Dan Grauman founded DGA Partners, a healthcare management consulting group, after serving as a principal at the Raleigh Group (later Value Health Sciences). Before that he directed the Chicago healthcare consulting practice for Laventhol & Horwath.
Dan holds an MBA and Sloan Certificate in Health Services Administration from Cornell University, Johnson School of Management and a BA in Economics from Temple University.
Jim Frenette and Charlie Perry and co-owners of Pixel. Pixel is a high quality coffee bar and arcade located in Ithaca, NY.
Jim Frenette is a graduate of Cornell University.
Jim Frenette and Charlie Parry and co-owners of Pixel. Pixel is a high quality coffee bar and arcade located in Ithaca, NY.
Charlie Parry is a graduate of Cornell University.
Kathy Koultourides is the Director of Sales and Training and Performance Improvement for Aramark Uniform Services. In her roll at Aramark, Kathy serves as the program manager, and certified instructor for consulting, selling skills, online sales training and sales negotiations. Prior to working at Aramark, Koultourides was involved in sales at Wells Fargo.
Kathy Koultourides is a graduate of Purdue University.
Donald Fehrs is currently serving as the Chief Investment Officer at Cornell University. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the management of the University's $3.3 Billion endowment.
Prior to his position at Cornell, Fehrs worked at Prudential Insurance in internal auditing and the treasury department. After completing an MBA and PhD, Fehrs taught finance at the University of Notre Dame. He eventually made the switch from working on faculty to working in the Office of Investments. He came to Cornell University in 1998.
Fehrs received an undergraduate degree in economics from Cornell University. He also hold an MBA and a PhD in Finance from Florida State University.
Walter T. Wilhelm founder and principal of Walter Wilhelm Associates has 30 years of experience in the apparel, footwear and retail segments of the softgoods industry. He has owned and operated a women's fashion boutique and has held an executive position in one of the largest US menswear manufacturing and licensing operations.
Mr. Wilhelm was General Manager for the CAD/CAM group of Hughes Aircraft Company that was developing pattern grading/marking and cutting systems for the apparel/footwear industries and was a co-founder of Microdynamics, an innovative technology supplier (developer of PDM). After Gerber Technologies acquired Microdynamics, Mr. Wilhelm co-founded Wilhelm-Leslie Associates, providing product development and supply chain consulting to major retailers, manufacturers and suppliers in the softgoods industry. For three years prior to re-establishing his consulting practice, Mr. Wilhelm was president of Applied Intranet Technologies (Ai), a global pdm and Internet solutions provider.
Michael Crooke's passion for the environment and the outdoors has been with him for many years. Every position that he has taken in his career has been in an outdoor company and his current position as CEO of Patagonia, Inc. and Patagonia's parent company Lost Arrow Corporation is no different.
Following his undergraduate education, Crooke's career in the outdoor world started with jobs at Yakima and Moonstone Mountaineering. He worked as general manager at Kelty Packs for several years and then became CEO/chairman of Pearl Izumi (a Colorado based cycling apparel company) before he joined Patagonia in 1999. Crooke's environmental thinking is a perfect match with Patagonia and he now acts as an entrepreneur within the company. He creatively runs a multi-million dollar company while working toward environmental sustainability within and beyond the company.
Crooke received a B.S. degree in Forestry and an MBA from Humboldt State University.
Carol Young is founder and designer of [un]designed by Carol Young. [un]designed is a collection of beautiful, functional, seasonless clothing for the modern woman. A former architecture student, Carol became intrigued with the needs of urban nomads while living abroad in Asia, studying design in NYC and travelling to India and Japan.
Young accepted a fellowship at Cornell University to experiment in these functional apparel needs. The result was a collection that explored the use of "undesigned" recycled-clothing and activewear materials into new urban nomadic apparel. [un]designed was born.
Carol Young received a Master's degree from Cornell University.
Chris and Bernadette Wilson are the owners of Wilson Beef Farms. Wilson Beef Farms is a 350 acre beef and crop farm in Upstate New York that produces naturally finished and dry-aged beef as well as our hormone free pork.