George William Iuliano, known as Buddy, (January 3, 1948 in Portsmouth, Virginia - October 5, 1968) was both part-owner and manager of Abbott Auto Supply, however was better known as driver of the 1957 C Modified Production Chevrolet, the "Bootlegger". Iuliano and the Bootlegger were well known for their racing abilities at race tracks in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. Iuliano showed-off 1960s drag racing like it really was with his back tires smoking and the front tires off the ground. Iuliano was one of the best at what was then called speed shifting, now power shifting, where you hold the clutch in and power the shifter through the gears and hope you hit it right. His fast reflexes seldom saw him second off the line when the Christmas tree light went green.
He died participating in the sport he loved. News articles in the October 7, 1968, editions of both the Ledger Star and Virginian Pilot newspapers of Norfolk, Virginia, and The Jacksonville Daily News of Jacksonville, North Carolina, state that Iuliano was killed on October 5, 1968, when his car overturned during a race at the Highway 258 Drag Strip near Jacksonville, NC. He was survived by his wife, Candace Yeager Iuliano, his parents and two brothers.
He died participating in the sport he loved. News articles in the October 7, 1968, editions of both the Ledger Star and Virginian Pilot newspapers of Norfolk, Virginia, and The Jacksonville Daily News of Jacksonville, North Carolina, state that Iuliano was killed on October 5, 1968, when his car overturned during a race at the Highway 258 Drag Strip near Jacksonville, NC. He was survived by his wife, Candace Yeager Iuliano, his parents and two brothers.
Briccialdi Flutes is an Italian flute manufacturer. Flutes are developed by the company especially for professionals featuring soldered tone holes, synthetic pads, gold parts, and various headjoint styles. The company is owned by its major supplier, Suberatum Music. The company is headquartered in Italy in Imola, Udine, Venice, and Soverato
The company name is named after the Italian composer and flute maker Giulio Briccialdi, inventor of the B-flat thumb key for the Boehm flute
Ownership
Since 2007 Briccialdi Flutes has been owned by a series of Italian flute workshops under the corporate name Suberatum Music.
The various Italian Suberatum Music workshops cooperate with each other, and each of them contributes to a production stage.
Briccialdi Flutes produce and sell all the flutes direct to the public.
Titanium parts
Briccialdi Flutes produces titanium flute parts (headjoint, stopper, and crown). The titanium stopper is a device that replaces the standard cork stopper. It allows the headjoint to vibrate more freely thanks to the very small contact surface (only one small rubber gasket, installed and centered by hand) and extraordinary titanium lightness. The titanium crown further reduces the stopper's overall weight
The company name is named after the Italian composer and flute maker Giulio Briccialdi, inventor of the B-flat thumb key for the Boehm flute
Ownership
Since 2007 Briccialdi Flutes has been owned by a series of Italian flute workshops under the corporate name Suberatum Music.
The various Italian Suberatum Music workshops cooperate with each other, and each of them contributes to a production stage.
Briccialdi Flutes produce and sell all the flutes direct to the public.
Titanium parts
Briccialdi Flutes produces titanium flute parts (headjoint, stopper, and crown). The titanium stopper is a device that replaces the standard cork stopper. It allows the headjoint to vibrate more freely thanks to the very small contact surface (only one small rubber gasket, installed and centered by hand) and extraordinary titanium lightness. The titanium crown further reduces the stopper's overall weight
Gordon Adomdza is a Ghanaian Educator, Entrepreneur, Innovator, Thought Leader and Design Strategist. Gordon is an Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Business Administration Department, at Ashesi University, Ghana.
He is also the Faculty Lead for the Foundations of Design & Entrepreneurship one-year course for all freshmen, and Faculty Advisor of the student-led Ashesi Venture Accelerator. Gordon focuses mainly on the design strategy perspective in new idea creation and business model development in and outside of the classroom. Outside of the classroom, he is the organizer of the Design Thinking Ghana Meetup Group, which focuses on bringing together design thinking enthusiasts and professionals to advance the adoption of the approach in Ghana.
Early Life
Gordon was born in Ghana. He studied Economics for his undergraduate degree at the University of Ghana where he graduated with First Class Honors. In 2001, Gordon got admitted into the University of Waterloo where he obtained an M.A. in Applied Economics, M.A. Sc in Management Sciences and a PhD in Management of Technology. Gordon acquired a Graduate Teaching certificate at the University of Waterloo, Certificates from the notable seminars on leading discussions in teaching case studies at Harvard Business School and an ACIM, Professional Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom.
Work
Gordon is currently an Associate Professor, the Founding Lead of Ashesi D:Lab, Faculty Advisor of student-led Ashesi Venture Accelerator and Faculty Lead of Foundations of Design & Entrepreneurship course for all freshmen. Gordon teaches courses related to Innovation, Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship. Besides Ashesi University, Gordon has taught at the China-Europe International Business School, Africa Campus, D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, Harvard University, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. At Northeastern University, Gordon pioneered his Design Thinking Course, with the help of Design Continuum, and grew it from one session to 5 sessions in 2015. He also developed a business model generation course for social impact with funding from Venture Well. For 7 years, Gordon was the faculty advisor to the Northeastern University’s Entrepreneurs Club, one of the more vibrant entrepreneurship clubs in the world - ranked 6 out of 20 in the world in 2011 when he was the faculty advisor. In Ghana, Gordon organizes the Design Thinking Ghana Meetup Group which organizes monthly meetings on how design thinking applies to various topic areas. The group also organized the first design thinking conference in Ghana in 2017. His current design thinking work is focused on helping companies understand the role of aspirations in unearthing customer insights for competitive advantage. He has termed this work Aspirations Engineering because he believes aspirations hold the key to understanding customers in emerging markets. He has also pioneered a program called The Startup Traction Project with the mission to help entrepreneurs develop experiments to help them test their ideas more cheaply and quickly before they spend significant amounts of money.
Other Professional Experience
* Various Design Innovation Consulting Projects in Boston, South Africa, Dominican Republic,Ghana
* Research Associate, Boston, Continuum Innovation Emerging Market Research Group 2009 - 2012
* Research Assistant for Dr. Tom Astebro, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 2003 - 2008
* New idea validation (Canadian Innovation Centre) 2004 - 2006
Affiliations
* Member of the Review Board: Journal of Business Venturing
* Member of the Editorial board: Journal of African Business Research
* Member of the Editorial Board: Journal for Global Business Advancement
* Academy of Management (AoM)
* United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
* Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)
* Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM, UK)
* Member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council
He is also the Faculty Lead for the Foundations of Design & Entrepreneurship one-year course for all freshmen, and Faculty Advisor of the student-led Ashesi Venture Accelerator. Gordon focuses mainly on the design strategy perspective in new idea creation and business model development in and outside of the classroom. Outside of the classroom, he is the organizer of the Design Thinking Ghana Meetup Group, which focuses on bringing together design thinking enthusiasts and professionals to advance the adoption of the approach in Ghana.
Early Life
Gordon was born in Ghana. He studied Economics for his undergraduate degree at the University of Ghana where he graduated with First Class Honors. In 2001, Gordon got admitted into the University of Waterloo where he obtained an M.A. in Applied Economics, M.A. Sc in Management Sciences and a PhD in Management of Technology. Gordon acquired a Graduate Teaching certificate at the University of Waterloo, Certificates from the notable seminars on leading discussions in teaching case studies at Harvard Business School and an ACIM, Professional Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom.
Work
Gordon is currently an Associate Professor, the Founding Lead of Ashesi D:Lab, Faculty Advisor of student-led Ashesi Venture Accelerator and Faculty Lead of Foundations of Design & Entrepreneurship course for all freshmen. Gordon teaches courses related to Innovation, Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship. Besides Ashesi University, Gordon has taught at the China-Europe International Business School, Africa Campus, D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, Harvard University, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. At Northeastern University, Gordon pioneered his Design Thinking Course, with the help of Design Continuum, and grew it from one session to 5 sessions in 2015. He also developed a business model generation course for social impact with funding from Venture Well. For 7 years, Gordon was the faculty advisor to the Northeastern University’s Entrepreneurs Club, one of the more vibrant entrepreneurship clubs in the world - ranked 6 out of 20 in the world in 2011 when he was the faculty advisor. In Ghana, Gordon organizes the Design Thinking Ghana Meetup Group which organizes monthly meetings on how design thinking applies to various topic areas. The group also organized the first design thinking conference in Ghana in 2017. His current design thinking work is focused on helping companies understand the role of aspirations in unearthing customer insights for competitive advantage. He has termed this work Aspirations Engineering because he believes aspirations hold the key to understanding customers in emerging markets. He has also pioneered a program called The Startup Traction Project with the mission to help entrepreneurs develop experiments to help them test their ideas more cheaply and quickly before they spend significant amounts of money.
Other Professional Experience
* Various Design Innovation Consulting Projects in Boston, South Africa, Dominican Republic,Ghana
* Research Associate, Boston, Continuum Innovation Emerging Market Research Group 2009 - 2012
* Research Assistant for Dr. Tom Astebro, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 2003 - 2008
* New idea validation (Canadian Innovation Centre) 2004 - 2006
Affiliations
* Member of the Review Board: Journal of Business Venturing
* Member of the Editorial board: Journal of African Business Research
* Member of the Editorial Board: Journal for Global Business Advancement
* Academy of Management (AoM)
* United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
* Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)
* Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM, UK)
* Member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council
Emmanuel House is a non-for-profit organization that aims to break the cycle of working class poverty. It serves impoverished and working-class families, allowing them to begin saving money through a rent program and "Networked Savings". It has been regarded as a highly successful and innovative solution to working class poverty, and has received attention from people such as Illinois Senator Dick Durbin.
The program allows families to live in a house owned by Emmanuel House and pay their usual fair rent fee, yet after 18 months the family is given back a year’s worth of rent as savings - in some cases, enough to allow them to put a down payment on their first home.
Home ownership has long been known as a “pathway out of poverty”, and families that own homes are as much as twelve times more wealthy than rent-paying families after a decade.
The program allows families to live in a house owned by Emmanuel House and pay their usual fair rent fee, yet after 18 months the family is given back a year’s worth of rent as savings - in some cases, enough to allow them to put a down payment on their first home.
Home ownership has long been known as a “pathway out of poverty”, and families that own homes are as much as twelve times more wealthy than rent-paying families after a decade.