Thomas Caleel began his career at Heritage Finance & Trust, a private financial group based in Geneva, Switzerland. As director of the Moscow Representative Office during 1995–1998, he established and built the company’s presence in this rapidly growing market. Caleel also participated in a variety of private equity transactions across several former Soviet Republics.

Between 1998 and 2001, Caleel was a co-founder of BCI Private Capital, a holding company in Denver, CO. Through BCI, he served as managing director of international development for Caleel+Hayden, a start-up manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of premium skincare products. During his time at Caleel+Hayden, sales grew from zero to over $20 million annually, and the firm grew to 180 employees across 20 countries. While at BCI, Caleel participated in the acquisition or founding of several new product lines and new businesses and served as the interim CEO of a Russian-Swiss technology venture that delivers medical information to remote disaster areas as well as mobile phones. Caleel currently serves as an advisor to another BCI portfolio company, Harrow Sports, a specialty sports equipment and apparel manufacturer.

After earning his MBA from Wharton in 2003 with a major in finance, Caleel worked at Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, a silicon-valley based venture merchant banking group. Caleel served on the board of directors of several CMCP portfolio companies, both public and private, and completed private placement transactions across the life sciences, recycling, alternative fuels, and energy sectors.

While a student at Wharton, he was a leadership fellow, co-chair of the ethics committee, a graduate assistant in the MBA Admissions Office, a member of the dean’s graduate student advisory committee, and received the 2003 Wharton Way Leadership Award. Caleel earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.

At age 16, while a junior at the Bronx High School of Science, Joseph Einhorn answered an ad seeking a college graduate and became the first employee and initial technologist of Capital IQ, a finance data and software company. Einhorn led a team in designing and building the technology that would successfully transform the way entire financial services industry receives and processes information. Capital IQ’s client base grew to more than 1,000 companies, including the market leaders in investment banking, investment management, and private equity, as well as some of the world's largest corporations. Capital IQ was acquired by McGraw-Hill/Standard & Poor’s for $225 million in September 2004.

As Capital IQ changed hands, Einhorn co-founded a new company with Neal Goldman, Capital IQ’s founder. Inform Technologies was established with the innovative idea that online news could be aggregated, augmented and made accessible via methodology similar to the way Capital IQ transforms an overwhelming amount of unstructured financial data into useful information.

Einhorn’s vision for transforming the online news reading experience predates the current consensus among media industry leaders that the Internet is fast becoming the primary vehicle for news delivery. Inform is currently in discussion with many of the world’s top media companies regarding implementation of Inform's technology into their Web sites.

Keynote Interview With:
Vito Schnabel
Curator

Vito Schnabel curated his first art show in 2003. He was 16 years old. It sounds young but he has been surrounded by art his whole life (He's the son of artist Julian Schnabel). Vito's first show included eight artists from the age of 21 to 60, from his sister Lola to Jorge Galindo, artists from New York, California, Italy, and Spain presenting a broad and yet very precise view of the possibilities of contemporary art. The show offered a wide array of talent; from the chopped up surfboard art of world-champion surfer Herbie Fletcher to twenty years of the hand touched photographs of Italian artist Luigi Ontani. The exhibition gave art audiences a lot to chew on. Last year’s effort, a retrospect exhibition 1968- 2005 of the veteran but forgotten about genius Ron Gorchov's paintings resulted in resurgence of interest in his work after 20 years, with articles in publications like The New York Times, Art Forum, Art in America, Interview Magazine, The New Yorker, Timeout, and created a discussion that resulted in Mr. Gorchov's (who is presently seventy six) upcoming exhibition at PS1 MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art extension in Long Island City). Artists featured in Vito's shows have work that's been exhibited in The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Reina Sofia in Madrid and numerous other museums and galleries around the world, with works in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also shows young artists who are in no permanent collections of any museums, but will be.

Vito Schnabel has independently presented the work of eleven artists resulting in a nice modest living for a nineteen year old art dealer and the artists around him. He has done this in an innovative way without a gallery. He has found temporary spaces that have suited the work and the purpose of each show, renovating and installing exhibitions that are well advertised and well attended, on a grand scale. A moveable feast.

Georgia Lee
Filmmaker

After graduating from Harvard with a degree in Biochemistry, Georgia Lee worked for management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. While at McKinsey, Lee was selected by Martin Scorsese to apprentice on Gangs of New York after he saw Lee's first short film, The Big Dish: Tiananmen '89. Her subsequent short film, Educated, showed in over 30 festivals around the world. Lee's first feature film, Red Doors, won the Best Narrative Feature Award in the NY, NY Competition at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. Red Doors has gone on to win the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting at CineVegas, as well as the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Award for Screenwriting at Outfest. Lee has been a juror for both the Sundance Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. Red Doors will be coming out in theaters September 2006.