<p>Michael Holland is currently a Director at Oberon Media, one of the world's leading casual games solution provider.</p> <p>Prior to his position at Oberon, Mike was the founder of OpenWonder. OpenWonder is focused on developing and planning specialized web services and is specifically targeting the area of diversity within large corporations.</p> <p>Prior to founding OpenWonder. Hollard worked at DirectAdvice, a subsidiary of Mellon Financial. Before that role, Holland was a project manager at Infonautics. Infonautics was an operator of specialized information Web sites and tools that was acquired in 2001 by Tucows. Tucows is a Toronto-based provider of wholesale digital products to Internet service providers and Web-hosting companies. In addition, Holland attempted several dot com startups while an undergraduate student. </p> <p>Michael Holland received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his MBA From Duke University.</p>
<p>Brian Magierski is an experienced entrepreneur and start-up executive in the area of software and web services targeted at enterprises. Currently Brian is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Kalivo, Inc., a leading provider of web software that enables companies to engage directly with their customers across the Web.</p> <p>Magierski has co-founded two companies and served as an interim CEO and angel investor in another. He was the co-founder and CEO of Phiware, a venture-backed enterprise demand planning software company, and iMark.com, a business-to-business web marketplace for trading surplus goods that was sold to FreeMarkets in March 2000 for $340 million. Magierski also served as interim CEO and investor in ioLogics, an enterprise email security software provider, and provided consulting services to the chairman and board of directors at ROME Corporation. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Magierski was a business unit director at Trilogy Software in Austin, TX.</p> <p>Brian Magierski holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Engineering from Cornell University.</p>
<p>Chris Wilkerson is the President of EquipSystems. EquipSystems focuses on equipment management programs for what is referred to as the non-electrics rolling stock in hospitals. </p> <p>Prior to purchasing EquipSystems, Wilkerson was the Founder, President and CEO of High Bar Capital. High Bar Capital specializes in the acquisition and management of high quality businesses operating in niche healthcare markets. Creation of High Bar Capital led to his purchase of EquipSystems.</p> <p>Before founding High Bar Capital, Chris worked in the business development group of Ventro, a B2B marketplace builder and operator and was part of the founding team at OnCare, a nationwide oncology physician practice management company. </p> <p>Chris Wilkerson holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. </p>
Nick Bayer is the founder and CEO of Saxbys Coffee. Nick Bayer graduated from Cornell University.
<p>Randy Brandoff is the vice president of marketing for Marquis Jet.</p> <p>Previously, Brandoff was an Associate at The Argentum Group where he assisted in the identification and evaluation of potential investment opportunities and supported portfolio companies in fulfilling strategic and financial objectives. Brandoff has also been a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting, where he served clients in the financial services and communications industries. </p> <p>Randy Brandoff holds an undergraduate degree in Business Management and Finance from Cornell University. </p>
John Renehan co-founded EnVision Leadership Inc. in 2000. EnVision Leadership is an organization based in Boston, MA, that builds inclusive leadership programs. For five years, Renehan served as Executive Director serving thousands of students and educators from all fifty states and over thirty countries.
John Renehan received his undergraduate degree from the University of Richmond and will receive his MBA from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management in 2007.
Neal Gottlieb is the founder of Three Twins Ice Cream. Three Twins Ice Cream was certified organic in April 2006, joined One Percent For The Planet and sells to both restaurants and the Berkeley Farmers' Market. The shop also has ice cream pints available in local supermarkets.
As of November 2007, Three Twins Ice Cream can be found in more than 30 different locations and is working on opening its second retail store in Napa's Oxbow Public Market.
Gottlieb previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the old city of Taroudant Morocco from 2002 - 2003. His tenure in Morocco was cut short when the war in Iraq led to the evacuation of the program. Upon returning the States, Gottlieb was employed at Levi Strauss's corporate headquarters prior to starting his company.
Neal Gottlieb is a graduate of Cornell University.
Thompson's interview is one of a four-part interview series of interview with "dot com" entrepreneurs (Micah Rosenbloom, Harold Fox, Zach Thompson, and Tai Nguyen). It documents an Internet start-up, Handshake.com, which was founded in 1999 and provided an Internet service to connect consumers to local merchants.
Demarest Studios was founded in 1998 by Noah Demarest. Demarest Studios primarily focused on architectural drafting, web site development and graphic design. In 2000, Noah partnered with his brother Nathan Demarest with the intention of expanding the range of design solutions offered to include web and multimedia production, digital illustration, and apparel design. In 2001, Noah and Nathan transformed Demarest Studios into Deviron LLC.
Deviron LLC now offers enhanced support and visualization services for architects, engineers and designers.
Noah and Nathan Demarest are both graduates of Cornell University.