Eric Ottaway started off his working career in management consulting and then left to join a client in the healthcare industry. He joined the Brooklyn Brewery in 1996 as manager of their Boston distributor, The Craft Brewers Guild. He now works out of the company headquarters in Brooklyn, and is the Brewery`s General Manager.
Ottaway's comments are from a panel discussion on "The Business of Wine, Beer and Spirits" organized by the Cornell Entrepreneur Network of the Metro New York region. The panel featured Roy Danis (Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, W.J. Deutsch & Sons, Ltd.), Eric Ottaway (General Manager of the Brooklyn Brewery) and Byron F. Hoover (Marketing Director, Jose Cuervo).
Eric Ottaway received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his MBA from Harvard.
Byron Hoover is the Marketing Director for the Jose Cuervo Portfolio at Jose Cuervo International. He is responsible for the worldwide development of the Cuervo brand. His responsibilities include global marketing strategy, brand management, advertising development and online and promotional programming.
Prior to his role at Cuervo International, Hoover spent 10 years in Europe with the Walt Disney Company and Procter and Gamble in a series of international marketing and brand management roles.
Byron Hoover holds a B.A. degree from Emory University, and MBA from Cornell University and a Master's in International Management from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Bill Grande is the Director of Research and Development at OhmCraft. He joined Ohmcraft in 2004, after serving on the faculty of the Microelectronics Engineering Department at RIT.
Grande has over twenty years experience in design and fabrication of opto-electronics and MEMS devices as a senior research scientist at Kodak and as visiting scientist at Cornell.
Bill Grande received a B.S. in Electrical and Chemical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of technology and Ph.D in Applied Physics from Cornell.
Helen Lockhart is the Chair of the Wolf Greenfield & Sacks' Biotechnology Practice Group. Her practice involves securing and enforcing domestic and international intellectual property rights. She counsels a variety of clients, including universities, smaller and mid-sized companies, start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Lockhart has broad experience in prosecuting biotechnology patents relating to human gene therapy, improved immune response modulators, drug delivery, catalytic molecules, antibodies, fluorescence based micro- and nano-analysis, cell culture, mass spectrometry, nucleic acid sequencing, polymer-based and biological-based drug delivery systems, antisense nucleic acid therapeutics, newly discovered genes for diagnostic and therapeutic uses, peptides, small molecule mimetics, combinatorial libraries and drug screening assays.
Her doctoral research focused on the regulation of cellular growth and differentiation through signal transduction mechanisms.
Lockhart is admitted to Massachusetts Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Patent Law Association, and Boston Bar Association. Helen has been named in Boston Magazine as one of Massachusetts' "Super Lawyers" in the field of intellectual property.
Helen Lockhart received her BS in Biochemistry from University of California, Riverside. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Boston University and her law degree from Suffolk University Law School.
Lawrence H. Meier is a director in the law firm Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, where he chairs the Intellectual Property Practice Group.
Meier is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and represents a wide range of clients, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, in connection with copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret matters. He handles a wide range of intellectual property (IP) transactions, has more than 20 years of patent prosecution experience in the electrical, computer and mechanical arts, and assists clients with all aspects of trademark clearance and protection. He also represents clients in IP litigation in state and federal courts, in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Before joining DRM, Meier was a Senior Intellectual Property Attorney with the IBM Corporation.
Larry Meier holds a bachelor's degree from Miami University, and earned his law degree from Vermont Law School, where he now teaches as an adjunct professor.
John Abele is the Founder Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation, a 19,000 employee, $8 billion world wide company that is a pioneer and leader in the field of "Less Invasive Medicine."
Abele holds numerous patents and has published and lectured extensively on the technology of various medical devices and on the technical, social, economic, and political trends and issues affecting healthcare.
His major interests are science literacy for children, education, and the process by which new technology is invented, developed, and introduced to society. Current activities include chair of the FIRST Foundation which works with high school kids to make being science-literate cool and fun and development of The Kingbridge Centre and Institute, a conferencing institution whose mission is to research, develop, and teach improved methods for interactive conferencing: problem solving, conflict resolution, strategic planning and new methods for learning.
John Abele is a graduate of Amherst College.
Andrew Kessler is a former hedge fund manager who now writes on investment trends in technology and communications.
His first book, "Wall Street Meat: Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and me" was published in March of 2003. His next book, "Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score" was published by HarperCollins oin September 14th of 2004. "Running Money" was added to the New York Times Business Bestseller list on November 7, 2004.
Andy is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal op-ed page and has written for Wired, Forbes Magazine, The Weekly Standard, LA Times, The American Spectator magazine and techcentralstation.com and thestreet.com websites.
Andy Kessler was co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, an investment firm based in Palo Alto, California, that provided funding for private and public technology and communications companies. Private investments included Real Networks, Inktomi, Alteon WebSystems, Centillium and Silicon Image.
In the early '80's, Andy spent 5 years at AT&T Bell Labs as a chip designer, programmer, and spender of millions in regulated last minute, use it or lose it budget funds. In 1985, he joined PaineWebber in New York, where he did research on the electronics and semiconductor industry.
In 1989, Andy joined Morgan Stanley as their semiconductor analyst, and following in the footsteps of Ben Rosen, he added the role of technology strategist and helped identify long-term, secular trends in technology. In 1993, he moved to San Francisco to join Unterberg Harris, where he ran a private interactive media venture fund, with investments that included N2K, Exodus and Tut Systems.
Andy Kessler received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MSEE from the University of Illinois.
Sanford I. Weill is Chairman Emeritus of Citigroup Inc., the diversified global financial services company formed in 1998 through the merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group. Weill retired as CEO of Citigroup on October 1, 2003, and served as Chairman until April 18, 2006.
Weill, who had been Chairman and CEO of Travelers, became Chairman of its predecessor, Commercial Credit Company, in 1986, successfully leading the company through a public stock offering by its then-parent, Control Data Corporation. Commercial Credit acquired Primerica Corporation in 1988 and adopted its name until 1993, when Primerica acquired The Travelers Corporation and adopted the Travelers Group name. In 1997, the company acquired Salomon Inc. and combined it with its Smith Barney unit to form the global securities and investment firm, Salomon Smith Barney.
Prior to 1986, Mr. Weill had been President of American Express Company and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its Fireman's Fund Insurance Company subsidiary.
His affiliation with American Express began in 1981 when the company acquired Shearson Loeb Rhoades. Shearson's origins date back to 1960 when Mr. Weill and three partners co-founded its predecessor, Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill. He served as the firm's Chairman from 1965 to 1984, a period in which it completed over 15 acquisitions to become the country's second largest securities brokerage firm. In 1993, when Travelers Group acquired Shearson Lehman Brothers' retail brokerage and asset management businesses, he was reunited with the firm he founded.
Sandy Weill is a graduate of Cornell University.
Gary Tuerack is a motivational speaker and has spoken in front of hundreds of thousands of students, from small groups to audiences of over 1,600. He is the author of "Better Grades in Less Time", and founder of The National Society of Leadership and Success.
Gary Tuerack is a graduate of Cornell University.