Garrett Hall

Garrett Hall is a student at Harvard Business School and Chairman of the Board of the Out for Undergraduate Business Conference.  Prior to business school he was an associate on the secondary private equity investments team at AlpInvest Partners where he is responsible for the investment and monitoring of a €4 billion secondary fund.  With over €40 billion under management, AlpInvest Partners is the leading independent private equity investment manager in the world.  Previously he was an analyst in the Consumer, Healthcare, Retail group in JPMorgan’s Investment Bank. 

Mr. Hall graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006 where he majored in Business at the Kenan-Flagler Business School.  At UNC, he was a Carolina Scholar and was awarded the Hampton Shuping prize which is given to a single senior who excels in academics, integrity and leadership and shows concern for ethical management.  Mr. Hall was the Executive Director of the 2009 Out for Undergraduate Business Conference and is an active member of a number of other community organizations.

Michael Ruderman

Michael Ruderman is a Manager in the Corporate Strategy and Development group at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California.  At HP, he works on small teams to handle some of the most important strategic issues facing the world’s largest technology company, including a redesign of the global supply chain and a clean sheet software strategy.  He previously served as an Associate in the group.  Prior to joining HP, Mr. Ruderman was a Business Analyst at McKinsey&Company in New York City, where he worked across industries and functions and worked with clients in locations as varied as Toronto, Mexico City, and Geneva.  He was also a Summer Analyst on the fixed income and equity trading floors at Goldman Sachs.

  He will matriculate to the Stanford Graduate School of Business in the fall.

Mr. Ruderman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 2007 where he double-concentrated in Economics and Public Policy.  He also graduated Magna Cum Laude and was inducted into the Economics Honor Society.  At Brown, he was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Brown Policy Review, a student academic publication.  He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.  Mr. Ruderman was Executive Director of the 2010 Out for Undergraduate Business Conference, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors, overseeing all aspects of conference planning.  He currently lives in San Francisco. 

JD Schramm

JD Schramm was appointed to the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in 2007 where he teaches a variety of communication courses and created the Mastery in Communication Initiative, an entirely new program in communication as part of the GSB’s curriculum re-design. He’s also actively involved in coaching numerous entrepreneurs on their pitches to potential investors or partners.

Schramm earned his MBA from NYU’s Stern School of business in 2002 and was immediately appointed to the faculty. During his five years there he rose from adjunct to assistant to associate professor teaching courses in strategy, persuasion, organizational communication, and teamwork.

He’s currently pursuing his doctorate of education (Ed.D.) through the University of Pennsylvania’s graduate school of education focusing his research on innovation in MBA programs.

He has been an active player in each OUBC since 2005 often leading the networking session. He also serves as faculty advisor to Reaching Out MBA. Since its inception he has served as faculty advisor for the Case Competition at Reaching Out. In 2006 he helped expand this program to also include a case writing competition.

In 2007 he was awarded the Bob Butler Award for Queer Advocacy by NYU’s office of LGBT Student Services. He and his husband, Ken Daigle, were married in November 2007 and make their home in both San Francisco and New York.

Mary C. Gentile

Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., is Director of Giving Voice to Values (GVV),, a business curriculum launched by Aspen Institute and Yale SOM now based and funded at Babson College. GVV  is a pioneering approach to values-driven leadership that has been featured in  Financial Times, Harvard Business, Stanford Social Innovation Review, McKinsey Quarterly, BizEd, among many others,  and is being piloted in over 100 business schools and organizations globally. The book  – Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right – is out from Yale University Press (www.MaryGentile.com , 2010). Gentile is also Senior Research Scholar at Babson College; Senior Advisor, The Aspen Institute Business&Society Program; and an independent consultant based in Arlington, MA. Previously Gentile was a faculty member and manager of case research at the Harvard Business School.

While at Harvard Business School (1985-95), Gentile was one of the principal architects of the innovative educational program, Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, which served to integrate Business Ethics into the Harvard graduate management curriculum. Gentile co-authored a book detailing the history, philosophy and implementation of this ethics initiative, Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at Harvard Business School (co-authored with Thomas R. Piper and Sharon Parks, Harvard Business School Press, 1993, translated into Japanese and Hungarian).

Her other publications include Differences That Work: Organizational Excellence through Diversity; Managing Diversity: Making Differences Work;  Managerial Excellence Through Diversity: Text and Cases, as well as numerous articles, cases, and book reviews in publications such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, Harvard Business Review, Risk Management, CFO, The Journal of Human Values, New Academy Review, BizEd, Strategy+Business,  etc. Gentile also served as the Content Expert for the award-winning multi-media interactive CD-ROM, Managing Across Differences  (Harvard Business School Publishing New Media Group, 1996).

Gentile holds a bachelor's degree from The College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Jonathan Buck

Jonathan Buck is an independent consultant advising executive-level clients to frame and solve critical, complex strategic problems primarily in the US healthcare, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.  He has also worked with financial services, technology, and consumer products clients and abroad in Germany and South Africa.  Previously, Mr. Buck was a Case Team Leader with Monitor Group in the Cambridge and San Francisco offices and led Monitor's US GLBT recruiting.  He served as the Executive Director of the 2007 and 2008 conferences and has served on the OUBC board since its inception in 2004.

Mr. Buck graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University with Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.  Between these two programs, he was an analyst with BlackRock in the Fund Administration group in New York.  He currently resides in San Francisco with his husband Zack.

Peter Hart

Peter Hart is an Associate at AEA Investors where he is a member of their Middle Market team specifically focused on making investments in the consumer retail space.

Prior to joining AEA, he was a Consultant in the Chicago office of the Boston Consulting Group where he worked with his clients to solve some of their most challenging strategy questions.   He spent the majority of his time in the financial services practice area primarily advising banks, hedge funds, and asset managers.

Mr. Hart graduated with high honors from Indiana University, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business with concentrations in Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Real Estate.  During his freshman year at IU, he founded Everest Real Estate L.L.C, which owns and operates a portfolio of five residential properties in Bloomington, Indiana.  He serves as Executive Director of the Out for Undergraduate Business Conference, overseeing all aspects of conference planning.   He currently lives in New York, NY and in his free time, enjoys cooking, traveling, and beating playing guitar hero on expert.