Keynote Speakers
Rodney P. Hunt, President & Chief Executive Officer
Rodney P. Hunt, is majority owner and co-founder of RS Information Systems, Inc., a mission-oriented business focused on information technology, systems engineering, telecommunications, and scientific services and solutions.
Since co-founding RSIS in 1992, Mr. Hunt has led the company
through a period of uninterrupted growth, with annual revenues in excess of
$330 million. Its professional staff, now numbering over 1,500, supports 100
prime contracts with civilian and defense agencies of the federal government.
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Hunt's primary focus and responsibility
are in the areas of business development, contracts, finance and administration.
Under his guidance, RSIS has developed a culture of contributing time and money
nationwide to communities in which RSIS employees live and work. Read
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Penelope Trunk, Author and Columnist
Penelope Trunk is the author of the book Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success. She is a career columnist at the Boston Globe and Yahoo Finance. Her syndicated column has run in more than 200 publications. Earlier, she was a software executive, and then she founded two companies. She has been through an IPO, an acquisition and a bankruptcy. Before that she played professional beach volleyball. Read More
Rosanne J. Thomas, Etiquette and Protocol Consultant
Rosanne J. Thomas is a certified Etiquette and Protocol Consultant, and founder of Protocol Advisors, Inc., of Boston, Massachusetts. Ms. Thomas travels throughout the United States presenting informative, up-to-the-minute and entertaining programs in etiquette and protocol. Recognized as an expert in her field, Ms. Thomas makes frequent appearances on television, radio and in print. She was featured in The Boston Globe's "Miss Manners on Wall Street," and frequently contributes to the WCVB TV show Chronicle, as well as WHDH TV and WBZ TV programs. Additionally, she has been interviewed by CBS This Morning and MTV, and appears regularly on National Public Radio in Boston and Washington. The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine have also interviewed Ms. Thomas. A sought-after public speaker, Ms. Thomas' many engagements have included the MIT Charm School and the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. Ms. Thomas' professional background includes eleven years with the internationally renowned Tiffany & Co. Read More
Chester Warcynski, Director of Organizational Development
Services
Chester (Chet) Warzynski is Director of Organizational Development Services and a lecturer in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He leads a department of 15 professionals providing management consulting services to academic and administrative units of the university in leadership and organizational development. He teaches management at the undergraduate level and personal and applied organizational development at the graduate level. Prior to his appointment at Cornell, Warzynski held a number of leadership positions at both academic and business organizations in the United States and Canada. He also headed his own management consulting business from 1980 to 1992. Read More
Clint Sidle, Director Park Leadership Fellows Program
Clint Sidle is the Director of the Park Leadership Fellows Program and the Leadership Skills Program in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Sidle also works as an independent consultant in strategic change, teambuilding, and leadership development. Prior to his current position, Sidle was the Director of Institutional Planning and Research at Cornell, where he had extensive experience in leading organizational change efforts in higher education as well as in the public and private sectors as an independent consultant. He has successfully applied and customized his approach and describes it in his book High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning, a McGraw Hill title, and in his latest book, The Leadership Wheel: Five Steps for Achieving Individual and Organizational Greatness; by Palgrave Mcmillan Press. Read More
Angela Mwanza, Vice President & Investment Representative
Angela Mwanza is an Investment Representative at Lehman Brothers Private Investment Management managing a team that advises wealthy individuals and their families, charitable organizations, endowments, and corporations on sophisticated strategies to preserve, grow and transfer wealth. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Angela worked in a similar role at Fleet Private Clients Group, having begun her financial services career at the J.P.Morgan Private Bank where she managed the U.S. Mutual Funds Desk.
Angela is on the Deans Leadership Committee for the Johnson
Graduate School of Management, the Advisory Board for Entrepreneurship@Cornell,
the Advisory Board for the Rhythm & Blues Foundations and is also
a committee member of the Harlem YMCA and of Gods Love We Deliver, a New
York City AIDS charity.
Angela holds an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Konstanz, Germany
and an M.B.A. from the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell
University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Todd Blanke (M.A. '96).