Prasad Thammineni

WG' 07, Chair

Prasad is this year's chair of the Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference. In addition to managing the consulting firm, jPeople, he is actively working on two new businesses which he hopes to launch before graduation.

Jay Womack

WG' 07, Co-Chair

Jay is a faithful USC Trojan. His professional background includes experience in operations with a Fortune 100 company, and investment banking. He has a passion for business and entrepreneurship - his ultimate desire is to become a serial entrepreneur.

Pithambar Gona

WG' 07, Co-Chair

Pithambar serves as the co-chair for this year's conference. He spent six years in Consulting and Venture Capital before deciding to pursue his MBA at the Wharton School. Upon graduation, he plans to work in Asia in the financial services industry.

Christine Chan

WG' 07, Chief Content Officer

Christine was on the winning team at the 2006 Wharton Venture Capital Investment Competition. Through Wharton, she has also consulted on microfinance projects in Senegal and Colombia. Christine spent her summer internship in private equity, and prior to Wharton worked in investment banking at Lazard, and Cohen & Steers.

Haresh Kumar

WG' 07, Chief Content Officer

Haresh has focused within the high-tech industry working at IBM prior to Wharton. He has helped launch a couple of wireless startups and actively consults small businesses on strategy and technology issues. His interest is in the emerging wireless technologies and Web 2.0 applications.

Adriani Onie

WG' 08, Panel Director

As a Panel Director of the Entrepreneurship Conference, she learned a lot - not only about organizing a conference, but also the fun of being an entrepreneur and establishing one's own ventures. She is glad to reaffirm that her learning goals and career plan here haven’t changed.

Alex Rein

WG' 08, Panel Director

Alex has experience as a securities trader, hedge fund administrator, software engineer, and entrepreneur. He spent the last six years in Madison, Wisconsin where he became an Ultimate Frisbee enthusiast. He is currently spearheading a venture to create a professional league for the sport.

Ankit Mahadevia

WG' 08, Panel Director

Ankit has worked extensively with life science companies at McKinsey & Co. and Monitor Group. He has also worked as a clinical researcher at Johns Hopkins, where he is concurrently completing his MD. After Wharton, he plans to continue working with early stage life science firms.

Baris Aksoy

WG' 08, Panel Director

Baris spent eight years in product marketing and product development at Cswitch, Calix and Alcatel. He also co-founded an e-commerce business and a non-profit organization in education. Baris is on the board of directors for TABCA, serving the Turkish American business community. He is an avid windsurfer and golfer.

Emil Eminov

WG' 08, Panel Director

Originally from Azerbaijan, Emil has spent the last nine years in Istanbul. He worked as an auditor and then as a freelance consultant for small enterprises. Late nights spurred his interest in electronic music - he started DJing small private parties. He would like to expand his hobby to promoting big party productions.

Greg Neichin

WG' 08, Panel Director

A San Francisco native, Greg has spent the past seven years working for early stage technology companies and consulting on product commercialization, most recently as VP of Business Development for GetActive Software. You can read his blog on technology and entrepreneurship at perpetualmotion.wordpress.com.

Himanshu Agarwal

WG' 08, Panel Director

Earlier this year Himanshu teamed up with some friends to start a VOIP platform company for mobile phones. Concurrently, he also runs Umang, a non-profit organization that alleviates poverty in India through education and elderly care.

Jorge Margain

WG' 07, Panel Director

Two years ago Jorge helped his family close five residential deals in Mexico City, where he studied Economics. Last summer he worked for Mexico Retail Properties, a private equity fund, and AMB, a REIT in San Francisco. Jorge likes to run and play the bass.

Maria Redin

WG' 08, Keynote Director

Maria is interested in the intersection of entrepreneurship and the corporation. She has worked for strategic initiatives at Mattel and Procter & Gamble to foster the entrepreneurial spirits of invention and passion within large company environments.

Michelle Coscio-Moudry

WG' 07, Panel Director

Michelle is Co-VP of both the Real Estate and Texas clubs. She spent the past summer at Northmarq Capital in Houston performing market research and analysis of various properties across the retail, industrial, multifamily and office sectors.

Prae Dumrongmongcolgul

WG' 08, Panel Director

For the past 10 years, Prae has studied and worked outside her hometown of Bangkok, Thailand. She has experience in the software and telecommunication industries. After Wharton, she plans to embark on a new adventure back in Southeast Asia.

Prasanna Krishnan

WG' 07, Panel Director

Prasanna, who holds bachelor and master degrees in computer science, was a Program Manager at Microsoft. She spent the summer at Internet Capital Group and at McKinsey & Company. Prasanna hopes to start & run her own software company in India, and is particularly interested in consumer software & mobile applications.

Xiaoming Zuo

WG' 07, Panel Director

Rahul Gokhale

WG' 07, Chief Operations Officer

Rahul was a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton focusing on the automotive and retail sectors. Going forward, he plans to launch a venture in the building products/home-improvement space. He is also involved in international development through microfinance and other bottom-of-the-pyramid initiatives.

Maziyar Sharafi

WG' 08, Vice President

Maz has an engineering degree from University of Pennsylvania and is now back for his MBA. He has worked in finance and strategy roles for the past five years, and hopes to pursue an entrepreneurial career in the technology sector after Wharton. His long-term area of interest is clean technology.

Michael Genho

WG' 08, Vice President

Michael is a meat expert. Seriously - he has an MS in Meat Science from Colorado State University. He has four years of consumer goods experience with ConAgra Foods based in Omaha, NE, and has worked extensively with the South American beef industry.

Bhavna Muthangi

WG' 08, Vice President

Bhavna is from Silicon Valley, and loves technology - especially cool new gadgets. She has work experience in both startups and large technology companies. Bhavna enjoys running outdoors and hiking.

Joshua Eisenberg

WG' 09, Vice President

A Wharton undergrad, Josh is always looking for the next opportunity to get involved with a startup. He knows that one day he wants to create his own company, and enjoys building his experience and knowledge by talking to as many other like-minded entrepreneurs as possible.

Joy Wang

WG' 08, Vice President

Joy was an equity research analyst covering mortgage finance and subsequently hopped over to media investment banking. In the long run she hopes to raise her family’s toy manufacturing and wholesaling business to new heights or to enter a related consumer products business.

Manish Raj

WG' 08, Vice President

Manish was a manager at IBM, and previously at Ernst & Young, specializing in Digital Media, Online Collaboration, and Wireless. He has founded a hi-tech marine electronics business, and enjoys watersports and outdoor activities.

Michael Pachos

WG' 08, Vice President

He is a co-founder of high-speed network security company Global Velocity Inc., and was previously a lead microprocessor architect at Intel. In his spare time he enjoys building and sailing boats.

Niraj Desai

WG' 08, Vice President

Prior to Wharton, Niraj worked at Sun Microsystems and Cadence Design Systems as a design engineer. Having caught the entrepreneurship bug, he has been known to frequent school conferences and treks looking for a great opportunity.

Adam Erlebacher

WG' 08, Vice President

Adam most recently was Director of Business Development at Colloquis where he played a key role in the turnaround and sale of the natural language software company to Microsoft. Previously, Adam was a Senior Analyst at JPMorgan in the Leveraged Finance Group where he focused on technology, media, & telecom transactions.

Gloria Yu

WG' 08, Vice President

Prior to Wharton, Gloria worked in a Hong Kong commercial bank, developing the bank's personal finance business in mainland China. She understands that being an entrepreneur is tough, and is happy to help anyone with that goal to realize their dreams.

Mark Gomez

WG' 08, Vice President

Mark moved from JPMorgan in New York to Florida for the more entrepreneurial atmosphere of a smaller office. After three years at JPM, he got married and served in the Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa with his wife. In Benin, he founded a sustainable community-based company called Moringa Pour Moi.

Shehnaz Gill

WG' 08, Vice President

Shehnaz has over nine years of sales and marketing experience in India with Coca Cola, Asian Paints, and Satyam Infoway. He is passionate about setting up a chain of health spas in India. Shehnaz has a keen interest in soccer, hockey and equestrian sports.

Yinglu Zhang

WG' 08, Vice President

Yinglu spent all her education and work experience prior to Wharton in Electrical Engineering. She believes her Wharton experience and future job opportunities will provide her the opportunity to improve herself and live an exciting life.

Allwin Agnel

WG' 08, Vice President

Allwin founded Neutral Web, a global web hosting company with clients in 18 nations, straight out of college. He also founded and led India’s largest and most influential website for MBA aspirants - www.pagalguy.com. Allwin now wants to explore new ventures in web 2.0, online communities, and monetization models.

Julie Price

WG' 08, Vice President

Julie Price is originally from Connecticut, but spent the past nine years in Boston working in website usability and design for interactive and transactional websites. She is interested in entrepreneurship within the health and fitness industry.

Santiago Alonso Lord

WG' 08, Vice President

Santiago has a background in information security and online political communication. He is the founder of eDemocracia.com, a Spanish think tank for the study of the effects of technology on the democratic process.

Sudhanshu Aggarwal

UPenn UG 09, Vice President

Sudhanshu is an undergraduate Computer Science major interested in entrepreneurship. By graduation, he hopes to combine his technical background and his passion for entrepreneurship.

Clare Leinweber

Senior Associate Director

Clare Leinweber is a Senior Associate Director for Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs. She is the advisor for the Entrepreneurial Management major for MBA students, and for the secondary concentration for undergraduates. She also manages the Wharton Venture Initiation Program.

Megan Mitchell

Senior Associate Director

Megan Mitchell is a Senior Associate Director for Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs. In this capacity she manages such activities as the Entrepreneur in Residence Program, the Wharton Business Plan Competition, and the Entrepreneurial Internship Program.

Peter Winicov

Senior Associate Director