<p>Young Mi Park is COO of Thevi Cosmetics. She has built her career expanding global brands and guiding businesses and new ventures. She has held leadership roles in Marketing, Strategy and General Management at Sesame Workshop, Levi Strauss, Burger King and American Express and has also worked at ambitious "fourth sector†educational start-ups and other new ventures, including her own bootstrap initiative. She has led successful turnarounds of failing business units, received industry recognitions for best brand image and advertising and spearheaded successful new product and new market development.</p> <p>In addition to extensive experience in the U.S., she has worked in or with businesses in Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Guam Japan, France, Canada and Mexico and devised business development strategies for Europe and Latin America. </p> <p>Young Mi Park has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.</p>
Jeff Parker has an extensive history of success in both entrepreneurship and financial services that he brings to the table as founder and CEO of CCBN. He is also the founder and managing director of Private Equity Investments, a venture capital firm focusing on start-up and early stage companies. As the creator and CEO of several successful financial service companies over the past fifteen years, Jeff brings an operating perspective to the companies in which he invests, as well as a wealth of financial expertise and an extended network of domestic and international business contacts. In 1980, Jeff founded Technical Data Corporation which he subsequently sold in 1986 to Canadian publishing giant Thomson Corporation. In 1982, he became Chairman and CEO of Business Research Corporation, and in 1983 founded First Call Corporation. Under his leadership, Thomson Financial Services (TFS), as the group is now known, became a major provider of proprietary financial information to the investment and corporate communities. TFS currently serves over 75,000 institutional clients worldwide, and has annual revenues in excess of $750 million. Prior to his association with TFS, Jeff served as Vice President and Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Investments in Boston. He has also held management positions at Smith, Barney, Loeb Rhoads, and A.G. Becker. Jeff is a graduate of Cornell University from which he received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1965, a Master of Engineering in 1966 and a Master of Business degree in 1970.
Susan Parker's comments are from the November 2010 Strategic Marketing Conference sponsored by the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.
Vijay Parmar is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Gainspan Corporation, a recent spinout of Intel.
Prior to Gainspan, Mr Parmar was the General Manager of the same business within Intel. He drove the strategy, business plan, customer engagement and product roadmap taking the wireless sensor network seed to fully funded business in Intel and then to a VC-funded private enterprise.
Parmar joined Intel in 2001 pursuant to Intel's acquisition of VxTel, Inc. where he served as the Vice President of Marketing. At VxTel, he built key strategic relationships with customers and ecosystem including one with Intel.
Parmar held various executive positions at AMD prior to joining VxTel.
Vijay Parmar received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and an MBA from Tulane University.
Jim Frenette and Charlie Parry and co-owners of Pixel. Pixel is a high quality coffee bar and arcade located in Ithaca, NY.
Charlie Parry is a graduate of Cornell University.
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C. Marshall Paul has more than 40 years experience in the pharmaceutical and market research industry and is president of ACNielsen HCI.
Marshall Paul started his career in 1962 as a marketing analyst for Merck & Co., Inc. In 1982, Paul built a new company, HCI, Inc. In November 1997, HCI was acquired by VNU and merged with its subsidiary PERQ Research. In January 2002, Marshall Paul was appointed president of ACNielsen HCI, a new company formed to help design and market the initiatives of other VNU subsidiaries, including HCI.
C. Marshall Paul graduated from Dickinson College and has a bachelor of science degree in Economics.
Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon, where he was the co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. He has done Sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA), and consulted with Google on user interface design. In addition, he is the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles and until recently, was the director of the Alice (www.alice.org) software project.
In August 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. He pursued a very aggressive cancer treatment that included major surgery and experimental chemotherapy; however, in August 2007, he was told the cancer had metastasized to his liver and spleen, which meant it was terminal. He then started palliative chemotherapy, intended to extend his life as long as possible.
He achieved worldwide fame for his "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon University. His "Last Lecture" was entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," and was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures at the university where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk."
The eClips team was deeply moved by Pausch's message and felt it would be appropriate to "eClip" the content of his talk into 2-4 minute segments so that educators would be able to incorporate pieces of it into their classroom presentations. In keeping with the video's creative ocmmons license, we are making it available for non-commercial purposes.
Randy Pausch received his bachelors in Computer Science from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Bryan Pearce is a partner in the technology and life sciences practice of the firm, based in Boston MA, where he leads the firm's New England Venture Capital Advisory Group ("VCAG"). VCAG focuses on development and delivery of value added services to the venture capital industry, including core audit and tax services as well as deal flow, knowledge and thought leadership, and access to our alumni and extended enterprise networks and perspective on current venture capital fundraising trends. In addition, Bryan spends a substantial portion of his time with Emerging Growth companies providing counsel in the areas of fundraising, business models, preparing for a liquidity event, etc. He also is a member of the Global Steering Committee for this important component of the Global E&Y strategy.
Bryan began his career with the firm in 1981 after graduating from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) and obtained his Canadian Chartered Accountant designation in 1983. Between 1995 and 2000 Bryan was seconded to the Caribbean practice, based in Barbados, where he was responsible for developing and running the Caribbean firm's Corporate Finance and Entrepreneurial Services' practice.
<p>Dave was a Principal at R.E. Pinard & Co., Inc., which focused on Management Consulting and sell-side transaction service for small businesses. He subseqently left to become CEO of one of his client companies, Annalee Mobilitee Dolls, Inc.</p> <p>Prior to joining R. E. Pinard, Dave was co-founder and President of a start-up company providing specialized value added manufacturing services to the worldwide appliance industry. Dave has also held several executive positions with a Fortune 500 electrical/electronic components' company including VP/General Manager of an entrepreneurial high tech fiber optic division, VP of North American sales and marketing and Director of the company's European operations. </p> <p>Dave received a B.S. from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Colorado in Organizational Development. He also attended Columbia University's six-month Executive Development Program in Organizational Dynamics. </p>
Bill Pence is Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of WebMD. He has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of WebMD since November 2007 and has also served Chief Operating Officer of WebMD since May 2012.
Before joining WebMD, Mr. Pence had served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Napster since 2003. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Pence was the Chief Technology Officer for Universal Music Groupâ€[TM]s online initiatives and for the pressplay joint venture with Sony. That joint venture later served as the basis for the relaunched Napster service. Previously, Mr. Pence spent more than a decade at IBM, where he held various technology management positions in research as well as in the software division, focused on guiding research and development and commercializing technology for IBM product divisions.
Bill Pence received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Jusheng Peng is the Manager and CEO of Wuhan Zhongsheng Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
Peng was born in to a poor farm family in rural China. He started his business from scratch and has been in the construction engineering business for 20 years.