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Terri Cohen Alpert ’85, an entrepreneur supporter for 25 years, won last year’s Barrett Hazeltine Mentorship Award. After graduating from Brown, where she studied physics and founded the Brown Flying Club, she joined Morgan Stanley, developing software for interest rate, currency swaps, and global foreign exchange.

In 1993, during maternity leave, she started her first company, Professional Cutlery Direct, growing it to $10mm in revenues solely from cash flow, earning a spot on the INC 500 for several years in a row. She later launched her second brand, Uno Alla Volta, in 2003. With long-term succession planning in place, Terri exited the company in 2019. 

Terri served as a board member for the Brown EP from 2000-2010 and advised the annual business plan competition. She co-founded Zio Inc., a sleep technology company created by undergraduates, which raised $25mm in capital. She later served on the American Catalog Mailers Association from 2010-2019, leading policy initiatives for her industry in DC. Today, she is Vice Chairman of Americans for Ben Gurion University (Israel) and a member of the Board of Governors of the university (BGU). 

Since 2020, Terri has been serving as BGU’s first EIR at its Yazamut360 center. She helped create the Brown-BGU graduate course in Neurotechnology. Other “retirement” activities include serving as an executive advisor to a private equity firm and a mid-market investment bank, a strategist to technology startups, and as a career mentor and executive coach.

She and her high school sweetheart, Rabbi Bruce Alpert, have been married for 37 years and have two grown daughters.

Robbie Felton is Co-Founder and CEO of Intus Care, which synthesizes data to improve care and reduce hospitalizations for some of the most socially vulnerable and clinically complex patients in today’s healthcare system – senior citizens. He is responsible for driving product strategy to provide data-driven interventions for patients in managed care organizations such as PACE programs. 

Robbie’s passion for senior care developed as a child watching his mother- then a geriatric social worker in Detroit- navigate the obstacles of caring for a disadvantaged population. He began his undergraduate studies in 2017 at Brown University in public health/pre-med and was inspired to forge his own path for innovation in geriatric long-term care and digital health. He founded Intus Care in 2019 with two of his undergraduate peers who shared a similar passion for improving senior care through technology. Intus Care closed a $14.1M series A in 2022.

Robbie, recently named Forbes 30 under 30, 2024 Healthcare, is also a previous winner of BVP back in 2019!

Richard is a private investor in early stage companies, advising and investing in over two dozen startups. He is also a board member of The Noodle Companies, a group of ventures seeking to increase transparency and efficiency in education. Richard was President, Chairman, and CEO of Kaz, Incorporated, a multinational consumer appliance company, from 1984 until its sale in 2011. Under his leadership, Kaz grew from $5 M to $500 Million in annual sales of humidifiers, digital thermometers, air cleaners, and other products under the Vicks, Honeywell, and Braun brands. He also co-founded Terra Firma Software, a provider of enterprise solutions and an early developer of Macintosh applications. 

David Wellisch is CEO & Co-Founder of Collage Group, the trusted partner and provider of cultural intelligence for over 300 iconic brands across 12 industries. Collage Group has been helping marketers and insights professionals create authentic connections with diverse American consumers for over 10 years. David is passionate about entrepreneurship and company building, and often works directly with members to help guide the integration of diverse consumer insights and marketing strategies.

Prior to Collage Group, David was the founder, vice president and general manager of AOL Latino, AOL’s Hispanic service. He was responsible for the entire operation, including overseeing programming, product development, customer service, brand and acquisition marketing, strategy and business development. At its peak, AOL Latino produced $130MM in revenue from subscriptions and advertising. David was also Executive Director of strategy at AOL’s web properties.

Before AOL, he worked in private equity at Allied Capital and strategic consulting at Gemini Consulting. Originally from Ecuador, David holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Currently, he sits on the Board of Trustees for Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. David is also a member of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Young President’s Organization. David is married, has three awesome kids, and currently lives in Washington, D.C.