Adrian Sexton is a founding partner of TAG Strategic, a digital media and entertainment solutions firm. Sexton oversees media branding, advertising and studio content strategy in film, home entertainment and television. Alongside its portfolio of digital distribution, mobile and technology provider companies, TAG's content clients include Lionsgate, Participant Productions, LivePlanet and Eyespot among others.
Previously, Sexton was the Vice President of Digital Media at Lions Gate Entertainment, a producer of motion picture, television and other filmed entertainment content worldwide. Sexton oversaw the day-to-day production, operations, programming, media planning and business development for all of Lionsgate's online and mobile properties including such titles as American Psycho, Academy Award winner Monster's Ball, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, the interactive Clio-awarded Saw, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Academy Award-winning Crash, Saw II and Quentin Tarantino's Hostel. Sexton also facilitated a $350 million credit facility with JP Morgan Chase, involving the acquisition of Artisan Entertainment.
Sexton graduated with a dual B.A. in Government and English from Cornell University and received his Masters in Film from the University of Southern California.
Archana Shah is a senior executive director in the emerging markets derivative sales group at Morgan Stanley. She currently acts as co-chair of the New York chapter of Woman Advancing Microfinance (WAM), which is an international organization with 13 chapters worldwide, which supports gender issues and women's empowerment. Shah also supports Equity for Africa (EFA), a UK-based charity that provides capital to small business owners through lease financing in northern Tanzania, and is active within the microfinance community at Morgan Stanley.
Her interest is rooted in her diverse upbringing. She was born in Kenya to Indian parents and raised in Hong Kong and Tanzania. She moved to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BS in finance and a B.A in French. She continued on to New York University to receive her master's in economics.
Jay H. Shah currently serves as Hersha Hospitality Trust's Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its Board of Trustees. Shah is involved in all areas of the business with a particular emphasis on investor relations, capital transactions and acquisitions.
Previously, Shah served the Company as President and Chief Operating Officer and prior to that he served as the Managing Director of the Hersha Group, a private affiliate of Hersha Hospitality Trust that provides hotel management, development and construction management services to hotel owners.
Prior to joining the Hersha organization, Shah was principal in the law firm of Shah & Byler, LLP, a real estate and construction specialty practice, which he founded. Shah was previously a consultant with Coopers & Lybrand LLP, a legislative assistant to the late Senator John Heinz and worked with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
Jay Shah received a Bachelor of Science degree for the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, a Law degree from the Temple University School of Law and an M.B.A. from the Fox School of Business at Temple University.
Niraj Shah is the CEO and Co-founder of Wayfair, formerly known as CSN Stores, the leading online home goods retailer with 2012 sales in excess of $600 Million. Niraj has been included in the Boston Business Journal's 40 Under 40, and has won the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Niraj Shah is a graduate of Cornell University.
Jeanne Shaheen was the first woman to be elected governor of the U.S. State of New Hampshire. Elected in 1996, not only was she the first woman governor, but was also the first Democrat elected governor in the state in sixteen years. She was re-elected in 1998 and 2000, becoming only the fourth governor in New Hampshire history elected to three consecutive terms. In 2002 she narrowly lost her bid for the United States Senate.
She currently serves as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Jeanne Shaheen received a Bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree in political science from the University of Mississippi.
Steve Shapiro is the CEO of Academic Merit. Prior to this role, Steve had launched four different successful start-ups, ranging from K-12 intervention in urban school districts, tutoring and test prep, adult workforce development and international student exchange. In addition to his numerous entrepreneurial ventures, Steve is an adviser and angel investor for a number of other EdTech start-ups. Steve guides Academic Merit’s strategy and business development so that more K-12 districts can reap the benefits of our virtuous cycle of tools. Steve Shapiro has both a BS and MBA from Cornell University.
Girja Sharan is a professor in the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad in India.
His work is in controlled environment agriculture in hot, arid areas, earth tube heat exchangers, and solar energy application. He teaches mathematical modeling and simulation.
Girja Sharan received his bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering from Allahabad Agricultural Institute, his Master's in agricultural engineering from Guelph and his Ph.D. in agrciultural engineering from Cornell University.
Kenneth Shields is a Director at Procter & Gamble.
Bill Shore is the founder and executive director of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit that inspires and organizes individuals and businesses to share their strengths in innovative ways to help end hunger. Shore is also the chairman of Community Wealth Ventures, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength that provides consulting services.
Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984 in response to the Ethiopian famine and subsequently renewed concern about hunger in the United States. Since its founding, Share Our Strength has raised over $180 million to support more than 1,000 anti-hunger, anti-poverty groups worldwide.
Prior to founding Share Our Strength, Shore served on the senatorial and presidential campaign staffs of U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.) He also served as chief of staff for U.S. Senator Robert Kerrey (D-Neb.)
Shore is also an author. His three books include Revolution of the Heart (1995), The Cathedral Within (1999) and The Light of Conscience (2004).
Shore earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Zach Shulman is a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University. He teaches courses on venture capital and law for high-growth businesses. He also serves as general counsel and faculty advisor to BR Ventures and BR Incubator, both Johnson School student-run organizations that provide business consulting services and investment funds. Shulman is also currently a partner at Cayuga Venture Fund, a venture capital firm located in Ithaca, NY.
Before coming to the Johnson School in 2002, Shulman served as general counsel and chief investor relations officer of Spike Broadband Systems, where he was responsible for general oversight of Spike's legal function, including: negotiating and closing strategic and business relationships; strategizing, negotiating and closing fund-raising efforts; investor relations; and various human resource matters. While at Spike, Shulman negotiated and closed over $80 million in venture capital financing.
Prior to joining Spike, Shulman was an associate at the law firm of Harris Beach in Ithaca, New York. At Harris Beach, Shulman focused his practice on representing private and public corporations in a wide range of capacities, including equity financing via private placements and venture capital, bank financing, mergers and acquisitions, and the establishment of corporate governance policies, including advising boards of directors and executive management.
Before Harris Beach, Shulman was an associate at Ropes & Gray in Boston, Massachusetts, where he represented predominantly public companies in equity and debt offerings, commercial lending, Securities and Exchange Commission compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and executive compensation matters.
Zach Shulman earned a bachelor of science from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and graduated from Cornell University Law School.
Roger Sibley is the Executive Director of the Franziska Racker Centers. Franziska Racker Centers is a not-for-profit which creates programs to provide opportunities for people with special needs through every stage of life.
Clint Sidle is the Director of the Park Leadership Fellows Program and the Leadership Skills Program in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Sidle also works as an independent consultant in strategic change, teambuilding, and leadership development.
Clint Sidle, who has worked at Cornell since 1982 and was most recently director of institutional planning and research, has played key roles in many of the university's strategic change activities. He also worked as a trainer for campus and corporate leadership development programs and is co-author of "High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning" (McGraw Hill, 1998) and author of "The Leadership Wheel: Five Steps for Achieving Individual and Organizational Greatness" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Clint Sidle earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1974, a master's degree from the Universite Catholic de Louvain in 1976 and an MBA from the Johnson School in 1977.