- Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar.
- William Baumol
William Baumol (born February 26 1922) is a New York University economics professor (although he is also affiliated with Princeton University) who has written extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy. He also made valuable contributions to the history of economic thought. Among his better-known contributions are the theory of contestable markets, the Baumol-Tobin model of transactions demand for money and Baumol's cost disease, …
- Frank Addante
Frank Addante (born 1976) is a serial entrepreneur, early Internet pioneer and well-known blogger. Addante has a successful entrepreneurial track record, having started 5 companies, resulting in one IPO and two acquisitions.
- Ted London
Ted London is the director of the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) research initiative at the William Davidson Institute. He also teaches an MBA course on the topic, "Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid", at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
- Amar Gupta
Amar Gupta (b. 1953) was born in Nadiad, India. Gupta was admitted to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, Kanpur to study electrical engineering, graduating in 1974. Gupta started his career working making 8 dollars a week working for IBM, and then served in various technical advisory roles for the Government of India.He received the Rotary Fellowship for International Understanding.
- Hamid Etemad
Hamid Etemad is an associate Professor of International Business and world-renowned researcher, at the Faculty of Management, McGill University. He is best known for his pioneering and innovative work in the fields of International Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Business. He received a M.Eng. degree from the University of Tehran as well as MBA, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He was inducted to the UC Berkeley Chapter of Beta, Gamma, …
- Kenny Yap
Kenny Yap, popularly known as “Kenny the Fish”, is the executive chairman of Qian Hu Corporation, an award-winning, ornamental fish specialist company founded in Singapore. Kenny Yap was conferred the Singapore Youth Award for Entrepreneurship in 1998. Yap also received Spring Singapore’s International Management Action Award 2000. He was named one of the 50 stars of Asia by Business Week in 2001, …
- Sarmite Bulte
Sarmite D. "Sam" Bulte, PC, BA, LL.B born September 27, 1953) is a Latvian-Canadian lawyer, advocate and politician. A member of the Liberal Party, she represented the Toronto riding of Parkdale-High Park in the Canadian House of Commons through three successive parliaments from June 2, 1997 to January 22, 2006. In the January 23, 2006 election, she was defeated by New Democratic Party candidate Peggy Nash.
- Andrew Adams
Andrew Adams (born October 19, 1980), Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. Best known for his efforts as a young entrepreneur, Andrew founded CedarSoft Technologies at the age of 16. After Gaining the attention of rural media, he was able to ride the popular internet boom of the time, shipping computer parts to online customers. The company enjoyed a small fan following before losing ground to larger manufacturers and eventually being acquired in 2003, …
- Andrew Filipowski
"'Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski" a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago IL. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum Technology in 1987. He founded or cofounded Blue Rhino Corporation, Primo Water, SilkRoad technology, inc., DBMS, Inc., the House of Blues, SolidSpace, Inc., onramp Branding, MissionMode and InterAct 911 Corp. He was the COO of Cullinet
- Soumodip Sarkar
Soumodip Sarkar is a noted economist and university professor, a leader in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation in management. He is an associate professor of the Department of Management, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal. Dr. Sarkar did his graduate studies at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA where he got a Ph.D. He worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and later at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, …
- Arto Lahti
Arto Henrikki Lahti (born 3 May 1949 in Merikarvia, Finland) is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Helsinki School of Economics. He was an independent nominee for the Finnish presidential election in 2006 with themes including preserving the status of small enterprises, rights of overleveraged, political honesty and returning of Karelia. Of the eight candidates in the 2006 election, Arto Lahti was the last who entered for a candidate.
- Mary Creagh
Mary Helen Creagh (born 2 December 1967) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wakefield. Mary Creagh was born and brought up in Coventry of Irish parentage, her father a car factory worker and her mother a primary school teacher, She was educated locally at the Bishop Ullathorne Comprehensive School in Coventry before winning a scholarship to attend Pembroke College, Oxford where she studied modern language.
- Joey Rahimi
Joey Rahimi (born April 20, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of College Prowler, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based publishing company of college guidebooks and collegeprowler.com. <BR><BR> The company was established in 2002 as a project in an entrepreneurship class at CMU's Tepper School of Business. and Joey served as Chief Marketing Officer. <BR><BR> He attended the United Nations International School and graduated with an International Baccalaureate.
- Idan Gafni
Idan Gafni is an award winning mobile expert and entrepreneur. Using a creativity technique he created named “Object Pairing”, Idan harnesses innovation to create mobile value added services. Services are based on mobile interaction, contextual awareness, user-generated content, and dynamic content, using the advantages of technologies such as SMS, MMS, IVVR, and WEB technologies. In the past, Idan served as the innovation manager of Orange Israel, part of the Hutchison 3 telecom group.
- Dale D. Murphy
Dale D. Murphy is a professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He teaches international relations, international business, international economics, entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility in the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy. He serves on the board of Global Integrity.
- Daniel Trimble
Daniel Graham Trimble is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and political executive. He is currently the executive director of Lead21, a prominent public policy organization for entrepreneurship and innovation. Trimble has served as Lead21's executive director since 01 February 2006. He publishes a blog called Eternal Vigilance, which appears to be inactive. Politically, he has claimed to be a moderate Republican who was, earlier in his adult life, a Democrat.
- Carlo Branca
I love networking and I have made it my living so feel free to connect with me here or in other social/business networks where you can find me.Do not hesitate to ask me if there is anything I can help you with.Besides networking itself I also love network marketing.I have more than 5 years experience in Europe and work with a fantastic team that cover more than 10 languages and with connections in more than 50 countries.
- David Cooperrider
Dr. Cooperrider is widely recognized as the "thought leader" of Appreciative Inquiry, a body of work that focuses on developing an organization's positive core to inspire collaborative action that serves the whole system. AI is today's most recognized name describing the powerful new paradigm for strength-based organizational transformation and has been recognized as the most innovative approach in organizational development in the last decade.
- Yoshua Daely
Green Property and Resort Management. Has 30 years experience in Hospitality Industry, previously working with various hotels and resorts. Involved with The HITA properties. It is a luxury traditional home concept that will feature all exclusive private villas in a design that respects the surrounding environment, offer an enriching lifestyle experience that is based on local art, culture and community spirit.
- Marcello Cividini
Italian pioneer in Direct Marketing, works at Corriere della Sera up to 1979. Fund raiser and database builder for many United Nations Agencies. Now founder and CEO of Coupon Line a company dedicated to revolutionary targeting technique in retail chains. Journalist and Teacher in Direct Marketing at Master in Brand Communication in Venice Ca' Foscari and Brand Marketing Strategy in Milano Politechnic University. China Partners is a new marketing venture to develop Italian food business in China.
- Darius Mockus
Darius Mockus is president of MG Baltic Concern. Mockus has an extensive business experience in field of capital investment and corporate management. Mockus started his first entrepreneurship ride already in late 80as running a cooperative aLitasA. Later, throughout 90as, his professional career accelerated further as with every year he gained experience of managing and administering new business units.
- Zach Hayworth
Zachary B. Hayworth (born September 25, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and currently resides in Rockaway Township, New Jersey. He is the founder and owner of multiple business organizations including Worldwide Fossil, Earthbound Travel, and Hayworth Management Consulting. Hence, he is often considered a serial entrepreneur. He is widely known for his outstanding academic career at Rowan University in Glassboro, …
- Robert Stanes
Sir "Robert Stanes" was the founder of "United Nilgri Tea Estates" (UNTE). He arrived in India in 1858 while still a young boy of seventeen. Robert Stanes immediately launched himself on a career that was a remarkable blend of entrepreneurship and philanthropy. He had already been in India fifty five years before UNTE was formed, by which time he had been Knighted in recognition of his generous contribution to society.
- Anilkumar Nair
A never married bachelor graduate engineer with 31 years service in Indian Private sector industries at senior managment levels,now retired and operating as a Project Consultant with ISO Certification/Audit & Tutoring Where there is a will there is a way
- Eric Yepao
Eric T. Yepao (born November 09, 1973) is an investor and a businessman. He used to be best known for being the founder and chief executive officer of Nordland development company, a company that was specialising in land and property development and developing the world's largest free trade zone. He studied economics at Harvard University is also the founder of The Capitalist Club, an organization defending capitalism, free trade, entrepreneurship, democracy, privatization, …
- Paulo Mwenda Ntalami
Paulo Mwenda Ntalami (born February 27, 1983 in Nairobi, Kenya) is the second son of Edward H Ntalami, a leading business executive and the current chief executive of the Capital Markets Authority in Kenya. Mwenda is the co-founder of Ubuntu Investment Group (est. September 9, 2005), a pan-African investments outfit that primarily focuses on investments, entrepreneurship and venture capital across the continent.
- Hugh Victor McKay
Hugh Victor McKay (H. V. McKay) CBE, (21 August 1865 - 21 May 1926) was an Australian inventor of the Sunshine Harvester and industrialist.
- Jan de Vos
- Martin Holmgren
Martin Holmgren (born June 21 1974) is a Swedish engineer och musician. Since 2000, Martin works at Kartena, currently as CTO. In 2000 he graduated from Chalmers University of Technology, where he studied computer engineering. In 1999 he studied entrepreneurship at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship (CSE). As a musician, Martin is mainly active in the quintet E:5, where he sings and dances. He plays double bass and guitar, most recently in the group sonores (double bass).
- Carol Normandin
I specializes in the placement of professionals at the C-level and below in the fields of Executive Management, Information Technology, Legal, Sales, Marketing and Human Resources. I provide the opportunity for exceptional executives to build powerful teams that transform their enterprise and fulfill their missions. I also place consultants at start-up firms and the most prestigious large firm.
- David Audretsch
- Jon Burgstone
Mr. Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, where he leads the firm's activities in portfolio management and research. Mr. Burgstone also served as Founding Faculty Chair and is currently Adjunct Professor of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in his career he was co-founder and CEO of SupplierMarket, a leading internet supply chain software provider.
- Ayman van Bregt
After my marketing studies I started working in the ICT-business always combining marketing and ICT-knowledge. I worked on projects for Microsoft, IBM, was over 2 years marketing manager at Sonera. After Sonera I was employd by Syntens for over 3 years as a consultant in the SME-market, focussing on strategy with issues like ICT and marketing. Next to that I started my own business in the area of cross-media. Because of my high ambitions I combine my own company with working as the . . .
- Alicia Roisman Ismach
Entrepreneur with expertise in electronic transactions and financial services innovation. Business development for technology companies from idea stage. Excels in startup environments.
- Eric di Benedetto
Professional investor in software start-ups since 1991.
- Scott Allen
PLEASE NOTE: I accept most contact/introduction requests, but I generally only accept connection requests from people I've actually done some sort of collaboration/work with someone or otherwise built up a professional relationship over time. If we haven't worked together on something, please request contact, not a connection. Let's get to know each other first. I have twenty years of experience as a technology executive, entrepreneur, and consultant. I am currently the Entrepreneurs . . .
- Francine Hardaway
I've had five husbands and four careers. I've been a college professor, the owner of a large PR/Marketing Company, a corporate exec at Intel, and the owner of a business accelerator for technology companies. I am an early adopter of most technologies, and I like to play on the Internet. I've been blogging for seven years, and you can see my blog at http://blog.stealthmode.com. I have a golden retriever, and I love to take walks with him.
- Joan Koerber-Walker
In December of 2006, I became the the CEO of ASBA (the Arizona Small Business Association) a 3,000 member entrepreneurial business organization representing over 200,000 employees across the state of Arizona - the #1 location for entrepreneurs according to Entrepreneur Magazine.
- Pavel Israelsky
My name is Pavel Israelsky, an internet marketing consultant and entrepreneur. I'm a software engineering student and working in SEO firm. ------ Read more about me: www.AskPavel.co.il