Deborah Arrindell is Executive Director/Therapeutic Area Head of Safety Oncology at Amgen.
She has been in the pharmaceutical industry since 2000 when she joined Roche Laboratories as Medical Director of Versed. Since that time Deborah has held various positions at Wyeth/Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson.
Deborah Arrindell attended Cornell University where she received a BS in biology. She then attended Yale University School of Medicine where she received her MD-MPH degree. Following two years of training in pediatrics, Deborah completed an anesthesiology and critical care training program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. After spending a brief time in private practice anesthesia, Deborah returned to join the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital as an Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology and Critical Care. During this time Deborah also obtained her law degree from the University Of Maryland School of Law. Deborah is admitted to the bar in New York, Maryland, and New Jersey.
Perry Odak began his career as an accounting associate at Armour Foods. Nine years later, after resigning from his post as senior vice president at Armour, he began working for a small start-up company, Jovan, Inc. After seven years, Odak and his partners sold Jovan, Inc. and he became president of the Consumer Product Group at Atari. From there he became a partner in Catalyst Technologies, where he restructured and started numerous holdings, including a company called ETAK, Inc., which in 1985 produced the first vehicle navigation system. In 1990 Odak became a consultant operating as a temporary CEO to help companies in trouble.
Over the next six years, he came to the rescue of a half dozen firms, where he engineered mergers, boosted sales, and, perhaps most important, won the hearts of employees whose jobs he saved. In 1997, when Ben & Jerry's lured him away from U.S. Repeating Arms, the gunmaker's workers petitioned its management to do whatever was necessary to convince him to stay.
Perry Odak left Ben & Jerry's in 2000 and was appointed as CEO and President of Wild Oats Markets, Inc., the second largest natural foods supermarket chain in North America.
Perry Odak is a graduate of Cornell University.
Gururaj Deshpande is an Indian American businessman and social entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA based internet company Sycamore Networks in 1998 and the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT. He is also founder of the Deshpande Foundation.
He started his career working at Codex Corporation, a Motorola subsidiary in Ontario, Canada which manufacturers modems, before moving to the U.S. in 1984. Later he co-founded Coral Networks, a router developer, in 1987, he sold the company, two years later for $15 million.
In 1990, Deshpande co-founded Cascade Communications, whose products were very important in the early internet, initially serving as its president and later Executive Vice President, he hired Dan Smith as CEO. He sold Cascade to Ascend Communications for $3.7 billion in 1997. Subsequently, with help of MIT researchers, he launched Sycamore Networks in 1998. Sycamore Networks went public in October 1999, and soon raised a market cap of $18 billion, and his 21% shareholding, briefly made him, one of the richest Indians in the world, and in 2000, he featured on the Forbes 400 listing of Richest Americans.
In 2000, he founded Networking and Telecom equipment products company, Tejas Networks, along with US-based ASG-Omni in Bangalore.
In July 2010, he was appointed as the Co-Chairman of National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a group set up to support US President's innovation strategy.
Jonathan Levine is an Aesthetic Dentist and founder of Jonathan B. Levine & Associates. As a renowned dentist and prosthodontist in practice for nearly 30 years, Levine offers a comprehensive approach to dental health, intersecting beauty with function. Levine is a visionary product inventor, clinical researcher and published author. Holding three patents and 12 patents pending in oral care, Levine is responsible for modernizing the way people whiten their teeth. He has appeared on several national television networks and shows, including CNN, Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show (as a regular expert), The View and more. As an authoritative source in smile health and beauty, he is frequently quoted in top national print publications, including InStyle, Marie Claire, Men's Health, People Stylewatch, Self, The New York Times, USA Today and more.
Educator and activist, Jill Iscol, EdD, is President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation, a family foundation established in 1989 to support domestic and international efforts to strengthen democracy and reduce the social, economic, and educational inequalities that threaten it. For the past two decades Jill has supported and participated in numerous organizations and has developed an expertise in identifying visionary leaders and programs at early stages of their development. She fosters their advancement by providing seed capital and guidance enabling them to become stable, sustainable and successful organizations, impacting lives around the globe. As a Democratic Party activist, Jill served as Co-Chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate's New York Finance Committee and as National Vice-Chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton for President's 2008 Finance Committee. In addition, Jill serves as a Trustee of Horizons National, on the Advisory Board of the Center for New American Security inWashington, as a member of the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and was most recently appointed to the US-Afghan Women's Council. Jill received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from University of Pittsburgh (1967), a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University (1976), and a Master of Philosophy in Sociology from Yale (1990).
Peter Knight, Partner at Generation Investment Management, has held senior positions on four presidential campaigns, including serving as the Campaign Manager for the 1996 re-election of President Clinton. In addition, Knight currently serves as a director on a number of public and private company boards and he is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Park Foundation. Peter Knight is a graduate of Cornell University.
John Wilkinson is the developer and managing partner of Bin to Bottle Winery. In 2005, he identified a need for a service minded, custom crush only winery and found partners who had the same sensibilities.
John's focus on service and client's needs comes from his tenure in the hotel industry and his education at Cornell University's Hotel School. John was an integral part of the team that developed the small Ultra-luxury hotels Campton Place in San Francisco and Checkers in downtown Los Angeles. John also worked for Montgomery Realty Investors in the research and acquisitions department acquiring hotels for their many real estate partnership funds. John performed feasibility studies and valuations for hotels, restaurants, casinos and ski areas throughout the West for Laventhol & Horwath a multinational accounting firm. John was also the Director of Real Estate for the Sharper Image and successfully located and negotiated the leases for the Sharper Image's first 30 stores.
John Wilkinson holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. John also owns Total Adventures; 22 year old nationally recognized corporate team building and corporate entertainment service companies. John also makes his own wine from fruit off his ranch in the Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley. Wilkinson Family Vineyards is a Napa Valley Red Wine consisting primarily of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Only 200 cases per year are produced.
Lalana Janleka-Green is the Owner and President of Acorn Technology which she and her husband founded in 1993. Acorn Technology manufactures industrial drive control systems and has subsidiaries that manufacture marine electrical equipment (under the name METCO) and industrial HVLS ceiling fans (under the name Humongous Fan).
Acorn Technology has won the Weatherhead 100 Award (awarded to the 100 fastest growing companies in Northern Ohio) for four consecutive years with sales of over $5 million.
Lalana Janleka-Green is a graduate of Cornell University.
Robert Green is Co-founder of Acorn Technologies.
Robert Green is a graduate of Cornell University.