Search Results

<p>Kai Robertson has over 20 years of experience in the food industry and has spent the last eight specifically focused on promoting more sustainable business practices. This has included helping companies understand their environmental footprint, strengthening relationships with stakeholders, and speaking frequently to industry and executive audiences about why sustainability matters to the food industry.</p> <p>Most recently, Kai was Director, Business & Industry, Food and Agriculture Sector at World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Prior to joining WWF in 2006, Kai was at Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business as Director of Food & Agriculture where she directed the day-to-day management of CI's relationship with Wal-Mart and was heavily involved in shaping Wal-Mart's environmental sustainability strategy. Before CI, Kai directed private sector initiatives at the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an organization dealing with pesticides and food safety, farm policy and other key issues related to public health and the environment. She also spent eight years at the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the leading supermarket trade association in the U.S. Kai began her career in investment banking.</p> <p>Kai Robertson has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.</p>

<p>Debbie Marquardt is the Global Franchise Marketing Director for Procter & Gamble Professional, the away-from-home division of Procter & Gamble that provides cleaning products and solutions for the Foodservice, Hospitality and Building Cleaning & Maintenance businesses. </p> <p>Debbie Marquardt has worked at P&G for more than 15 years on a variety of marketing assignments on Crisco, Jif, Charmin, NA Marketing Innovation and P&G Professional. </p> <p>Marquardt graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Education and then from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern with a Masters of Business Management in Marketing and Finance. </p>

<p>Steve Rushmore is President and Founder of HVS, a global hospitality consulting organization with offices in New York (Mineola), San Francisco, Miami, Boulder, Dallas, Vancouver, Toronto, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Madrid, and Sydney. He directs the worldwide operation of this firm and is responsible for future office expansion and new product development. Mr. Rushmore has provided consultation services for more than 12,000 hotels throughout the world during his 35-year career and specializes in complex issues involving hotel feasibility, valuations, and financing. He was one of the creators of the Microtel concept and was instrumental in its IPO.</p> <p>HVS has provided consulting services for thousands of clients in all 50 states and more than 60 foreign countries. Its professional staff of more than 150 industry specialists offers a wide range of services, including market feasibility studies, valuations, strategic analysis, development planning, and litigation support. Through its divisions, HVS supplies unique hotel consulting expertise in the areas of executive search, parking, golf, food and beverage operations, gaming, technology, hotel operations and management, asset management, interior design, investment counseling and brokerage. HVS is the industry's primary source of hotel sales information. Its databases contain information on more than 10,000 hotel transactions and thousands of financial statements. HVS is also the most comprehensive source of hotel compensation data.</p> <p>As a leading authority and prolific author on the topic of hotel feasibility studies and appraisals, Mr. Rushmore has written all five textbooks and two seminars for the Appraisal Institute covering this subject. He has also authored three reference books on hotel investing and has published more than 300 articles. He writes a monthly column for Hotels magazine and is widely quoted by major business and professional publications. Mr. Rushmore lectures extensively on hotel trends and has taught hundreds of classes and seminars to more than 20,000 industry professionals. He is on the faculty of the Cornell Hotel School's professional development program.</p> <p>Steve Rushmore has a BS degree from the Cornell Hotel School and an MBA from the University of Buffalo. </p>

<p>Jim Cassio is a career information and workforce development consultant and author of the Green Careers Resource Guide and Green Careers: Choosing Work for a Sustainable Future (with co-author Alice Rush). Jim has been commissioned to conduct hundreds of labor market studies over the course of his career and has published numerous research reports, occupational resource books, and training directories. </p>

<p>James Connolly is a product line manager for Nike's Global Men's Athletic Training Apparel business. He is responsible for the product creation engine that creates essential training silhouettes for athletes in american football and baseball. In addition James' oversees both the men's and women's LIVESTRONG apparel assortment. This assortment has helped create more than $80,000,000 in revenue for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and its fight against cancer.</p> <p> Prior to Athletic Training James worked as both a Product Line Manager and Associate Product Line Manager for Nike's women's training apparel business. </p> <p>James Connolly received a BS from Cornell University's Department of Applied Economics and Management. </p>

<p>Lori Mousseau is the Campus Recruiting Manager with Ernst & Young and has been with the firm for six years. During her career with EY, she has recruited Experienced and Campus candidates for Advisory, Assurance and Tax. Currently, she focuses solely on campus recruiting from a variety of schools in Michigan and Northwest Ohio. </p> <p>Mousseau also serves on the advisory board at Michigan State University's placement office. Prior to her current role, Lori served as the Advisory Campus Recruiting Leader for EY's North Central Sub Area locations. She assisted in implementing and strategizing with leadership on the new Advisory transformation.</p> <p>Lori Mousseau graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science degree. </p>

<p>Randy Brandoff is the vice president of marketing for Marquis Jet.</p> <p>Previously, Brandoff was an Associate at The Argentum Group where he assisted in the identification and evaluation of potential investment opportunities and supported portfolio companies in fulfilling strategic and financial objectives. Brandoff has also been a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting, where he served clients in the financial services and communications industries. </p> <p>Randy Brandoff holds an undergraduate degree in Business Management and Finance from Cornell University. </p>

<p>Lauren Berger is called &quot;The Intern Queen&quot; after completing 15 internships during her 4 years at college. Berger is CEO of Intern Queen Inc., an internship destination site where employers find interns and students connect with internships - all with the personal touch of &quot;The Intern Queen&quot;. Lauren was just named #5 on BusinessWeek's Annual &quot;Top 25 Entrepreneurs 25 and Under&quot; List. Her website currently gets approximately 25,000 unique visitors each month. The site also features Lauren's Blog: I AM INTERN - providing internship advice for employers, students, parents, and professors. She has recently placed students with The Academy Awards, NBC Universal, Nielsen Business Media, Clear Channel, and many more.</p> <p>Lauren Berger graduated from The University of Central Florida (Orlando) in 2006.</p>

Amanda Eilian is the Co-founder and President of Videolicious. Amanda Eilian received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown and her MBA from Harvard.