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Terri Alpert graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1985 with
a degree in physics and was a member of the Sigma Xi scientific honor society. Ms. Alpert is the founder and CEO of two national
direct-to-consumer (catalog/e-commerce) companies, headquartered in Connecticut: Professional Cutlery Direct LLC and Uno Alla Volta LLC.
In addition to running her companies, she is founder of Hydrogen Highway
LLC and the Editor of HydrogenHighway.com, a site devoted to "Fueling the Public Imagination" SM to accelerate our transition to a hydrogen economy and a sustainable
future. She is also a founding member of the Angel Investor Forum and, besides our Entrepreneurship Program, she sits on the
Advisory Boards of RJ Julia Booksellers of Madison, Connecticut. She has been an active contributor of the Entrepreneurship
Program since its inception, serving as a frequent lecturer, discussion leader, team mentor, venture catalyst panelist, and
judge of the business plan competitions.
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Since 1987, Mr. Billings has been the president of Billings & Co., a
management consulting firm focused on the wireless communications and related industries. Mr. Billings also served as chief
operating officer from March 1998 to June 1998 and as chief executive officer from June 1998 to May 1999 of Silicon Wireless,
Ltd., a developer of wireless communication technology. In addition, from May 1992 to May 1997, Mr. Billings served first
as the chief operating officer and later as vice chairman of Radio Movil Digital Americas, Inc., a wireless dispatch communications
company with investments in South America. Previously, Mr. Billings served as general manager of the Washington-Baltimore
Cellular Telephone Partnership (d/b/a Cellular One), and as vice president of Corporate Development of the Communications
Satellite Corporation.
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Ms. Carkovic is the director of Brown’s Commerce, Organizations and
Entrepreneurship. Prior to Brown, she worked for the International Monetary Fund for 12 years and is author to dozens of well-respected
articles on international trade and monetary policy.
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Dr. Cohen graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Brown
University in 1989; she also holds a master’s degree and earned
a Ph.D. in 1997. She is the founder of Ivywise, an organization committed to helping students identify and gain admission
to their ideal schools. Besides the founding of Ivywise, she is also the author of two books on college admissions.
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Mr. Cohen is an experienced
entrepreneur and principal of the Newport Hotel Group, which he co-founded in
1993 with Douglas Cohen.
He is an adjunct lecturer in engineering; he has recently become an instructor of the popular EN 9: "Management of Industrial
and Nonprofit Organizations."
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Mr. Glenn is the founder and CEO of LivingHomes, LLC. For the past several
years, Glenn has been working with the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation as a volunteer on a variety of projects. Glenn
is founder and former CEO of PeopleLink, and also a partner and founding member team of Idealab. Glenn worked for Walt Disney
Imagineering as co-director of the Virtual Reality Studio. Before Disney, he was the vice president of the Entertainment Group
at SimGraphics Engineering. Glenn began his technology career in college, when he co-founded Clearview Software (later sold
to Apple Computer). He holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in organizational behavior from Brown University, and received
a scholarship for the Career Discovery Program in Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Glenn was a co-founder
and serves on the board of the Sustainable Business Council, Kaia Parker Dance Fund, and the Hope Street Group. He is also
a member of the board of directors of LA Works, and is a trustee for Alternative Living for the Aging.
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Michael Goldstein is the Executive
Director of City Year Rhode Island. He is an entrepreneur committed to the success of young urban leaders.
Michael's unwavering belief in youth leadership began in Summerbridge, where high school and college students run a summer
school for urban middle school students. Michael began teaching in San Francisco Summerbridge at the age of fifteen
and founded Providence Summerbridge at twenty. In addition, Michael founded and grew Youth Tech Entrepreneurs,
a program where high school students run their schools' websites and help desks, to an organization serving 35 Massachusetts districts. Michael
also founded LiNCBoston, an association for emerging non-profit leaders, and the Summerbridge/Breakthrough Alumni Network. Michael's
career spans the business and non-profit sector. In Prague, he ran a branch office of an advertising
agency and managed the launch of a major holding company. He also helped create and lead Magna International's ncompass Initiative,
a North American leadership contest for college students. Michael has a BA from Brown University
and an MPP from Harvard University. In 2002, Michael was recognized by the Boston Business Journal in its "40
Under 40" award as one of Boston's most promising young business leaders. Michael joined City Year Rhode
Island as Executive Director in December 2004, and he is thrilled to be back in Providence doing the
work he loves most.
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Ms. Hamburg has been an entrepreneur for over 15 years, with experience
launching innovative new businesses in areas of communications, technology and media. She is the founder and president of
Upstart Ventures, through which she has been involved in the startup of 12 new businesses. Hamburg was chairman and founder
of Hypnotic, a leading branded entertainment company and she is the co-host on WOR radio of “New York Uncovered”
and Launchpad. Hamburg was also one of the founders and director of the Board of Vimpel Communications (VimpelCom). Liz received
an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. She is
a director of the Board of Safe Space and a founding board member of the Brown EP. She is also a member of the Advisory Panel
of the Columbia Business School's Eugene Lang Entrepreneur Initiative Fund. She is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship
and small businesses.
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Randy Haykin has been a managing director at Outlook for the past nine years,
after co-founding the firm in 1996. Prior to Outlook, Haykin held various senior sales and marketing positions in the high
technology arena over the past 19 years with high-profile companies such as Yahoo!, Viacom, Paramount, BBN, IBM, and Apple
Computer. Haykin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in organizational studies from Brown University, magna cum laude, and an
MBA from Harvard's Graduate School of Business. He is the author of "Demystifying Multimedia" (Random House, 1993).
He is on the governing board of Opportunity International, a non-profit that provides micro-loans for 3rd World countries
and the board of the American Cancer Society.
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Barrett Hazeltine is a graduate of Princeton University, BSE (1953), MSE
(1956), and the University of Michigan Ph.D. (1962). He was a professor of engineering at Brown University. He is now
Professor Emeritus but continues to teach at Brown. In 1991-1992, Hazeltine held the Robert Foster Cherry Chair for
Distinguished Teaching at Baylor University. From 1972 to 1992, he was also associate dean of the College at Brown. He has
taught or consulted in many universities around the world. In 1965, he was with the Space and Information Systems Division
of Raytheon Corporation. Hazeltine has consulted for several engineering companies and for the Rhode Island Public Utilities
Commission, the New Jersey Department of Higher Education and the United States Naval Academy. He was president of the Providence
Engineering Society and chairman of the Providence Section of the IEEE. He was vice-chair of the Council for Understanding
of Technology in Human Affairs. He is a trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology and on advisory committees at Baylor University,
Roger Williams University, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Mr. Joukowsky is a graduate of Brown University and received his MBA from
Babson College. Currently, he is the CEO of a private investment firm specializing in domestic and international value-oriented
investments. In addition, he is a general partner in Sterling Stamos Private Equity Fund, LP (A Fund of Funds) Private Equity.
Joukowsky has been member of the President’s Leadership Council since its inception in 2004. He has also been a member
of the Brown Annual Fund Leadership Council since 2002 and an Entrepreneurship Program advisory board member since 1999. He
is a co-founder of the Entrepreneurship Forum and continues to participate in this annual effort. He participated in
the development of the Initiative for Entrepreneurship and Organizational Studies and currently serves as co-chair of the
fundraising committee. Since 1987, Joukowsky has been a member of the Brown University Adjunct Faculty, Engineering Department
and he teaches a section of Engineering 9.
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Charlie Kroll is the President
& CEO of Andera, Inc. Charlie Kroll founded Andera in 2000 with the vision of helping clients leverage Web-based
technology as a tool for sales and growth. Today, that vision is keenly focused on fundamentally improving the way financial
institutions acquire customers. As President, Kroll is the architect of Andera's corporate and product strategy and is responsible
for driving the company's growth through innovation, alliances, and an unyielding commitment to unanimous client satisfaction.
He is a frequent speaker at bank and credit union conferences nationwide, serves on the Board of Advisors of the Brown Entrepreneurship
Program, and was recently named 2006 New England Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the United States Small Business Administration
(SBA). Prior to founding Andera, Kroll worked for Morgan Stanley in their New York and London offices. Kroll received an A.B. from Brown University
and a General Course Degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
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Heidi served as President of LinkShare
Corporation, a worldwide leader in affiliate network and search engine marketing. Linkshare was acquired by Japanese portal
Rakuten for $425 million in cash. Under her leadership, LinkShare has grown exponentially and earned the rare honor of being
recognized by Deloitte & Touche as New York's fastest growing technology company in both 2002 and 2003. Heidi has also overseen LinkShare's
expansion into international markets and other areas of performance-based marketing, including search engine optimization,
media tracking and partnership data analysis. A frequent speaker at industry events around the world and an acknowledged authority
on performance marketing, Heidi has served on the board of Shop.org. Prior to joining LinkShare, Heidi was an associate at
the law firm of Baker & Botts, L.L.P. She earned a B.A. from Brown University and a law degree from Harvard Law School.
While at Harvard, her paper entitled "Copyright and Censorship: Regulating the Electronic Frontier," which she presented to
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, was published in the working papers at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information and
the Virtual Institute of Information.
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Josef Mittlemann is currently the Clinical Professor in the Division
of Engineering at Brown University. He has been teaching at Brown since 2001. Before that he founded his own real estate
development and management companies. He teaches and has created courses focusing on management and operations of business
and non profit organizations, decision making, entrepreneurship and technology management, real estate covering
all aspects of urban and suburban land development, social enterprise and late adolescent-early adult life/work transition.
He has been a Visiting Scholar, Visiting Fellow, Adjunct Lecturer and Executive in Residence in Engineering. He
sits on the President’s Advisory Committee. In December 2003, he won Brown's Undergraduate Student Council Teaching Excellence
Award. A graduate of Brown, he chaired the Careers and Networks Committee of the BAA Board of Governors for 5 years.
In 2004 he was appointed COO of the World Trade Center rebuilding efforts for the leaseholder. He sits on
the Board of the Entrepreneurship Program at Brown as well as recent Brown alumni start ups. He was a co-writer
of the COE concentration and several of its new courses. He co-founded Career Week for which he won an alumni service
award. Mittlemann is now back teaching full time at Brown.
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Tom Pincince
currently serves as the president and CEO of Brix Networks. The founder of New
Oak Communications, he has previously acted as director of Forrester Research’s Network Strategy Service. As a high-tech industry analyst, he covered the commercial use of the Internet, the market for corporate
intranets, and the opportunities for private data services over the public Internet. Pincince
has also worked in several engineering and marketing positions at Boston-area technology companies.
A member
of the Massachusetts Network Communications Council’s Board of Directors, Pincince was chosen as a finalist for Ernst
& Young’s 2003 New England Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2002,
the editors of the Boston Business Journal included him in that publication’s Fifth Annual “40 Under 40”
list. Pincince graduated from Brown University
with a ScB, with honors.
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Deborah Schimberg is a serial social entrepreneur. After graduating
from Brown in 1979, she started the Southside Community Land Trust, a nonprofit urban environmental organization in Providence,
and subsequently, founded the International Charter School, a dual language immersion elementary public school in Pawtucket,
RI. She's also founded and is the CEO of Verve, inc., makers of Glee all-natural chewing gum, and the Executive Director
of Social Venture Partners of Rhode Island, an organization of private sector people who help nonprofit organizations to develop
and grow earned income ventures. She is also an adjunct lecturer of social entrepreneurship at Brown. She holds
an Ed.M. from Harvard University.
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John Sculley is a Venture Partner
at Rho Ventures. Prior to joining Rho as a Venture
Partner in 2004, Mr. Sculley worked at Sculley Brothers LLC, a private investment firm that he founded in 1995. Previously,
Mr. Sculley was CEO of Apple Computer from 1983 until 1993. For the five years prior to joining Apple, Mr. Sculley was President
and CEO of Pepsi. During this time, the 'Pepsi Generation' and 'Pepsi Challenge' marketing campaigns propelled Pepsi into
the largest selling packaged good product in America. Mr. Sculley received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. John is co-founder
and board member of InPhonic, Identrust, Radiospire, and TelloCorp and Verified Person. Other current and recent board seats
include MetroPCS, Hotwire, Pinnacor, NFO Research, and OpenPeak.
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Steve Siegel is the founder of Coney Island Ventures, a co-founder of Building2
Investments, and the chairman of Andera. He also co-founded and sat on the board of directors of FSJ, which was later
sold to IMRglobal. Earlier in his career, he operated the U.S. business for Fusion Systems Group, which numbered 77 on
Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 fastest growing companies. A
past advisor to Simpli.com, Siegel also serves on the boards of The Glimpse Foundation and Slater Interactive. He has
been a judge for the Brown University Elevator Speech Competition, the Brown University New Venture Competition, and the Bryant
College Best Idea Challenge. He holds a B.S. from Brooklyn College, as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. from Brown University.
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A graduate of Brown University ’00, Spivack is the founder of Shop Well
with You. In 1998, she was awarded the May Company Fashion Internship Scholarship at Brown, which led to her work at
the showroom for Betsey Johnson in New York City and served as her introduction to the fashion world. Spivack was also
the winner of one of three awards from the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program’s Business Plan Competition, the
first such honor for a not-for-profit. Spivack was featured in the October
2000 issue of Glamour Magazine as one of Glamour’s Top Ten College Women. In January 2002, Ford Vehicles selected
her as the recipient of the “I Make a Difference in the Lives of Women with Cancer” award. Featured in Eileen
Fisher’s spring 2003 ad campaign, “Women Change the World Every Day,” Spivack graduated with a B.A. with
honors in art/semiotics.
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Jeffrey M. Stibel currently serves as president and chief executive officer
of Web.com (formerly Interland) and as a member of the board of directors. He has held executive positions at United
Online, Inc., including senior vice president overseeing the Web Services division. Before joining United Online, Stibel
was chairman and CEO of Simpli.com Inc. and worked at GTE on SuperPages. Earlier in his career, he focused on mergers
and acquisitions, while at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and worked in marketing for The Greenfield
Consulting Group. Stibel holds a master’s degree from Brown University; he studied business at MIT’s Sloan
School of Management and brain science as a Brain and Behavior Fellow at Brown University.
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Anthony Teat is the current CEO and creative director of Masai Interactive. Before
founding his graphic-design company in Largo, Maryland, he worked at IBM. With Masai, he continues to design logos,
Web sites, and brochures, as well as create large-format signs and posters through The Idea Factory, a subsidiary. Graduating
from Brown University with a degree in engineering, Teat has nearly 20 years of combined experience in graphic design, Web
development and project management.
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Jerome Vascellaro presently serves as a senior director of McKinsey &
Company, where he works to improve clients’ organizational effectiveness, develop market and business strategies, and
revitalize troubled businesses. Graduating with highest honors from Brown University, he holds a B.S. in engineering and economics.
A Baker Scholar, Vascellaro also received his MBA from the Harvard Business School. In addition to his leadership roles at
McKinsey, he has acted as president of the Brown Alumni Association and national chair of the Brown Annual Fund. He is a current
trustee of the University.
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