Eric Ottaway started off his working career in management consulting and then left to join a client in the healthcare industry. He joined the Brooklyn Brewery in 1996 as manager of their Boston distributor, The Craft Brewers Guild. He now works out of the company headquarters in Brooklyn, and is the Brewery`s General Manager.
Ottaway's comments are from a panel discussion on "The Business of Wine, Beer and Spirits" organized by the Cornell Entrepreneur Network of the Metro New York region. The panel featured Roy Danis (Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, W.J. Deutsch & Sons, Ltd.), Eric Ottaway (General Manager of the Brooklyn Brewery) and Byron F. Hoover (Marketing Director, Jose Cuervo).
Eric Ottaway received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his MBA from Harvard.
Maria Pacheco is the founder of Wakami.
Maria was born in Guatemala City, living there until the age of 12 when she and her family moved to the United States. Maria returned to Guatemala with her parents when she was 16. After completing her undergraduate studies in Guatemala, Maria attended Cornell University where she earned a Master's in Biological Agriculture.
In 1993, Maria returned to Guatemala once again, determined to address the famine that was a perpetual issue in her homeland. Teaming up with 10 other activists, she started an organic farming program in the rural villages of Sacalá.
In 2001, Maria and the activists she'd worked with in Sacalá joined together again to tackle the famine in Jocotán. She organized groups of artisans, skilled in ancient basket weaving techniques and sought markets outside of the villages to create a reliable income. They found a good distribution channel by securing a deal with the premium-quality rum company, Zacapa. The company's first order of over 2,000 units marked the beginning of a very promising enterprise.
In 2004, Maria founded Kiej de los Bosques S.A., a business dedicated to connecting rural villages with local markets. The program's success convinced Maria to expand into international markets, and eventually create opportunities for rural communities in other countries around the world. So in 2006, Maria joined with her cousin Queta Rodriguez to create Wakami, and the dream was born.
Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of Anagran, CastTV, EoPlex, Media Lario, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, and SeaMicro. Warren also leads the firm's investments in BinOptics, CallGate, Imago Scientific Instruments, ooma, YeePay, and Zon Networks.
Prior to joining the firm, Warren co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Warren was a Senior Principal Engineer in the Advanced Product Development Group at Baxter International.
Warren Packard is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering: Smart Product Design. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Fábio Pagani is director of ActMinds, a global Information Technology (IT) services provider led by a Brazilian team of highly qualified and certified professionals (CMMI-5 and PMI). He has 20 years of work experience in the IT sector.
As an entrepreneur, Pagani founded three companies devoted to software development for the private and public sector. Since 1995, he has held several senior positions (i.e. Director and Head of Division) at federal and independent organizations such as SOFTEX Society with the mandate of developing, building excellence, and promoting the Brazilian software sector within the country and abroad.
Fábio Pagani holds a BS in Computer Sciences from UNICAMP in Brazil and has participated in international training at the International Institute for Management Development (Switzerland) and Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
Andrew Paget is CEO of Quixand, a company which allows hotels to differentiate their application to their consumers. Andrew Paget is an MBA Candidate at Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. He received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
<p>Eliecer Palacios is the energy sector specialist at Maxim Group LLC, a boutique investment bank dedicated to growth companies. His mandate is to identify trading and investment ideas across various parts of the capital structure in the oil & gas sector (refining, drilling, exploration & production, and services). He is also responsible for covering merger arbitrage and special situations in the space. </p> <p>Previously, Eliecer took a position as an oil & gas derivatives marketer for Citigroup's energy trading group in Houston where he worked for a couple of years. After Citigroup he joined Carrelton Asset Management, a long/short equity fund dedicated to natural resources, as an energy analyst focused on oil & gas investments, also based in Houston. </p>
Ipshita Pall is the owner and co-founder of The Indian Milk & Honey Co.
The Indian Milk & Honey Co. delivers consumers chef-crafted yogurt products that apply the art of Indian spice cookery to available in nature ingredients. The company has built a sustainable business that supports small entrepreneurs in the local and global food system.
Previously, Pall was a software engineer who changed careers after attending the Cooking & Hospitality Institute of Chicago. She spent a year honing her skills at Vermilion in Chicago before being brought to New York to join the helm of Vermilion's kitchen in New York as the Chef de Cuisine
Douglas Palmer served as Trenton, New Jersey's first African-American mayor from 1990 to 2010. From 2006 to 2008, he was president of the United States Conference of Mayors.
He was born in Trenton and attended Trenton public schools. He then graduated from the Bordentown Military Institute in Bordentown, New Jersey.
Douglas Palmer is a graduate of Virginia's private black college Hampton University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management in 1973.
Gamal J. Palmer, President of Global Eye, is a native of Philadelphia, earned dual BA degrees in Liberal Arts and Theater Arts from the University of Miami. While in Miami, Palmer launched his first theater production company where he produced and directed avant-garde theater works. While an MFA acting candidate at Yale University, Palmer co-produced an undergraduate abroad program, Arts in Action: Theater and Public Health in Swaziland and South Africa. While at Yale, he augmented his creative and producing background by studying arts organizations and leadership at the Schools of Theater and Management. He then designed an interdisciplinary graduate program for the Yale Schools of Drama and Divinity entitled, The Quest for Social Justice through Music, Theater and Religion, which takes place in Tanzania, East Africa. With the support of the World Performance Project, Palmer wrote and co-produced a one-man show, Mosaic. Inspired by his experiences abroad, Mosaic is based on interviews held with men of color in North America and South Africa. He is based in Los Angeles where he serves as the President and Founder of Global Eye Entertainment.
Ricky Panzer is the founder and CEO of SPLAT (Smartphone Powered LAser Tag) and former CTO of theCom.it. Previously, he co-founded and directed a nonprofit, aiding youth in Zambia, and worked for a hedge fund in NYC. Ricky Panzer is pursuing an undergraduate degree at Cornell University.
Randy Papadellis was named the CEO of Ocean Spray in 2003.
Prior to joining Ocean Spray in July 2000, Papadellis was Senior Vice President of Marketing for Welch Foods, Inc. Before joining Welch's in 1994, he served as Vice President of Marketing for Cadbury Beverages North America. He began his career with Frito Lay in 1981.
Randy Papadellis holds an MBA in marketing and finance from Cornell University and a bachelor's in business and government from Colby College.
Neil Parikh is the Co-founder and VP of Operations of Casper. Neil Parikh is a graduate of Brown University.