Please join us for a panel discussion on entrepreneurship with alums.

When: Tomorrow: Thursday April 18th 4:30pm

Where: Rocky 1

Why: Because some amazing alumni speakers will be there including a Rhodes Scholar, an Innovation Fellow, and a Harvard MBA/MPA graduate.

Below are their bios:

Dr. Bender is President of Solaflect Energy, a company developing heliostats and PV Trackers. He graduated from Dartmouth summa cum laude graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and Ph.D. economist. Bender’s early career was in international consulting for 10 years, on economic issues in food and nutrition policy in developing countries.  Projects included partnerships with the EC, World Bank, UK Overseas Development Administration, UNICEF, the UN Food & Agriculture Organization, UN Dept of Humanitarian Affairs, US AID, and others.  Developing countries frequently lack the capability and systems for data-mining and statistical analysis.  Bender’s projects collected and distilled technical analyses for non-technical audiences to inform cabinet-level decisions and policy choices.

Steve earned his A.B. and B.E. from Dartmouth concurrently in 2009.  After graduating, he entered the Ph.D. track at Thayer as part of the second ever class of incoming Innovation Fellows. As an Innovation Fellow, Steve has been involved in the development of more than a dozen medical devices and related technologies for which he has helped author more than a half dozen accepted or pending patents.  His company, B.B.R. Medical Innovations, Inc., which he co-founded with Kathryn Bi ’09 and a DHMC physician, was a runner up in Tuck’s Barris Incubator competition and a semi-finalist in the Dartmouth Ventures Business plan competition.  They are currently in the process of raising capital to complete bench top testing and move into animal and clinical trials for a device which reduces certain potentially lethal hospital acquired infections.

Nick is co-founder of Plated.com where he runs all non-technical aspects of the e-commerce gourmet recipe kit delivery business. Plated was recently accepted to join the techstars accelerator as only 11 out of 1700 were chosen. Nick graduated from Dartmouth College and then started a microfinance institution in Central Java, Indonesia while on a Fulbright grant. Nick is a US Marine Corps infantry officer, and has spent time consulting with McKinsey & Co and as a private wealth advisor with Goldman Sachs. He received his MPA and MBA from the Harvard Kennedy School and Business School. He was recently named to Forbes 30 under 30 list for food and wine. He has six brothers and sisters, is married, and loves peaty whiskey and esoteric endurance sports.