Patrick Mulcahy is Chief Executive Officer of Energizer, Inc. His retirement from the company was announced in the fall of 2004. Mulcahy joined Ralston in 1968 and has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Eveready Battery Company, Inc. since 1987. Mulcahy served as co-Chief Executive Officer and co-President of Ralston from October 1997 to June 1999. He served as Ralston's Vice President and Director, Corporate Strategic Planning and Administration, 1984--1986. Patrick Mulcahy received Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Science from Cornell University. He also holds an MBA from Cornell's Johnson School.
Deborah J. Muller brings more than 20 years of employee relations and workplace investigation experience and expertise to her role as Founder and President of HR Acuity, LLC.
Prior to founding the firm, Muller held HR leadership positions in numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Honeywell, Citibank and Marsh & McLennan, where she developed a seasoned approach to conducting workplace investigations into allegations of misconduct. She has been instrumental in leading fact-finding cases involving a wide range of complex investigations, including sexual harassment, discrimination and inappropriate use of company funds. In her senior HR roles, Muller was also responsible for strategic organization redesigns, extensive change management initiatives, coaching and development of senior executives, and performing due diligence and integration activities for company acquisitions.
Deborah Muller earned a BS degree from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a MA from the University of Maryland.
Charlie Mulligan is the founder and CEO of GiveGab.com, the social network for volunteers.
Kathleen Mullinix is the CEO and President of WellGen, a company seeking to be the premier expert in nutrigenomics.
Prior to joining WellGen, Mullinix advised investors on biotechnology and pharmaceutical business opportunities with her company Kathleen P. Mullinix & Associates, which she founded in 2002.
Before that, Mullinix served as the founder, chairman, CEO and president of Synaptic Pharmaceutical Corporation. There she led the company from its inception as she developed and implemented the company's strategies for scientific research, business and intellectual property, making it a research-driven public biotechnology company and then an emerging pharmaceutical company.
Before founding Synaptic Pharmaceutical, Mullinix served for six years as vice provost for Columbia University. In this role, she brought Columbia to a leadership position in the commercial development of university intellectual property assets. Additionally, she was instrumental in the development of The Audubon Research Park that has transformed the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center's Washington Heights neighborhood.
From 1972-1981, Mullinix held two positions with the National Institutes of Health, and served the organization by assisting with strategic matters involving the scientific direction of the NIH intramural program and implementing a novel research program in molecular biology.
Mullinix's comments are from a panel entitled "Exploring Business and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences" and was hosted by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University in April of 2008. Panelists included Lee Henderson, CEO and Chairman of Vybion, Kathleen Mullinix, CEO and President of WellGen and James Sigler, VP of Business Operations at Air Systems Technologies, Inc.
Kathleen Mullinix holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Trinity College, a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from Columbia University and was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.
CommuniTech.Net is one of the world's most successful Web hosting companies, with 24,000 clients in 130 countries. Gabe Murphy and Brian Heitman started the company in 1997 while Murphy was attending Cornell University and Heitman was in high school. The business plan for the company was born when Murphy enrolled in a course in entrepreneurship.
Gabe Murphy received his B.S. from Cornell University in 1999.
Elon Musk is CEO and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, a company which focuses on space exploration technologies.
Prior to founding SpaceX, Musk founded a company Zip2, which helps newspaper companies put classified ads and other local information on Web sites. He sold it to Compaq for $307 million in cash.
Musk used that to start his next business, PayPal, which enabled e-mail payments. Months after taking it public, he sold it to eBay for $1.5 billion.
Born in South Africa, Musk came to North America at age 17. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned undergraduate degrees in physics and business.
Martina Musteen is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Entrepreneurial Management Center (EMC) at San Diego State University. Musteen's research interests include international entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer, social network theory, managerial cognition, and corporate reputation. Musteen is currently involved in several research projects designed to examine factors influencing the internationalization of entrepreneurial ventures and the role of networks in firms learning about foreign markets. Martina Musteen received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas (KU) and her master's degree from CIMBA, Italy. She completed her undergraduate work at the European Division of the University of Maryland in Heidelberg, Germany, where she graduated summa cum laude.
James Mwangi is an accountant, banker, businessman and entrepreneur in Kenya. He is the current Group Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of the Equity Group Holdings Limited, the banking conglomerate with the largest customer base on the African continent, in excess of 8 million as of 2014.
<p>Angela Mwanza is Senior Vice President at UBS. Previously, she was a Vice President at Lehman Brothers Private Investment Management managing a team that advises wealthy individuals and their families, charitable organizations, endowments, and corporations on sophisticated strategies to preserve, grow and transfer wealth. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mwanza worked in a similar role at Fleet Private Clients Group, having begun her financial services career at the J.P.Morgan Private Bank where she managed the U.S. Mutual Funds Desk.</p> <p>Angela Mwanza holds an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Konstanz, Germany and an M.B.A. from the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.</p>
<p>Ford R. Myers is President of Career Potential, LLC. Since 1992, he has been providing professional services in career consulting and executive coaching. <p>After counseling thousands of individuals on their careers, Ford drew from his diverse experience to create Career Potential - a powerful new approach to career management. </p> <p>He is author of "Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring" (John Wiley & Sons, 2009) and "The Ultimate Career Guide", the only comprehensive manual for career management and job search. Articles and interviews have been featured in such publications as Inc. Magazine, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, CNN-Money, and he has also appeared as an industry expert on many television and radio programs. </p> <p>Ford Myers received his undergraduate degree from Hampshire College and his Master's Degree in Human Resource Development from Temple University.</p>
Kesh Narayanan is the Director of Industrial Innovation Programs within the Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation of the Directorate for Engineering at National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF's Industrial Innovation Programs serve the entire Foundation, with a focus on increasing the effectiveness of collaboration between university and industry researchers with a particular focus on small businesses.
Narayanan is charged with aligning the energy and inventiveness of small business with the unparalleled capabilities of university researchers in the United States to discover new knowledge, to their mutual benefit and to the ultimate benefit of our citizens, their security and economic well-being.
Prior to joining NSF in 1994, Narayanan was the Chief Scientist at Certainteed, a $500 million building materials company. In addition to providing technological leadership for the company, he was successful identifying research results from university laboratories that had significant impacts on the Certainteed product line. His longest tenure, spanning 20 years, was at the Norton Company. As the R&D Director of the Norton Abrasives Business, he led the world-wide introduction of new products, with a track record of identifying and developing new products accounting for more than 25% of total sales. His R&D group is credited with over 30 patents.
Kesh Narayanan received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1974 and his BTech in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Vijay Nathan is a Product Manager with Apartment Therapy. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of NoshOnIt. After realizing that he was much better suited to be cooking at home instead of in a professional kitchen, Vijay traded in his chef hat for an apron and has committed himself to helping everyone realize that they can cook great food at home. You\'ll often find him traversing the city for the best ethnic eats or experimenting in the kitchen with new cuisines. Prior to NoshOn.It, Vijay was the Co-Founder and CEO of MyReci.com, an online recipe box application that allows you to manage, save, and share all of your recipes from any website in one place. MyReci was born out of Vijay\'s entrepreneurship and brand management focus at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he received his MBA. Vijay Nathan received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his MBA from Cornell University.