Cornell College of Business Annual London Predictions Event

by Alumni Affairs & Development (AA&D)

Alumni/Development

Wed, Mar 1, 2017

6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

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St. Ermin's Hotel

Caxton Street 2, London SW1H 0QW, United Kingdom

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The Cornell College of Business, together with the Johnson Club of the United Kingdom, invite you to join them for the
 
Annual London Predictions Event 

featuring
 

Alan Hirzel, BS '89, MBA '97
CEO, Abcam




  
Tim Hentschel, BS '01
CEO, HotelPlanner


 
 

Join us for a fireside chat moderated by Mark W. Nelson, Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, who will provide an update from Cornell.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017
6:30 - 9:00. p.m.
Presentation and dinner to begin at 7:15
  
St. Ermin's Hotel
Caxton Street 2
London SW1H 0QW

Cost
Alumni and guests: $55 USD (approximately £45)
Current students: $40 USD (approximately £33)
 
Fees include drinks, heavy hors d'oeuvres, and a dessert reception. 
 
Register now | See who's coming 
 

Let us tell you a little more about the Cornell College of Business Predictions series
 
How did the Prediction series get started? First launched by the Johnson Club of the Bay Area 22 years ago, the Predictions series quickly became a tradition supported by Johnson alumni clubs throughout the U.S., and also in London. Every year, Predictions events welcome all members of the Cornell community to come, mingle, and listen to top leaders and thinkers share industry insights for the coming year.   
 
What is the format? Each event opens with a networking cocktail reception that includes heavy hors d'oeuvres. The following program includes an update from Johnson Dean Mark W. Nelson, a Predictions announcement, and a TED-style talk by the keynote speaker followed by an interactive Q&A session. The event concludes with a passed dessert reception.
 
Why are they called Predictions events?
In addition to a forward-looking keynote presentation, club leaders collaborate to create a short list of business-related questions for attendees, who are asked to cast their best predictions for 2017. Those who offered the most accurate responses to the 2016 Predictions questions will be honored at this year's events.
 
Cornell College of Business Partnership
This year, Johnson is partnering with the School of Hotel Administration and Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management  to bring you a series of Cornell College of Business Predictions events. While continuing with our long-standing Predictions tradition, we're happy to offer more opportunities to connect with alumni, students, and friends of Cornell.
 
We hope to see you at a Predictions event in your area! Click here to view a complete lineup of the 2017 Cornell College of Business Predictions Series.

For more information, contact the Johnson Alumni Affairs Office at 1-800-847-2082, ext. 2, or at alumni@johnson.cornell.edu. 
 

Where

St. Ermin's Hotel

Caxton Street 2, London SW1H 0QW, United Kingdom

Speakers

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Alan Hirzel, BS '89, MS '91, MBA '97

CEO

Abcam

Alan is passionate about leading and growing mission driven businesses. As CEO of Abcam, he is leading the company to become the most influential life science company for researchers worldwide. In leading this change, he has implemented a strategy that focuses on serving consumer needs better and faster than anyone in the life science industry. Doing so has required a transformation of organisation, IT, and process. He is curious about biology, artificial intelligence, and social enterprise. He is married and a father of 3 young children.

Prior to joining Abcam, Alan spent 14 years with Bain & Company helping companies grow organically and through acquisition. Earlier in his career, he led product innovation efforts for several brands at Kraft Foods. He was trained as a life scientist and published research in plant biochemistry. He also has a passion for social enterprise as a trustee and was founder of the Social Business Trust, providing advice on how to grow and succeed with these enterprises to social entrepreneurs and government organisations globally.

Alan has a BS in Plant Molecular Biology and MS from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Business at Cornell.

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Tim Hentschel, BS '01

CEO

HotelPlanner

Timothy Hentschel is co-founder and CEO of HotelPlanner and Meetings.com, the worldÔÇÖs largest online group travel provider. He has served in this role since September 2003. In 2003, Hentschel and his business partner John Prince - software engineer and current COO of HotelPlanner - decided to pursue the creation of HotelPlanner. They pioneered the online group travel space, becoming a mainstay for group event planners and hotel partners alike. Today, HotelPlanner provides their group travel technology expertise to over 2,000,000 group event planners with over $3.6 billion in group hotel revenues passing through the HotelPlanner RFP system worldwide. The company has US Headquarters in West Palm Beach, FL. In 2012, European Headquarters were opened in London, additional offices were opened in Hong Kong and Las Vegas in 2014.

Hentschel is very supportive of those in his field and passionate about recognising talent. He is on the Board for the Cornell University Pillsbury Institute for Entrepreneurship. He also co-founded the annual American Group Travel Awards (AGTA) in Times Square, an extension of LondonÔÇÖs Group Travel Awards (GTA), and the European Group Travel Awards (EGTA) in Berlin over ITB. Hentschel is involved in many philanthropic projects, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for charities such as St. Jude ChildrenÔÇÖs Research Hospital and Cornell University.

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