PANELISTS & MODERATORS

Heather Beam
Program Manager, Reconstructive Products, Integra LifeSciences Corp
Heather Beam joined Integra in 2005 as Program Manager for Reconstructive Products, focusing primarily on small bone and joint fixation, and is responsible for managing the execution of product development for those products.  Dr. Beam joins Integra with 10 years of orthopedic research experience in bone fracture repair and medical devices.  She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University/University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ.  Prior to joining Integra Dr. Beam worked in the area of bone healing and investigated the process of bone fracture repair in diabetics.

Catherine Cook
Co-Founder, myYearBook.com
myYearbook was created by two high school students, David and Catherine Cook in March 2005.  After obtaining angel financing from their older brother, Geoff, the duo launched the site in April.  After just one year, the site attained over one million members from all over the world, and is adding 6,000 members a day.  The idea for the site came from flipping through a normal high school yearbook.  The site allows students to find out more about their classmates and make friends, expanding their real social life onto the web.  The Cooks hope to attract more users than MySpace, and currently own the only site growing faster than MySpace.  myYearbook has attracted advertisers like Paramount Pictures and Disney.  Ms. Cook, a senior at Montgomery High School, New Jersey, has appeared in Business Week, CosmoGirl!, Star Ledger, Red Herring, MTV, ABC Money Matters, CNN, and more.  For more information, visit www.myYearbook.com.

Rebecca Davis
Artistic Director and Founder, Rebecca Davis Dance Company
After winning the 2004 Temple University Business Plan Competition, 24  year old Canadian native Rebecca Davis decided to found her non-profit organization in Philadelphia. Ms.Davis invested $20,000 in personal savings and $6,000 in prize winnings to start The Rebecca Davis Dance Company.  In two years, The Company now has a $250,000 operating budget and its own studio in Center City, Philadelphia. Ms. Davis is committed to developing rising talent and transforming young dancers into performing artists.  Her company has pioneered a unique pre-professional dance-theater program that imparts literary works and historical events to students and adult audiences alike.  She is a summa cum laude graduate of The Fox School of Business at Temple University, and was granted the Fulbright Scholarship to study choreography and classical ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Rebecca Davis Dance Company premiered its full-length production, Antigone, at The Kimmel Center for The Performing Arts in March 2006.  On June 9, 2006, the doors to the official training school of The Rebecca Davis Dance Company were opened by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown at 1802 South Broad Street.  The Company has created a school outreach program for its new production, The Helen Keller Project, and the full-length production will premiere in 2008.  For more information, visit www.rebeccadavisdance.com.

Wilma Davis
Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Integra LifeSciences Corp
Ms. Davis joined Integra as Vice President, Human Resources in 2000. Ms. Davis is responsible for all global Human Resource functions at Integra. Previously, Ms. Davis held various positions in the insurance industry, including Chief Diversity Officer at Chubb Insurance, Vice President of Quality and Human Resources at General Reinsurance Corporation, and Director of Operations at Allstate Insurance Company. Ms. Davis received a B.S. in Business Administration from Lambuth University and an M.S. degree in Human Resource Development from American University.

Saki Dodelson
Co-founder, Achieve3000                                                                            
Saki Dodelson has over 20 years experience in business, finance, computer science and marketing.  From 1987 to 1989 she served as Business and Finance manager with AT&T.  In 1996 she founded a news service for students which grew to a circulation of millions by 1999. In 2000, she founded and became CEO of Achieve3000, an educational Technology Company that delivers differentiated instruction in reading and writing via the Web.  Achieve3000’s award winning program’s, KidBiz3000 and TeenBiz3000 have been proven effective at raising reading test scores in schools across the country, including major school districts such as Chicago, Washington DC, Houston, New Jersey, and New York.  Some of her honors include being named as Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young/Microsoft, a “Hall of Fame” Entrepreneur by New Jersey Business Journal, and one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business by the New Jersey Business Journal. Saki received her Master’s degree in computer science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her MBA from Tel Aviv University.  For more information, visit www.achieve3000.com.

Jessica Durrie
Co-founder, Small World Coffee
The desire to open a café hit Jessica when she was studying at Cornell’s School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration. Jessica and her co-founder, Brant Cosaboom, knew that their café had to be  located in a vibrant college community. In December 1993, Small World Coffee opened its doors just a 1/2 a block from Princeton University.  It was an instant success. Jessica lived her early years in Rome, Melbourne, and Sao Paulo, and attributes her love of people, cuisine, community and culture to those years abroad. Not content with a successful café, Jessica expanded the retail operation at the original café and established three additional operations, Small World Roasters, providing the café and its customers with high-quality coffee beans, a commissary kitchen where much of the café’s food is prepared, and a second retail café. The business thrives due to its focus on the traditional values they started with: hard work, attention to detail, a community-centric business philosophy, and producing precision roasted coffee. The business has thrived under Jessica’s leadership, despite the presence of corporate chains like Starbucks and Panera. The Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce presented Jessica with the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2005.  Jessica is active in a local woman's entrepreneur group and consults with other small businesses.  For more information, visit www.smallworldcoffee.com.

Kristin Hrabar
Inventor, Laser Nutdriver
When Kristin Ann Hrabar was nine years old, her father asked her to hold a flashlight over a tight dark space while he fixed a household item with a nutdriver. She realized it would be easier if the nutdriver had its own light source, and began working on the Illuminated Nutdriver.  Awarded United States Utility Patent (Patent #5,628,556) on her eleventh birthday, she went on to win the “25th Annual United States Patent Office Inventors Expo,” held at Walt Disney World in 1998. In 1999, Kristin and her family formed her tool company, LASERDRIVER TOOLS”. In 2000, she was recognized as a "Walt Disney and McDonald's Millennium Dreamer" ambassador to the world. Kristin competed in a television show called the 'Inventors' Showdown,' that aired on Discovery Channel in 2002. She placed second against all male adults, and was subsequently named 'Young Entrepreneur of the Year' by Partnership for America's Future,' based in Akron, Ohio. In June of 2004, Kristin was MIT’s featured “Inventor of the month.”  In 2006, Kristin was one of five finalists named as “Modern Marvels” and appeared on “THE HISTORY CHANNEL.”  For more information, visit www.laserdriverstore.com.
 

Karen Jezierny
Director of Public Affairs, Princeton University                              
Karen Jezierny spent four years working for the New Jersey state assembly and first came to Princeton in 1986 as Director of Community and State Affairs. After leaving that position to become assistant state treasurer when James Florio was governor, she returned and spent 10 years working in the Woodrow Wilson School before moving on to her current post. She spends her time working on state government relations and with the University’s public affairs offices. She has a BA from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy.

Charmaine Jones
Founder, Cakediva 
Charmaine Jones loves baking cakes. As owner of the Hoboken, New Jersey–based company Cakediva, for the past 17 years, she has created spectacular cakes for soap-opera weddings, celebrities and corporate clients, as well as Afrocentric-themed cakes for African-American weddings, and has been featured on the Food Network in the cake challenges.  She started baking professionally in 1990 because she couldn't find cakes with an ethnic flavor, so to speak. Since then, she has wowed clients with elaborate confections such as a four-tiered cake incorporating a tank of live goldfish for the opening of the Atlantis hotel in Paradise Island, Bahamas.  Her goal is to develop a line of prepackaged ingredients á la General Mills so that anyone can do it. "Everybody can be a cake diva," says Jones. "They just need to know how." For more information, visit www.cakediva.com.

Laura Jones
Political Analyst/Reporter/Host, “New Jersey Power & Politics
News 12 is the name of eight regional television news channels in the New York City metropolitan area. The channels operate from five independent newsrooms, each with its own editorial staff, studio space and unique slate of on-air personalities. News 12 New Jersey is the largest of the channels in terms of potential viewership, reaching about 1.8 million homes or about half of New Jersey's nearly 9 million TV viewers. The channel was launched in 1996, with its central studio-office complex in Edison, New Jersey, and remote bureaus in Madison, Oakland, Newark, Trenton and Wall Township. The channel produces half-hour newscasts 24-hours a day in a single anchor format. Weather reports are featured every 10 minutes beginning at one minute past the hour under the brand “Weather on the 1’s.”

Debbie Leonetti
Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, Integra LifeSciences Corp
Ms. Leonetti joined Integra in 1997 as Director of Marketing, was promoted to Vice President of Marketing in April 1999 and to Senior Vice President of Global Marketing in May 2004. Her responsibilities include worldwide strategic marketing for all Integra products. From 1989 through 1997, Ms. Leonetti worked for Cabot Medical, which was later acquired by Circon Corporation, and held positions in sales, sales training, and marketing. Prior to her experience at Cabot-Circon, Ms. Leonetti completed fifteen years of clinical practice as a registered nurse at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. She received her Nursing degree from St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing and La Salle University.

Susan Bass Levin, Commissioner
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
Susan Bass Levin has served the state of New Jersey in many ways – from 14 years as Mayor of Cherry Hill, one of the largest suburban municipalities in Southern New Jersey; to her role as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, in which she served from January 2002 to July 2005 and was reappointed by Governor Jon S. Corzine in January 2006. Commissioner Levin is a woman who leads by example – having served on the Boards of Ceasefire New Jersey, the Women’s Fund of New Jersey, the Alliance for Action and the South Jersey Development Council, she is dedicated to fighting for a better New Jersey.  She is especially proud of her work in building a state of the art 21st century library in her Cherry Hill community and establishing an Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.  She has a J.D. with Honors from George Washington Law School where she was a member of the Law Review, and a B.A. from the University of Rochester where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  She is the mother of two grown daughters.

Judith E. O’Grady, Commissioner
Sr. Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, Integra LifeSciences Corp
Ms. O'Grady has served Integra and its predecessor companies since 1985. Ms. O'Grady has worked in the areas of medical devices and collagen technology for over 20 years. Prior to joining Integra, Ms. O'Grady worked for Colla-Tec, Inc., a Marion Merrell Dow Company. During her career she has held positions with Surgikos, a Johnson & Johnson company, and was on the faculty of Boston University College of Nursing and Medical School. Ms. O'Grady led the team that obtained the FDA approval for INTEGRA™ Dermal Regeneration Template, the first regenerative product approved by the FDA, and has led teams responsible for more than 500 FDA and international submissions. She received her B.S. degree from Marquette University and M.S.N. in Nursing from Boston University.

Lisa Stamler
Founder, Creative Baskets & Vision Consulting
Having held several positions in health care, Lisa left “corporate America” to pursue a dream involving opening a retail store and founded her company in May 2006.  Lisa’s career began after attending college as a hospital based X-Ray technician where she learned many of the skills needed to launch her into the world of LASIK.  In 1995 Lisa recognized the potential and opportunity with the revolutionary approval for LASIK, and made the career change to Ophthalmology.  Lisa has dedicated the past 10 years to Ophthalmology and today continues to work as a Practice Development consultant to grow eye surgeons’ practices.  These core business skills translate well to her Creative Basket business to deliver professional, customer service centric gifts for the senders and receivers.  As its first year in business is nearly complete, Lisa has been able to create broad business policies designs to sustain her businesses for many years to come.

Karol Corbin Walker
Partner, Seiden Wayne LLC, New Jersey
Karol Corbin Walker is a Partner at the law firm of Seiden Wayne LLC in New Jersey.  Ms. Walker represents clients in commercial, employment, toxic tort, environmental, hazardous waste, insurance coverage, and product liability matters.  She is a litigator and has argued many cases before the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.  She has also argued cases before the New Jersey Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 2003, Ms. Walker became the first African American President in the then 105-year history of the New Jersey State Bar Association.  She is the recipient of many awards and has been recognized by numerous organizations.  In 2007, 2006 and 2005, New Jersey Monthly Magazine recognized her as one of New Jersey’s “Super Lawyer®”, and she has also been recognized in the “Best Lawyers In America®” directory in the 2007 and 2006 editions.  In 2003, NJBIZ recognized Ms. Walker as one of New Jersey’s top 25 Women of Influence.  In 1999, Business News New Jersey recognized her as one of New Jersey’s Top 20 African American Business People.  Ms. Walker is the author of several articles, and lectures frequently.  When Ms. Walker is not practicing law, she is a motivational speaker, career coach and delivers diversity presentations to major corporations.

Eileen Maloney Wilensky, RN, CRNP-C, CCRN, CNRN
Director, Clinical Neurosurgery Research Division
Director, In-House CRNP/PA Program
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
A critical care nurse with over 21 years experience, Eileen is recognized as expert clinician in the nursing management of brain injury and neuroscience technology. Eileen holds certification as a Critical Care RN, Neuroscience RN, and is board certified as a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner.  Currently, Eileen Directs the Neurosurgery Clinical Research Division (NCRD) and the In-House CRNP/PA Program for the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania. The clinical research division is committed to the ongoing development and investigation of clinical research techniques and interventions leading to the design of new approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cerebral ischemia, brain trauma and neurologic diseases.