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Fall 2004—ESF Entrepreneurship Lecture Series

Entrepreneurship is an opportunity focused way of thinking and creating things that don’t exist today, not just the idea of starting your own business. ESF is leading the way in "Green Entrepreneurship." Come see how and why.

9/23
Thursday
3 pm
140 Baker		 What's in store for ESF Entrepreneurship
Gary Lim (Presentation, Profile)
10/21
Thursday
3 pm
140 Baker

Creating Technology Opportunities in the Energy Industry
Bradley J. Hesse, President, Enernet Corporation (Profile)
Mr. Hesse is founder and president of a 10-year-old Syracuse-based technology development company focused on the energy industry. Some of the topics he will cover in his session include:

  • Source of his entrepreneurial motivation
  • History of Enernet
  • Enernet's process of opportunity recognition
  • Enernet's business model, and use of the "virtual company" concept
  • The good, the bad, and the ugly of being an entrepreneur
  • What's ahead for Enernet - 3 pm, 140 Baker
11/18
Thursday
3-4 pm
140 Baker		 "Turning Research in Academia into a Business: The AnAerobics Story"
Robert J. Cummings, Co-founder and CTO of Ecovation Inc. (formerly AnAerobics Inc.)

Mr. Cummings will speak about how he took years of research in wastewater treatment technologies at Cornell University and spawned a new company 11 years ago. He will discuss the issues and challenges of transferring research from the academic environment to create a business opportunity, and what those early years were like doing so. Now well-funded, relocated, and renamed Ecovation Inc., the company has hired experienced senior management and is looking to reach the next level.

Robert J. Cummings is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Ecovation, Inc. and is the inventor of the Mobilized Film Technology (MFT), a high rate, highly efficient wastewater treatment process. Prior to forming the company, Mr. Cummings was employed for twenty years as a research faculty member in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department of Cornell University. While at Cornell, he was involved with research and development of innovative, cost effective technologies for resource recovery and efficient treatment of polluted waste streams and sludges. During most of this time, Mr. Cummings was focused on research and development of anaerobic systems at bench, pilot and full scale. He was a lead engineer who designed and oversaw construction and initial operations of the world's largest anaerobic digester for dairy waste. Mr. Cummings is considered an expert in the field of anaerobic treatment of organic waste streams. He holds both a B.S. and M.S. in environmental engineering from the University of Vermont.
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