<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>
Brad Katsuyama is a financial services executive, working as the president, CEO and co-founder of the IEX, the Investors Exchange. Brad has over 14 years of experience in the securities trading industry. Brad was formerly the Global Head of Electronic Sales and Trading at RBC Capital Markets. In this role, he was responsible for multiple global teams including: electronic sales, electronic trading, algorithmic trading, market structure strategy, client implementation and product management. Brad\'s prior management roles at RBC were Head of US Cash Equity Trading, Head of US Hedge Fund Coverage, and Head of US Technology Trading. Brad Katsuyama is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University.
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.
Gerald Beechum is Managing Partner of White Cornus Lane Investments, an active private equity investor combining intelligent capital and seasoned operators to create leading middle market companies. Gerald was most recently CEO of Team Express, a multi-channel retailer of sporting goods equipment, footwear, and apparel. Prior to Team Express, Gerald spent more than 16 years in several roles at JPMorgan Chase. His last role was in Chase Capital, a captive junior capital investor in middle market companies. Gerald has originated and restructured several mezzanine and equity investments in companies operating in the aerospace/defense, building products, sporting goods, and nutritional supplement industries. He was actively involved in management and board activities, often serving as an operating partner within several portfolio companies, leading initiatives in the areas of strategy, sales, integration management, information technology/MIS, finance and reporting. Gerald was also a senior member of the finance group in JPMorgan Private Client Services (PCS), responsible for structuring and performing strategic analysis around projects with significant bottom-line impact. Prior to PCS, Gerald spent several years in Corporate M&A and Development as part of the turn-around team at Bank One. In addition to his role in the central merger integration office during the merger of JPMorgan and Bank One, Gerald also had experience across many of JPMorgan's major business lines, including investment banking, commercial lending, private equity and credit card services. He is also a co-inventor of Blink, a contactless-payment technology. Gerald Beechum holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. with honors in Applied Economics from 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.
Jeremey Donovan is a group vice president with Gartner, responsible for marketing the company's $865 million research business. His team takes a rigorous analytical approach to all phases of the marketing cycle, including demand generation, cultivation, alliances and field marketing. At Gartner, Mr. Donovan has led teams responsible for new product strategy and for product management. In addition, Mr. Donovan was a Gartner analyst for eight years, covering the communications supply chain, including semiconductors and systems.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Donovan founded the market strategy consulting firm InfoUnity. At InfoUnity, he served on technical advisory boards for a number of venture-based firms that were subsequently acquired by public semiconductor companies. Previous to that, he was a device engineer at Xilinx, where he was responsible for deep-submicron process integration and foundry interface in the programmable logic company.
Jeremey Donovan received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He received a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago
Neal Goldman is the Executive Director of Relationship Science. He is also Co-Founder of Goode Holdings, an investment holding company with interests in the information technology and financial services sectors that is the sponsor of a US$ 225 million private capital fund focused on investing in middle market consumer companies.
Prior to Goode, Goldman was Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital IQ until its sale to McGrawHill/Standard & Poor's. Previously, he was a Managing Partner at Uhuru Capital Management and an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Lehman Brothers and a private equity investor at Lincolnshire Management.
Neal Goldman received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he also served as an Adjunct Faculty Member.