Jennifer Delaney works as a Senior Manager of Large Enterprise Product Solutions for Paypal. Prior to this role, she worked at a tech startup, Shopkick.
Jennifer Delaney received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her MBA from Cornell University.
Rachel Martin is the Director of Partner Operations for Cornell start-up YEXT. Rachel Martin has an undergraduate degree in engineering from Cornell University and a graduate degree in engineering from Stanford University.
Hilary Lashley Renison is a Lead Consultant for GE Energy Consulting's Power Economics group. She has passionately built a career in energy, focused on sustainable technologies.
Hilary Lashley Renison graduated from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management with an MBA in corporate finance and strategic operations. In addition, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell.
Miran Liu is a Senior Manager in Business Development from Adobe. In her role as Senior Manager, she functions as matchmaker between Adobe and advertising agencies. Prior to her role at Adobe, Liu was a graphic designer. Miran Liu received her undergraduate degree from Boston University and her MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.
Ellie Cachette is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Koombea.
Prior to Koombea she was the founder of ConsumerBell a software company focused on product recalls and Springboard alumni . Ellie has received recognition from the California State Senate and California University systems as "Distinguished Alumni" as well as an "Outstanding Educator" and listed as a Top 6 Women in Technology. Ellie is a strong supporter of Women2.0 and empowering female led companies.
Ellie Cachette received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Humboldt State University.
Sarah Kennedy Ellis manages strategy & product marketing for Sabre's world-leading hospitality solutions portfolio, in addition to supporting all of Sabre's hospitality-related M&A activities. Since joining Sabre in 2007, she has held a variety of product marketing, strategy and technology management roles including her most recent as head of Sabre Labs, the dedicated emerging technology incubator & trends research lab at Sabre's global headquarters. Sarah Ellis holds a BBA in Business Management & Journalism from Baylor University, as well as an MBA specializing in Marketing & Strategy from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Sheila Laderberg is co-founder of Punk's Backyard Grill, a fast casual backyard cookout restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland. Her co-founders are Jeffrey Sloan and David McCabe. Laderberg, Sloan, and McCabe came up with the idea for Punk's Backyard Grill while collaborating on a project in the Master of Management in Hospitality program (MMH) at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. After years of refining the concept, planning, and raising capital, they opened Punk's Backyard Grill in February 2009. In its first year Punk's was named one of Washingtonian magazine's "Top 100 Bargain Restaurants" and What's Up! Annapolis magazine's "Best Bang for Your Buck." Prior to launching Punk's Backyard Grill, Laderberg was general manager of Marvelous Market Capitol Hill and worked with other hospitality companies in operations and marketing. Sheila Laderberg is a 2006 graduate of the Master of Management in Hospitality program (MMH) at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. In addition to her Cornell MMH degree, Laderberg holds a BA degree from the University of Virginia.
Constanza Ontaneda is the designer and co-founder of C.S.O.R.K. (which stands for her full name Constanza Smita Ontaneda Rehman Khedker). She is half (East) Indian and half Peruvian. Born in New Delhi, she attended schools in Peru, Brazil, Romania, Peru again and finally, Deerfield, MA in the United States, graduating in 2004.
Before joining the Fiber Science & Apparel Design undergraduate program at Cornell University she decided to spend a gap year in Peru, her late father's country, to get to know it better by doing community service, traveling and studying. One course in Lima, the Influence of Peruvian Ethnic Design on Contemporary Fashion under Professor Olga Zaferson, was particularly influential in guiding her creative and manufacturing strategies. Her burning passion for social service and fashion design brought her into contact with some incredibly talented weavers, seamstresses, knitters and silversmiths all over Peru, all of whom had had to sacrifice their art to make a bare bones daily living doing any jobs available, mostly for under $1 per hour.
Constanza returned to the US after her life-changing gap year experience determined to dedicate her life and privileged education to helping artists like herself, first in Peru and then anywhere else in the world as soon as she had the wherewithal to do so.
In Massachusetts, one of Constanza's best friends is also her step-father, Dennis Longto. Longto is a dedicated biologist and environmentalist who acknowledged and shared Constanza's dream and recognized her dynamic potential to achieve it. Thus C.S.O.R.K was born as a concrete enterprise with three very clear-cut goals: Follow fair trade practices employing local workers and artisans, Produce top quality merchandise at the best possible price, Never to harm any species in the making of their products.
The artists and artisans in Peru who help to manufacture the products sold by C.S.O.R.K do not work "for" Constanza, they work WITH her. They feel respected, recognized and are well compensated. In an atmosphere of equality, laughter, talent and hope they flesh out Constanza's ideas and designs, giving her the gift of their expert advice, experience and workmanship in exchange for the opportunity she has created for their art form.
Lindsay Hyde is founder and executive director of Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc. (SWSG), a Massachusetts not-for-profit organization which helps at-risk girls in grades 3-5 build positive self-esteem and skills.
Hyde was named one of Glamour Magazine's "Top Ten College Women" in 2003. She was also awarded the Seventeen Magazine National Youth Volunteerism Award.
Lindsay Hyde is a graduate of Harvard University.