Nadja Schnetzler is the CEO and Co-Founder of BrainStore and the author of "The Idea Machine". In the Swiss company BrainStore, ideas are produced in the same way as products - made-to-order and on a conveyor belt. The BrainStore ideas machine is an innovation model which functions on engineering principles and makes this idea generation possible. Nadja Schnetzler studied at the Ringier School of Journalism in Zurich, Switzerland.
Peter Schott is the owner and president of XLI Corporation.
XLI Corporation is a contract engineering and manufacturing company primarily serving customers in two industries: medical diagnostic devices and defense.
Peter Schott is a graduate of Cornell University.
Carl J. Schramm has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Kauffman Foundation since 2002. Under his leadership, the Kauffman Foundation has developed innovative programs that: expose students to the power of entrepreneurship, open new pathways to effectively move university innovations into the marketplace, create better-qualified angel investors as a critical source of seed capital for entrepreneurs, and engage economists of the highest caliber to study the impact of entrepreneurship. Schramm also has been instrumental in the development of the Foundation's international entrepreneurship fellowship program, which is funded by the UK government for aspiring British entrepreneurs.
Before joining the Foundation, Schramm enjoyed a successful career in the health care industry. He was a cofounder of HCIA, Inc. and Patient Choice Health Care, and he founded Greenspring Advisors, a consulting and merchant banking firm in the health information and risk management industries. Schramm also served as executive vice president of Fortis (now Assurant) and as president of its health insurance operations. Trained both as an economist and lawyer, Schramm began his career on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and emerged as a respected thinker in health care finance, regulation, and insurance. He founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Care Finance and Management in 1980. He left Johns Hopkins to head the Health Insurance Association of America, which developed a number of industry-wide innovations in health insurance.
Carl Schramm holds a bachelor's degree from LeMoyne College, master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Tom Schryver is CFO of e2e Materials, a leading venture-backed clean tech company. e2e's proprietary biocomposites are biodegradable, 100% natural with zero toxins, and provide superior strengths at lower weights than toxin-laden wood composites.
Schryver has extensive experience providing financial and strategic services and advice to technology transfer startups. His most recent role was as vice president, finance and operations at Novomer, a green materials company commercializing innovative polymer technology developed at Cornell University. Prior to Novomer, he was director of finance for the Triad Foundation, where he was responsible for overseeing all financial operations of the Foundation, including accounting, audit, and investing the Foundation's $250 million portfolio.
Tom Schryver's comments are from the panel discussion entitled Investing in the New Economy: The Changing Landscape and its Funding Models from Entrepreneurship at Cornell's Celebration event in April 2010.
Schryver has an AB from Cornell University and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Susan Schulz was appointed editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL! Magazine in July 2003. Previously, she was the magazine's executive editor, and before that she was the deputy editor when she joined the magazine in November 2000. Prior to working at CosmoGIRL!, Schulz was an editorial assistant at Redbook magazine. She moved on to become an assistant editor at Good Housekeeping, continuing to assist editors while also writing frequently for the Profiles section. In 1997, Susan moved into the teen market as an associate articles editor at YM magazine, and was promoted to senior articles editor in 1999. In addition, Schulz heads up the advisory board of GlamourGals, a not-for-profit organization founded by the CosmoGIRL! of the Year winner from 2000, Rachel Doyle. Susan Schulz is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, MD.
John J. Schwartz, Ph.D. has been an academic, entrepreneur, angel investor and startup consultant. He has been successful in raising over $7MM in equity to co-found a pharmaceutical database and a biotechnology company and has helped other ventures raise substantial capital as well. He is a member of the MIT Venture Mentoring Service where he is among a group of experienced entrepreneurs and executives who assist and guide early-stage companies founded by the school's alumni, faculty and students. He is also a member of Keiretsu Forum, a national angel investment group, where he is an active private investor and serves as the co-chair of biomedical investment due diligence committee for the Boston chapter.
Schwartz received his B.S. in Microbiology from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.S. in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology both from New York Medical College. Dr Schwartz performed postdoctoral research at MIT and stayed on as a research faculty member where he had his own lab. He has experience in the development and approval of diagnostics, medical devices and therapeutics.
Jim Seay is the President of Premier Rides, the preeminent roller coaster designer and manufacturer in the world. Seay was named President of Premier Rides in 1996 after joining the company in 1995 as Executive Vice President of Engineering.
Prior to joining the company, Seay was a project engineer for Hughes Aircraft. He shifted to the amusement ride arena in 1988 and spent the next seven years as an engineering and maintenance executive at Six Flags Theme Parks.
Jim Seay earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and received his MS in Engineering at California State University, Long Beach.
<p>Annemarie Segaric is the Founder of The Career Changer Company and author of Step into the Right Career: 107 Tips to Change Your Life While Still Paying the Bills. In business since 2001, her company specializes in helping professionals figure out their life's purpose so they can get unstuck, change careers, and do work they love.</p> <p>Her professional experience includes banking, consulting, telecommunications, and media and entertainment. She has extensive experience in business analysis as well as web development and usability. Annemarie has helped organizations analyze their business processes thereby creating efficiencies and reducing operating costs.</p> <p>She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research/Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.</p>
Sam Seltzer has been committed to personal enterprise throughout his life. In 1960, he founded Allison Corporation, a company that manufactures and sells a wide variety of automobile accessories with facilities in East Asia, Europe, and the United States. Allison was one of the first American companies to do business in Mainland China.
By the early 1980s, Sam came to recognize the need for undergraduate education in business skills, specifically for those young people wishing to join family enterprises or for those willing to make the commitment and to take the risks to start their own businesses. Thus, he became the founding chairman of Cornell PEP (Personal Enterprise Program); a program which began with one course in Business Planning, quickly grew to over 35 courses, mostly at the undergraduate level, and eventually merged into Entrepreneurship@Cornell (Entrepreneurship@Cornell).
In 1954, Seltzer started one of the first manufacturing operations to be set up under the Puerto Rican government's Operation Boot Strap. He was founder and an officer of the Commonwealth Manufacturers Association of Puerto Rico and the Plastic Manufacturers Association of Puerto Rico. The U.S. and Puerto Rican governments appointed him to serve on their respective committees to determine minimum wages for the island. From 1975-92, Sam Seltzer was also an officer and trustee of the Pension Fund of the United Furniture and Bedding Workers Union.
Sam Seltzer is a graduate of Cornell University.
Jin Seo is a designer at RLX which is a product line within the Ralph Lauren Polo brand.
Jin Seo is a graduate of Cornell University.
<p>Johannes C. "Hans" Severiens earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Johns Hopkins. He worked as a scientist at Perkin-Elmer, Columbia University, the Atomic Energy commission, and the Niels Bohr Institute. </p> <p>He eventually began a "second" career in finance and became a Vice President in investment banking with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Merrill Lynch, and Paine Webber. </p> <p>Over the last 10 years, Severiens has been an officer in three venture capital funds. In 1995, he co-founded the Band of Angels, a Silicon Valley investor group of over 100 executives, which invests in tech companies. </p> <p>Dr. Severiens passed away on February 3, 2004 in Sonoma, California, after battling lung cancer for more than a year. He was 74. </p>
<p>Laura Sewell begain her career with IBM in 1998 after spending two years in the public school system. Laura currently leads US University Recruitment and US Employment Branding for IBM. Her IBM experience includes a variety of roles in HR and Global Business Operations. She is passionate about bringing top talent in to IBM and helping students understand the variety of opportunities available across the company and across the globe.</p> <p>Laura Sewell received her undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University.</p>