Mentor Highlights

Charles Fleischman, WG’86
Co-Founder, Digene, Inc.

Charles M. Fleischman, President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a director of Digene, has been with Digene since 1990. Digene Corporation develops, manufactures and markets proprietary gene-based testing systems for the screening, monitoring and diagnosis of human diseases. Their primary focus is in women’s cancers and infectious diseases. He is also the Managing Partner of Armonk Partners, the founding shareholder in Digene. Before joining Digene, Mr. Fleischman was Associate Director in the Investment Banking Group of Furman Selz, a New York based investment banking group focused on emerging growth health care mergers, financing and operations.


Brad Handler, W’89
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Exclusive Resorts

Brad Handler is co-founder and vice chairman of Exclusive Resorts. Handler provides strategic guidance to Exclusive Resorts. His experience in building multinational, multibillion-dollar enterprises began at eBay Inc. where Handler served as the first in-house counsel. He was responsible for all legal issues as eBay grew from a small start-up through its IPO. In his last two years with eBay, Handler's responsibilities also encompassed worldwide public policy and government relations. Before law school, Handler worked for several years at Apple Computer, Inc.



Hal Real
President, Real Entertainment Group & World Café Live

In 2001, driven by what he recognized as an unmet need in the marketplace, Hal formed Real Entertainment Group to apply his business development skills to creating upscale entertainment venues that will reinvent the live music experience for an audience he defines as “grownups.” Working closely with Philadelphia’s contemporary music public radio station, 88.5/WXPN, in October, 2004 Real Entertainment Group opened World Cafe Live – a 100-seat café and 300-seat music venue with full food and beverage service housed in a 40,000 square foot, $15 million facility on the Walnut Street Bridge in Philadelphia. Building on the success of its Philadelphia operation, Real Entertainment is in the planning stages for World Cafe Live venues in several other cities in partnership with other non-profit arts organizations.