Cornell College of Business Annual London Predictions Event
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St. Ermin's Hotel
Caxton Street 2, London SW1H 0QW, United Kingdom
Speakers
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.
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.