Our Board of Advisors

West Campus Living’s advisory board is a select group of highly motivated and accomplished young individuals who offer their time and expertise to help us achieve our goal of becoming the information source of West Campus. Our boards guidance has been instrumental in helping us develop our web-based systems and cultivating business partnerships. It is a privilege to have these incredible people as part of our team.




Michael Kopko
Core Focus: Business Development
Michael graduated from Harvard with an honor's degree in economics in 2007 and is pursuing an MBA at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. He is the recipient of Columbia's Feldberg Fellowship, a full tuition merit scholarship in honor of former Dean Feldberg and sponsored by Henry Kravis. Michael founded DormAid LLC in his college dorm room during his first semester on campus in the fall of 2003. DormAid is the nation's leading market maker for college services. The company currently provides laundry, cleaning, water delivery, computer back-up, appliances, career and bedding services to college students. He has made numerous appearances in major media outlets including Fox News, The New York Times, Comedy Central's The Daily Show, and MSNBC's Scarborough County. He has been named one of New York City's "Wunderkinds" and one of the 15 Most Interesting Harvard Students by Scene Magazine. The GSEA organization awarded DormAid the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in the 2007 New England Regional Finals competition and placed them in the top 6 finalists in their Global Competition. He is a supporter of the Morgan Library & Museum. He enjoys reading, exercising, and flying planes.


Brandon Miller
Core Focus: Real Estate Finance
Brandon graduated with honors in 2007 from Texas A&M University where he received his BBA in Finance. Currently, he is pursuing a Master of Real Estate degree from Texas A&M, which he will receive in December 2008. He has over 2 years work experience in commercial construction and a solid background in multi-family/student housing. During the summer of 2008, he worked with the acquisitions department of American Campus Communities, an Austin based student-housing REIT, as part of an integration team created to help with the $1.4 billion dollar purchase of GMH Communities Trust. This transaction has helped ACC to become the largest developer, owner and manager of high quality student housing communities in the United States. In addition, he is also actively involved in many campus and community organizations, and is currently a member of STAMREP, SCI, and TAMU Real Estate Association.


Stephanie Stein
Core Focus: Management
Stephanie graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an honors degree in English and Cinema Studies in 2007. Stephanie began her career in operations and management in the music industry as the Operations Coordinator for an independent music production company. She was involved in everything from artist management to daily operations of the company, including its recording studio. Stephanie joined the DormAid team in 2006 as the President of DormAid, University of Pennsylvania and put her passion for operations and management to work. Upon graduating from Penn, Stephanie was offered the position of Vice President of Operations with DormAid; in January 2008, she took over the role of Chief Operating Officer. She manages the national operations of the company and also works on partnerships, marketing, and business development.


Robert Cecot
Core Focus: Optimization and Analysis
Robert’s first entrepreneurial venture was a domain name management company, SonicDomains.com, which Robert sold in 2005. He became a founding executive of DormAid, a personal service company for college students, that same year. When he discontinued his managerial role at DormAid in March 2008, the company had expanded from Harvard College to 35 college campuses across 14 states with over 45 employees. Robert graduated Harvard College with a cum laude degree in Economics and Psychology. He also completed a Hoopes Prize-winning senior thesis and received the Morris Kronfeld prize for excellence in Economics. Robert currently works at the D. E. Shaw group, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, and plans to attend Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in the fall of 2008.


Shiva Kaul
Core Focus: Technology
Shiva Kaul is a technology entrepreneur and is pursuing a Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. He investigates how massive amounts of data will be accommodated by large scale computer systems and new statistical methods. His research involves machine learning, probability theory, data mining, systems programming, and software engineering and is aimed to be of use in the financial, telecommunication, energy, and information technology industries. At Carnegie Mellon, he developed CMU-Genie under the umbrella of the Diamond project and taught a course on new web systems. Shiva has worked as a developer for Adobe Systems and was previously the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of DormAid LLC.