Eben Bayer is CEO and Co-founder of Ecovative Design.
Before founding Ecovative, Bayer worked at Applied Research Associates. During his time with ARA, Bayer designed components of multiple remotely operated vehicles, including the armor for a US Marine humanitarian de-mining vehicle, and the production molds for a small reconnaissance drone.
Eben Bayer received a dual B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Product Design and Innovation from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in May of 2007.
Marissa Goodman was the marketing manager for Celebrity Brands at Steve & Barry's from 2006-2008 where she oversaw creative production and promotions. Marissa is now an account executive for Verizon at Momentum, an event marketing agency located in New York City.
Marissa Goodman is a graduate of Cornell University.
Onesh Subasinghe is the Managing Director of Opex Holdings, Ltd.
Onesh Subasinghe is a graduate of Cornell University.
Andrew C. Meehan is the founder of The Virtual Billboard. The Virtual Billboard is an outdoor direct marketing company that utilizes digital projections to produce stimulating, mobile, and cost-effective visual displays. The company is planning to introduce vivid, Hi-Def digital projections to allow advertisers to replace lifeless billboard ads with moving and dynamic ads that can be altered on-demand to capture different target demographics.
Andrew Meehan is an undergraduate at Cornell University and expects to graduate in 2009.
Amy Breitberg began her professional career in Citigroup's Financial Division as part of their analyst program. She is currently working in the Strategy and Planning Department where she has been part of the incentive compensation team as well as a team which supports the equities business from a planning and analysis perspective.
She was recently promoted to Assistant Vice President.
Amy Breitberg is a graduate of Cornell University.
Edipo Cravo is the Executive Officer of Relations at WePlace.net. The WePlace service connects product- and brand- oriented companies to creators of user-generated content. WePlace works individually with each potential advertiser to establish rates on a per-view basis and on how long each product or brand appears on screen. Product/brand placement is one of the most direct ways an advertiser can increase product/brand awareness while supporting many popular independent/online video producers on sites like YouTube(TM).
Edipo Cravo is an undergraduate student of international relations and business at Cornell University.
John Blackburn is president of BullEx Digital Safety, a company that has developed a novel clean-burning, safe and effective fire extinguisher training system. The invention was sparked in an undergraduate engineering course at RPI.
John Blackburn is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Katie Lucchesi and Chaun Sims are both students at Colorado State University who placed third in the 2006 University of Colorado at Boulder Cleantech Innovators' Challenge for their company, Bright Light Innovations.
Bright Light Innovations produces the Firefly Stove, an inexpensive stove that provides heat and electricity without emitting harmful kerosene or wood smoke. The company says it is designed for use in homes without electricity in developing countries. But the stove isn't just for cooking and warming a room. Because it uses a thermo-electric generator, a device that converts heat from the stove into electricity, the electricity generated can be used for light or stored in a battery for use at a later time.
Since placing third and winning $5,000 in the contest, Bright Light Innovations has received a grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, which allowed the team to build and field test prototype stoves in India. The team, now working on a redesigned stove based on the field test results, expects that an updated model will be available in limited quantities later this year. Team members expect to establish a profitable business within a few years.
Katie Lucchesi is a senior at Colorado State University and expects to graduate in 2007.
Albe Zakes is a publicist for TerraCycle.
While a student at University of Colorado, Albe helped run various student groups including Environnment Alert, a campaign ran by Colorado Public Interest Research Group and Hip Hop Congress, a nationwide grassroots organization which spreads political and social awareness through music, poetry and art.
Albe Zakes graduated from University of Colorado, Boulder in May 2006 with a B.A. in Literature and Psychology.