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Tom Borger
Tom is the Head of Global IT for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare where he
is focusing on utilizing technology to help acquire and retain consumers more
effectively. He previously worked as VP of Sales and Marketing for
Intermedia-which focused on delivering web-based solutions that allowed
pharmaceutical brands to drive their business through better management of
their key consumers/customers. Prior to that, Tom was the CEO and founder of
OmniChoice-which sells decision-support software to telecom providers. He
developed the business plan and raised $11.2mm to support the growth of his
business. Tom has a unique blend of marketing, general management, and Internet
experience and has worked for such companies as Qwest Internet Solutions and
Johnson & Johnson. As a key member of the management team at Qwest Internet
Solutions, he led the team of strategic consultants charged with defining
interactive strategies and building custom Internet applications for
businesses. Prior to that he spent more than 13 years in various sales and
marketing roles with Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and
SmithKline Beecham. He helped establish and build new businesses
internationally for Johnson & Johnson - having launched more than 15 new
products in five different countries - and served on the Board of Directors of
two international business units. Domestically, he managed a $100mm business
and launched three new products. Tom is a graduate of Duke University
(Economics) and earned his MBA (Entrepreneurial Management/Marketing) from the
Wharton School of Business.
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Eric Bradlow
Eric Bradlow is a Professor of Marketing at Wharton and the Academic Director
of the Wharton SBDC. An award-winning teacher, Bradlow received his PhD from
Harvard University. He is a leading market researcher with editorial
responsibilities at the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics,
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Marketing Letters, and the
quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce.
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Rebecca Clayton
Rebecca Clayton is Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer, Penn Law. Rebecca brings a wealth of varied experience in corporate and financial law to the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic. Through her work in the Clinic, she teaches and supervises students serving as counsel in a wide range of transactional matters and represents for profit and nonprofit entrepreneurs. She also participates in community workshops on topics relevant to entrepreneurs and gives presentations on business law matters.
Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Rebecca practiced several years in a large law firm and the law department of a Fortune 500 corporation. During her years of law firm practice, she represented public and private companies in a wide range of matters, including equity and debt financings and information technology transactions. As in house counsel, she was instrumental in the broad-based review, analysis and application of corporate governance and financial reporting reforms arising from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related SEC and NYSE rules. As part of this responsibility, she educated the corporation’s legal and accounting staffs regarding these expansive, historic new legal requirements.
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Juan Colina
Mr. Colina is Executive Vice President of Power & Energy, Inc. an ultra
pure hydrogen fuel processing company. Mr. Colina has 15 years of general
management consulting experience. His client list includes: Monster.com,
International Paper, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, GTE, The Chase Manhattan
Bank, Mobil Corporation, Citibank, Sun Life of Canada and Silicon Graphics,
Inc. Before his management consulting career Mr. Colina was a Performance
Measurement Officer for State Street Bank & Trust (State Street Analytics)
and a financial analyst at a venture capital firm. Mr. Colina has an MBA in
international finance from Babson College.
El Sr. Colina es Vice Presidente Ejecutivo de Power & Energy, Inc. una
compagnia que manufactura procesadores de hidrogeno ultra puro. El Senor Colina
tiene 15 agnos de experiencia professional como consultor de negocios. Sus
clients incluyen: Monster.com, International Paper, Georgia-Pacific
Corporation, GTE, The Chase Manhattan Bank, Mobil Corporation, Citibank, Sun
Life of Canada y Silicon Graphics, Inc. Antes de empezar su carrera de
consultor El Sr. Colina fue un official del banco State Street Bank & Trust
(State Street Analytics) y anteriormente trabajo para una compania de capital
riesgo. El Sr. Colina recibio una maestria (MBA) en negocios internacionales de
Babson College.
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Matt Coyne
Matt Coyne is co-owner of VR Mergers and Acquisitions in Malvern, PA. VR is a
full service intermediary firm facilitating the exit planning and
transition/sale of small to medium size privately held businesses. Their
expertise is in sell-side representation for manufacturing, service, and
distribution companies with sales from $1M to $50M. Matt's previous roles
include financial and general management positions with Fortune 500 companies
such as GE, Fisher Scientific, and Precision Castparts. Matt holds a degree in
Marketing and Management from the University of Vermont and has earned the
title Certified Business Intermediary. Matt, his wife Lisa, and his five
children make their home in West Bradford, PA.
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Carol Heiberger
Ms. Heiberger is an independent consultant specializing in new service/business creation since 1996. Her twenty years of industry experience includes positions as head of strategic planning for an electric/gas utility, increasing responsibilities associated with voice-data-video services with Bell Atlantic, and field sales with the Ford Motor Company. She is an experienced interim executive (start-up CATV company COO, Operations Director for MBA Program) and project manager of large-scale, multi-location projects. Ms. Heiberger is the author of research, white papers, competitive analyses and market analyses for clients and policy makers including 12 articles published by McGraw Hill and Primedia; 4 research reports for McGraw Hill and the Gartner Group; and 2 “How-To” books on creating competitive services for engineers. Her technical expertise with telecom transmission technologies includes voice, data, video; analog & digital; Internet services (ISP), HFC, BPL, FTTH, CATV, consumer and business markets. She can competently work with Network Engineering, Construction, Management, and Operations issues. She earned her MBA from Wharton and received her undergraduate degree from Kenyon College.
Ms. Heiberger’s consulting practice, Energy & Telecom (www.energyandtelecom.com), takes advantage of her expertise in strategic planning, new business development, marketing, and finance with large complex organizations, small entrepreneurial groups, domestic and international markets. The focus has been new product/business creation from vision to business plan to launch. Carol creates effective teams by translating across functions and disciplines with a collaborative and hands-on leadership style. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching in the MBA in Pharmaceutical Business Program at the University of the Sciences in West Philadelphia. Community service includes Center City Resident Association’s Zoning Committee, Advisory Board and Loan Committee for WORC, and SCORE Business Counselor.
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Therese Flaherty
Therese Flaherty is the Director of the Wharton Small Business Development
Center. She extended the MBA program Global Consulting Practicum from Israel to
include Chile, Mexico, and India. Dr. Flaherty has taught Strategic Marketing
and Operations Management in the Wharton School's MBA program since 1993 after
a career of research and teaching at the Harvard Business School and Stanford
University. Dr. Flaherty has her PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University.
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Lawrence Gelburd
After graduating from Brown University in 1977 with a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering and a subsequent programming position with NCR, Lawrence Gelburd
and four others founded Auto-Matrix in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the next decade
they raised $7 million in venture capital and grew the company into an
international success with over 100 employees, becoming an OEM to United
Technologies, Barber Colman and Mitsui. Mr. Gelburd held leadership positions
in engineering, marketing, and sales, published articles on automated control
systems, and was a member of ASHRAE's SPC 135 committee which established
BACnet as a US national standard in 1996. Facilities managers at Heathrow
Airport, Binney and Smith, New York City Public Libraries, Alaska pipeline and
other high-profile organizations selected and installed American Auto-Matrix
control systems. The owners sold the company in 1989 and Lawrence entered the
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned his MBA in
1991, focusing on finance, marketing and entrepreneurial management. Since
then, he has provided consulting services to small businesses.
At Wharton, Lawrence is teaching Management 230 --
Entrepreneurship, a required course for Undergraduates concentrating in that
field. For the past three years, Lawrence has taught both the Penn Proseminar
"How to Start Your Own Business" and the Wharton School's Leadership in the
Business World course "Business and Entrepreneurship." Lawrence and his wife
Anita, Assistant to the Deputy Provost at Penn, were Senior Fellows in
residence in Hill College House from 1998 to 2004. During that time, Lawrence
has also been a panelist reviewing Management 100 group projects, served as
Entrepreneur-in-Residence for PenNetworks, and consulted for P2B and Marching
Order. He is also an Entrepreneurial Fellow at the Weiss Tech House at Penn.
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Praveen Kosuri
Praveen Kosuri is Practice Associate Professor of Law, Penn Law and Director, Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic. Praveen Kosuri comes to the Law School with a background in law, business, and public interest. Most recently, Kosuri was Assistant Director of the Institute for Justice Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to that he was a lawyer with a Chicago law firm where he counseled businesses on corporate transactional matters as well as complex commercial litigation. Kosuri was also an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston where he was involved with all facets of capital raising for Fortune 500 companies as well as representing them in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Prior to receiving his M.B.A., Kosuri began his career as a Cook County Public Defender. He was also an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. More information on the Penn Law Entrepreneurship Clinic can be found at: http://www.law.upenn.edu/clinic/elc/
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Kimberle Levin
Kimberle Levin is an award-winning entrepreneur who has built and managed several multi-million dollar businesses in the information technology industry. A visionary, innovator, and gifted conceptual thinker, Kimberle is a highly regarded business leader and has consistently excelled and been recognized for her outstanding achievements, including The Pioneer Award from the Center City Proprietors Association, been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mentor and Business Plan Competition Judge for Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs, named one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business, as well as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist.
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Jeffery Litvack
Jeffrey Litvack is a Principal with SSI Advisors, a management and financial
advisory services firm. Jeff’s areas of expertise include business modeling,
financial planning, business planning, corporate strategy, market assessment,
customer segmentation, process improvement, change management, and mergers and
acquisitions.
Mr. Litvack is highly regarded for his visionary knowledge of and work in
converging media platforms and channels. As acting CFO at Thinking Pictures,
Inc. he provided the frameworks and business tools for the transition from
traditional print advertising to digital signage. As the Executive Director of
Digital Media at the Museum of Television & Radio he developed a strategy
to extend the Museum’s reach beyond its four walls via the digitization and
publishing of the Museum’s collection online. At Yack, Inc. he expanded the
core product to include online programming (e.g., webcasts and video on-demand)
and created the Internet Programming Guide (IPG) – the IPG was akin to the
electronic program guide (EPGs) which were developed for the increasingly
fragmented, expanded television environment.
Mr. Litvack is a member of the New York State Bar
Association and has also spoken at numerous industry conferences including
Streaming Media West, Media Asset Management, and EMediatainmentWorld. Mr.
Litvack is also an author of several published articles in such publications as
HFMA’s Managing the Margin, Advanced Magazine and Healthcare Informatics.
Mr. Litvack earned a Juris Doctorate degree from
Harvard Law School, and a Bachelors of Science degree in Economics from the
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business where he graduated summa
cum laude.
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John McAdam
John McAdam is the founder and principal advisor at Pioneer Business Ventures,
a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm specializing in buy side acquisitions
of companies in the $5 to $50 million revenue range. Prior to Pioneer, Mr.
McAdam was President and CEO of Sheerlund Products for 10 years, a
manufacturer, distributor, and importer of consumer products. While at
Sheerlund, he merged, acquired, or divested six companies to accelerate growth
and enter new markets. Also, he led the introduction of more than 100 products
to market via internal development, importing, and strategic alliances. He is
the inventor of U.S. Patent # 6,422,525.
Prior to joining Sheerlund, John owned an employment agency serving insurance
companies such as AIG, Travelers, Cigna, etc. Before purchasing the employment
agency, he held a series of progressively responsible management roles in
sales, operations, and finance with SILO Stores, a $1 Billion, 200+ store
electronics and appliance retailer. While at SILO, his responsibilities grew
from $35 million to $250 million in sales and from 7 to 55 retail stores in
Eastern U.S. metropolitan markets.
John earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in
Marketing, Strategic Planning, and Entrepreneurial Management. He also holds a
B.S degree in Nutrition and Business Administration from West Virginia
University. He loves to talk about Mountaineer football and basketball.
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Susan McCrossin
Susan McCrossin Ms. McCrossin has spent more than twenty five years developing
Information Technology systems and products. Prior to starting PA Internet
Marketing, Ms. McCrossin worked as a consultant at Penn State University,
working in internet business development for companies in Pennsylvania. She
spent 8 years at Siemens developing health care related software systems, 3
years at Vanguard developing financial systems, 3 years at an IBM subsidiary as
sales support for a CASE tool product, and the remainder of her professional
career working as an independent consultant for major corporations in the South
Eastern Pennsylvania area. In 2004, she started PA Internet Marketing with her
husband and business partner. The company is a search engine optimization and
internet marketing firm which now has more than 100 clients.
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Adam Moskow
Adam Moskow is President, Entrepreneurial Consulting, LLC. A Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania graduate, Adam has run and had ownership in both a publishing company and a direct marketing firm and has helped turn around companies to have successes, such as achieving rankings in the “Philly 100” list for growth. In 1999, Adam formed Entrepreneurial Consulting, www.entrepreneurialconsulting.com, to provide services to businesses and organizations not yet in need of a full-time Chief Operating Officer, VP of Marketing, or CFO. Adam and his consultant associates provide expert, on-demand Business Planning, Recruiting, Marketing, Operations & Financial help.
Adam has lectured at the Philadelphia Center, the Mid-Atlantic Consultants’ Network, Temple University, Drexel University, and Penn State University on business plan writing, marketing and recruiting. Adam also is certified by the Institute of Management Consulting as a Certified Management Consultant, a distinction earned by fewer than 1% of all management consultants.
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Jason Olim
At age 33, Jason Olim experienced just about every aspect of leading and
operating a growth company. As the founder and CEO of CDNOW and as a member of
public and private company boards, he raised venture, debt and public capital;
he acquired and merged with other companies; and took his company private
through a sale to Bertelsmann, the third largest media company in the world. In
his various roles, he hired management teams, developed strategic plans and
acted as spokesman to the media. Olim has been a darling and a devil to the
business community - he has seen successes and failures, including IPOs,
private sales, liquidations and bankruptcies.
A graduate of Brown University with a degree in
computer science, Olim worked for two years at Soft-Switch, designing software
systems for multinational corporations. Olim dreamed up CDNOW in February of
1994, and became a highly recognized Internet entrepreneur. He has earned
Entrepreneur of the Year awards from various organizations, including the Small
Business Association, Arthur Andersen and the Greater Philadelphia Venture
Group. Olim is a frequent speaker at conferences and a guest lecturer at many
business schools, including The Wharton School, Stanford’s Graduate School of
Business and Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Management.
Olim is currently the Chief Executive Officer of
Harkins Audit Software, Inc., a software company that provides software
auditing tools for software engineers.
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John S. Ondik
John is a principal of The Ondik Group, a consulting and executive recruiting
firm, where he works with businesses, government, and community organizations
in a variety of strategy and process improvement efforts. Prior to forming The
Ondik Group with his brother Mike, he was Vice President of Military Services
for Aramark, a Fortune 500 company and one of the world’s leading outsourced
services companies, where he led a new business venture focused on providing
consulting, food and support services to the military. While at Aramark, he
also served as Vice President, Business Development, responsible for client
service, process improvement and knowledge-sharing activities across 8 business
units with $7 billion in revenue. His efforts included leadership of strategic
planning processes, sales and marketing support, team development and executive
coaching.
Previously, he was the National Director of Purchasing for KPMG, a leading
global accounting and consulting firm, where he developed and implemented the
firm’s first national procurement process. Earlier John was a consulting
manager with both KPMG and Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, where he also
served as the first Director of Marketing and Business Development for the
Philadelphia practice. He also worked as a consultant at the Wharton Small
Business Development Center.
John began his career with the US Navy where he spent almost 10 years on active
duty as a Supply Corps officer. John continues to serve as a senior officer in
the US Navy Reserve, where he currently is a member of an innovative consulting
unit that provides thought-leadership and process improvement support to Navy
senior leadership. He is also an Executive in Residence at The Science Center,
one of the world’s leading business incubators, teaches a class in strategic
business planning for the Wharton Small Business Development Center, and has
been a judge and mentor in numerous business plan competitions.
John holds an MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Business Administration from Villanova
University. He also completed an executive program at the Darden Graduate
School of Business, University of Virginia. He resides in Havertown PA, with
his wife Liz and children John, Christopher and Alexandra, where he coaches
soccer, baseball and basketball.
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Gary Pudles
Gary A. Pudles is the founder and CEO of the AnswerNet Network (www.AnswerNet.com.)
Since founding AnswerNet in 1998, Pudles has won the prestigious "Ernst and
Young Entrepreneur of the Year," for business service providers and was named
to the NJ Biz "40 under 40." His company, AnswerNet ranked number 21 on the
2003 Inc. 500 list.
Pudles is also nationally recognized speaker and
presenter in the fields of telecommunications and business operations. He has
appeared on TV and radio, and regularly contributes articles and interviews to
a variety of publications.
Prior to founding AnswerNet, Pudles was the Vice
President & General Counsel of Apex Site Management, the largest
telecommunications real estate management firm in the United States. Prior to
that, Pudles was the Manager of Real Estate for American Personal
Communications, responsible for all phases of site implementation program
management for the United States' first operational PCS network. Pudles has
spent over five and a half years as the Vice President of Muzak in Washington
one of the largest and oldest wireless services companies in the United States.
He received a Juris Doctorate degree from the
Washington College of Law at the American University and a Bachelor of Arts in
Policy Studies from the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University.
Pudles lives with his wife Linda in Lafayette Hill, Penn., and has two
children, Jesse and Jana.
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Skip Shuda
As an advisor-builder with a sense of adventure, Skip Shuda is the founder and
principal of Team and a Dream. Skip has worked with numerous startups since
1983, including Destiny WebSolutions which he founded in 1994. Destiny was
named Startup Company of the year in 1998's Philadelphia Area Enterprise
Awards. Destiny grew to $25 million in annualized revenues in 2000 and employed
over 120 people. Today Skip enjoys working with technology startups, using his
experience, lessons and tools to assist fellow entrepreneurs.
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Larry Simon
Larry Simon, Principal at Margolis & Company P.C. since 1975, has
particular specialty in serving the Healthcare industry. He is
Principal-in-Charge of the Health Care Services Group and has years of
successful experience in providing specialized services to physicians in solo
and group practices. He has assisted many physician clients with the complex
issues involved in mergers/acquisitions as well as the development of MSOs and
IPAs.
Larry’s other areas of expertise include the
restaurant and entertainment industries as well as professional and business
services. He has taught accounting and other related financial courses at the
University of Pennsylvania and has authored numerous articles.
Larry has made significant contributions and
noteworthy differences in his community over the past 40 years. He has given of
his time and talents in many areas of communal life, both in his local
community-at-large and within his professional organizations.
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Harry Tankin
Harry Tankin is founder of New Era Partners, a consulting enterprise designed
to assist the venture capital community and corporate management resolve
operational issues confronting companies across high technology industries.
Harry is a results oriented executive with extensive marketing, business
development, partnering, and technology expertise in the broadband,
telecommunications, and knowledge management industries. Apart from his
successful entrepreneurial track record at several leading technology firms
including Xerox, Digital Equipment Corporation, and General Instrument, Harry
has been instrumental in the effective transition of problematic groups and
corporations into competitive organizations. Such has included the rebuilding
of a troubled engineering department responsible for product development and
the provisioning of new services; the turnaround of a financially distressed
software and electronics product company that realized profitability for the
first time in two years; and the transformation of four cost centers into a
profitable, branded professional services organization for a major
communications equipment manufacturer. In addition to receiving numerous
corporate awards, Harry has been a speaker at major industry events, served as
Session Chairman of the National Communications Forum, and has been published
in two major telecommunications journals. He holds a BA from George Washington
University, an MA from Columbia University, post-graduate studies at American
University, and executive course work at Wharton.
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Christine Warren
Christine Warren is currently an e-commerce manager for GSI Commerce, headquartered in King of Prussia. She also serves as the Treasurer for the Women’s Regional Business Council in Philadelphia. Christine brings over 13 years of experience in sales & marketing, technology and entrepreneurship and education to a wide range of leadership endeavors. Her passion for contributing to the community is demonstrated through volunteerism and the expertise she shares as a sought after public speaker.
Christine’s inspirational leadership attracts and nurtures the growth of a diverse group of professionals. She creates high-powered teams, which have supported the creation of the Women’s Regional Business Council. During her tenure as Executive Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Delaware Valley Chapter, she revitalized the organization with twelve new executive board members and increased net dollars raised in 2003 by 22% and 37% in 2004, winning multiple awards.
As a young entrepreneur in 1999, Christine enlisted
90 organizations to cooperate and interact in the testing of a unique software
product, securing over $2 million in funding necessary to take her start up
company from beta test to market. She was named one of the Philadelphia
Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 business leaders in 2002. Christine has been
featured on Comcast Newsmakers, in USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer and
numerous national and local industry publications.
Her notable public service accomplishments include:
appointment to the Chester County Work Force Investment Board 2003-Present;
member of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group 2005-Present;
appointment to the 2003 Early Stage East Venture Fair advisory board;
leadership as Vice-Chairperson of the Chester County’s Information Technology
Action Group (ITAG) 2002 - 2003 and Membership Chair in 2001, service as
President and Past President of the Association of Information Technology
Professionals, Stakeholder in the Philadelphia School District’s Technology
Stakeholder Partnership, and currently serving as a member of both the West
Chester University Business Department and Career Development Center’s
Corporate Advisory Councils.
Christine has worked with Wharton MBAs and their
Small Business Development Center since 2002, teaching the First Steps program
on how to start a business and create a business plan. She holds a Bachelor of
Arts in Liberal Studies and a Masters of Science in Counseling, Higher
Education from West Chester University, where she was honored as the first
Masters graduate chosen to speak at their commencement in 1999. She resides in
Chester County with her husband and three children.
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