Fred Keller is the founder of Cascade Engineering. During this lecture, he discusses the background of Cascade Engineering and also shares thoughts on sustainability from business and environmental perspectives.
Keller received a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering from Cornell University and a master's degree in business management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rita Kellogg and her family founded Side Hill Acres in 1987 as a beef farm, but almost immediately transformed into a goat dairy. The company experienced tremendous growth in the initial years by selling goat milk to their cheese processor, Goat Folks. After this customer went out of business, the company resized and began to focus on producing the cheese on its own.
Sheila Kennedy is the Principal and Founder of Kennedy & Violich Architecture. Kennedy's professional internship was conducted in Switzerland at the office of Mario Campi and at the Boston based firm of Kallmann, McKinnel and Wood. Sheila Kennedy combines professional practice with instruction in architectural design as an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and offers to the firm her design expertise on electrical and information infrastructures and strategic conceptual problem solving. Sheila Kennedy received the Masters Degree in Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she was graduated with Distinction.
Robert Kern is the Founder and Chairman of Generac Power Systems, a company that he and his wife Patricia founded in 1959 in a rented garage. From those humble beginnings, Generac is now a world leader in standby electrical power systems with over 1500 employees occupying four plants throughout South Central Wisconsin and Iowa. He is the inspiration behind many industry breakthroughs such as Modular Power Systems and Bi-fuel products.
Robert and Patricia Kern also formed the Kern Family Foundation in 1998 with the purpose of enriching the lives of Americans through strong pastoral leadership, educational excellence and high quality innovative engineering talent.
Robert Kern received an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.
Andrew Kessler is a former hedge fund manager who now writes on investment trends in technology and communications.
His first book, "Wall Street Meat: Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and me" was published in March of 2003. His next book, "Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score" was published by HarperCollins oin September 14th of 2004. "Running Money" was added to the New York Times Business Bestseller list on November 7, 2004.
Andy is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal op-ed page and has written for Wired, Forbes Magazine, The Weekly Standard, LA Times, The American Spectator magazine and techcentralstation.com and thestreet.com websites.
Andy Kessler was co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, an investment firm based in Palo Alto, California, that provided funding for private and public technology and communications companies. Private investments included Real Networks, Inktomi, Alteon WebSystems, Centillium and Silicon Image.
In the early '80's, Andy spent 5 years at AT&T Bell Labs as a chip designer, programmer, and spender of millions in regulated last minute, use it or lose it budget funds. In 1985, he joined PaineWebber in New York, where he did research on the electronics and semiconductor industry.
In 1989, Andy joined Morgan Stanley as their semiconductor analyst, and following in the footsteps of Ben Rosen, he added the role of technology strategist and helped identify long-term, secular trends in technology. In 1993, he moved to San Francisco to join Unterberg Harris, where he ran a private interactive media venture fund, with investments that included N2K, Exodus and Tut Systems.
Andy Kessler received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MSEE from the University of Illinois.
Catherine Khan works at L'Oreal and is currently the Marketing Manager for the Garnier Nutritioniste product line.
Prior to her position at L'Oreal, she worked for four years with Andersen Consulting (Accenture).
Catherine Khan received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Romi Kher is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baruch College with expertise in technology startups. His research interests focus on decision making under uncertainty and how differing risk perceptions impact team behavior. He has a PhD from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jamie is a student at Cornell University and founder of Bumble and Butter
Stephano Kim is a New York-based entrepreneur and angel investor. Stephano currently serves as president of AHAlife, a curated marketplace of unique products and content from all over the world. Prior to AHAlife, Stephano served as president of GraphEffect, a social media marketing platform, and prior that as president and COO of [x+1], an integrated digital marketing and data analytics platform. Stephano has also led investments in consumer technology and digital media for Advanced Technology Ventures, directed business development and strategy for AOL, and co-founded several start-ups along the way including Blackboard, the leading provider of e-learning enterprise software and services. Stephano also manages Springhouse Capital, an angel fund that has made investments in The Echo System, LifeCrowd, Tangoe, WeddingWire, DramaFever, ZocDoc, and Shareaholic, Retention Science and Chromatik. When not obsessing about startups and entrepreneurs, Stephano can be found in the playgrounds of the upper west side of Manhattan hanging from the monkey bars with his 2 daughters.
Chelsey Kingsley is the CEO of Kingsley Quality Woodworking.
Harvey Kinzelberg has been Founder and President of Sequel Capital LLC & Corporation since 1992. Mr. Kinzelberg continues a successful tradition in capital equipment leasing and financial services. Sequel specialized in strategic bridge and mezzanine lending, private equity investing as well as lease financing for companies who seek cash flow and accounting advantages for their capital asset investments. Sequel, through it's 7-year partner Resource Finance Company, provided working capital loans to independent sales organizations (ISO's) who sell credit-card processing services to merchants nations-wide. Sequel has also recently expanded to provide financing directly to such merchants in the merchant-processing cash advance space, with a close affiliation with Rapid Capital Funding. In 1979 Kinzelberg founded Meridian Leasing Corporation. Under his twelve year leadership, Kinzelberg grew Meridian in more than $650 million in annual sales and a lease portfolio approaching $4 billion. Meridian grew to become the second largest independent computer equipment lessor in the United States. Prior to starting Meridian, Kinzelberg was a top salesman form IBM and was the top lease finance salesman for Itel Leasing Corporation before founding Meridian. In 1992, after selling Meridian he established Sequel Capital Corporation. Kinzelberg has been recognized nationally as "Entrepreneur of the Year", by such prestigious organizations as Ernst & Young, Inc. Magazine, Cornell University, and The University of Illinois-Chicago & Arthur Andersen. These comments are from the Roundtable session entitled "Engagement with Cornell Entrepreneurs of the Year" from the 2012 Celebration gathering. Harvey Kinzelberg holds a bachelor's degree in Operations Research/Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, and a master's degree in Economic Planning from Stanford University.
Adam Kirsch is the Director of Business Development for Yorango, Inc. Adam Kirsch is pursuing his undergraduate degree at Cornell University.