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James Quest

James Quest Hospitality Entrepreneur in Residence
Visiting Lecturer, Enterpreneurship

Mr. Quest started his career in Marketing with Procter & Gamble seven days after he graduated from the Cornell Hotel School. It was at P&G where his instincts for creating and running his own business were nurtured.

He has more than forty years of business experience, half in entrepreneurial ventures. His entrepreneurial experience covers a variety of businesses, some more successful than others:

  • Founded and built an advertising agency concentrating in new products and services, selling it ten years later to a large multi-national advertising conglomerate;
  • Founded Biocide, Inc. to market his invention of Virofree, a unique pocketsize disinfectant spray for consumer use outside the home;
  • Completed an eighteen month assignment with The Clorox Company under their "Entrepreneurship Program". This program reaches outside the Company to entrepreneurs to assume responsibility for an upcoming acquisition and manage it to a predetermined success point, sharing in the rewards of growth as a partial owner
  • Created a vision statement and business model for a new publishing opportunity with capital raised from The Interpublic Group of Companies. The entity was named The National Association of High School Newspapers, and it was designed to share advertising revenues from national advertisers back to high schools.

    Mr. Quest currently teaches "Introduction to Hospitality Entrepreneurship", Fall and Spring semesters. He also maintains a consulting practice, teaching young executives how to write in business.