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Jessica Bibliowicz is president and CEO of National Financial Partners, a New York City-based independent financial services distribution system. She signed on as CEO when the company was formed with $125 million of capital from Apollo Management LP, a leveraged buyout firm.

Jessica is a graduate of Cornell University and the daughter of Sanford I. Weill, chairman and CEO of Citigroup. She lives with her husband and two children in Metro NY.

Alisa Cohn is founder of Alisa Cohn Coaching and is a Business Coach with more than ten years of professional experience in large and small corporate environments. Prior to starting her own company, her professional experience included working in the Middle Market Advisory Services Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Alisa Cohn earned her MBA from Cornell University, where she was awarded the Fried Fellowship for Leadership and Academic Excellence. Alisa is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Kathryn Blume is Co-Founder of the Lysistrata Project, the first worldwide theatrical event for peace. She has toured The Accidental Activist - her critically acclaimed one-woman show about Lysistrata Project - to over 30 cities in the US and Canada, receiving an Austin Critics Table Award nomination. She is an Artistic Associate at Vermont Stage Company in Burlington, where her play Vanya/Vermont - a modern adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya - premiered in the spring of 2005. Kathryn's new solo show, The Boycott, premiered at VSC in January, 2007.

Her Off-Broadway credits include The Seagull, Mirandolina, and The Country Wife. Her Regional theater credits include Two Rooms, She Stoops to Conquer, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Sylvia, Waiting for Godot, A Streetcar Named Desire, Amadeus, June Moon, Antigone, Much Ado About Nothing, The Baby Dance, and Our Country's Good. Her Film credits include Deception, My Mother's Early Lovers, The Apartment, and Maybe It's Me.

In amongst her theatrical activities, Blume has had essays published in the books MoveOn.org's 50 Ways To Love Your Country, Code Pink's Stop the Next War Now, Outcry - American Voices of Conscience Post 9/11, and 365 Ways to Change the World. She has also had essays published in the weekly Seven Days and in Yes Magazine. Blume has worked for organizations such as the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and Forest Watch. She founded Earth on the Air, a nationally-syndicated, award-winning environmental and social justice radio program, and was a company member of Living Voices, touring one-woman shows about the Holocaust and immigration to communities nationwide.

Blume co-founded The Hill Actor's Retreat Center and New Paradigms Personal Coaching Services, and has taught yoga, acting, Shakespeare, stress-reduction, and public speaking in venues across the country.

Kathryn Blume received her BA from Yale with a self-designed degree in environmental studies and theater.

Barbara Lindheim is co-founder and partner of GendeLLindheim BioCom Partners, LLC. Prior to founding that group, she was VIce President of Strategic Communications at Orchid BioSciences. She has also had management positions at Edelman Public Relations and Noonan/Russo Communications.

Barbara Lindheim received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University. She earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School and an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Rachel Lampert has been the Artistic Producing Director for Kitchen Theatre since 1997. In addition, she is a playwright, director and choreographer. For the Kitchen Theatre Main Stage she has written Precious Nonsense (2005), The Book Club (2004), Waltz (2001), Lampert Variations (2000); adaptations of Frankenstein (2002) and The Trial (2004). For family audiences her plays include Emmett & Hambone, A December Suite, The Sisters Fitzenstarts, A Christmas Carol and with collaborator Lesley Greene - Science Fair, Fools! Schmools!; this season they will be adding The Odyssey, Winter Tales and I Have A Song To Sing O! Her play, Bet You Can't Catch It? was commissioned by AIDSWORK of Tompkins County as part of an educational program for teens. The piece toured Central NY for three years. Her trip to China in 1997 to stage West Side Story resulted in her writing The Soup Comes Last, which was produced at the Kitchen and off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in Fall 2004. In addition to directing many plays at the Kitchen, she has directed and/or choreographed plays and musicals at Cal Rep, Arkansas Rep, Portland Stage Company, Public Theatre and Hawaii Opera Theatre. Lampert spent her early career in concert dance and founded a dance company in 1975 (Rachel Lampert & Dancers) that toured extensively throughout the US and in Europe for fifteen years. She is a 4-time recipient of NEA Choreography Fellowships, a CAP Individual Artist Grant and a SALT Award for Best Actress 2004. Her dance works have been in the repertories of numerous dance companies across the country and around the world. Raised in Brooklyn, she moved to Ithaca with her husband David in 1995. Rachel Lampert holds a BFA and MFA from New York University Tisch School For the Arts.

Lynn Ambrosia is currently the Vice President of Retail Fresh at Campbell's Soup Company. Previously, she was Vice President/General Manager for Sauce and Meal Preparation for Campbell USA, and Vice President, Global Soup Strategy and New Business, North American Soup.

Prior to coming to Campbell's in 2002, Ambrosia spent 17 years at Nabisco and most recently Kraft where she was Vice President, New Business Development with responsibility for acquisition synergies. Other assignments at Nabisco included Vice President, Strategy / Business Development; Vice President of Marketing at Nabisco Biscuit Company and General Manager of Specialty Biscuits.

Lynn Ambrosia earned both her Bachelor of Science degree and MBA at Cornell University.

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.

Deirdre Nissenson Kurzweil is currently serving as a market research manager in the Office of Publications and Marketing at Cornell University.

Previously, she was a project manager at Total Research Corporation and Opinion Research Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey. She has also worked as senior research analyst for Merrill Lynch, where much of her work focused on assessing the impact of various advertising efforts.

Deirdre Kurzweil received her undergraduate degree from Dickinson College.

Helen Johnson-Leipold joined SC Johnson in September 1985 in the product management area and served in a variety of sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility before being named Vice President - Consumer Marketing Services, Worldwide in 1992. She moved to Johnson Outdoors, a leading global outdoor recreation products company, as Executive Vice President of North American businesses in 1995. She returned briefly to SC Johnson in 1997 as Vice President, Personal & Home Care Products.

In March 1999, Johnson-Leipold was elected Chairman and CEO of Johnson Outdoors Inc., and in July 2004, was also elected Chairman, Johnson Financial Group, the $3.2 billion dollar global financial services company founded by her father, Sam Johnson. She leads both of these family companies from their worldwide headquarters in The Johnson Building, designed by "green architecture" pioneer William McDonough.

Prior to coming to SC Johnson, she began her career at Foote, Cone & Belding in Chicago in 1979, directing the advertising for some of America's leading consumer packaged goods companies, including Kraft and Beatrice Foods.

Helen Johnson-Leipold is a graduate of Cornell University.