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November 15, 2013Babson College, MA
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Welcome to the
Babson’s Flagship Event, the Entre-preneurship Forum, has provided stories of success and achievement since its inception in 2001. The 2013 Babson Entrepreneurship Fo-rum brings you rich, motivational stories from around the world! Join us in Shaping the Future. Through-out the day and for weeks still to come, thought provoking questions will inspire you. We encour-age you to start thinking of new directions and build new heights in all of your endeavors. Showcased in this event, you will hear from: A budding entrepreneur who peeks into the future, invent-ing her way as she goes; Immense-ly successful serial entrepreneurs who churn businesses as regular tasks; Investors who examine ven-tures with critical eyes; and a Futur-
ist who dares to talk about tomor-row. And that’s just the beginning. In addition to an inspiring mix of speakers, visit the product showcase during lunch in Knight Auditorium, network at the e-lounge where at-tendees will meet speakers and in-cubators on a 1-on-1 basis for advice, and don’t miss the Ĵ rst-ever presen-tation from Futurepreneurs, where
high school students will show-case their ideas to a wider audience. Welcome to the 12th annual Babson Entrepeneurship Fo-rum. We hope you get an excit-ing peek into Shaping the Future!
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Guru Chandrasekaran Shamoyita Mukherjee Javier Lara
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WelcomeSocial Media GuideScheduleKeynotesReady, Aim, Fire: Tales From the TrenchesE2E: Nurturng the Entrereneurial Ecosytem(Ad)Ventures Abroad: Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesCurated Discovery in a Digital WorldDisrupting Education: Empowering Students for the Future
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Shaping a Happier FutureGazing into the Crystal Ball: Opportunities in the Next DecadeFuturepreneurse-Lounge, ShowcaseEntrepreneurship Hall of Fame, Special ThanksAboutMeet the TeamSoFiMap, Notes
Robin ChasePrahar Shah
Manasi GanganAlbe Zakes
Carissa ReinigerTwyla Garrett
Sramana MitraChris Schroeder
Caron DeMarsJenny Rushmore
Jules PieriNikhil Goyal
follow our@rmchase@praharshah@Manasi_Gangan@AlbeZakes@carissareiniger@twylagarrett@sramana@cmschroed@EntrepCaron@tripadvisor@julespieri@nikhilgoya_l
Mike CagneyNataly Kogan
Jon CarsonFaith PopcornMarla Capozzi
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ScheduleMorning
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11:00am Coff ee Break
10:00am Coff ee Break
9:00am | Sorenson TheaterOpening Remarks
8:00am | Sorenson TheaterRegistration & Breakfast
President Dr. Kerry Healey
9:15am | Sorenson TheaterMorning Keynote
David Fialkow & Yuchun Lee
11:20am | Breakout Session 2Olin 101 Olin 220 Olin Auditorium
TED StyleDisruptingEducation:
Empowering Students for the
Future
Panel
Curated Discovery in a
Digital World
Fireside Chat
Shaping a Happier Future
10:20am | Breakout Session 1Olin 101 Olin 220 Olin Auditorium
Panel
Ready, Aim, Fire:Tales from the
Trenches
TED Style
E2E: Nurturing the Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem
Fireside Chat
(Ad)Ventures Abroad:
Entrepreneurship in Developing
Countries
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ScheduleAfternoon
3:00pm Coff ee Break
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And are the one who’ll decide where to go... -Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’’
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12:00pm | Knight AuditoriumLunch & Showcase
1:15pm | Sorenson TheaterFuturepreneurs Pitch
2:00pm | Sorenson TheaterHigh Powered Panel
Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Opportunities in the Next Decade
3:15pm | Sorenson TheaterFuturepreneurs Pitch
4:00pm | Sorenson TheaterClosing Keynote
Robin Chase
4:45pm | Sorenson TheaterClosing Remarks
5:00pm | Olin Hall, Needham-Wellesley RoomNetworking Cocktail & eLounge
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4:30pm | Sorenson TheaterFuturepreneurs Awards, presented by Robin Chase
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David Fialkow
ton, Inc.), the operator of more than 300 duty-free retail stores on 100 cruise ships. David is a former associate of Thomas H. Lee Company and U.S. Venture Partners. As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, David focuses on invest-ments in both early-stage and through the General Catalyst XIR platform. He is based in the Ĵ rm’s Cambridge offi ce. He is a graduate of Colgate University and Boston College Law School.
Prior to co-founding General Catalyst Partners, David Fialkow (together with Joel Cutler) co-founded and operated numerous businesses focused on building applied technology-based plat-forms and tools for the travel, in-formation services, Ĵ nancial ser-vices, specialty retail, and payment processing industries. These busi-nesses included: National Leisure Group, one of the largest leisure travel technology and distribu-tion companies in the U.S.; Alli-ance Development Group (sold to MyPoints.com); Retail Growth ATM Systems (sold to PNC Bank) and Starboard Cruise Services (sold to LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuit-
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Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners Morning Keynote9:15am Sorenson Theater
Board MembershipsGeneral Catalyst: CoachUp, Datalogix, Oceans Healthcare, and Verne Global; Former board member of Grain Communications Group, BBN Technologies (acquired by Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) in October 2009), CLEAResult (ac-quired by General Atlantic in July 2013), Retail Convergence (acquired by GSI Commerce (NASDAQ: GSIC) in November 2009) and Vitrue (acquired by Oracle in June 2012; Neil and GC co-founded the company)
Non-proĴ t board memberships Facing History and Ourselves, The Pan-Mass Challenge, The Boys and Girls Club of Boston, Overseer at Beth Isreal Deaconess Hospital, MIT Leadership Center Advisory Council
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Yuchun Lee
Yuchun Lee is widely recognized as an accomplished entrepreneur and global thought leader in the area of information technologies. He is an Executive in Residence (XIR) at Gen-eral Catalyst Partners, a venture capi-tal Ĵ rm that makes early stage and growth equity investments. Prior to General Catalyst, Mr. Lee was most recently Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Marketing Management business unit at IBM and a key architect in IBM’s global initiative to serve the needs of Chief Marketing Offi cers. He joined IBM in 2010 as part of its acquisition of Uni-ca, a company that Lee co-founded to meet the needs of marketers seek-ing to embrace technology to reach
new customers. As Unica’s CEO since its inception in 1992, Lee’s vision and strategy guided the company through a successful IPO in 2005 and ultimately to its acquisition by IBM for over $500M. Mr. Lee holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical En-gineering and Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Babson College. He recently joined as Chair-man of the Board of Clarabridge, a leader in Customer Experience Man-agement (CEM), helping companies optimize customer experiences through cross-channel sentiment and text analytics. He also serves on the board of Vertex Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ:VRTX).
Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners Morning Keynote9:15am Sorenson Theater
Marketing used to be about selling. In the new world, marketing is about service.’’
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Robin Chase Founder, Veniam’WorksFounder & CEO, BuzzCar Founder & Former CEO, ZipCar Afternoon Keynote4:00pm Sorenson Theater
Innovation & Entre-preneurship for the US Department of Com-merce, and the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transporta-tions Systems Program Advisory Commit-tee for the US De-partment of Transporta-tion, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transporta-tion Transition Working Group, and Boston May-or’s Wireless Task Force. Robin lectures widely, has been frequently featured in the major media, and has received
Robin Chase is found-er and former CEO of Buzzcar, a service that brings together car owners and drivers in a carsharing market-place. Buzzcar.com empowers individuals to take control of their mobility, without look-ing to governments or big businesses for solutions. Robin is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the larg-est carsharing company in the world, and GoLo-co, an online rideshar-ing community. She is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for
many awards in the ar-eas of innovation, de-sign, and environment, including Time 100 Most InĶ uential People, Fast Company Fast 50 In-novators, and Business-Week Top 10 Designers. Robin graduated from
Wellesley College and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow.
At the end of the day, I spend my life building
the world I want to live in
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Tales from the TrenchesBreakout Session 1: Panel10:20am Olin Hall 101
Prahar Shah Founder & CEO, Mobee
Shah has degrees from the Richard Ivey School of Business (HBA) and Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology (MBA). While at MIT Sloan, he served as En-trepreneur In Residence at General Catalyst, where the concept of Mobee was born.
A native of Toronto, Prahar is a serial entrepreneur and launched his Ĵ rst startup at 16. His experience in-cludes supporting business development at Google, merchandising at Kraft Foods, and investing in early stage ventures at Bessemer Venture Partners. As a management consultant, Shah helped launch telecom & technology operations across North America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
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Ready, Aim, Fire:
Albe Zakes VP of Communication, Terracycle
in 4 continents) and counting Kraft Foods, L’Oreal, 3M, P&G among its partners. Since 2007, Albe and his PR department have secured over 15,000 unique me-dia placements and over $250 M in ad value for TerraCycle’s products and cor-porate partners. He helped TerraCycle battle Scotts Miracle-Gro, by running the “Sued by Scotts” Blog and Campaign in 2007, which received attention from NYT, Businessweek, WSJ and many more. Under Albe’s management the PR department has secured appearances for his CEO on Oprah, The Today Show, and etc. Albe also places featured articles in USA Today, Forbes, Fortune, and etc. Albe is also the Producer on TerraCycle’s TV shows. Albe also managed the PR eff orts around TerraCycle CEO, Tom Szaky’s Ĵ rst book, landing reviews in the NYT, Harvard Business Review, and etc. Albe’s speaking platforms include the UN, HBS, Wharton ,Stern, the Jeff erson Innova-tion Summit, the Environmental Protection Agency, NYC Social Media Summit, Sustainable Brands 2012, as well as countless ‘green’ and business conferences including the HBA Global Beauty Summit and Go Green Expos.
Recently named one of the PR News ‘Rising Stars of PR 2012’ and recipient of the Cause Marketing Forum’s Golden Halo Award, Albe rose from marketing depart-ment intern to become Global VP, Communication, for TerraCycle, the world’s foremost post-consumer pack-aging recycling company. Albe was integral in the transformation of TerraCycle from a small start-up into a successful and highly visible business (23 countries
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sAva Anderson Founder, Ava Anderson Non Toxic
Ava Anderson, at the age of 15 is one of the most suc-cessful teen entrepreneurs in the nation. She launched Ava Anderson Non Toxic, with just 6 skincare products after researching for over one year on the toxic chemi-cals in personal care and cleaning products. In just 4 years, she has over 60 products in 11 categories. She has over 3,000 consultants in all 50 states and Puerto Rico actively sharing her health message and off ering
her non-toxic alternative products And she has one of the fastest growing di-rect sales companies in the nation, with annual sales over 5 million. She has been featured in Entrepreneur, WWD, Glamour, Teen Vogue, Seventeen, Natural Health, Prevention and many more magazines. Ava has guest blogged on Huffi ngton Post at the request of Maria Rodale and is also a contributor to SheKnows.com on of the top ten websites for women in the US. She was asked by the Breast Cancer Fund and Campaign For Safe Cosmetics to testify in Congress and lobby for the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Act of 2011/2013. Ava was SPANX Leg Up Challenge Winner, Emerging En-trepreneur Ĵ nalist for Entrepreneur Magazine, is a “Trusted Partner of “Healthy Child Healthy World”, a “Champion” of the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics. Ava has shared the message of harmful chemicals in products with thousands and with the help of her Ava Consultants will reach 1 million American families with this message this year.
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Manasi Gangan Founder, Nested Bean
Manasi Gangan is the founder and president of Nested Bean. Nested Bean manufactures and markets baby swaddles called the Zen Swaddle that mimics a mother’s touch and helps baby’s sleep longer. She developed this product when her second son did not sleep without being held in her arms and woke up within minutes of being put down. There was something diff erent in his sleep patterns and his need to be held. Guided by a mother’s instinct and a problem solving bend, Manasi started improvising with lightly weighted acces-sories to simulate the touch of her hands. Seeing improvements in her baby’s sleep pattern, she tested this concept on other babies. They all fell asleep earlier and slept longer. Later she found that simulated touch had been used for ages by hospital caregivers to sooth infants under stress. Manasi has an engineering background and has worked extensively in Fidel-ity Investments, managing multimillion dollar IT initiatives and navigating ab-stract issues with remarkable ease, multi-tasking all the way through.
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Entrepreneurial EcosystemBreakout Session 1: TED Style10:20am Olin Hall 220
Carissa Reiniger Founder & CEO, Silver Lining Ltd.
business’, a global movement that is on a mission to change the economy. She is the founding Partner of Gen Y Capital Partners. ‘Inspiring Entrepreneurs’ and ‘I Will’ are some of the distinguished small busi-ness related books authored by Carissa. She is a featured speaker and guest columnist expert for Inc, the New York Times and Forbes, only to name a few. She is also a small business spokesperson and inĶ uencer for brands such as RIM, Google, Staples, American Airlines, Nespresso, Intuit, HP and more. Carissa has been a past President of Women Entrepreneurs of Canada and is working on her pilot’s license for fun.Her personal manifesto every single day: Do Life. Be Real. Make People Smile.
Carissa was born and raised in Canada and cur-rently lives in New York City. She founded Silver Lining Ltd. and created the SLAP™ Methodology helping over 10,000 small business owners in 9 countries. She also created ‘Thank you small
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E2E: Nurturing the
Nan S. Langowitz Moderator, Associate Dean & Professor of Management, Babson College Dr. Nan Langowitz is the Associate Dean in the graduate school and professor of Management at Babson College. From 2000 to 2007 she was the Founding Director of Bab-son’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (re-named in 2012), the Ĵ rst comprehensive center dedicated to advancing women in business and entrepreneurship at a leading school of management. Her research examines entrepreneurial leadership, focusing especially on women, as well as the chal-lenges and opportunities organizations and managers face developing and leveraging talent. Professor Langowitz earned her doctorate at Harvard Business School and holds an MBA from New York University and a BA from Cornell University. In 2002, she was awarded the Abigail Adams Award by the Massachusetts Wom-en’s Political Caucus, for outstanding commitment to the realization of equal political, economic, and social rights for women. She and her husband are the proud parents of three grown children. She was awarded the Dean’s Teaching Award for the Graduate Program in 2009 and the Babson College Alumni Dis-tinguished Faculty Leadership Award in 2010.
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Twyla Garrett President & CEO, Investment Management Enterprise
Twyla Garrett is an extraordinary entrepreneur, corporate speaker, and compelling author who has been personally invited to speak at The White House on the issues of creating jobs, economic growth and controversial Ĵ scal cliff of 2012. Gar-rett is known for her notable(sometimes 100% self-funded) business deals as much as she is for providing excellent opportunities to individuals facing immense challenges. Twyla attended John Marshall High School, Ursuline College (BA) and Uni-versity of Phoenix (MA). After completing school, she started working for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in downtown Cleveland and moved to San Diego. But her entrepreneurial itch made her leave the federal govern-ment. She started her own management consulting Ĵ rm, Investment Manage-ment Enterprise (IME). The company provides homeland security and disaster preparedness and IT innovation services. She also invested 1.5 million dollars to develop an entertainment complex designed to single handily improve Cleveland’s economic culture. At the com-plex they hired formally homeless individuals, provided musicians and artists with actual moneymaking opportunities. She also has an upscale shopping plaza currently in the works. She will soon be publishing a series of “how-to” business books.
Sramana Mitra Founder, One Million by One Million
gree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sramana Mitra is the founder of One Million by One Million (1M/1M), a global virtual incu-bator that aims to help one million entrepre-neurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepre-neur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy, and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. As an entrepre-neur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, In-tarka, and Uuma. Sramana has a master’s de-
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CountriesBreakout Session 1: Fireside Chat10:20am Olin Hall, Olin Auditorium(Caroline Daniels, moderator, info on p.21)
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(Ad)Ventures Abroad:Entrepreneurship in Developing
Chris SchroederCo-Founder & CEO, HealthCentral.com
Interactive, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company, and LegiSlate.com, a leading business-to-business resource on legislation and regulation. An in-vestor and advisor to U.S. venture capital funds and social media start-ups, Schroeder has also been active in new technology and innovation in emerging growth markets. His latest book, “Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolu-tion Remaking the Middle East,” will be published this summer. He has written extensively for top news organizations including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fortune and TechCrunch, and he sits on the board of such en-terprises as the American University in Cairo’s School of Business.
Christopher Schroeder is an Internet entrepreneur and venture investor based in Washington D.C. and New York City. He was co-founder and CEO of HealthCentral.com, a personal health and wellness site backed by leading in-vestors including Sequoia Capital, Allen & Company and IAC. Previously, he was CEO of Washingtonpost.Newsweek
Emily Weiner Moderator,Associate Director, The Lewis Institute & Babson Social Innovation Lab
In her dual role at The Lewis Institute for Social Innovation and The Babson Social Innovation Lab, Emily works to pro-mote Babson’s mission of educating leaders who will create economic and social value everywhere, and focuses on our strategy to embrace people, planet, and proĴ t issues simul-taneously, not sequentially. Using Babson’s methodology
of Entrepreneurial Thought and Action®, Emily engages with the entire Babson community as well as a host of external constituents to amplify social innova-tion activities and connect resources accordingly. Prior to joining Babson, Emily served as Producer for the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, blending her vast experience in developing content with her event production background. Emily oversaw the strategy, development, and execution of all aspects of The Center’s annual events. She also developed The Center’s Green Events practice, where she consulted with dozens of Fortune 500 customers, hotels, and event professionals to link envi-ronmental sustainability eff orts with corporate social responsibility initiatives.
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Caron DeMars Director Global Entrepreneurship Program, U.S. Department of State: Econommic & Business Affairs
Caron Demars leads the Global Entrepreneurship Program in the Economic Bureau, a U.S. State Depart-ment led eff ort to promote and spur entrepreneur-ship by catalysing and coordinating private sector and U.S. government programs to support entrepre-neurs around the world. She has previously worked for the USAA as a direc-tor of Insurance Claims operations & simultaneously owned an executive recruiting Ĵ rm and was an angel investor in addition to being on the board of direc-
tors of an Austin Startup. She has a vast international exposure and she has worked with markets in Brazil, Africa, Asia, Philippines. While working as a Dip-lomat in Residence at George Washington University in Washington D.C., she launched the Women in Science Hall of Fame to celebrate outstanding scien-tiĴ c achievements in the region. She extensively worked in supporting science and technology entrepreneurs though the State Department’s annual pitch competition entitled ‘Global innovations in Science and technology’. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcasting from the University of Wyo-ming and a MBA from St. Mary’s University, she enjoys the outdoors, scuba div-ing, music, travel, cinema, plays and foreign aff airs.
Esteban Betancur SierraFounder & CEO, PRESTIGIO
Esteban Betancur Sierra Founder of PRESTIGIO (fo-cuses on Executive & Leadership Education), has been instrumental in leading the international expansion by opening offi ces and operations in Colombia, Peru and Mexico in two years. He has successfully nego-tiated agreements with more than 100 companies in Latin America to develop tailor made executive programs, and created a unique leadership model applied in all of the companies’ executive programs. Before Prestigio, he was the CEO and Founder of CONTREEBUTE where he lead the investment of Grupo Argos ($9 Billion Investing Co) capitalizing the company to reach a 40% share and setting a valuation of USD 2.2 million. He was invited as a speaker with Al Gore (Former Vice President of the US) in an Environmental Forum in Bogot, Colombia. Esteban Betancur Sierra completed his MBA from ISEAD Business School in Madrid, Spain in 2009. He received scholarships from Expansion and PROCTER & GAMBLE.
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in Digital WorldBreakout Session 2: Panel11:20am Olin Hall 101
Jenny Rushmore Director of Responsible Travel, TripAdvisor
Jenny Rushmore is the Director of Responsible Travel at TripAdvisor. Jenny developed and now leads the TripAdvisor GreenLeaders program, which launched in April 2013 in the United States, and now has over 2,000 enrolled properties. Previous to her role at TripAdvisor, Jenny worked for 11 years for Procter & Gamble, in the UK, Swit-zerland, Greece and the US. Most recently, she
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Curated Discovery
was the Global Sustainability Leader for Procter & Gamble’s $26 billion beauty & grooming products division, which includes brands such as Gillette, Pantene Pro-V, Head & Shoulders and COVERGIRL. Jenny is originally from the UK, and now lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned her undergraduate degree at Durham University, England, and is cur-rently completing her Masters degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management at Harvard University.
Jules Pieri Co-Founder & CEO, The Grommet
pleted her undergrad degree at the University of Michigan and people tell her that she is the Ĵ rst designer to graduate from Harvard Business School, where she was recently appointed an Entrepreneur in Residence.
Jules Pieri is Founder and CEO of the product launch platform The Grommet. The company’s Citizen Commerce™ platform is reshaping how consumer products get discovered, shared, and bought. Jules started her career as industrial de-signer for technology companies and was subse-quently a senior executive for large brands, such as Keds, Stride Rite, and Playskool. The Grommet is her third startup, following roles as VP at Design Continuum and President of Ziggs.com. She com-
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Zenobia Moochala Co-Founder, Care.com
As a parent to a toddler, Zenobia has an enthusiasm and drive to help solve the challenges facing today’s families and caregivers that continues to help form Care.com. In her role as Co-Founder and Vice President and General Manager of US Con-sumer Subscription Services at Care.com, Zenobia is primarily responsible for consumer acquisition, conversion and member marketing. She regularly leads initiatives to build the online community, including media buying and devel-oping social and SEO strategy, as well as improve the user experience by shap-ing the way Care.com communicates with its members. In the four years prior to co-founding Care.com, Zenobia worked as a Senior Marketing Manager for Upromise, where she helped families prepare and save for college. From 1998-2001, she served as Senior Product Manager at Ĵ nancial software startup, WorldStreet. Recognized as one of the “40 under 40” from Boston Business Journal, a “Pinnacle Award Emerging Executive” by The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and recipient of the “Asper Alumni Entrepreneurship Award” from Brandeis University, Zenobia holds a M.A. from Brandeis University and a B.A. from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.
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Anirudh Dhebar Moderator,Professor of Marketing, Chairperson of Marketing, Babson College
Anirudh Dhebar is Professor of Marketing at Babson Col-lege. Prior to joining the faculty at Babson College, Anirudh was on the faculty at the Harvard Business School (1983 – 1995) and the Sloan School of Management at the MIT (1995 – 1997). He is a member of the Board of Directors of Molex Inc. Anirudh teaches in Babson College’s graduate program
and custom executive-development off erings. As part of the Babson Executive Education faculty, Anirudh has taught in custom programs for Siemens, IBM, and etc. Anirudh’s past and present executive-development and consulting cli-ents include Teva Pharmaceuticals, GE Healthcare, and etc. Anirudh, who holds a BS in Electrical Engineering (from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai) and an MBA (from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata), obtained his MA in Economics and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. He is a recipient of Babson’s Thomas Ken-nedy Award for Teaching Excellence at the graduate level for three consecutive years (2002-2005).
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Nikhil Goyal Author, One Size Does Not Fit All
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At age 18, Nikhil Goyal is an activist and author of a forthcoming book on reclaiming the freedom to learn. His Ĵ rst book was published in 2012. He has appeared as a commentator on MSNBC and FOX and has written for the New York Times, MSNBC, NPR, and Forbes. An international speaker, Goyal has spoken at Google, The Atlantic, Fast Company, NBC, MIT, Stanford University, Barnard College, SXSW, and oth-ers. He lives in New York.
Empowering Students for the FutureBreakout Session 2: TED Style10:20am Olin Hall 220
Disrupting Education:
Gene Miller Executive Director, FUEL Education
proach is achieving extraordinary outcomes, enabling low-income students to access andthrive in the world of higher education. Gene’s initial career was in commercial banking. Serving as the EVP of Sterling Bank in her early 30s, Gene guided a successful turnaround in a diffi cult era. The bank dramatically outperformed its peers and was acquired for one of the highest multiples ever paid for a NE thrift at that time. She found herself in a similar turnaround leadership role as 1 of 8 outside trustees of Newton-Welles-ley Hospital, where she helped lead the organization to proĴ tability during a tumultuous era. Now NWH is continually ranked in top 100 hospitals nationally. Gene has also served on numerous boards including Grove Bank, First Trade Union Bank, the Charlesbank Foundation and the Greater Boston YMCA. Cur-rently she serves on the Planning Offi ce of Urban Aff airs board and was recent-ly voted one of the 2012 Boston Ad Club’s “100 Women We Admire.”
Gene Miller is the Executive Director of the game-changing college access nonproĴ t, FUEL Education. FUEL is shaping a new thrust of education reform through its innovative “skin in the game” model of par-ent engagement and incentivized family savings. Now in its 4th year, FUEL has gained regional and national recognition, winning the College Board’s Innovation Award in 2013 and the Massachusetts NonproĴ t Net-work’s Innovation Award in 2012. FUEL’s workfare ap-
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Mike Cagney CEO, Social Finance (SoFi)
Mike is responsible for evangelizing the SoFi model, as well as overall operations and cor-porate strategy and development. In addition, Mike is a co-founder and a managing partner of Cabezon Investment Group, a global macro hedge fund. Before Cabezon, Mike was founder and CEO, and then Vice Chairman and Chief Architect of Finaplex. Finaplex is a leader in wealth management software that was then sold to Broadridge (NYSE: BR). Before Finaplex, Mike was Senior Vice President and head trader for the proprietary trading and Ĵ nancial prod-
Janelle Shubert Moderator, Adjunct Lecturer, Babson College
1990–1992), Harvard University’s Business School (1986–1990), Harvard Uni-versity’s Program on Negotiation (1985–1986) and the University of Michigan (1978–1985). A consultant for over three decades, working with public and private, for-prof-it and not-for-proĴ t organizations, Shubert also served for four years as a senior member of a consulting group dedicated speciĴ cally to helping organizations enhance the leadership development of their most talented senior women. Since 1994 she has been a member of the International Teacher’s Program serving as co-director during its years at London Business School and then as a faculty member in subsequent years.
Dr. J. Janelle (Jan) Shubert came to Babson College in 2004, as the Associate Director for the Center for Women’s Leadership and then served as Director from 2007–2011. Prior to coming to Babson she had spent almost thirty years in university teaching and administra-tion. This included work at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (1992–2004), London Business School (Visiting faculty
ucts group at Wells Fargo Bank.Mike holds an M.S., Management degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was a Sloan Fellow. He also received a combined BA/MS from UC Santa Cruz in applied economics.
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Shaping a Happier FutureBreakout Session 2: Fireside Chat11:20am Olin Hall, Olin Auditorium
Nataly Kogan Co-Founder & Chief Happiness Offi cer, Happier Inc.
PayPal), Hudson Ventures, McKinsey & Company, and Microsoft FUSE Labs, and founded an online community for working moms and a publishing company for students. She is a frequent speaker, most recently at TEDx Boston, and a published author. Nataly and her parents emigrated from the former Soviet Union when she was thirteen and she graduated with University Honors from Wesleyan University. She lives outside Boston with her husband and young daughter.
Nataly Kogan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hap-pier, Inc., based in Boston. Inspired by scientiĴ c re-search, the company’s mission is to make millions of people happier in their everyday lives. Backed by Resolute VC and Venrock, Happier recently launched its Ĵ rst product, a mobile application and online community to collect and share what makes you happier. Nataly has held top positions at WHERE (sold to
Mary Gale Moderator, Full-time Visiting Faculty, Babson College
recently, she served as CEO of a start-up software services business, Pet Health Network, Inc. She was also a senior marketing executive at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. during a period of early growth through IPO. She currently serves on the boards of Sponge-Jet, Inc., Portsmouth, NH (advanced, recyclable, industrial surface preparation technology); Gould Academy, Bethel, Maine; and The Kelly Brush Foundation, Burlington, VT (provider of grants for adaptive sports equip-ment for people with spinal cord injuries).
Ms. Gale is an entrepreneur, business leader, and consultant with over 20 years of strategic, mar-keting, and operations experience across a broad range of industries including software-based ser-vices, diagnostics, telecommunications, surface preparation, consumer electronics, consumer pack-aged goods and education. Ms. Gale has been involved in eight start-ups as an investor, director, and/or senior executive. Most
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Opportunities in the Next DecadeHigh Power Panel2:00pm Sorenson Hall
Gazing into the Crystal Ball:
Jon Carson CEO, BiddingForGood
Jon Carson (Babson ‘79) is a serial entre-preneur with over 20 years in building and scaling for-proĴ t en-terprises that serve a broader social purpose. Other than brief stints at Boeing and McKin-sey & Company, he has always worked on new ventures. Jon has started 4 com-panies with over $175 million of returns to in-vestors. He is currently CEO of BiddingForGood which off ers event fun-draisers an end-to-end event management and online/mobile bidding solution for auction fundraising events. The company has directly participated in helping raise over $200 million for a wide range of char-
itable causes. He is currently on the boards of Taunton Press, a mid-sized specialty publisher of magazines, books, TV, and websites (Fine Cooking, Threads, Fine Woodworking, Fine Gardening, Fine Home-building), the Lewis Institute of Social En-trepreneurship at Bab-son College, Americas Charities, and The Trin-ity Boston Foundation. He is a participant in Renaissance Weekend and holds a deep inter-est in sustainability and equilibrium dynamics in political and economic systems as well as an in-terest in social entrepre-neurship. In 1999 Jon was named one of the 25 most inĶ u-ential people in educa-
tion technology. In 2008 he was one of the initial 3 inductees into the Babson College Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. In 2009 he was a Ĵ nalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (New England region). Jon lives in the Boston area with his wife and is thoroughly enjoying the joys of fatherhood and helping his kids build their cupcake de-livery business.
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Gil Alterovitz Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
in the biomedical infor-matics space has been published or presented in more than 30 peer-reviewed publications ranging from academic journals and interna-tional conferences to three books (including “Systems Bioinformat-ics: An Engineering Case-based Approach,” ranked #1 in new Ama-zon bioinformatics cate-gory). Today, he will be talking to us about the Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable
Dr. Gil Alterovitz comes to us from Harvard Medical School- where he is a faculty member and Director of the Bio-medical Cybernetics Laboratory. He is a core faculty member of the Children’s Hospital In-formatics Program and also affi liated withthe Department of Elec-trical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology. His work on integrative methods for “big data”
Faith Popcorn Founder & CEO, BrainReseve
Faith Popcorn is called America’s Foremost Trend Expert very often. For more than 25 years, during periods of growth and recession, Faith Popcorn has been the futurist of choice for companies seeking a competitive edge. Through her future-focused marketing con-sultancy, BrainReserve, Ms. Popcorn works with clients, applying her in-sights on cultural and business trends. The au-
thor of the mega-best-sellers The Popcorn Re-port and Clicking, Faith Popcorn conĴ rmed her standing as America’s leading trend forecaster by predicting the next revolution in American business in EVEolu-tion: Understanding Women--Eight Essen-tial Truths That Work in Your Business and Your Life. Faith Popcorn’s most recent book pro-vides readers with an invaluable, entertain-
Technologies (SMART) and how medical infor-mation and genomics can be integrated into apps that can better in-form patients and phy-sicians.
ing and profoundly relevant “word map” of tomorrow. . Not only a trusted advisor to the Fortune 500, she is also a dazzling speaker who leaves audiences in-spired and primed for what’s ahead.
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Dr. Daniels’ research covers Future Trends and Entrepreneurial Strategy. She has worked on the development of global business and technology strategies for numerous startups and the follow-ing larger corporations: IBM, Apple, the Econo-mist, Financial Times, Ford of Europe, Boots Pharmaceutical, Shell Oil, GlaxoSmithKline, Chartham Paper Mills, New York Life, Bank of
Caroline Daniels Moderator,Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Faculty Advisor Babson College
Ireland, Aetna, Marks & Spencer, Media Compa-nies, and other leading corporations. She has facilitated multi-client studies for e Econo-mist Group on the future of business. Dr. Daniels has written for the Econ-omist, the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Fi-nancial Times, and has published several books on Globalization and Information Technology with McGraw-Hill and
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Marla Capozzi is a se-nior expert and a leader of McKinsey & Com-pany’s global innovation practice. She was one of the founding creators of the Innovation Practice. Today, she serves global clients across sectors on topics including inno-vation, product devel-opment, governance, driving organizational change, and knowledge management. Capozzi has conducted extensive research and has pub-lished leading articles in Fortune/CNN, e McKinsey Quarterly, Sloan Management Re-
Marla CapozziFounding creators of Innovation PracticeConsultant, McKinsey & Company
view, Strategic Finance and Banking Strategies. Prior to joining McKin-sey, Capozzi led product development at the Lo-tus/IBM innovation cen-tre in Cambridge where many of the œ rst online collaboration, education and knowledge manage-ment so ware products were launched in the early 1990’s. Capozzi is a board of trustee member at Babson College where she earned her master’s degree with honors. Additionally, she sits on the board of Babson Global, an innovation initiative chartered with
developing new global opportunities for Bab-son’s entrepreneurship mission and distinctive expertise. Capozzi is an appointed member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s recently formed Council for Innovation. She also served as the vice-chair of the board of directors for Project Bread, a local Boston-based hunger organization for 7 years.
the Pearson Group (Ad-dison-Wesley). Dr. Dan-iels has been awarded the International Asso-ciation of Management Consulting Firms Award for Literary Excellence.
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Bryan Gillespie BusAssist
BusAssist is a way for students to know exactly where their school bus is in real time. It allows them to be safe and use their time correctly without missing the school bus. Our mission at Intellect, a greater Hartford company, is to provide education technology services through a human centered approach with design fea-tures that incorporate our behaviors and personalities throughout all our products and services.
Real Time, Every Time ’’‘‘
Squinee is a wiper that goes on a key chain for quick accessibility. It is custom-izable and aff ordable. We are a 100% USA made company with a 100% USA made project. In the future we plan to be 100% go green because right now we are us-ing recycled windshield wipers and plan on Ĵ nding a recycled plastic material to make the base out of.
The Simple Solution ’’‘‘
Kelly Szczerkowski &Sharon Soliz Squinee
1:15pm, 3:15pm Sorenson Hall
Brilliant ideas often come from unexpected minds, young minds are imagina-tive and can create amazing things. Futurepreneurs aims to connect these brilliant ideas of high school students with support that they need to get a chance to Ķ ourish. For without a chance to fail or succeed there is no way to move forward.
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Cheyenne Capobianco T.U.F.F
T.U.F.F is an after school yoga and exercise program for staff members run by Ĵ tness enthusiast and SMSA stu-dent Cheyenne Capobianco. The goal is to off er teach-ers a convenient way to relieve stress and stay healthy. We want all teachers feeling their best, as they work with the future of America every day.
Are you T.U.F.F enough?‘‘ ’’
Oghomwen Ohenhen Aerial Drones
Aerial Drones has the incredible potential to revolution-ize the way we live our lives. Its usefulness in commercial, industrial, and life-saving procedures makes it the top of its class in proĴ t potential. When paired with good man-agement and perseverance, it’s a business that is sure to succeed.
Where Technology Meets Innovation
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Victoria Parisi Skilled Sitter
Skilled Sitter will ensure the best care for a child who has one or more medical conditions. Not only will we provide the most excellent child care, but we will do our best to maintain a strong relationship with our customers.
Special Care for Special Kids ’’‘‘
Nathan Hart Hart for the Poor
Hart for the Poor establishes “Community Transforma-tion Centers” in impoverished tropical areas that pro-cess locally grown coconuts bought at fair-trade prices to stimulate the local economy.
A Business Venture for Social Change ’’‘‘
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#BEF2013 e-lounge, showcase
e-Lounge
Showcase 12:00pm, Knight Auditorium
Showcase FeatureThe Lunch Book Party at BEF 2013 will be a part of the The Lunch Product Showcase led by Christopher M. Schroeder. The book Startup Rising: The Entre-preneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East by Christopher M. Schroeder is the Ĵ rst to explore a remarkable rise of tech-enabled problem solving and innovation in startups around the region. US-based internet executive and venture investor Christopher Schroeder travelled from Egypt to Dubai interview-ing hundreds of a new generation of entrepreneurs and their backers, and has seen a hopeful story of the
region the west rarely considers. It is, in fact, a lens to what societies around emerging growth markets with access to mobile devices, broad band and smart phones are creating, with ramiĴ cations across their societies. Christo-pher will speak at lunch, and donate all his proceeds to Ruwwad -- youth and community centers in developing communities around the Arab world.
Interested in speaking to the BEF13 speakers?
Just stop by at the Registration Desk and sign up for a slot to network with our speakers. Sign ups will be allotted on a fi rst-come fi rst-serve
basis to meet the speakers in our e-Lounge!
The Product Showcase gives exhibitors the opportunity to highlight their new-est products while getting additional exposure for their products at Babson Entrepreneurship Forum 2013. It is also an opportunity for key international and domestic consumers to see what’s new and what’s hot in the industry. You can look, study, compare, and contact the exhibitors at the booths for more information and to place orders. This adds excitement to the Forum and helps focus further attention on your products. The Lunch Product Showcase always receives a great deal of interest at the Forum.
Come check out The Product Showcase at the Knight Auditorium between 12:00pm and 1:00pm at Babson Entrepreneurship
Forum 2013!
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#BEF2013hall of fame, thank you
Special Thanks to
Entrepreneurship Hall of FameThe Hall of Entrepreneurs celebrates alumni who have distinguished themselves in entrepreneurial endeavors across all types of enterprises. They are recognized for their accomplishments in creating economic and social value. This year we have featured entrepreneurs that Babson has selected for their Magazines in the past 2 years. These individuals have founded or co-founded businesses which are less are making an impact in their marketplace and generating media attention.
Offi ce of the President (Babson College) The Lewis Institute (Babson College)
Babson Alumni Babson Marketing Babson BookStore
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#BEF2013 about
About NFTE Too many young people today drop out of school and struggle to break the cycle of poverty. Since 1987, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) has been inspiring young people to pursue educational opportunities, start their own businesses, and succeed in life. By providing entrepreneurship education programs rel-evant to the real world, NFTE empowers students to own their educations in and out of the classroom and to Ĵ nd their own path to success. Hundreds of thousands of students have discovered opportunity all around them through entrepreneurship via thousands of certiĴ ed educators worldwide. NFTE sup-ports active programs in 19 U.S. locations and 13 countries around the world. Entrepreneurs are a powerful driver of economic growth and NFTE sows the seeds of innovation in students worldwide. To learn more visit www.nfte.com like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NFTENewEngland follow us on Twitter at @NFTE and @NFTENewEngland
About SoFi
SoFi is an innovative student lender focused on building a community around traditional Ĵ nancial products. Recent gradu-ates and current students beneĴ t from a lower loan rate and resources dedicated to helping them achieve their Ĵ nancial and career goals. Founded in 2011, SoFi has funded nearly $200 mil-lion in loans to students and alumni from 100 top universities. To learn more about SoFi visit: http://www.SoFi.com
About Modern Guild
Unlike their parents, students today are not getting as high of a return on their education and struggle to translate their academic learning into career directions. Modern Guild is an online career mentoring company helping schools help their students. We off er three progressive levels of 1-one-1 online courses guiding high school and college students from career discovery through career readi-ness. Our courses are taught by trained career coaches and industry profes-sionals, supported by exercises and tools, and delivered online to optimize user convenience. Through partnerships with top colleges and high schools, including Boston College Carroll School of Management, UVA’s Jeff erson Scholars Foundation, St. Mark’s and Brunswick, we have helped over 300 stu-dents be better prepared for college, maximize their college learning experi-ence, and become more career ready.
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About TAPE
Known for its systems engineering expertise, TAPE provides technological, management/program support, and training solutions to government agencies. From program staff -ing and acquisition to information systems, modeling and simulation, and cyber security solutions, TAPE brings a non-traditional, innovative approach that solves existing problems while anticipating and mitigating new ones. We maintain the competitive advantage by providing state-of-the-art sup-port service and leveraging our proprietary methodologies and processes. Strategically, we integrate our internal expertise, and the expertise of our partners, into existing processes to bring about measureable results for our clients. Incorporated in 2003, TAPE is a CVE-VeriĴ ed Service- Disabled Veteran-Owned/8(m) Woman-Owned Small Business (SDVO/WOSB). We are also a registered ISO 9001:2008 company under the International Organization for Standardization. To learn more, visit: http://www.tape-llc.com/
About Commonwealth Planning Group
Commonwealth Planning Group specializes in designing, imple-menting and monitoring strategic œ nancial plans for individuals, families and corporations. We utilize a team based holistic approach to help our clients integrate their legal, tax, investment and insurance strategies around their speciĴ c goals and concerns.To learn more, visit: http://www.commonwealthplanninggroup.com/
About Polar Beverages
Polar Beverages is the largest privately-owned, selt-zer water and soft-drink bottler in the United States. The company traces its history to 1882 and has a long established reputation for quality, strong customer rela-tionships and brand loyalty. Polar’s business segments include the company’s Ķ agship Polar brand, franchise national brands, new-age brands and private-label brands. For more information please visit http://www.polarbeverages.com
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Meet the Team
Undergraduate Volunteers:Carly MooreAyush Biyani
Steering Committee:Janet StrimaitisFelipe VenegasSarah CullemDavid BrownJoshua Leffl er
Graduate Volunteers:Nazm SinghMayank AroraWael MoathenLisbet CrowleyNilanjan MannaMeenah Tarique
Luis FontanaJason NarcoonisMrudula NambiarRishabh AggarwalRoman OvchinnikovAbhishek Chapalamadugu
Javier Lara
Co-Chair
Shamoyita Mukherjee
Co-Chair
Guru Chandrasekaran
Co-Chair
Andres Klose Director of Logistics
Dante ParedesDirector of
Finance
Domenic Millen
Director of PR
Mallory McQueen
Director of Marketing
Nabeeha Qazi
Director of Alumni
Tri Dang
Director of Tech
Jessica Crowley
Director of Sales
Angel HsuDirector of
Graphic Design
Jon MorganDirector of
Futurepreneurs
Rishabh BhuratDirector of Undergrad
Lucas FehsenfeldDirector of
Sponsorship
Savitha Sridharan
Director of Speakers
Thapasya VijayaraghavanMadhumita Chandrashekhar
Vicarious, live streaming team:Chethan MittapalliNanda AbeysekeraCraig ChatwinColin AbercrombieGraeme Attkins
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