John Callister joined the Cornell faculty in 1999. He holds a joint academic position as lecturer in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the School of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Cornell. He was an automotive engineer at General Motors from 1985 to 1993, and taught at Tri-State University from 1996 to 1998. He is also the co-founder and vice-president of Foxdale, Inc., an equipment leasing firm in the blown-film polymer industry. He is an active participant in Cornell's Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program, and is a member of the American Society of Engineering Educators and the Academy of Management.
John Callister received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, his MBA from University of Chicago, his M.S. from Cornell University and his B.S. from University of Minnesota.
Daniel Huttenlocher is a computer scientist whose research interests include the extraction of information from digital images via computer vision, the role of technology in transforming financial markets, and management of high performance software development teams. He holds 22 U.S. patents and has published more than 50 papers. A Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University as well as a Professor of Technology Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, he is also chief technology officer of Intelligent Markets, a firm that provides comprehensive trading technological tools to dealers and exchanges serving the institutional financial markets.
Daniel Huttenlocher has more than ten years of experience in managing research and development teams in corporate and academic settings. He has received many distinguished teaching awards in the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences; in 1996, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Fellow at Cornell in recognition of teaching excellence, and received the Excellence in Science and Technology Award from Xerox PARC.
Daniel Huttenlocher received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his Master's and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bruce Ganem is Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. After completing graduate study at Columbia University and postdoctoral work at Stanford, he joined the Cornell faculty in 1974, and served as department chairman from 1993 to 1997.
Professor Ganem's broad scientific research interests and accomplishments involve the emerging interfaces of organic, analytical, and biological chemistry with biochemistry and molecular medicine, including medicinal chemistry, structure-based drug design, protein engineering, and biotechnology.
Dr. Ganem has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Catalyst Award from the Chemical Manufacturers Association and the Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. He is the author of some 200 scientific papers, and consults for several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. He presently serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of ArQule, Inc, LeukoSite, Inc., Sorvall, Inc., and Taktix Pharmaceuticals.
Bruce Ganem received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Janet Hanson is the founder of Milestone Capital, the only woman-owned investment adviser to manage institutional money market funds in the United States. Under her leadership, assets under management have grown steadily to over $2 billion, and the firm now serves the cash management needs of over 500 institutional investors.
Prior to founding Milestone, she worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. for 14 years where she was a Vice President and Co-Manager of Money Market Sales in New York. Ms. Hanson joined Goldman Sachs in 1977, and throughout her career she consistently ranked among the highest producing professionals in the Fixed Income Division.
In addition, Ms. Hanson is the founder of 85 Broads, a global network of former and current Goldman Sachs women professionals.
In May of 2004, Ms. Hanson became a Managing Director and Senior Adviser to the President of Lehman Brothers.
Janet Hanson earned a B.A. in Government from Wheaton College and an M.B.A in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Jeff Hanson is Managing Director of the Hanson Consulting Group, responsible for consulting to clients in investment banking, commercial banking, money management, and insurance on a full range of management, marketing, strategic and operational issues.
Formerly with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in Management Development, Mr. Hanson provided internal consulting services for Investment Banking, Research, Equity Trading and Sales, Fixed Income Trading and Sales, and Operations.
Jeff Hanson holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.
Linda Miles founded Miles Marketing Company in October 2001. Since forming the company, she has worked with firms from a broad variety of industries in the areas of marketing, strategic planning and growth initiatives.
Prior to founding her own company, Miles was the Vice President of Marketing for General Electric Capital, Modular Space and had held various marketing positions with Bausch & Lomb's Contact Lens Division.
Linda Miles holds an AAS in Applied Chemistry from SUNY Morrisville, a BS in Liberal Arts from SUNY Brockport and an MBA from the University of Rochester.
Laura J. Clark is a Principal at Front Barnett Associates in Chicago. In this role, she serves as investment counsel to individual and institutional clients as well as a portfolio manager.
Prior to her position at Front Barnett, Clark worked for 12 years at JP Morgan. From 1992 to 1998, served as Vice President in equity sales with responsibility for institutional clients in Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. From 1985 to 1992, served in a variety of areas involving corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, undergraduate recruiting, and cash management.
Laura Clark received a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University.
From 1997 until joining CCTEC in 1999, John was President of Aureus, Inc., a management consulting firm. The firm focused on technology start-up companies. Prior to starting Aureus, Inc., John was president of Brenner Home & Garden, a full-service landscaping and construction company serving central New York State for nine years. John received a B.S. in plant science from the University of New Hampshire, an M.S. in science education from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.
Doug Newhouse, co-founded Sterling in 1991 and is a managing partner of the fund. Mr. Newhouse was previously a founder of Middex Capital Corp., a private equity organization and Senior VP of the Corporate Finance Department of Lehman Brothers. Prior to that he was VP of the Matuschka Group in Munich, West Germany.
Doug Newhouse has a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from the University Of Chicago School Of Business.