Jules Kroll '63 will deliver Entrepreneur of the Year address, Oct. 24

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Jules Kroll, executive chairman of the board of Kroll Inc. and acknowledged as the founder of the modern corporate investigative and security industry, will be honored on campus on Oct. 23 and 24 as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2003.

This year's celebration will begin with an award presentation dinner and reception Thursday, Oct. 23, hosted by President Jeffrey Lehman. And on Friday, Oct. 24, at 4:15 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium, Kroll will deliver the Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 address. The address, which will include an introduction by Lehman, is free and open to the public.

The Entrepreneur of the Year award, sponsored by the universitywide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) program, is given annually to a Cornellian who best exemplifies entrepreneurial achievement, community service and high ethical standards. The past three award winners have been Rob Ryan '69, founder of Ascend Communications and Entrepreneur America; Jeffrey Parker '65, M.Eng '66, MBA '70, founder of First Call and co-founder and Chairman /CEO of the Corporate Communications Broadcast Network (CCBN) and Jeff Hawkins '79, inventor of the PalmPilot and co-founder of Handspring Inc. A committee of Cornell alumni, faculty and students reviews the nominations and selects the recipient.

As executive chairman of the board of Kroll Inc., Kroll is responsible for the strategic development of the world's premier risk consulting company. Kroll Associates, which he founded in 1972 as a consultant to corporate purchasing departments, is now a publicly held, Nasdaq-traded corporation with more than 2,100 employees and offices in more than 60 cities on six continents. Many of its employees are recruited from international auditing firms, multinational corporations, the military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Kroll is a leading authority on defensive tactics in contests for corporate control, "due diligence" in the context of public offerings, industrial counter-espionage and the prevention and detection of white-collar crime. A sought-after speaker at conferences and seminars worldwide, he has been interviewed on CBS's "60 Minutes" and "MarketWatch" and featured in many publications.

Kroll received a bachelor's degree in government from Cornell in 1963 and an LL.B. degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1966.

For further information about the Entrepreneur of the Year celebration or EPE, contact John Jaquette, director, at 255-9675 or visit the Web site: http://epe.cornell.edu.