Rev: Ithaca Startup Works

Rev Members & Sponsors Only: Free Pass Day
2018-07-10 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-06-12 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-05-08 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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!

Rev Members Only: Meet 'n' Eat with Jess Cisco
2018-07-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Everyone has to have difficult conversations, whether it is letting an employee go or breaking bad news to a business partner. Meet and discuss with HR professional Jess Cisco on How to Have Difficult Conversations. Jess is a senior HR consultant at Cornell and the founder and president of activeleading.com. Meet ‘n’ Eat is always an easy conversation! Bring your lunch and join us. Please be sure to register beforehand so we can anticipate you’ll be joining!

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About Jess Cisco:
Jess Cisco, the founder and president of ActiveLeading, LLC, has learned from a life of service. Through 20 years in the F&B industry, 11 years in higher education, and 6 years as a leadership consultant, Jess learned that he cares deeply about growth (in mind, body, and passion) and about connecting with and developing others through shared experiences.
Jess’ life goal is to help individuals realize and reach their human potential. He started ActiveLeading, speaks at conferences, and works with groups to create experiences that build self-awareness and learning opportunities for individuals and teams. Self-awareness (understanding what is important to us and how others experience us) is critical to empowerment, effectiveness, success, and happiness. Through awareness (and a willingness to learn and adapt), we have the opportunity to improve each day: to grow our mind, our body, and our passion for life.
Jess earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and a MBA from Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. He lives and works in Ithaca, NY, with his wife, Jennifer Gudaz, the Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Cornell University. Jess is an avid traveler. He’s explored over 40 countries and finds that travel broadens his perspective, offers ideas, and creates connections with people and their cultures.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat
2018-07-06 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, July 6th.
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, July 5th 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.

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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: EIR Office Hours with Ken Rother
2018-06-29 09:30 - 12:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Office Hours will be held 9:30am-12:30pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on June 28th 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 9:30am-12:30pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on June 28th 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: CEO Morning Coffee
2018-06-29 08:00 - 09:30, 2018-05-25 08:00 - 09:30 | 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.

Networking@Rev: Food & Hospitality
2018-06-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Ithaca is home to food and hospitality startups that are completely transforming the way we think about the food we eat and our outdoor lifestyles. Hear from local startups that are changing the food and hospitality industry. Presenters will share their stories (and samples), so come hungry to learn, network and taste!
Emma Frisch, Culinary Director of Firelight Camps and author of “Feast by Firelight: Simple Recipes for Camping, Cabins, and the Great Outdoors” cookbook will kick-off the night and Greenstar will be serving food inspired by recipes found in the book.
Signed copies of #FeastbyFirelight will be available for sale by our local, independent book store Buffalo Street Books

The event is free and food and drink will be available, but please RSVP to save your spot!
Hope to see you there!

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brandon Wright
2018-06-25 10:00 - 13:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on June 24th at noon. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu. Register here!
About Brandon:
Brandon is a serial entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and CEO at Zibby. Zibby is a mission-driven finance company helping retailers sell life’s necessities to 100M nonprime consumers seamlessly through every channel, from online to in-store. Zibby customers that demonstrate creditworthy behaviors graduate to more attractive financing terms over time.
Brandon’s landed his first job with a top-10 asset management team at Smith Barney, but quickly transitioned from analyzing companies to building them. He co-founded and successfully exited companies in residential mortgage, multi-family real estate, and retail coffee, all in the Pacific Northwest.
Wright has co-founded business associations and served on mayoral advisory committees for economic development. He graduated from Whitman College with an undergraduate degree in Economics and received his MBA from Cornell University in 2012.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brandon Wright
2018-06-18 10:00 - 13:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
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. Register here!
About Brandon:
Brandon is a serial entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and CEO at Zibby. Zibby is a mission-driven finance company helping retailers sell life’s necessities to 100M nonprime consumers seamlessly through every channel, from online to in-store. Zibby customers that demonstrate creditworthy behaviors graduate to more attractive financing terms over time.
Brandon’s landed his first job with a top-10 asset management team at Smith Barney, but quickly transitioned from analyzing companies to building them. He co-founded and successfully exited companies in residential mortgage, multi-family real estate, and retail coffee, all in the Pacific Northwest.
Wright has co-founded business associations and served on mayoral advisory committees for economic development. He graduated from Whitman College with an undergraduate degree in Economics and received his MBA from Cornell University in 2012.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2018-06-18 00:00 - 14:30
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 Only: Office Hours with Hayden Brainard, Esq. of Miller Mayer
2018-06-13 09:00 - 12:00
Rev members are invited to stop by and meet with Hayden R. Brainard Jr., a Partner in Miller Mayer’s Business Law and Intellectual Property practice groups. Office Hours will be held 9:00am – 12:00pm. Pre-register for 30 minute time slots beforehand.
About Hayden Brainard:
Hayden R. Brainard Jr., is a Partner in Miller Mayer’s Business Law and Intellectual Property practice groups. Mr. Brainard focuses his practice on business and intellectual property law. His business practice includes advising entrepreneurs and small and medium size businesses in formation and governance, employment matters, commercial real estate, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, succession planning and financing including venture capital. Mr. Brainard’s intellectual property law practice includes advising clients in intellectual property protection, trademark and copyright registration, licensing, negotiation and preparation of software development and service agreements and trade secret protection. Mr. Brainard is often invited to speak to entrepreneurs and start-up companies at various events hosted by universities, quasi-governmental entities and trade organizations. Mr. Brainard is a member of the New York and Connecticut bars and the U.S. Supreme Court. He received his J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University and his M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His undergraduate degree in Economics is from Syracuse University.
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Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Brian Bauer
2018-06-12 12:00 - 15:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, 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 June 11th at 9:00am. Click here to register! If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu

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 June 11th 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: EIR Office Hours with Brandon Wright
2018-06-11 10:00 - 13:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on June 10th at noon. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu. Register here!
About Brandon:
Brandon is a serial entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and CEO at Zibby. Zibby is a mission-driven finance company helping retailers sell life’s necessities to 100M nonprime consumers seamlessly through every channel, from online to in-store. Zibby customers that demonstrate creditworthy behaviors graduate to more attractive financing terms over time.
Brandon’s landed his first job with a top-10 asset management team at Smith Barney, but quickly transitioned from analyzing companies to building them. He co-founded and successfully exited companies in residential mortgage, multi-family real estate, and retail coffee, all in the Pacific Northwest.
Wright has co-founded business associations and served on mayoral advisory committees for economic development. He graduated from Whitman College with an undergraduate degree in Economics and received his MBA from Cornell University in 2012.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2018-06-06 12:30 - 15:00
Office Hours will be held Monday, 6/6 from 12:30pm – 3:00pm. Pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on June 5th at 12:30. 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 Only: Tax Reform and Q&A with Sciarabba Walker
2018-06-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
New Tax Reform & How it Will Affect You with Open Q&A presented by Sciarabba Walker, CPAs
Concerned how tax reform will affect you or do you need answers to tax and accounting questions? Bring your lunch and join us for a presentation and Q&A session with certified public accountants and business consultants Sciarabba Walker on Wednesday, June 6th from 12:00 – 1:00pm.
The event will include a review of important tax reform information followed by a question and answer session. All tax related questions, general or specific, are welcome at the Q&A.
Register by June 5th at 9:00am to reserve a spot! Since this event is held over the lunch hour you are encouraged to bring your lunch or order-in.

Rev Members Only: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2018-06-04 12:00 - 14:30
Office Hours will be held Monday, 6/4 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 3rd 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 Only: EIR Office Hours with Brandon Wright
2018-06-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Office Hours will be held Monday, 6/4 from 10:00am – 1:00pm. Pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on June 3rd at noon. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu. Register here!
About Brandon:
Brandon is a serial entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and CEO at Zibby. Zibby is a mission-driven finance company helping retailers sell life’s necessities to 100M nonprime consumers seamlessly through every channel, from online to in-store. Zibby customers that demonstrate creditworthy behaviors graduate to more attractive financing terms over time.
Brandon’s landed his first job with a top-10 asset management team at Smith Barney, but quickly transitioned from analyzing companies to building them. He co-founded and successfully exited companies in residential mortgage, multi-family real estate, and retail coffee, all in the Pacific Northwest.
Wright has co-founded business associations and served on mayoral advisory committees for economic development. He graduated from Whitman College with an undergraduate degree in Economics and received his MBA from Cornell University in 2012.

Rev Members Only: How to find a Co-Founder with Elisa Miller-Out
2018-06-01 12:00 - 13:00
We all know running a company is A LOT of work! Having co-founders with complementary talents you can trust to work just as hard at growing your company can make all the difference. However, finding a person to fill such a tall order is difficult. Singlebrook CEO and Rev Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Elisa Miller-Out will be sharing strategies for Finding Co-founders and leading the discussion at Meet ‘n’ Eat on June 1st. If you have overcome this challenge, join other Rev members and share your valuable experience. If you are looking for a co-founder or are not even sure if you need a co-founder, join and bring your questions.
Bring your lunch and discuss. Light snacks provided.
Register here.

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.

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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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 Elisa Miller Out
2018-05-08 08:00 - 17:00
