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Dr. Ravi Anupindi
Dr. Ravi Anupindi
Professor Anupindi teaches Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and strategic sourcing at the University of Michigan's Ross Business School, with a special focus on Bottom of the Pyramid economics. He regularly consults for companies like Dell, Target and Walmart.
Titus Brenninkmeijer
Titus Brenninkmeijer
Titus Brenninkmeijer is a social entrepreneur and angel investor with 25 years of experience in international retail. He founded Solgenix in 2005 to support solar energy entrepreneurs worldwide, and serves as the Chairman of the Energy Access Foundation. He is an advisory board member of many organizations including ACCION International, TechnoServe and ETHOS, and the LA Chamber Orchestra. He holds an MBA from Haas and lives in a solar-powered home.
Mike Howard
Mike Howard
From 1991-2007 Mike Howard was SVP and CFO of Medrad, a global medical device company, growing it from $50m to $500m in revenue. In 2003 Medrad won the Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award presented by President Bush. Mike is currently Principal at Michael T. Howard & Associates, a consultancy he founded in 2007 which is focused on helping organizations grow, as well as achieve operational and financial improvement. In his spare time, Mike enjoys golf and fly fishing.
Ghyrn Loveness
Ghyrn Loveness
Ghyrn Loveness is a technology entrepreneur based in Palo Alto, California. He studied energy systems, mechanical engineering and physics at Stanford, Caltech and Pomona. Ghyrn has worked at AeroVironment and NASA and served as the President of Caltech's Entrepreneurs Club. He is an avid pilot with multiple ratings and endorsements.
Dr. Ken Pickar
Dr. Ken Pickar
Professor Ken Pickar teaches classes on entrepreneurship and product design for the developing world at Caltech. Previously he was SVP of Engineering at Allied Signal and the Corporate R&D Manager at GE. He has a PhD in Physics, is an angel investor, and sits on the board of a number of public and private organizations including the LA Country Regional Food Bank. Ken is an avid gardener.
Mohan Sundaram
Mohan Sundaram
Mohan is an executive and organisation mentor. He is a member of the mentor panel at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore. He has been in a wide range of industries for 26 years holding top management/business leadership roles with strategy and technology being the anchors. Mohan has been starting up technology-based businesses for over 16 years as a serial entrepreneur and and an intrapreneur in industries spanning Metals/Mining, Early Stage Technology VC, Networking/Datacom, Management consulting and IT. Mohan is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad. He also holds a bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Madras. His other interests include open source movement, education for the underprivileged, social enterprise and music.
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