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Our growing list of experienced entrepreneurs includes:

  • Jonathan Brown is a serial entrepreneur. Founder of Temple Games online collaborative gaming software sold to sports marketing giant IMG, and one of the early team members at Insoft, sold after six years to Netscape for $146 million.

  • Scott DePasquale, Principal of Quantum Strategy Partners, LLC

  • Kevin Dickson, Brown University Sophomore and founder of two (and counting!) successful campus-based startups

  • Endeavor is a non-profit that seeks to transform cultures and economies by unleashing the power of entrepreneurship.

  • Great Game of Business is a resource for collaborative management.

  • Professor Barrett Hazeltine, Brown University. Barret Hazeltine is Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Brown University and continues to teach at Brown. In 1991-1992 he held the Robert Foster Cherry Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Baylor University. From 1972 to 1992 he was also associate dean of the college at Brown. His teaching and research interests are in entrepreneurship, general and engineering management, technology planning especially in developing countries, teaching of technology for liberal arts students, and digital computers. He is a graduate of Princeton University B.S.E and M.S.E.; and the University of Michigan Ph.D.

    • Professor Hazeltine has taught at the University of Zambia, at the University of Malawi, at the University of Botswana, Africa University in Zimbabwe, and has taught or consulted in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand.

    Professor Hazeltine received awards for teaching from thirteen senior classes at Brown, 1972 to 1984, and 1990. In 1985 the award was named after him. He was a Fulbright lecturer in 1988-89 and 1993.

  • Dr. Debra Herman, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, member of the Brown University Medical School Faculty

  • Bruce Horwitz, Founder TechRoadmap

  • Howie Jacobson, Founder, HowieConnect. Howard Jacobson is the founder of howieConnect, a consulting company that helps businesses attract customers and clients by becoming the obvious choice in their markets. He is the author of Leads Into Gold, a marketing system and toolkit that replaces cold calling and wasteful advertising with lead generation marketing. He is also the creator of "Testimonial Farming," a 14-step system for turning the genuine praise and delight of customers into a powerful marketing asset.

    • At howieConnect, Howard creates and implements effective, results-accountable marketing strategies that generate qualified leads and convert those leads into long-term customers and clients. He creates web sites, email sequences, newsletters, print advertising, and reports, guides and White Papers that position his clients as helpful experts in their industries.

    His clients include law practices, graphic design firms, consulting practices, pharmaceutical research organizations, mortgage companies, financial services firms, technology companies, educational institutions, non-profits, and his mother (pro bono).

    Howard has written for Training and Executive Talent magazines. He is a columnist at vault.com, and has been interviewed on Bloomberg radio and WBUD. He speaks frequently at conferences and association meetings, sometimes even from the podium.
    He earned his PhD from Temple and his BA from Princeton, although he can't remember anything he learned in a classroom.

  • Greg McLane has started and sold two companies, developed and launched over 30 new products and has turned around several business units to deliver profitable growth. He has led businesses and departments in companies such as Procter & Gamble, Campbell Soup, Nabisco and CIGNA HealthCare, and most recently has launched Optimized Benefits which promises to revolutionize the way health benefits are offered to consumers.

  • Craig Nadel is Founder and President of Groove Labs, an experiential music and film company and event producer of the Corporate Rock Star Team Challenge and the Play with the Pros Experience. He works with event planners, destination management companies, and corporate buyers to produce these programs. He also works with emerging and established artists in areas of production and development.

    • Craig worked as a financial analyst with Hollywood Theatres, a management consultant with MBA Ventures and a venture capitalist with Paradigm Capital Partners.

    He also serves as treasurer of the board of ISES Austin (International Society of Event Specialists), a faculty member of the Armstrong School of Music and performs with a variety of ensembles in Austin. In the little free time left, he continues to play soccer and golf.

  • Peter Prip is a member of the Industrial Design Faculty and Rhode Island School of Design.

  • Howard Rosenberg, business development professional focusing on early stage ventures.

  • Manny Stern is a serial entrepreneur. He holds an advanced degree in Physics from New York University and started his career as a research physicist for IBM.

    • In 1970, after 16 years of progressively more responsible field and line management positions, Manny left IBM to pursue his entrepreneurial interests and has never looked back. His early startups which leveraged his technical expertise included Responsive Data Processing an early electronic medical information system; Biotech Systems the first computerized blood gas analyzer; and Dynek manufacturer and marketer or a patented water purifier.

    To satisfy his passions for good food, he launched Country Epicure, a premium Commercial baker and distributor of gourmet desserts. It quickly achieved critical acclaim and became the prime supplier of gourmet desserts to many finer restaurants, hotels, and food service companies throughout the U.S. and abroad. Expanding its scope, Manny then launched Epicure Ventures which developed retail franchise concepts for upscale baked goods and created and developed new products for a number of leading multi-national food giants such as Heinz, Campbell's, Kraft-General Foods, NutriSystems, and Diet Center.

    In 1989, Mr. Stern sold his interest in Country Epicure to Vie de France, continuing his involvement in the food industry, first as an international consultant and problem-solver, then via a new company, FFI, in the exclusive development and manufacture of nutritionally tailored foods for major hospitals, strong regional and national food service clients, and international manufacturers and marketers.

    In early 2000, Manny founded Hers For Life to develop functional foods that address the nutritional needs of women, and Manny's most recent venture is Culinova, which develops great-tasting foods that have a wide range of health and functional benefits.

  • Urban Ventures, a business support network that provides the entrepreneur access to the specific resources critical to their success.

  • Jay W. Vogt is President of Peoplesworth (www.peoplesworth.com) and works extensively with fast-growth companies in the natural and organic foods industry. His successful, mission-driven clients include Stonyfield Farm, Applegate Farms, Annie's Homegrown, Equal Exchange, Health Business Partners, Sterling-Rice Group, and Global Organics, Ltd.

  • Kim Wallace, President of Wallace & Washburn Inc. After growing up in Seattle, and graduating from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, he joined Exxon, where he became the leading salesman in New England. He has worked as an account manager at the advertising firms of Doyle Dane Bernbach, and Norman Craig & Kummel, and at SSC&B.

  • Harry Washburn, Chairman of Wallace & Washburn Inc. A native New Yorker, he is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School, where he studied under the legendary Ted Levitt. For many years he served as an account manager at the advertising firm of Benton & Bowles. He teaches courses on marketing management, new product development, and advertising management at the Harvard University Extension School.

  • Clive Watkins, lives and works in Luxembourg where he provides Business Plan creation and execution services

  • Dave Williams, President, LoyalTec. Dave has developed a national reputation for helping retailers increase their profits by intelligently leveraging their own data. As founder and Chief Technology Officer of Retail Solutions, Inc. (RSI), LoyalTec President Dave Williams applied his creativity and technological expertise to revolutionized retail analytics through unprecedented real-time visibility and analysis of consumer take-away (POS) data throughout the supply-chain.

    Consumer packaged goods companies like Revlon, Unilever, Pfizer, Bayer, Bristol-Myers, Wyeth Healthcare, and American Greetings understood the value of David's insights and embraced his revolutionary approaches as loyal clients of RSI, just as retailers like CVS/Pharmacy, Eckerd, Walgreens, Duane Reade, L.L. Bean and Toys R Us were eager to be RSI's strategic partners.

    As founder and President of LoyalTec, Dave leverages this breadth and depth of retail experience, breakthrough thinking, and technological expertise to design and implement the company's customer loyalty solutions. His passion is to help LoyalTec's clients generate record profits by developing information and management systems that transform customer satisfaction to real customer loyalty. Dave has frequently been quoted and referenced in industry periodicals such as Drug Store News and PC Week.

  • David Williams, Founder of MedPharma Partners

  • David Woronov is a member of Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP's Corporate Department. He practices in the areas of domestic and international business law, corporate and project finance and private equity. Mr. Woronov works very closely as a "general counsel"? with clients, and assists them with all phases of business planning, structuring, development and management. A former resident of the United Kingdom, Mr. Woronov has represented both U.S. and foreign clients in transactions all over the world, with particular focus in European and Asian markets.