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.
Amy Gershkoff, PhD is the Director of Customer Analytics & Insights for eBay.
Prior to joining eBay, Gershkoff was the Chief Data Scientist for WPP, Data Alliance, where she worked across WPP's more than 350 operating companies worldwide to create integrated data and technology solutions. Previously, she served as the Director of Media Planning at Obama for America, where she was the architect of Obama's advertising strategy.
A successful entrepreneur, Gershkoff co-founded Changing Targets Media, an advertising analytics company. For Changing Targets Media's success, Gershkoff was named one of the nation's "40 under 40" leading entrepreneurs and named one of the Top 50 Women to Watch in Tech.
Amy Gershkoff holds a Ph.D. and a Master's in American Politics and Methodology from Princeton University, and she received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Government from Cornell University.
Aaron Holiday is the Managing Entrepreneurial Officer at Cornell Tech in NYC. Aaron works to build and manage an innovative organization that is responsible for the commercialization and mass productization of deeply technical breakthrough research, startup formation, and the implementation of new degree programs.
Prior to his work with the NYC startup and venture capital community, Aaron spent 6 years on Wall Street building advanced financial trading technology for Goldman Sachs and GFI Group.
Aaron earned his MBA from Cornell University and holds a BS in Computer Science from Morehouse College.
Scott Drassinower is the President of Cloud 9 Internet, Inc. He started Cloud 9 in 1993 after being frustrated by the lack of internet access in his hometown outside of New York City. Pressed for time as a high school student and working out of a cramped office in his father's medical practice, he had incentive to quickly grow the company. Throughout the 1990s, Cloud 9 expanded to provide service to businesses, non-profits, and government agencies in the New York metropolitan area. Drassinower realized that information technology and entrepreneurship are two subjects that can be learned well in the real world, and decided to begin a course of study that is best suited for the classroom: a liberal arts education.
After graduating from Cornell in 2002 with a degree in comparative literature, he continued to build Cloud 9 as it entered its second decade. The company's new focus is information technology consulting for small and medium businesses, with an emphasis on managed services hosted in its own data center.
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.
Ilya Brotzky is an undergraduate student who is working in partnership with Amway Global as an independent business owner.
Ilya Brotzky is an undergraduate student at Cornell University and expects to graduate in 2010.
Lance Polivy is a Cornell University student and co-founder of Wiggio.com. Wiggio.com is a free, online toolkit that makes it easy for students to work in groups. It offers simple functionalities, such as a shared calendar to coordinate meetings, the ability to send mass text messages, a shared document folder, instant polling capabilities, and free conference calls.
Lance Polivy expects to receive his undergraduate degree from Cornell Univesity in 2008.