The Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship is pleased to present the Sustainable and Social Entrepreneurship Enterprises Roundtable on April 24-25, 2016.

The Roundtable will explore strategies and best practices of successful environmental and social entrepreneurship ventures. Mission Driven Enterprises:  Companies focused on being prosperous while “Doing Good.” 

Proposed individual sessions include the following topics:
1)  Challenges of finding the market niche for environmental/social entrepreneurship enterprises
2)  Social Entrepreneurship
3)  The power of integrating environmental and social initiatives into the core values of an entrepreneurial enterprise
4)  Attracting and retaining human resource talent
5)  Advice from the experts: Keys to success

Chair:
Jeanne Varney '85, Lecturer, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration

Participants:
• Kristen Barnett ’15, Marketing Strategist, Dig Inn
• Stephanie Creary, Assistant Professor, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
• Diana Dobin, President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Valley Forge Fabrics, Inc.
• Robert Frisch MBA ’13, CEO, Firelight Camps
• Meghan Hilbert ’13, Director of Global Business Development, Terracycle
• Crist Inman MBA ’90, PhD ’97, Founder, Raxa Collective
• David Jerome, Consultant, MCA
• Charley Knight, Vice President of Hospitality Business, Interface
• Willy Legrand, Professor, IUBH School of Business and Management, Bonn, Germany
• Walker Lunn, Founder and CEO, Grid Waste
• Douglas Messinger P ’15, Vice President of Planning and Technology, Sweet Street Desserts, Inc
• Karli Miller-Hornick ’12, Manager, Farmigo
• Michele Sarkisian, President, P3 Advisors
• Sandy Solmon P ’15, President and CEO, Sweet Street Desserts, Inc
• Rohit Verma P ’17, P ’19, Executive Director and Singapore Tourism Board Distinguished Professor, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures