Brady Sidwell is the Assistant Manager of Strategic Advisory and Research in the Food and Agribusiness Branch of Rabobank International in Hong Kong. Sidwell worked previously as a student intern in the offices of U.S. Senator Don Nickles in Washington, D.C. and the U.S.D.A. Foreign Agricultural Service at U.S. Embassies in South Korea and Thailand. Brady Sidwell holds a Bachelor of Science degree (cum laude) in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University and a Master of Economics degree from the University of Hong Kong where he studied as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar to China.
James Sigler, VP of Business Operations at Air Systems Technologies, Inc. Sigler has over 22 years of management experience, including 17 years in the development, manufacturing, and quality management of biological, cell therapy, and small molecule products.
Prior to joining AST, Sigler was Vice President, Manufacturing, at RenaMed Biologics, Inc.; prior to that he was Vice President, Operations and Clinical Supply for Acceleron Pharma, Inc. Sigler was also Vice President, Manufacturing for Curis, Inc., and he was divisional head of manufacturing when Genzyme Corporation sought and received regulatory approval for Carticel, an autologous cell therapy product. He also spent five years on active duty in the U.S. Navy, serving as a nuclear propulsion-trained officer on board USS Enterprise.
James Sigler recieved his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his MBA degree from Harvard Business School.
Erik Simanis is the Co-Director for BoP Protocol at Cornell University's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Simanis co-founded with Professor Stuart Hart the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory in 2000, a consortium of multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, and multilaterals that explore market-based approaches to serving the four billion people at the base of the income pyramid. Simanis currently co-directs the BoP Protocol Project, a ground-breaking initiative to develop and refine a business process that enables large corporations to co-create new businesses in deep partnership with income-poor communities. As Co-Director, Simanis has led successful BoP Protocol field implementations in Kenya in partnership with SC Johnson and in India with Dupont's Solae subsidiary.
Erik Simanis has taught undergraduate, masters, and executive level courses in strategy and sustainability. He holds a BA in Spanish from Wake Forest University and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, where he received the Norman Block Award for highest academic achievement.
Michael Simmons is the author of the bestselling book,The Student Success Manifesto: How to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity.
Simmons, along with wife Sheena Lindahl, founded Extreme Entrepreneurship Education, LLC, while attending NYU in 2003. The pair have been named among BusinessWeek's "Best Entrepreneurs Under 25" in 2006. In addition, Simmons and Lindahl are the co-founders of Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour (EET), a collegiate tour bringing America's top young enterpreneurs to college campuses for a half-day conference to spread the entrepreneurial mindset. Started in fall 2006, the tour has visited over 60 schools nation-wide and has received the Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations and the Program of the Year award from Northern Michigan University.
Michael Simmons is a graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Dan Simpkins founded Hillcrest Labs in 2001 with a team of experienced technical and business professionals to create a revolution in entertainment.
Prior to founding Hillcrest, Simpkins was vice president and general manager of the SALIX Switching Division of Tellabs, Inc., which was established in 2000 when he sold Voice over IP leader SALIX Technologies to Tellabs for $300 million. Simpkins founded SALIX in 1990 and continued as president and CEO through the sale.
Dan Simpkins received undergraduate and Master's degrees in engineering from Cornell University.
David Sinclair, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He has made key contributions to the scientific understanding of aging. In 1997, David identified the cause of aging in yeast, a first for any species, and in 2003 reported the discovery of a conserved master regulatory gene controlling this process. David has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including several seminal papers in Nature and Science, and has received numerous awards and honors for his research.
David Sinclair performed his post-doctoral work with Dr. Leonard Guarente at MIT and holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics from the University of New South Wales.
Amrit Singh 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, Amrit spent 13 years in technology consulting.
Amrit Singh is a graduate of Cornell University.
Savneet Singh is the Founder of Gold Bullion International (GBI), a leading physical precious metals trading and management firm. GBI has created the first truly integrated solution that allows investors to order physical precious metals in the same manner as ordering a stock or bond. Currently the company has storage locations in New York, Utah, London, Hong Kong and Zurich. In founding GBI, Mr. Singh has been successful in recruiting a well known management team in addition to a Board that includes General Wesley Clark, Former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt.
Prior to GBI, Mr. Singh was an investment analyst at Chilton Investment Company where he covered investments in the technology, alternative energy and infrastructure space.
Prior to Chilton, Mr. Singh worked in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley, where he worked on large financial sponsor and strategic company mergers and acquisitions.
Savneet Singh received his B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.
Gun Sirer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Sirer works on self-organizing systems, which span operating systems, networking and distributed systems. He likes building things, especially systems that have some principled reason for why they should work. His current projects involve peer-to-peer systems, systems support for ad hoc networks, and operating systems.
Sirer's comments are from a panel on Information Technology Entrepreneurship from Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration in April 2010.
Gun Sirer received a B.S.E. from Princeton University and an M.S and Ph.D. from University of Washington.
Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A highly successful Wall Street executive, she's Co-founder and President of The New Agenda, a national organization working on issues including economic independence and advancement, gender representation and bias, sexual assault and domestic violence.
A pioneer in the distressed debt trading market, she has a lifetime of experience with failure and remarkable success and knows what it takes to win. She became the first female Managing Director at Wasserstein Perella at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at Morgan Stanley and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner.
Amy Siskind received a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from The NYU Stern School of Business.
Cyndi Slothower & Linda VanNederynen are co-founders of Quilters Corner. Quilters Corner was opened by 5 women in the summer of 1995 and the business has been expanding ever since.
In addition to a shared love of quilting, the founders all also have busy families, with a total of fifteen children among them. As a group they came together with varied professional backgrounds and life experiences: math teacher, farmer, paralegal, traffic engineer, arts administrator. None had owned or run a business before but all had a passion for quilting.
Clare Brett Smith is President Emerita of Aid To Artisans. Aid to Artisans (ATA) is a non-profit organization based in Hartford, Connecticut whose mission is to offer "practical assistance to artisan groups worldwide, working in partnerships to foster artistic traditions, cultural vitality, improved livelihoods and community well-being." ATA works with artisans in every region of the world through its product and market development programs, business skills training and Small Grants Program.
Smith served as President of ATA from 1986-2005. Prior to that, Smith owned and managed Primitive Artisan, a well-known import company specializing in handicrafts of developing nations. The company was sold in 1982.
Clare Brett Smith graduated from Smith College, where her major field was history and where she was Editor-in-Chief of the college newspaper.