Caitlin Strandberg is an Associate at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience broadly cover companies and technologies across the information technology sector including ad tech, digital media, fin tech, and consumer internet.
Caitlin joined the firm in August 2012 from LearnVest, a personal finance start-up in NYC, where she served as Director of Business Development. Previously, she was the Associate Director of Business Development at Behance, a platform for showcasing and discovering creative work online. Caitlin was also the President and Co-founder of Slope Media Group, a student-run media organization based out of Cornell University that includes internet radio, internet television and a digital magazine.
Caitlin Strandberg holds a BA in History from Cornell University with a minor in Science and Technology Studies.
Elliott Garlock is currently the Business Development Director at Raymor Industries & NanoIntegris. Prior to this position, Garlock was an Assistant Brand Manager at Procter and Gamble.
Elliott Garlock is a graduate of Cornell University. While at Cornell, he worked at Student Agencies, Inc. (SAI).
Matt Ackerson is a self-taught artist and computer programmer who started three businesses as an undergraduate at Cornell before graduating in Spring 2009. One of thoese businesses was Scrimple.com - a Web site featuring printable coupons for Ithaca establishments.
His latest venture, PetoVera, is best described as a web design business, and is Ackerson's fourth and final company which he plans to run and grow for the rest of his life.
Matt Ackerson is a graduate of Cornell University.
Lucas Fuess is a Cornell University student who is a double major in Animal Science and Agriculture Science Education. He spent Spring 2009 studying at the University of Copenhagen. He is expected to graduate in 2011.
Fuess'comments are from a Strategic Marketing Conference hosted by the Dyson School at Cornell University.
Lawrence Watkins is a young entrepreneur and owner of Great Black Speakers Bureau, an organization dedicated to helping universities and corporations find speakers for the events that they host throughout the year. Founded in January 2007, Great Black Speakers has quickly risen and has become a premier force in the speaking industry, boasting over 200 African-American speakers and over 100 university/corporate clients.
Lawrence Watkins received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is currently continuing his education as the Rodney P. Hunt Fellow at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.
Jason Springs is currently the CEO of GeneWeave Biosciences, LLC. His company develops diagnostic devices that detect the presence and drug-resistance of disease-causing bacteria without the need for a diagnostic laboratory. The company is particularly focused on detecting so-called "superbugs" -disease-causing bacteria that are resistant or immune to standard antibiotics, as well as bacteria responsible for many hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).
Jason Springs is a first year MBA student at the Johnson School at Cornell University. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Management from the University of South Carolina.
Verneda White is the founder and Creative Director of Human Intonation. Human Intonation is a unisex apparel brand dedicated to raising social awareness while giving 15% of the proceeds from each sale to growing non-profits. Verneda White's comments are from a panel entitled "Fashion With Social Awareness" from the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration in April 2010. Verneda White is a graduate of Cornell University.
Jon Aizen is the co-founder and COO of Dapper, managing U.S. operations and strategy for the company in San Francisco. He has been founding and working for web companies since 1994. He has extensive experience with managing large-scale, high-profile web projects, as well as operations and business development. His previous experience includes Alexa Internet and the Internet Archive.
He holds a degree in computer science from Cornell University.
Kevin Menear is the Director of R&D for Mechanical Systems at MineWerks. MineWerks was founded by a team of students at RPI dedicated to the eradication of such buried explosives as landmines and roadside bombs.
MineWerks' detection technology is being developed at a time when over 2,000 people are being killed or maimed by buried landmines and other explosives each month. Competing technologies are far too expensive, time-consuming, and hazardous to personnel on the ground to be capable of addressing the worldwide threat of unexploded ordinances in a meaningful way.
Kevin Menear is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.