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Ken Fish, A&S '81
President & Founder
Absolute Travel
Ken’s passion for travel revealed itself when he exited his Wall Street career early for an adventure in Australia. He never looked back. Driven by his sense of discovery and fearless spirit, he continues to explore the world while inspiring others to do the same. In 1989, he founded Absolute Travel and under his leadership, the company has grown to be the recognized worldwide leader in private luxury travel, symbolized by Travel + Leisure naming them the 2013 World’s Best Tour Operator. That success stems from the pioneering mentality that he first brought to his early travels and then the company he founded, an approach that is deeply embedded in the DNA of Absolute Travel. They were the first U.S.-based company to sell trips to Vietnam and Cambodia, and have continued to forge an intrepid path by bringing travelers to remote parts of the globe and innovating the luxury travel experience. When he’s not running the world’s best travel company or serving as a spokesperson for the industry, Ken is a member of Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture’s Advisory Board, and unpacks his bags in New York with his wife, Kyoko, his daughter, Kazumi, and son, Keizo. His traveling mantra is “Travel light and with a smile.” Whether at home or traveling, he appreciates wherever he is in the world. |
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Elizabeth Galbut, Bus'15
Entrepreneur
ergoH20
Passionate entrepreneur and social business designer, Elizabeth Galbut bridges design thinking with traditional strategic management to create innovative ventures that solve major healthcare issues. As Managing Director of Johns Hopkins Innovation Factory, she leads the mission to foster the entrepreneurial spirit throughout the JHU community. Her current start-up social enterprise, ergoH2O, develops inventive solutions for ergonomically transporting water in the developing countries, improving the lives and empowering women and children around the world. Elizabeth is a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art’s MBA/MA Design Leadership dual-degree program. She is also a proud alumnus of Georgetown University and London School of Economics.
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Hallie Morrison, SAIS '09
Associate Director, Institutional Gifts
The Nature Conservancy
Hallie Morrison is Associate Director of Institutional Gifts at The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest and most respected environmental organization. For decades, the Conservancy has recognized the important role that the private sector can play in advancing its mission to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. The Nature Conservancy works with companies to transform business practices, invest in nature, raise awareness, and champion policy.
Hallie began her career as an Audubon Women in Conservation Fellow. She's a graduate of Vassar College and the SAIS Hopkins-Nanjing Program. In her spare time she enjoys travel, raising and eating oysters, and going birding in Central Park to watch the birders.
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Vijay Sudan, A&S '06
Director, Social Impact
21st Century Fox
Vijay Sudan is Director of Social Impact at 21st Century Fox, the world's premier portfolio of cable, broadcast, film, pay TV and satellite assets reaching nearly 1.8 billion subscribers in more than 50 local languages every day including FOX, FX, Fox News Channel, Fox Sports, National Geographic Channels, STAR; film studio Twentieth Century Fox Film; and television production studio Twentieth Century Fox Television. It is home to some of the most iconic and enduring film and television properties in history including Die Hard, The Sound of Music, Star Wars, X-Men, Alien, The Simpsons, 24, The X-Files, Homeland, Cosmos, Sons of Anarchy, The Americans, and Louie, as well as the two highest grossing films of all time, Avatar and Titanic, and the last two winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture, 12 Years a Slave and Birdman.
In his current role, Vijay leads 21st Century Fox’s corporate responsibility programs around the world. The company’s social impact efforts including everything from addressing the environmental impacts of its supply chain to promoting important causes through content to philanthropic giving and community engagement. Vijay joined News Corporation (now 21st Century Fox) in 2009 to manage the company’s industry leading environmental sustainability program and, in 2014, Vijay helped build 21st Century Fox’s current Social Impact program.
Previously, Vijay worked as a Senior Associate at Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm, where he advised Fortune 100 companies on M&A, process improvement and supply chain strategy. His clients included companies in defense, consumer goods, retail, biotechnology and private equity.
Vijay graduated from the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences in 2006.
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Michael Fensterstock, Bus '14
Co-Founder
Aromaflage
Michael is an entrepreneur who, with his wife, is developing a luxury lifestyle company. His first product offering, Aromaflage, a botanical fragrance that doubles as insect repellent, is inspired by the Southeast Asian ritual of using botanical essential oils to naturally repel insects. His key markets are outdoor parties, weddings, and vacation outlets. Michael has been inventing since he was a child and loves innovating and working with people he can bounce ideas off of. Michael was #31 world ranked doubles squash player and is actively involved in StreetSquash, an after-school youth enrichment program that combines academic tutoring with squash instruction, community service, and mentoring. In 9 months on the market, Aromaflage is carried in over 130 retailers across the country including Four Seasons, Nikki Beach, and Relais & Chateax Hotels.
Michael attended Bowdoin College where he played baseball and captained the squash team and has guest lectured at Johns Hopkins University where he recently completed his MBA.
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