Past Lunches
March 11th, 2020
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Learn how Ana moved from Sao Paulo to the US and made (and recently sold) a business based on a mission to provide fresh, healthy and delicious salads for busy people.
February 25th, 2020
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Overseeing an investment portfolio of about $750M and chairing a board that manages $90B of Oregon funds, hear how this liberal arts graduate weighs social justice in her investment decisions.
February 20th, 2020
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Learn about being mentored by an uncompromising leader in the natural food world and Jan’s rise to head of international sales in an employee-owned company with over $100M in sales and in over 80 countries.
February 13th, 2020
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Hear the story of developing a personal products brand in her kitchen, selling her products at farmers’ markets, and then selling her company to Unilever. Schmidt’s next venture is elevating emerging and underrepresented entrepreneurs.
February 11th, 2020
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Recognized as “Oregon’s best known scientist,” Brian Druker will talk about his inauspicious beginning and his path to becoming the Director of OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute. He will explain why he believes cancer will be treatable and curable.
November 7th, 2019
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Hear from this Lewis & Clark alumna and trustee how she went from studying chemistry to founding HueNoir: Changing the face of beauty by putting multicultural makeup customers at the center of the modern beauty movement.
November 6th, 2019
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Learn from Portland’s leading expert about how to translate ideas and designs into products that improve lives. Jennifer is a director/chief of staff at Autodesk after being executive director of OTRADI and Oregon Biosciences Incubator (turning science research into commercial use).
October 30th, 2019
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Meet the CEO of TopGolf, the purveyor of golf and entertainment in 56 locations world-wide. With more than 13 million guests/year and 35,000 guests per day/location, engage in a trends conversation about sports, entertainment, music and business.
The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership is located in room 344 of J.R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
email entrepreneurship@lclark.edu
Brian Detweiler-Bedell
Director
Professor of Psychology
Office hours Tu/We 11:30-12:30
bedell@lclark.edu503-768-7651
Chrys Hutchings
Associate Director
Office Hours Tu/We 1pm-3pm
chryshutchings@lclark.edu503-768-7683
Catarina Hunter
Associate Director of Operations
Office Hours
chunter@lclark.edu503-768-8683
The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 71
Portland OR 97219