David Ahlers is a former managing partner and founding participant of Cayuga Venture Funds. In addition, Dr. Ahlers is a former Cornell tenured professor and holder of the Berens Chair of Entrepreneurial Management at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. While at Cornell, he was a Director of the Johnson School's Executive Development Program, Director of the Cornell Research Foundation which markets all Cornell intellectual property, and Director of Student Agencies, a privately funded corporation which helps enterprising Cornell students run businesses to work their way through Cornell.
Prior to coming to Cornell in 1972, Dr. Ahlers was a Vice President of Bankers Trust Company and head of its corporate planning activities. Dr. Ahlers left Cornell in 1985 to devote full time to DMA Associates, Ltd., an executive education and consulting firm in the financial services industry with a client list including Chase Manhattan, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America and M&T Bank, where he is currently a member of the Directors' Advisory Council for the Southern Region.
David Ahlers received his Ph.D. in management and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He received an MA in Operations Research from the University of Washington. His undergraduate degree is in physics from Ohio State University.
The advice I would make if you are young and you are getting started you don't have experience how you get it, go to work for an investment bank, you know, go to work for you know somebody like Goldman Sachs. They will run you 80 hours a week. It is a terrible career job but after 3 or 4 years you...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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David Ahlers Discusses Early Professional Career At IBM And Importance of Learning How To Sell
David Ahlers Discusses Decision To Work On Wall Street After Getting PhD And Then Return To Academia
David Ahlers Discusses Beginning Stages Of Taking Idea From Acadmic World To Business World
David Ahlers Discusses Challenge Of Building A Commercial Venture While Within The Academic World
David Ahlers States Universities That Are More Advanced In Research Are Generally Further From Commerialization
David Ahlers Discusses Challenge In Keeping Faculty Focused On Issues Related To Commercialization
David Ahlers Discusses Importance of Safeguarding Ideas and Working With Trustworthy People
David Ahlers States Importance of Having Customer Support and Having Trust In Management Team
