Steve Conine is the Chairman, Co-Founder, and Chief Technology Officer of Wayfair (formerly CSN Stores). Steve is responsible for architecting and developing software systems that give Wayfair a technological edge in the online retail business.
Prior to that, Steve was a Founder, Member of the Board, and Chief Technology Officer of Simplify Mobile. Before starting Simplify Mobile, he served as Chief Operating Officer for the London office of iXL, a publicly traded global technology consulting firm. Steve previously co-founded and served as a top executive of Spinners Incorporated, an IT services firm, which was sold to iXL in 1998.
Steve Conine is a graduate of Cornell University.
Niraj Shah is the CEO and Co-founder of Wayfair, formerly known as CSN Stores, the leading online home goods retailer with 2012 sales in excess of $600 Million. Niraj has been included in the Boston Business Journal's 40 Under 40, and has won the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Niraj Shah is a graduate of Cornell University.
Alejandro Crawford is a senior consultant at Acceleration Group.
Alejandro Crawford received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his MBA from the Tuck School of Business.
Jonah Goodhart is the CEO and Co-Founder of Moat. Prior to Moat, he was the founding investor and board member of Right Media, and a Founding Partner of WGI Group.
Jonah Goodhart received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Tricia M. Barry is the Director of Communications at Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences. Tricia M. Barry received her undergraduate degree from Webster University.
Michael Sturman is a Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Academic Director of The Center for Hospitality Research and The Kenneth and Marjorie Blanchard Professor of Human Resources.
Sturman teaches undergraduate, graduate and executive education courses on human resource management, compensation and cost-benefit analysis. His research focuses on the prediction of individual job performance over time, the influence of compensation systems, and the impact of human resource management on organizational performance.
Michael Sturman holds a PhD, MS, and BS from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and is a Senior Professional of Human Resources as certified by the Society for Human Resource Management.
Daniel Cane is President, CEO and co-founder of Modernizing Medicine. Daniel was named the 2013 Sun Sentinel Excalibur Awards Palm Beach Small Business Leader of the Year, honored as a Palm Beach County Ultimate CEO by the South Florida Business Journal, and as an exceptional leader and innovator with a "40 Under 40" award.
He has grown Modernizing Medicine from inception with three rounds of financing, the most recent round occurring in August 2013 with a $14 million investment by Summit Partners, a global growth equity investor. Since founding the company in 2010, Daniel has led his team to raise a total of nearly $30 million in funding and to hire almost 170 employees.
Daniel Cane has a BS in Applied Economics from Cornell University, where, as an undergraduate, he co-founded Blackboard Inc., raised over $100 million in venture capital and in 2004 helped take the company public on the NASDAQ (BBBB). In 2011, Blackboard was sold for $1.6 billion.
Kyle Westaway is a writer and attorney based in Brooklyn, NY.
Kyle writes on entrepreneurship, tech and social innovation for The Guardian, Quartz, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Venture Beat and GOOD. He's been featured by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider. Kyle is currently working on a book called Profit & Purpose (Wiley, Fall 2014). He launched socentlaw.com - the first blog on social entrepreneurship law, and careerinbeta.com - a blog about the future of work.
When Kyle is not writing he spends his time as Founding Partner of Westaway Law, an innovative Brooklyn law firm that counsels social entrepreneurs.
Kyle Westaway received his undergraduate degree from University of Tennessee-Knoxville, his Master's degree from Regent University and his law degree from Regent University School of Law.
Stephano Kim is a New York-based entrepreneur and angel investor. Stephano currently serves as president of AHAlife, a curated marketplace of unique products and content from all over the world. Prior to AHAlife, Stephano served as president of GraphEffect, a social media marketing platform, and prior that as president and COO of [x+1], an integrated digital marketing and data analytics platform. Stephano has also led investments in consumer technology and digital media for Advanced Technology Ventures, directed business development and strategy for AOL, and co-founded several start-ups along the way including Blackboard, the leading provider of e-learning enterprise software and services. Stephano also manages Springhouse Capital, an angel fund that has made investments in The Echo System, LifeCrowd, Tangoe, WeddingWire, DramaFever, ZocDoc, and Shareaholic, Retention Science and Chromatik. When not obsessing about startups and entrepreneurs, Stephano can be found in the playgrounds of the upper west side of Manhattan hanging from the monkey bars with his 2 daughters.