Johnson School Annual Report - Visiting Executive Program

Visiting Executive Program

Our visiting executives bring a wealth of personal and industry experience that enriches our curriculum. Visiting executives have a place in the classroom, student events, and our two speaker series. The visits build strong corporate connections with faculty as well as students. Many visiting executives are listed below, and we thank them all.

Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ajith Amerasekera, vice president, Texas Instruments
Bill Banholzer, chief technology officer, The Dow Chemical Company
Chetna Bansal '97, Rosetta Marketing
Brit Bartter, MBA '77, vice chairman, JP Morgan
Steve Benjamin, entrepreneur, Residence at the Johnson School
Nancy l. Birdsal, president, Center for Global Development
Jay Bloom, '77, MBA '78, managing partner, Trimaran Capital Partners
Allen Bova, director of risk management and insurance, Cornell University
Michael Brown, partner, Brown & Michaels LLP
Richard Burt '69
Dick Cahoon '99, director of licensing, Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commerciaization
Janet Carr, MBA '90, vice president of strategy and consumer insights, Coach
Michael Chen '85, president and chief executive officer, Media Communication and Entertainment, General Electric Commercial Finance
Joe Cherian, MBA '93
Ira Cohn '83, president, Aramark
Don Corcoran, MBA '82, president, MethylGene Corporation
Tom Dailey, MBA '94, GFK investments
Jonathan Darsey, MBA '99, partner, Accenture
Justin DeKoszmovsky, MBA '06, manager of strategic sustainability, SC Johnson
Mike Durham, MBA '77, board of directors, Durham Consulting
Stephen Freidman
Tom Gerken, account executive, The Political Risk Services Group
Julie Gerstenberger, director of external alliances and vice president, Eastman Kodak Company
Tom Gibson
Ari Glazer, vice president, Citi
Rick Gordon, MBA '74, general partner, Juniper Capital
Julia Gorman, financial advisor, Merrill Lynch
Charles Hamilton, MBA '04, president, Novomer
Jim Hauslein, MBA '84, principal, Hauslein & Company, Inc.
John Hedlun, MBA '01, director of global strategy and account development, American Express
Cheryl Heller, chief executive officer, Heller Communication Design
Jack Henion, founder and chief executive officer, Advion Biosciences
Dan Hesse, MBA '77, chief executive officer, Sprint
Jamie Hintlin, vice president and general manager, pharmaceuticals, AspenTech
Blake Howard, MBA '05, Affinnova, Inc.
Stephen B. Kaplitt, director of external alliances and vice president, Eastman Kodak Company
Steve Key, MBA '68, Key Consulting, LLC
Bill Kidd, '63, MBA '64, principal, Kidd and Company
Mindel Klein Lepore, marketing director, Internet marketing/North America, Colgate-Palmolive
Charles Knight, MBA '59, chairman emeritus, Emerson Electric Company
Josef Lakonishok, MBA '76, principal, LSV Asset Management
Linda Lovejoy, communication relations manager, Wegmans Food Markets
Jim Lyon '84, chief technology officer, Novus Energy Partners
Patrick McDaniel, Rosetta Marketing
Kevin McGovern '70, chairman, McGovern Capital
Bruce McNamer, president and chief executive officer, Technoserve
Ben McTernan, managing editor, The Political Risk Services Group
Michele Meyers-Shipp, vice president and diversity manager, Merrill Lynch
Joe Miller, chief technology officer, Corning Incorporated
Justin Miller '96, partner, Bain
Mead Montgomery, '61, MBA '62, principal, Montgomery, Shelton & Company
Steve Neimeth, MBA '97, AIG SunAmerica
Scott Neuman, MBA '99, strategist/business transformation marketing, IBM Consulting
Richard Newman, retired vice president, Welch Allyn
Nick Nikolaides, manager of doctoral recruiting and university relations, Procter & Gamble
Peter Nolan, '80, MBA '82, partner, Leonard Green & Partners, L.P.
Barbara Novick '82, vice chairman and head of account management group, Blackrock, Inc.
Gen Obata, MBA '02, Coach
Gail Onorato, vice president, Polo Ralph Lauren
Christine Pambianchi '90, vice president of human resources, Corning Incorporated
Jeff Peterson, MBA '88, vice president, Monsanto Corporation
Bryan Preston, MBA '03, vice president of innovations, Healthways, Inc.
Val Rahmani, vice president of corporate strategy, IBM
Frank Raiter, former managing director, Standard and Poor's
Miilton Regan, co-director, Georgetown University Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
Bob Rhea, partner, ATKearney
Robert Romasco
Hernan Saenz, MBA '98, partner, Bain & Company
Barry Salzberg, chief executive officer, Deloitte & Touche
Julie Shimer, president and chief executive officer, Welch Allyn
Gilvan C. Souza, associate professor of operations management, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Thomas Steffie, vice president of sales and marketing, NovaSterilis
Michael Stow, Covidien, Inc.
Tom Sullivan, president, Supply Chain Business Process
Martin Tang '70, chairman, Spencer Stuart & Associates
Mike Taylor, ShellingPoint, Inc.
Brad Treat , MBA '02, chief executive officer, Mesmerize Corporation
Tony Tripeny, controller, Corning Incorporated
Dan van Plew, senior vice president and general manager, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Danko Velkov
Leanne Wagner '81, vice president, Wyeth BioPharma
Jay Walker '77, chairman, Walker Digital
Kevin Walsh '76, Claritas
Howard Weinberg, leader of growth and innovation strategy practice, Deloitte Consulting
William Weldon, chief executive officer, Johnson & Johnson
Gary Woloszyn, store manager, Wegmans Food Markets
Peter Wright '75, PAW Partners
Eric Young '78, partner, Canaan Partners from California
Anthony Zinni, retired four-star general, U.S. Marine Corps

Barry Salzberg, president and CEO of Deloitte & Touche USA, LLP, addressed the state of the economy and expressed confidence that the financial services industry and other businesses will rebound, creating great opportunities for talented, flexible MBAs, during his presentation at Sage Hall, "Where Do We Go From Here?" October 30, 2008. Salzberg visited the Johnson School as a Roy H. Park Leadership Speaker.

William C. Weldon, CEO and chairman of Johnson & Johnson, spoke about the company's commitment to developing leadership talent for the future, its decentralized management approach, and the importance of managing for the long term, when he delivered the 22nd Lewis H. Durland Memorial Lecture, "A Perspective on Leadership," on campus November 13, 2008.

Barbara Ley Toffler, author of Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and the Fall of Arthur Andersen, spoke on "The Cult in Culture" as the Johnson School's 2009 Day Family Ethics Lecturer, April 22, 2009. She described how Arthur Andersen's corporate culture morphed from focusing on professionalism and meeting clients' needs to maximizing profits for the firm.
A former Harvard Business School professor, Toffler was hired by Arthur Andersen to develop consulting services in ethics and responsible business practices;
she left four years later.

Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellín, Colombia, presented "Colombia: Challenges and Opportunities" to Johnson School students on February 19, 2009. Fajardo is credited with transforming Medellín—once described as the world's deadliest city because of its homicide rate—into a showcase for new educational and architectural projects. He spoke about this in "From Fear to Hope," a lecture delivered the same day as part of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs Spring 2009 Colloquium Series.

Carla Harris, managing director, strategic client group, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, spoke on campus March 6, 2009, as a panelist at the 2009 Women's Power Lunch, on "How to Succeed in Challenging Times: The 5 Secret Skills for Executive Women." Addressing the importance of perceptions, she said: "You can train people to think what you want them to think about you. Choose three adjectives you'd like people to use to describe you when you're not in the room—qualities that are valued in your organization. Then behave that way consistently."