Welcoming Our Newest SAF Family Member!
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Webb Adams Kathan
came into the world weighing 9lbs, 15oz.
He joined his sister Parker and very happy parents, Becca (Adams) ('97, MBA '06) and
Todd Kathan (MBA '06) on July 25th.
Lenore and Dan Kathan ('70, MBA '73) are proud grandparents.
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Where Are You?
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We'd love to put an album together of our SAF Family Members and where you are this summer. The only theme we'd like to see is... Where are you now? |
Congratulations On Your Recent Promotion or New Position!
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Ken Eisner ('90)
Director, Global Education Strategy for Amazon Web Services
Adrian Madland ('99)
Head of Industry, Automotive for Google
Jason Kilgariff ('01)
VP, Bank of America
Marissa Evans ('06)
Head of Radical Innovation, Rent the Runway
Emily (Jessee) Gordon ('06)
Licensed Real Estate Agent for LJ Hooker Mosman
Michael Gallagher ('09)
Sr. Business Development Manager for Square Trade
Grant LaFontaine ('10)
Product Marketing Manager for Google/YouTube
Peter Weiss ('11)
Real Estate Investments for AllianceBernstein
Quip Turner ('12)
Human Resources Leadership Program Associate for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Nana Akowuah (MPS '13)
Innovation Analyst for Enterprise Community Partners
Joe Brennan ('13)
Sales Representative for Oracle
Tae Lee ('13)
Commercial Strategy Analyst - Pacific Strategy Team for Delta Air
Maria Minsker ('13)
Associate Editor, CRM Magazine for Information Today, Inc. and Freelance Writer, Parent & Child Magazine
Justin Schick ('13)
Analyst for Deutsche Bank Securities
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Meet Our New Assistant
Front Desk Manager
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Barbara (Yu) Pan 
Barbara comes to us with several years business experience both in Shanghai, China and the US. Barbara's husband is pursuing his PhD in Anthropology at Cornell.
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SAF Mission
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SAF is a
non-profit organization whose mission is to provide
Cornell students
with extraordinary opportunities to gain practical experience related to business and entrepreneurship.
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Message from Michael Karangelen, SAF President
Alumni & Friends,
We have some wonderful articles to share with you this month:
- Nathaniel Weiss ('09), Chair of the Search Committee has an article announcing the new CEO of Student Agencies, Inc. This is a very exciting time at SAI, and I'd like to thank the full search committee: Nathaniel, Adrian Madland ('99), Sharon Dauk (MBA '89) and Nancy Humphries for all of their hard work over the past 10 months.
- We are launching a new alumni series entitled "Four Questions with..." In this series, the alumnus answers four simple questions about how they got involved in the Student Agencies Family, their student experience and their path since leaving Cornell. Kristen McClellan ('12) is an young alumna who spent all four of her undergraduate years in the eLab program. She has a unique story to share with us. Some of you will recognize Kristen, as she was one of our four panelist at the very well attended SAF panel at E@C's Celebration this past April.
- We are welcoming four new members to Student Agencies Foundation Membership this year: Dan Cohen, Kartik Das ('14), Dana Lampert ('08) and Zach Shulman ('87, MBA '90). These four individuals have made substantial contributions to the mission of both eLab and SAI. Join me... in thanking, and welcoming, them.
I would like to point out that just this week - we launched the SAF Facebook page. This will be the place for quick SAF news posts, photos of our future SAF events, shared updates from our entities own social media (eLab, SAI etc), highlights of our alumni/their businesses and interesting/thoughtful information from the Ithaca/Cornell Community. Communication is important to us. We are continually looking to improve both our ability to share information with you, but also to create avenues where you can connect with other members of the SAF Family.
Sincerely,
Michael Karangelen '90
President
Student Agencies Foundation, Inc
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Kristen is an engaging and articulate young alumna, and we are so proud to share her story, from joining eLab as a freshman in college interesting in entrepreneurship into her current path as a business owner.
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Alumni/Friends in the News
Former SAI Campus Promotions General Manager, Marissa Evans ('06) | | Marissa Evans ('06) |
made news when her company GO FOR IT, which featured a fashion focused photo sharing and styling app, was acquired by Rent the Runway in June. Here's a news link to learn more. Marissa stated to us, "I'm very pleased with the acquisition as I believe there is a natural fit between the Go Try It On audience and the Rent the Runway customer base. The experience of starting and running Go Try It On has been extremely rewarding for me professionally, I'm looking forward to this next chapter.
The attraction to business started with my days at SA where I ran Campus Promotions. I think the responsibility of running a small business while in college afforded me the ability to understand what I liked about business and working with teams. SA was a great place to get a flavor of how businesses worked, how to respond and build relationships with customers and how to set goals. It was my first real experience managing an organization, totally invaluable!"
Other News that came across our desk...
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Meet the New Foundation Members
(professional bios can be viewed through their links)
SAF Trustees welcome Dan Cohen
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Dan Cohen joined the SAF Family in 2008 as the Director of eLab. At that time, eLab was a brand new entity created in partnership with E@C that brought a general business incubator to Cornell Students. eLab has grown from a pilot program (in 2008) looking to provide support to Cornell students with their start-up concepts to a strong and vibrant business acceleration program as evidenced in April's Demo Day.Dan stated, "I am honored to join Student Agencies Foundation! Attached, Being part of Student Agencies has been enriching personally and stimulating professionally. The practical, entrepreneurial, get-it-done personality of SAI has been a great fit for me and our design, planning and execution of eLab is the fruit of our work together. And many more great things on the horizon..."
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SAF Trustees welcome Kartik Das ('14) | | Kartik Das '14 |
Kartik Das joined the SAF Family in 2011 as a manager for Campus Promotions and served as SAI President and member of the SAI and SAP Board of Directors in 2012.
Student Agencies has a long tradition of Foundation Membership for the SAI President upon his/her completed term.
Kartik stated, "Being a part of Student Agencies Foundation facilitates an opportunity to continuously support the organization and the people that have made such a profound impact on my years at Cornell. I hope to be able to learn from both present members and those to come."
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SAF Trustees welcome Dana Lampert ('08)
Dana Lampert joined the SAF Family
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as the first student member of eLab. Dana graduated in 2008 and has since become a successful entrepreneur, an active mentor to current eLab students and a member of the eLab Board of Managers. Dana stated "In 2008, I had the first startup to go through the eLab program -- it was instrumental in helping me grow my concept from a class-project to a viable business opportunity. Amongst the tangible pros of eLab, I primarily benefited from the mentorship and help with recruiting employees, marketing and testing the early product, and raising seed capital. It was because of the eLab program that I made enough progress and had the confidence to turn down my corporate job offer and pursue my startup full-time. I'm thrilled to have opportunity to serve as a member of the Student Agencies Foundation -- I hope to be able to get my hands dirty working with student entrepreneurs to help them start and grow their companies."
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SAF Trustees welcome Zach Shulman ('87, JD '90)
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Zach Shulman joined the SAF Family in 2003 as a Member of the SAI Board of Directors. He currently serves as Chair of the eLab Board of Managers and is the Acting Director of E@C.
Zach stated "I am truly honored to become a member of the Student Agencies Foundation. To me, eLab is an important experiential learning opportunity for students on campus. Student Agencies' support of eLab is a fantastic testament to its commitment to giving students a place to "do" entrepreneurship, both at the Student Agencies' businesses and with students' own initiatives."
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Student Agencies, Inc (SAI) has a new CEO
It is our pleasure to welcome Kyle Karnes ('91) as the CEO of Student Agencies. Kyle will be only the second full-time professional CEO in SAI's recent history, and we are very excited to have him join the Student Agencies Family. As CEO, he will be responsible for expanding and improving the delivery of SAI's educational mission. And importantly, Kyle will also serve as 'mentor-in-chief' to our student managers, providing them day-to-day guidance and counsel.
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Kyle shared a brief message for you, our friends and alumni
"While I plan to share more thoughts on the exciting new phase we are entering here at SAI in the August newsletter; for now, I would simply like to thank everyone who has reached out to welcome me so warmly into the SA family. Your passion and dedication to the Student Agencies' mission has been incredibly moving and inspiring. I look forward to connecting with all of you in the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. I sincerely value your perspective and welcome your suggestions. My 'door' is always open! "  | | Kyle and Members of the SAI Summer Student Managment Team |
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Connect with SAF and it's Entities:
(LinkedIn connection profile for all Student Agencies Alumni and Friends will be coming soon.)
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