Clifford Schorer

Following a successful business career as an entrepreneur in 2001 Cliff joined the Columbia Business School faculty as the Entrepreneur in Residence. In addition to teaching “Launching New Ventures,” he serves as faculty advisor to the Eugene M. Lang Investment Fund and in 1999 initiated the Greenhouse Business Incubator Program. In the spring of 2005, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to the study of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School. He is sincerely committed to the development and nurturing the spirit of innovation and the free enterprise process. In 2007 he was awarded the Dean’s award for teaching excellence. In 2012 the Business School named a fund in his honor for his support the Greenhouse program for launching new ventures from. Throughout his business career, Cliff specialized in launching high tech companies. His focus is on businesses with unique ideas or technologies that require energy and guidance during their initial growth phases. His companies include a variety of enterprises ranging from medical electronics to video production. The companies include the first Sharp Electronics distributorship in the US, Micromedia Applied Technologies, and Real Estate Development Corporation. In the early 1990’s he was awarded the National Office Products Association’s award for the Industry’s Most Innovative Product: a touch tone order entry system designed in conjunction with AT&T. At the present time he serves as the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Greenwich Energy Solutions, a company specializing in creating energy efficient environments in commercial buildings. During the early 1990’s he worked in Russia on behalf of the United Nations to assist in the privatization process by helping to identify entrepreneurial opportunities that would assist in the development of the “new economy.” This included multiple trips to Siberia where he assisted in the implementation of Western management and entrepreneurial practices in the oil industry. He holds a number of board seats including Landauer Metropolitan, a large privately owned supplier of medical equipment. In addition he served as Chairman of RecycleBank, currently serving over 3 million homes with rewards for recycling. Cliff also serves on the board of Out2Play, a nonprofit which has built over 30 playgrounds for New York City elementary schools. Cliff serves in a consultative and Executive Education capacity to senior management in global corporations including Alcatel Lucent’s Bell Labs, Glaxo SKB, Pfizer, Forbes, Novartis, Telefonica, Bovis Lend Lease, and Sony. In addition, he serves as an Emcee and public speaker for national and international corporate programs. He is also the author of Grow, a financial management software package for emerging companies.