Keynote+Speakers



=Thursday morning= =Dr. Rick Oliver - [|The Biotech Age Power PointPresentation]= Dr. Rick Oliver is the founder and CEO of American Sentinel University, an online university offering degrees in informatics, business and healthcare. Previously, he was a professor at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University where he taught strategy and global management. While at Vanderbilt, he received the Outstanding Professor Award and a Dean's Teaching Award. For several years, he served as a Visiting Professor of Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. The author of seven books and numerous book chapters and journal articles about management, technology and education, Dr. Oliver has lectured around the world on these topics and served as an editorial reviewer for two academic journals. Prior to his academic career, he was Vice President of Marketing at Nortel Networks. He currently serves on several corporate Boards, and for several years served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Symmetricom, Inc., a NASDAQ technology company. Dr. Oliver served as Chair, Harpeth Hall School, Chair, Cornell Athletic Advisory Committee, and Vice Chair, Cornell University Council. He holds a BS from Cornell University and a PhD from the State University of New York. 

=Friday Morning= =Brad Rathgeber - [|Online Learning Power Point]= Weblink for Online School for Girls Course Page: [|https://courses.onlineschoolforgirls.org/brad.rathgeber/theonlineschoolforgirlsadvantage/cms_page/] USERNAME: guest PASSWORD: guestosg  Brad Rathgeber is the President of the Online School for Girls, the first and only single-gender online school. In his role, he has helped the Online School for Girls to launch its first courses, devise a business plan, create curricular standards for girls’ online education, and market the program to schools and through the media. Brad has written in or been quoted in a number of national publications including the //Wall Street Journal// and //Washington Post//. Brad is also the Director of Technology at the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, where he has worked for the past six years, holding many jobs (Director of Technology, Director of Academic Technology, Director of Lower School, history teacher, and coach). Brad received an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and a graduate degree from Dartmouth College.