Jean-Yves Chow is an Industry Analyst at Rabobank. In this position, he acts as an advisor and industry analyst for Rabobank and corporate clients in north East Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea).
Prior to this role, Chow was an Industrial manager at EVIALIS where he worked in the Animal Nutrition & Health area.
Jean-Yves Chow received a Master's degree in food business & technology from Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Techniques des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires.
Christopher Fong is the Education Vertical Lead at Google.com. In this role, he leads the advertising division's efforts in the education industry. He also volunteers with Google.org on initiatives to find investments to develop utility-scale renewable energy and to aid small and medium-size enterprises in the developing world.
Before joining Google, Fong worked in business development and marketing roles for Expedia's Seattle, Dallas, Toronto and Las Vegas offices.
Vijay Nathan is a Product Manager with Apartment Therapy. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of NoshOnIt. After realizing that he was much better suited to be cooking at home instead of in a professional kitchen, Vijay traded in his chef hat for an apron and has committed himself to helping everyone realize that they can cook great food at home. You\'ll often find him traversing the city for the best ethnic eats or experimenting in the kitchen with new cuisines. Prior to NoshOn.It, Vijay was the Co-Founder and CEO of MyReci.com, an online recipe box application that allows you to manage, save, and share all of your recipes from any website in one place. MyReci was born out of Vijay\'s entrepreneurship and brand management focus at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he received his MBA. Vijay Nathan received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his MBA from Cornell University.
Brad Katsuyama is a financial services executive, working as the president, CEO and co-founder of the IEX, the Investors Exchange. Brad has over 14 years of experience in the securities trading industry. Brad was formerly the Global Head of Electronic Sales and Trading at RBC Capital Markets. In this role, he was responsible for multiple global teams including: electronic sales, electronic trading, algorithmic trading, market structure strategy, client implementation and product management. Brad\'s prior management roles at RBC were Head of US Cash Equity Trading, Head of US Hedge Fund Coverage, and Head of US Technology Trading. Brad Katsuyama is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University.
Romi Kher is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baruch College with expertise in technology startups. His research interests focus on decision making under uncertainty and how differing risk perceptions impact team behavior. He has a PhD from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. A former professor of economics, he is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank.
In 2006, Yunus and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the prize announcement The Norwegian Nobel Committee mentioned: "Muhammad Yunus has shown himself to be a leader who has managed to translate visions into practical action for the benefit of millions of people, not only in Bangladesh, but also in many other countries. Loans to poor people without any financial security had appeared to be an impossible idea. From modest beginnings three decades ago, Yunus has, first and foremost through Grameen Bank, developed micro-credit into an ever more important instrument in the struggle against poverty."
Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors. He is the author of Banker to the Poor and a founding board member of Grameen Foundation.
Muhammad Yunus completed his BA and MA in economics at Dhaka University. He was offered a Fulbright scholarship in 1965 to study in the United States. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University.
Niraj Shah is the CEO and Co-founder of Wayfair, formerly known as CSN Stores, the leading online home goods retailer with 2012 sales in excess of $600 Million. Niraj has been included in the Boston Business Journal's 40 Under 40, and has won the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Niraj Shah is a graduate of Cornell University.
Arindam Bhattacharya is a partner and managing director in BCG's New Delhi office and coleader of the firm's Global Advantage practice area. He is a core group member of the Industrial Goods and Operations practice areas and a coauthor of Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything.
Before joining the firm, Bhattacharya worked in the New Delhi and London offices of A.T. Kearney. He also worked for the Tata Economic Consultancy Service and Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, U.K.
Bhattacharya earned his PhD and master's degree in manufacturing and engineering from the University of Warwick, a BA in engineering from IIT in Kharagpur, India, and an MBA from the IIM in Ahmedabad, India.
Gururaj Deshpande is an Indian American businessman and social entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA based internet company Sycamore Networks in 1998 and the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT. He is also founder of the Deshpande Foundation.
He started his career working at Codex Corporation, a Motorola subsidiary in Ontario, Canada which manufacturers modems, before moving to the U.S. in 1984. Later he co-founded Coral Networks, a router developer, in 1987, he sold the company, two years later for $15 million.
In 1990, Deshpande co-founded Cascade Communications, whose products were very important in the early internet, initially serving as its president and later Executive Vice President, he hired Dan Smith as CEO. He sold Cascade to Ascend Communications for $3.7 billion in 1997. Subsequently, with help of MIT researchers, he launched Sycamore Networks in 1998. Sycamore Networks went public in October 1999, and soon raised a market cap of $18 billion, and his 21% shareholding, briefly made him, one of the richest Indians in the world, and in 2000, he featured on the Forbes 400 listing of Richest Americans.
In 2000, he founded Networking and Telecom equipment products company, Tejas Networks, along with US-based ASG-Omni in Bangalore.
In July 2010, he was appointed as the Co-Chairman of National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a group set up to support US President's innovation strategy.