Jenn Smith leads food and ag startup programs for Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement, including the Grow-NY program, an annual $3M competition for innovative, early-stage, high-growth potential businesses working anywhere in the agrifood system. Through CREA she co-directs an ag tech hardware accelerator and runs a Dairy Product Innovation initiative and activities supporting the …
Sujatha Ramanujan is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with 25 years of experience in Clinical Devices and in Consumer Electronics. Sujatha has started, built, and grown three startup businesses in cardiac surgical equipment, optical communications, and nanomaterials. In addition, as CTO and Product Line Manager of Mammography CAD and Pediatric Businesses within Kodak and …
Seth comes to the GI as a serial entrepreneur with experience leading both startups and tech incubators. Most recently, Seth was Vice President of Customer and Revenue Operations for StorySlab, a sales enablement software platform headquartered in Syracuse, NY. He specialized and saw success in partnering with innovators in incubator leadership and operating as a …
Doreen M. Harris is the president and CEO of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), a public benefit corporation that advances innovative energy solutions to improve New York State’s economy and environment. Ms. Harris has held public and private sector leadership roles advancing clean energy projects and engineering companies for more …
Brian is the co-CEO of Rocket Science Corporation. Prior to that, he was VP & Head of Americas for Krafton (PUBG Corporation), where he led regional publishing efforts, studio operations, and regional esports for one of the most popular games in the world. Brian has over 20 years of niche expertise in the video game …
Steven Flenory is the Vice President of Platform Technology of Warner Bros. Games and Studio Director of Warner Bros. Games New York, a central technology group that services all Warner Bros. Games’ studios, and hundreds of millions of players around the world. A Cleveland, OH native, Steven relocated to this area in 2008 and ran …
Jim joined the organization as President in 2009, and leads NextCorps in achieving its mission of creating entrepreneurship and innovation-based regional growth. During his tenure, the organization has launched several new initiatives including a software accelerator program, a clean tech accelerator, a statewide Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, and an optics, photonics, and imaging accelerator. Through these and …
James is a recognized leader with over two decades of diverse manufacturing experience. Throughout his career, he has established a distinguished track record for engineering management, quality assurance, staff development, manufacturing and operations excellence, and change management. Company Website
Ben Vickery is Group Manager of Network Knowledge Management for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He previously served at NIST MEP as Group Manager for Marketing & Communications, where he managed a portfolio of products and services, including the NIST MEP website, MEP Connect, social media, …
Kim Lloyd is an experienced leader in the internet, technology and manufacturing space. She was the Director of Operations and Enterprise Products at GlobalSpec, a portal designed to connect industrial part manufacturers with engineering professionals around the globe. In addition, she worked at MapInfo for 14 years as a Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager …
