Speakers

Drew Boyd

Drew Boyd is a recognized authority, thought leader, educator, and practitioner in the fields of innovation, persuasion, and social media. He is the executive director of the Master of Science in Marketing Program and assistant professor of Marketing and Innovation at the University of Cincinnati.

Boyd retired from Johnson & Johnson in 2010 after a 17-year career in marketing, mergers & acquisitions, and international development. He founded and directed J & J's acclaimed Marketing Mastery Program, an internal “marketing university” benchmarked by companies such as GE, P&G, Kraft, and Merck. Boyd’s focus was on raising competencies in the areas of strategic marketing, market management, and new product innovation. Of particular focus was teaching employees how to systematically invent new medical products and integrate the inventions into long-range strategic plans. Boyd is an inventor himself, earning his first patent for a device that makes spine surgery easier.

Before Johnson & Johnson, Boyd spent 10 years with United Airlines, gaining managerial and leadership experience in sales, marketing, and strategic planning. Boyd was one of the early pioneers of strategic partnerships between carriers that led to the creation of the Star Alliance.

Boyd served as an officer in the United States Air Force and completed a distinguished tour of duty as a crew commander in the Nuclear Missile Force and a war planning officer of the Strategic Air Command. He was top Minuteman III Crew Commander in the “Top Gun” competition in 1980.

Boyd is a former Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute, a member of the Product Development & Management Association, American Marketing Association, National Speakers Association, and an affiliate of the Global Executive Learning Network.

Boyd graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1976 with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Management Science and Operations Research. He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago graduating with High Honors.

He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife, Wendy, and son, Ryan.

Session: Innovation Workshop: Designing a Better Social Enterprise

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Melissa Berman

Melissa Berman is president and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc., an innovative nonprofit philanthropy service founded by the Rockefeller family. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors' mission is dedicated to helping donors create thoughtful, effective philanthropy throughout the world. The organization advises private donors, manages foundations and trusts, structures giving programs and major gifts, offers a charitable giving fund, and coordinates donor collaboratives. In 2006, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors managed or facilitated more than $135 million in giving to 25 countries.

Dr. Berman has led Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors since January 2001. A frequent speaker, Dr. Berman has been profiled in The New York Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Bloomberg Markets. Her ideas and views have also been featured in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Financial Times, Journal of Financial Planning, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Contribute. She has been interviewed on the Today Show and NPR, among other media outlets. She has written articles for The New York Times, Across the Board, Alliance, and other leading publications.

Dr. Berman is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. She is a director of City Harvest, the Foundation Center, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She is a member of the national advisory panel for New Ventures in Philanthropy. She serves as a Judge for the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Citizenship, a presidential award. Dr. Berman holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from Stanford University.

Session: Bold New Ventures: Visionary Philanthropists and Impact Investing at the Cutting Edge

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Doug Borchard

Doug Borchard is a Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer at New Profit, a venture philanthropy firm based in Cambridge, MA. In addition to overseeing New Profit's fnances and internal operations, Doug leads the firm's relationships with several individual portfolio organizations, including Achievement First, iMentor, and KIPP.

Doug brings to New Profit diverse experience as an accomplished entrepreneur and senior executive in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Most recently, Doug was vice president of Prospecting Solutions at Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business information. At D&B, Doug led a $140mm business unit, with broad P&L responsibility for product strategy, sales and marketing, and product development. Doug came to D&B through its acquisition of iMarket, Inc., a venture-funded provider of sales and marketing software and internet solutions that he co-founded. Doug also spent several years as a consultant at Bain & Company, a leading international management consulting firm, where he worked on assignments in the information services industry.

Doug worked as a program and logistics officer with Save the Children, where he was part of a team that started up field operations in the Sudan, and created and managed a multi-million dollar relief and development operation. He has served on the boards of directors of a number of growing organizations, including Venturcom , iMarket, and Computers for Youth, and currently sits on the boards of Achievement First and iMentor.

Doug graduated from Princeton with a BS in Engineering, and received a MBA from the Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Session: Bold New Ventures: Visionary Philanthropists and Impact Investing at the Cutting Edge

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Mike O'Brien
Mike O’Brien is the CEO of iMentor. iMentor uses technology, research, and curriculum to create a mentoring model that both (1) increases the number of adults who can serve as mentors and (2) creates mentoring relationships that drive academic success in high school students. iMentor runs a school-based program in NYC and partners with organizations nationwide, allowing them to run high quality mentoring programs in the iMentor model. Mike joined iMentor in 2003, after three years teaching high school in East New York, Brooklyn. He has a BA in English and Psychology from Bucknell University.

Session: Bold New Ventures: Visionary Philanthropists and Impact Investing at the Cutting Edge

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Michael Smith
Michael leads the Case Foundation's Social Innovation team, which oversees social investments, programs and partnerships. He works with senior leadership to set the programmatic direction of the Foundation and manages an investment portfolio designed to spark civic participation and promote innovation in the social sector.

Michael's current major areas of focus include working with the Chairman and the White House to accelerate entrepreneurship through the Startup America Partnership and leading the Foundation's efforts to tap citizen-centered solutions to social challenges, with an emphasis on open innovation.

Before joining the Case Foundation, Michael spent nearly a decade building "digital divide" organizations and held key positions at local and national organizations developing empowered youth. He holds a Bachelors degree in Communications from Marymount University, is a frequent contributor to industry publications and gatherings, and serves on the boards of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), Idealist.org and Public Allies.

Session: Bold New Ventures: Visionary Philanthropists and Impact Investing at the Cutting Edge

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Bonnie Oliva

Bonnie is the director of the InVenture Foundation. InVenture is a social enterprise comprised of two entities, the InVenture Capital Corporation (ICC) and the InVenture Foundation, both working together to provide the capital, guidance, and financial tracking needed to empower microbusiness owners to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. The mission of InVenture Foundation is to support the InVenture Capital Corporation by by providing microentrepreneurs with excellent business training and support services through our fellowship program and monitoring the success of the community re-investment programs.

Bonnie has worked with microentrepreneurs in different capacities, from assisting with writing business plans to financial planning, budgeting, and hiring employees. She has worked as a bilingual business specialist for Empowerment Group, an SBA Women's Business Center in Philadelphia, and as a program manager for the New York City Department of Small Businesses Services.

Bonnie received a BA in International Politics from Wesleyan University. She is a StartingBloc NY ’09 Fellow and a 2011 Echoing Green Fellow. She also serves as the Secretary and Alumni Representative on the Board of Trustees at De La Salle Academy in New York City.

Session: Bold New Ventures: Visionary Philanthropists and Impact Investing at the Cutting Edge

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Bruce Kogut

Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics and the director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He received his degrees at UC Berkeley, School of International Affairs at Columbia University, and the Sloan School, MIT, and was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Stockholm School of Economics. He was a chaired professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and at INSEAD, France, and has been a visiting researcher at the Humboldt Universitaet (Berlin), the Science Center Berlin (where he was awarded the Karl Deutsch Visiting Professorship), Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), Tsinghua (Beijing), Singapore Management University, and Santa Fe Institute.

Professor Kogut’s research is currently on accountability in social science research and why academics get it wrong, small worlds of governance, and social entrepreneurship. His previous research has won several awards, has been published in leading economics, management, and sociology journals, and has extended from foreign direct investment, real options applied to investment and strategies, corporate and global strategies, the firm as knowledge, mobility of ideas and engineers within and across regions, small worlds in governance, banking governance and risk in the financial crisis, and complexity in the social sciences.

Professor Kogut teaches classes on competitive strategy at Columbia, and has previously taught governance, ethics, political economy of trade and investment, global strategy, and privatization in undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and executive programs. He is a frequent speaker at public and corporate events, such as the World Economic Forum, UN European Economic Council, and CEO Forum. He has also lead teaching programs on public policy training for the ANC of South Africa, on privatization private-public partners for Malaysia, and on social entrepreneurs and Jewish-Muslim Dialogue (partnered with the Rothschild Foundation and Cambridge University), and founded the Insead Social Entrepreneurship Program.

Professor Kogut is a member of the board of 3i Infotech, a start-up and listed Indian IT company, and has been on the boards of an international school in Paris, a business school in Russia, and a research institute in the UK. He co-chaired the innovation public group for the Obama campaign. In the past years, he has appeared on CNBC, BBC, World Focus, and PBS, and has published editorials in Forbes.com, Financial Times, Les Echos, Le Figaro, and other newspapers and journals. He is married to Monika Knutsson, a designer, and they have two children, Emily and Erik.

Session: The Power of Networks: Creating Opportunity Through Co-Working

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Jamie Daves

Jamie Daves is a venture partner at City Light Capital, a venture capital firm seeking market-based solutions to major social problems through investments in early stage businesses that create solutions in Safety and Security, Education and Media, and Energy and the Environment.

Prior to joining City Light, Jamie founded and managed Platform Equity LLC, an investment and advisory firm focused on the digital media sector. There, he led investments in companies such as Worldwide Biggies and InStream Global and advised clients such as National Public Radio, Link TV, and The Wrap. Prior to Platform, Jamie joined Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to found Current Media. A pioneer in the field of user-generated content and social media, Current Media has become the fastest growing cable network in the United States reaching more than 50 Million households globally and winning an Emmy in 2007.

Jamie has an extensive background as a social entrepreneur and public servant. He served in the Clinton Administration as a Special Assistant for Policy and Communications at the Federal Communications Commission. Under Chairman William E. Kennard, he focused on a wide range of policy matters including efforts to wire schools and libraries to the Internet, create new broadband services, and define the public interest responsibilities of broadcasters. He worked as the National Youth Director for the 1992 Clinton/Gore Presidential Campaign in Little Rock, AR and helped to lead outreach for the DC-based think tank DLC/PPI. He has been a co-founder of a number of leading non-profit organizations including the Full Circle Fund, Open MIC, and Public Allies and is a frequent speaker on subjects including the democratization of media and technology and social investing and innovation.

Jamie has an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, attended the School of Education at Stanford University, and has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Washington DC where he attended the St. Albans School and currently resides in New York City.

Session: The Power of Networks: Creating Opportunity Through Co-Working

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Owen Davis EMBA ’08

Owen is currently managing director of NYC Seed, a seed stage venture capital fund in New York City. Owen has worked in all aspects of the online world, including work with early versions of AOL and MSN. He created one of the first 200 websites online and founded Thinking Media in the summer of 1995, an online marketing firm which pioneered client-side tracking of pages and advertisements, which has become the standard method for online measurement. He co-founded Sonata in 1999, a wireless company that provided location-based services and marketing to cell phones. Owen also co-founded Petal Computing, a firm that developed software that allowed large numbers of commodity PCs to act like a single unit, useful in industries ranging from image rendering to pharmaceuticals.

Owen is the author of various patents in Internet methods and technologies. He is also the author of the book Instant Java Applets, available from Ziff-Davis Press. He is an original member of the World Wide Web Artists Consortium and served on that group's original board. He was also an original member of the Board setting online advertising and media specifications and has served as managing director of the Wireless Advertising Association. Owen was named various times as one of the 100 Top Internet Executives in New York by The Silicon Alley Reporter and most recently was named one of the 100 most influential people in Silicon Alley for 2008. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Session: The Power of Networks: Creating Opportunity Through Co-Working

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Teju Ravilochan

From a young age, Teju wondered what we could do to tackle problems like global poverty. Frustrated that his BA in International Affairs wasn't preparing him to do so, he obtained a Grant from the University of Colorado at Boulder to conduct research about the effectiveness of nonprofits in India. He learned that traditional charity-based models are not effectively combating poverty. He started the SHARED Element, aiming to connect India's rural poor with business via mobile phone. In a conversation with Paul Polak, whose entrepreneurial work has lifted more than 24 million farmers out of poverty, he realized he still had a great deal to learn. He joined Paul and began working as his assistant at D-Rev: Design for the Other 90%, eventually leaving to co-found the Unreasonable Institute. The Unreasonable Institute is a mentorship and training program for entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental problems. Each year, Unreasonable unites 25 entrepreneurs from around the world in one house for six weeks in Boulder. There, these entrepreneurs work with 50 mentors ranging from the co-founder of Google.org, to the CTO of HP, to an entrepreneur who's enabled more than 24 million farmers out of poverty. It provides entrepreneurs free legal advice and design consulting, gives them the chance to pitch to hundreds of investors in two cities, and to form relationships with 25 global impact investment funds. The goal? To launch globally scalable ventures that will one day define progress in our time.

Session: The Power of Networks: Creating Opportunity Through Co-Working

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Natalia Oberti Noguera

Natalia is founder and CEO of the Pipeline Fellowship, which trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice. The Pipeline Fellowship aims to diversify the investor pool and connect women social entrepreneurs with investors who get them. She is also the creator of #womaninnovator, a media campaign to increase the visibility of women changemakers and mainstream their stories.

Natalia holds a BA from Yale in Comparative Literature & Economics, as well as an MSc in International Health Care Management from SDA Bocconi. She is currently completing an MA in Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition to English, Natalia is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and French (she is proficient in Russian and is determined to learn Mandarin).

Natalia has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Dowser, Forbes CSR Blog, ForbesWoman, Mashable, New Prosperity, TechCrunch, and The New York Times. She was named to the Forbes list "Top 20 Women for Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter" and was selected as a Readers' Pick for HuffPost Tech's "27 Women in Tech You Need to Follow on Twitter." You can find Natalia on Twitter (@nakisnakis).

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Josh Mailman

Josh Mailman, veteran angel investor and philanthropist, has made more than 80 early-stage investments for both himself and on behalf of friends whom he advises. In 1999, the Mailman family endowed $33 million to fund the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

In 1987, Mr. Mailman and fellow philanthropist Wayne Silby founded Social Venture Network. SVN is dedicated to inspiring a community of business and social leaders to build a just economy and sustainable planet. SVN has spawned other similar and successful ventures specializing in investments for social good, including Investors' Circle, Net Impact, and the Threshold Foundation. In addition to ongoing board activities (Blacksmith Institute, Human Rights Watch, the Fund for Global Human Rights, Sierra Madre Alliance, Witness) and sitting on the Sigrid Rausing Trust, UK and the Joshua Mailman Foundation, Mr. Mailman is creating a program to support Muslim Social Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and managing Serious Change LP, a global for-profit social venture fund that houses Jalia Ventures.

Mr. Mailman tends to look at existing prejudices in society and in the marketplace not as barriers to change, but as opportunities. "So many people spend time trying to make a lot of money, but once they have it they don't know what to do with it. I hope that, when I get to the end of my life, I can honestly say I did my part."

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Ron Gonen EMBA ’04

Ron is the co-founder of RecycleBank. During his tenure as CEO from 2004–2010, RecycleBank grew from an idea to a company with contracts with more than 200 cities, a service that rewards millions of people for their positive green actions across North America and the UK and has diverted more than a billion pounds from landfills. Ron and RecycleBank were recognized by a number of leading business and environmental organizations including: the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, the United Nations Environment Program as a Champion of the Earth and the Wall Street Journal as the #1 Venture Backed Clean Tech Company of 2010. His original seed investors sold a portion of their equity in 2010 and realized a more than 5x return on their original investment. Ron is currently a member of RecycleBank's Board of Directors.

Ron holds a Patent for the development of technology and financial incentives in the recycling industry.

Prior to RecycleBank, Ron was at Deloitte Consulting.

Ron was a recipient of the 2010 University Medal of Excellence from Columbia University, which is awarded annually to an alumnus under the age of 45 for outstanding achievement in scholarship, public service, and professional life. In 2011, Ron joined the faculty at Columbia Business School as an adjunct professor, where he teaches a course on social entrepreneurship.

Ron is a past member of the World Economic Forum's Council on Sustainable Consumption and is currently a member of the Steering Committee for the New York Product Stewardship Council, a Henry Catto Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ron is the lead investor in Linhardt Design Studio, a jewelry brand that merges high design with the priciples of sustainability, and he serves on the Board of Advisors of Source4Style, DailyFeats, ArmedZilla, and JobRooster. He is a director at E2, a group within NRDC focused on entrepreneurship and the environment. He is on the Board of Trustees of RARE Conversation, an organization that applies community-based solutions to global conservation challenges.

He received an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Melissa Cheong ’09

Melissa Cheong joined Imprint's New York City office in November 2010. Through her work with organizations such as NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, Innosight Ventures, Agora Partnerships, BlueOrchard Finance, Invested Development, Women's World Banking, and Technoserve, Melissa has worked with various organizations in the impact investing and international development sectors. Prior to her career as a consultant in the impact investing field, Ms. Cheong was a vice president in Plainfield Asset Management's Direct Lending and Investing group. In this role, she was responsible for sourcing and executing both domestic and international private equity and debt investments across multiple industry sectors for the $6 billion hedge fund. Prior to that, she was a senior associate and founding member of Briscoe Capital Partners, a credit-focused hedge fund with approximately $400 million of assets under management. Ms. Cheong was also a financial analyst in the Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance groups at Deutsche Bank in the firm's New York and London offices. Ms. Cheong serves on the Board of Directors of Agora Partnerships, a nonprofit impact investing organization dedicated to helping small and growing businesses fight poverty in poor communities throughout Central America. She is also on the Advisory Board for Invested Development, a social impact angel investor intermediary services firm. Ms. Cheong has a BA with honors in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where she received the Richter Grant and the North Shore Alumni fellowships. She also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, with a concentration in Finance and Economics and International Development.

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Cheryl Dorsey

Cheryl Dorsey is president of Echoing Green, a pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement. The mission of Echoing Green is to unleash next generation talent to solve the world’s biggest problems. Its signature program, the Echoing Green Fellowship, provides seed capital and support to the most promising social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for change. Dorsey also serves on several boards including the Harvard Board of Overseers and is the vice chair for the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Chris Harvell ’05

Chris received his BS in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University. Upon completing his BS, Chris worked for the management consulting firm Booz Allen in the Health Care, Communications, Media & Telecom, and Financial Services groups. He also worked on a pro bono basis with Bill Clinton's Harlem Small Business Initiative where he was responsible for identifying and implementing areas for operational improvements and increasing the financial viability of selected Harlem small businesses. Chris then attended Columbia Business School and received his MBA with a concentration in Finance and Real Estate. Upon completing his MBA, Chris was an investment banker in the Real Estate Finance Group at Credit Suisse, based in New York.

In 2007 Chris developed a business plan for a company that would create jobs for Newark residents as well as help to address health disparities in children. His efforts attracted significant investment. In 2008 Chris and his wife, Lezli a pediatric dentist, were the second recipients of the Brick City Development Corporation's Grow Newark Fund; a $6 million SBA-guaranteed loan fund for small, local, minority, and women-owned Newark businesses. They co-founded Dental Kidz, a multi-million dollar state of the art, 8,000 square foot pediatric dental and orthodontic practice located in downtown Newark. It is the largest pediatric dental practice in the state of New Jersey. In addition to Chris' wife, Dental Kidz employs two additional doctors and a plethora of Newark residents as support staff. In 2010 Chris was listed on Columbia Business School's list of top 10 young alumni who are adapting and thriving during the economic downturn. His company was recently recognized by the City of Newark for its contribution to the economic development of the city. Chris has also been appointed by Newark's mayor, Cory Booker, to serve on the board of the Brick City Development Corporation. In this capacity he is further able to contribute to job creation, economic development, and financial viability in the city of Newark.

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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William Haughey

Will is founder and Chief Blockhead of Tegu. Will oversees Tegu's commercial activities, including its global marketing, sales and distribution platforms, and its product development process. Will and the rest of the USA team operate in Darien, Connecticut. Will earned a BS in Business Administration from Indiana University, where he concentrated in Finance and International studies. Upon graduation, Will joined the Healthcare Investment Banking practice of Goldman, Sachs & Co., in New York. Following two years of mergers and financings work, Will joined Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, a $7 billion investment vehicle, managing public and private investments. Will joined Chris to form Tegu in May 2008. Will and his wife, Rachel, live in Rowayton, Connecticut, just moments away from Espresso NEAT, Rachel's artisan espresso bar.

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Miguel Lara

Miguel, as his name suggests, is Spanish, but he’s lived in New York for a large chunk of his life. He is passionate about many things but, above all, he believes that healthier individuals and families can change the world. He started MicroHealth to help vulnerable populations deal with chronic health issues. Miguel’s bold idea was to connect doctors and patients in a “health network” where they both can share data and collaborate to make better treatment decisions. After five long years of clinical trials (and errors) at Columbia Medical Center and the Mailman School of Public Health his team found out what works (and what doesn’t). First clue: plain and simple mobile phones are a big part of the solution. There is a lot more to the story but, to ruthlessly cut to the chase, MicroHealth transitioned from the lab to the marketplace when a large pharmaceutical company first paid for some of the team’s ideas (a.k.a. intellectual property).

Before MicroHealth, Miguel ran the healthcare division of a global bank in New York City. He used to spend his time learning from a most talented team and exchanging fresh ideas with clients such as J&J, Merck and Pfizer. He holds a dual MBA from ESADE Business School (Barcelona) and the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Incidentally, Miguel also studies psychoanalysis on a part-time basis.

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Gabriel Mandujano

Gabriel Mandujano is currently the owner of Wash Cycle Laundry, a sustainable, bicycle-driven laundry service that began earning revenue in October 2010. Wash Cycle Laundry uses bicycles and other green wash technologies to decrease the environmental impact of doing laundry and is seeking to become a "launching pad" for vulnerable adults into upwardly mobile career paths. Previously, Gabriel was the manager of Strategic Alliances for the Center for Sustainable Transport in Mexico City, where he was responsible for building external partnerships with other national and international NGOs, Mexican government agencies, international development agencies, and international foundations. In Philadelphia, Gabriel was the Executive Director of the Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation, where he led a neighborhood planning process for Walnut Hill by creating the Walnut Hill Street Team, an outreach mechanism that has received regional recognition. He also led the initial phases of the program and architectural design for the Center for Culinary Enterprises, a food incubator and small business development project.

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Anna Stork

Anna Stork is co-founder of LuminAID Lab, a company focused upon developing and bringing to market low-cost, portable energy solutions for multiple markets, including disaster relief. LuminAID Lab was a finalist in the Global Social Venture Competition, received first place in the Columbia Venture Competition, and is a finalist for the Pipeline Fund Fellowship. Anna, co-inventor of the LuminAID light, received her B.A. in Engineering from Dartmouth College and recently completed her Master of Architecture at Columbia University. Anna earned her LEED accreditation while working in environmental design at the Sustainable Performance Institute in Boston. As an engineering student at Dartmouth, Anna worked on an R&D team at the US Army Labs in Natick, Massachusetts, developing technologies to help soldiers survive in remote locations under extreme conditions.

Session: Social Venture Pitch Session

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Bruce Usher

Bruce Usher is co-director of the Social Enterprise Program and an executive-in-residence at Columbia Business School, where he has been an adjunct professor in finance since 2002, teaching the Carbon Finance and the Finance & Sustainability courses. The objective of both courses is to utilize financial tools to create sustainable value for society. From 2002 to 2009, Professor Usher was CEO of EcoSecurities Group plc, during which time he built it into the world's largest public carbon credit company. EcoSecurities structures and guides greenhouse gas emission reduction projects through the Kyoto Protocol, acting as principal intermediary between the projects and the buyers of carbon credits. Professor Usher led EcoSecurities through an IPO, a secondary public placement and strategic investment, and the sale of the entire company to JP Morgan in December 2009. EcoSecurities developed more than 400 projects in 36 countries, representing approximately 10 percent of all projects approved by the United Nations under the Kyoto Protocol. Prior to EcoSecurities, Usher was co-founder and CEO of TreasuryConnect LLC, which provided electronic trading solutions to banks and was sold to eSpeed Inc in 2001. For the previous six years, he was COO of The Williams Capital Group, a boutique institutional investment bank. Prior to that, he worked in financial services in New York and Tokyo. He is on the boards of E+Co, a nonprofit that finances clean energy entrepreneurs in developing countries, and Community Energy Inc., a renewable energy project development company. He earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Session: Climate Change Investing

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Yannick Glemarec
Yannick Glemarec joined the UN in 1989. He has held increasingly responsible positions with UNDP Country Offices in Vietnam, China, and Bangladesh. He was appointed UNDP executive coordinator for the Global Environment Facility and director of environment finance in New York in June 2007. In this present capacity, he has primary responsibility for the operational management of a $6 billion portfolio comprising about 1,000 projects and activities in more than 140 countries.

He holds a PhD from the University of Paris in Environment Sciences, a master degree in Hydrology, and an MBA. He has authored and co-authored several publications in the field of environment and low carbon development.

Session: Climate Change Investing

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Greg Pope

Greg received an MSc from Oxford and a BA from Georgetown. Prior to joining BCG in 2009, he studied environmental economics on a Marshall Scholarship at Oxford and at University College London. He has worked in carbon finance, economic consulting, and at an education nonprofit. His personal interests include soccer, dancing, hiking, and visiting friends around the world.

Session: Climate Change Investing

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Gia Schneider
Gia Schneider is the CEO of Natel Energy, Inc., which is commercializing a turbine technology that significantly reduces the cost of developing low-head hydro projects. Previously, she worked in the Energy Trading Group at Credit Suisse where she helped start the carbon emissions desk. Prior to Credit Suisse, she worked in the Strategy Group at Constellation, a leading power generation company, and as a consultant with Accenture where she developed and implemented trading and risk management solutions for the utility industry. Gia received her bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has a long standing interest in climate change, sustainable development and renewable energy; and is passionate about finding and implementing solutions that help meet our needs for abundant energy and clean water in sustainable, cost-effective ways.

Session: Climate Change Investing

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Martin Whittaker
Martin Whittaker is an investment and business professional with more than 15 years of experience in the clean energy, sustainable finance, and environment markets fields. Martin currently serves as a director with Springcreek Global Investments, a fund manager for family offices and foundations specializing in impact investing. He also acts as an advisor to New Energy Risk, a clean energy insurance business and is a board member of Carbon Disclosure Project US. From 2006–2010, Martin served as a director of MissionPoint Capital Partners, a Connecticut-based clean energy private investment firm, where he led the company's investment activities across the environmental markets area, in addition to senior roles in investor relations and fund marketing activities. Prior to joining MissionPoint, Martin was a senior vice president at Swiss Re Financial Services in New York City, where he was part of the Environmental and Commodity Markets team. At Swiss Re, Martin provided carbon and clean energy market expertise to the company's asset management organization and helped establish the European Clean Energy Fund. Prior to Swiss Re, Martin was a managing director of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., a pioneering investment advisory and research firm within the environmental finance space. Martin has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, a strategic advisor with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and provided expert testimony on environmental markets to the US Senate. Martin holds a PhD in environmental science from the University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of London, and MSc and BSc degrees in Chemistry from, respectively, McGill University, Montreal, and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Session: Climate Change Investing

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Jacqui Holmes

Jacqueline Holmes recently celebrated 10 years since establishing the private principal investment firm Midori Management, which she currently manages. She has been a leader in committing time as well as capital to her philanthropic endeavors, having: actively supported in a very hands-on way in the early days of the now well-lauded and dollar-impactful non-profit DonorsChoose.org, where she served as the first Board member; served as the first Co-chair of the Philanthropy Committee of 100 Women in Hedge Funds during the first ever Benefit Gala which is now a highly established and leading annual fundraiser, selecting a different beneficiary organization each year; co-chaired the events committee of the Zena Rommett Foundation while serving on that Board; and more. For the past several years, Jacqueline has used her business acumen as a tool to achieve the positive social and environmental impact she has dedicated her life to, making several personal investments into for-profit early-stage businesses dedicated to social/environmental goals, and playing an active operating role most notably with Kopali Organics, which is achieving great success as a young growing brand as it brings its incredibly delicious chocolate and fruit treats, grown and produced with organic, sustainable, fair-trade methods entirely at the point-of-origin in Peru, to larger and larger numbers of retailers and consumers, scaling its impact. Jacqueline actively cultivates her vision of a long-term ever-evolving life-path for herself, towards new experiments and increasing focus on positive-impact ventures in both the for-profit and nonprofit arenas.

Session: How to Feed the World, One Healthy, Sustainably Sourced Meal at a Time: Scaling Local, Natural Food

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Doug Rauch
Doug spent 31 years with Trader Joe's Company, serving 14 years as president, growing the business from a small, nine-store chain in Southern California to a nationally acclaimed retail success story with more than 340 stores in 30 states. He developed the company's prized buying philosophy, created its unique private label food program, and wrote and executed the Business Plan for expanding Trader Joe’s nationally. He received his Executive MBA from the Peter Drucker School of Management, Claremont University, where he won several honorary awards, including the Early Career Outstanding Entrepreneur Award from Peter Drucker.

He retired from Trader Joe’s in 2008.

He is currently CEO of Conscious Capitalism, a senior fellow in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, a Trustee at Olin College, and serves on the board of several for-profit and nonprofit companies.

Session: How to Feed the World, One Healthy, Sustainably Sourced Meal at a Time: Scaling Local, Natural Food

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Viraj Puri
Viraj co-founded Gotham Greens in 2008. He has developed and managed start-up enterprises in New York City, Ladakh, India, and Malawi, Africa focusing on green building, renewable energy, and environmental design. Prior to founding Gotham Greens, Viraj worked at New York Sun Works, an environmental engineering firm. His written work has appeared in several books and publications including, 100% Renewable — Energy Autonomy in Action and the UN Academic Journal. He has received fellowships from the TED conference and the Wild Gift, where he currently serves on the board of directors. While he is a passionate New Yorker, Viraj is equally at home in the mountains and in wild, remote corners of the world. Viraj is a LEED® Accredited Professional and received a BA from Colgate University.

Session: How to Feed the World, One Healthy, Sustainably Sourced Meal at a Time: Scaling Local, Natural Food

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Jacquie Berger

Jacquie Berger has been the executive director of Just Food since 2006. Just Food makes fresh locally grown food available and accessible to all New Yorkers by connecting rural farmers, urban gardeners, and NYC residents. Through workshops, hands-on trainings, cooking demonstrations, and a commitment to food justice advocacy, Just Food continues to increase public awareness around the connections between healthy farms, healthy communities, and a healthy environment.

As dedicated local eater, Ms. Berger belongs to the Clinton Hill CSA in Brooklyn and gardens with her husband Michael Warner in their backyard. They raise all the vegetables they can in their shady plot, maintain two rooftop beehives, and hope to add small flock of bantam hens next summer.

Ms. Berger has more than 12 years of experience with nonprofit urban agriculture, sustainable food systems, and environmental organizations, having worked as the programs director for the Knox Parks Foundation and as the director of the Holcomb Farm Environmental Learning Center. She received her MBA from Yale School of Management and holds a BA degree from Barnard College.

Session: How to Feed the World, One Healthy, Sustainably Sourced Meal at a Time: Scaling Local, Natural Food

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Ellen Gustafson

Ellen Gustafson is a sustainable food system activist and social entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the 30 Project, a think tank to address global hunger and obesity together as one global malnutrition problem and to develop long-term solutions for food system change. The 30 Project is hosting and inspiring dinners around the country and world to promote a new dialogue and new solutions to a better food system.

She is also the Co-Founder of FEED Projects, LLC, a charitable company that creates good products that help FEED the world, and Co-Founder and former Executive Director of FEED’s non-profit partner, the FEED Foundation. Under Ellen’s leadership FEED provided over 65 million school meals to children around the world.

Previously, Ellen was a US Spokesperson for the UN World Food Program, a research reporter in the ABC News Investigative Unit and a research associate for the Military Fellows at the Council on Foreign Relation. She has a BA in International Politics from Columbia University.

She has been named 2011 top 99 Under 33 in Foreign Policy by Diplomatic Courier Magazine, featured as one of Fortune Magazine’s 2009 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Inc Magazine’s 2010 30 Under 30, and has spoken at the Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Conference, guest lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Lehigh University and the US Naval Academy and given a TED talk.

She serves on the Columbia University Alumni Board of Directors, the founding Board of Directors for a new Bronx charter school within the Success Charter Network and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Session: How to Feed the World, One Healthy, Sustainably Sourced Meal at a Time: Scaling Local, Natural Food

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Antony Bugg-Levine

Antony Bugg-Levine is the CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. He is widely recognized as a leading figure in the emergence of the global impact investing industry. He is the co-author of the newly released Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference (Wiley, 2011).

As a managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr. Bugg-Levine designed and led the Foundation's initiative, Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing, and oversaw its program-related investment portfolio. He is the founding board chair of the Global Impact Investing Network, and convened the 2007 meeting that coined the phrase impact investing.

Previously, Mr. Bugg-Levine was the country director for Kenya and Uganda for TechnoServe, a nongovernmental organization that develops and implements business solutions to rural poverty. Earlier in his career, as a consultant with McKinsey, he advised Fortune 100 clients in the financial services and health care sectors and helped develop new frameworks for incorporating social dynamics into corporate strategy. A native of South Africa, he served in the late 1990s as the acting communications director at the South African Human Rights Commission and as a speechwriter and media strategist for the African National Congress's 1999 election campaign. He is an associate adjunct professor in the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Ahadi.

Session: Values-Based Investing: Building Financial and Social Capital

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Steve Beck
Steve Beck is co-founder and CEO of SpringHill Equity Partners. In addition to leading SpringHill, Steve is a part-time senior advisor to the John Templeton Foundation, conceiving and leading a research program on “franchising in frontier markets”. He has been published and quoted on philanthropy, social investing, and international development in the Harvard Business Review (September 2007), New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and CBS Evening News.

Prior to SpringHill, Steve served as chief executive officer and executive vice president of Geneva Global, Inc. from 2002 to 2007. Geneva Global is a philanthropic advisory firm providing independent research, advice, and grant management services to clients focused on international development. Under Steve’s leadership the firm became a recognized leader in international philanthropy, managing more than $80 million of grants in global health, human liberty, economic empowerment, education, and conflict recovery. Roughly half of these grants were directed to initiatives in sub-Sahara Africa. Steve joined Geneva Global in an executive capacity in 2002, having consulted to the organization since its inception in 1999.

Prior to Geneva Global, Steve had 20 years experience in advising business leaders of global Fortune 200 companies on strategy, organization, and change management. As managing director of Gemini Consulting (a division of Cap Gemini) from 1996–99, Steve led the company’s most profitable division with some 500 consultants and $200 million in revenues from nine offices in Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

From 2000 to 2002 Steve was a managing director and partner of Monitor Group, an international strategy consulting and merchant banking firm. In addition to co-leading the Group’s business in Europe/Middle East/Africa, Steve served on the Board of the Monitor Institute, which advises foundations and direct service organizations in the nonprofit sector. Steve has thus advised and/or managed business operations in Africa since 1992.

Steve was educated at Stanford University and the London School of Economics. He is married with three daughters, and despite his Californian roots, lived in London from 1984 to 2002.

Session: Values-Based Investing: Building Financial and Social Capital

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Rick Defieux ’84
Rick Defieux, the chair of SJF IC and co-founder of SJF, has been a venture capitalist for 27 years. Rick is currently a venture partner at Battelle Ventures, a $220 MM fund investing in early-stage technology companies typically within the fields of energy & environment, health & life science and security. As a General Partner of Allegra Partners IV and Edison Venture Funds I, II and III, Defieux led investments in more than 25 environmental, energy and communications companies; he received a Cleantech Pioneer Award in 2003 from the Cleantech Group for his early work in cleantech investing. He currently serves on the board of Silicon Power. Defieux has an MBA from Columbia University and a BA and MA from Boston University. He is a steadfast husband and father and an occasional hiker, skier, tennis player and builder.

Session: Values-Based Investing: Building Financial and Social Capital

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Ben Powell ’05
Ben became convinced of the power of small business to transform poor communities in Mexico, where he co-founded CityGolf Puebla, a miniature golf course and family recreation center. Since launching Agora Partnerships in 2005, Ben has been named a Draper Richards Entrepreneur, a BMW Foundation Young Leader, and an Ashoka Fellow. He was a Social Venture Network Innovation Award honoree in 2009 and named one of the top 40 under 40 development leaders in Washington, DC in 2010. He has an MBA from Columbia University, where he was inaugural recipient of the Social Enterprise Alumnus Innovator award, an MSFS with distinction from Georgetown University, and a BA with high honors from Haverford College. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and three children.

Session: Values-Based Investing: Building Financial and Social Capital
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Geoffrey Heal

Geoffrey Heal, the Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, is noted for contributions to economic theory and resource and environmental economics. He holds bachelors (first class), masters, and doctoral degrees from Cambridge University, where he studied at Churchill College and taught at Christ's College. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Universite' de Paris Dauphine.

Author of 18 books and about 200 articles, Professor Heal is a fellow of the Econometric Society, past president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, recipient of its prize for publications of enduring quality, and a Life Fellow, a director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and a founder and director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, developers of the REDD policy for reducing deforestation by awarding carbon credits for forest conservation. Recent books include Nature and the Marketplace, Valuing the Future, When Principles Pay, and Whole Earth Economics (forthcoming).

Professor Heal chaired a committee of the National Academy of Sciences on valuing ecosystem services, was a commissioner of the Pew Oceans Commission, is a coordinating lead author of the IPCC, was a member of President Sarkozy's Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, was a member of the advisory board for the World Bank's 2010 World Development Report and the United Nations Environment Program's 2011 Human Development Report, and acts as an advisor to the World Bank on its Green Growth project.

He has been a principal in two start-up companies — one a consulting firm and the other in software and telecommunications — and, until recently, was a member of the Investment Committee of a green private equity group. He teaches MBA courses on "Current Developments in Energy Markets," "Business and Society: Doing Well by Doing Good?"; and "The Business of Sustainability."

Session: Corporate Social Innovation: Moving Beyond Responsibility
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Curtis Ravenel ’01

Curtis Ravenel leads Bloomberg’s global sustainability initiatives — a Chairman’s Office effort and the result of his 2006 Bloomberg Global Leadership Forum proposal. The program aggressively integrates sustainability considerations into all firm operations and leverages the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL Service to evaluate sustainability-related investment risks and opportunities for its 300,000 customers.

Curtis has worked for Bloomberg in multiple roles. He was the Financial Controller for Asia managing accounting, tax, treasury and audit services for 23 legal entities with combined annual revenues exceeding $1 billion. This was preceded by various roles in the Capital Planning and Financial Analysis Groups.

Prior to his work with Bloomberg, L.P., Curtis co-managed a small real estate development group, founded a micro-brewery and worked with the Recycling Advisory Council in Washington, DC conducting Full Cost Accounting and Life Cycle Analysis work.

Curtis earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in History from Davidson College.

Session: Corporate Social Innovation: Moving Beyond Responsibility
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Bruce Schlein

Bruce Schlein joined Citi in 2006 as vice president of corporate sustainability after having worked as a sustainability specialist for Bechtel on oil and gas and civil projects in China and Romania. Previously, he worked for international development agencies including Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services in Bosnia Herzegovina, and the US Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea. Bruce is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Session: Corporate Social Innovation: Moving Beyond Responsibility
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Martin Reeves

Martin Reeves is a senior partner and managing director in BCG's New York office. Martin leads The Strategy Institute, BCG’s vehicle for exploring ideas from beyond the world of business, which have implications for strategy. Current research themes include strategy and sustainability, new bases of competitive advantage, trust and adaptive strategy and organization.

Martin joined BCG in London in 1989 and later moved to Tokyo, where he led the Japan health care practice for eight years and was responsible for BCG’s business with Western clients.

He has led numerous strategy and transformation assignments in healthcare, consumer goods, industrial goods, technology and financial services.

Before joining BCG, Martin worked for ICI, in Japan and the UK, in marketing and strategic planning. Martin holds a triple first class MA in natural sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. He also studied Japanese at Osaka University of Foreign Studies and biophysics at the University of Tokyo.

Session: Corporate Social Innovation: Moving Beyond Responsibility

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Namrita Kapur

Namrita Kapur is director of strategy for the Corporate Partnership Program (CPP) at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), heading EDF's work that focuses on driving positive environmental change through corporate value chains.

Drawing from her background in strategy, finance, and international development, Namrita's particular focus is on helping the team develop strategies to accelerate innovation in the corporate sector; exploring opportunities for leveraging capital markets; and, building out our international approach.

Prior to joining Environmental Defense Fund, Namrita played an integral role in establishing the strategy and developing the infrastructure of Root Capital — a social investment fund pioneering finance in rural communities in the developing world. During her tenure at Root Capital, she helped grow the organization from five people and barely $5 million in assets to almost 40 people and $40 million in assets.

Prior to her six-year career at Root Capital, Namrita was an equity research analyst at the investment bank, Adams, Harkness & Hill (now CanAccord Adams), where she built the Resource Optimization Technology franchise.

She has previously directed programs for the Environmental League of Massachusetts and Berkshire Natural Resources Council, and worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program. She currently serves as treasurer for the Board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts.

Kapur earned a BA in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, an MA of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Session: Corporate Social Innovation: Moving Beyond Responsibility
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Gautam Ivatury

Gautam Ivatury is a founder of Signal Point Partners, which specializes in starting up mobile services businesses in emerging markets. He is also the Executive Chairman and co-founder of MeraDoctor, which sells phone-based medical services in India, and which was launched by Signal Point in 2010. Earlier, Gautam was a Strategic Advisor to CGAP, the global microfinance resource center housed at the World Bank. From 2003 through 2008, Gautam led CGAP's work in microfinance and technology, including setting up and managing a $26 million social venture program co-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to understand and drive mobile and branchless banking for the poor. Before joining CGAP in 2003, Mr. Ivatury helped manage SKS Microfinance, today India's largest microfinance institution, and founded a company to connect US universities and foreign students through the Internet. He has worked in investment and commercial banking at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette (now Credit Suisse) and the International Finance Corporation. Gautam holds an MA and a BA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins University.

Session: Reaching the Next Billion Consumers through Mobile Phones: The case of txteagle

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Nathan Eagle

Nathan Eagle is the CEO of txteagle, a company that enables brands to reward emerging market consumers with free mobile phone talk time in return for consumer insight or to incentivize purchasing. txteagle is a rapidly growing, early-stage start-up with $10M in funding backed by Spark Capital, the Blackberry Partners Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Flywheel Ventures, the Royal Bank of Canada, and Esther Dyson. txteagle is presently earning revenue in 49 countries, with partnerships in place that will enable the expansion to 80 by year end.

Dr. Eagle also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Harvard University, a visiting assistant professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, and a research assistant professor at Northeastern University. His research involves engineering computational tools, designed to explore how the petabytes of data generated about human movements, financial transactions, and communication patterns can be used for social good. His PhD on Reality Mining was declared one of the "10 technologies most likely to change the way we live" by the MIT Technology Review. Recently, he was named one of the world's top mobile phone developers by Nokia and also elected to the TR35. His academic work has been featured in Science, Nature and PNAS, as well as in the mainstream press.

Session: Reaching the Next Billion Consumers through Mobile Phones: The case of txteagle

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Tommy Craig ’82

Tommy Craig arrived at Hines in 1982. Since that time he has been involved in a variety of development projects and transactions aggregating approximately 12 million square feet. In 1996, Mr. Craig became regional officer and partner at Hines’ Metropolitan New York area, where his responsibilities as senior project officer have included managing the development, redevelopment, acquisition, construction, modification and/or interior fit-out on projects such as 30 Hudson (1.6 million square feet); 2000 Westchester Avenue in Purchase, New York (750,000 square feet); 745 Seventh Avenue (1 million square feet) in Manhattan; UBS Warburg Center (1.6 million square feet) in Stamford, Connecticut; three New York City buildings (totaling more than 1 million square feet) at 499 Park Avenue, 425 Lexington Avenue and 1200 19th St NW; and 750 Seventh Avenue (600,000 square feet) in New York City. As project officer, he has been responsible for activities that include 31 West 52nd Street, Manhattan; 1585 Broadway (1.3 million square feet) in New York City; a group of eight international banks led by Swiss Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank and Bank of Montreal; Plaza 55 and Two Soundview (totaling 200,000 square feet) in Greenwich, Connecticut; and 225 High Ridge Road (230,000 square feet) in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Craig attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his BA in History/Economics in 1978 and earned his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1982.

Session: Urban Experiments: City-Scaled Innovation in Real Estate Development

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Seth Schultz

Seth Schultz is director of the Climate Positive Development Program at the Clinton Foundation, which was created to meet the dual challenge of rapid urban growth and climate change by setting a new global benchmark for leadership in large-scale urban development. Launched by the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) in partnership with the US Green Building Council (USGBC), the program supports the development of large-scale urban projects that will demonstrate that cities can grow in ways that are “climate positive,” striving to reduce the amount of project related CO2 emissions to below zero. The Climate+ Program includes 16 participating projects in 10 countries on six continents.

Seth’s past experience includes director, Climate Positive Development Program at US Green Building Council; program manager, Green Energy Services & Solutions at The Louis Berger Group, Inc.; and an assistant project manager at LiRo Engineers. As program manager of Green Energy Services & Solutions for the The Louis Berger Group, Inc., Seth was engaged in environmental consulting, including business plans and sales strategy development with a focus on renewable energy. He was involved in private sector business development on sustainability and energy practices, research, and grant-oriented project development, as well as hazmat oriented project management.

Seth’s areas of specialty include greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and carbon management. His professional goal is to bring consistency, validity, and standardization to GHG reduction efforts and energy efficiency projects on a global platform. He has a special interest in utilizing private public-partnerships to establish successful, notable projects that will help shape new policies in sustainability. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton with a BA in Environmental Science.

Session: Urban Experiments: City-Scaled Innovation in Real Estate Development

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Tom Murcott

Tom Murcott is executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Gale International. In this capacity, he provides strategic oversight for all corporate and project communications programs. Tom is also Global Foreign Investment Officer for Songdo IBD, the 1500 acre smart, sustainable city rising in Incheon, South Korea.

Prior to joining Gale International, Tom was a founding partner of Renegade, a New York City-based, integrated marketing services firm. With 25 years of international marketing experience, Tom has helped an impressive list of companies create groundbreaking and measurably effective marketing, PR and branding campaigns, including multinational brands such as Avaya, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Canon, Casio, Citibank, General Mills, HSBC, ICICI, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Nike, and Panasonic.

Session: Urban Experiments: City-Scaled Innovation in Real Estate Development

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Joe O'Connor

Mr. O’Connor leads Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities team across the Americas Theater. He is responsible for driving business relevance with customers in the real estate industry. He is chartered with aligning relevant solutions and providing expertise in areas such as building energy management, safety and security with building owners/operators enabling them to transform their business.

He is currently working with several large development projects positioning Cisco’s infrastructure as the innovation platform for the building industry.

He was previously responsible for leading the pre-sales engineering team focused on delivering business value through technology innovation to Cisco’s Fortune 1000 customers.

Prior to his 20-year tenure at Cisco Systems, Inc, Mr.O’Connor spent a decade in the Life Sciences industry in various roles across manufacturing, R&D, and IT.

He is a member of ULI’s RPI Council, BOMA, USGBC, and the CT Green Building Council. Mr. O’Connor holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and is a 10 yr+ CCIE.

Session: Urban Experiments: City-Scaled Innovation in Real Estate Development

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Thomas D'Aunno

Thomas D'Aunno, PhD, focuses his research on the organization and management of healthcare services. He has a particular interest in leadership, organizational change, and performance improvement and has examined these issues in a variety of national studies of healthcare organizations that have been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, and the Pew Memorial Trust. Dr. D'Aunno was previously a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and, most recently, at INSEAD, where he held the Novartis Chair in Healthcare Management. He has published articles in leading management and health journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Dr. D'Aunno has been a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and the Academy of Management Review. In addition, he has consulted and taught executive education courses on several topics including leadership, performance management, high-performance teams, organizational design, and organizational change. Dr. D'Aunno is a past chairman of the Academy of Management Division of Health Care Management and a recipient of this Division's award for career distinguished service.

Session: Health 2.0: Re-engineering the Community Health System

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Thomas Lee
Tom is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovator in health care services and information technology. He has started some noteworthy ventures to date and is recognized as a leading visionary on health information technology and medical practice transformation. At One Medical Group, Tom has helped create one of the more distinctive primary care models in the country, using information technology to dramatically improve the quality and service of care while also lowering administrative costs. Prior to One Medical, Tom served as Chief Medical Officer, Editor-in-Chief, and lead designer/marketer of mobile applications for Epocrates — currently in use by millions of health care professionals worldwide to reduce medication errors. Tom received his BS from Yale University magna cum laude, MD from the University of Washington with AOA honors, and MBA from Stanford University. He is a board-certified internist with training completed at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Session: Health 2.0: Re-engineering the Community Health System

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Alan Cohen ’04

Mr. Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Online Benefits, one of the nation’s largest benefits administration and communications firms, with 5,500 employer clients and more than 1.3 million employees on its award-winning Benergy system. He led Online Benefits until its sale to A.D.A.M for $35 million and then served as president of A.D.A.M. Prior to Online Benefits, he worked in the insurance industry for Prudential, Mass Mutual, CIGNA, and led a brokerage. Mr. Cohen is a graduate of Cornell University (BA), Columbia Business School (MBA) and London Business School (MBA).

Session: Health 2.0: Re-engineering the Community Health System

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Teresa Puente

Teresa Puente has been a journalist for more than 20 years and has written extensively about immigration issues and the Latino community. Puente started her career at Hispanic Link News Service in Washington D.C., has worked for daily newspapers in California and for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. She is the founder of Latina-Voices.com and also writes an independent blog called Chicanísima for Chicago Now. Puente is a visiting professor at Columbia University for Fall 2011 and on the full-time journalism faculty at Columbia College Chicago.

Session: Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital

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Richard Robbins ’01

Richard Robbins recently joined MWW’s award-winning digital and social media marketing practice as vice president, senior digital strategist, and director of digital social innovation. in this role he oversees digital / social strategy and execution for the firm's clients including Nikon, Sara Lee, and Metro NY McDonald's.

Robbins previously served as director of social innovation at AT&T. In this role, he developed social media strategy, implementation, and training for AT&T's External Affairs organization and served on AT&T's corporate-wide "Digital Leadership Council". He also managed AT&T's outreach to influential communities and at major events including SXSW Interactive, PopTech, Personal Democracy Forum, Netroots Nation, and the New York Tech Meetup.

In April 2009, Robbins represented AT&T on a State Department "Technology Delegation" to Baghdad and joined technology executives from Twitter, Meetup, Howcast, Google, YouTube, WordPress, and Blue State Digital to explore ways that social media and mobile phones could increase civic participation in Iraq. In 2008, Robbins led AT&T's entry into the mobile politics arena with a groundbreaking partnership with Rock the Vote, the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan youth political organization. This effort resulted in a new level of engagement for Rock the Vote with more than 250k potential voters connecting with the organization on their mobile phones. Previously, Robbins developed an innovative partnership with Cingular and HBO to create "HBO Mobile" to help launch Cingular's mobile video platform. Robbins other experiences at Cingular / AT&T Wireless included Marketing / Brand Management, Distribution Strategy and Sponsorship.

Prior to joining AT&T, Robbins worked for leading entertainment marketing / sponsorship agencies Festival Marketing and EMCI for clients such as American Express, Guinness, and HBO. At Festival, he led the American Express Gold Card Events program, providing American Express with a unique, differentiating consumer benefit while providing new audiences for live arts and entertainment events.

Robbins is fascinated by ways that the Internet, social media, and mobile phones are impacting society, and is an active voice in advising all organizations — from corporations to nonprofits to governments — on how to best adapt to this rapidly changing communications environment to remain relevant and effective.

Robbins received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Tufts University and his MBA in marketing from Columbia Business School. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters and is often seen playing tennis, traveling, cycling, barbecuing, and tweeting (@rich1).

Session: Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital

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Courtney Roberts ’98

Courtney is strategic advisor at Dexis Consulting Group for Technical Advisory Services to the US Agency for International Development’s Global Partnerships, Office of Innovation and Development Alliances, where she leads the development of an online community to help connect and stimulate information exchange among professionals engaged in building public–private partnerships to further global development.

Prior to joining Dexis, Courtney worked for 10 years in a variety of roles at the World Bank Group, where she continues to provide strategy development and program management services to the head of investment climate advisory services in central and west Africa. She has advised the Africa manager on a $17 annual project portfolio and raised $1.2 million for private sector initiatives; trained economic development agency staff in more than two dozen countries on attracting inward investment; led online product development; and managed global knowledge management activities and grants programs.

Courtney also worked for four years in international health — including leading knowledge sharing and information dissemination activities on a $35 health finance program in the former Soviet Union in the mid-1990s — and as a journalist for the first independent English-language weekly in Poland in the early 1990s.

She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MA in Journalism from Indiana University, and a BSFS in International Affairs from Georgetown University.

Session: Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital

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James Slezak

James leads business strategy and sustainability at Purpose. He is responsible for scaling the impact and reach of Purpose’s work, including the funding, corporate structure, and growth of the organization.

On sustainability, his work is motivated by the belief that for the environment movement to be successful, its ambition must go beyond regulating existing business activities — it must rebuild major sectors of the economy.

His engagement with clean technology goes back to school days, where alongside rock stars, his room was decorated with photos of prototype electric cars. Since then, James has led major projects on sustainability, technology and economic development for McKinsey & Company, including developing green stimulus proposals for the Australian Prime Minister and former US Vice President Al Gore, developing strategy for the ONE Campaign against global poverty in Washington DC, and leading the Russian national carbon efficiency project in Moscow. He took part in the landmark 1997 Kyoto climate change conference, as well as the more recent UN climate talks in Copenhagen — which might have been a big disappointment if not for his decisive intervention. During the 2004 US presidential elections, James directed online strategy for a campaign opposing Bush administration foreign policy that raised millions of dollars in small online donations.

An Australian native, James’s background is in the natural sciences. He attended the University of Sydney and holds a PhD in Physics from Cornell University, where he discovered a new relationship between the geometry and quantum physics of high temperature superconductors, also working on development economics and game theory, before realizing he’d rather spend more time outside of labs. He is a fellow at Australia’s Center for Policy Development and has hosted weekly shows on community radio stations in Sydney and New York City.

Twitter: @jslez

Session: Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital

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Susan Tenby

Susan Tenby is Online Community Director and leads the social media team at the San Francisco-based nonprofit TechSoup Global and has worked there since the site's launch in 2000. She has been involved in nonprofit online community for 12 years, through its various platforms and tools.

Susan leads an active community of nonprofit staff and volunteers in Second Life and runs the organizational social media strategy. In particular, she focuses on identifying, interpreting and implementing social media trends and tools; she focuses on social media ROI and stats analysis and engages online and offline with the TechSoup Global community.

She runs weekly online events and campaigns and speaks regularly at conferences about online communities, distributed teams, online social networks, and virtual worlds.

Susan can be found on Twitter as @suzboop.

Session: Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital

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Amy Rosen

Amy Rosen joined the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) in October 2008. As president and CEO, Rosen has taken the organization's core belief — that every young person can find their pathway to opportunity through entrepreneurship education — and built an outcomes-driven organization. Overseeing the milestone of reaching 350,000 young people from low-income communities throughout the world, Rosen has led the organization in creating a replicable and sustainable model that is currently working in 21 states and 10 other countries. With only 60 hours of a young person's time, a NFTE-certified teacher, using the NFTE curriculum, can provide a student the opportunity to develop and present a business plan, compete in a competition, and significantly increase their chances of graduating high school with a plan for success.

New accomplishments of Rosen's tenure include creating clear and measurable goals, restructuring the organization, and overseeing the publication of NFTE's core high school curriculum. She has also overseen the creation of a new curriculum targeting middle schools, the development of the organization's new brand, and co-authored the book Teen Business Blasts Off! NFTE’s effectiveness in changing the lives of youth from low-income communities led Thomas Friedman of The New York Times to write that "the president should also vow to bring the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, or NFTE, to every low-income neighborhood in America."

Prior to joining NFTE, Rosen spent more than 20 years as a leader in the field of transportation. She earned a national reputation as a change agent in this field and has served in leadership roles on the Boards of New Jersey Transit and Amtrak. During the last decade her focus shifted to reform of the US education system, advising leaders including Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey, and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. Rosen earned a BA in political science from the Claremont Colleges and was a fellow at the Broad Urban Superintendents Academy. She is the chairman of the Board of KIPP TEAM Schools in Newark.

Session: Replicating Models of Success: Scaling Innovation in the Education Sector

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Sharren Bates

Sharren Bates is a senior program officer on the College Ready — Next Generation Models team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She co-leads the team’s work on data and content interoperability, building on the success of the widespread state adoption of the Common Core State Standards. She has worked at the intersection of education policy and technology for the past five years in federal and district roles. Most recently, she spent time at the FCC working on the education chapter of the National Broadband Plan. Previously, she led the ARIS team at the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), where she launched an integrated data reporting and collaboration system for the city’s 90,000 teachers and 800,000 parents. Prior to joining the NYCDOE, Sharren spent 10 years leading product and project management teams building online solutions for companies like Verizon, KPMG, and The Grow Network/McGraw Hill.

Session: Replicating Models of Success: Scaling Innovation in the Education Sector

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Kristen Kane

Kristen Kane is COO of the education division at News Corporation, where she is responsible for building the division and executing on the corporate strategy in education. Prior to joining News Corp, Kristen worked at the Federal Communications Commission as a director of the National Broadband Plan developing strategies for applying broadband technologies in the education, healthcare, and energy sectors. Before that she served as chief operating officer at the New York City Department of Education. In that capacity she was responsible for the development and implementation of the Bloomberg administration’s reform strategy as well as oversight of daily operations. She also served as chief executive of the Office of New Schools, which opened 178 new schools and charters under her leadership. Earlier in her career, Kristen worked in equity research at JPMorgan covering the education sector. She holds an MBA and Certificate in Public Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Yale.

Session: Replicating Models of Success: Scaling Innovation in the Education Sector

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Michele Cahill

Michele Cahill is vice president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation of New York where she leads the Corporation's strategy to meet the twin goals of contributing to societal efforts to create pathways to educational and economic opportunity by generating systemic change across a K-16 continuum, and to create pathways to citizenship, civil participation and civic integration in a pluralistic society.

Prior to rejoining Carnegie Corporation in 2007, she held the position of senior counselor to the chancellor for education policy in the New York City Department of Education under Chancellor Joel Klein. Cahill was a member of the Children First senior leadership team that oversaw and implemented the full-scale reorganization and reform of the New York City public schools. She played a pivotal role in the development of Children First reforms in secondary education, district redesign and accountability, new school development, and student support services. Cahill led a number of research and development projects and co-managed the cross-functional school restructuring processes for four years.

Cahill spent three years with Carnegie Corporation as a senior program officer in the Education Division. She was responsible for the vision and the establishment of Schools for a New Society, the Corporation's seven-city urban school reform experiment, and the New Century High Schools, a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Open Society Institute and New Visions for Public Schools.

Cahill has more than 30 years experience in education reform, youth development, and urban affairs work. She served as vice president of the Fund for the City of New York, where she developed the Beacons Schools initiative with New York City, and as vice president for schools and community services at the Academy for Educational Development, where she led several national demonstration projects with more than 20 urban districts. Cahill spent a decade as the co-founder of the Public Policy Program, a nationally recognized innovative college program for non-traditional students and assistant professor and director of the Urban Studies Program at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City.

Cahill has a BA in Urban Affairs from Saint Peter's College, an MA in Urban Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and she pursued doctoral studies in social policy and planning at Columbia University where she was a Revson Fellow.

Session: Replicating Models of Success: Scaling Innovation in the Education Sector

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Cami Anderson

Cami Anderson was recently appointed superintendent of Newark Public Schools after nearly 20 years of experience in leadership and education reform. Anderson was previously Superintendent of Alternative High Schools and Programs for the New York City Department of Education (District 79) — a unique citywide agency serving 30,000 young people and 60,000 adults. Her experience in education includes serving as the executive director of Teach For America-New York, where she founded a board of business and education leaders, increased funding by more than 300 percent, launched Teach For America Week, and trained over 500 teachers. Anderson was chief program officer for New Leaders for New Schools (a national aspiring principal initiative) where she managed the design and implementation of recruiting, admissions, curriculum, coachin, new principal support, and evaluations. As a business, NLNS was recognized for innovation and effectiveness by Fast Company magazine and Harvard Business School; as a principal preparation program, NLNS was recognized by Education Week, the US Department of Education, and The Teaching Commission. Anderson has extensive experience as a theatre, Montessori, and classroom teacher. She has served as a consultant for national and international education organizations on planning, evaluation, and program design.

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Damian Bazadona

Damian Bazadona founded Situation Interactive (formerly, Situation Marketing) in 2001 and oversees the strategic direction for the company, which maintains offices in New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Situation has managed the online marketing strategy for more than 200 live event brands across the country including Disney, Wicked, Mamma Mia!, Blue Man Group, The Metropolitan Opera, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and Roundabout Theatre Company, along with many others. Prior to forming Situation Interactive, Damian was partner and chief marketing officer of Cyber-NY Interactive where he was responsible for new business development and strategic initiatives for the firm. He is an active contributor and source for leading Internet and business publications, including The New York Times, Variety, Associated Press, Fortune Small Business, and many more. In addition, he has served as a speaker and source for University research studies relating to online marketing for Yale University, New York University, Brooklyn College, and Fordham University's graduate-level programs. Damian holds a BS in Business Administration from University at Albany.

Session: Networks in Art & Culture: Expanding Impact, Transforming Traditions

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Jennifer Gootman

Jennifer Gootman is the executive director of Global Goods Partners, a nonprofit that creates economic opportunity for women artisans in some of the world’s poorest communities by providing retail and wholesale access to the US market for their fair trade, handmade products. At Global Goods Partners, Jennifer has overseen a 60 percent increase in sales, benefitting the more than 40 organizations from 20 countries that Global Goods Partners works with, which collectively employ thousands of artisans. Jennifer has more than 10 years experience working with economic development and arts-focused nonprofits and social enterprises. Prior to joining Global Goods Partners, Jennifer was the deputy director of City Futures, the nonprofit parent of City Limits magazine and Center for an Urban Future think tank. She has also worked as communications director for Art in General, a nonprofit cultural organization in Lower Manhattan, and with Agora Partnerships in Nicaragua, where she planned and implemented a distribution and scaling strategy for a jewelry business that trains and employs disadvantaged youth. She has consulted for the International Rescue Committee, ACCION USA, and Mumbai-based Dial 1298 for Ambulance. In addition to her work in social enterprise, Jennifer designs and produces her own line of jewelry.

Jennifer received an MBA with distinction from NYU Stern where she specialized in Finance and Social Innovation and Impact and a BA from Harvard University where she majored in History and Women’s Studies.

Session: Networks in Art & Culture: Expanding Impact, Transforming Traditions

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David Holbrooke

David Holbrooke is the festival director of Mountainfilm in Telluride, which has taken place every Memorial Day for more than three decades and showcases essential documentaries, leading edge ideas, and social and environmental activism. Besides programming the festival, Holbrooke has helped broaden its impact by developing a grant program, producing a television show, and expanding the tour. Before taking over Mountainfilm, he directed Hard As Nails, a feature length documentary for HBO about an unusually charismatic yet controversial Catholic youth Minister. Besides Hard As Nails, David has made several other short films as well as a PBS special called The Soul of Healing with Deepak Chopra. He was a producer at CNN, CBS NEWS, and for nearly five years, the Today Show. He also produced a show about the outdoors for PBS, US Open coverage for USA Network, two Summer Olympics for NBC, and was also involved in the start up of CNBC. He has been a contributing editor at GQ and writes for the Huffington Post and is also working on several other films, including documentaries about the Extinction Crisis and the Dalai Lama as well as a narrative feature about Jonestown. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

Session: Networks in Art & Culture: Expanding Impact, Transforming Traditions

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Marc Kirschner ’02

Marc Kirschner is the founder and general manager of TenduTV. He oversees TenduTV's content acquisition efforts and distribution partnerships and works closely with industry leaders to ensure the protection of dance in the digital age. Kirschner created the concept of digital licensing for choreography and executed the first such licensing deals in the dance industry.

Prior to TenduTV, Kirschner ran his own digital media strategy consultancy, advising content owners such as the United States Tennis Association and producers of programming for leading networks such as Discovery, Discovery HD Theater, and National Geographic on strategies to prepare for emerging distribution opportunities and revenue models. He was also the publisher of The Short List, a local content and guide book company that is now part of Time Out. Kirschner received his MBA from Columbia Business School and lives in New York with his wife, Susanna, who is a member of Jennifer Muller/The Works. He currently sits on the advisory committees for Dance/NYC and the Dance Films Association.

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Nella Vera

Nella Vera is the director of marketing at The Public Theater where she oversees marketing, advertising, sales, and audience development/engagement for five theaters in the Public’s downtown space, as well as Shakespeare in the Park. Previously, she was the associate director of marketing at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and managed marketing and promotions for CTG’s three stages. Other experience includes director of marketing at New York’s award-winning Signature Theatre Company for three seasons, associate producer of the The Flea Theater in Tribeca, and director of planning and projects at Manhattan Theater Club. Nella also worked at Broadway’s very first full-service marketing firm, FourFront Press & Marketing, where her clients included Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk, On the Town, Chicago, John Leguizamo’s Freak, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, and others. Nella is a proud graduate of Georgetown University and received her MFA from Columbia University.

Session: Networks in Art & Culture: Expanding Impact, Transforming Traditions

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Keith Timko ’02

Keith Timko has been with Build with Purpose since September 2008 and brings nearly 15 years of experience in a range of community development work including: involvement in educational reform issues with The Center for Collaborative Education in New York City; experience in leadership development and management programs as the former President of the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation); and exposure to policy and community development approaches across the country during his time with Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative. Build with Purpose is a regional community development organization that directly and indirectly develops a host of real estate projects including schools, early childhood centers, affordable housing projects and nonprofit centers. Keith has a Bachelor’s degree in History and Russian from Rutgers University and a MBA with a focus on social enterprise from Columbia Business School and is a Board member with the Center for Nonprofits and the National New Markets Fund.

Session: Sustainable Communities: New Approaches to Integrated Solutions

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Richard Froehlich

Richard Froehlich has worked at HDC since November 2003 and was appointed HDC’s chief operating officer in June 2011. He joined HDC as its General Counsel and in February 2008, he was also appointed as its executive vice president for Capital Markets. Rich directs the Corporation's legal department as well as its bond and finance activities and has been a leader in designing and implementing HDC's participation in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan (NHMP).

Mr. Froehlich is an adjunct professor of public finance at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation as well as an active lecturer on affordable housing and bond finance. Prior to joining HDC, Rich, who is an attorney and member of the New York State Bar, was Counsel at O'Melveny & Myers LLP in its New York City office, and also worked previously as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and was an Assistant Counsel at the New York State Housing Finance Agency. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia University School of Law.

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Andrea Davila

Andrea Davila currently serves as a special strategic project manager for New York City Housing Authority’s Department of Resident Economic Empowerment and Sustainability (REES). In this role, Andrea brings her expertise in building and scaling promising social innovations to managing a portfolio of projects that will help REES operate more efficiently and effectively. Andrea is responsible for designing appropriate implementation plans for the REES strategy and leveraging technological solutions when needed to better serve NYCHA and its residents. Prior to joining NYCHA, Andrea was a consultant at the Blue Ridge Foundation, a nationally recognized social innovation fund and incubator, as well as a federal Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant recipient. At Blue Ridge, Andrea worked with a portfolio of innovative poverty-alleviation organizations, helping them build capacity and solve problems in order to scale. Andrea also worked at the Dodd-Frank created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) during its stand-up phase, planning the strategy for the Office of Financial Education. While in business school, Andrea co-founded Money Makes Cents, a community development partnership between welfare-to-work individuals and business school students, based on her experience facilitating financial literacy workshops within public housing developments. For five years prior to business school, Andrea was the director of finance and operations for Let’s Get Ready, a Goldman Sachs funded college-access organization. Andrea sits on the board of Right Rides for Women’s Safety, which advocates and provides safer transportation options for women and LGBT individuals. In her free time, Andrea teaches (at the Athena Center at Barnard College) and writes (for the online magazine Sadie) about personal finance. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Barnard College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Session: Sustainable Communities: New Approaches to Integrated Solutions

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Daniel Nissenbaum ’88

Daniel Nissenbaum is a managing director in the Urban Investment Group responsible for CRA Programs and Compliance. He joined Goldman Sachs in March of 2009.

Mr. Nissenbaum has worked in the field of real estate and community development finance for 22 years, with positions at Chemical Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank CDC, JPMorgan CDC, Merrill Lynch CDC, and HSBC Bank. In addition to leading transactional teams in those roles, Mr. Nissenbaum also crafted and directed CRA regulatory compliance, philanthropy, and community outreach programs.

Mr. Nissenbaum leads two national organizations as Board Chair, the National Housing Conference, a national advocacy and policy proponent for affordable housing, and the Low Income Investment Fund, one of the nation’s leading CDFI’s. In addition, he serves on the board of the Center for Housing Policy, and the Center for NYC Neighborhoods.

Mr. Nissenbaum earned a Bachelors Degree from Grinnell College, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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David Walsh

David Walsh joined JP Morgan Chase in January of 2011 as senior vice president of Community Development Real Estate and presently oversees all financing activities of affordable housing transactions in the Northeast Region for the bank. Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase, Mr. Walsh served as senior vice president of Multifamily Programs for New York State Homes & Community Renewal (“HCR”) where he oversaw the structuring and overall financing of approximately 9,800 units of affordable housing located throughout the State of New York. Prior to joining HCR, Mr. Walsh served as the director of NYC Housing Development for Common Ground Community, a nonprofit housing development organization specializing in housing for the homeless, overseeing the design and development of approximately 1,000 units of supportive housing in the metropolitan area. Prior to working at Common Ground, Mr. Walsh served for two years as the director of Brokerage in the Real Estate Investment area of the Wafra Investment Advisory Group, which is a US registered investment advisor wholly owned by the Public Institute of Social Security for Kuwait. Prior to working with Wafra, Mr. Walsh served as senior vice president of the LCP Group, LP, a privately held real estate investment holding company acquiring net leased properties and hotels of behalf of in-house investment partnerships and institutional clients. Mr. Walsh received a Masters Degree from Columbia University’s School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation and an undergraduate degree from Western New England College.

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Professor Doug Bauer

Doug Bauer is the executive director of the Clark Foundation, which focuses on helping individuals lead independent and productive lives and supports nonprofits and programs in New York City and Cooperstown, NY. Appointed June 1, 2009, Doug manages not only the Clark Foundation but is also executive director of the Scriven and Fernleigh Foundations. Prior to Clark, Doug was Senior Vice President with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) from 2002 to 2009 and led the organization’s Strategic Initiatives Team. Prior to joining RPA, he was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs and Co. and President of the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, the firm’s charitable gift fund. From 1997 to 2000, Doug was Director of Community Partnership at SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) and Executive Director of the SmithKline Beecham Foundation, where he focused on community-based health care around the world. From 1992 to 1996, Doug was a Program Officer for Culture at the Pew Charitable Trusts. And from 1988 to 1992, he managed the Scott Paper Company Foundation.

Doug’s opinions and ideas on philanthropy have been featured in the Associated Press, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Contribute, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and on NPR and CNBC. Doug co-authored, with Steven Godeke, Philanthropy’s New Passing Gear: Mission Related Investing, A Policy and Implementation Guide for Foundation Trustees. Doug chairs the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance and serves on boards or committees for Children’s Health Fund, The Melalucca Foundation and Philanthropy New York (formerly NYRAG).

He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches a course and seminars on philanthropy. Doug is a graduate from Michigan State University. He also holds an MS from Penn and an MJ from Temple University.

Session: Impact Investors Spreading Social Innovation

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Charly Kleissner
Dr. Charly Kleissner is a philanthropic entrepreneur utilizing his high technology background in his venture philanthropy. Together with his wife Lisa he co-founded KL Felicitas Foundation, which focuses on enabling social entrepreneurs and social enterprises worldwide and advocating impact investing. Dr. Kleissner co-founded Social-Impact International, which helps social entrepreneurs worldwide to accelerate and increase their social impact. Dr. Kleissner also co-founded Toniic, a global network of action-oriented impact investors.

Dr. Kleissner serves on the advisory board of multiple nonprofit companies like Acumen Fund, Global Social Benefit Incubator, Global Hub Association, and Global Philanthropy Forum. Dr. Kleissner is supporting multiple social venture and microfinancing funds committed to double and triple bottom line returns. He serves on the Board of Impact Assets and on the Advisory Council of MicroVest and Acumen Capital Market I. Dr. Kleissner also serves on the Board of Dasra and Springcreek Advisors.

Dr. Kleissner has more than 20 years of experience as a senior technology executive in Silicon Valley. He held executive and senior engineering management positions at Ariba Inc., NeXT Software Inc., Digital Equipment Corp., and Hewlett-Packard Company.

Dr. Kleissner is teaching workshops and seminars about social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial leadership, social enterprises, and hybrid business models and financing structures.

Dr. Kleissner earned his MS and PhD in computer science from the University of Technology, Vienna. He authored two software patents and published numerous articles. Dr. Kleissner is co-author of Solutions for Impact Investors: From Strategy to Implementation. He received the Distinguished Alumnus award from the University of Technology, Vienna.
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Lisa Kleissner
Lisa Kleissner is the president of the KL Felicitas Foundation, a family foundation co-founded with her husband, Charly, in 2000. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting programs that:

• Enable social entrepreneurs and enterprises worldwide to develop and grow sustainably, with an emphasis on rural communities and families; and
• Advocate the Foundation’s Impact Investing Strategy.

Lisa is co-chair of The Philanthropy Workshop West, a nonprofit transformative donor education program; co-founder of Toniic LLC, a global impact investing platform; board member of E + Co, a nonprofit providing clean energy solutions for developing countries, and board member of CPOA Coastal Community Stewards, a rural community volunteer group in Big Sur, California. Lisa is on the advisory boards of the Take Action! Conference and the Global Philanthropy Forum. Lisa is an active volunteer for Dasra Social Impact. Lisa and her husband recently teamed up with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and others to produce a monograph, Solutions for Impact Investors: From Strategy to Implementation. Lisa has spoken at a number of conferences on topics relating to a highly leveraged and holistic approach to philanthropy and impact investing including the Global Philanthropy Forum, the PRI Makers Conference, the Take Action! Conference, TBLI, SoCap San Francisco and Europe, and the Environmental Grant Makers Conference.

Lisa is an active impact investor working with a diverse group of entrepreneurs helping them build their enterprises. She collaborates with her peers to build out the broader ecosystem infrastructure in order to enable impact investing to go to scale.

Raised in Hawaii, Lisa attended the Kamehameha Schools and the University of Hawaii at Manoa graduating with a BArch in Environmental Design. She was the vice president of an architectural firm in Hawaii doing work in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia and was the president of The Kleissner Group, an architectural and project management firm in Silicon Valley providing facility solutions for high-tech and bio-tech firms. More recently, she has been active in her philanthropic and investment work through her foundation and her board engagement.

Passions outside of philanthropy include family, graphic arts, sustainable design methods and materials, yoga, meditation, long distance hiking, and ski touring in remote places.
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