Stevens Sainte-Rose was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and later immigrated to the United States into the New York City area. He has spent his career working in human resources in the field of diversity and is presently employed by Aramark.
Prior to his position at Aramark, Sainte-Rose worked in Human Resources for the Burger King Corporation. Beofre entering corporate America, Sainte-Rose had an opportunity to build a school in Kenya.
Stevens Sainte-Rose is a graduate of Cornell University.
Gary Tuerack is a motivational speaker and has spoken in front of hundreds of thousands of students, from small groups to audiences of over 1,600. He is the author of "Better Grades in Less Time", and founder of The National Society of Leadership and Success.
Gary Tuerack is a graduate of Cornell University.
Colin Hill is Chairman and CEO of Gene Network Sciences. In this role, Hill develops the strategic roadmap and vision for the company and oversees the leadership of business operations. Hill brings years of hands-on scientific experience to his role, with expertise in the areas of computational physics and systems biology. Colin Hill was recently named to MIT Technology Review's TR100 list of the top innovators in the world under the age of 35, and was also selected by Black Enterprise as the winner of the 2004 "Rising Star" small business award. Colin Hill graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in physics and went on to earn masters degrees in physics from McGill and Cornell Universities.
Abigail Charpentier is the Vice President of Human Resources of Aramark Harrison Lodging. Charpentier began her ARAMARK career in property human resources, moving up to director of human resources at the largest center in ARAMARK Harrison Lodging. She then assumed the corporate responsibilities as director of human resources for conference center management before becoming a director of operations responsible for ten properties. In 2002, Abigail returned to human resources as the Vice President. She is now responsible for human resources, staffing and employee development.
Abigail Charpentier is a graduate of Cornell University.
Megan Gray is an attorney in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include litigating trademark and copyright cases, drafting and negotiating Internet contracts, advising clients on privacy concerns, prosecuting trademarks, analyzing trade secret claims, and defending free-speech cases. Specifically, she works with leading apparel companies with brands of worldwide fame, well-known software companies, toy producers, fabric designers, and jewelers, among many others. Megan Gray received her BA, Masters in Public Affairs and her JD from the University of Texas.
Daniel Stein is President of JDS Capital, an investment firm based in New York that invests in private, public and distressed debt and equity. Stein is CEO of Dimensional Associates, the operating company that manages the private equity investments made by JDS. Dimensional owns a variety of digital media assets including eMusic, The Orchard and a music publishing arm that owns over 10,000 songs.
Stein was President of Javu Technologies from 2000-2001. Javu licenses software and services to corporations and online-rich media service providers that store, manage, deliver or repurpose video assets. Prior to joining Javu, Stein was President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of the Wedding List Company from 1999-2000, an Internet company with retail outlets specializing in the wedding gift and registry business. The Wedding List was sold to Martha Stewart/Omnimedia in Spring 2001. In 1994, Stein founded Burly Bear Network, a company providing cable programming and online services to college students. From inception to 1999, Burly Bear became the largest college cable television network and online service, servicing 8 million households throughout the country. Burly Bear was sold in 1997 to Lorne Michaels, owner of Broadway Video and creator and producer of Saturday Night Live. From 1992-1993 Stein worked in the executive-training program at retailer Lechters Housewares.
Daniel Stein graduated from Cornell University.
Ken Grouf is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York division of City Year. City Year unites a diverse group of 17 to 24 year-old young people for a year of full-time, rigorous community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.
Prior to starting City Year New York, Grouf was the Director of Brand Managment at Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!, Ken was the Director of National Programs and Marketing at Do Something.
In 1993, he founded and served as the Executive Director of Students for Children, a non-profit organization that encouraged volunteerism and child advocacy on college campuses nationwide.
Ken Grouf received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Matthew Pittinsky co-founded Blackboard, Inc in 1997 with a mission to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning. Today, Backboard is considered by most industry analysts to be the leading provider of e-Education systems around the world.
Matthew Pittinsky received his undergraduate degree from American University and a Masters in Education from Harvard University. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University Teacher's College studying the sociology of online learning.
Thevaki Thambirajah began her professional career in a large corporate environments. After spending a few yeears in a training program at Citibank, she opted to find a more intrapreneurial role within Revlon. When that opportunity didn't result in the level of creativity and flexibility she desired, she opted to venture out on her own as a consultant within the independent film industry. While working in the independent film arena fulfilled her passions, it failed to pay the bills. She returned to the corporate world, taking a position at Coty. She has since left that position and returned to the film world where she recently served as Production Office Assistant on the film "Heights" by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory. Thevaki Thambirajah is a graduate of Cornell University.