Barry Salzberg was elected as Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte LLP in June 2007, after serving as the U.S. Managing Partner from 2003 to 2007. He also is a member of Deloitte's U.S. Board of Directors, the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Executive Committee, and the DTT Global Board of Directors.
Salzberg joined Deloitte in 1977 and was admitted as partner in 1985. He has since built an impressive record through a variety of leadership roles including Tri-State Group Managing Partner from 1996-1999 and National Tax Deputy Managing Partner from 1999-2000. In 2000, he assumed full leadership of the Deloitte Tax LLP practice, which included regional responsibility for the Americas tax practice. During Salzberg's three-year tenure, the national Deloitte Tax practice increased its market share significantly, moving from 4th position to 1st, and received numerous awards and citations.
Prior to his leadership roles, Salzberg was a lead client service partner and tax partner and became an acknowledged authority in the areas of personal tax and partnership tax matters. He directly served the CXOs of many large clients, helping them with their personal tax and financial planning needs, as well as partnerships and S corporations, mostly law firms or merger and acquisition specialists.
Salzberg is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the New York County Lawyers Association. He is also a board member of business organizations including the Center for Audit Quality, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, and the Partnership for New York. Additionally, Salzberg is an advisor to the G100.
Barry Salzberg received his undergraduate degree in Accounting from Brooklyn College, his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and his LLM in Taxation from the New York University School of Law.
Paul Esposito is Senior Vice President of RAILEX, LLC Esposito began as a food carrier as a center of the plate buyer for Kraft Foodservice in Clifton Park, NY, and became very interested in goods movement consolidation while in his position of Procurement Category Manager, combining loads of seafood and processed goods from New England reducing the transportation costs. In 1998, Esposito began working with Union Pacific Railroad as Sr. Business Manager for the northeast, working in the Refrigerated Products Division. In 2002, he began working for Andy Pollack, owner of Ads Management, LLC as the Director of Logistics. Ads Management is the largest and citrus re-packer east of the Mississippi, with locations that span the eastern seaboard. Andy Pollack saw the success in conversion of the truck freight to rail car and gave Esposito his next assignment to control refrigerated lanes of distribution to reduce transit times and product shrink. From this request, Pollack laid out to Esposito his plan of unit train distribution and a new company under the Ads potato umbrella: Railex.
Jim Nowak is recently retired from teaching at Fairport High School. He has spent the last three years rebuilding schools in Western Kenya. He recently began an organization called Building Futures that focuses on school construction in Africa.
Jim Nowak is a graduate of Cornell University.
Rosalind Resnick, a former business and computer journalist who built her Internet marketing company, NetCreations, Inc., from a two-person home-based startup to a public company that generated $58 million in sales, is the Founder and CEO of Axxess Business Centers, Inc., which provides strategic consulting and assistance in business plan development for startups and emerging businesses. Resnick co-founded NetCreations in March 1995 and served as the company's CEO and President until December 2001, pioneering the concept of 100% Opt-In email marketing in 1996 and spearheading the company's successful IPO in 1999. In 1994, Resnick co-authored The Internet Business Guide and, from 1994 to 1997, served as the editor and publisher of Interactive Publishing Alert, a semi-monthly newsletter tracking trends and developments in online publishing and advertising. Resnick began her career in the newspaper industry in 1980 at The Baltimore Sun and worked as a business writer at The Miami Herald from 1984 to 1989. Her articles about entrepreneurship and small business regularly appear in Entrepreneur.com. Rosalind Resnick received B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from The Johns Hopkins University.
Renaud Laplanche is the Founder and CEO of LendingClub, a social lender which currently works exclusively within the Facebook platform.
Laplanche grew up in France, was trained as a lawyer, completed his MBA before working for New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb in Paris and in New York. He worked for the firm for five years in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and investment transactions involving technology companies before founding TripleHop Technologies. TripleHop Technologies, the software company that designed MatchPoint, was founded in 1999 and sold to Oracle in 2005.
Laplanche was honored with the HEC "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2002 and won the French sailing championship twice, in 1988 and 1990.
Renaud Laplanche earned an MBA from HEC Business School.
James Ioannidis is the Chief Technology Officer at The College Freeway. The College Freeway was launched in September 2007. The company's mission is to create an online library on which college students and faculty pubish and view academic documents. For example, students may contribute documents that they have created themselves (Outlines, Study Guides, Notes, Formula Sheets, Essays, Research Papers, Etc.). And faculty may contribute work that they have created as well (Practice Tests & Questions, Problem Sets, Labs, Etc.). The College Freeway team is based out of Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA with a supporting satelite team based out of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
James Ioannidis received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Ofer Ronen is co-founder and CEO of Sendori, which provides innovative monetization solutions to large web domainers.
Ronen leads the strategy development and day-to-day operations at Sendori. Previously, he was a partner at Big Red Ventures, a seed level investment firm. In addition, he led development of Web applications at U.S. Trust, managed online magazine subscription systems at Time Warner, and founded a b-to-b e-commerce startup named Karanga.
Ofer Ronen holds a MS/BS in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Ronen also completed the accelerated MBA program at Cornell, graduating with distinction.
Jeremy Riney started Project Playlist in February, 2006 as a weekend hobby. After launching a MySpace widget for Project Playlist, the site traffic exploded. Recently ranked by Comscore as one of the fastest growing sites on the internet, Project Playlist now has over 14 million registered users (growing at 50,000 new registrations per day) and 15 million playlist widgets embedded all over the internet. The mission at Project Playlist, Inc. is help people find and enjoy music legally throughout the web in the same way that other search engines help people find webpages, images, and other media.
Jeremy has over 10 years of entrepreneurial experience that focus around his passions for the Internet and online music and a yet-unfilled passion for theme parks. Jeremy started Music America Records, an online record label and music publishing company. After Music America Records, he simultaneously started Bluewire Connect and Praise Collection. Bluewire Connect provided custom branded social networks to recording artists and then expanded to colleges, universities, companies and organizations. Praise Collection acquired the rights to thousands of hours of rare, live performances featuring some of the world's most famous gospel and country artists including Chet Atkins, CeCe Winans, Fred Hammond, Yolanda Adams and many others. The performances were compiled into a subscription DVD service and sold through direct marketing channels.
In college, Jeremy started a textbook rental business, an online customer acquisition company and an online ticketing business. In his spare time he found time to work for the Disneyland Resort as a tour guide and guest relations host.
John Nesheim is an engineer and veteran of Silicon Valley. Since 1976, he has focused his research on how to do a high-tech start-up. His research findings led to discovery of the "14 Steps to IPO," which are documented in his best-selling book, "High Tech Start Up". Translated into four languages, the book is used around the world by entrepreneurs, investors, governments, universities, corporations, and Wall Street to increase understanding of entrepreneurial effectiveness. His second book, "Unfair Advantage", was released in early 2005.
Nesheim founded his company, the Nesheim Group, to gather best practices of professionals from around the world who are dedicated to improving the process of converting an idea to a world-class enterprise. He conducts workshops for entrepreneurs and the venture community, gathers research for his publications and coaches new enterprises.
Nesheim also serves as a Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Cornell University's Johnson School.
John Nesheim earned his B.S. in Engineering with honors at the University of Minnesota and his MBA at Cornell University.