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Susan Eisner Steve Massarsky Josef Mittlemann Landis Olesker Lisa Raiola Emily Spivack Doug Ulman Susan Eisner Susan Eisner, President of Genio Group Inc. is a developer and marketer of entertainment and leisure products. The first product in the marketplace is a Collectible Trading Card Series featuring the Marvel Super Hero characters. Prior to joining Genio Group Inc., Eisner was the was the Senior Vice President for 4 Kids Entertainment. She oversaw the domestic and international marketing and licensing programs for Pokemon, Nintendo and other 4 Kids brands. In addition she managed 4 Kids' business development throughout Latin America. She played a pivotal role in Pokemon becoming a worldwide phenomenon that transformed the face of children's entertainment. In her 14 years at 4 Kids, Eisner also directed the licensing and marketing for World Championship Wrestling, The Shadow, two James Bond movies - GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies - and more. Eisner has more than 20 years of marketing experience. Before joining 4 Kids she was the Marketing Director for The Golden Nugget Hotel and held marketing positions at several record companies.
Steven Massarsky recently retired from his position as President and CEO of the Business Incubation Group Inc., a company dedicated to turning dynamic new ideas into successful businesses. In 1989, backed by venture capital, Massarsky co-founded Voyager Communications Inc., which grew into the third largest comic book publisher in the U.S. The following year, the company was sold to Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. where Massarsky remained as President and Publisher of Acclaim Comics. Earlier in his career, Massarsky operated an entertainment law practice; his
clientele included Nintendo, The Wailers, Cabbage Patch Dolls, the Psychedelic
Furs, Collins Management, Aerosmith, Tom Chapin and Willie Mays.
Prior to his law practice, Massarsky owned and operated an artist management company and managed the careers of artists such as The Allman Brothers Band, The Wailer, and Cyndi Lauper. Massarsky
holds an A.B. in political science from Brown University and a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law. He is on the board of The Brown University Entrepreneurship Program. Massarsky is a member of the California and New York Bar Associations and the Brown University Sports Foundation.
Josef Mittlemann is an Executive in Residence and Adjunct Lecturer in the Division of Engineering at Brown. He teaches and has created courses focusing on entrepreneurial management of business and non-profit organizations, social enterprise and late adolescent-early adult life/work transition. He received his MEd at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2000. His undergraduate degree is from Brown. He had been a Visiting Scholar at Brown in the Center for the Study of Human Development for a number of years and a Visiting Fellow in the Division of Engineering. In spring, 2003, he was one of four finalists for the Hazeltine Senior Citation award at Brown University recognizing excellence in teaching, guidance and support as voted upon by the graduating class. In December 2003, he won the Undergraduate Student Council Teaching Excellence Award at Brown University voted upon by the entire undergraduate student body. Currently, he chairs the Careers and Networks Committee of the BAA Board of Governors on which he serves, and sits on the Board of the Entrepreneurship Program at Brown as well as three recent Brown alumni non profit start ups: The Glimpse Foundation; Shop Well with You; and The Polaris Project. He keeps an active pulse on the world of commerce and contributes in many ways to a variety of philanthropic organizations. Past entrepreneurial and business activities include participating in private equity funding, derivative transactions, portfolio management, new ventures, investment, management and development of real estate, private art dealer and co-development of programs for effective change in two Long Island, New York school districts. From 1993-1996, along with his wife and children, and part time through 1998, he lived in Paris, France. He has competed as a triathlete and cyclist, and has traveled extensively. He lives in Providence with his wife, Marsy. His son, Justin works at JP Morgan Chase in NY. His daughter, Juliet, is a senior at Brown majoring in French literature.
Mr. Olesker is a recognized expert in the area of dividing up retirement benefits between husbands and wives in divorce proceedings and is the author of How to Write Successful Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (N. Y. State Bar Ass'n, 1996). He has also written several articles and lectured widely about retirement benefits. Mr. Olesker graduated from Amherst College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1961). He received his law degree from Harvard University in 1964. Mr. Olesker lives in Manhattan with his wife, Sarah Frank, and his daughter, Elizabeth.
Lisa Raiola, a biomedical ethics concentrator, received a B.A. degree magna cum laude in 1984 from Brown University. She currently has a clinical teaching appointment at the Brown University School of Medicine in the Department of Community Health. In addition to her role as VP for Alumni Relations for the University, Raiola continues to publish and lecture nationally on issues of distributive justice and organizational ethics in health care systems. She has served for two years as the medical ethicist for the Brown University Institutional Review Board (IRB). Prior to Brown, Lisa was with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) for nearly ten years, a 1.5 million member non-profit HMO, where she established and led the Ethics Program-the first such program of its kind in the country. She also served as the Director of Corporate Training and Human Resource Development responsible for training, recruitment, quality management and organizational development for over 8,000 clinical and professional employees throughout New England. She joined HPHC through the Rhode Island regional affiliate as Director of Planning where she managed marketing, government and public relations, business development, clinical planning, and operations improvement for a 140 physician, multi-specialty group practice. Before joining HPHC, Lisa spent seven years as a Principal with Human Resources, Inc, a Providence based management consulting firm where she built and managed the health care practice.
For more information about Emily, please view About the Founder.
Only twenty-seven years old, Doug Ulman is a three-time cancer survivor and national cancer suvivorship advocate. Having overcome Chondrosarcoma during his sophomore year in college and malignant melanoma twice since, Doug founded the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, a non-profit to provide support, education, and resources to young adults, their families and friends, who are affected by cancer. (www.ulmanfund.org) Doug served as Executive Director of the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults for four years, and he is now the Director of Survivorship for the Lance Armstrong Foundation (www.laf.org) in Austin, Texas. Doug has received numerous awards for his service to the community. In 2002, Doug was selected from more than 20,000 individuals to appear on boxes of Wheaties Energy Crunch as an American Everyday Hero. In 2003, Doug received the Austin under-40 Award Winner in the healthcare category. In addition to Doug's position on SWY's board, he also sits on the board of the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, the Children's Oncology Group's Adolescent/Young Adult Committee, Men Against Cancer, the visiting committee of the Jimmy Fund, the board of visitors at the University of Maryland Medical System, the National Cancer Institute Director's Consumer Liaison Group and many other civic and charitable organizations. His story and the cancer support programs he founded have been featured on NBC Nightly News, PBS, and numerous local television and radio programs, as well as hundreds of newspapers and magazines.
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