Bill Ceasar is a principal of McKinsey & Company, and a leader in the firm's North American Energy & Materials practice.
Since joining McKinsey, Ceasar has worked with a diverse group of clients, primarily on commercial transformation, growth, and business-to-business marketing issues. He recently acted as co-leader of the firm's knowledge development effort focused on biofuels. Ceasar is co-author of "The Biofuel (Re)-Evolution," which appeared in the December issue of World Energy Forum and "Betting on Biofuels," which appeared in the spring issue of The McKinsey Quarterly.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Ceasar was a Special Assistant for Ambassador Thomas Simons, the Coordinator of the U.S. assistance program in Russia. Ceasar also served as a Russian political and economic analyst at the U.S. State Department and at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he focused on defense conversion and nationalities issues. While at the State Department, he served for more than a year at the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Ceasar holds an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, an M.A. in Russian Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Russian Studies from Colgate University.
Jennifer Davis is a Vice Presidentin the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs.
After graduation, Davis took a job as an analyst at investment banking firm, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette which was then acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston. After spending two years in an Analyst position, Davis returned to school for her MBA at Harvard Business School. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 after completing her MBA.
Jennifer Davis received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from Harvard.
Jaime Allen is currently a Director of Marketing at Darden Restaurant Group in Orlando, Florida. There she leads Marketing Strategy for Promotion Pipeline, Merchandising and Local Marketing for the Olive Garden brand.
Prior to joining Darden, Jaime spent 8 years at SC Johnson in Marketing working on new product development and various brands such as Scrubbing Bubbles, Edge, Skintimate and Glade. Jaime has worked briefly as a personal chef and has passed the Level 1 Master Sommelier exam.
Jaime Allen is a graduate of Cornell University.
Scott Belsky is the founder and editor of Behance. The Behance team helps creative professionals and organizations make ideas happen through a process called "productive creativity". Click here to learn more about Behance.
Previously, Belsky worked at Goldman Sachs as part of the Pine Street Development Initiative Group - a small global team focused on leadership development, organizational improvement, and strengthening key client relationships. Prior to this role, Scott worked for two years in European Research Sales in the Equities Division at Goldman Sachs.
Before joining Goldman Sachs, Scott was Co-Founder and President of Live Big Enterprises, a sportswear and corporate clothing company. Live Big was featured in Newsweek and Business Week Online in 2001, and was sold in the summer of 2002.
Scott Belsky is a graduate of Cornell University.
Mike Leven is Vice Chairman of the Atlanta-based Marcus Foundation, where he has been a trustee and a member of the board of The Marcus Institute and Georgia Aquarium since 2003. The Marcus Foundation was founded by Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot.
Leven was formerly President and CEO of US Franchise Systems, Inc. (USFS), the company he founded in 1995 which franchises the Microtel Inns & Suites and Hawthorn Suites hotel brands. Under Leven's tenure, USFS gained national recognition as a fair franchisor, both customer and franchisee-oriented. Prior to that, he was president and COO of Holiday Inn Worldwide. From 1985 to 1990, he was president of Days Inn of America, where he led initiatives to hire older workers, people with disabilities and the homeless, and was recognized by AARP as Outstanding Employer. He also served as president of Americana Hotels.
Mike Leven holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University and Master of Science from Boston University.
David Bornstein is the author of "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas". In this book, Bornstein tells the stories of people around the globe who are solving many of the world's most intractable problems. Full of hope and energy, exciting solutions and compelling characters, he shows how a growing wave of "social entrepreneurs" - individuals with initiative, creativity, savvy and determination - are reshaping the world for the better. These individuals - from doctors to lawyers, from engineers to journalists - are successfully demonstrating that one person with a powerful idea and a passionate drive to succeed can bring positive changes to the lives of thousands or even millions.
Bornstein is also the author of "The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank", which chronicles the worldwide growth of the anti-poverty strategy "micro-credit." The Price of a Dream, which drew on ten months of research in villages in Bangladesh, won second prize in the Harry Chapin Media Awards, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein New York Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best business books of 1996.
Bornstein's articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, New York Newsday, Il Mundo (Italy), Defis Sud (Belgium) and other publications. He co-wrote the two-hour PBS documentary series "To Our Credit," which focuses on "micro-credit" programs in five countries.
David Bornstein received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters of Arts from New York University.
Laura Colosi is Chief Operating Officer for ThinkWorks. Additionally, she is an Extension Associate at Cornell University where she works to improve parent education for the statewide Cooperative Extension Administration. She is also developing an assessment and reporting system for parent education programs in New York in hopes of developing a model for national implementation. In addition to her work at Cornell, Laura serves as a consultant to external organizations on applying systems thinking to evaluate educational and outreach programs.
Colosi's prior research interests included the impact of social policies on parents and their children, with a particular interest in low-income families. She has conducted evaluations of several New York State programs including: parent education series such as the Parenting Skills Workshop Series, the Strengthening Families Program and the Literacy Institute; the statewide Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program, Eat Smart New York; a 3 year evaluation of the Teenage Homelessness Prevention Program in Ronkonkoma, New York; as well as the NYS Citizens' Coalition for Children's Post Adoption and Preservation Services.
Laura Colosi holds both a Masters in Public Administration from Cornell University's Institute for Public Affairs and a Ph.D. from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell.
Erica Brandler has been involved with the Ernest & Julio Gallo Company for the past 11 years.
Erica Bradler recieved her undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Lois Baldassari-Mather is a systems engineering manager at Lockheed Martin.
Prior to her position at Lockheed Martin, she worked for 21 years at Hewlett-Packard and one of HPs spinoff companies, Agilant.
Lois Baldassari-Mather recieved her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and her Master's degree in Engineering from Cornell University.