Sentences with phrase «of alums of»

Dedicated to highlighting the work of alums of the Van Lier Fellowship program at MAD, Fellow Focus invites these emerging artists to showcase the artwork they produced while working in residence at the Museum as fellows.

Not exact matches

Take Y Combinator alum and founder of Amicus Seth Bannon, for example.

Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.

We've pulled together some of the best advice from this year's 30 Under 30 Rising Star judges, who include: Phil Libin, a senior adviser at General Catalyst and co-founder of Evernote and All Turtles; Sarah Kauss, CEO and founder of designer - water - bottle company S'well; Spectacular Blue Smith, the social - media guru behind the Adwizar agency; and Jen Rubio, a 30 Under 30 alum and co-founder of luggage brand Away.

Here are a few ideas from Michigan State University alum and Michigan entrepreneur, Jenna Kator, founder of the Jenna Kator Collection (JK).

Ameeta is a Springboard alum and past chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.

Here, we pulled together some of the best advice from this year's 30 Under 30 judges, who include: Real estate mogul and Shark Tank co-host Barbara Corcoran, XPrize's Peter Diamandis, Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman, CB Insights» CEO Anand Sanwal, and Uncharted Play founder (and 30 Under 30 alum) Jessica O. Matthews.

The new Knight Management Center, one of the most ambitious B - school construction plans ever, is the result of an unprecedented gift from Nike (NKE) founder and Stanford MBA alum Philip H. Knight.

He's an alum of Black & Decker, Amazon, and most recently Google, where he worked on its Express team, overseeing the launch of its same - day delivery service to seven different metropolitan areas.

Rachel Mayer, head of Circle Invest and an alum of Lehman Brothers and J.P. Morgan, is Venezuelan.

Ben Lerer, an Inc. 30 Under 30 alum, is the co-founder and CEO of Thrillist Media Group.

That drew the ire of Bitcoin's diehard fanbase — one J.P. Morgan alum went as far as to tell Dimon to «STFU about trading $ BTC.»

Last September, the former Facebook executive and University of Waterloo alum looked back across the border from Silicon Valley and bought a majority stake in Toronto - based mobile development firm Xtreme Labs for a reported $ 20 million.

and 1871 alum Baloonr (See Common Communication Mistakes That Destroy Productivity) helping companies address specific aspects of this problem.

(It helped that the majority of Canadian Tire executives with MBAs were Ivey alums.)

In the archives of Inc.com, you can find stories about happy alums from the programs at Emerson College and UC - Berkeley.

What's more, there are plenty of programs on neither top 20 list which have produced satisfied entrepreneurial alums.

One of his friends and fellow Princeton alum, William Krusen, also invested with him, the report said.

Just eight percent of the nearly 10,000 alums polled for the school's first ever «Survey on U.S. Competitiveness» see the U.S. pulling ahead of emerging markets.

Early on, the company made it into vaunted startup accelerator Y Combinator, but back then being a YC alum wasn't the near - guarantee of funding that it is now.

The coach provided the season - ticket mailing lists, and, Shine says, «in our mailings, we'd have a picture of the coach and local alums wearing our garments.

Harvard alums recently launched this updated version of the Harvard Club, New York magazine reports.

Haas alums were fourth on the list, with median 20 - year pay of $ 2,858,000, while Darden MBAs came in at $ 2,705,000, placing the school's alumni seventh.

-- Sara Morgan, founder of Eleven Eleven PR, a non-traditional PR firm and 500 Startups alum, who has grown her company 300 percent year - over-year

I went to a ton of people for advice, from faculty, to speakers on campus, to alums, to people on campus who had done startups.»

He maintained a punishing travel schedule, which included commitments to at least 18 outside organizations at various times, such as the board of Xerox (XRX), the U.S. - China Business Council, and the Business Round table, as well as personal interests, such as chairing the board of visitors at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (his two children are Duke alums).

Until alums Glynn LoPresti, Michael Rihani and Patrick Gartlan stepped in by founding Koofers Inc. in 2006, students had to be friends with a classmate to share notes — and had to be part of Virginia Tech.

That means you still go to games as an alum, you still tailgate, and you always have a good stockpile of spirit - wear in your closet.

The ex-McKinsey consultant, school teacher and Harvard, Oxford and University of Pennsylvania alum is an expert in the qualities of successful people.

Milner has also made a promise to fund Y Combinator alums with $ 150,000 — from his own personal fortune of about $ 1 billion — once they've finished the program.

On his panel: his grandfather, Bill Draper, co-founder of Sutter Hill Ventures; his father, Tim Draper, cofounder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson; his sister, Jesse Draper, host of «The Valley Girl Show»; and his brother, Billy Draper, a Facebook alum who now works with his father at Draper Associates.

She suggest using the information you researched to say something along the lines of, «Hey, I've read you're an Ole Miss alum.

But MIT's Sloan School put him on its wait list, where he languished for a year until, on the recommendation of a friend who was a Sloan alum, an admissions counselor agreed to meet with him.

But one of the most generous contributors to St. FX didn't even go there — University of Manitoba alum and Onex CEO Gerald Schwartz has donated millions to the Antigonish school.

(In 2013, we compiled a book, Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career, that told the inside stories of some of the list's most inspiring alums.)

Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Cohn's fellow Goldman Sachs alum in the White House, backed the tariffs, but tried to tamp down talk of a trade war.

The researchers tested whether people were more likely to give if they received the gift at the same time that they received the solicitation, or the promise of a gift only if the alum donated.

The researchers worked with the Association of Former Students at Texas A&M to test the donation responses of alums who were solicited for money during a regular direct - mail fundraising campaign.

But the questions about how much of Trevorrow's plot will stay in the movie will only increase after a new revelation from «Saturday Night Live» alum Bobby Moynihan.

One of the greatest benefits of getting a college education is having access to amazing alums who've been in your shoes.

What's surprising is how many of your school's famous alums love to meet with college entrepreneurs.

Consequently, many of those who succeed in the EBV program weren't always ideal military men and women, says Nathan Atherley, a 36 - year - old former Air Force officer and 2010 UConn EBV alum.

As an alum of the Young Global Leaders network, Ma shed light on what the room of young adults should focus on within the next 30 years.

«I would set [the alarm clock] at 1 in the morning, Jim would set it at 2, I'd set it at 3 a.m.,» says Taweel, a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and 1992 MBA alum.

He's also a fan of Sean Feeney, a Goldman alum who's co-owner of Lilia in Brooklyn's Williamsburg.

«This isn't a crazy hypothetical anymore,» says Dan Wallach, one of the Felten - Appel alums and now a computer science professor at Rice.

Greg is a writer, marketing strategist and alum of Help Scout, where he helped build the content program and brand from the ground up.

Kit is a University of Delaware alum and holds designations as a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Accredited Estate Planner.

The hope is that someday, being an ex-Philz staffer could convey a type of expertise in retail and food service in the same way that being an alum of Facebook, Google, or Apple conveys a type of expertise in tech.

«Attending there is different between paying lip service to saying you want creative people in the company and actually showing that you genuinely appreciate creative people,» says Ferazzi camp alum, James Schroer, the former head of marketing at Chrysler and Ford.