Nathaniel Stern is an internationally exhibited installation artist, net.artist and performance poet. His interactive installations have won awards in New York, South Africa and Australia, and his net.art has been featured in festivals all over Europe, Asia and the US.
Nathaniel's collaborative physical theatre and multimedia performance work has won three FNB Vita Awards - including Best Presentation of a New Contemporary Work - and has been featured on the main stage at theGrahamstown Festival in South Africa. His poetry repertoire includes the US National Poetry Slam competition and the HIV/AIDS Arts, Media & Film Festival (South Africa).
He currently lives and works both in and from Johannesburg, as an adjunct faculty member of MCAD, external MA lecturer and supervisor at the Wits School of Arts (University of the Witwatersrand) and freelance lecturer at Newtown's Anti-Retroviral Theatre program and The South African School Of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance.
Nathaniel received his undergraduate degree in Textiles and Apparel Design from Cornell University, and his Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
CommuniTech.Net is one of the world's most successful Web hosting companies, with 24,000 clients in 130 countries. Gabe Murphy and Brian Heitman started the company in 1997 while Murphy was attending Cornell University and Heitman was in high school. The business plan for the company was born when Murphy enrolled in a course in entrepreneurship.
Gabe Murphy received his B.S. from Cornell University in 1999.
Mike Pratico, Jr., graduated from Cornell University with Honors in 1998. Prior to graduating from Cornell, Pratico along with two other partners formed Davanita Design, LLC, an e-strategy and implementation consulting firm. At Davanita, Pratico was responsible for many of the business operational needs including new business development, human resources, finance, and legal. Most notably, Pratico oversaw a capital infusion and the later sale of the company to Avatar Technology, Inc. in 2000.
Marc Prud\'hommeaux is the Founder and Principal Developer at Glimpse I/O. Marc has been developing for Cocoa in Objective-C since 2006, and he was the author of the first e-book reader in the Apple App Store: Stanza. Before that, he was an enterprise Java developer and one of the original authors of Apache OpenJPA. Marc Prud\'hommeaux graduated from Cornell University.
Mike Thompson served as an Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile & Consumer Division at Nuance Communications, Inc. until February 2016 Mike Thompson holds a Professional Engineer\'s license in mechanical engineering and earned an M.B.A. at Cornell University after completing his undergraduate engineering studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Oliver Bajracharya is a Partner at the Intellectual Property Law Firm of CPH (Christie, Parker, Hale LLP). He has worked extensively with domestic and international companies specializing in various areas of technology, including medical devices, consumer electronics, sporting equipment, and apparel. Oliver Bajracharya received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Cornell University and his law degree from Tulane Law School.
<p>Lori Marino is currently Vice President & Counsel, Corporate Law at Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a pharmacy benefits manager in Franklin Lakes, N.J. </p> <p>Prior to that she was Managing Corporate Counsel at Avaya, the telecommunications equipment company in Basking Ridge, N.J. Prior to her position at Avaya, she worked for five years in private practice at the New York City office of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.</p> <p>Lori Marino graduated with distinction from Cornell University and received her law degree cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Annemarie Segaric is the Founder of The Career Changer Company and author of Step into the Right Career: 107 Tips to Change Your Life While Still Paying the Bills. In business since 2001, her company specializes in helping professionals figure out their life's purpose so they can get unstuck, change careers, and do work they love.</p> <p>Her professional experience includes banking, consulting, telecommunications, and media and entertainment. She has extensive experience in business analysis as well as web development and usability. Annemarie has helped organizations analyze their business processes thereby creating efficiencies and reducing operating costs.</p> <p>She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research/Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.</p>
<p>Angela Sorrell is an Assistant Director with Ernst & Young and heads up recruiting for the firm's real estate group. Prior to that role, she was a consultant in the organization.</p> <p>Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Sorrell was a client-service professional for the Structured Finance Advisory Services in Washington, D.C.</p> <p>Angela Sorrell earned a BA in economics from Mary Washington College and an MS in economics from the University of Texas. </p>