Guiding team Intellidemia
Industry Veterans and Visionaries
Remy Artega
CEO, Dual Align
Mr. Artega is the CEO of DualAlign LLC, an image registration technology firm. Remy began his career developing business methods for General Motors. He then spent 7 years advising clients on the deployment of IT strategies. Remy's first start-up was a digital imaging business, where he took the company to profitability in six months. Prior to joining DualAlign LLC, Remy served as CEO of a start-up medical device company which focused on a self-injector in the Anaphylaxis market.
Mark Ludwig
CEO, AirTreks
Mr. Ludwig has extensive knowledge and experience in start-ups, turn-arounds, and strategic re-directions. Mark is CEO and Director of AirTreks, Chairman of Mixonic, Interim CEO of MedSeek, Chairman of Impulse Devices, Chairman of CareSeek and Founder of TriMet Industries. Previous positions held include VP of Worldwide Sales at the Gartner Group, Senior VP at Crystal Technologies, GM at both Computer Automation and Western Digital, as well as a career start with Xerox.
Don McMurtry
Former VP Sales, Research in Motion
Mr. McMurtry joined Research In Motion (RIM) in 1993 when the wireless-data market was just emerging. He had been responsible for a broad range of sales and marketing activities. He became vice president of sales in 1997, and helped launch BlackBerry in 1999. In May 2005, after nearly twelve years of building RIM, Don retired and took a year to travel the world.
John Russo
Founder and Former CEO, GeoNet Communications
Mr. Russo began his Silicon Valley career as an associate with the Venture Capital firm of Merrill, Pickard, Anderson and Eyre. After positions with Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems, he founded GeoNet Communications, Inc. one of the earliest Internet infrastructure and services companies. In 1998, Level 3 Communications, Inc. acquired GeoNet. Since then, Mr. Russo has been active in seed financing and startup activities.
Jeffery Schwartz
Partner, Phillips Lytle
Mr. Schwartz practices banking and corporate law. He regularly works with start-ups, technology, and emerging growth companies, from formation through venture financing and other capital raising initiatives. Jeff also represents various capital providers, from angel investors to venture capital funds. In addition, he represents borrowers, banks and institutional lenders in connection with varied forms of financing including secured and unsecured credit facilities.
Academic Experts and Leaders
Andrew Corbett
Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Expertise: Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado in Boulder
Areas of Instruction: Professor Corbett teaches across a portfolio of entrepreneurship and strategy courses both to undergraduates and MBAs. He is also the faculty advisor to the Tech Valley Collegiate Business Plan Competition.
Research and Publications: Dr. Corbett's research examines learning and cognitive perspectives of the entrepreneurial process and the role of individuals within strategic renewal. He was recently invited to join the editorial board of Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice and he has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Management Studies since 2003.
David Gautschi
Dean of Graduate School of Business Administration, Fordham University
Expertise: Marketing
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Instruction: As the former Dean of the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Ploytechnic Institute (RPI), where he served since 2005, Dr. Gautschi instructed marketing and business courses that focused on strategy, systems, the economies of retailing, global information and telecommunications industries, and high tech product market management. He brings to the classroom a unique expertise of research at various high-caliber national and international academic institutions in combination with in-depth industry experience that has global reach and impact.
Research & Publications: Dean Gautschi focuses his research on optimization of marketing decisions, choice models, retailing and market systems, and marketing, business and technology. He has published over 35 articles in marketing, economics, and technology management journals. Dean Gautschi has co-founded three firms, among them an international firm that has developed marketing decision support systems and industry specific market simulation models and laboratories with clients from around the globe. As a Firm Director, he served as one of six leaders of the e-business practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP from 1999 to 2003. He has also served on the faculties of Cornell, Yale, INSEAD, and the University of Washington.
Jason Kuruzovich
Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Expertise: Management Information Systems
Education: Ph.D., University of Maryland
Areas of Instruction: Professor Kuruzovich is currently teaching a class which integrates the technical challenges of managing data with the business challenges of deriving insights through statistical analysis, visualization, and data mining. In addition, Professor Kuruzovich is currently co-teaching a PhD seminar on advanced topics in information systems research.
Research & Publications: Dr. Kuruzovich's research broadly examines the means through which both individuals and organizations derive value from information systems.