Alumni Profiles

Combining consulting with a passion for sports Abbi Hills arrived at Cornell in 2004, not for graduate school but for her first job: assistant coach of the women’s lacrosse team. A veteran lacrosse player who had played in high school and college, Hills helped lead the team to earn its first Ivy League title. “It […]

Hernan Mendez, MBA ’83, President of Procafecol When Hernan Mendez took over as head of Colombia’s Juan Valdez coffee business in 2010, the retailer was in sad straits. Parent company Procafecol was on the verge of bankruptcy and its misguided expansion plans for its chain of coffee shops had been deep-sixed. The executive corps was […]

Bringing transparency to the fashion supply chain Take a look at the clothes you’re wearing today. Where were they made? Under what conditions? If you’re wearing natural fiber, where was it grown? Who harvested it? And were those workers treated fairly? Ever thought about it? Natalie Grillon thinks about it – a lot. That’s why […]

Building Emerging Securities Markets The perfect segue to Bob Strahota’s career trajectory came shortly after the Berlin Wall fell. It was 1991 and he had just returned, after 19 years of private law practice, to the US Securities and Exchange Commission as an attorney fellow in its Office of General Counsel. Newly independent nations across […]

The volunteer matching and management system created by two Cornell-Queens graduates was selected to connect Cornell alumni. by Da-Eun Lee ’16 When Charlie Mulligan, MBA ’11, and Aaron Godert, MEng ’05, MBA ’11, met as fellow students in the Cornell-Queens Executive MBA Class of 2011, they had no idea they would work together as the […]

Rx for health-care communications by Irene Kim When you think about health-care customer service, what comes to mind? “Press 1 for billing inquiries. Press 2 for plan information. Your wait time may exceed ten minutes.”? Now, imagine applying the power of online advertising to health-care services: integrated communications and services delivered via conventional and social […]

Jennifer Dulski ’93, MBA ’99, president and COO at Change.org Jennifer Dulski leads by helping other people excel. She’s been doing this for most of her life. She served as coxswain for the men’s crew team in high school and the women’s team at Cornell. She taught school and founded a nonprofit enrichment program to […]

Taking the pain out of giving by Irene Kim Ever wonder how much of your charitable donation ends up paying for all those dinnertime solicitation calls and mailers with “free” address labels? Launched this spring by Daniel Mansoor, GiveNext is a website that centralizes donors’ giving and charities’ solicitation efforts. Donors enter the names of […]

Kids’ surgeons get a lucky break by Irene Kim They look like something that might have been used to build RoboCop or the Six Million Dollar Man, but the E-Fix and E-Thotic are actually medical devices to fix kids’ broken elbows. A supracondylar humerus fracture is the most common fracture in preteen children, annually occurring […]