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Cliff Schorer, Erica Duignan Minnihan, Marques Colston, Lance Johnstone

Teaches at Columbia Business School

Cliff Schorer, Faculty Director
Adjunct Professor, The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School

Schorer is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in the startup acquisition and development of small and midsized companies. He focuses on businesses with unique ideas or technologies that are in need of guidance during their initial growth phases. Schorer has been involved with companies in the high tech arena, his last position being CEO of GeoVideo Networks, a Lucent Technologies Venture. Prior to that his career included businesses in the real estate, office-supply, and health care industries.

During the early 1990s, he spent a considerable amount of time in Russia, using his entrepreneurial approach to assist in the privatization process. During his extensive professional career, Schorer has lectured in numerous business and academic forums both in the United States and abroad. He has developed financial management software programs for business education through his publishing company Bized.
 
Erica Duignan Minnihan
Managing Partner, 1000 Angels

Minnihan has been educating new investors about early-stage investing for over a decade. She is the founding partner of Reign Ventures and Venture Partner at Intend Ventures. As the first executive director of Golden Seeds, she began leading their investor training sessions in 2006. Since then, Erica has gone on to lead investor education sessions for professional athlete angel investors, newly formed angel investor groups internationally, and for her own group of active angel investors, 1000 Angels. Erica has been investing in early-stage companies since 2006 and received her BA in Business Economics for UCLA and her MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.
 
Marques Colston
Managing Partner, Dynasty Digital

Colston currently serves as the managing partner of Dynasty Digital, a multi-faceted digital company he founded and launched in August 2017. A Super Bowl Champion and all-time leading wide receiver in New Orleans Saints history, Marques is also an investor and advisor to various early-stage companies with a focus on sports technology. Colston serves on the Advisory Board for the One Team Collective, a sports technology accelerator run by the NFLPA, and his pursuits have been featured in Inc. Magazine. He is a co-owner of the Philadelphia Soul of the Arena Football League. 
 
Lance Johnstone 
Financial Advisor, Bank of America

Johnstone was a NFL star and favorite son of Philadelphia. He has lectured at the Wharton School of Business and has been featured in The New York Times, Philadelphia Business Journal, Bloomberg TV, and Forbes.com. He serves as a member of The Advisory Board of Legacy Growth Partners, LLC. He graduated from Temple University, Harvard Business School’s Entrepreneur Program, and Wharton’s Sports Initiatives Program.

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