Burton Morgan Lecture Series, 2006-07

Programs in the Burton Morgan Lecture Series for fall 2006 included:

Jon Chun
Risk, Learning and Making Your Own Luck: Lessons from Starting a Company
Wednesday, September 27
7:30pm in Hayes 109 (Franklin Miller Jr. Lecture Hall)
As co-founder of SafeWeb, Inc., Jon Chun is a successful technology entrepreneur who devises corporate strategy, develops products, and promotes strategic alliances with vendors and partners. At the time of his presentation, Jon was the executive-in-residence at Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.

Steve Hays '83
From Hedge Fund to Film Finance: Liberal Arts as GPS
Wednesday, October 4
7:30pm in Hayes 109 (Franklin Miller Jr. Lecture Hall)
Since founding Seneca Capital (a $2.5b NY-based hedge fund), Steve Hays has amassed 16 movie credits and launched 120db Films (a financial services company for funding independent film producers). Hays has sponsored and contributed to the Woodstock, Tribeca, and Sundance film festivals.

David Gury '60
Liberal Arts and Business to Biotech
Thursday, October 12
11:10am (Common Hour) in Samuel Mather 201
Founding chairman of the Florida Research Consortium and former CEO of NABI Biopharmaceuticals, Gury chairs Oragenics and serves as a member of several boards of biotechnology companies including the Scripps Florida Funding Corporation, Bioheart, Inc. and GeneEx.

Matthew Winkler '77
Thursday, October 26
7:30pm in Brandi Recital, Storer Hall
Editor in Chief, Bloomberg News. In 1989, Matt was lured from a position at the Wall Street Journal to help Michael Bloomberg start the news division of his fledging company. In less than a decade, Matt recruited, trained, and placed more than 600 business journalists in bureaus throughout the world. Now with over 1750 reporters and with editors in over 100 bureaus, he has made the Bloomberg name synonymous with business news in corporate boardrooms throughout the world.

Speakers from spring 2007 included:

Jeff Bell '84
Envy, Truth and the Liberal Arts Education
Thursday, February 1
11:10am in Hayes 109 (Franklin Miller Jr. Lecture Hall)
Jeff is responsible for worldwide marketing strategies for the Xbox and Games for Windows businesses at Microsoft. Previously, Bell was vice president of product strategy for the Chrysler Group at DaimlerChrysler, where he was largely credited with helping revitalize the Jeep and Chrysler brands and for pioneering Chrysler's video game and online marketing strategies.

Suzy Greenberg '90, Kate Wesselmann '01, Katy Tucker '03, and David Eppley '98
Art Since Kenyon
Monday, February 19
4-5pm in Olin Auditorium
Four Kenyon graduates will share samples of the their artwork in a visual slide show presentation. While influences from Kenyon certainly remain, their art reflects continue growth and new ideas.

Suzy Greenberg '90, Kate Wesselmann '01, Katy Tucker '03, and David Eppley '98
Art Directions after Kenyon
Monday, February 19
7:30-8:30pm in Hayes 109
Our four panelists will share their experiences as entrepreneurial artists. Being successful as an artist requires more than talent, and they'll talk about the directions their art has taken since graduating and how they've worked to make their art visible in the public realm.

James R. Pierce, Jr. '78
Liberal Arts and a Career in Business -- Not Mutually Exclusive
Thursday, March 29
11:10am-Noon in Mather 201
James Pierce is a preeminent leader in the marine and energy sectors of the insurance industry.

Ken Brody (Parent '10)
Life after College as a Financier
Thursday, April 12
11:10am-Noon in Hayes 109
As owner/manager of Taconic Capital, a hedge fund, Ken works works with a very bright cohort of innovative thinkers. Previously, he spent 20 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. followed by serving as President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Charles (Chad) Waite '77, Harvey Lodish '62
Starting Allozyne - A Biotechnology Company Based On Incorporation Of Non-Natural Amino Acids Into Recombinant Proteins
Thursday, April 19
11:10am-Noon in Mather 215
Chad is a General Partner at OVP Venture Partners, and Harvey is a Member and Professor at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT.

Video recordings of these presentations are available on DVD at the Career Development Office.