TEAM TIDBITS


Below is a brief description of the seven team members: four humans (?), a Chevy Suburban and a motorcycle:

  Ernesto Gonzalez-Quattrini (egonzalezquattrini@mba1997.hbs.edu)Lima, Peru
Ernesto was raised in stunning Lima, Peru. He attended the Universidad Catolica del Peru and received his Juris Doctor degree from the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, where he also picked up the habit of running with bulls. Ernesto worked in law in both Buenos Aires and Lima, and in investment banking in New York, where he specialized in Latin American privatization deals. He also has a keen interest in the non-profit and environmental fields. At HBS, Ernesto was co-President of the Club Iberoamericano and co-organized the Latin American Business Conference. Ernesto is moving to Miami this Fall to work on energy deals throughout Latin America with Intergen.
Thomas Hoegh (thoegh@mba1997.hbs.edu)
Oslo, Norway
Thomas was destined to be in entertainment. He grew up in Norway and traveled frequently around the world. After attending Northwestern University in Illinois, Thomas launched into directing of television and stage events, including the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway. At HBS, Thomas headed an internet symposium called the Cyberposium. He currently sits on the board of numerous internet startup companies and has created his own firm, @rts@lliance which he calls an "R&D lab for the entertainment industry".
Steven Le Poole (slepoole@mba1997.hbs.edu)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Steven grew up in Switzerland, Belgium and Netherlands and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Delft. When he wasn't using the basement as a swimming pool or eating garden grown pigs in his student house, he drove Peugeot 505's across the Sahara, hitch-hiked to the Middle East and skulled the 100 km Ringvaart Regatta. He worked for 2 years at Booz Allen & Hamilton Amsterdam. At HBS, he co-founded the HBS Outdoors Club. Steven returned to Booz Allen & Hamilton n October after having climbed Cho Oyu, an 8201 m. mountain in Tibet.
Kerty Nilsson (kerty@nilsson.com)
Carmel, USA
Kerty spent her formative years in Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden and Carmel. She attended the University of California at Davis and then headed off to the Far East. She worked in Beijing, PRC, and Hong Kong for six years, processing beluga sturgeon caviar on the Amur River, gathering news leads for L.A.Times and Newsweek, administering Sino-Scandinavian trade, organizing personal development seminars, doing market research and scouting venture partners for multinational corporations entering the Chinese market. Since October, Kerty has been living in Chicago where she works for the Boston Consulting Group.
Paul Ostergaard (postergaard@mba1997.hbs.edu)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Paul grew up in Denmark, Liberia and Ghana. After several years as an officer with the Danish Royal Guards, he studied at the Niels Brock School of International Business in Denmark, then headed off to Brazil as a commercial manager for J.Lauritzen Shipowners. Paul loves the Internet and has nurtured this interest at HBS through co-founding the Harbus On-line and organizing the HiTekTrek to Silicon Valley. The crazy idea to do the Expedition on motorcycle comes from several two-wheel adventures around Brazil and Europe. After the Expedition, Paul settled San Francisco where he is working for the Boston Consulting Group.

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 Chevrolet, Suburban Silverado '85 (Not@online.)
Detroit, Michigan
On Wednesday September 10, 1997, the World lost a Great Lady. She was know to common man as a Suburban or to totally ignorants, merely as a car, but connoiseurs have recognized her special, very feminine qualities since her early youth in the late eighties.

The car was born in Detroit, Michagan. Raised in Rochester MA by her previous partner, Kevin St. Michaels, she lived through many harsh New England winters.

Kevin, put a lot of care and money into her. He gave her huge wheels, side-drawings, extended bumper with hooks and roof rack of lights that would make Stevie Wonder see. If she were a woman she would have stilletto heels, tattoo's, a leather bra and a huge tiara. Envision a Miss Hells Angels or something like that.

While the car was alive, we liked to comfort our parents with the following:
Moms, Dads and other significant others will be delighted to learn that statistics indicate that less people die in Suburbans than almost any other type of car. These data ignore the damage that the subs may bring on any other car.

She has her vices.as you'll be discover....

BMW R100 GSPD (Gelände-Strasse/Paris-Dakar) '95 (Not_yet@online_either)
Germany
Paul's bike is called Edith after his late grandmother, whom he recalls as an incredibly strong lady, who always faced the ruts and mudholes on the roads of life with an excellent mood.

The motorcycle was born in Southern Germany and thus adds to the international composition of our team. She was born as a so-called Classic model, the last of a line of successful R100 motorcycles that BMW has been producing since 1972. Only a few days old she moved to the US where she meet Paul in May 96 in Brockton South of Boston. It was love at first sight...

They have stayed closely together since, enjoying each other's company during many trips around Europe and New England. To make their journeys as comfortable as possible, Paul has generously added all sorts of equipment to the bike. She carries two gigantic luggage boxes from the famous Adventure Travel Specialist, Bernd Tesch in Aachen, Germany, a special travel wind-shield as well an integrated communication and music system from Autocom in New York.

On the Expedition, she has been very reliable so far, and only requires minimum care.

Moms, Dads and other significant others should not worry too much about statistics, because it all comes down to trading off the danger of getting out of bed in the morning with the enjoyment and thrill one expects of life. And one can get a long way with prudent driving.

 

Last updated: 03-Feb-1998 17:22:14 -0800

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