- Willard Straight
Willard Dickerman Straight was an American investment banker and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York. He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, and in 1897 he enrolled at Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in architecture. While a student at Cornell, he joined Delta Tau Delta, edited and contributed to several publications, and helped to organize Dragon Day, an annual architecture students' event.
- Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill, commonly known as Sandy Weill (born March 16 1933) is a banker, financier and philanthropist. He was formerly the chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup Inc. He served in those positions until October 1 2003 and April 18, 2006 respectively.
- David J. Skorton
David J. Skorton became Cornell University's 12th president on July 1, 2006 and was formally inaugurated in ceremonies on Cornell's Ithaca campus on September 7, 2006. President Skorton holds faculty appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City and in Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering on Cornell's Ithaca campus. Cornell University President David J. Skorton
- Ken Blanchard
Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard . A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today.
- Antonio Gotto
Dr. Gotto has served as National President of the American Heart Association, as a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council, and on the National Diabetes Advisory Board. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the 2000 Distinguished Alumnus award from Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
- Neil Gershenfeld
Let's start with the development of "personal fabrication." We've already had a digital revolution; we don't need to keep having it. The next big thing in computers will be literally outside the box, as we bring the programmability
- Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, Research Associate/Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), on the board of directors of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis and Development (BREAD). His areas of research are development economics, behavioral economics, corporate finance, and applied microeconomics.
- Louis Pauly
Louis W. Pauly is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. A graduate of Cornell University, the London School of Economics, New York University, and Fordham University, he held management positions in the Royal Bank of Canada and served on the staff of the International Monetary Fund. His publications include Democracy beyond the State?
- Gene Baur
Gene Baur is co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America's leading farm animal protection organization. He holds a masters degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University and has conducted hundreds of visits to farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses to document conditions. His pictures and videotape, exposing factory farming cruelty, have been aired nationally and internationally, educating millions.
- Cary Sherman
Cary Sherman is the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The trade group's member companies are responsible for creating, manufacturing, or distributing 90 percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. As the president, Mr. Sherman represents the interests of the $11.5 billion U.S. sound recording industry -- the largest market for prerecorded music in the world.
- Mae Jemison
Essence Award, Essence magazine, 1988; named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year,1990; honorary doctorate, Lincoln University 1991; Ebony Black Achievement Award, 1992; an alternative public school in Detroit was named The Mae C. Jemison Academy, 1992; Alpha Kappa Alpha, honorary member. By the time she was thirty-one, Mae Jemison had received a double major in Chemical Engineering and African-American studies and had served as a doctor in the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
- Abby Joseph Cohen
Abby Joseph Cohen 'Abby Joseph Cohen ' ( CFA ) (born 1952 in Queens, New York ) is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street . She is a partner and chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Ms Cohen earned economics degrees from Cornell University and George Washington University then began her career as an economist in 1973 at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. serving until 1977.
- Lubna Olayan
Ms. Olayan is chief executive officer of the Olayan Financing Company (OFC), the holding entity for the Olayan Group's operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. OFC operates or actively participates in more than 40 companies, often in partnership with leading multinationals. OFC is also one of the largest investors in the Saudi and regional stock markets. In September 2006, Ms. Olayan joined the International Advisory Board of Rolls-Rolls.
- Charles F. Knight
Charles F. Knight is chairman emeritus of Emerson Electric Co., a manufacturer of electrical, electromechanical and electronic products and systems. He served as chairman of Emerson Electric from 1974 to 2004 and as chief executive officer from 1973 to 2000. He also served as president from 1986 to 1988 and from 1995 to 1997 and was a director of Emerson from 1972 to 2004. Mr. Knight is a director of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., AT&T Inc., BP plc and Morgan Stanley.
- Pete Coors
Peter Hanson Coors (born September 20, 1946) is a U.S. businessman and entrepreneur. He currently is the chairman of the Coors Brewing Company in Colorado and vice chairman of its parent company, Molson Coors Brewing Company. Coors is also a partial owner of the Colorado Rockies, a Major League Baseball team in the National League West division.
- Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A prolific writer, his most well-known book is The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
- Bristow Adams
Bristow Adams was an American journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. He taught at Cornell University from 1914 to 1945. Adams also founded the Stanford Chaparral, the oldest humor magazine in the west, in 1899.
- Jake Swirbul
Leon A. "Jake" "The Bullfrog" Swirbul, was an aviation pioneer and co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation. He was born in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. His family moved to Long Island when he was a child. He grew up in Sag Harbor and graduated from Pierson High School. He attended Cornell University until 1917 when he left school to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. Jake Swirbul and Leroy Grumman met in 1924 at Loening Aeronautical Engineering Co.
- Carol Mendelsohn
Carol Mendelsohn (born 1951) is an American TV writer, notable for her work on the crime drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". Mendelsohn grew up in Chicago. She went to Smith College, but later transferred and in 1973 graduated from Cornell University. She then went to the George Washington University Law School and practiced at the Washington, D.C., office of the prominent Los Angeles-based firm Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, & Kuchel.
- Philip Will Jr
Philip Will, Jr (Rochester NY, 1906 - Venice FL October 24, 1985) was co-founder of one of the nation's top architectural firms. Will graduated with an Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1928. He was a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity. While at Cornell, Will met Lawrence Perkins and they later founded Perkins+Will in 1935.
- Ellen Ullman
Ellen Ullman, a software engineer, writes with the energy of Boswell, the clarity of Orwell, and the warmth of Montaigne. You may wonder: how could a software engineer write so well? But you shouldn't wonder, you should read. Ullman is a wonderful writer and 'Close To The Machine' is a wonderful book.
- Adrian Sexton
Adrian Sexton, EVP of Digital, Participant Productions Adrian Sexton is Executive Vice President in charge of Digital at Participant Productions. Reporting to CEO Jim Berk, Sexton oversees Participant’s expansion into global media, the production of new programs and digital distribution. Sexton will also lead new digital initiative partnerships and strategic acquisitions. Prior, Adrian was a founding member of TAG Strategic.
- Haki R. Madhubuti
He is a much sought-after poet and lecturer, and has convened workshops and served as guest/keynote speaker at thousands of colleges, universities, libraries and community centers in the U.S. and abroad.
- William H. Cuddeback
William H. Cuddeback was an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1912 until his death in 1919, and concurred in a number of notable opinions written by his colleague Benjamin Cardozo, including "MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co." and "Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon". William Herman Cuddeback was born at Deerpark in Orange County, New York on March 23, 1852 (other sources say 1854).
- Erick Schonfeld
Erick Schonfeld is the Co-Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993. Prior to TechCrunch, he was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, where he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, Next Net, which had nearly 50,000 RSS subscribers. He also does a lot of video work and hosts regular panels of industry luminaries. Schonfeld started his career at Fortune magazine.
- Warren Simmons
Warren Simmons Executive Director Annenberg Institute for School Reform Warren Simmons directs the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. The Institute was established in 1993 to generate, share, and act on knowledge that improves conditions and outcomes in American schools, particularly in urban areas and in schools serving disadvantaged students.
- Rabeah Ghaffari
Rabeah Ghaffari is an Iranian-born filmmaker, writer, film editor and actress. As an actress, she has performed at many New York theaters including La MaMa, ETC, Theatre 22, The Judith Anderson and The Kitchen. Most recently she has played a lead role in "Windows", a film by Shoja Azari (Competition selection of the Tribeca Film Festival 2006). As a filmmaker she has made a feature length documentary, "The Troupe", …
- Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abrams is a member of the Firm's Executive Committee and its litigation practice group. Floyd has a national trial and appellate practice and extensive experience in high-visibility matters, often involving First Amendment, intellectual property, insurance, public policy and regulatory issues.
- Eqbal Ahmad
Eqbal Ahmad (1933/34 - May 11, 1999) was a Pakistani writer, journalist, and anti-war activist. He was strongly critical of the Middle East strategy of the United States as well as what he saw as the "twin curse" of nationalism and religious fanaticism in such countries as Pakistan.
- Barry Grushkin
Barry Grushkin is an innovator and entrepreneur. He is a visionary, technological evangelist but also a pragmatist. He spent seven years as a Managing Partner and Director of Analytics at the Machine Intelligence Group. He has been a serial entrepreneur, a consultant, business professor, and portfolio manager. His clients and customers have included major brokerage houses, banks and credit card companies, The Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Department of State, intelligence agencies, . . .
- John P. Rijos
John P. Rijos John P. Rijos is co-president of Brookdale Senior Living, Inc. He has over twenty-five years experience in the acquisition, development, and operation of hotels and resorts. Prior to joining Brookdale, he spent sixteen years with Lane Hospitality Group, owners and operators of over forty hotels and resorts, as president and chief operating officer. He was president of High Country Corporation, a Denver based hotel development and management company, for five years.
- Charles Arntzen
Charles J. Arntzen , PhD, is pioneer in the development of plant-based vaccines for disease prevention in humans and animals and served as founding director of the Biodesign Institute from January 2001 through May 2003. He was appointed to the Florence Ely Nelson Presidential Endowed Chair at Arizona State University in Tempe in 2000 and as Regents’ Professor in 2004. Dr. Arntzen is charting a new path for making the vaccines of tomorrow.
- Carl Sagan
As you can see I'm not that into myspace. It really only exists because I'm too lazy to click the delete account button. I really only check it once a week or so. If you really want to get a hold of me use facebook...
- Fern Schair
Fern Schair , the Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Feerick Center, currently serves as Senior Vice President of the American Arbitration Association. Fern served as Executive Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1982 to 1997), as Director of Civil Justice Programs at the Fund for the City of New York (1997 to 1998), and as Program Development Officer for the Soros Foundation - Open Society Institute (1998 to 2000).
- Deborah Friedland
Deborah Friedland , Director of Hospitality Consulting Services, has more than 15 years of investment industry experience. From 2001 to 2005, Deborah was Director at Horwath Horizon, a real estate consulting firm providing financial services for the hospitality industry. Previously, she was a senior equity research analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, Dain Rauscher Wessels and ABN Amro.
- Timothy Chi
Timothy first developed the concept of WeddingWire shortly after getting married in 2005 (to his lovely wife Tracey). As an experienced entrepreneur, Timothy sought out to assemble a team and build a technology that would help both engaged couples and vendors in the wedding industry. Prior to co-founding WeddingWire, Timothy co-founded Blackboard Inc (Nasdaq: BBBB) in 1998.
- Matthew Nisbet
Each semester at American University I teach Communication & Society, where we spend several weeks discussing the many ways that the Internet is changing the meaning and nature of community. MySpace and other social networking sites are a big part of this shift in society, so this is my way of observing and learning about the new forms of online community that are being created by students across the country.
- Jeffrey Hoffstein
- Rosa Clemente
Rosa Alicia Clemente is a community organizer, journalist and Hip-Hop activist. Born and raised in the South Bronx she is a graduate of the University of Albany and Cornell University. A much sought after commentator, political activist, community organize and independent reporter, Rosa has been delivering workshops, presentations and commentary for over ten years.
- Allan R. Tessler
Allan R. Tessler is the Chairman of Epoch Holdings Corporation, an investment management firm. With a specialization in the area of turnaround financing, Mr. Tessler combines extensive management experience with proficiency in corporate and securities legal matters.