Mickey Drexler, chief executive officer of J. Crew, will give the keynote address at a daylong conference on entrepreneurship on Friday, June 2, at the Friend Center for Engineering Education on the Princeton campus.May 24, 2006 by Teresa Riordan (permalink)
Mickey Drexler, chief executive officer of J. Crew, will give the keynote address at a daylong conference on entrepreneurship on Friday, June 2, at the Friend Center for Engineering Education on the Princeton campus.
The conference, organized by an alumni group, the Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network, will feature panels and workshops on running a business and raising capital. Special topics also will include legal issues, technology trends and not-for-profit management.
Notable panelists include John Quigley, founder of Nassau Capital; Jared Polis '96, founder of Blue Mountain Arts and Pro Flowers.com; and Diane deCordova '83, founder of Strategic Business Development Partners Inc. and former director of strategic alliances at Yahoo. H. Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, will deliver opening remarks.
The conference also features the conclusion of the Entrepreneurs' Network annual business plan contest. Six finalists will compete for a $10,000 prize to be awarded by a panel of successful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs for the best business plan.
The conference will run from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Drexler's address will begin at 10:15 a.m. Prior to joining J.Crew in 2003, Mr. Drexler spent eighteen years at Gap, Inc., where he was named president in 1987 and CEO in 1995. While there, Drexler and his team increased the company's annual sales from $400 million to $14 billion.
The conference is co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Bendheim Center for Finance. For more details and registration information, please visit www.princetonen.org.