Brent Bell is an assistant professor in the Outdoor Education Program at the University of New Hampshire. His research involves social support and community development, specifically focusing on how students transition from high school to college.
Prior to his position at UNH, Bell had worked with therapeutic adventure programs, been an assistant camp director, been a program director for an adventure travel company, and developed an outdoor leadership program at New England College in Henniker, NH. Bell also spent six years as the Director of the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Brent Bell received his PhD in Education from the University of New Hampshire.
Drew Faust became dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on January 1, 2001. She also holds an appointment as the Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
Before coming to Radcliffe, Faust was Annenberg Professor of History and director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Faust is a historian of the Civil War and the American South.
She is the author of five books, including "Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War", for which she won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1997.
Faust is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Humanities Center, and she serves on the educational advisory board of the Guggenheim Foundation. She has served as president of the Southern Historical Association, vice president of the American Historical Association, and executive board member of the Organization of American Historians and the Society of American Historians. Faust has also served on numerous editorial boards and selection committees, including the Pulitzer Prize history jury in 1986, 1990, and 2004.
Drew Faust received her bachelor's degree in 1968 from Bryn Mawr and received her master's degree (1971) and doctoral degree (1975) in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.
Susan Schulz was appointed editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL! Magazine in July 2003. Previously, she was the magazine's executive editor, and before that she was the deputy editor when she joined the magazine in November 2000. Prior to working at CosmoGIRL!, Schulz was an editorial assistant at Redbook magazine. She moved on to become an assistant editor at Good Housekeeping, continuing to assist editors while also writing frequently for the Profiles section. In 1997, Susan moved into the teen market as an associate articles editor at YM magazine, and was promoted to senior articles editor in 1999. In addition, Schulz heads up the advisory board of GlamourGals, a not-for-profit organization founded by the CosmoGIRL! of the Year winner from 2000, Rachel Doyle. Susan Schulz is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, MD.
Philip Erdoes is the founder and CEO of Bear Ventures LLC. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in creating new enterprises. He works closely with the presidents and bsuiness managers within each of the companies which Bear Ventures funds.
Philip Erdoes holds an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University, a J.D. from University of Oklahoma and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ralph W.F. Hardy is President and co-founder of the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (NABC), a consortium of over 35 not-for-profit agricultural research and educational institutions in Canada and the United States that provides an open forum for discussion on the safe, efficacious, and equitable development of agricultural biotechnology.
Previously, Hardy was President of BioTechnica International and President and CEO of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. He was with DuPont for 21 years, where he led the research-driven diversification into pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, and bio-based products.
Ralph Hardy received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Paul Thompson holds the W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He formerly held positions in philosophy at Texas A&M University and Purdue University. His research has centered on ethical and philosophical questions associated with agriculture and food, especially concerning the guidance and development of agricultural technoscience. This research focus has led him to undertake a series of projects on the application of recombinant DNA techniques to agricultural crops and food animals.
Paul Thompson reeived his undergraduate degree from Emory University and his Master's degree and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Adrian Sexton is a founding partner of TAG Strategic, a digital media and entertainment solutions firm. Sexton oversees media branding, advertising and studio content strategy in film, home entertainment and television. Alongside its portfolio of digital distribution, mobile and technology provider companies, TAG's content clients include Lionsgate, Participant Productions, LivePlanet and Eyespot among others.
Previously, Sexton was the Vice President of Digital Media at Lions Gate Entertainment, a producer of motion picture, television and other filmed entertainment content worldwide. Sexton oversaw the day-to-day production, operations, programming, media planning and business development for all of Lionsgate's online and mobile properties including such titles as American Psycho, Academy Award winner Monster's Ball, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, the interactive Clio-awarded Saw, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Academy Award-winning Crash, Saw II and Quentin Tarantino's Hostel. Sexton also facilitated a $350 million credit facility with JP Morgan Chase, involving the acquisition of Artisan Entertainment.
Sexton graduated with a dual B.A. in Government and English from Cornell University and received his Masters in Film from the University of Southern California.
Clint Sidle is the Director of the Park Leadership Fellows Program and the Leadership Skills Program in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Sidle also works as an independent consultant in strategic change, teambuilding, and leadership development.
Clint Sidle, who has worked at Cornell since 1982 and was most recently director of institutional planning and research, has played key roles in many of the university's strategic change activities. He also worked as a trainer for campus and corporate leadership development programs and is co-author of "High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning" (McGraw Hill, 1998) and author of "The Leadership Wheel: Five Steps for Achieving Individual and Organizational Greatness" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Clint Sidle earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1974, a master's degree from the Universite Catholic de Louvain in 1976 and an MBA from the Johnson School in 1977.
John Reinker is General Electric Global Research's hydrogen energy advanced technology leader. He leads GE's hydrogen production, storage/delivery, end-use, and other advanced energy technologies including CO2 technologies and Gen IV nuclear programs. In addition, he is the GE sponsor for the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University.
Prior to his current assignment, John spent 20 years in GE Energy including general management positions in Gas Turbine, Energy Services, and Steam Turbine-Generator Technologies. He held many power generation design-engineering positions and was the steam turbine product line leader within the Power Plants business.
John Reinker received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and received an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.