Marlene Quijano is Director R&D for Cereals, Bars, Better For You Platforms and Open Innovation for the Snacks & Cereal Sector at Kraft. She is responsible for Category Leadership across Growth, Quality and Core Programs across North American Cereal, Bars, Back To Nature and South Beach Diet Categories.
Prior to moving into this assignment, Quijano had prior leadership roles in the Snacks & Cereal Sector. Quijano was the Director for Snacks & Cereal Productivity and Pilot Plant Operations, responsible for Raw & Pack productivity across Biscuit, Snacks, & Confections, involving major product and process cost optimization initiatives and Pilot Plant Operations supporting Growth, Quality and Productivity for the sector. She also served as the Director Packaging and Engineering where she oversaw all of the Packaging and Engineering activities for Biscuit, Snacks & Confections businesses.
Quijano also held a leadership role in Human Resources where she was responsible for guiding the Kraft diversity agenda and focusing on effective strategies to meet quantitative and qualitative goals across the Westchester and New Jersey management sites.
Quijano began her career with the company in 1984 as an intern in the Beverage Division at General Foods Corporation. A year later, she joined the company as a technical researcher in Beverages. She has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility including Senior Engineer for Maxwell House and Asset Planning Manager for Maxwell House Logistics. In 1995, she was named Beverages Operations Quality Manager where she focused on leading and implementing food safety and quality assurance initiatives. A year later, she was named Technology Section Manager for the Beverages Division and then in 1998 became Technology Section Manager for Kraft's Coffee & Cereals Division.
In 1999 Marlene was promoted to Associate Director for Beverages, Desserts & Snacks with overall technical business leadership across two categories - Ready-to-drink beverages and new product development for the entire division. She progressed in that capacity to overseeing the overall technical business leadership across Kraft's Dessert businesses.
Marlene Quijano has a bachelor's of science in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
Frank Raiter is a Director of Luminent Mortgage Capital. Luminent Mortgage Capital, Inc. a real estate investment trust (REIT), invests primarily in the United States agency and other single-family, adjustable-rate, and fixed rate mortgage-backed securities. It also invests in residential mortgage loans.
For ten years until his retirement in 2005, he was a managing director of Standard & Poors and head of its mortgage backed securities ratings group.
Prior to joining S&P, Raiter was Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer of Caliburt Bank in Phoenix, Arizona. Before that he was the Assistant Director Office of Securities Transactions at the Resolution Trust Corporation where he was involved in the structuring and sale of residential and commercial mortgage backed securities. In 2006 and 2007 he taught courses in investment and finance at the College of Business at James Madison University.
In the Fall of 2008, Mr. Raiter testified before Congress on the role of the credit rating agencies in the current financial crisis.Frank Raiter earned a BA in Economics, with honors, from North Carolina State University and an MBA in Finance from the University of North Carolina.
Anil K Rajvanshi has been the director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) at Phaltan, Maharashtra, India since 1981. NARI is a private non-profit NGO working in rural India. It does pioneering work in the areas of agriculture, renewable energy, animal husbandry and environmentally sound sustainable development.
Rajvanshi is also the trustee and honorary secretary of NARI. He has concentrated his efforts for last 25 years on how to use modern science and technology to achieve environmentally sound rural development. Rajvanshi's research has spanned a whole spectrum of areas affecting the lives of rural population including cooking and lighting, small power generation, water purification and effluent treatment through the use of renewable energy in environmentally sound way.
Anil Rajvanshi was born and raised in Lucknow, India. After obtaining B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur in early 1970's, Dr. Rajvanshi went to USA to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the University of Florida at Gainesville, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1979 with specialization in solar energy and then taught at the University of Florida for two and half years before returning to India in 1981 to join NARI.
Larry Rakers is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm. He manages Fidelity Balanced Fund, Fidelity Advisor Balanced Fund and VIP: Balanced Portfolio.
Rakers joined Fidelity as an equity research analyst in 1993, and followed the restaurant, precious metals and coal industries. Rakers managed Fidelity Select Gold Portfolio from 1995 to 1997 and managed Fidelity Select Precious Metals and Minerals Portfolio and Fidelity Select Paper and Forest Products Portfolio from 1996 to 1997. He managed Fidelity Select Energy Portfolio, Fidelity Select Natural Resources Portfolio and Fidelity Advisor Natural Resources Fund, and served as sector leader of Fidelity's natural resources equity research group from 1997 to 1999. Rakers managed Fidelity Select Computers Portfolio and Fidelity Advisor Technology Portfolio from January 2000 and Fidelity Select Technology Portfolio from February 2000 until June 2001. He was also technology sector leader from January 2000 to June 2001. Rakers also managed Fidelity Convertible Securities Fund from June 2001 until February 2002, when he assumed management responsibility for Fidelity Balanced Fund. He began managing Fidelity Advisor Balanced Fund and VIP: Balanced Portfolio in June 2005.
Before joining Fidelity, Rakers was a project engineer for Loral Corporation in Lexington, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 1993.
Rakers received bachelor of science and master of science degrees in metallurgical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1985 and 1987 respectively. He also received an MBA from Northeastern University in 1993.
Richard Ramko is a partner in Ernst & Young's South Florida practice, primarily serving publicly-held and emerging growth companies in the Health Sciences, Biotech and Technology industries.
Ramko has extensive experience serving large, publicly-held companies as well as newly formed start-ups and venture-backed enterprises. Richard has 15 years of experience, including 13 years in public accounting and 2 years in executive level financial positions in private industry and is a certified public accountant in Florida and Tennessee. Some of his current clients include Andrx Corporation, Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, Stiefel Laboratories and SFBC International.
Vithala R. Rao is the Deane W. Malott Professor of Management at the Johnson School at Cornell University.
Professor Rao's interests lie in the development and application of analytical models for marketing research and marketing strategy. His publications have dealt with such topics as dynamic pricing; product positioning and product design; application of multidimensional scaling and conjoint models for the analysis of consumer preferences and perceptions; market structure analysis; brand equity; acquisition; and evaluation of subsets of multi-attributed items. He has consulted for various industrial firms and is currently engaged in research on issues associated with preannouncement strategies, price bundling, choices of bundles, resource allocation, and competitive reactions.
Since joining the Johnson School in 1970, he has published nearly 100 articles and five books; most recently (with Joel Steckel) The New Science of Marketing (1995) and Analysis for Strategic Marketing (1998). He received the Johnson School's Exceptional Research Award in 2000-01.
Vithala R. Rao received his PhD from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
<p>Carol Rattray is Managing Director and Co- Founder of Zoomdojo.</p> <p>Since the mid 1990\'s, she has been investing, and advising primarily start-ups, in China and in the US, and was previously Vice President in the Capital Markets Group at Bankers Trust Company.</p> <p>n philanthropy, Carol is President and Co- Founder of the Rattray Kimura Foundation. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Bates College, The Asian Cultural Council, and the Re Foundation and a former member of the Board of The Nature Conservancy, New York State Chapter, The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and The Friends of the Museum of the Chinese University in Hong Kong. Carol is also co-chair of The Asia Foundation\'s Women\'s Empowerment Program\'s Lotus Circle Advisors and serves as a member of the Cornell University Council and The Arts and Sciences Advisory Council.</p> <p>Carol Rattray holds an MBA and MA in International Affairs from Columbia University and earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.</p>
Mitt Regan is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University. His work focuses on ethics, corporations, law firms, and the legal profession.
Before joining Georgetown, Professor Regan clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States, and worked as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in Washington, DC. At Davis Polk he worked on matters relating to white-collar crime and the defense of attorneys and accountants.
Mitt Regan received his B.A. from the University of Houston, his M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and his J.D. from Georgetown University.
Carrie Regenstein is currently serving on the faculty of the CAUDIT Institute (The Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology).
In May 2012, she retired from her position as the Associate Vice Provost for Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to her arrival at CMU in September 2005, she served as Associate CIO and Associate Director of DoIT (Division of Information Technology) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Between 1998 and 2001, Carrie served as Director of Academic Technology Services (a unit of Information Technology Services) and Assistant Dean for Educational Technology for The College at the University of Rochester, following many years of leading academic technology initiatives at Cornell University.
Carrie Regenstein graduated from Brooklyn College in NYC, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude. Her M.Ed. from Bridgewater State College, MA, is in the teaching of foreign languages. She has 26 credits beyond her Master's in a range of fascinating and disparate subjects.
John Reinker is General Electric Global Research's hydrogen energy advanced technology leader. He leads GE's hydrogen production, storage/delivery, end-use, and other advanced energy technologies including CO2 technologies and Gen IV nuclear programs. In addition, he is the GE sponsor for the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University.
Prior to his current assignment, John spent 20 years in GE Energy including general management positions in Gas Turbine, Energy Services, and Steam Turbine-Generator Technologies. He held many power generation design-engineering positions and was the steam turbine product line leader within the Power Plants business.
John Reinker received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and received an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Jake Reisch is the CEO and founder of PartyHeadphones.com Jake Reisch is currently pursuinghis undergraduate degree at Cornell University.
Until June 27, 2008, Christian Renaud was the Chief Architect of Networked Virtual Environments for the Cisco Technology Center. The Technology Center is Cisco's corporate incubator chartered with identifying emerging markets and technologies and developing them into new revenue streams for the company. It supports 'intrapreneurial' efforts of Cisco's Corporate Development organization, providing business rationale and market insight for determining future Cisco emerging technologies.
Renaud is now starting his own company, and is working with other start-ups to design technology strategies.