business career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then moved on to private equity and venture capital at Investcorp International and FirstMark Capital. Currently she serves as the CEO of Send the Trend, which offers curated fashion accessories for women online. She also serves as CEO of Behind the Burner, a culinary media brand focused on tips, tricks and techniques for food, wine, mixology and nutrition. Gugnani currently advises several startups and established brands with board level roles. Most recently, she has co-founded Wander Beauty. She holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School as well as a degree from the French Culinary Institute.