Linda Mason is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Bright Horizons. Bright Horizons provides high quality childcare at the work site as a benefit for employees. She founded the company in 1986 with her husband, Roger Brown, and a small team of committed parents in Cambridge, MA. Prior to founding Bright Horizons, Linda Mason managed large-scale relief operations overseas. She served as co-director of Save the Children's emergency program in Sudan, serving 400,000 famine and war victims, and directed a large feeding program for children in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thai border. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Management, Cornell University and the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
Denni McCann has been working in the design field since graduating from college with a design degree. She has worked as a pattern maker and even owned a sewing factory before moving to Jogbra in 1980, four years after the company was founded.
Twenty years and two acquisitions (by Playtex and then Sara Lee) later, McCann is the Vice President of Design at Champion Jogbra. Her responsibilities include supervising a design team, forecasting trends, and overseeing Jogbra?s designs and marketing.
Amy Brill has been designing since she was a little girl. After college, Brill worked as an actor for some time. Besides working as a puppeteer and a circus clown, she also designed for Angelheart, a clothing company, and designed her own soft sculptures and puppets.
During this time, Brill met Walt Amey, also a performer, and the two married. She and Amey founded Amy Brill Handmade Sweaters and have been selling her designs to small specialty stores since then. Amey is in charge of the sales and marketing and Brill designs and produces the sweaters.
Today, Amy Brill Handmade Sweaters still operates out of Brill and Amey's home in Jacksonville, New York. The company remains small, relying on about eight independent contractors for production, occasional interns, and small knitting factories and yarn mills to create its products. A relatively new line, Amy Amey has been added and consists of clothing made out of gauze.
Amy Brill is a graduate of Cornell University.
Pamela Marrone founded AgraQuest in 1995. AgraQuest discovers, develops, and markets safe, environmentally friendly, and effective natural products for farm, home, and public health pest management. Prior to founding AgraQuest, Marrone was founding president of Entotech, Inc. Under her tenure as president of Entotech, the company discovered, developed, and marketed microbial pesticides. Before Enotech, Marrone was in charge of the Insect Control group at Monsanto Agricultural Company. Pamela Marrone holds a B.S. in entomology from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in entomology from North Carolina State University.
<p>Patricia Warner is the founder of Global-eze Inc. Prior to founding Global-eze, Warner held progressive management positions with Corning.</p> <p>Patricia Warner holds an undergraduate degree from University of Connecticut and a MBA from Cornell University.</p>
<p>Peggy Hart Earle has spent her career designing children's wear. Earle first worked at Cinderella, a Pennsylvania children's design house, for a short time before pursuing her dream of owning her own children's wear company. </p> <p>She founded Hartstrings in 1979 and began to sell her designs in a booth at the local farmer's market, as well as small and large retail stores. Hartstrings is known for an "uncorporate" but efficient business style. The company was recently acquired by Keystone Trading Company.</p> <p> Peggy Hart Earle graduated from Cornell University as a Textile and Apparel Design major in 1974. </p>
<p>Amy Domini is Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments. She is widely recognized as the leading voice for socially responsible investing. In 2005, Time magazine named her to the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. Also in 2005, President Clinton honored her at the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative for helping protect children and the environment through the Domini Fund for International Giving. </p> <p>Domini is the author of "Socially Responsible Investing: Making a Difference and Making Money" (Dearborn Trade, 2001) and "The Challenges of Wealth" (Dow Jones Irwin, 1988), and a coauthor of "Investing for Good" (Harper Collins, 1993), "The Social Investment Almanac" (Henry Holt, 1992), and "Ethical Investing" (Addison-Wesley, 1984). She is a frequent guest commentator on CNBC's Talking Stocks and various other radio and television shows.</p> <p>Amy Domini holds a B.A. in international and comparative studies from Boston University, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.</p>
Barbara Lang, founder of RTR Ideas, offers a wide range of experiences, including 10 years as a culinary director at a Napa Valley winery; a former co-owner of a successful restaurant in Ithaca, NY; 17 years as a lecturer at Cornell's Hotel School and is author of "From Restaurant to Retail, a Handbook for Food Professionals".
Lang developed and launched The Ithaca Wegman's Culinary School, produced and hosted a series of food programs and culinary videos for Cornell's Cooperative Extension, created the Popcork Experience, a fun, interactive wine and food pairing experience, developed the Rolling Stove, a series of culinary adventures for children, and was past president of the American Cheese Society. A popular public speaker, Lang has spoken at over 50 conferences and symposia, including at the National Restaurant Show, The Professional Association of Innkeepers International and the California Wine Experience.
Barbara Lang holds an undergraduate degree in Hotel Administration from Cornell University's Hotel School and a masters degree in professional studies in Food Marketing from Cornell University's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
Dr. Lois Frankel is a professional coach and author.
Her last two books, "Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office" and "Nice Girls Don't Get Rich" are international bestsellers translated into over twenty-five languages worldwide.
Frankel has been featured on the TODAY Show, CNN and CNBC, in the New York Times, USA Today, and in PEOPLE and TIME Magazines. BUSINESSWEEK named Corner Office among its top ten business books of 2004 and Paramount purchased the rights for a major motion picture.
Combining her experience in human resources at a Fortune 10 oil company with insights and information from her Ph.D. in Psychology, Dr. Frankel founded Corporate Coaching International, headquartered in Pasadena, California. Her client list reads like a who's who of multinational corporations, including Amgen, British Petroleum, McKinsey & Company, Inc., Procter & Gamble, Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company and Goldman Sachs to name just a few of the hundreds of companies that have invited her back time and again.
Lois Frankel holds a PhD in Psychology from University of Southern California.