Megan Hughes is the Coordinator for Basketball Operations and Player Relations at the WNBA. Megan Hughes is a graduate of Cornell University.
John Hui is Co-founder of Twiage. He is an entrepreneurial business executive with more than 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry.
Rodney P. Hunt is majority owner and co-founder of RS Information Systems, Inc., a mission-oriented business focused on information technology, systems engineering, telecommunications, and scientific services and solutions.
Since co-founding RSIS in 1992, Hunt has led the company through a period of uninterrupted growth, with annual revenues in excess of $330 million. Its professional staff, now numbering over 1,500, supports 100 prime contracts with civilian and defense agencies of the federal government.
Hunt has 20 years of experience in systems engineering, information management and business development, including three years as marketing director of another small and disadvantaged information technology firm. He also was a senior associate for Booz Allen Hamilton, where he led the Technical and Engineering Systems Group in support of government and commercial clients.
In 2006, Hunt received the Northern Virginia Urban League Diversity Award for his commitment to diversity in the RSIS workforce and among the company's vendors and small business partners; and Virginia Business magazine named him one of 20 Virginians who transformed their industry in the past two decades. Last year, U.S. Small Business Administration named him Small Business Champion of the Year for his efforts in helping small businesses -- largely those owned by women and minorities -- crack the highly competitive federal contracting business.
Rodney Hunt holds a dual bachelor of science degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering (ORIE) from Cornell and George Washington Universities.
Louise Hurlbut is a partner at Beneterre. For the past 30 years, Hurlbut has been engaged in entrepreneurial ventures, corporate management and small service companies providing marketing, planning, research, strategy and new product development expertise. She was an initial funder and partner of the Boppy Company, maker of the eight-time winner of the #1 Baby Product by American Baby Magazine. Her most recent venture is in the eco-friendly market, designing and manufacturing a line of reusable and washable bags for portable food, wine and fresh produce under the brand name Beneterre. Hurlbut with her partner continuously design new products to replace plastic and paper and encourage consumers to be eco-friendly by purchasing and using American made Beneterre products.
Lousie Hurlbut has her undergraduate degree from Mills College and her MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.
Jill Hurst-Wahl, MLS, is a digitization consultant and owner of Hurst Associates, Ltd. She also teaches digitization for Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. Prior to forming Hurst Associates, she worked for Manning & Napier Advisors and Corning Incorporated.
Hurst-Wahl has more than 15 years of diversified professional experience with significant accomplishments in information retrieval and information technology. She is currently working on a two-year planning project with the Western New York Library Resources Council. She has also completed planning projects with the Capital District Library Council and the South Central Regional Library Council. She has also worked on several private (in-house) projects and the Women's Suffrage Digitization Project, a demonstration project completed in 2000 by the Rochester Regional Library Council. Her knowledge in the area of digitization includes project planning, project management, vendor selection, intellectual property concerns, and material access.
Jill Hurst-Wahl received her MLS from University of Maryland's College of Library and Information Science and her Bachelor's degree from Elmira College.
Daniel Huttenlocher is a computer scientist whose research interests include the extraction of information from digital images via computer vision, the role of technology in transforming financial markets, and management of high performance software development teams. He holds 22 U.S. patents and has published more than 50 papers. A Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University as well as a Professor of Technology Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, he is also chief technology officer of Intelligent Markets, a firm that provides comprehensive trading technological tools to dealers and exchanges serving the institutional financial markets.
Daniel Huttenlocher has more than ten years of experience in managing research and development teams in corporate and academic settings. He has received many distinguished teaching awards in the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences; in 1996, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Fellow at Cornell in recognition of teaching excellence, and received the Excellence in Science and Technology Award from Xerox PARC.
Daniel Huttenlocher received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his Master's and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lindsay Hyde is founder and executive director of Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc. (SWSG), a Massachusetts not-for-profit organization which helps at-risk girls in grades 3-5 build positive self-esteem and skills.
Hyde was named one of Glamour Magazine's "Top Ten College Women" in 2003. She was also awarded the Seventeen Magazine National Youth Volunteerism Award.
Lindsay Hyde is a graduate of Harvard University.
Mohamed "Mo" Ibrahim is a Sudanese-born British mobile communications entrepreneur. He worked for several other telecommunications companies before founding Celtel. He is currently on the board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and is a member of the Africa Regional Advisory Board of London Business School.
Ibrahim was employed by British Telecom for a time, and later worked as the technical director for Cellnet, a subsidiary of British Telecom. In 1989 he founded MSI, a consultancy and software company, which was bought by Marconi in 2000.
In 1998, MSI spun off MSI-Cellular Investments, later renamed Celtel, as a mobile phone operator in Africa.
In 2006, Ibrahim created the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The aims of the foundation are The stated aims of the foundation are to: stimulate debate on good governance across sub-Saharan Africa and the world, provide objective criteria by which citizens can hold their Governments to account, and recognize achievement in African leadership and provide a practical way in which African leaders can build positive legacies on the continent when they have left office.
Mo Ibrahim earned a Bachelor of Science from University of Alexandria and a master's degree from the University of Bradford, both in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D from the University of Birmingham in mobile communications.
Mo Ibrahim earned a Bachelor of Science from University of Alexandria and a master's degree from the University of Bradford, both in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D from the University of Birmingham in mobile communications.
<p>Jeffrey Immelt is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric. He was selected by GE's Board of Directors in 2000 to replace Jack Welch following his retirement. Previously, Immelt had headed up GE's Medical Systems division (now known as GE Healthcare) as its President and CEO. Immelt has been with GE since 1982.</p> <p>Jeff Immelt holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. </p>
Robert Innes is a Professor of Agricultural Policy Analysis, Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Information and Risk and Environmental Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona.
Robert Innes' research has focused on a variety of issues in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, finance, agricultural policy, environmental economics, and law. He has received the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation (1987), Quality of Research Discovery (1994, 1999), and Distinguished Policy Contribution awards from the Agricultural Agricultural Economics Association, the Best Published Research Award (1999) from the Western Agricultural Economics Association, and the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal for outstanding research from the European Economic Association (1994).
Innes has also served on the faculty University of California (Davis) and as Senior Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he developed and advanced a range of farm policy reforms ultimately proposed by the Clinton Administration for enactment in the 1996 Farm Bill.
Robert Innes received his BA, MBA and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.
James Ioannidis is the Chief Technology Officer at The College Freeway. The College Freeway was launched in September 2007. The company's mission is to create an online library on which college students and faculty pubish and view academic documents. For example, students may contribute documents that they have created themselves (Outlines, Study Guides, Notes, Formula Sheets, Essays, Research Papers, Etc.). And faculty may contribute work that they have created as well (Practice Tests & Questions, Problem Sets, Labs, Etc.). The College Freeway team is based out of Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA with a supporting satelite team based out of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
James Ioannidis received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Educator and activist, Jill Iscol, EdD, is President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation, a family foundation established in 1989 to support domestic and international efforts to strengthen democracy and reduce the social, economic, and educational inequalities that threaten it. For the past two decades Jill has supported and participated in numerous organizations and has developed an expertise in identifying visionary leaders and programs at early stages of their development. She fosters their advancement by providing seed capital and guidance enabling them to become stable, sustainable and successful organizations, impacting lives around the globe. As a Democratic Party activist, Jill served as Co-Chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate's New York Finance Committee and as National Vice-Chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton for President's 2008 Finance Committee. In addition, Jill serves as a Trustee of Horizons National, on the Advisory Board of the Center for New American Security inWashington, as a member of the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and was most recently appointed to the US-Afghan Women's Council. Jill received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from University of Pittsburgh (1967), a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University (1976), and a Master of Philosophy in Sociology from Yale (1990).