Miguel Morales is an area market manager with Monsanto. Miguel Morales is a veterinarian from Mexico who graduated with honors from the National University in Mexico City. After 3 years in practice focusing on milk quality and research, he joined the Monsanto Company in 1990. He currently resides in California where he serves as a technical services specialist with Monsanto. One of his roles is to support dairies with employee training and development.
Angelo Mino is the President of Summit Consulting Services, Lenexa, Kansas. A native of Ecuador, Mino has led Summit Consulting Services since 1998, and has been a workshop and keynote speaker for the Associate Landscape Contractors of America and twenty more international, state, and regional landscape associations. Summit provides clients with immigration consulting services, multicultural programs, seminars, motivational speeches in both English and Spanish, business coaching, supervisor training, and development of certification programs for landscape companies.
Luis Machuca is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kryptiq Corporation, the leading provider of next generation connectivity solutions for healthcare.
From 1981-1996, Machuca held various positions at Intel Corp before becoming co-GM of the OEM Products & Services Division where he established Intel as the #1 motherboard supplier in the world.
In 1996 he became the EVP of the NEC Computer Services Division of PB-NEC Corp. In 1999, Machuca joined eFusion Corp. as President and COO and subsequently merged the company with ITXC.
Luis Machuca received his BSEE in 1980 and MSIE in 1981 both from Purdue University.
Fernando Poma has been the Managing Director of Real Hotels & Resorts since 2000. During that time, Poma has grown Real Hotels and Resorts from four to 22 premier hotel brands including InterContinental, Marriott, Quality and Comfort Inn. His growth plans are focused on Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama and Colombia and include a JW Marriott hotel, a JW Marriott Resort and five Courtyard by Marriott hotels. The company is also expanding its InterContinental hotel base.
Prior to joining Real Hotels and Resorts, Poma was assistant to the managing director of Choice Hotels Europe and worked in asset management and hotel acquisitions for the Westmont Hospitality Group.
Poma spoke at Cornell University on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 as part of the "Conversations with Entrepreneurs" series presented by the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration.
Fernando Poma graduated from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tony Mendes is the Director of the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign.
Previously, Mendes had been with the Kauffman Foundation where he served as the Program Director for Kauffman campuses which was the funding unit of the foundation for providing support to colleges and universities for entrepreneurship.
Mendes has more than 20 years of experience in entrepreneurial education and in the healthcare industry. Prior to his position with the Kauffman Foundation, he served for more than thirteen years as a training and development manager and health promotion manager for AT&T Corporation.
Tony Mendes is a licensed psychologist and holds a Ph.D. in counseling from the University of Missouri and an MBA from Rockhurst University.
William D. Perez succeeded William Wrigley, Jr. II as CEO of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the world's largest chewing-gum manufacturer. He is the first person outside the Wrigley family to head the 116-year-old company.
Previously, he succeeded Phil Knight as CEO of Nike, Inc and served from November 2004 until his announcement on January 23, 2006 that he was resigning from Nike due to disagreements with Nike founder and chairman Philip Knight over how to run the company. Previous to his position at Nike, Perez worked for eight years as president and CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son.
Bill Perez received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a graduate degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Alexander Zahn is co-founder and president of SLOPE Radio. Founded in 2006, SLOPE Radio, Cornell's first all-student produced radio station was established to provide the Cornell Community and listeners across the globe, with "the hottest college internet radio station on Earth".
SLOPE Radio broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and creates podcasts to allow listeners to listen to their favorite shows on-demand. SLOPE Radio is available at any time, to anyone on Cornell campus (and around the World) with an Internet connection.
Alexander Zahn is currently an undergraduate at Cornell University. He is expected to graduate in 2007.
<p>Ted A. Fernandez is founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Answerthink, a consulting firm. From 1979 to 1997, Mr. Fernandez worked at KPMG. He served as the National Managing Partner of KPMG's Strategic Services Consulting from May 1994 to January 1997. </p>
Rodrigo Bicalho is an Associate Professor of Dairy Production Medicine in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.