Andrew Berger has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation, licensing and commercial litigation. His clients include publishers, content creators, illustrators, filmmakers, including a 2010 Academy Award winner, advertising agencies, software developers and new media companies. He helps his clients enforce their rights when others have infringed his clients' intellectual property without permission. Andrew also assists his clients to monetize their intellectual property through licensing, joint ventures, sales and related transactions.
Further, Andrew he has extensive commercial trial experience. His clients in complex commercial litigation have included a Latin American government, the Women's Professional Tennis Association and a Channel Islands investment company. Andrew has also been teaching trial practice at Hofstra Law School for the past 15 years.
Andrew serves as a co-chair of the Copyright Subcommittee of the IP Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section of the ABA. He is also a member of the Federal Courts Committee of the New York City Bar having completed a three-year term on the Copyright Committee. Andrew also serves a mediator in the federal and state courts.
Andrew is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School.
John Martini is the Co-owner of Anthony Road Wine Company. He and his wife Ann own and operate Anthony Road Wine Company, located on 100 acres overlooking Seneca Lake. Anthony Road produces about 14,000 cases of wine a year, including house specialties Riesling, Vignoles and several dessert wines. The winery's semi-dry Riesling won the New York State Governor's Cup in 2009.
In 1973, the Martinis moved to Yates County to grow grapes and raise their family. Ann managed the vineyard and raised the children, while John worked for Cornell University at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. The grapes from their vineyards were first sold to the Taylor Wine Company and eventually to wineries across New York State. In 1990, the couple opened Anthony Road Wine Company and decided to produce their own wines made from the 1989 crop. The first building was a renovated farm shop and the equipment was at best an eclectic collection of used and borrowed tanks and pumps and an old apple press. Today, the winery has prospered into an award-winning Finger Lakes winery and the Martinis are leaders in increasing the number and popularity of Finger Lakes wine in the New York City market.
Nancy Taber Richards is the owner/cheesemaker at Finger Lakes Farmstead Cheese Co. LLC, located between Ithaca and Watkins Glen, NY. All the milk comes from Taber Hill Farms' 50-head Holstein cowherd belonging to her parents and brothers. Nancy's business partner, an experienced Dutch cheesemaker, helped establish the cheesemaking process. Previously, she was a reporter at the Bar Harbor Times. Nancy Richards is a graduate of Cornell University
Robert Weybright is the Agricultural and Horticultural Program Leader at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Dutchess County.
Prior to joining Cornell, he was the Executive Director of Hudson Valley FOODWORKS, a non-profit shared use food production facility for small-scale specialty food entrepreneurs. Weybright has over 25 years of experience working in a variety of responsibilities associated with the service, food and food manufacturing industries.
Weybright's comments are from a panel discussion entitled "Selling Your Goods - More Than Talk, It's A Process!". The panel was from the 2007 Cornell Strategic Marketing Conference that was held on November 5 and 6 at the Henry A Wallace Visitor and Education Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
Bob Weybright received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his MBA from California State University - Hayward.
Not so long ago, Susan Gibbs left a career as a network news producer in New York City in search of something more authentic. A chance encounter with a book about raising sheep sealed her fate. With a great deal of hard work and a towering stack of How-to-Farm books, Susan developed a flock of Cormo sheep and a beautiful herd of angora goats. Today, Juniper Moon Farm is home to a herd of lovely angora goats, some fat, spoiled sheep, two Maremma livestock guardian dogs, and the world's first yarn CSA. In her spare time, Susan does consulting for would-be farmers and has written dozens of published articles on food and farming. But her full-time job is shepherding the flock and blogging about her experiences.
Charleen Heidt serves as the Program Research and Marketing Manager for the Division of Graduate and Professional Studies at Ithaca College.
Heidt has over 27 years of Strategic Marketing and Marketing Research experience. She is an expert in Services Marketing having begun her management career in the hospitality industry with ARAMARK. She has conducted a variety of marketing projects for such local, national, regional, and international firms as American Demographics, Corning Inc., Cornell University, Crowley Foods, Hewlett Packard, Hilton International, Iron Mountain, Mohonk Mountain House, Motorola and SAS.
Charleen Heidt earned her MS degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis on Marketing Research and Services Marketing from The Pennsylvania State University. She received her BS degree in Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management/Administrative Dietetics, also from Penn State.
Ken Migliorelli is the owner of Migliorelli Farm. Migliorelli Farm is a family-run fruit and vegetable farm located in Northern Dutchess County in the Hudson Valley Region of New York. Originating in the Bronx in 1933 when Angelo Migliorelli first brought the broccoli raab seeds when he immigrated to New York from the Lazio region of Italy. Migliorelli and his son, Rocco peddled their vegetables by horse and cart up and down the Bronx, sun up to sun down. Eventually Co-Op City was to be built therefore pushing the last of the farmers out of the Bronx. Farming was Rocco's passion so he brought his family to the Hudson Valley. Now in its 3rd generation, Migliorelli Farm is growing over 130 different varieties of fruits and vegetables, including the same strain of broccoli raab.
In 1998, Ken Migliorelli sold all developing rights of his farm to be protected through a Scenic Hudson conservation easement to remain farmland forever and provide scenic beauty and wholesome food to the local community and the greenmarkets of NYC.
Migliorelli Farm provides fresh fruit and produce to over 30 fresh markets a week both locally and in NYC.
Catherine Russell is a working actress/manager/producer/professor. Named the "Cal Ripken of Broadway" by People Magazine for her performance record (over 21 years, no sick days, no vacations) in the long-running Off-Broadway thriller Perfect Crime (9000 performances and still counting), Catherine has appeared on Entertainment Tonight and the Today Show and has been the subject of profiles in numerous publications including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, the New York Post, the Daily News, and the New Yorker.
Catherine loves teaching acting at NYU, which she has been doing since 1981. In 2005, she built a new theater center in the heart of Times Square, negotiating Off-Broadway's first corporate sponsorship, partnering with Snapple to create the Snapple Theater Center at 50th Street and Broadway, home to Perfect Crime (which Catherine also general manages) and a revival of The Fantasticks. She is also currently one of the lead producers of this production of the longest running musical in the world. She is an executive member of the Off-Broadway Alliance and a member of the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers and the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is currently working on building another new multi-theater complex in Times Square and creating a new reality show, "They Were You" which will feature actors auditioning for the two leading young roles in The Fantasticks.
Catherine Russell received an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a master's degree from New York University.
Megan Epler Wood founded The International Ecotourism Society in 1990, the first and largest ecotourism NGO in the world and was its president for 12 years. Under her leadership, TIES developed a membership program in over 100 countries, publications, workshops and stakeholder meetings that reached tens of thousands, and an international communications program that reached millions. Since 2003, Megan's firm EplerWood International has worked for the World Bank to develop sustainable tourism strategies for some of the poorest nations in the world, and for USAID - developing market-based ecotourism programs in biodiverse regions of Sri Lanka, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, and El Salvador. In the early 1980s, Epler Wood worked for the communications office of World Wildlife Fund-U.S. drawing attention to ground-breaking initiatives in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Subsequently, she worked as an independent television producer for the National Audubon Society, World Wildlife Fund-U.S., and the National Geographic Society. Her film, The Environmental Tourist, broadcast by the Turner Broadcasting Corporation and PBS in 1991, was the first major television documentary on ecotourism. Epler Wood is a published author and editor of many titles, including Ecotourism; Principles, Practices and Policies in 2002 for the United Nations Environment Program. Her numerous academic papers investigate sustainable tourism markets, certification, economic growth, alleviation of poverty and environmental conservation. In 2006, Epler Wood founded NativeEnergy Travel Offsets (NETO) with her business partner, Richard G. Edwards, as a subsidiary of NativeEnergy, a firm that provides carbon offsets using wind and other renewable energy sources. Dynamic growth in the marketplace and growing investment interest led NativeEnergy Travel Offsets to merge with its parent company NativeEnergy in December 2008 to create one dynamic firm. Edwards and Epler Wood are now shareholders in Native Energy. NETO developed a broad range of clients for NativeEnergy, including Hilton Hotels, Wyndham, American Express, Backroads, Ecoventura, the Sierra Club Outings program and National Wildlife Federation Expeditions among many others. Megan Epler Wood has a bachelor of arts in international relations and communications from Sarah Lawrence College and a masters of science in wildlife biology from Iowa State University .