Deirdre Nissenson Kurzweil is currently serving as a market research manager in the Office of Publications and Marketing at Cornell University.
Prior to her role at Cornell, Kurzweil was affiliated with Art & Science Group's market research through its field house, Widener-Burrows & Associates. Kurzweil has experience in all phases of marketing and market research, both qualitative and quantitative. She has utilized a variety of advanced analytic techniques -- including trade-off analysis (conjoint, discrete choice), segmentation analysis, discriminant analysis, and factor analysis -- on behalf of a diverse clientele in the non-profit sector, as well as the financial services and consumer products industries.Previously, she was a project manager at Total Research Corporation and Opinion Research Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey. She has also worked as senior research analyst for Merrill Lynch, where much of her work focused on assessing the impact of various advertising efforts.
Deirdre Kurzweil received her undergraduate degree from Dickinson College.
Jean Hill is Executive Director of Infrastructure for the Retail Division at Morgan Stanley.
Prior to her role at Morgan Stanley, Hill headed up infrastructure services for Merrill Lynch's Institutional business and served as a consultant at Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to those roles, she founded and later sold a startup company which sold Kosher meat by mail-order.
Jean Hill received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her law degree from Fordham University.
Formerly Zya’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Bo Bazylevsky co-founded the company with CEO Matt Serletic while still on Wall Street. The two started the endeavor given their shared passion for music, and a belief that every consumer should be able to express themselves musically. With a well-honed ability to map risk, Bazylevsky was a creative partner as well as the financial strategist behind the Calabasas, Calif.-based, venture-backed start-up, which he originally seeded with Serletic. Bo was instrumental in securing several rounds of angel and VC investments for the company, most notably from VCs Intel Capital, Liberty Global, and Shea Ventures. With a 20-year track record in trading and investing, Bazylevsky has successfully managed several multi-billion dollar portfolios throughout the most volatile periods in emerging markets history for Credit Suisse-First Boston, Bear Stearns, and JPMorgan. He served as Global Head of Emerging Markets Corporate Trading at JP Morgan, and then joined hedge fund Moore Capital/James Caird Asset Management as partner and Senior Portfolio Manager until joining Zya full time in 2010. Bazylevsky has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal and Asset Magazine as one of the Emerging Markets’ most influential traders and portfolio managers, and served as Co- Chair of The Emerging Markets Traders Association (EMTA). Bazylevsky returned to Wall Street in September 2014, as a Managing Director in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Emerging Markets bond trading division. He now serves as Zya’s Lead Board Director and resides in NYC with his wife and two daughters. Bo Bazylevsky received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.