Q-and-A With Award Winners

What is your education? M.S. in technology management from Columbia University in New York.; B.A. in international business and management from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

Who are your role models? My father (Theodore Kohnen Sr.). Through watching my father in his career — currently VP of New York Life Insurance Company — I learned that good, honest and ethical people do win. Jack Welch (former chairman of GE). His no-nonsense management and gritty business style I think works very well in the online world and keeps projects and ideas moving forward.