Christopher Fong is the Education Vertical Lead at Google.com. In this role, he leads the advertising division's efforts in the education industry. He also volunteers with Google.org on initiatives to find investments to develop utility-scale renewable energy and to aid small and medium-size enterprises in the developing world.
Before joining Google, Fong worked in business development and marketing roles for Expedia's Seattle, Dallas, Toronto and Las Vegas offices.
Fred Johnson is the owner of Johnson Estate Winery. He received his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Cornell University.
Brandon Steiner is a sports marketer. He is the founder and CEO of Steiner Sports Marketing. Brandon Steiner is a graduate of Syracuse University.
Robert S. Langer is the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (there are 14 Institute Professors at MIT; being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member). Dr. Langer has written over 1,100 articles. He also has approximately 760 issued and pending patents worldwide. Dr. Langer\'s patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 220 pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and medical device companies. He is the most cited engineer in history. He served as a member of the United States Food and Drug Administration\'s SCIENCE Board, the FDA\'s highest advisory board, from 1995 -- 2002 and as its Chairman from 1999-2002. Dr. Langer has received over 180 major awards including the 2006 United States National Medal of Science; the Charles Stark Draper Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for engineers and the 2008 Millennium Prize, the world\'s largest technology prize. He is the also the only engineer to receive the Gairdner Foundation International Award; 72 recipients of this award have subsequently received a Nobel Prize. Among numerous other awards Langer has received are the Dickson Prize for Science (2002), Heinz Award for Technology, Economy and Employment (2003), the Harvey Prize (2003), the John Fritz Award (2003) (given previously to inventors such as Thomas Edison and Orville Wright), the General Motors Kettering Prize for Cancer Research (2004), the Dan David Prize in Materials Science (2005), the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (2005), the largest prize in the U.S. for medical research, induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006), the Max Planck Research Award (2008) and the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2008). In 1998, he received the Lemelson-MIT prize, the world\'s largest prize for invention for being "one of history\'s most prolific inventors in medicine." In 1989 Dr. Langer was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1992 he was elected to both the National Academy of Engineering and to the National Academy of Sciences. He is one of very few people ever elected to all three United States National Academies and the youngest in history (at age 43) to ever receive this distinction. Dr. Langer received his Bachelor\'s Degree from Cornell University in 1970 and his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974, both in Chemical Engineering.
Philip Krim is the CEO of Casper, a sleep startup that launched with an outrageously comfortable mattress. Its direct-Âto-Âconsumer model has been praised for disrupting the mattress industry.A serial entrepreneur, Philip Krim started his first company out his dorm room at the University of Texas over a decade ago. As an early e-Âcommerce executive, Philip has been focused on the evolving consumer shopping trends - both online and off - in a number of different verticals throughout his career. Philip Krim is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
Neil Parikh is the Co-founder and VP of Operations of Casper. Neil Parikh is a graduate of Brown University.
Nick Bayer is the founder and CEO of Saxbys Coffee. Nick Bayer graduated from Cornell University.
Robert Neff is the Co-founder and CEO of PicSwitch Technologies, Inc. Robert Neff is a graduate of Cornell University.
Matt Russo is the Managing Partner of Northwestern Mutual\'s midtown Manhattan office. In 1995, Russo joined the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network as a financial representative, concentrating his market within the medical field and the hospitality industry. As a financial representative, he had achieved Forum honors since 2000, and had been the recipient of numerous individual sales awards. In 1999, Russo was appointed Managing Director of The North Shore Group in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Under his direction, The North Shore Group had been awarded the District Network Office Growth Award for the last 6 years, and the Outstanding Achievement in Recruiting and Selection for the last seven years. Matt Russo received a Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Administration in 1990 from Cornell University.