Jonathan Treiber is the CEO of iBakeSale.com. iBakeSale.com was founded in 2007 to make community fundraising easy and rewarding. By doing online shopping through the website, consumers can fundraise for themselves by earning cash-back on credit card purchase or can fundraise for any community group or charity affiliated with the site.
Prior to his role at iBakeSale.com, Trieber worked at Citigroup in investment banking.
Jonathan Treiber is a graduate of Cornell University.
Nancy Schlichting is president and chief executive officer of the Henry Ford Health System. Schlichting previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for the system and was responsible for its hospitals, community care services, hospital joint ventures, physician practice development, and integrated support services. In addition, she served as the president and chief executive officer of Henry Ford Hospital and was responsible for the operation of the Detroit Campus, which includes the hospital and the ambulatory services. Prior to joining Henry Ford Health System in 1998, Schlichting was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. She has also served as president of the Eastern Region of Catholic Health Initiatives, president and chief executive officer of Riverside Methodist Hospitals, and executive vice president and chief operating officer of Akron City Hospital. Nancy Schlichting earned her bachelor's degree in public policy studies from Duke University where she graduated magna cum laude. She received her Masters in Business Administration in Hospital Administration and Accounting from Cornell University. Schlichting served her Administrative Residency at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and her Administrative Fellowship at the American Hospital Association/Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Leslie Fritzemeier is the President and CEO of Wakonda Technologies.
Prior to his role at Wakonda, Fritzmeier served as the director of economic development at Infotonics Technology Center.
In June 2007, Wakonda Technologies received the Golden Horseshoe Prize which amounts to $100,000. The Golden Horseshoe competition is a cross-border contest involving U.S. and Canadian companies with the goal of stimulating entrepreneurial growth.
Leslie Fritzemeier has a PhD from Columbia University. He also holds an MBA.
Chad Butts is a partner in Willow Breeze Farm, LLC. Chad returned home to the family dairy in 2000 after working in an unrelated field for four years following college. In 2005 Chad became a partner in the dairy with his father Stephen as a step towards the transfer of the business. The farm is home to 250 mature holsteins, 200 youngstock and 800 acres of crops.
Sean Basinski is the Director of the Street Vendor Project. The Street Vendor Project works to correct the social and economic injustice faced by street vendors in New York City. Reaching out to vendors on the street, the organization holds clinics to educate vendors about their legal rights. Working to support a local vendors' rights movement, they organize vendors to participate in the political process that determines their fate.
Sean Basinski received his JD from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. For nine months before he started law school, Sean built a pushcart and sold Mexican food on Park Avenue and 52nd Street.
Kevin Jarrell is a co-founder of Modular Genetics and is a recognized expert in RNA splicing and gene assembly. In his academic career at Harvard University, Boston University, and Ohio State University, his research resulted in numerous publications and contributed significantly to the current understanding of how living organisms manipulate their genetic information. In addition, Dr. Jarrell's work resulted in five US issued patents and five pending applications.
John C. Metz is founder of RREMC, Ltd. The company consists of four groups - a restaurant group, a hotel group, a healthcare group, and a real estate group. The restaurant group consists of 24 Denny's restaurants and 8 Bennigan's restaurants and has over 1000 employees. The hotel group consists of a Marriott Fairfield and a Hilton. The healthcare group includes 11 properties with 1 SNIF (Skilled Nursing Facility)and 10 ALFs (Assisted Living Facilities) and about 350 employees. The real estate group includes 27 restaurant properties and 8 retail properties.
During this lecture to a class at Cornell University, Metz discusses his background in entrepreneurial activities and shares thoughts on specific qualities to develop to be a successful businessperson.
John Metz received his undergraduate degree and MBA from Cornell University.
John Hall represents the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and serves as County Extension Director in Kent County, Maryland.
In 1999, Hall organized a community-based needs assessment discussion group that met bi-monthly. Chesapeake Fields Institute (CFI) evolved from this discussion group in 2000. The community-based group has embraced the mission, "Preservation Through Profitability". In 2003, CFI launched Chesapeake Fields Farmers LLC, a for-profit to build the infrastructure necessary to develop value added markets for the region. The LLC, has received 2 valued added grants and completed a $1 million equity drive. In 2005, Chesapeake Fields Farmers Cooperative was launched.
John Hall received a bachelor's degree from University of Illinois and Master's degrees from University of Illinois and University of Baltimore.
Marilyn Higgins is the Vice President of Economic Development at National Grid. In this role, she plans, directs and implements the economic development strategy of the Corporation in New York. She is responsible for attracting new business investment and jobs into the Corporation's thirty-seven county, upstate New York service territory. Working collaboratively with federal, state and local government officials and regional public and private development entities, Higgins provides leadership, strategy and resources for the revitalization of Upstate New York communities. She manages a multi-million dollar economic development fund and supervises a team of economic development professionals engaged in marketing, national and international business recruitment, site development and community renewal.
Marilyn Higgins received a BS in Political Science from SUNY Oswego.