Rev: Ithaca Startup Works

Members Only: CEO Morning Coffee
2018-03-30 08:00 - 09:30, 2018-04-27 08:00 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
All CEOs of Rev Member Companies and Rev Sponsors are invited to sit down over a cup of locally-roasted coffee and connect during this casual meetup.
CEO Morning Coffee is hosted the last Friday of every month and is open to only CEOs of Rev Member Companies and Rev Sponsors. Registration is by invitation-only.

Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat
2018-04-06 09:00 - 12:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Schedule time to meet with Rev Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Brad Treat, on April 6th between 9am – 12pm.
Pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Click here to register!

About Brad Treat:

Brad is a career entrepreneur with an emphasis on technology-driven companies. Brad was most recently the Founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz is based on patented MEMS technology developed by company co-founder Shahyaan Desai at Cornell. Previously, he was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Cornell University.
Brad was also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell Professor Toby Berger, Brad grew SightSpeed from a university research project into the world’s premier video calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30M.
Earlier in his career, Brad worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the US and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State, and an MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Brad lives in Ithaca, New York. He is faculty at Johnson at Cornell, Cornell Engineering, and Ithaca College teaching practical entrepreneurship, empathetic leadership, and project management. With the loving support of his wife Kristin and sideways looks from his children, he competes in long-distance triathlons in the “Clydesdale” division, has done a few Ironman triathlons, and has finished a handful of marathons without walking.

Members Only: April Meet 'n' Eat
2018-04-06 12:00 - 13:00
Join us on April 6th from 12:00 – 1:00pm for a fun new Meet ‘n’ Eat series focused around travel! Rev members are regularly taking business and personal trips to all parts of the world, and we’d like to learn and let you share about these experiences! We’re going to kick this series off with Brad Treat’s recent business trip to Shanghai, China to teach entrepreneurship workshops at Jiao Tong University. “Whatever you were thinking China is like, it’s not that today” – Brad Treat
Bring your lunch (or order in!) and learn, ask, and share your own stories. Please RSVP for this event HERE. We look forward to having you join us!

Members Only: Headshot Photo Day
2018-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev Members are invited to come get their headshot taken by professional photographer Robyn Wishna. Please sign-up HERE if you are interested. Sign-ups are on a first come, first serve basis. This is a complimentary service for Rev Members.
Robyn recently ran the We Are Ithaca Photo project. Feel free to check out some of her work at www.robynwishna.com.

Members & Sponsors Only: Free Pass Day
2018-04-10 09:00 - 17:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
All employees of Rev Member companies are welcome to come work without using a Day Pass. This is a great chance to catch up with mentors and other Members, meet new people, and connect with special guests and Rev Sponsors! Bagels provided – yum!

Members Only: Office Hours with Andrew Quagliata
2018-04-11 09:00 - 11:00
Rev members are invited to stop by and meet with Andrew Quagliata on Wednesday, April 11th during open office hours. Andrew is excited to connect with local entrepreneurs, and will be answering any questions about pitch deck prep and will share feedback.
Office Hours will be held 9:00am-11:00am & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session.
Click here to register!

About Andrew Quagliata
Andrew Quagliata is a lecturer of management communication in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, School of Hotel Administration. He teaches a first-year business communication course, an upper-level persuasive communication class, and an elective, Communication for Entrepreneurs. He is also the faculty sponsor of the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship Annual Pitch Deck Competition.

Members Only: CEO & Senior Management Happy Hour!
2018-04-13 17:00 - 18:00
No better hour than happy hour! Come connect over drinks at Argos, on April 13th at 5:00pm. This will be a great opportunity to meet & hangout with your fellow Rev members. We look forward to seeing you and your senior team there! Registration is by invitation-only.

Members Only: Office Hours with Nate Cook, Esq. of Miller Mayer
2018-04-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev members are invited to stop by and meet with Nate Cook, an Attorney of Counsel in Miller Mayer’s Business Law, Real Estate, and Intellectual Property practice groups. Office Hours will be held 9:00am – 12:00pm.
Pre-registration required for 30-minute time slots!
Click here to register!
About Nate Cook:
Nate Cook is an attorney of counsel in Miller Mayer’s practice group, and focuses on business, finance, real estate, and intellectual property law. Mr. Cook advises entrepreneurs and established businesses in organization, mergers and acquisitions, formation, licensing, succession planning, and financing. Mr. Cook also focuses on real estate, where he represents buyers and sellers of residences and commercial real estate throughout Central NY and the Southern Tier. Mr. Cook also advises clients in intellectual property protection, trademark and copyright registration, licensing, franchising, negotiation and preparation of software development and service agreements, as well as trade secret protection. Nate Cook received his J.D. from Rutgers Law School and Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of North Texas.

Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration
2018-04-18 16:00 - 2018-04-20 18:00
This two-day entrepreneurship conference is conducted annually on Cornell’s campus. This year’s conference will bring together more than 700 entrepreneurial enthusiasts. Events include: eLab Demo Day, Celebration Expo Lunch featuring entrepreneurship resources at Cornell, Shark Tank, Student Business of the Year announced, Business Idea & Plan Competition Final, networking opportunities…and much more! This is something that you do not want to miss!
Rev members receive a discounted rate to Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration. To receive this discounted rate please select “faculty” when registering.
REGISTER HERE

eLab Demo Day
2018-04-19 16:30 - 18:15
Come see eLab teams pitch!
Rev members are invited to attend eLab Demo Day, as part of this year’s Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration. Demo Day is a free event that will be held from 4:30-6:15pm in the Statler Auditorium on April 19th.

Ithaca College Startup Business Plan Demo Day
2018-04-24 17:00 - 19:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Come support Ithaca College students with budding businesses pitch to seasoned entrepreneurs in an effort to be awarded cash prizes that will further their business development. Who will have the best plans? What great ideas are students working on? Is there a company that you’d like to join? Come and be a part of the audience to find out and cast your vote for the Audience Choice award! A reception and awards ceremony will follow the presentations with prize awards for each team announced at the end.

This event is free and open to the entire community! All are welcomed and encouraged to attend! Please RSVP to attend this fun evening HERE.
If you are an Ithaca College student and are interested in participating in this competition please contact bizidea@ithaca.edu.

Networking@Rev: Ithaca is Startups
2018-04-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Hi!
We all know that Ithaca is Gorges, but did you know Ithaca is Startups?
Come to our April Networking@Rev event: Ithaca is Startups to hear from entrepreneurs about why they moved to Ithaca to launch and grow their businesses.
The event will feature Jennifer Tavares, President and CEO of Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, and many local startup founders.
We will also be hosting a Startup Career Fair at the event to connect companies with interns and employees.
Join us Wednesday, April 25th 6:00pm – 8:30pm at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works in downtown Ithaca.
The event is free and food and drink will be available, but please RSVP here to save your spot!
Hope to see you there!
Your friends at Rev

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat
2018-05-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev members are invited to schedule a time to meet with Rev Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Brad Treat, on Friday, December 7th.
Office Hours will be held 9:00am-12:00pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close on Thursday, December 6th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu
Click to HERE to register!!

About Brad Treat:

Brad is a career entrepreneur with an emphasis on technology-driven companies. Brad was most recently the Founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz is based on patented MEMS technology developed by company co-founder Shahyaan Desai at Cornell. Previously, he was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Cornell University.
Brad was also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell Professor Toby Berger, Brad grew SightSpeed from a university research project into the world’s premier video calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30M.
Earlier in his career, Brad worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the US and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State, and an MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Brad lives in Ithaca, New York. He is faculty at Johnson at Cornell, Cornell Engineering, and Ithaca College teaching practical entrepreneurship, empathetic leadership, and project management. With the loving support of his wife Kristin and sideways looks from his children, he competes in long-distance triathlons in the “Clydesdale” division, has done a few Ironman triathlons, and has finished a handful of marathons without walking.

Members Only: Copper Horse Coffee Tasting
2018-05-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Copper Horse Coffee will be hosting a coffee tasting at Rev on May 1st! Attendees will be able to taste different roasts and learn more about the drink!
Register as soon as possible to ensure you have a spot reserved! Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on April 30th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending this event & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu. Register here!

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2018-05-02 11:30 - 15:00
Office Hours will be held 11:30am – 3:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on May 1st at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu
About Elisa Miller-Out:

Currently, Miller-Out serves as the managing partner at Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused on women-led technology companies. She’s also co-founder of PollQ, a chatbot polling tool for higher education, and a board member at Women 2.0, the leading media brand for women in tech.
In 2016, Elisa oversaw a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is the company’s CFO as well as chair of the board. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education, and nonprofit clients from around the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and more.
Prior to starting Singlebrook, Elisa founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in New York City. She has also launched several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. Learn more at www.elisamillerout.com.

Workshop@Rev: Quickbooks with Chris Rossi
2018-05-03 12:00 - 13:00
Chris Rossi of Your Office Biz, Inc, will be leading a Workshop@Rev advising Rev Members on how to efficiently use Quickbooks software for their business.
Pre-registration for the event is required! Click here to register!
More information to come!

Rev Members Only: Meet 'n' Eat with Ken Rother
2018-05-04 12:00 - 13:00
Ever thought about being acquired some day? Join Ken Rother from 12:00 – 1:00pm to find out what you should be doing now to prepare for successful acquisition in the future. This event is for Rev Member Companies and employees only. Register here.
Light snacks provided. Please feel free to bring your lunch to enjoy over this timely topic!

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller Out
2018-05-08 08:00 - 17:00
Office Hours will be held Monday, 6/18 from 12:00pm – 2:30pm. Pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on June 17th at noon. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu. Please, click HERE to register!

About Elisa Miller-Out:
Currently, Miller-Out serves as the managing partner at Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused on women-led technology companies. She’s also co-founder of PollQ, a chatbot polling tool for higher education, and a board member at Women 2.0, the leading media brand for women in tech.
In 2016, Elisa oversaw a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is the company’s CFO as well as chair of the board. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education, and nonprofit clients from around the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and more.
Prior to starting Singlebrook, Elisa founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in New York City. She has also launched several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. Learn more at www.elisamillerout.com.

Rev Members & Sponsors Only: Free Pass Day
2018-05-08 09:00 - 17:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca

Info Session @Rev with Cornell Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
2018-05-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Join us for this info session to learn more about how Cornell Law School is launching a new law clinic to provide free legal services to Ithaca-area entrepreneurs and start-ups. The new Entrepreneurship Clinic is now accepting applications from prospective clients; anyone who would like to work with the clinic in the fall semester of 2018 should apply by the deadline of 5:00pm on June 1, 2018.
The Entrepreneurship Clinic will seek to provide free legal services to local entrepreneurs and start-ups who are not yet ready or able to engage paid legal counsel. Working under the supervision of a clinical law professor, Cornell Law students will represent clients in a variety of transactional matters, including entity selection and formation; founders’ agreements and initial business structuring; intellectual property protection; operational contracts; employee contracts; and other general corporate & transactional matters The Entrepreneurship Clinic will provide services during Cornell’s fall and spring semesters, and will consider new client applications before the start of each semester.
Client applications will be considered based on a variety of criteria, including whether prospective client has access to transactional legal services, and whether the work is appropriate in scope and complexity for the Cornell Law students who will be working in the clinic during the academic year as part of their coursework. The Entrepreneurship Clinic cannot provide services before September 2018.
To apply to work with the Entrepreneurship Clinic in the fall semester of 2018, please fill out the client application form by 5:00pm on June 1, 2018. Clients who are selected to work with the clinic will be notified shortly after the application deadline. Please direct any questions about the clinic to Celia Bigoness at cwb94@cornell.edu.
Register for this info session HERE.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brian Bauer
2018-05-08 12:00 - 15:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Schedule time to meet with Rev Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Brian Bauer, on May 7th between 12pm – 3pm.
Pre-registration is required the day before for a 30-minute session. Click here to register!

About Brian Bauer:
Brian Bauer is the Program Director for clean energy programs with Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement. Brian runs 76West, NYSERDA’s clean energy business competition, and he is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Southern Tier Startup Alliance, a member organization of incubators across the Southern Tier which is a collaboration between Cornell, Binghamton University, and Corning Enterprises.
Brian is a seasoned international energy industry executive with extensive experience in Oil, Natural Gas, Chemicals, and renewables in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Brian ran several international businesses during a 30-year career in the energy industry and has expertise in operations, strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, major project management, corporate governance and organizational change.
Brian has a B.S. In Chemical Engineering from Cornell and an MBA in Operations and Finance from the University of Chicago. In addition to his entrepreneurial work, Brian lectures at Cornell and serves on the Board of the Paleontological Research Institute, which includes the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center, both near Ithaca.
Office Hours will be held 12:00pm – 3:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on May 7th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu

Rev Members Only: Office Hours with Ryoko Nozawa from Cayuga Venture Fund
2018-05-09 09:00 - 11:30
Rev members are invited to stop by and meet with Ryoko Nozawa of Cayuga Venture Fund, on Wednesday, May 9th during open office hours. Office Hours will be held 9:00am – 11:30am. Pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session
About Ryoko Nozawa:
Ryoko joined CVF in 2016 after her internship with CVF as an MBA student. She focuses on exploring investment opportunities, supporting portfolio companies, and assisting fund administration. Previously, she worked in Seattle for Mission Investors Exchange where she organized resources for philanthropic investors. At American Express in Tokyo, she managed system integration projects.
Ryoko graduated with an MBA from Cornell University, during which she spent a semester abroad at the National University of Singapore. She is originally from Japan and earned a BA in Economics from Keio University.

Rev Members Only: Office Hours with Miller Mayer (Paul Lee, Esq.)
2018-05-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev members are invited to stop by and meet with Paul Lee, Attorney Of Counsel in Miller Mayer’s Business Services Group. Office Hours will be held 10:00am-1:00pm, on Wednesday, May 16th. Pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Click here to register!
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About Paul Lee
Paul Lee is an Attorney Of Counsel in Miller Mayer’s Business Service Group.
Mr. Lee engages in corporate law and regulatory compliance advising seed and early stage companies to Global 500 companies in formation, corporate governance, corporate finance, acquisitions, and regulatory compliance. Mr. Lee represents a wide range of companies in emerging industries including ag-tech, life sciences, clean energy, international trade and financial services, among others.
Many of Mr. Lee’s clients include university spinout companies commercializing technologies who have received STTR/SBIR Phase I and II funding as well as private companies undergoing Phase 0. He represents companies who are residents of the many incubators and accelerator programs including ESD Centers of Excellence, REV Ithaca Startup Works, Cornell’s McGovern Center, NextCorps, CUNY’s iHub with many of his companies having won competitions including those sponsored by FuzeHub and New York’s 76West Clean Energy Competition.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2018-05-16 12:30 - 15:00
Office Hours will be held 12:30am – 3:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on May 15th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu
About Elisa Miller-Out:

Currently, Miller-Out serves as the managing partner at Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused on women-led technology companies. She’s also co-founder of PollQ, a chatbot polling tool for higher education, and a board member at Women 2.0, the leading media brand for women in tech.
In 2016, Elisa oversaw a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is the company’s CFO as well as chair of the board. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education, and nonprofit clients from around the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and more.
Prior to starting Singlebrook, Elisa founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in New York City. She has also launched several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. Learn more at www.elisamillerout.com.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat
2018-05-18 13:00 - 16:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev members are invited to schedule a time to meet with Rev Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Brad Treat, on Friday, May 18th.
Office Hours will be held 1:00pm-4:00pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close on Thursday, May 17th at 1:00pm. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu
Click here to register!

About Brad Treat:

Brad is a career entrepreneur with an emphasis on technology-driven companies. Brad was most recently the Founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz is based on patented MEMS technology developed by company co-founder Shahyaan Desai at Cornell. Previously, he was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Cornell University.
Brad was also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell Professor Toby Berger, Brad grew SightSpeed from a university research project into the world’s premier video calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30M.
Earlier in his career, Brad worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the US and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State, and an MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Brad lives in Ithaca, New York. He is faculty at Johnson at Cornell, Cornell Engineering, and Ithaca College teaching practical entrepreneurship, empathetic leadership, and project management. With the loving support of his wife Kristin and sideways looks from his children, he competes in long-distance triathlons in the “Clydesdale” division, has done a few Ironman triathlons, and has finished a handful of marathons without walking.

Rev Members Only: CEO Morning Coffee
2018-05-25 08:00 - 09:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Ken Rother
2018-05-25 09:30 - 10:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Office Hours will be held 9:30-10:30pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on May 24th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu. Register HERE.

Ken Rother is the Director of Rev as well as its Hardware Entrepreneurship program. He is the Managing Director of Cornell’s eLab student accelerator program, teaches entrepreneurship at the Johnson School, instructs and coaches in several technology commercialization programs including NSF I-Corps, and is a Venture Partner at Cayuga Venture Fund.
Ken has held multiple senior business and technical positions for organizations such as Discovery Communications, Reuters, Matrox, and the Toronto Stock Exchange. He has direct startup experience having co-founded a software business in Toronto and joining an early stage online media business in New York, both of these startups concluded with successful exits.
Most recently Ken was the Senior Vice President of Digital Media at Discovery.
Office Hours will be held 9:30-10:30am & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on May 24th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu. Register HERE.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2018-05-30 13:30 - 15:00
Office Hours will be held 1:30am – 3:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on May 29th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu
About Elisa Miller-Out:

Currently, Miller-Out serves as the managing partner at Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused on women-led technology companies. She’s also co-founder of PollQ, a chatbot polling tool for higher education, and a board member at Women 2.0, the leading media brand for women in tech.
In 2016, Elisa oversaw a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is the company’s CFO as well as chair of the board. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education, and nonprofit clients from around the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and more.
Prior to starting Singlebrook, Elisa founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in New York City. She has also launched several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. Learn more at www.elisamillerout.com.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat
2018-06-01 09:00 - 12:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev members are invited to schedule a time to meet with Rev Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Brad Treat, on Friday, June 1st.
Office Hours will be held 9:00am-12:00pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close on Thursday, May 31st at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu
Click here to register!

About Brad Treat:

Brad is a career entrepreneur with an emphasis on technology-driven companies. Brad was most recently the Founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz is based on patented MEMS technology developed by company co-founder Shahyaan Desai at Cornell. Previously, he was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Cornell University.
Brad was also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell Professor Toby Berger, Brad grew SightSpeed from a university research project into the world’s premier video calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30M.
Earlier in his career, Brad worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the US and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State, and an MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Brad lives in Ithaca, New York. He is faculty at Johnson at Cornell, Cornell Engineering, and Ithaca College teaching practical entrepreneurship, empathetic leadership, and project management. With the loving support of his wife Kristin and sideways looks from his children, he competes in long-distance triathlons in the “Clydesdale” division, has done a few Ironman triathlons, and has finished a handful of marathons without walking.
