Divya Gugnani started her business career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then moved on to private equity and venture capital at Investcorp International and FirstMark Capital. Currently she serves as the CEO of Send the Trend, which offers curated fashion accessories for women online. She also serves as CEO of Behind the Burner, a culinary media brand focused on tips, tricks and techniques for food, wine, mixology and nutrition. Gugnani currently advises several startups and established brands with board level roles. Most recently, she has co-founded Wander Beauty. She holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School as well as a degree from the French Culinary Institute.
Jennifer Dulski is the President and COO of Change.org Prior to Change.org, Dulski led the product management team for shopping and product ads at Google. She joined Google in 2011 when it acquired Dealmap, a company Dulski co-founded and served as its CEO from 2007 until its acquisition. Dealmap indexed over 400,000 local deals every day, totaling more than $10 million in savings available from hundreds of sources, including national brands, daily deal websites, local businesses and consumers. Dealmap has since been incorporated into Google Offers. Prior to Dealmap, Dulski served in multiple roles at Yahoo! from 1999 until 2007. Her last position was Yahoo's group vice president and general manager of local and commerce, where she led a $500 million plus portfolio of businesses and a 500 person team across the local and marketplace properties, including local, maps, shopping, travel, automotive and real estate. Additionally, Dulski founded and ran Summerbridge Pittsburgh (part of the Breakthrough Collaborative), a non-profit organization that launches high potential, underserved middle school students on the path to college and inspires high school and college students to pursue careers in education. Since 2008, she has chaired the board of the Silicon Valley site of Breakthrough. She also currently serves on the board of Little Passports, a global subscription commerce company inspiring children to learn about other countries and cultures. Jennifer Dulski received a MBA from S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, also from Cornell University.
Jennifer Davis is a Vice Presidentin the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs.
After graduation, Davis took a job as an analyst at investment banking firm, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette which was then acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston. After spending two years in an Analyst position, Davis returned to school for her MBA at Harvard Business School. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 after completing her MBA.
Jennifer Davis received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from Harvard.
Jaime Allen is currently a Director of Marketing at Darden Restaurant Group in Orlando, Florida. There she leads Marketing Strategy for Promotion Pipeline, Merchandising and Local Marketing for the Olive Garden brand.
Prior to joining Darden, Jaime spent 8 years at SC Johnson in Marketing working on new product development and various brands such as Scrubbing Bubbles, Edge, Skintimate and Glade. Jaime has worked briefly as a personal chef and has passed the Level 1 Master Sommelier exam.
Jaime Allen is a graduate of Cornell University.
Laura Colosi is Chief Operating Officer for ThinkWorks. Additionally, she is an Extension Associate at Cornell University where she works to improve parent education for the statewide Cooperative Extension Administration. She is also developing an assessment and reporting system for parent education programs in New York in hopes of developing a model for national implementation. In addition to her work at Cornell, Laura serves as a consultant to external organizations on applying systems thinking to evaluate educational and outreach programs.
Colosi's prior research interests included the impact of social policies on parents and their children, with a particular interest in low-income families. She has conducted evaluations of several New York State programs including: parent education series such as the Parenting Skills Workshop Series, the Strengthening Families Program and the Literacy Institute; the statewide Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program, Eat Smart New York; a 3 year evaluation of the Teenage Homelessness Prevention Program in Ronkonkoma, New York; as well as the NYS Citizens' Coalition for Children's Post Adoption and Preservation Services.
Laura Colosi holds both a Masters in Public Administration from Cornell University's Institute for Public Affairs and a Ph.D. from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell.
Erica Brandler has been involved with the Ernest & Julio Gallo Company for the past 11 years.
Erica Bradler recieved her undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Joy Kuebler is the founder of Joy Kueble Landscape Architect PC (JKLA). Her company's design projects have included one half acre community built parks, intimate gardens for small children, large university campus redevelopment and large city inter-modal transit facilities.
Joy Kuebler received her undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from Cornell University.
Andrea is the founder and president of 1-800-CTO, a consulting company that helps growth companies formulate their technology strategy and architecture.
Andrea is a seasoned dot-com entrepreneur who has directed the creation and management of over a dozen Internet properties. She is the former Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of EchoFactor.com - the web's largest repository of free XML news feeds. Prior to founding EchoFactor, she was the Director of Technology of Infonautics Corporation -- an Internet information company. Before venturing into the dot-com arena, Andrea was involved in the development of software for medical applications - first with GE and later with Picker International.
Andrea earned a Bachelor of Science in computational biology form Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Science in computer science from Villanova University.
<p>Cheryl Melchiorre is a Manager at Deloitte Consulting. Prior to her position at Deloitte, she worked in strategic consulting at McKenzie. </p> <p>Melchiorre shared her experiences as a woman in business on a panel of "Women In Business" presented by Cornell University's Career Center.</p> <p>Cheryl Melchiorre received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. </p>