Conference Team

Co-chairs

Oscar Lang

Oscar Lang is the 2010 co-managing director of the Garber Venture Capital Fund.  He is from Venezuela and obtained his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL).  While at UNL, he was a member of the executive board of the American Marketing Association.  He served first as Social Co-Chair and then as the VP of Finance.  Upon graduation, Oscar joind Sprint Nextel.  In 2008, he left the company to pursue an MBA at the Penn State Smeal College of Business where he is doing a concentration in Corporate Finance.

JP Roesch

JP Roesch is the 2010 senior managing director of Garber Venture Capital Fund.  Before coming to Smeal, JP worked at Cardo Systems, a start-up manufacturer of Bluetooth headsets where he helped build their logistics and distribution operations from the ground up.  His roles with the company included project management, facilities expansion planning, and systems development.  In the future, he looks forward to taking a job working on business strategy development.  JP earned a Bachelor of Humanities and Arts from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently pursuing an MBA at the Penn State Smeal College of Business where he is doing concentrations in finance, marketing, and supply chain. 

Jon Wesner 

Jon Wesner is the 2010 co-managing director of the Garber Venture Capital Fund.  Prior to the Smeal MBA, he worked in New York as an independently financed equities and options trader.  He is currently focusing on investment management, portfolio analysis, and venture capital.  Additionally, he is the managing director of the Economic Analysis  Group in the Nittany Lion Fund and is also a graduate assistant in the accounting department.  He also enjoys excerising, snowboarding, and traveling.