CID Team

		Our CID 2011 Lecturer Biographies Dr. Robert Edgell Through his nearly thirty years of professional work, Dr. Edgell has forged a unique identity from diverse educational experiences and an unconventional combination of practice activities. He holds degrees in Architecture, international business, and multicultural management (with a behavioral economics focus). His varied professional contributions include designing habitats, creating media and brands, being an entrepreneur, developing action research, educating future change agents, and performing scholarly research on creativity and innovation. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington DC and a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Business School in Zurich. Previously, he taught at San Francisco State University’s College of Business. As a consultant, Dr. Edgell has provided strategic direction, organizational design, creativity and management training, and relationship development solutions for diverse organizations including socially responsible businesses, startups, nonprofits, and universities. Recently, he was selected to advise Stanford University’s SIPX (Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange) project, an open innovation scholarly content network, on research pertaining to social network theory, intellectual property, public knowledge creation and dissemination, innovation, and emerging markets. This past year, he collaborated with a legal scholar from Stanford University to write an interdisciplinary theory of innovation, harm, and information networks titled, Two innovation paths: Predicting harm and benefit. Prior to his PhD, he authored the seminar companion book, Profitable marketing and branding in the digital economy. In addition, he has written numerous action research reports and contributed to multiple creative design and social media projects. Dr. Edgell received his PhD in international multicultural management (magna cum laude) from the University of St. Gallen (AACSB accredited) in Switzerland. He holds an MBA from Columbia University Business School in the City of New York and a Bachelor of Architecture (5 year degree, cum laude) from Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Through Columbia's Chazen Institute of International Business, he studied at Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands. He is a registered Architect and has studied at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.
		Dr. Roland Vogl Dr. Vogl is a scholar and media entrepreneur who, over nearly fifteen years of professional legal experience, has developed a strong expertise in innovation, intellectual property, and legal informatics. Currently, he is a lecturer, scholar, and Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology (LST) at Stanford Law School. He focuses his efforts on legal informatics work carried out in the Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX) and international technology law work through the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF). More recently, he founded and leads the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange (SIPX) and the Stanford Publish on Demand Initiative. Dr. Vogl is also a Visiting Faculty at the University of Vienna, Austria where he teaches about United States intellectual property law. Previously, he founded Vator.tv, a next-generation business social media company, leveraging community-generated content to create data services and news. Also, he was a teaching fellow for the Stanford Law School’s international LLM degree program in Law, Science and Technology. He worked as an IP associate at Fenwick & West LLP, as a press associate at the European Parliament and as a law clerk at the European Commission's Directorate General for Audiovisual Media, Information and Communication as well as at a Federal District Court in Austria. Dr. Vogl holds both a Dr.iur. (JSD) and a Mag.iur. (JD) from Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria as well as a JSM from Stanford Law School.
		Ethan Hanabury Mr. Hanabury is an award-winning senior executive and educator, with 28 years of experience leading organizations in the private and public sectors. As Senior Associate Dean at Columbia Business School, Hanabury oversaw the administration of all degree programs, including admissions, career services, student and academic affairs. In this and other roles, Hanabury raised School rankings, brought student satisfaction levels to record highs, improved admissions selectivity, and introduced new global MBA programs. In 2007, 2009, and 2011, Hanabury was awarded the highest honor of any member of the faculty or administration by the graduating MBA and Executive MBA classes. When Hanabury retired in 2011, Columbia Business School recognized his substantial legacy by naming the graduating student awards in his honor for perpetuity. Previous to his deanship at Columbia, Hanabury was a product manager with Unilever (Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Skippy peanut butter) and a CPA with Arthur Andersen. Mr. Hanabury earned his MBA from Columbia Business School. He is also a candidate for graduation from the Columbia Coaching Certification Program in 2012. Presently Hanabury leverages his executive leadership experience and education to lecture on leadership and to coach executives to achieve their full potential.
		Robert Imber Robert Imber is a ten-year resident of Palm Springs, CA where he owns and operates Palm Springs Modern Tours. Specializing in daily educational tours of the Recent Past desert modern architecture for visitors in addition to in-depth excursions for students, professional associations, museums, et al. Robert has been an active community-involved preservation advocate for more than twenty-five years. Originally from St. Louis, MO, education continued at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge) and Antioch Graduate School of Education. He has served on various boards including the NEWSCHOOL Arts Foundation at the NEWSCHOOL of Architecture and Design, San Diego, CA, and the San Clemente Historical Society, San Clemente, CA. Robert was founder and director of MUSARCH, the (now closed) museum of architecture in John Lautner’s Alto Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, CA. Active in preservation outreach and organizations, he was founding member of the Palm Springs Modern Committee, where he serves on the Board of Directors and is chairman of the Education Committee. He is executive producer of the documentary, Desert Utopia: mid-century architecture in Palm Springs and among other writing collaborated on the Assouline Press book, Palm Springs Style.
		Brett Brune Brett Brune is Editor of SmartGridToday. He previously reported and edited business news at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Houston Chronicle and the Washington Post. He also managed Internet World magazine, served as a New York Times media critic and taught reporting and writing in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Brett lives in Palo Alto, California.
		Anne Elliott (Elly) Merica Anne Elliott (Elly) Merica is a registered architect (in Virginia). A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she has over 25 years of responsibility in all phases of the design and construction industry, including a wide range of building types and delivery methods. Early in her career she started in security design, utilizing some of the first commercially available card access and CCTV systems. That early exposure to the details of wiring and finish quality led her to solve a perpetual problem in architectural design: how to get power and data to the window walls where occupants like to sit. Utilizing the otherwise wasted space inside window framing, she developed Integrated Framing, which is patented in the US and China, approved in Canada, and pending in the European Union. The system allows the use of photovoltaic glazing to collect power in low-voltage format ideal for powering LED lighting. It also makes a "Smart Skin" on the building exterior where real-time weather data can be used to control shading, lighting and HVAC systems, potentially saving over 40% of operating costs. The system is at the forefront of Net Zero Energy Building design, and shows how pre-engineered and unitized construction can make dramatic reductions in building energy possible.

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