<p>Cheryl Melchiorre is a Manager at Deloitte Consulting. Prior to her position at Deloitte, she worked in strategic consulting at McKenzie. </p> <p>Melchiorre shared her experiences as a woman in business on a panel of "Women In Business" presented by Cornell University's Career Center.</p> <p>Cheryl Melchiorre received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. </p>
Tony Mendes is the Director of the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign.
Previously, Mendes had been with the Kauffman Foundation where he served as the Program Director for Kauffman campuses which was the funding unit of the foundation for providing support to colleges and universities for entrepreneurship.
Mendes has more than 20 years of experience in entrepreneurial education and in the healthcare industry. Prior to his position with the Kauffman Foundation, he served for more than thirteen years as a training and development manager and health promotion manager for AT&T Corporation.
Tony Mendes is a licensed psychologist and holds a Ph.D. in counseling from the University of Missouri and an MBA from Rockhurst University.
Kevin Menear is the Director of R&D for Mechanical Systems at MineWerks. MineWerks was founded by a team of students at RPI dedicated to the eradication of such buried explosives as landmines and roadside bombs.
MineWerks' detection technology is being developed at a time when over 2,000 people are being killed or maimed by buried landmines and other explosives each month. Competing technologies are far too expensive, time-consuming, and hazardous to personnel on the ground to be capable of addressing the worldwide threat of unexploded ordinances in a meaningful way.
Kevin Menear is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Nicole Mensa is the founder of Wononi Cosmetics. She founded the company while a student at Cornell University.
Brynne Merkeley is a student at Cornell University
Patricia Merolle is a Principal of WINNING, Incorporated and has over 20 years of sales, management and entrepreneurial success in growing a variety of businesses. At Perry Johnson Registrars, a firm specializing in ISO 9000 certification, Patricia was the consistent top performer and set an all-time company record for sales - resulting in her promotion to Regional Manager. At Perry Johnson, Patricia was responsible for generating key client relationships with major companies including Estee Lauder, Mead Johnson, Clairol Worldwide, Bristol Meyers and Heritage Hills Golf Resort. Patricia has also been a successful entrepreneur and business owner in both the catering and equestrian industries.
John C. Metz is founder of RREMC, Ltd. The company consists of four groups - a restaurant group, a hotel group, a healthcare group, and a real estate group. The restaurant group consists of 24 Denny's restaurants and 8 Bennigan's restaurants and has over 1000 employees. The hotel group consists of a Marriott Fairfield and a Hilton. The healthcare group includes 11 properties with 1 SNIF (Skilled Nursing Facility)and 10 ALFs (Assisted Living Facilities) and about 350 employees. The real estate group includes 27 restaurant properties and 8 retail properties.
During this lecture to a class at Cornell University, Metz discusses his background in entrepreneurial activities and shares thoughts on specific qualities to develop to be a successful businessperson.
John Metz received his undergraduate degree and MBA from Cornell University.
Scott Meyer is the Chief Outreach Officer at social marketing firm, 9 Clouds, Inc. 9Clouds is a social media marketing firm that connects small to mid-sized businesses to their customers with cutting-edge tools for online intelligence gathering, monitoring, strategy building, and engagement.
After Scott graduated from Luther College in 2001, he spent four years in Europe obtaining a masters degree in Peace and Conflict Transformation from the University of Tromsø, Norway, teaching English in Spain, and teaching political philosophy and methodology in Norway. While teaching he helped create an online network connecting peace researchers around the world.
Patrick Meyers is the chief legal officer and managing director for Cervantes Capital, parent company of Quiznos.
Meyers is a founder of Quiznos, the second-largest sandwich chain in the United States. Launched in Denver during the early 1980s, Quiznos grew from 18 units in 1990 to 40 in 1993, when the company went public. Quiznos' founders took the company private in 2001 at 1,400 units, and it has since grown to over 5,000 restaurants in the U.S., Canada, and other countries. The chain is all franchised, with the majority of franchisees being single-unit owner-operators.
Meyers has helped drive Quiznos' growth through his service in a range of leadership positions. At various times since its founding, he has led the company's Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources and Law functions. He is also a member of the Board of Directors.
Under Meyers' lead, Quiznos has earned tremendous recognition for its growth and innovation. For five years in a row, Nation's Restaurant News has ranked Quiznos as the top restaurant chain in growth in number of units. In the Mystery Shopping Providers Association's 2007 Wait Time Study, Quiznos led the quick-service restaurant industry in wait time performance. And in a recent Zagat's restaurant study, Quiznos ranked in the top five in food, facilities, service and overall quality.
Meyers joined the company in 1997. Previously, he had been an associate with the Denver law firm of Moye , Giles , O'Keefe , Vermeire & Gorrell since September 1991 , and was selected as a partner of that firm in 1996. Before that he served as a judicial law clerk to a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from July 1990 to September 1991.
Meyers spoke on Thursday, April 17th in the "Conversations with Entrepreneurs" series at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration which was presented by the school's Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship.
Patrick Meyers received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado-Denver and his law degree from the University of California, Hastings Collee of Law.
Andrea is the founder and president of 1-800-CTO, a consulting company that helps growth companies formulate their technology strategy and architecture.
Andrea is a seasoned dot-com entrepreneur who has directed the creation and management of over a dozen Internet properties. She is the former Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of EchoFactor.com - the web's largest repository of free XML news feeds. Prior to founding EchoFactor, she was the Director of Technology of Infonautics Corporation -- an Internet information company. Before venturing into the dot-com arena, Andrea was involved in the development of software for medical applications - first with GE and later with Picker International.
Andrea earned a Bachelor of Science in computational biology form Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Science in computer science from Villanova University.
Ken Migliorelli is the owner of Migliorelli Farm. Migliorelli Farm is a family-run fruit and vegetable farm located in Northern Dutchess County in the Hudson Valley Region of New York. Originating in the Bronx in 1933 when Angelo Migliorelli first brought the broccoli raab seeds when he immigrated to New York from the Lazio region of Italy. Migliorelli and his son, Rocco peddled their vegetables by horse and cart up and down the Bronx, sun up to sun down. Eventually Co-Op City was to be built therefore pushing the last of the farmers out of the Bronx. Farming was Rocco's passion so he brought his family to the Hudson Valley. Now in its 3rd generation, Migliorelli Farm is growing over 130 different varieties of fruits and vegetables, including the same strain of broccoli raab.
In 1998, Ken Migliorelli sold all developing rights of his farm to be protected through a Scenic Hudson conservation easement to remain farmland forever and provide scenic beauty and wholesome food to the local community and the greenmarkets of NYC.
Migliorelli Farm provides fresh fruit and produce to over 30 fresh markets a week both locally and in NYC.
Brian Milder is the Director of Strategy and Innovation at Root Capital. Milder coordinates organizational strategy and focuses on developing new markets and financial products to support Root Capitalâ€[TM]s growth. Previously, he served as Boston site director for Project HEALTH, a national nonprofit organization that connects low-income families to the resources they need to be healthy. He also worked in Chile as an entrepreneur-in-residence for the Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT), which operates a venture fund to incubate sustainable social enterprises.
Brian Milder holds a B.A. in social studies from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.