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 Aaron Gray was born on March 20, 1981 in Chicago, IL. He has excelled throughout his academic and professional career and has been a role model to many.
Currently, he is working as an Operations Manager at Rocket Learning, a supplemental Education Services provider, in Southern California. In the summer of 2009, Aaron had the opportunity to work with the Mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson, on education reform initiatives for Sacramento. He recently graduated from Harvard Business School in June 2009. Prior to business school, he worked as a Venture Capital Associate at Greycroft Partners. Additionally, he worked as a Business Analyst in the Business Intelligence Group at Fandango in Los Angeles, CA and as an Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs in the Equity Capital Markets Group and in their Technology, Media, and Telecom Group in the Investment Banking Division. Aaron has additional investment experience at the Florida State Board of Administration in their Domestic Equities Group as a Research Analyst. He attended Florida A & M University on a full, four-year, academic scholarship and graduated summa cum laude in May 2003.
Aaron is extremely passionate about urban education reform and has been directly involved impacting the lives of young people. Previously, he served as the Goldman Sachs Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) firm co-captain, in which he was responsible for the development and retention of all Goldman Sachs SEO Career Program interns. He is also involved in various other aspects of SEO, which is a non-profit organization that works to increase economic and employment opportunities for talented minorities worldwide. Aaron has also volunteered in various capacities at KIPP KAO in Los Angeles and taught small business entrepreneurship classes at Suffolk County Jail while in business school. He belies every child, regardless of socio-economic background, deserves access to a high-quality education.
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 Renée Richardson Gosline is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Management Science group at MIT´s Sloan School of Management. She teaches the MBA course in Branding.
Professor Gosline is generally interested in how social networks affect consumer-brand relationships, and how brands serve as dynamic symbols of social status boundaries. Her current research examines how luxury brands are impacted when they are imitated by counterfeits and "knockoff" imitations. She identifies the circumstances under which imitation can validate, or contaminate, a brand. Professor Gosline´s aim is to contribute to our general understanding of how consumers define authenticity, and how this is shaped by social structure (networks and status, specifically). To this end, she employs a multi-method approach, utilizing both qualitative and experimental methods to uncover consumer insights and develop theory. Professor Gosline’s research interests also include omnivore consumer behavior, social network analysis (particularly how networks constrain consumer choice), and consumer empowerment.
Prior to joining academia, Professor Gosline worked as a Marketing practitioner. She was a Planner and Account Supervisor at Leo Burnett, and a Brand Management Associate at LVMH Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton. She has developed brand strategies for mass and niche brands.
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