Members will now need to reserve meeting room space at Rev to use the downstairs conference room, the upstairs classroom, and the upstairs media room. We ask that you please reference the calendar and do not make a request for a space that is already booked.
Contact Ryan at [email protected] with any questions.
Reservation Calendar
View the calendar.
The member calendar is a listing of member exclusive events including EIR Office Hours, workshops, and trainings. Recurring workshops and trainings are highlighted below.
Member-Exclusive Events
Entrepreneurs-In-Residence
Entrepreneurs-In-Residence provide mentorship to Rev members. If you would like to schedule a meeting with a Rev EIR, please email [email protected] with who you would like to meet with, the subject of the meeting, and times you are available to meet. A member of the Rev team will then set up a meeting for you. A list of the Rev EIRs can be found below.
Brian is the Program Director for clean energy programs within Cornell's Center for Regional Economic Advancement. He is a seasoned international energy industry executive with extensive experience in oil, natural gas, chemicals, and renewables. Brian has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and and MBA in Operations and Finance.
Nate Cook is an active attorney in the greater Ithaca community and he represents businesses and individuals in connection with a a wide array of complex commercial business and real estate transactions. Cook has served on the board of directors of several private companies and non-profits.
Contact Nate
Dr. Fleming is an experienced executive, educator, speaker, angel investor, and mom. Susan has served on the board of directors of numerous publicly traded companies, private companies, and non-profits. She has also served as a senior lecturer for both Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and Johnson Graduate School of Management. Contact Susan at [email protected].
Contact Tony
Alex Hagen is a serial entrepreneur with almost fifteen years of operational, financial, and business strategy experience at both startups and large corporations. He is currently the CEO at ShrubBucket.com, an online order aggregation business that has the goal of disrupting the gardening industry, and was previously the Director of the Southern Tier Clean Energy Incubator. Alex holds a degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.
Elisa currently serves as the managing partner at Chloe Capital and is a co-founder of PollQ. In 2016, she oversaw a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook. She has launched several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions.
Contact Elisa
Greg Ray
Greg is a Program Lead and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Center for Regional Economic Advancement and an instructor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Previously, Greg served in a number of roles for Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a program for early-stage technology-based companies. During his time at CDL, Greg worked on expansion, pedagogy, operations, recruiting, and partnerships while based out of Toronto, New York, and Atlanta.
Contact Greg
Ken Rother is the Director of Rev and its Hardware Accelerator program, he also manages Cornell's eLab student accelerator program and teaches entrepreneurship at the Johnson School. Ken has held multiple senior business and technical positions for organizations such as Discovery Communications, Reuters, Matrox, and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Contact Ken
Stephen Sauer, Ph. D is a Senior Lecturer of Management and Organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research and teaching activities focus on issues of leadership, team processes, and status and diversity in management. Sauer's teaching experience includes courses in Leadership, Strategy, Negotiations, and Organizational Behavior at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Contact Bennett
Greg Thomson is an attorney and strategic advisor with over 20 years of experience in digital media, entertainment and technology. His ongoing private law practice work includes intellectual property and software licensing, venture financing, private placements, film financing transactions, media mergers and acquisitions, and corporate sponsorships and endorsements.
Brad is career entrepreneur with an emphasis on technology-driven companies. He is faculty at Johnson at Cornell, Cornell Engineering, and Ithaca College teaching practical entrepreneurship, empathetic leadership, and project management.
Brandon Wright is a serial entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and CEO at Zibby. Wright has co-founded business associations and served on mayoral advisory committees for economic development.
Contact Brandon
Share Your Big News
Have you recently expanded? Moved to a new space? Hired more employees? Hit a big milestone? Let us know! Our marketing team is aways looking for good stories to post on the Rev blog, on social media, and share in our newsletters. Share any exciting information from your company with Sara Baier ([email protected]).
Services We Have Used In the Past
Here is a list of services we have utilized in the past. If you have vendors you would recommend, please contact us at [email protected]
Mariellen Brown, Happy Tree Solutions – Graphic Design, Website Creation ([email protected])
Leigh Martino, f.a. design company – Graphic Design, Social Media Management, Pitch Deck Creation, Website Management ([email protected])
Jill Iacchei – Graphic Design: print and web design ([email protected])
Sciarabba Walker – Legal Services
Scarlet Duba, Duba Design – Graphic Design, Branding, Print and Web Design ([email protected])
Bonny Georgia Renner, Elevate Ink – Content Marketing, Web Content Development, Communications Plans, and Editorial Services ([email protected])
Robby Zweesaardt, New Vision Media – Video Solutions ([email protected])
Lindsay France – Multimedia: photo and video (l[email protected])
Alecia Burgess – Graphic Design, Logo Design, Website Creation/Management ([email protected])
Natasha Keller, natashakeller.com, Creative Business Consulting, Branding, Marketing strategy, Web content development
Olivia Consol www.oliviaconsol.com) – Blogging, Ghostwriting, Website Copy, and Content Marketing ([email protected])
Other Programs and Resources
Grow-NY is a business competition focused on growing an enduring food and agriculture innovation cluster in the Grow-NY region.
The Southern Tier Startup Alliance (STSA) is a member organization of business incubators in the Southern Tier region, working to promote startups and entrepreneurship resources in our region.
The Prototyping Hardware Accelerator an 11-week summer program that takes product ideas from "napkin to prototype" at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works.
The Manufacturing Hardware Accelerator is a cohort-based program that supports hardware startups ready to bring their prototypes into production.
The Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture pulls together multiple partners to catalyze business development in the food and agriculture industries.
The 76West Clean Energy Competition is focused on growing entrepreneurs an attracting clean energy startups from around the world to build clean energy business and jobs in New York's Southern Tier Region.
The UNY I-Corps Node gives researchers the opportunity to combine their strong technical and scientific knowledge with an entrepreneurial mindset using resources from the NSF.
The Koffman Southern Tier Incubator in partnership with Binghamton University and SUNY Broome provides entrepreneurs and startups with the knowledge and resources they need to build sustainable businesses.
FuzeHub provides New York state manufacturers with guided access to their extensive network of industry experts, programs and assets to solve productivity, commercialization, research and development issues, and other challenges to growth.
Grow-NY is a food and agriculture business competition focused on growing an enduring food and agriculture innovation cluster in the Grow-NY region. Companies have the chance to win up to $1 million dollars.
Live in Ithaca provides resources for anyone currently living in Ithaca or considering relocating to Tompkins County. The website offers advice on housing, transportation, careers, and more.
Rev Member Slack Workspace
Slack is an easy, online instant messaging service. We have created a workspace for Rev members so they can communicate with each other, share ideas and feedback, and get personalized updates. You can access the workspace via the new Member Resources web page (see below). Learn more about Slack here.
Rev Member Slack
Payments & Reservations
Members can utilize Nexudus to pay monthly fees and update billing information .
Nexudus
Photo & Video Equipment
Please contact Leigh Martino for training on Rev photo & video equipment.
Email Leigh
The Rev job board lists member company's current job openings. The Rev marketing team also promotes open jobs on social media and in monthly newsletters. Submit your job postings to [email protected].