2011 Special Guests

Bo Fishback is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zaarly. The emerging tech company is a local, real time e-commerce service that lets consumers buy and sell anything at any time from anywhere. In September 2011, Ad Age listed Zaarly as one ten startups to watch, pointing out Mike Arrington and Ashton Kutcher as investors of the company.

He was previously vice president of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the president of Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation. His responsibilities include developing and advancing transformative programs that strengthen entrepreneurial engagement in the economy and help entrepreneurs succeed.

He is a founder of Orbis Biosciences, a drug delivery and particle fabrication company whose core intellectual property was developed from research conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fishback also was a Co-Founder of Lightspeed Genomics, a next-generation genome sequencing company that was spun out of a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and acquired by Macrogen, Inc in 2009. Beyond these ventures, he has worked with a variety of life sciences and high-tech startup companies as an advisor, board member, and angel investor. Currently, he is on the board of directors for Orbis Biosciences and is an advisor for Plotwatt, Inc.

Fishback joined the Kauffman Foundation in 2006 as a director in the advancing innovation area, where he studied the country's best business accelerators and university-based commercialization programs. In 2007, he joined Kansas City, Mo.-based BioMed Valley Discoveries, a translational research and development organization affiliated with the Stowers Institute whose mission is to translate basic biomedical research into applications that improve human health. In addition, Fishback developed the equity simulation tool, OwnYourVenture.com, an educational tool aimed at helping founders understand the impact of raising equity financing.

Fishback received his Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering from Southern Methodist University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Throughout her career, which includes more than a decade's experience in international programming and planning for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Min Jung Kim has developed strategic alliances and collaborative initiatives with cultural institutions around the globe. At MSU's Broad Art Museum, she will be responsible for strategic planning and overseeing daily operations. She joins the new Zaha Hadid-designed museum, which is dedicated to exploring global contemporary culture and ideas through art, as it prepares to open to the public in late spring 2012.

As managing director of exhibitions and programming at the Global Cultural Asset Management Group, Kim developed content and programs for museums, foundations, and private collectors, including projects for the Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi in the U.A.E., Taimiao Museums of the Beijing Workers Labor Union Cultural Palace of the People's Republic of China, the Perili Kosk Museum in Turkey and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in the U.S.

Previously, Kim worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for more than 12 years, focusing on a variety of international initiatives. Kim worked to foster cultural exchange through exhibitions and educational programs, and to develop strategic alliances and collaborations in order to enhance the Guggenheim's presence in the Asia Pacific region. As part of the Guggenheim's development of a master plan for a new 315-hectare Cultural District in Abu Dhabi, Kim project-directed the preliminary concept designs for three cultural institutions with different architects: the Louvre Abu Dhabi (Jean Nouvel), the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Center (Zaha Hadid), and the Abu Dhabi Maritime Museum (Tadao Ando). Kim also established the Guggenheim's content alliance partnerships with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria, resulting in joint exhibition exchanges, and the development of the Hermitage-Guggenheim Foundation USA and the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas.

Prior to her work with the Guggenheim, Kim lived in Seoul and worked as assistant curator for the Samsung Foundation for Art and Culture, as well as at Sotheby's in Korea.

Ted Serbinski is vice president of Detroit Venture Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm. He is an entrepreneur and angel investor with more than 12 years experience building websites for many Fortune 500 companies, including Sony, Lifetime TV, A&E Television Network and MTV. He also co-founded and sold ParentsClick Network to Lifetime Television in 2008, and he co-founded 2 Guys Uncorked, a wine review website aimed at making selecting and pairing wine more understandable and enjoyable for everyone, not just wine experts.