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Our newest episode features Tim Barry ‘93, the chair and CEO of VillageMD, and this year’s Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year. Barry founded VillageMD in 2013 with the idea that he could use technology, population insights and a network of expert health care professionals to provide high-quality care, better patient outcomes and a reduction in total costs.

Our newest episode features Peyton Johnson, a member of the Class of 2024 and founder of a company that helps students find off-campus housing.

Her company is part of this year’s eLab, a Cornell student accelerator powered by Student Agencies Foundation and Entrepreneurship at Cornell. Peyton is also a Milstein Scholar at Cornell and is majoring in math with a concentration in computer science.

Our new episode features Harman Singh Narula ‘09, co-founder and CEO of Canary Technologies, a hotel technology company. Canary provides a host of guest-facing operations technologies to thousands of hotels across the globe.

Our newest episode features Matt Nastos ’10, CEO of Maison MRKT, a digital marketing agency specializing in growth marketing, customer acquisition, lead generation and business intelligence. Matt founded the agency with his brother, Lexi.

Using technology and data analytics, the agency helps brands manage their customer relationships from discovery all the way through to retention and loyalty. They also support early-stage ventures with marketing mentorship, as well as offer marketing help to non-profits and academic organizations.

Our newest episode features Osei Boateng ’18, MHA ‘20, founder of OKB Hope Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery in Africa especially in rural and low-income communities.The organization offers mobile health clinics that travel to remote locations in Ghana to offer routine medical care.
Boateng is also one of the finalists for CNN’s Hero of the Year contest. You can vote for him every day until Dec. 5 at this link: https://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/vote/10/

Our new episode features Lauren Brand ’12, co-founder of Fatty Sundays, a company that creates chocolate covered pretzels in an array of unique flavors that are customizable for any occasion.
Lauren and her sister Ali founded the business to share their mom’s famous rainbow sprinkle recipe with the world, as well as other gourmet pretzel varieties. We talk about how they choose new flavors, what it’s like to work with your family and some exciting new changes coming for the brand.