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Joel Morse ’88Joel Morse is president and cofounder of C3i, a company that provides customer relationship management–services to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. A Siebel Systems premier consulting partner, C3i delivers Siebel Life Sciences software implementation, Web-based training, ongoing system administration and end-user support services. Clients include several divisions within Johnson & Johnson, Genzyme, Roche, Eisai, Berlex, Bayer, Serono and Elan. At the end of 1998 C3i received funding from the New York City Investment Fund and Palisade Capital. The funding has enabled C3i to grow from $4 million in 1998 to $20 million in 2000. Mr. Morse began his career in 1988 at American Express in the strategic planning group. There he focused on new business development and investments, in both the United States and Europe. In 1991 he transferred to Corporate Card Marketing, where he headed the marketing acquisition team responsible for sales automation, database management, lead generation, collateral and direct mail. In addition to his MBA from Columbia Business School, Mr. Morse holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Tufts University. H. Tomkins O'Connor ’77H. Tomkins O’Connor is a general partner and cofounder of Atlantic Medical Capital LP, a venture capital fund that invests exclusively in health care companies. AMC targets midstage and late-stage businesses specializing in health care services, products, financing, distribution information systems and the Internet. AMC’s investments are principally made to fund growth, including sector consolidations, acquisitions and buyouts, recapitalizations and special situations. Investors in AMC include CalPERS, the University of Texas, Dresdner Kleinworth Benson, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Prior to founding Atlantic Medical Capital in 1993, Mr. O’Connor was the senior officer responsible for investments in GE Capital’s $750 million health care LBO portfolio. In addition to his MBA from Columbia Business School, Mr. O’Connor holds a BA from Union College. Joseph Pennino ’04Joe Pennino is both a technology and financial veteran and has spent the last five years building several start-ups and commercializing technology. Previously, he spent eight years working in finance with HSBC, RBS Greenwich Capital and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a CPA with a BS from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Mr. Pennino has completed additional coursework at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and at Columbia Law School. James Perakis ’72 Jim Perakis is currently a principal at Fourth Wall Ventures. He is the former chairman and CEO of Hyperion Software, where he oversaw the company's growth from approximately $1 million in revenue to $295 million. He managed the company through seven years of profitable growth as a public company. Hyperion was named to Inc. magazine’s list of America's 500 fastest-growing companies for five consecutive years, and it was listed four times on Forbes magazine’s list of the World's 200 Best Small Companies. Perakis serves on the board of directors of Bristol Technologies, Unica Corporation and Design2Launch, Inc., and he is chairman of Netkey, Inc. As a member of the board of the Connecticut Technology Council, he is active in promoting technology-based enterprises in the state of Connecticut. In addition to his MBA from Columbia Business School, he holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina. Brett Prager ’92Brett Prager is the president and CEO of Theo Capital, a company that executes leveraged acquisitions of and growth equity investments in privately-held, growth-focused, middle-market companies. Before Theo Capital, Mr. Prager was CEO of CPA2Biz, a company that offered expertise in developing rapidly growing companies both online and offline. Previously, Mr. Prager was the founder and CEO of Integrated Professional Services, which provided management services to accounting firms and other professional service firms. Raising $50 million in funding, he worked with a number of CPA and law firms to forge a multidisciplinary practice model. He also cofounded Gotham Practice Management, which enables New York–based physicians to better manage their practices. When FPA Medical Management acquired Gotham in 2000, it was New York City's largest physician practice management company, generating $85 million in revenue annually. He was named by Accounting Today as one of the 100 most influential people within the CPA profession in 2001. In addition to his MBA from Columbia Business School, Mr. Prager holds a BS from Wharton and a BAS in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Michael PrestonMichael Preston is a professor in Columbia Business School’s entrepreneurship program. For the past five years, he has been teaching Managing Growth, a course that deals with taking a company from a start-up to a professionally run enterprise. In 1998, he coauthored The Road to Success: How to Manage Growth, published by John Wiley & Sons, and he regularly speaks on this topic. During this same period Mr. Preston has advised a variety of middle-market and early-stage companies on growth management and consulted to IBM Professional Services on strategic issues. For almost 30 years previously, he was a management consultant, partner and executive for Grant Thornton & Company LLP, in charge of the firm’s New York Consulting Practice and as eastern regional consulting director, overseeing the firm’s 13 consulting offices in the Eastern United States. At Grant Thornton he specialized in advising companies on strategy, organization and management systems. Some of his larger clients include Lloyds of London, Motorola and AT&T. He serves on the boards of FEGS, the country’s largest provider of mental health services, and NYANA, which provides social services to immigrants and refugees. Nelson Rockefeller ’99From 1987 to 1990, Nelson Rockefeller worked as an associate at JP Morgan, where he assisted portfolio managers with global equity selection and equity/fixed income analysis. From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Rockefeller served as special assistant to the deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget in Washington, DC, where he negotiated resolutions to outstanding policy issues for President George H.W. Bush’s National Urban Policy Report. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Rockefeller served as assistant to the United States Senate Minority and then Majority Leader Bob Dole. He provided the senator with primary staff support on welfare reform. In 1999, Governor George Pataki appointed Mr. Rockefeller to the State University of New York (SUNY) board of trustees, and he was subsequently reappointed by Governor Pataki in 2001. He is a member of the executive committee and chairman of the Executive Compensation and Personnel Committee, a member of the Finance Committee and the Charter School Committee, and he sits on the board of directors of the Research Foundation of SUNY. He was appointed by Governor Pataki to the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research Advisory Council as a SUNY representative. Mr. Rockefeller is a member of the board of directors of the Conservation Fund and a member of the board of trustees of Historic Hudson Valley, and he is a national trustee of the San Antonio Museum of Art. In addition to his MBA from Columbia Business School, he holds a BA in history from Dartmouth College. Joel RosenmanSince 1967, Joel Rosenman has been chairman of JR Capital Corp., a venture capital firm focusing on start-ups, mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management-assisted buyouts, in such fields as entertainment production, recording studio construction and operations, pharmaceutical manufacturing, shoe manufacturing, gift wrapping and greeting cards manufacturing, national retail chains of farm and ranch equipment, and supplies and high-tech R&D in video display fields. He is the author of Young Men with Unlimited Capital, which is currently in feature film development at AOL Time Warner TNN. He does lectures, symposia and TV- and radio appearances on to Woodstock, the 1960s and the field of venture capital. Mr. Rosenman holds an AB from Princeton University and an LLB from Yale Law School. Karen RossKaren Ross is founder, owner and CEO of Sharp Decisions, a global information technology solutions firm servicing the financial industry and other Fortune 500 clients. Founded in 1990, Sharp Decisions has achieved sales in excess of $25 million and has aggressive plans for diversification and growth. Marketing, sales and business development are some of her key strengths. The firm focuses on the leading-edge technology sector of information technology staff augmentation. Sharp Decisions is Ms. Ross’s second start-up. Her first firm, Turn-Key Solutions, was started in 1985 as a solutions-oriented consulting firm that served clients on a global level. She established partnering relationships with many IT product vendors and the Big Six consulting firms. Ms. Ross holds a BS and an MS from Union College. Joseph RubinJoseph Rubin was an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School from 1973 to 1994 and at Columbia Law School in 1996. He currently teaches at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He is a senior partner at the law firm of Rubin, Bailin, Ortoli, Mayer, Baker & Fry, LLP. He has also contributed to books and articles on expropriation, structuring business organizations, privatization and other international legal and business issues. Mr. Rubin conducts business and government management training programs in Russia and the republics of the former USSR. Joseph holds a BA and an MIA from Columbia University and a JD from Harvard Law School. Mohamed SarhanMohamed Sarhan is the chief counsel and chief operating officer of Mental Charge Media. A graduate of the Duke University School of Law, Mr. Sarhan is a licensed attorney in New York and was formerly an associate in the New York office of White & Case, an international law firm. Mr. Sarhan specialized in mergers and acquisitions, general corporate and securities law and also had significant experience in transactional intellectual property, venture capital and private equity work, having worked with a number of technology companies including start-ups and joint ventures. Judith SchneiderJudith Schneider has over 25 years of business experience, the majority of which has been as an advisor to start-ups and emerging growth companies. She is a recognized authority on business planning and the issues impacting new ventures. She is the CEO of the BPI Group, a professional services firm providing strategic advisory and business plan development services to emerging growth and middle-market companies. The BPI Group’s largest subsidiary, Business Plans International, was the largest business plan consulting firm in the United States with offices in seven locations. Business Plans International developed customized, professional business plans for more than 800 emerging growth and middle-market companies seeking capital and needing a blueprint for growth. Before founding BPI, Ms. Schneider was a partner of Schroder Ventures, a venture capital fund investing in early-stage companies and leveraged buyout situations. She was also a vice president of corporate finance with Oppenheimer & Co. (now CIBC Oppenheimer), creating direct equity investments, and a consultant with Hay Associates, providing strategic advisory services to leading corporations, as well as small enterprises. Ms. Schneider has been a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences on the subject of starting new ventures. She has written articles for and has been quoted in magazines and trade publications, including Crain’s New York, Business Week Online, Venture Magazine, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur, Drug Discovery Today, Commercial Biotechnology and Business 2.0. Ms. Schneider received her MBA from Columbia Business School. Rose Sculley ’77Rose Sculley is responsible for corporate and foundation development at Women’s World Banking (WWB), a 20-year-old global not-for-profit network of 41 affiliates in 35 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, which provides poor women entrepreneurs with access to capital through microfinance. Ms. Sculley is responsible for identifying funding partners interested in supporting a global network which links international financial resources with women who do not have access to financial resources. Prior to this position, Ms. Sculley was finance and administration manager of WWB for 10 years, responsible for financial management of a $9 million global budget. Before joining Women’s World Banking, Ms. Sculley was vice president at HSBC (Marine Midland Bank) in corporate lending and new business development for corporate finance, assistant vice president at Bankers Trust Company for Latin American correspondent banks in the Andean region, debt rescheduling in Brazil, and credit officer for the Southern Cone, and she was the first female associate in corporate finance at Loeb Rhoades investment bank. In addition to her MBA from Columbia Business School, Ms. Sculley earned a BA in art history from Tufts University. Felice ShapiroFelice Shapiro has been involved in creating and growing businesses since 1986. She is a graduate of the Georgetown Foreign Service School (BSFS) and the MBA program at George Washington University. Felice began her career at Pepsi Co. in Purchase, N.Y., in strategic planning and it was there that she met her future business partner with whom she would launch her publishing company. In 1986, Family Publishing Group (FPG) launched its first publication, New York Family, a controlled circulation local parenting publication with 30,000 circulation. The magazine broke even with the first issue as sufficient advertising revenue covered the cost of both printing and distribution. The market was ripe for the magazine and grew quickly into a profitable venture within the year. In 1988, Westchester Family was launched and Connecticut Family was started in 1990. The magazine group (FPG) was a leader in the industry of local parenting magazines. By 1990, there were over 100 such papers across the country. Ms. Shapiro spoke regularly at the annual trade association meeting and was instrumental in creating the PPA (Parenting Publications of America). In 1990 she launched the Family Marketing Network (FMN), owned by FPG. The network would represent all 100 parenting publications and sell national advertising to the major advertising agencies. This was an extremely high profit business and grew rapidly. By 1998, with over $3,000,000 in revenues, the company was bought by United Advertising Publications. Ms. Shapiro was called in as an independent consultant one year after the sale to help during the transition period. With two boys at home, in 1998, Ms. Shapiro became a stay-at-home mom. Practicing yoga became a passion of hers and she studied to become a yoga teacher and got her certification in 2000. She began teaching private groups and in studios for the next few years. In 2003 Felice was asked to help to grow the business of a spiritual center in Rye, N.Y., called the Wainwright House. She recommended they open a Yoga Center and they agreed to hire her for the project. On November 7, 2003, six months from beginning work on the project, the Yoga Center at Wainwright opened its doors boasting a schedule of 16 classes and eight teachers. The center has been bringing in a growing revenue stream for Wainwright House each month. Ms. Shapiro handed over the daily running of the center to the staff of Wainwright and continues to advise on a regular basis. With a love of business, creating and implementing new ideas, Ms. Shapiro is interested in teaching and working with other entrepreneurs to develop their ideas. Felice lives in Larchmont, N.Y., with her husband Alan and two boys, Jake and Cal, ages 17 and 15 years, and their dog, JoJo. She speaks fluent French and is an avid road biker and skier as well as a yoga enthusiast. Download 137.36 Kb. Share with your friends:
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