Barbara Ley Toffler is considered one of the nation's leading experts on management ethics. She is a former Harvard Business School professor who has also taught at Boston University School of Management, Columbia Business School, and Yale School of Management.
Toffler is the Founding Principal of Resources for Responsible Management, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm. She is also the author of "Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and the Fall of Arthur Andersen" and "Tough Choices: Managers Talk Ethics".
Toffler was a National Partner in charge of Ethics at Arthur Andersen for four years in the late 1990s.
Barbara Ley Toffler holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia University where she was designated a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University.
Christie Chatterley is a member of the University of Colorado at Boulder chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Their chapter designed and implemented two high efficiency stoves to better utilize limited resources and provide cleaner more efficient cooking conditions for families in Rwanda. The stoves are made from all local materials including pumice, an abundant resource in the area with ideal thermal properties. Since these stoves are made from all local materials, the goal is the one day help to create microenterprises (small businesses) that will build and sell these stove models, helping to bring more financial stability to the area. These stoves are smokeless, offer a 70 percent reduction in firewood, and they are durable enough for daily use.
Christie Chatterley is a graduate student in Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Ava Danville is a recent graduate who is an independent associate of the company Pre-Paid Legal. She began her work with Pre-Paid Legal while an undergraduate student.
Ava Danville is a graduate of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University.
Julia Stein is a co-founder of Organically Grown, a lifestyle brand that brings safe, affordable organic worker friendly products to the global marketplace.
Julia Stein's diverse and dynamic career began as a Buyer for the fashion specialty retailer, I. Magnin and junior iconic manufacturer, ESPRIT. She went on to be Director of Worldwide Merchandising for LucasFilm. In her 14 years at LucasFilm, Julia merchandised iconic brands such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Sierra Club, Saturday Night Live, Cosmopolitan Magazine and The Grateful Dead. After moving to Los Angeles, Julia spent eight years as a creative consultant to JEM Sportswear in the licensing and merchandising of over 50 properties such as Disney, Mattel, Coca Cola and Starter.
Julia Stein lives on an organic orange grove with her rescued dog, Hero, and her husband, Robert Stein.
Adele Oliva joined Quaker BioVentures as Partner in June 2007.
Previously Adele was a Partner at Apax Partners which she joined in 1997 following her selection as a Ewing Marion Kauffman Fellow in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. At Apax, she co-led the Healthcare Group in the U.S. with a focus on specialty pharmaceuticals and medical devices/products.
Prior to Apax, she held positions in marketing and business development with Baxter Healthcare in the company's Cardiovascular and I.V. Systems divisions. Adele's experience also includes positions with Ogilvy & Maher, where she was employed in the firm's office in Hungary, and with CoreStates Financial Corp., where she worked as a commercial lending officer and senior financial analyst.
Adele Oliva earned her Bachelor's degree from Saint Joseph's University and earned an M.B.A. in Marketing from Cornell University.
Lindsey Wieber and Gwen Whiting are co-founders of The Laundress. The Laundress provides a luxury fabric care and specialty detergent line to take the chore out of laundry.
Prior to co-founding The Laundress, Wieber was the Manager of U.S. Sales for CHANEL Ready-to-Wear. She managed the CHANEL boutique accounts and other large accounts such as Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus. Wieber also worked at Brooks Brothers in men's and women's buying departments before her tenure at CHANEL.
Lindsey Wieber received an undergraduate degree in Textile and Apparel Design and Management from Cornell University.
Lindsey Wieber and Gwen Whiting are co-founders of The Laundress. The Laundress provides a luxury fabric care and specialty detergent line to take the chore out of laundry.
Prior to co-founding The Laundress, Whiting was a Senior Designer of the Ralph Lauren Home Collection for five years. Prior to her work in Home Collection, her experience at Ralph Lauren included women's wear and Polo Store development.
Gwen Whiting received an undergraduate degree in Textile and Apparel Design and Management from Cornell University.
Cristiane Ulbrich is Director of Technology at BCS Tecnologia, a firm devoted to developing medical and hospital equipment being incubated at INCAMP, one of the most prestigious high-tech incubators in Brazil.Ulbrich worked for 14 in the private sector in departments such as product development (CAD/CAM and fast prototyping), quality control, and certification (ISO 9001). She has also participated in several events in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship as invited speaker and lecturer.
Cristiane Ulbrich holds a BS in Mechanical Technology from FATEC-São Paulo, a MS and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UNICAMP and a MBA from IBMEC, all in Brazil.
Kathleen Mullinix is the CEO and President of WellGen, a company seeking to be the premier expert in nutrigenomics.
Prior to joining WellGen, Mullinix advised investors on biotechnology and pharmaceutical business opportunities with her company Kathleen P. Mullinix & Associates, which she founded in 2002.
Before that, Mullinix served as the founder, chairman, CEO and president of Synaptic Pharmaceutical Corporation. There she led the company from its inception as she developed and implemented the company's strategies for scientific research, business and intellectual property, making it a research-driven public biotechnology company and then an emerging pharmaceutical company.
Before founding Synaptic Pharmaceutical, Mullinix served for six years as vice provost for Columbia University. In this role, she brought Columbia to a leadership position in the commercial development of university intellectual property assets. Additionally, she was instrumental in the development of The Audubon Research Park that has transformed the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center's Washington Heights neighborhood.
From 1972-1981, Mullinix held two positions with the National Institutes of Health, and served the organization by assisting with strategic matters involving the scientific direction of the NIH intramural program and implementing a novel research program in molecular biology.
Mullinix's comments are from a panel entitled "Exploring Business and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences" and was hosted by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University in April of 2008. Panelists included Lee Henderson, CEO and Chairman of Vybion, Kathleen Mullinix, CEO and President of WellGen and James Sigler, VP of Business Operations at Air Systems Technologies, Inc.
Kathleen Mullinix holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Trinity College, a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from Columbia University and was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.