Jacob Wright is a successful entrepreneur in many realms of the hospitality industry. A serial entrepreneur who started his first business at age 18, Wright has founded and led successful businesses in the action sports, website development, real estate development, restaurant and hotel industries. He is co-founder and president of Action Companies Group, which develops, manages and owns restaurant and hotel properties. From his base in Syracuse, N.Y., Wright leads a team of 200 associates who are now focused on building leadership in the limited-service hotel segment.
Kleber Bacili is the CTO at Digital Assets in Brazil. He is responsible for product development and operations at DigitalAssets and has more than 10 years of experience working with the IT industry in Brazil.
Bacili worked for more than seven years for large corporations such as Motorola, Natura, SKY, BankBoston and Petrobras, and then joined Ci&T's expert team on service oriented architecture (SOA) and software reuse. Bacili is a SOA expert with published articles in various international events. He is also a visiting lecturer on SOA and component based development at renowned Brazilian universities.
Kleber Bacili has a BS in Computer Engineering from UNICAMP and a MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), both in Brazil.
Paul George is co-founder of VideoNote. VideoNote is a web-based tool which allows students to easily and comprehensively review lecture material. The company has a 360 approach where gathered information is shared with professors to inform them about which topics students find most difficult.
Paul George recieved an undergraduate degree in engineering and a Masters in Engineeing Cornell University. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Engineering at Cornell University.
Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez is the Founder of Jonelle Bradshaw and Associates. Founded in 2002, Jonelle Bradshaw and Associates is an organizational consulting company that diagnoses organizational issues and provides successful and proven solutions.
Jonelle was recruited to work with the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies as a Property and Casualty Underwriter where she managed a 5 million dollar Book of Business underwriting for many Fortune 500 Companies. In 1999 she left Chubb and partnered with 2 business associates to create Insite Consulting, a management consulting company for small to medium sized businesses.
Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez graduated from Cornell University College of Human Ecology with a Bachelor of Science in Human Service Studies concentrating in Social Policy and Community Development. She received her Masters in Arts in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University Teachers College.
Sean Basinski is the Director of the Street Vendor Project. The Street Vendor Project works to correct the social and economic injustice faced by street vendors in New York City. Reaching out to vendors on the street, the organization holds clinics to educate vendors about their legal rights. Working to support a local vendors' rights movement, they organize vendors to participate in the political process that determines their fate.
Sean Basinski received his JD from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. For nine months before he started law school, Sean built a pushcart and sold Mexican food on Park Avenue and 52nd Street.
Kimberly Steele is currently working with the law firm of Maney, McConville & Liccardi, PC. She specializes in construction, surety, commercial transactions and banking law.
Prior to joining Maney, McConville & Liccardi, PC, Steele was an associate with a nationally known boutique law firm that practices in the area of construction and surety law. Steele also was a vice president of and acted as corporate counsel for Oswego County National Bank (now Alliance Bank).
Kimberly Steele is admitted to practice in the State Courts of New York and Massachusetts, and all Federal and Bankruptcy Courts of New York and Massachusetts. She is also admitted to the United States Court of Appeals, First and Second Circuit. Steele graduated magna cum laude from Elmira College and received her Juris Doctor from Albany Law School of Union University.
Jessica Gelman is the Director of New Business Development for the New England Patriots. In this role, she is a key strategic and operational advisor to the Patriots' Executive Management Team. Her responsibilities include identifying, evaluating and creating new businesses and providing strategic analysis to leverage the Patriots' assets.
Most notable is the development and management of the first sports loyalty rewards credit card program, Extra Points, which has been rolled out throughout the NFL.
Jessica Gelman a BA, cum laude, from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She was honored as Female Athlete of the Year after leading Harvard to consecutive basketball championships and NCAA appearances. She played professionally in Europe prior to her role with the New England Patriots.
Marisa is an associate in the Boston law office of Mintz Levin. She practices in the Immigration section of the firm and her work involves business immigration, including work visas and immigrant petitions. She also works with tax-exempt organizations on a variety of corporate matters.
Prior to joining Mintz Levin, Marisa worked as a Summer Associate for Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in Portland, Oregon, and served as a student intern to the Legal Aid Society of New York.
Marisa Howe earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Adrian Sexton is a founding partner of TAG Strategic, a digital media and entertainment solutions firm. Sexton oversees media branding, advertising and studio content strategy in film, home entertainment and television. Alongside its portfolio of digital distribution, mobile and technology provider companies, TAG's content clients include Lionsgate, Participant Productions, LivePlanet and Eyespot among others.
Previously, Sexton was the Vice President of Digital Media at Lions Gate Entertainment, a producer of motion picture, television and other filmed entertainment content worldwide. Sexton oversaw the day-to-day production, operations, programming, media planning and business development for all of Lionsgate's online and mobile properties including such titles as American Psycho, Academy Award winner Monster's Ball, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, the interactive Clio-awarded Saw, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Academy Award-winning Crash, Saw II and Quentin Tarantino's Hostel. Sexton also facilitated a $350 million credit facility with JP Morgan Chase, involving the acquisition of Artisan Entertainment.
Sexton graduated with a dual B.A. in Government and English from Cornell University and received his Masters in Film from the University of Southern California.