Brian Brault is the Founder and CEO of Pure Solutions.
Prior to founding Pure Solutions, Brault led another company, Advanced Facilities Services International for 22 years.
Brian Brault is a graduate of University of Buffalo's School of Business.
Wayne Meichner is President of Polo Ralph Lauren Retail Corporation. He oversees all aspects of the Ralph Lauren stores in the U.S. and Europe. Previously, he spent 23 years at Saks Fifth Avenue in numerous capacities, including the Executive Vice President of merchandising.
Wayne Meichner received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Bill Ceasar is a principal of McKinsey & Company, and a leader in the firm's North American Energy & Materials practice.
Since joining McKinsey, Ceasar has worked with a diverse group of clients, primarily on commercial transformation, growth, and business-to-business marketing issues. He recently acted as co-leader of the firm's knowledge development effort focused on biofuels. Ceasar is co-author of "The Biofuel (Re)-Evolution," which appeared in the December issue of World Energy Forum and "Betting on Biofuels," which appeared in the spring issue of The McKinsey Quarterly.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Ceasar was a Special Assistant for Ambassador Thomas Simons, the Coordinator of the U.S. assistance program in Russia. Ceasar also served as a Russian political and economic analyst at the U.S. State Department and at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he focused on defense conversion and nationalities issues. While at the State Department, he served for more than a year at the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Ceasar holds an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, an M.A. in Russian Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Russian Studies from Colgate University.
Cliff Christophe is an Assistant District Attorney in Nassau County in New York State.
Cliff Christophe received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He received a combined JB-MBA from Howard University.
Scott Belsky is the founder and editor of Behance. The Behance team helps creative professionals and organizations make ideas happen through a process called "productive creativity". Click here to learn more about Behance.
Previously, Belsky worked at Goldman Sachs as part of the Pine Street Development Initiative Group - a small global team focused on leadership development, organizational improvement, and strengthening key client relationships. Prior to this role, Scott worked for two years in European Research Sales in the Equities Division at Goldman Sachs.
Before joining Goldman Sachs, Scott was Co-Founder and President of Live Big Enterprises, a sportswear and corporate clothing company. Live Big was featured in Newsweek and Business Week Online in 2001, and was sold in the summer of 2002.
Scott Belsky is a graduate of Cornell University.
Mike Leven is Vice Chairman of the Atlanta-based Marcus Foundation, where he has been a trustee and a member of the board of The Marcus Institute and Georgia Aquarium since 2003. The Marcus Foundation was founded by Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot.
Leven was formerly President and CEO of US Franchise Systems, Inc. (USFS), the company he founded in 1995 which franchises the Microtel Inns & Suites and Hawthorn Suites hotel brands. Under Leven's tenure, USFS gained national recognition as a fair franchisor, both customer and franchisee-oriented. Prior to that, he was president and COO of Holiday Inn Worldwide. From 1985 to 1990, he was president of Days Inn of America, where he led initiatives to hire older workers, people with disabilities and the homeless, and was recognized by AARP as Outstanding Employer. He also served as president of Americana Hotels.
Mike Leven holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University and Master of Science from Boston University.
Sumit Mittal is Founder, CEO and CMO of SkillsBazaar. SkillsBazaar provides a platform for students where they can commercialize their skills. They can sell their skills to startup/small/mid-size/big companies or to other students/faculty members.
Mittal has over seven years of experience in the telecom billing industry. He has extensive international experience of working in more than 10 countries across the globe.
Sumit Mittal has an undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering and he is currently pursuing his MBA from Cornell University.
David Bornstein is the author of "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas". In this book, Bornstein tells the stories of people around the globe who are solving many of the world's most intractable problems. Full of hope and energy, exciting solutions and compelling characters, he shows how a growing wave of "social entrepreneurs" - individuals with initiative, creativity, savvy and determination - are reshaping the world for the better. These individuals - from doctors to lawyers, from engineers to journalists - are successfully demonstrating that one person with a powerful idea and a passionate drive to succeed can bring positive changes to the lives of thousands or even millions.
Bornstein is also the author of "The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank", which chronicles the worldwide growth of the anti-poverty strategy "micro-credit." The Price of a Dream, which drew on ten months of research in villages in Bangladesh, won second prize in the Harry Chapin Media Awards, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein New York Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best business books of 1996.
Bornstein's articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, New York Newsday, Il Mundo (Italy), Defis Sud (Belgium) and other publications. He co-wrote the two-hour PBS documentary series "To Our Credit," which focuses on "micro-credit" programs in five countries.
David Bornstein received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters of Arts from New York University.
Pat Govang is a co-founder of e2e Materials, LLC. e2e Materials, LLC is a spin-off from Cornell University and is a 'clean technology' start-up company that produces petroleum-free, biodegradable composites.
While Govang currently works full-time at e2e, he was previously the Director of Industrial Partnerships at the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR). In that role, he was responsible for managing and developing the Center's partnerships with Industry. His duties focused on the development of a viable, broad-based and coordinated outreach program to New York state companies involved in commercial materials research and development.
Prior to that role, Govang was at AM&T, one of CCMR's regional Technology Development Organizations, where he worked with the Industrial Partnerships program. Prior to joining AM&T in November, 2001 he worked for Deloitte Consulting.
Pat Govang is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in Product Design and Development.