Gerard Van Grinsven is the President and CEO of Henry Ford Health System - West Bloomfield Hospital.
Previously, he was Vice President and Area General Manager of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dearborn, MI. He also served as vice president and area general manager of The Ritz-Carlton hotels in Cleveland, St. Louis and Philadelphia.
Prior to his time in Dearborn, van Grinsven was a member of the corporate team of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company as vice president of Food and Beverage and vice president of Openings. In this period, he successfully opened 20 Ritz-Carlton hotels worldwide. In addition, he was a key member of the team responsible for the company winning the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1999.
Christine Marchuska is CEO of c. marchuska. c. marchuska is an eco-friendly clothing line by Christine Marchuska and Brooke Bresnan, which provides chic and sustainable clothing at affordable prices. Manufactured in New York City, the clothing is designed to embody versatility throughout different trends and seasons in order to stay true to the sustainable fashion mantra of producing less waste.
Christine Marchuska's comments are from a panel entitled "Fashion With Social Awareness" from the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration in April 2010.
Christine Marchuska is a graduate of Cornell University.
Kempton Coady is President of ViVA Skin Care Inc.
Previously, Coady has held multiple management positions including President of Sona MedSpa Massachusetts, Principal and owner of Medical Device Kempton & Associates, Inc., Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Deltex Medical Group plc and Senior Managing Director at Quintiles MTC/BRI Corporation, a medical device contract research company.
Coady's comments are from a panel discussion of Medical and Healthcare Entrepreneurship from the Entrepreneruship at Cornell Celebration event held in April 2010.
Kempton Coady holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry/Biology from Bates College, and an M.P.S. degree in Health Care Administration and an M.B.A. degree, both from Cornell University.
Harry Hill is the President of Oak Lawn Marketing.
Harry Hill's comments are from a panel entitled "Bootstrapping to Success: Starting a Business on a Shoestring and a Prayer" that took place during Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration in April 2010.
Harry Hill received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
David Fischell is the CEO of Angel Medical Systems. Fischell is a serial entrepreneur who has founded nine biomedical device companies in the last 15 years, including Angel Medical Systems, a company which has developed an implantable heart attack detection and patient alerting system.
Other companies include Neuralieve, Inc (2002) to develop Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation systems for Migraine Headaches; and NeuroPace, Inc. (1997) to develop implantable brain pacemakers to treat epilepsy.
David Fischell was at Bell Laboratories in 1979 where, for 11 years, he performed and directed a wide range of research and development projects. He left Bell Labs in 1991 to work full time on medical devices. He currently holds 85 issued U.S. patents, and has published numerous papers in the fields of telecommunications, cardiology, radiobiology, and radiation dosimetry.
David Fischell's comments are from a panel entitled "Bootstrapping to Success: Starting a Business on a Shoestring and a Prayer" that took place during Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration in April 2010.
David Fischell earning his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University.
Doug Rowan has served as President and CEO of Imaging Solutions Corporation, a Kirkland, Washington-based consulting company established to help companies plan strategy, find customers and identify funding for their digital content related products and services. The focus over the past year on been on helping retailers, manufacturers and service providers reach Today's Mom through social media, television and branding. One of the companies that Imaging Solutions has been helping is ZoomAlbum which provides a family of innovative products through which consumers and professionals can produce very high quality photo albums using ink jet printers in the home or stores.
From August 1998 until February 2002, Doug also served as Founder and CEO of Impli, Inc., a company installing flat panel computer screens in checkout lanes at supermarkets to entertain and advertise to shoppers waiting to checkout. During 1998 and 1999, Doug also worked with a group to prepare "A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress†which was published in 2000. Prior to this, Doug was recruited by Bill Gates and served as President and CEO of Corbis Corporation from 1994 to 1997. At Corbis, Doug oversaw the acquisition of the Bettmann Archive, established the Corbis brand and migrated the Corbis business from off-line licensing and CD-ROMs to the current Corbis online licensing business. From 1991 to 1993, Doug served as President of another image content and software pioneer, AXS Optical Technology Resource of Berkeley, California. AXS developed and sold software to manage photographs for the top 25 newspapers in the U.S., signing exclusive content agreements with organizations such as the Brooklyn and Frick Museums, among others. AXS was an early leader in metadata with newspapers and others. Before that, Doug's experience includes serving in executive positions for AMPEX of Redwood City, CA, from 1988 to 1990; MASSCOMP of Westford, Massachusetts from 1984 to 1988; and IBM from 1962 to 1984.
Doug Rowan received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Cornell University.
William Rosenzweig is co-founder and Managing Director at Physic Ventures. He focuses on creating and building early-stage opportunities that bring science to consumers in the areas of prevention, wellness and sustainable living. Will is currently on the board of directors of Attune Foods, EnergyHub, GoodGuide, and Pharmaca.
Will was previously co-founder and Managing Director of Great Spirit Ventures, a venture fund focused on the consumer-driven health sector and co-founder and CEO of Brand New Brands, a functional food accelerator fund.
Earlier in his career, Will actively participated in creating successful food and consumer-driven health companies as an investor or member of senior management. In 1990, Will co-founded and served as President, CEO, and Minister of Progress of The Republic of Tea, an award-winning specialty tea company that is often credited with creating the premium tea category in the United States. The company grew very rapidly and was acquired in 1994. In 1995, Will was named Senior Vice President of Odwalla (1994-1997), the nation's largest fresh juice company where he directed the brand and strategy of the company. His prior work experience includes roles as Vice President of Nakamichi (1985-1989); Partner and CEO of Hambrecht Vineyards and Wineries (1998-2001); Chairman of Winetasting.com (1998-2001); and Co-Founder of Venture Strategy Partners(1997-2000). He also worked on the founding team of LeapFrog, a leading education and toy company. In 2004, he founded Kingdom of Herbs, a purveyor of organic products for home and garden at the Ferry Building in San Francisco.
Will was on the faculty at the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley from 1999 to 2006, where he taught the MBA course in Social Entrepreneurship.
Will is the co-author of The Republic of Tea: How an Idea Becomes a Business (Doubleday 1992, 1994), a bestselling book that chronicles the start up of a new company and how an idea becomes a busines.
Will Rosenzweig's comments are from the panel discussion entitled Investing in the New Economy: The Changing Landscape and its Funding Models from Entrepreneurship at Cornell's Celebration event in April 2010.
Will Rosenzweig received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Tom Schryver is CFO of e2e Materials, a leading venture-backed clean tech company. e2e's proprietary biocomposites are biodegradable, 100% natural with zero toxins, and provide superior strengths at lower weights than toxin-laden wood composites.
Schryver has extensive experience providing financial and strategic services and advice to technology transfer startups. His most recent role was as vice president, finance and operations at Novomer, a green materials company commercializing innovative polymer technology developed at Cornell University. Prior to Novomer, he was director of finance for the Triad Foundation, where he was responsible for overseeing all financial operations of the Foundation, including accounting, audit, and investing the Foundation's $250 million portfolio.
Tom Schryver's comments are from the panel discussion entitled Investing in the New Economy: The Changing Landscape and its Funding Models from Entrepreneurship at Cornell's Celebration event in April 2010.
Schryver has an AB from Cornell University and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Adam Hocherman founded American Innovative in 2003 and currently serves as the company's president. In addition to running day-to-day operations, he is the inventor of many of American Innovative's consumer products.
Prior to founding American Innovative, Hocherman was the VP Engineering at Syncline, Inc., a Boston-based firm specializing in web-based GIS (Geographic Information Systems) solutions. A member of the management team, he was principally in charge of the company's engineering department. In addition Hocherman served as the primary client engagement manager for most of the large-scale project work completed at the firm. Before Syncline, Hocherman spent several years as part of Accenture's (formerly Andersen Consulting) Internet Center of Excellence in Boston. The Internet Center (or ICE) was part of a then-fledgling network of niche development arms within Andersen Consulting responsible for the very first Internet technology projects procured by the global firm. At the ICE center Hocherman was responsible for the architecture and development of large-scale, Java-based enterprise internet projects.
Adam Hocherman's comments are from a panel entitled Rising Stars: The "Early Days" of Promising Young Entrepreneurs that was given during Entrepreneurship at Cornell's Celebration event in April 2010.
Adam Hocherman holds both a BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from Cornell University.