John Carey is the founder of Digital Home Technologies (DHT), a technology implementation consultancy serving residential and commercial customers in the greater Washington, D.C. area. DHT’s core mission is to enable people and businesses to function more efficiently and safely through the use of advanced technologies without overwhelming them with the implementation complexities. Most recently, Mr. Carey expanded DHT to address the growing mobile software market. Magic Happy, our mobile software brand has shipped several novel applications for Apple’s iPhone. Prior to founding DHT, Mr. Carey served as a Sales Manager specializing in semiconductors and electronic systems for LSI Inc. In preparation for starting a corporate career, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and a Master of Science from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.
Mr. Carey’s interests are firmly rooted in advanced technologies and how they can be elegantly applied to improve everyday living.
Mr. Carey currently serves as the Treasurer for the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network – DC and is involved with many alumni organizations and interest clubs from his two alma maters.
Hiliary Critchley is currently an Area Manager for Vestergaard Frandsen, a Swiss company that innovates products for the control of vector and water-borne diseases prevalent mainly in the developing world. Ms. Critchley’s business development activities are focused on expanding the reach of these life-saving tools to 90+ non-profit organizations with development programs in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
Ms. Critchley has lectured on the role of “bottom of the pyramic” product development for public health uses at the University of Pennsylvania, the Emerson Summer Institute, and organizations ranging from Pathfinder to Family Health International. She has had field experience in South Africa, Kenya, and Vietnam. She is the Chair of Global Health for Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and is a student of entrepreneurship at the University of MD ACTiVATE program.
Ms. Critchley was previously a management consultant specializing in growth strategy for private sector multinational Life Sciences clients, and is from Washington, DC. She graduated from Dartmouth College.
Craig Dixon is a Senior Corporate Development Manager at Bill Me Later, Inc. a PayPal Company. During his tenure at Bill Me Later, Craig has operated in various capacities, including: facilitating strategic partnerships, leading international expansion evaluation, assisting in M&A efforts, creating new products and developing product & corporate strategies. Prior to Bill Me Later, Craig has worked primarily in the payments industry at First Annapolis Consulting, American Express (Establishment Services), Merrill Lynch (Global Bank Group) and Citigroup (Global Investment Bank FIG).
Craig holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth where he was a Center of Digital Strategies Fellow. Also, he received Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from Boston University. Also, Craig is an avid entrepreneur and technologist, having launched two technology companies.
Rainey Hoffman is an Associate Vice President in the General Counsel's office of The Carlyle Group. Prior to joining Carlyle, Rainey was an Associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he advised public and private technology companies in corporate and transactional matters. He has a passion for helping entrepreneurs and building start-up companies.
Rainey has a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Katya Kovalskaia, MSc, MEM, PMP holds a graduate degree in Management from Dartmouth College and a graduate degree in Biochemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science. She has held cross functional manager positions within pharmaceutical (Abbott Labs) and biotech (MedImmune, Inc) industry, leading teams in diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines product development. She has 8 years of Project and Alliance Management experience and is a certified Project Management Professional.
Katya is the Associate Director of Product Development at Emergent BioSolutions where she is responsible for increasing the value of biodefense portfolio and BioThrax® franchise. She is also building project and alliance management capability for Emergent’s global product development organization.
This is how Katya describes herself: “I am an entrepreneur at heart. Three most important things about me are: I am a big idea generator. I enjoy building things and I use sustainability and impact on the seventh generation after us as key criteria in decision making”.
Shawn Card is a Managing Director and the founder of Palatine Capital Management and leads the firm’s sourcing, investment and financing activities. Prior to founding Palatine, Mr. Card was a senior associate at Allied Capital where he valued companies, oversaw due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures, executed transactions and worked with C-suite management of Allied’s portfolio companies to create and implement strategic and operational improvements. Previously, at Keybanc Capital Markets Mr. Card focused on buy-side and sell-side merger and acquisition transactions, corporate divestitures and financial advisory assignments for both public and private companies across a wide range of industries. Earlier in his career, Mr. Card was a senior consultant at Wells Fargo and an associate consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Card earned a BA in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Morehouse College and earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Keith Rosten is the president of SolarTown, LLC, a start-up ecommerce business that aims to become the premier destination web site for the solar energy community. Keith has broad-based expertise including market evaluation, government privatization, joint ventures, project finance, and contract negotiation, with substantial experience building strategic relationships worldwide. Before establishing SolarTown, Keith was a consultant working on legal development projects in the newly independent countries of Europe and Eurasia. He was based in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia, before returning to Washington, D.C. Keith practiced law with a national law firm in Los Angeles, California and later was a consultant and attorney working on joint venture projects between U.S. and Russian companies. Keith has also led a real estate investment company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Keith is a Tuck ’89.