Laura Hollis is Associate Director of Curriculum and Programs at the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering.
Previously, Hollis served as general counsel for a Nashville-based company in the music industry. She then transitioned to academics and was a law professor for nine years at the University of Detroit.
Laura Hollis holds an undergraduate degree in English as well as a degree in law.
Carl J. Schramm has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Kauffman Foundation since 2002. Under his leadership, the Kauffman Foundation has developed innovative programs that: expose students to the power of entrepreneurship, open new pathways to effectively move university innovations into the marketplace, create better-qualified angel investors as a critical source of seed capital for entrepreneurs, and engage economists of the highest caliber to study the impact of entrepreneurship. Schramm also has been instrumental in the development of the Foundation's international entrepreneurship fellowship program, which is funded by the UK government for aspiring British entrepreneurs.
Before joining the Foundation, Schramm enjoyed a successful career in the health care industry. He was a cofounder of HCIA, Inc. and Patient Choice Health Care, and he founded Greenspring Advisors, a consulting and merchant banking firm in the health information and risk management industries. Schramm also served as executive vice president of Fortis (now Assurant) and as president of its health insurance operations. Trained both as an economist and lawyer, Schramm began his career on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and emerged as a respected thinker in health care finance, regulation, and insurance. He founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Care Finance and Management in 1980. He left Johns Hopkins to head the Health Insurance Association of America, which developed a number of industry-wide innovations in health insurance.
Carl Schramm holds a bachelor's degree from LeMoyne College, master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Bob Alter is the Chairman of Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc, a Southern California-based Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). Sunstone currently owns 47 hotels primarily in the upper-upscale and upscale segments operated under franchises such as Marriott, Hilton, InterContinental, Hyatt and Fairmont.
Under Alter's leadership, Sunstone has increased its market capitalization from $1.4 billion to $3.9 billion in total enterprise value and increased
Bob Alter is a graduate of Cornell University.
Tracy Frizzell is the President of the Economic Awareness Council. The Economic Awareness Council (EAC) provides unique, custom programs and materials for all ages (young kids through adults) covering such topics as finance, economics, banking, checking, saving, credit cards, budgeting, and money.
Thomas Gellert is a vice president in charge of the cheese division and specialty food imports at Atalanta Corporation, a food importer in Elizabeth, N.J. Atalanta Corporation is a family owned business that is run by Gellert's father.
Thomas Gellert received his undergraduate, MBA and law degrees from Cornell University.
Timothy LaBeau is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Drug Fair Group. Drug Fair operates 50 pharmacy and general merchandise stores in northern and central New Jersey under the Drug Fair and Cost Cutters brands.
LaBeau has more than 25 years of experience in brand management and executive leadership positions with several global and national wholesale and retail companies, including senior vice president of sales, marketing and merchandising with Duane Reade; operating group president with Fleming, a full-line grocery wholesaler; president and chief executive officer with American Sales, a subsidiary of Royal Ahold; and president with ALDI.
Timothy LaBeau is a graduate of Cornell University.
Kevin R. Malchoff is the Group president of International at Rich's. Malchoff joined the company in 1981 and served in many marketing leadership roles until his appointment as group president, US/Canada in 2004. In this role, Malchoff was responsible for overseeing all of Rich's food service and in-store bakery businesses in the US and Canada.
Kevin Malchoff received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Cornell University in 1974, majoring in Agricultural Economics, and an MBA in Marketing from Cornell's Johnson School of Business in 1975.
Robert Tobin retired as CEO of U.S. Foodservice in 2003. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Ahold U.S.A., an international food provider based in the Netherlands. Ahold U.S.A.'s retail operations include Stop & Shop, Giant-Landover, Giant-Carlisle, Tops and Peapod. He was chairman and CEO of Stop & Shop Supermarkets from 1993 to 1998.
Robert Tobin received his bachelor of science degree from Cornell University.
Pauline Kneale is a Professor of Hydrology at the University of Leeds in the UK. Her major research interests lie in defining the inter-relationships between soil water processes and the physical, chemical and biological properties of the regolith. Peat hydrology and hillslope hydrology are fields of particular expertise. Kneale has also developed a strong interest in curriculum development and in teaching transferable skills to undergraduate geographers. Pauline Kneale received her Bachelors in Science from University College in London and her PhD from Bristol University.