CareerCore - About Us

About Us

CareerCore Inc. develops innovative solutions for individuals and organizations to maximize their personal career potential or the career potential of their constituents. Founded in 2005, CareerCore was the brainchild of three seasoned executives who identified a developmental gap in global career development well before the current global downturn that has led to the loss of more than 7 million jobs in the U.S. alone.

CareerCore has developed a multi-pronged strategy that integrates a proprietary career development methodology into highly customizable technology platforms and service offerings. These technology and service solutions have been utilized by thousands of individuals and numerous organization and institutions, including Bank of America, Eli Lilly, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Target, UBS, Union Pacific, Duke University, The Ohio State University, Princeton University and Yale University.

The Team

Ronald Mitchell (Ron’s Gotta Mentor Profile)

Ronald P. Mitchell is the CEO & Co-Founder CareerCore. Ron has been featured in the mainstream and business media for his success in the area of career preparation services including BusinessWeek Magazine, CNBC, BusinessWeek TV, Harvard Business School Bulletin and the New York Post. He is also a regular speaker at major corporations and leading universities.

Prior to founding CareerCore and the AlumniAthlete Network, Ron was a General Partner of Provender Capital Group, LLC, a $150 million merchant banking group which makes principal investments in the areas of media, financial services and specialty retail. Ron’s professional experience also includes Morgan Stanley, Mitchell & Titus LLP, McKinsey & Co. and The Anschutz Corporation.

Ron earned his AB degree from Harvard University where he was a 3-time All-Ivy selection in basketball. Ron received his MBA degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business where he served as President of his class.

Andrea W. Rice (Andrea’s Gotta Mentor Profile)

Andrea is President & Co-Founder CareerCore. She has been identifying trends and evaluating entrepreneurs and company prospects in the Internet arena for 11 years, and was one of the first Internet analysts on Wall Street. She held the position of Managing Director of Internet Equity Research at several investment banks, including Deutsche Bank, E*Offering (sold to Schwab), and Volpe Brown Whelan (sold to Prudential). Andrea also acted as an advisor to hedge fund Camelot Capital, evaluating and recommending Internet investments.

Prior to CareerCore, Andrea served as Director of Industry Collaboration for Stanford Univesity’s MediaX program, facilitating collaboration between industry partners and the University research community ontopics related to people, technology and innovation.

Andrea graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics and received her MBA from Stanford.

John Rice (John’s Gotta Mentor Profile)

John Rice is a Co-Founder of CareerCore LLC. John is also the founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (“MLT” – www.ml4t.org), a national non-profit organization that prepares minorities for the top entry-level jobs and MBA programs that put them on the fast-track to leadership positions in corporations, entrepreneurial ventures and nonprofits. MLT places 93% of its undergraduates in fast-track entry-level jobs; is the #1 source of minorities at the top 10 MBA programs; and partners with blue-chip companies such as Goldman Sachs, Citi, Google, PepsiCo, McKinsey, and Ernst & Young. John has been featured on the cover of Fortune Magazine and in the WallStreet Journal, Businessweek, NPR, and CNN, and he has raised over $15 million to support MLT’s growth.

Prior to MLT, John spent four years with the National Basketball Association, where he served as managing director of NBA Japan and director of marketing for Latin America. Before joining the NBA, Rice spent four years with the Walt Disney Company.

A native of Washington D.C., Rice earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, and he graduated with honors from Yale University.

Advisors

Chris Schroeder
Chris Schroeder is the Chief Executive Officer and President of The HealthCentral Network, Inc. The HealthCentral Network has a collection of owned and operated Web sites and multimedia affiliate properties providing timely, in-depth, trusted medical information, personalized tools and resources, and connections to a vast community of leading experts and patients for people seeking to manage and improve their health.

Prior to this, Schroeder was a leader in the high-quality interactive content and interactive marketing fields. He was Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of washingtonpost.newsweek interactive, which hosts washingtonpost.com and newsweek.msnbc.com among other sites. Schroeder was a co-founder and chairman of The Online Publishers Association (The OPA), the leading association of top quality online content publishers (The Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Dow Jones, ESPN, Conde Nast among many others). Schroeder has worked extensively in private equity and investment banking, and served under President George HW Bush in the Department of State. He is active in several non-profits, The Council on Foreign Relations, and The YPO. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and with honors from the Harvard Business School.

Geoffrey T. Boisi
Geoff is chairman and co-founder of MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership. MENTOR, ranked as one of the top 100 charities in the U.S., is leading the movement to expand quality mentoring for young people.Until May 2002, Geoff was vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase and co-CEO of the firm's investment bank, JPMorgan. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Geoff was founding chairman and senior partner of The Beacon Group, a premier merger and acquisition advisory and private investment firm, which was acquired by Chase. Prior to the formation of The Beacon Group, Geoff was a senior general partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and head of the investment banking business.

Geoff is on the Board of Directors of Freddie Mac. He is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; trustee of the Papal Foundation; trustee of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises; advisory director of Oxford Analytica; director of FADICA; and a Knight of Malta, and a co-founder of the Catholic Church in America Leadership Roundtable. Geoff is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.) and Boston College (B.A.), and remains very active in strategic and development initiatives at both institutions.

Howard Stevenson
Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business School Publishing Company board. Howard has served as the Vice Provost for Harvard University Resources and Planning and Senior Associate Provost. At Harvard Business School, Howard has held numerous roles including Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations as well as Director of Financial and Information Systems. He has been chairperson of the Owner/President Manager Program in Executive Education and of the Publications Review Board for the Harvard Business School Press of Harvard Business School Publishing Company.

Howard has authored, edited or co-authored eleven books and forty-two articles. He is currently a director of Camp Dresser & McKee Inc., Landmark Communications, Inc. and the Harvard Business School Publishing Company, as well as a trustee for several private trusts and foundations. He is a life trustee of the Boston Ballet and has been a director of Sudbury Valley Trustees. He is chairman of National Public Radio Board of Directors and a trustee of Mount Auburn Hospital. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia. Howard received his B.S. in mathematics from Stanford and his M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard University.

Ellen Levy
Ellen is currently Vice President Corporate Development & Strategy at LinkedIn. Previously she was the founding Managing Director at Silicon Valley Connect, where she worked with large corporations, startups, and entrepreneurs on technology trends and opportunities for innovation. She is also the Network Advisor to venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson; and is an Industry Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology in the School of Engineering. Most recently, Ellen spent the past two years as the Director of Industry Collaboration and Research for Stanford University's Media X program, facilitating collaboration between industry partners and the University research community by championing questions having to do with people, technology & innovation.

Prior to Stanford, Ellen spent five years in venture capital, investing in early state technology companies: first at Softbank Venture Capital (now Mobius Venture Capital), then as Managing Director at NeoCarta Ventures. Operationally, Ellen has held several executive level positions at early stage technology centric start-ups in the role of Vice President of Corporate Development at both SoftBook Press (sold to Gemstar/TVGuide) and WhoWhere? (sold to Lycos). Earlier in her career, Ellen worked at Apple Computer in the Office of the CEO, at Paul Allen's Interval Research, at Harvard University's School of Public Health, and at Price Waterhouse in the Technology Core Consulting Practice. Additionally, Ellen was a co-founder of the parenting media firm The Dr. Spock Company. She received her B.S from the University of Michigan, and completed both her M.A. and Ph.D. at Stanford University in Cognitive Psychology.