Fred Johnson is the owner of Johnson Estate Winery. He received his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Cornell University.
In 1980, Sheila Johnson and her former husband, Robert L. Johnson, co-founded BET, the first cable television network aimed at African-American viewers. Serving as executive vice president of corporate affairs, Sheila Johnson was primarily responsible for investigating various community and philanthropic activities and helped build the highly rated cable network into a media powerhouse, which Viacom acquired in 1997 for $3 billion. Johnson was a member of BET Holdings Inc.'s board of directors until January 2001. Johnson currently is focused on various philanthropic activities, as well as the construction of the Salamander Inn and Spa on land she owns in Middleburg, Va. An accomplished violinist, Johnson has a diverse background that includes 19 years as a music educator in the Washington, D.C., area. During that time, she founded Young Strings in Action for children, in 1975. A textbook she wrote about her teaching methods, Young Strings in Action, is still used in many U.S. schools.
<p>After graduating from the Johnson School in 2009, Kevin Johnson joined the Acciona Energy team in Chicago as part of the Clean Tech Leadership Program. As part of his MBA, he focused on sustainable business with an emphasis on renewable energy. Before coming to the Johnson School, Kevin Johnson served as an officer in the United States Army. </p>
Scott E. Johnson is the Vice President of Global Environmental and Safety Actions at SC Johnson & Son, Inc. In this role, he provides global leadership to facilitate the development and implementation of environmental and safety policies, strategies and actions which build upon the Corporation's eco-efficiency efforts of the 1990's and commitment to responsible environmental management. Unique to this role, Scott has also initiated sustainable development cross-sector partnership programs in the U.S. and Africa, including Base of the Pyramid programs.
Johnson has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience with SC Johnson. Previous assignments include Managing Director of Corporate New Products & Technologies, Director of Sales & Marketing in North America Professional, Director for Global Business Development in Worldwide Innochem and Category Manager in Air Care/Floor Care in North America Consumer Products Marketing.
Scott Johnson earned both a BBA degree and MBA degree in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Helen Johnson-Leipold joined SC Johnson in September 1985 in the product management area and served in a variety of sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility before being named Vice President - Consumer Marketing Services, Worldwide in 1992. She moved to Johnson Outdoors, a leading global outdoor recreation products company, as Executive Vice President of North American businesses in 1995. She returned briefly to SC Johnson in 1997 as Vice President, Personal & Home Care Products.
In March 1999, Johnson-Leipold was elected Chairman and CEO of Johnson Outdoors Inc., and in July 2004, was also elected Chairman, Johnson Financial Group, the $3.2 billion dollar global financial services company founded by her father, Sam Johnson. She leads both of these family companies from their worldwide headquarters in The Johnson Building, designed by "green architecture" pioneer William McDonough.
Prior to coming to SC Johnson, she began her career at Foote, Cone & Belding in Chicago in 1979, directing the advertising for some of America's leading consumer packaged goods companies, including Kraft and Beatrice Foods.
Helen Johnson-Leipold is a graduate of Cornell University.
Kate Jones has over fifteen years of experience in Sales and Marketing. Much of that experience was gained during her time at Procter & Gamble. Kate is an expert at developing multi-functional, customer-focused teams, and fully utilizing these organizations to generate competitive advantage for clients. As both a facilitator and leader, Kate applies customer relationship management principles to all areas of a client's business, enabling them to deliver faster results, achieve greater efficiencies, and reduce costs.
Kate Jones received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
James Jorasch currently heads up the R&D department of Walker Digital, the think tank which launched Priceline.com. Walker Digital, LLC invents business systems which solve problems. Founded in 1994 by Jay S. Walker, Walker Digital's inventors have been granted over 200 U.S. and International Patents for unique business systems. The invention teams, lead by Mr. Walker, currently have a portfolio of more than 500 business solutions. Walker Digital is best known for its role as the invention laboratory that created priceline.com, which was subsequently launched by Mr. Walker in 1998. James Jorasch is a graduate of Cornell University.
<p>Paul Joseph is currently in a leadership position at Netegrity, a technology company which is a leading provider of security software solutions that securely manage identities and their access to enterprise information assets. Netegrity was acquired by Computer Associates in October of 2004. </p> <p>Prior to his role at Netegrity, Paul was a Vice President at Simon Management Group, a management consulting firm that specializes in assisting senior executives and operating managers of technology-based companies.</p> <p>As an undergraduate student, Paul consulted to two, Ithaca-based companies, wrote three business plans, and was the co-founder and manager of a profitable business providing server training and risk management certification services to the hospitality industry. Paul continued to run the company as a sole proprietorship for 4 years, prior to attending graduate school. </p> <p>Paul holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and an MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.</p>
Laurie Joslin has been the president of Unlimited Coaching Solutions since its formation in 1999. Her specialty is training and coaching to enhance performance in teambuilding, leadership, customer service and sales.
Laurie Joslin graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the State University of New York at Cortland.
William Kabbis is the Head Teacher at the Mbaka Oromo school in Kenya, the equivalent of a 'Principal' in American schools.
His school has been the recipient of donations and cultural exchange through Partnership of African and Lansing Schools (PALS).
R. Douglas Kahn is Chairman and CEO of Ahura Scientific. Kahn is an internationally recognized entrepreneur, who brings more than 25 years of executive management experience to Ahura. He has an extensive track record of leadership in high technology companies.
Prior to joining Ahura Corporation, Kahn was CEO and President of PanAmSat Corporation, a leading international provider of satellite-based communications services. Prior to PanAmSat, he served as Chairman and CEO of Easel Corporation, guiding this software company through three rounds of venture capital investment, a successful IPO and ten years of growth.
Doug Kahn holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University.
Harry M. Kaiser is the Gellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of price analysis, marketing, industrial organization, policy, and quantitative methods. Professor Kaiser has written 100 journal articles, three books, 17 book chapters, and over 200 research bulletins in these areas. He has received over $7 million in research grants from such agencies as the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets. The primary focus of Professor Kaiser's research has been on the social implications of agricultural demand and supply policies aimed at improving producers' economic welfare.
Since 1994, Professor Kaiser has been the director of the Cornell Commodity Promotion Research Program. Much of his research focuses on the market-wide economic effects of commodity advertising and promotion programs. Currently, Professor Kaiser and his staff annually conduct the economic analysis required by the U.S. Congress for the national dairy and fluid milk processor advertising programs. More recently, Professor Kaiser has worked in the area of experimental economics, with an emphasis on the private provision of public goods. Professor Kaiser also was involved with some of the first research that investigated the economic impacts of climate change on the U.S. agricultural sector.
Harry Kaiser received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire aqnd his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.