Vishal Lugani
President of Harvard Chapter
Vishal Lugani is currently a junior at Harvard pursuing a degree in economics. Passionate about entrepreneurship himself, Vishal founded the Kairos Society at Harvard College. He also serves as the Chief Marketing Officer for the Kairos Society. When not engaged in Kairos, Vishal remains occupied by teaching Civic education at a local Cambridge middle school, dancing on the Harvard Bhangra Team, and playing pick-up basketball whenever he gets the chance. Having been involved in a few entrepreneurial ventures in the past, Vishal is currently working towards starting his own social enterprise.
Contact Details:
E: vlugani@fas.harvard.edu
Jason Tolkin
President of Claremont Chapter
Jason Tolkin is currently a junior at Claremont Mckenna College. Jason serves as the Vice-President of Kairos as well as founded the Claremont Chapter. As a young entrepreneur himself, he founded a non-profit organization 7 years ago that connects the cancer community with the yachting community, providing complimentary yacht outings and events. To date, he has run 20 events, hosted 1,400 guests, and procured $110,000 in in-kind donations. He is currently working on a new project in the real estate field with another student at Claremont Mckenna.
Contact Details:
E: jtolkin11@students.claremontmckenna.edu
Alexander Debelov
President of Babson Chapter
Alexander Debelov is a senior at Babson College, where he started the Babson Chapter of Kairos. Currently, Alex is a CEO of Crelligence Media, an innovative online video marketing firm that crowd sources video ad creation and distributes it to client’s desired demographic. In the past, Alex worked for Dakar Technology, a San Diego/Los Angeles based startup, and Tadpole Ventures, an LA-based venture capital firm, where he led a team that performed research and modeling of various elements of urban planning and design for a multibillion-dollar real estate development project that involved building a city on an island.
Contact Details:
E: adebelov1 (at) babson (dot) edu
Juan Arenas
President of NYU Chapter
Juan S. Arenas is a current freshman at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Currently as the President of the Kairos Chapter at New York University he aims bring many of the city’s business leaders and resources in contact with the creative talent of Kairos Members. As the summit approaches he is committed to ensure that Kairos members from around the country enjoy their time in the city. Born to an Entrepreneur family from Colombia (South America) he has an innate passion for entrepreneurship and new ventures. He is excited to be part of Kairos and wishes to take his ideas to a new level.
Contact Details:
E: juan.arenas@nyu.edu
Lauren Vegter
President of MIT Chapter
Lauren Vegter is a founding member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kairos chapter. A junior at MIT, she is pursuing a dual-degree bachelors in Materials Engineering and Management Science. Lauren founded MIT International Development Consulting (IDC), which is an organization that provides student consulting services to the top executives of international non-profit organizations focused on development work. After one year, IDC project teams are currently supporting 5 NGOs in India, Ecuador, Malawi, and Ghana, and Lauren is looking forward to rapid growth in the coming year. In her free time, Lauren enjoys salsa dancing, skiing, and baking.
Contact Details:
E: lvegter@mit.edu
Ryder Fyrwald
President of the USC Chapter
Ryder Fyrwald is a junior at the University of Southern California majoring in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurship. This past summer, he worked for Investec Private Bank in Johannesburg, South Africa and currently is an intern for Merrill Lynch for their Global Wealth Management Division. He wants to work in Corporate Finance, but eventually plans to start his own company. In his freetime, he enjoys to reading, skiing, playing golf, soccer, and also plays club hockey for USC.
Contact Details:
E: rfyrwald (at) gmail (dot) com
Nicholas Pigott
President of Northeastern Chapter
Nicholas Pigott is a sophomore from Northeastern University. He is pursuing a degree in business with a concentration in Entrepreneurship with a minor in Management. For the Kairos Society, he is one of the founders and a national board member. He is heading up his chapter at Northeastern and putting in countless hours to see to it that the 2009 annual summit is a success. Nicholas has been entrepreneurial since he could speak, hosting countless lemonade stands and selling doughnuts for a 250% profit. More recently he has flirted with many entrepreneurial endeavors and continues to keep his eye out for opportunities. Nicholas sees Kairos as an invaluable tool for any young entrepreneur.
Contact Details:
E: njpigott@gmail.com
Alex Yagoda
President of Columbia Chapter
Alex Yagoda is a junior at Columbia University. He is currently enrolled in the joint Economics-Political Science program and is minoring in Creative Writing. While in high school, Alex launched a web-based business that allowed users to trade in their off-contract cellular phones for cash. He spent the previous summer working in Hong Kong and Shanghai in real estate private equity. Alongside a group of his peers, Alex has hosted events on campus and in the neighboring communities with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship. He hopes to expand this effort in the coming year as he heads Kairos at Columbia.
Contact Details:
E: aby2103@columbia.edu
Conor Myhrvold
President of Princeton Chapter
Conor Myhrvold is a junior at Princeton, concentrating in geosciences, and has worked with Kairos since its inception. He also plays sprint football and is the co-president of the chess club. Other interests besides entrepreneurship include wildlife photography, and invention, including 2 patent applications.
Contact Details:
E: myhrvold@princeton.edu
Tyler Flint
President of Emory Chapter
Tyler Flint is a senior pursing degrees in finance, marketing, and Chinese at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Tyler is president of the Emory Chapter of the Kairos Society. Tyler is very interested in a career in venture capital, specifically in the CleanTech sector. This summer, Tyler will be interning at Enertech Capital, a CleanTech venture capital firm in Philadelphia.
Contact Details:
E: tflint@learnlink.emory.edu
Artem Efremkin
President of Tufts Chapter
Artem Efremkin is currently a junior at Tufts University. He is the president of the Tufts Chapter and has been actively working on getting Kairos off the ground since early last year. As an entrepreneur, Artem has worked in the biotech field with a focus on medical and aesthetic light based devices. Currently, he is the president of FutureEnergy Corp, an innovative green tech and alternative energy company that has created devices that use light energy to affect water for energy generation, significantly increased rate of biological growth (1.5x-2x), and enhanced wound healing.
Contact Details:
E: artem.efremkin@tufts.edu
Nikhil Arun
President of Duke Chapter
Nikhil Arun is a junior at Duke University who is majoring in Economics and Computer Science. He is one of the founding members of Kairos at Duke and is currently the president of the Duke Chapter of the Kairos Society. Nikhil has started two of his own companies and was picked as a key note speaker at the annual meeting of the North West Entrepreneurial Network. Nikhil has interned at Microsoft and Tenex Capital, and loves to play sports and dance. Nikhil Arun is also a dancer and choreographer for Duke’s hip hop team Defining Movement.
Contact Details:
E: nikhil.arun@duke.edu
Andrew Wolff
President of University of Michigan Chapter
Andrew Wolff is currently an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Andrew hopes to receive a BBA from the Ross School of Business and a BA in Chinese studies from the general college. Andrew is also the president and founder of BlueBroker.net, Michigan’s newest and most efficient way for students to find of campus housing. Andrew recently took over as president of the Michigan chapter of the Kairos Society.
Contact Details:
E: awolff@umich.edu
Kayvon Beykpour
President of Stanford Chapter
Kayvon Beykpour’s various business ventures have a theme: helping big institutions get hip to the web. His epiphany came during an internship at the ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners after his freshman year at Stanford. He had been helping many of the firm’s big clients develop their web presence. “It occurred to me that there was a whole lot more opportunity if I was working on my own,” he says. So Beykpour and his childhood friend, Joe Bernstein, started Terribly Clever Design, and began reaching out to the very same companies. Beykpour and Bernstein, both iPhone fanatics, also pitched their school on iStanford, a mobile application that would allow students and faculty to access all university services, from a course catalog to the athletic department schedule, on their iPhones. If a friend recommends a class, the application would give you a course description and tell you when and where the classes are being held the next semester, as well as a brief bio of the professor.A venture source familiar with the company said that by the end of the year, mobilEdu will have brought in upwards of $1 million in revenue.
Contact Details:
E: kayvon@terriblyclever.com