Paul George is co-founder of VideoNote. VideoNote is a web-based tool which allows students to easily and comprehensively review lecture material. The company has a 360 approach where gathered information is shared with professors to inform them about which topics students find most difficult.
Paul George recieved an undergraduate degree in engineering and a Masters in Engineeing Cornell University. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Engineering at Cornell University.
Stephen B. Kaplitt is the first Director of the Economic Empowerment in Strategic Regions (EESR) initiative at the U.S. Department of State. EESR promotes private-sector job-creation in regions where lack of economic opportunity helps fuel conflict and extremism.
Previously he was Special Assistant to the General Counsel at the U.S. Agency for International Development. He advised Agency leaders on a variety of subjects, including the First Amendment/ Establishment Clause, terrorist financing, USAID's relationship with the intelligence community and implementation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Threshold program. In December 2004 he was a member of USAID's delegation to the OSCE short-term observer mission for the presidential election in Ukraine.
Before entering government, Kaplitt was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Lumenis Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed manufacturer of medical laser and light technology devices. At Lumenis he managed an annual budget of $10 million; supervised in-house and external counsel; and oversaw all of the Company's legal affairs, which included an SEC investigation, multiple shareholder class action lawsuits, complex intellectual property disputes, global product litigation and a broad range of transactional matters.
Prior to Lumenis, Kaplitt was a senior associate at Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffly LLP, a boutique international law firm in New York. While there he was seconded for two years to the International Finance Corporation, where he worked on numerous finance and equity transactions in Asia, Central Europe and the Baltics. He began practicing law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and was also an associate in mergers and acquisitions at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, both in New York. During his legal career, Kaplitt acted as associate or lead counsel on corporate transactions totaling $3 billion in aggregate value, in over twenty countries.
Stephen Kaplitt received his JD cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, and his AB in Government with high honors from Dartmouth College.
Michael Waldman is the Charles H. Dyson Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Wladman took his first academic job in 1983 which was as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA (in the 1982-1983 he had a post-doc position at UCLA). At UCLA he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1989. In 1991 he moved to the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University as a Full Professor of Economics. He was given the Charles H. Dyson Chair in Management in 1997. Professor Waldman has also visited Yale's School of Organization and Management and Chicago's Graduate School of Business where he was the John M. Olin Visiting Professor during the 1997-98 academic year.
Professor Waldman's main research area is applied microeconomic theory, where his main fields of interest are industrial organization and organizational economics. In these areas he is best known for his work on learning and signaling in labor markets, the operation of durable goods markets, and the strategic use of tying and bundling in product markets. In addition to his work in these two main areas, Professor Waldman has also conducted research on a diverse set of topics including the role of expectational shocks in business cycle fluctuations, the role of tied transfers in family and government decision making, how the theory of natural selection can explain systematic errors in decision making, the ramifications of limitedly rational behavior for market outcomes, and whether early childhood television viewing is a trigger for autism.
Michael Waldman received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from MIT in 1977 and a Ph.D. from the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1982.
Jeffrey A. Mayer '05, Owner and Operator of That Burrito Place (TBP), is an entrepreneur who is reshaping the restaurant scene in Ithaca, New York. Mayer opened his first restaurant, That Burrito Place, in Collegetown, proving that he could successfully introduce Cali-style Mexican food to the market. In 2008 Mayer and several partners acquired Rulloff's, a full-service restaurant and bar also in Collegetown. Mayer's third restaurant, another That Burrito Place, is scheduled to open in fall 2008 on the Commons, a pedestrian mall in downtown Ithaca. Future plans include developing the fast-casual That Burrito Place into a successful chain that can be franchised regionally or acquired by a larger restaurant group.
Prior to his restaurant endeavors, Mayer founded and ran a consulting business that performed royalty audits for Hollywood movie studios in their foreign territories.
Jeff Mayer holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Colorado. He is a 2005 graduate of the Master of Management in Hospitality (MMH) Program in the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University.
Chris Laszlo is a partner and co-founder of Sustainable Value Partners, Inc., a firm helping companies create value for shareholders and stakeholders. For nearly ten years prior, he was an executive at Lafarge S.A., a world leader in materials, holding positions as head of strategy, general manager of a manufacturing subsidiary, and vice president of business development. Prior to that he was with Deloitte & Touche, where he consulted to global industry leaders such as Dupont, Toshiba, Avon Products and Renault on strategy.
Chris Laszlo received his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College. He has a Masters in Economics from Columbia University and he received his Ph.D. with distinction in Economics and Management Science from the University of Paris.
Roger Sibley is the Executive Director of the Franziska Racker Centers. Franziska Racker Centers is a not-for-profit which creates programs to provide opportunities for people with special needs through every stage of life.
Joseph Duva is the founder and President of theserviceauction.com. His company is an auction website where homeowners and licensed contractors connect through a real-time online biding process. This process allows the homeowner to find the most qualified home improvement contractor for their specific needs, at a competitive price. Qualified contractors can find work in a hassle free way from the comfort of their own homes.
Joe Duva is currently a junior at Cornell University. He expected to graduate in 2009.
David Dunlop, a development officer for Cornell University from 1959 until his retirement in 1997, founded the university's major and principal gifts programs. In the 38 years he served Cornell, he acquired a wide range of annual, capital campaign, and major gift fund raising experience. He created and directed both Cornell's major gifts program for gifts of $1 million and up, and the principle gifts program for gifts of $5 million and up. From 1990 to 1995, Dave served on the senior management team of the Cornell Campaign--which set a record for the college and university campaigns when it received over $1.5 billion in gifts. Since his retirement in 1997, Dunlop continues to serve Cornell as a volunteer.
Over 200 other colleges, universities, and non-profit organizations have called on Dunlop for advice and training in fund raising for what he calls "ultimate gifts." Among them are large national organizations including United Way of America, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, CARE International, and the Easter Seals Society.
The concepts for major gift fund raising which Dave developed and practiced are described in chapters he contributed to the Handbook of Institutional Advancement (1986) (2000),The President and Fund Raising (1989), Educational Fund Raising: Principles and Practice(1993), and Developing an Effective Major Gift Program: From Managing Staff to Soliciting Gifts (1993), New Strategies for Educational Fund Raising (2002), and in several CASE Currents articles.
David Dunlop is a graduate of Cornell University.
Jonathan Santomauro is the president of Global Procurement Strategies, Inc. GPS is a tactical outsourcing firm that creates partnerships with major corporations to increase the efficiency of their procurement divisions. It does this by outsourcing the location of, purchase of, documentation of, and delivery of the diverse products required for the functioning of a major company.
Santomauro is also the president of supplycabinet.com, a consumer office supplies and furniture company currently in development stages.
Jonathan Santomauro is currently a sophomore at Cornell University. He expects to graduate in 2010.