Deborah Dugan is the Chief Executive Officer of (RED). \u00a0(RED) was founded in 2006 by Bono and Bobby Shriver to engage businesses and consumers to help fight AIDS in Africa.<\/p>\n
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(RED) partners with the world\u2019s most iconic brands, such as Apple, Starbucks, Converse and The Coca Cola Company who contribute up to 50% of profits from the sale of (RED)-branded products and services to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. \u00a0To date (RED) has raised close to $210 million with 100% of that money going to AIDS programs that have helped impact more than 14 million lives.<\/p>\n
Ms. Degan joined (RED) in 2011, and under her leadership (RED) has welcomed global partners such as The Coca-Cola Company, SAP, and Latin America\u2019s major mobile carriers Claro and Telcel. \u00a0With Ms. Degan\u00a0at the helm, (RED) has continuously pushed the boundaries for how social media is used for social good.\u00a0 In 2011 (RED) was recognized as the first cause to have reached over 1 million on both Facebook and Twitter, and (RED) recently set a new record with the largest non-profit check-in campaign on foursquare to date, in partnership with Starbucks, raising $250,000 in 8 days.\u00a0 In June 2013, (RED) partnered with Mashable and set a new awareness-raising world record using the emerging video app, Vine.<\/p>\n
Prior to\u00a0(RED), Ms. Degan\u00a0was President of Disney Publishing Worldwide, generating $1.8 billion in global retail sales.\u00a0 During her eight years at Disney, she oversaw 275 magazines and published more than 4,000 new book titles.\u00a0 In particular, she developed The Cheetah Girls<\/i>, Artemis Fowl<\/i>, acquired Baby Einstein<\/i>, and launched Disney English language learning programs throughout Asia. \u00a0She also served as Senior Advisor to the Tribeca Enterprises Board. \u00a0Ms. Degan’s roots are in the music industry \u2013 she spent many years as Executive Vice President at EMI\/Capitol Records.\u00a0 Deborah began her career as an attorney on Wall Street.<\/p>\n
Ms. Degan\u00a0has written on the AIDS issue number times for the Huffington Post<\/a>, and has recently given speeches at the IEG Sponsorship Conference in Chicago, and the University of Utah<\/a> Law School Commencement address. \u00a0Ms. Degan is included in Forbes\u2019 \u201c100 Most Powerful Women\u201d issue (June, 2013) for Social Entrepreneurism.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deborah Dugan is the Chief Executive Officer of (RED). \u00a0(RED) was founded in 2006 by Bono and Bobby Shriver to engage businesses and consumers to help fight AIDS in Africa. (RED) partners with the world\u2019s most iconic brands, such as Apple, Starbucks, Converse and The Coca Cola Company who contribute up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}