<p>James Connolly is a product line manager for Nike's Global Men's Athletic Training Apparel business. He is responsible for the product creation engine that creates essential training silhouettes for athletes in american football and baseball. In addition James' oversees both the men's and women's LIVESTRONG apparel assortment. This assortment has helped create more than $80,000,000 in revenue for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and its fight against cancer.</p> <p> Prior to Athletic Training James worked as both a Product Line Manager and Associate Product Line Manager for Nike's women's training apparel business. </p> <p>James Connolly received a BS from Cornell University's Department of Applied Economics and Management. </p>
<p>Lauren Berger is called "The Intern Queen" after completing 15 internships during her 4 years at college. Berger is CEO of Intern Queen Inc., an internship destination site where employers find interns and students connect with internships - all with the personal touch of "The Intern Queen". Lauren was just named #5 on BusinessWeek's Annual "Top 25 Entrepreneurs 25 and Under" List. Her website currently gets approximately 25,000 unique visitors each month. The site also features Lauren's Blog: I AM INTERN - providing internship advice for employers, students, parents, and professors. She has recently placed students with The Academy Awards, NBC Universal, Nielsen Business Media, Clear Channel, and many more.</p> <p>Lauren Berger graduated from The University of Central Florida (Orlando) in 2006.</p>
Vijay Nathan is a Product Manager with Apartment Therapy. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of NoshOnIt. After realizing that he was much better suited to be cooking at home instead of in a professional kitchen, Vijay traded in his chef hat for an apron and has committed himself to helping everyone realize that they can cook great food at home. You\'ll often find him traversing the city for the best ethnic eats or experimenting in the kitchen with new cuisines. Prior to NoshOn.It, Vijay was the Co-Founder and CEO of MyReci.com, an online recipe box application that allows you to manage, save, and share all of your recipes from any website in one place. MyReci was born out of Vijay\'s entrepreneurship and brand management focus at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he received his MBA. Vijay Nathan received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his MBA from Cornell University.
Evan T. Edwards currently serves as vice-president of product development for Intelliject, LLC., a biomedical company devoted to developing innovative drug delivery technologies. He is the co-founder of Intelliject and their compact drug delivery system, specializing in all areas of the invention and design process. He is currently one of the primary inventors on more than forty of Intelliject's patents filed both domestically and abroad.
Intelliject, LLC was formed from an Advanced E-Team award from the NCIIA in 2000.
Evan Edwards received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.
Dar Caldwell is a founding partner of LaunchHouse, a Cleveland-based business incubator and seed capital investment group that invests money, mentorship, education and business development resources into the Midwest's most promising young entrepreneurs. The young investors of LaunchHouse (almost all are under the age of 30) manage a diverse portfolio of technology, alternative energy, global aid, urban agriculture and medical device ventures. They have converted a vacant car dealership in Shaker Heights into 23,000 sq. ft. affordable and collaborative work space that is home to over 50 exciting startup ventures. Dar Caldwell is a graduate of Cornell University.
Danielle Weinblatt is the Founder and CEO of Take the Interview.
Prior to Take the Interview, Weinblatt was a private equity professional and the Junior Recruiting Captain for Cornell University during her time at Citigroup. While at Citigroup, Weinblatt was a member of the Investment Banking Group, where she specialized in Energy Mergers & Acquisitions. She is a member of Springboard Enterprises, a network of female technology CEOs and an Advisor to DreamIt Ventures Israel, an incubator supporting Israeli startups.
Danielle Weinblatt holds a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Applied Economics from Cornell University and achieved Honors at Harvard Business School.
Cheryl Swirnow is the co-founder and COO of Sherpaa.
Prior to co-founding Sherpaa, Swirnow worked with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Quintessentially, Nike, The Barbarian Group and Rent the Runway.
Cheryl Swirnow graduated from Cornell University's Hotel School with a concentration in HR.
Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource, a non-profit social business that gives digital work to impoverished people around the world.
Prior to Samasource, Janah was a a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo.
Leila Janah received a BA from Harvard.
JB Osborne is the CEO of Red Antler. He started his career at Saatchi & Saatchi, working for clients such as Procter & Gamble, General Mills, and the award winning international launch of Air Tahiti Nui.
An entrepreneur at heart, he left Saatchi to open the New York office of Consortium, a New Zealand ad agency.
In August 2007, JB founded Red Antler, where he works with clients on brand positioning, user experience, business strategy and marketing.
JB has a Bachelors degree in Business, Magna Cum Laude, from Cornell University and is a member of the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Advisory Board.