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DAY ONE AGENDA: OPENING SESSION
2:00 pm Opening Remarks
• Kimberly B. Davis, President – JPMorgan Chase Foundation
2:10 pm The Business Case for Shared Value & Social Innovation
• Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman of the Executive Committee – Hasbro
• Kay Koplovitz, Chairman – Springboard Enterprises
• Desh Desphande, Philanthropist; Chairman and Founder – Sycamore Networks
• Jason Saul, CEO – Mission Measurement
• Moderator: Timothy McClimon, President – American Express Foundation
2:50 pm The Power of Storytelling: Narratives for Impact
• Monica Lozano, Chief Executive Officer – impreMedia
• Paull Young, Director of Digital – charity: water
• Eileen Sweeney, Senior Director, Giving and Community Relations – Motorola
Mobility
• Francine LeFrak, Producer, Philanthropist; Founder – Same Sky
• Moderator: Hunter Walk, Head of Social Good Initiatives – YouTube
3:30 pm Transition Break into Workshops (concurrent; select one)
WORKSHOP: EDUCATION
Chair: Shannon Schuyler, Senior Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility Leader – PwC
3:45 pm Bridging the Education Gap through Partnerships
• Nitzan Pelman, Executive Director - Citizen Schools New York
• Kim Jasmin, Executive Director and Region Executive - JPMorgan Chase
• Yvonne Thomas, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Citizenship & Public Affairs – Microsoft
• Moderator: Shannon Schuyler, Senior Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility Leader –
PwC
4:15 pm Interactive Roundtables (concurrent; select one)
1) Financial Education
• Shannon Schuyler, Senior Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility Leader – PwC
2) STEM Education and Social Darwinism: Creating a Seamless U.S. STEM Pipeline
• Rebecca Lucore, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility - Bayer Corporation
3) Education in the Era of Outsourced Memory
• Shelly Palmer, Host - Shelly Palmer Digital Living
4) Multi-cultural Education: Bridging the Digital Divide
• Monica Lozano, Chief Executive Officer - impreMedia
WORKSHOP: TECH FOR GOOD
Chair: Deepak Puri, Director, Business Development (VMware Foundation Advisor) – VMware
3:45 pm Leveraging Technology for Social Good: Who, Why and How?
• Ali Marano, Head of Technology for Social Good - JPMorgan Chase
• Jane Meseck, Director, Technology for Good, Citizenship & Public Affairs - Microsoft
• Paul Arnpriester, National Business Development Manager - CDW
• Aziz Mohamed, Manager Sustainability and Social Innovation Initiatives - Hewlett-Packard
• Moderator: Deepak Puri, Director, Business Development (VMware Foundation Advisor) –
VMware
4:15 pm Interactive Roundtables (concurrent; select one)
1) Leveraging Open Data for Accountability
• Aleem Walji, Innovation Practice Manager - World Bank
2) Can the Cloud be Fanta-SaaS-tic for you?
• Rob Eberhardt, Senior Architect - F5 & Jason Radford, Cloud Architect - Illini Cloud
3) Mobile for Good
• Eileen Sweeney, Senior Director, Giving and Community Relations – Motorola Mobility
4) Technology Innovation in the Non-Profit Sector: Not an Oxymoron
• Barry Sanders, Global Program Director, Shared Services – NetHope
5) End Users Perspective on Technology
• Shari Bryan, Vice President - National Democratic Institute
WORKSHOP: SOCIAL MEDIA
Chair: Jennifer Houston, President, WE Studio D – Waggener Edstrom
3:45 pm Social Media for Social Good
• Brian Sirgutz, SVP of Social Impact - AOL/ Huffington Post Media Group
• Petri Darby, Director of Marketing, Communications & Digital Strategy - Make-a-Wish
Foundation
• Tara DeGeorges, Online Content Manager of Public Affairs - Time Warner Cable
• Sree Sreenivasan, CNET blogger & Dean of Student Affairs - Columbia Graduate School of
Journalism
• Moderator: Jennifer Houston, President, WE Studio D – Waggener Edstrom
4:15 pm Interactive Roundtables (concurrent; select one)
1) Facebook for Causes
• Libby Leffler, Strategic Partner Manager - Facebook
2) Lights, Camera, Activism: Using Video & YouTube to Change the World
• Hunter Walk, Head of Social Good Initiatives – YouTube
3) Social ROI – Measuring and Tracking Impact of Social Good Online
• Jennifer Houston, President, WE Studio D – Waggener Edstrom
4) Building the Business Case for Social Internally
• Jason Moriber, Vice President, Digital Consulting - Waggener Edstrom
5) High Impact Content for Social Media
• Brian Sirgutz, SVP of Social Impact - AOL/ Huffington Post Media Group
WORKSHOP: HEALTHCARE
Chair: Rob Schreiner, Executive Medical Director - Kaiser Permanente of Georgia
3:45 pm Community Healthcare Solutions
• Valarie Wilson, Executive Director - The BeltLine Partnership
• John Hoffman, VP - HBO Documentary Films; Executive Producer - Weight of the Nation
• Moderator: Rob Schreiner, Executive Medical Director - Kaiser Permanente of Georgia
4:15 pm Interactive Roundtables (concurrent; select one)
1) Built Environments and Their Contribution to Health
• Valarie Wilson, Executive Director - The BeltLine Partnership
2) Weight of the Nation & Obesity in America - Causes and Solutions
• John Hoffman, VP - HBO Documentary Films; Executive Producer - Weight of the Nation
3) The Importance of Not Being Earnest
• Jeff Davidoff, Chief Marketing Officer - The ONE Campaign
WORKSHOP: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Talya Bosch, Senior Director, Social Ventures – Western Union
3:45 pm Can Partnerships Really Deliver Shared Value?
• Aaron Hurst, Founder and President - Taproot Foundation
• Andrew Yang, Founder and President – Venture for America
• Rajesh Anandan, Senior Vice President, Private Sector Partnerships and UNICEF Ventures -
UNICEF USA
• Moderator: Talya Bosch, Senior Director, Social Ventures – Western Union
4:15 pm Interactive Roundtables (concurrent; select one)
1) Women's Economic Empowerment Globally
• Ellen Luger, Executive Director - General Mills Foundation
2) The Business Case for Employee Pro Bono: Why Does it Matter?
• Kate Ahern, Director of Social Innovation - Case Foundation
3) Achieving Economic Opportunity For All
• Talya Bosch, Senior Director, Social Ventures – Western Union
4) Environmental Economics: Sustainability at $Trillion Scale
• Jigar Shah, Board Member - Carbon War Room
WORKSHOP: UN COLLABORATION
Chair: Patrick McNamara, Senior Consultant - Refinery Leadership Consultants
3:45 pm Collaboration and Innovation in the UN System
• Niloy Banerjee, Deputy, Capacity Development Group – Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP
• Katja Freiwald, Director of Global Partnerships and UN Global Compact Member – Unilever
• Hailey Brewer, Public Sector Team Lead – IDEO
• Moderator: Patrick McNamara, Senior Consultant - Refinery Leadership Consultants
4:15 pm Interactive Roundtables (concurrent; select one)
1) Social Innovation Utilizing Technology
• Robert Kirkpatrick, Director – UN Global Pulse
2) Program Innovation
• Annette Diefenthaler, Senior Design Research Specialist – IDEO
3) Organizational Transformation & Leadership Development
• Elizabeth Soltis, Consultant, Leadership for Results Programme, Africa Adaptation
Programme – UNDP
4) Scaling-up of Breakthrough Initiatives
• Xiaojun Wang, Practice Manager, Global Initiative of Scaling Up Innovations - UNDP
5) Multi-stakeholder Engagement
• Mitchell Toomey , Manager, Knowledge Management Group – UNDP BDP
DAY ONE AGENDA: CLOSING SESSION
5:15 pm Transition Break return from Workshops
5:30 pm Closing Panel: Workshop Chair Summary & Cross-Sector Insights
• Shannon Schuyler, Senior Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility Leader –
PwC
• Talya Bosch, Senior Director, Social Ventures – Western Union
• Jennifer Houston, President, WE Studio D – Waggener Edstrom
• Deepak Puri, Director, Business Development (VMware Foundation Advisor) –
VMware
• Patrick McNamara, Senior Consultant - Refinery Leadership Consultants
• Rob Schreiner, Executive Medical Director, The Southeast Permanente Medical
Group - Kaiser Permanente
• Moderator: Dalila Wilson-Scott, CFO, Global Philanthropy – JPMorgan Chase
6:10 pm Networking & Cocktail Reception
DAY TWO AGENDA: SESSION ONE
9:00 am Welcome Address
• Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General - United Nations (by video)
• introduced by: Soon-Hong Choi, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information
Technology Officer - United Nations
9:15 am Opening Remarks: How Technology is Disrupting Philanthropy
• Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Founder and Chairman – Stanford Center on
Philanthropy and Civil Society
9:30 pm The Private Sector's Role in Fostering Excellence in Education
• Peter Bloom, Advisory Director – General Atlantic (Chairman – DonorsChoose.org)
• John Abele, Founder – Boston Scientific Corporation (Vice Chairman – FIRST)
• Robert J. Torres, Ph.D, Senior Program Officer - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Summit Master of Ceremonies & Moderator: Shannon Schuyler, Senior Managing
Director, Corporate Responsibility – PwC
10:00 am Empowering Women & Girls
• Gina Reiss-Wilchins, Executive Director – Girls Up
• Avery Winthrop McCall, Teen Advisor - Girl Up
• Judy Vredenburgh, President & CEO – Girls Inc.
• Bianca Louis, Vice-President, ING-Girls Inc. Investment Challenge - Girls Inc.
• Moderator: Rhonda Mims, President – ING Foundation
10:30 am Building a Kinder, Braver World: A Conversation with The Born This Way Foundation
• Cynthia Bissett Germanotta, Co-Founder and President - Born This Way Foundation
• Moderator: Ross Martin, Executive Vice President - Scratch (Viacom Media
Networks)
10:40 am Morning Coffee Break
DAY TWO AGENDA: SESSION TWO
11:05 am Innovate4Good: Leadership from the Next Generation
• Benjamin Stone, Chief Executive Officer - Indego Africa
• Asha Sharma, Co-Founder - The A-List
• Genevieve L’Esperance, Student - McGill University
• Johnnie Lovett, Chief Executive Officer - Fresh Connection Brand
• Moderator: Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Global Community Affairs –
Microsoft
11:35 am Radical Low-Cost Housing for the World
• Bill Gross, Chairman & CEO – Idealab
11:45 pm Green vs. Green: The Sustainability Debate
• Jeff Seabright, Chief Environmental Officer – The Coca-Cola Company
• James Gowen, Chief Sustainability Officer – Verizon
• Michael Jacobson, Director, Corporate Responsibility Office – Intel
• Moderator: Jeffrey Hollender, Co-Founder – Seventh Generation
12:15 pm Awesome Ain't Easy: Technology as a Cure
• Steve Gleason, Former NFL Player; Founder – Team Gleason Foundation
• Scott Fujita, NFL Linebacker – Cleveland Browns of the National Football League
• Moderator: Tiki Barber, NFL Former Pro Bowl Running Back & NBC Broadcaster
12:35 pm Moral Capitalism
• Jeff Swartz, Former CEO & President – Timberland
12:50 pm Group Lunch
DAY TWO AGENDA: SESSION THREE
2:00 pm Big Ideas: Fireside Chat with Craig Venter
• Craig Venter, Chairman & President – J. Craig Venter Institute
• Moderator: Nancy Snyderman, Chief Medical Editor - NBC News
2:20 pm Healthcare: Partnering to Drive Better, Faster Results
• Dr. Maura O'Neill, Chief Innovation Officer - U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID)
• Dr. Raymond J. Baxter, Senior Vice President, Community Benefit, Research and
Health Policy - Kaiser Permanente
• Jeff Richardson, Vice President, Global Health Access - Abbott Fund
• Moderator: Ellen Lambert, Executive Vice President - The Merck Company
Foundation
2:50 pm Achieving Millennium Goal #2 in 18 months
• Nicholas Negroponte, Founder & Chairman – One Laptop Per Child
3:05 pm Corporate Partnerships for Good: The Humanitarian Cloud
• Dan Matte, EVP, Marketing & Business Development - F5 Networks
• Doug Smith, Vice President Global Partner Strategy & Operations – VMware
• Aziz Mohamed, Manager Sustainability and Social Innovation Initiatives - Hewlett-
Packard Company
• Chris Van Wagoner, Chief Global Strategy Officer – Commvault
• Moderator: William Brindley, Chief Executive Officer - NetHope
3:35 pm The Foundation for Digital UN
• Soon-Hong Choi, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology
Officer - United Nations
• Richard Hall, Director, Global Strategic Alliances – Intel Corporation
• Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Global Community Affairs – Microsoft
• Zeev Klein, General Partner – Landmark Ventures
• Moderator: Amir Dossal, Chairman - Global Partnerships Forum
3:55 pm Afternoon Break & Sweet Treats
DAY TWO AGENDA: SESSION FOUR
4:20 pm Econo-Me
• Tom Shadyac, Director, Screenwriter, and Producer
4:40 pm All Talk and No Action? Conferences and Conversation in Social Innovation
• Jean-Pierre Rosso, Chairman – World Economic Forum USA
• Bruce Gibney, Partner – Founder's Fund (Founder – F50)
• June Cohen, Director – TED Media
• Moderator: Peter Hopkins, President & Co-Founder – Big Think
5:10 pm "40 Chances"
• Howard W. Buffett, Executive Director – Howard G. Buffett Foundation
5:25 pm Fueling Economic Development & Entrepreneurship
• Adam Brotman, Chief Digital Officer – Starbucks
• Jonathan Greenblatt, Director, Office of Social Innovation – White House
• Nick Beim, General Partner – Matrix Partners
• Moderator: Dalila Wilson-Scott, CFO, Global Philanthropy – JPMorgan Chase
5:55 pm Dynamic Philanthropy
• Alicia Keys, Artist; Global Advocate for HIV/AIDS; Co-Founder – Keep a Child Alive
• Moderator: Marc Pollick, President – The Giving Back Fund
6:15 pm Networking & Cocktail Reception (+ ELEW Performance)
FEATURED SPEAKERS
John Abele
Founder
Boston Scientific Corporation
Vice Chairman
FIRST
John Abele served as Chairman of FIRST from 2002-2010, and currently serves as the Vice-
Chairman, Chairman of the Governance Committee, and as a member of the Steering
Committee.
Abele is retired Founding Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation. He holds numerous patents and has published
and lectured extensively on the technology of various medical devices and on the technical, social, economic, and
political trends and issues affecting healthcare.His major interests are science literacy for children, education, and the
process by which new technology is invented, developed, and introduced to society.He developed the Kingbridge Centre
and Institute, a conferencing institution whose mission is to research, develop, and teach improved methods for "super
productive" collaborative conferencing: problem solving, conflict resolution, strategic planning, new methods for
learning and generally help groups to become "collectively intelligent."
He is a Fellow in both the Society of Interventional Radiology and the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical
Engineering, and received honorary Doctors of Science from Northeastern University and Wentworth Institute of
Technology.Other awards include Gold Medal Awards from the Society of Interventional Radiology and the
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe, the 2007 Pioneer in Endoscopy Award from the
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, the Distinguished Career Award in 2006 from the
International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy, the 2003 BMES Distinguished Lecture Award presented by the
Biomedical Engineering Society.
Abele lives with his wife and two dogs in Shelburne, Vermont.
Kate Ahern
Director, Social Innovation
Case Foundation
@ahernkate
Kate Ahern is Director, Social Innovation at the Case Foundation. At Case, Kate oversees a
portfolio of initiatives, including Billion + Change, which mobilizes corporations to provide billions
of dollars worth of pro bono service to nonprofits; Partners for a New Beginning, a partnership
with the Aspen Institute and the US State Department dedicated to engagement in the Muslim
world; and Change By Us, an online platform that lets people get offline to work together on
projects to better their communities.
Before starting at the Case Foundation, Kate was Director of Business Development at CDC Development Solutions,
where she spent seven years managing international development, corporate responsibility, and skills-based pro bono
programs in emerging markets worldwide. Kate has a Master’s degree from American University in International
Development and Conflict Resolution.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Rajesh Anandan
Senior Vice President, Private Sector Partnerships and UNICEF Ventures
UNICEF USA
Since joining the UNICEF USA in April 2009, Rajesh has led a broad range of partnerships and
initiatives with corporations, foundations and academia, generating over $400 million annually in
funding and in-kind resources. In 2011, he launched UNICEF Ventures to accelerate the
development of new financing vehicles, partnership models and business ventures, and in 2012,
he was appointed to co-lead the organization’s Strategic Planning process.
Previously, Rajesh served as Head of Private Sector Partnerships at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria,
where he was responsible for industry partnership policies, public-private co-investments, and resource mobilization
initiatives including (PRODUCT)RED. Prior to the Global Fund, he was the Director of Strategy at the Elizabeth Glaser
Pediatric AIDS Foundation, a Senior Consultant at Bain & Company, and a Program Manager at the Microsoft
Corporation.
Rajesh is a co-founder of WeCare, a grass-roots organization supporting children affected by conflict in his home
country Sri Lanka, and üba, a cause-related brand platform which promotes peace and human security through new
media. He is a Mentor at the Unreasonable Institute, and serves as an advisor to a number of start-up social
enterprises. Rajesh received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from
MIT, with concentrations in Artificial Intelligence, Systems Dynamics and Economics.
Paul Arnpriester
National Business Development Manager
CDW
Along with many others, Paul is a pioneer and co-founder, of the humanitarian cloud concept. As
National Business Development Manager at CDW, Paul helps lead their 50 plus member teams,
focused on delivering ICT solutions to NGO’s and the nonprofit community. Paul creates
pathways and develops connections among companies, business partners and nonprofit
organizations that are primarily focused on social innovation, utilizing transformational
technologies to help them accomplish their mission and goals.
Engagements include small to large nonprofit organizations, consortiums and larger dynamic NGO’s with a global
footprint. Since 2006, Paul has served as a voting member of the ISOC and is the liaison representative for, the country
of Ghana, West Africa. Paul graduates from Cornell’s Executive Leadership program in December, 2012. When not
traveling to help connect the global village, Paul resides in Arizona with his wife Heidi, and their children, Natasha and
Dior.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Founder and Chairman
Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
@LAAGiving2
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is the Founder and Chairman of Stanford PACS (Center on
Philanthropy and Civil Society), a global research center committed to exploring ideas to create
social change and the publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). She is the
Founder, former Chairman (1998-2008), and Chairman Emeritus of the Silicon Valley Social
Venture Fund (SV2), and she sits on the faculty and teaches Strategic Philanthropy at Stanford
Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.
Laura is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World (Wiley
Jossey-Bass 2011), the website, Giving 2.0 (www.giving2.com), and a contributing writer to Washington Post, Worth
Magazine, Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Huffington Post. Laura is President of the Marc and Laura
Andreessen Foundation, and she sits on multiple boards, including the Sand Hill Foundation, the Arrillaga Foundation,
Stanford University School of Education, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and, formerly, the Silicon
Valley Community Foundation.
Laura earned a BA, MA, MA, and MBA from Stanford University. She is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and
received the President’s Volunteer Service Award from the Points of Light Foundation. Laura lives with her husband,
technology entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, near Stanford University, and together they enjoy literature, art, writing,
movies, yoga, athletics, and laughing as much as possible.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Akhtar Badshah
Senior Director of Global Community Affairs
Microsoft
@Akhtarbad
Akhtar Badshah is the Senior Director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation,
where he administers the company’s global community investment and employee programs.
Through monetary grants, software and curriculum donations, technology solutions, and
employee volunteer hours, Microsoft supports programs and organizations that address the
needs of communities worldwide. Since 1983, Microsoft and its employees have provided over
$4.6 billion in cash, services and software to nonprofits around the world through localized, company-sponsored giving
and volunteer campaigns.
Among his responsibilities, Badshah manages the Microsoft Opportunity for Youth program, a global initiative that is
designed to help narrow the technology skills gap; aid global work-force development; and create social and economic
opportunity by providing technology training through community technology centers. Opportunity for Youth offers a
comprehensive approach to broadening digital inclusion by bringing together critical components, including training
grants, software donations, community learning curricula and a global support network. Microsoft is working to
broaden digital inclusion and to bring the benefits of technology to the next billion people by 2015.
Badshah also oversees programs aimed at helping nonprofit organizations improve their effectiveness through
increased technology capacity. This includes Microsoft’s signature partnerships with organizations such as NPower, the
Boys & Girls Clubs of America, telecentre.org, TechSoup and NetHope.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Badshah was the CEO and president of Digital Partners Foundation, a Seattle-area
nonprofit organization whose mission is to utilize the digital economy to benefit the poor. At Digital Partners, he
established the organization’s core programs in India, Africa and Latin America. His work included development of the
Digital Partners Social Venture Fund, designed to support the expansion of IT-based anti-poverty efforts around the
world, and the Digital Partners Social Enterprise Laboratory (SEL), an initiative that provides mentorship and seed
money to entrepreneurs whose vision and business models use ICT to empower the poor and their underserved
communities.
Dr. Badshah is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Business Civic Leadership Center of the US Chamber of
Commerce and also the Chair of the Board of the Telecentre.org Foundation. Dr. Badshah also serves on the Board of
Council on Foundations, United Way King County, and Youth Entrepreneurship & Sustainability (YES). Badshah also
serves on the Advisory Boards of the World Affairs Council (Seattle), Santa Clara University Center for Science
Technology & Society, and UW Business School. He also served on the Washington State, Governor Gregoire’s New
Americans Policy Council.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Niloy Banerjee
Deputy, Capacity Development Group – Bureau for Development Policy
UNDP
Niloy Banerjee is the Senior Policy Adviser and Deputy Director in the Capacity Development Group, Bureau for
Development Policy, in UNDP. The Capacity Development Group is the in-house resource for policy advice and technical
support related to Public Sector Management, that UNDP provides to partner countries around the world.
As head of the policy and strategies cluster of the Group, Niloy leads a team of advisers around the world in supporting
country demand in public sector reform such as those of optimal institutional arrangements, organizational change
management in agencies and sectors, business process reengineering in ministries and other public entities,
leadership development interventions, and strengthening country systems in a range of implementation capacities
such as procurement and M&E systems.
Niloy has wide ranging experience in the Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America. He is a contributing author on four
landmark UNDP publications on technical cooperation and capacity development. He sits on the Editorial Board of
capacity.org – a reputed journal on capacity development, and is UNDP’s representative to the OECD-DAC Task team on
Capacity Development. Before joining UNDP, Niloy has worked for the Ford Foundation and the National Foundation for
India, the American India Foundation in the United States – the premier foundation for Indian Diaspora giving from the
United States to India - and the European Center for Development Policy Management, in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Niloy has a Masters in Economics from New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University and is also a Fellow of the City
University of New York on Philanthropic and Development Studies.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Tiki Barber
NFL Former Pro Bowl Running Back & NBC Broadcaster
Tiki Barber is the unique individual who combines a stellar portfolio of athletics and broadcasting
with a captivating story-telling presence at the podium. He is a renaissance man without equal
today, as evidenced by a resume that includes: NBC correspondent, retired Pro Bowl running
back, entrepreneur, best-selling author, producer, actor, corporate spokesman, scholar, and
philanthropist.
Barber joined NBC Universal in 2007 on the heels of his Hall of Fame-caliber NFL career. A three-
time Pro Bowler, he now splits his time between being a correspondent for NBC News and serving as an analyst for
NBC’s Football Night in America. Tiki also contributed to the 2008 Olympic Games, 2009 Golden Globe Awards, and
covered the 2010 Olympic Games.
In 10 seasons on the gridiron, Barber joined Marshall Faulk and Marcus Allen as the only players in NFL history with at
least 10,000 yards rushing and 5,000 yards receiving. He retired ranking third all-time in yards per carry (4.7) and 10th
all-time in yards from scrimmage (15,632; rushing and receiving). Barber holds every conceivable Giants rushing record
— total yards, rushing yards, rushing attempts and rushing touchdowns — and in his final regular-season game broke his
own franchise single-game rushing mark with 234 yards, in a win vs. the rival Washington Redskins.
A tireless entertainer and communicator, during his playing days Barber was a weekly co-host on FOX News Channel’s
morning program FOX and Friends (2005-07). He debunked the jock stereotype as host of The National Sweep with Tiki
Barber, a radio program delving into politics, news and entertainment that featured guests including: John McCain, U.S.
Senator; Matt Lauer, host of the TODAY show; Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu, US Surgeon General; and Daniel
Kurtzer, former US Ambassador to Israel.
As active in the community as he was on the gridiron, Barber devotes generous time and money to the Children’s
Miracle Network, the Fresh Air Fund and the Robin Hood Foundation, among others. Barber’s memoir “Tiki: My Life in
the Game and Beyond”, was a New York Times best-seller. A staunch advocate for literacy, he has also co-authored
with Ronde five successful children’s books, and is under contract to write two more.
In 2007, as Chairman of Tiki Ventures LLC, Barber entered into a joint venture with The Related Companies for the
purposes of restoring and refurbishing affordable housing stock, including more than 5,000 units across the county.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Dr. Raymond J. Baxter
Senior Vice President, Community Benefit, Research and Health Policy
Kaiser Permanente
Raymond J. Baxter, PhD, is Kaiser Permanente’s Senior Vice President for Community Benefit,
Research and Health Policy. As a member of Kaiser’s National Leadership Team, Dr. Baxter leads
the organization’s activities to fulfill its social mission, including care and coverage for low-
income people, community health initiatives, health equity, environmental stewardship, and
support for community-based organizations. He also leads Kaiser Permanente’s work in research,
health policy and diversity, and serves as President of KP International.
Dr. Baxter has more than 30 years of experience managing public health, hospital, long-term care and mental health
programs, including heading the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the New York City Health and
Hospitals Corporation. Dr. Baxter also led The Lewin Group, a noted health policy firm, where he led a six-year initiative
with the United Auto Workers and the automakers to assess and improve local healthcare delivery systems. He serves
on the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Health, the Advisory Board of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, the
Technical Board of the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Global Agenda Council on Health of the World Economic Forum,
and the Board of Archimedes, Inc.
In 2001 the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health honored him as a Public Health Hero for his
service in the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. In September 2006 he received the CDC Foundation Hero Award for
addressing the health consequences of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast, and for his longstanding commitment to
improving the health of communities. Dr. Baxter holds a doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Princeton University.
Nick Beim
General Partner
Matrix Partners
@NickBeim
Nick Beim is a General Partner at Matrix Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in the
United States. Since 1977, Matrix has invested in pioneering technology companies including
Apple, Tivoli, Veritas, SanDisk, Cascade and Sycamore. Nick’s investments at Matrix include the
Gilt Groupe, TheLadders.com, Care.com, Intent Media and JBoss.
Prior to Matrix, Nick worked in the High Technology Investment Banking Group at Goldman
Sachs and in the Media and Technology Group at McKinsey. He also served as a Project Officer
at the U.S. Agency for International Development on the foreign aid task force to the former Soviet Union, where he led
the initiative to help support independent media in this region.
Born in London to American parents, Nick studied at Stanford University and Oxford University, where he was a
Marshall Scholar.Nick took a year off from his time at Stanford in 1990 and traveled to Russia, where he studied at
Moscow State University, worked as a production assistant with Sixty Minutes and served as a researcher on the book
“Charlie Wilson’s War.”
Nick serves on the board of Endeavor, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs
in emerging market countries. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Peter Bloom
Advisory Director
General Atlantic
Chairman
DonorsChoose.org
Peter Bloom is currently an Advisory Director at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm,
where he worked as a Managing Director for 15 years before retiring at the end of 2009. Since he
joined the firm in 1995, Peter led global technology due diligence on prospective investments,
provided technology and risk management assistance to CEO's and senior management teams of
portfolio companies as well as guidance on emerging technology trends for GA, its stakeholders, and several private
and public entities.
Peter is currently a member of the Risk Management Committee of Gavilon, one of the world's largest agricultural
trading firms conducting business in over 25 countries. He is also a technology and board advisor to GETCO, a leading
electronic market maker which actively engages in 50 financial markets globally. Peter serves as a Director of Passur
Aerospace, which provides specialized analytical services and business intelligence to major airlines and airports based
on advanced signal processing technology. Prior to joining General Atlantic, Peter spent 13 years at Salomon Brothers
in a variety of roles in both technology and fixed income sales and trading. As the Managing Director of the company's
US Technology Division, he led the team that was responsible for recovering the trading capability of 11 firms following
the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. While at Salomon Brothers, he received the Carnegie Mellon/AMS
Achievement Award in Managing Information Technology.
He served as a member of the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force and as a judge for the Lemelson-MIT Invention
Awards and the Legatum Fortune Technology Prize. He was a founding member of the BP Digital and Communications
Technology Advisory Board and the New School for Social Research Technology Advisory Board. He is an active member
of Business Executives for National Security and a consultant on security related technology issues as well as a
member of the FCC Technical Advisory Council. Peter is a frequent speaker to private, educational and public sector
organizations on technology related issues.
Peter has served on several public, private and non-profit boards. He is the Chairman of DonorsChoose.org, which was
named the most innovative charity in America by Stanford Business School and Amazon. Peter is also the Co-Founder
and Chairman of Peak Rescue Institute, which teaches advanced rescue skills to first responders in law enforcement,
public health and the military. He is a board member of The Food Bank for New York City, the Cancer Research Institute
and an Associate Founder of Singularity University. Peter graduated from Northwestern University in 1978 with a BA in
Computer Studies and Economics. Peter was raised in Binghamton, NY and lives in Brooklyn, NY. In 1987, he and his
wife retraced Napoleon's route from Poland to Moscow on their tandem bicycle.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Talya Bosch
Senior Director, Social Ventures
Western Union
As Western Union’s senior director of social ventures, Talya Bosch is responsible for the
company’s shared value, corporate responsibility and cause branding initiatives. In this role, Talya
focuses on leveraging all of the company’s assets for greater business and social impact,
including its products, operations and cause marketing programs. Her portfolio spans the
500,000 locations in the 200 countries and territories where the company does business.
Talya also helped conceive and implement Western Union’s award-winning Our World, Our Family® program, a five
year, $50 million commitment to creating global economic opportunity. Since the program’s inception in 2007, it has
won numerous awards, including the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy Excellence Award, and has
touched more than 2.5 million lives.
Formerly a consultant at agencies such as Cone and Porter Novelli, Talya has worked with a wide variety of global
Fortune 500 and nonprofit organizations. Previously Associate Director of the Public Conversations Project, she
oversaw all aspects of operations for the nonprofit, non-governmental organization, which is a globally-recognized
facilitator of high-level, off-the-record dialogues among opposing leaders of some of the world’s most entrenched
conflicts.
Talya is frequently quoted in the media and serves as a regular speaker at a wide variety of venues, from the Business
Civic Leadership Center to university campuses nationwide.
Hailey Brewer
Public Sector Team Lead
IDEO
Hailey Brewer is a core member of IDEO's Public Sector team. With a focus on business
development, she helps government leaders use design thinking to achieve deep change in
areas like workforce engagement and performance, citizen participation and sustained
innovation.
Prior to her role with the Public Sector team, Hailey designed collaborations with clients in
healthcare, education and real estate around the challenge of leveraging the physical
environment as a platform and catalyst for more effective and meaningful human
interactions.
Core to Hailey's work is a passion for enabling people to become agents of lasting positive change. After college, she
managed programs for a startup social enterprise similar to a private sector Peace Corps. She drew upon experience
working with nonprofits in Chile and Nicaragua to help volunteers design sustainable development projects in Latin
America, East Africa, and India. In addition, Hailey developed and led experiential education programs for
undergraduate students from universities such as UC Berkeley, Dartmouth, and Brown.
Hailey holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in International Relations and Latin American Studies.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
William Brindley, Ph.D
Chief Executive Officer
NetHope
@BillAtNetHope
Dr. William A. Brindley serves as NetHope’s Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director. His
career spans over 30 years with international and domestic executive management positions in
startup, turnaround, established business and nonprofit organizations.
Having held such positions as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Information
Officer and Global Managing Director positions with financial services, entertainment and
technology corporations, as well as grass-roots educational associations and not-for-profits organizations, Bill brings to
the table a wide array of knowledge of best practices in management and structural organization.
A significant portion of Bill’s career was as a senior executive with Citigroup where he led various parts of The Citibank
Private Bank. His work there was characterized as “Leading Edge” by Gartner, as well as benchmarked as “Best
Practice” by Audi and the United States Department of Defense. Before joining The Citibank Private Bank, Bill served for
four years as a Chief Deputy to Citigroup’s Corporate Technology Officer, overseeing information and communications
technology in over 100 countries.
Bill is an experienced practitioner in strategy, management, technology, and business redesign and change
management. He graduated magna cum laude from American University and holds several graduate degrees, including
a doctorate in organizational change. He is a graduate of The Wharton School’s Advanced Management Program and
has also completed postgraduate courses at both Columbia and Harvard Business Schools.
Adam Brotman
Chief Digital Officer
Starbucks
@adambrotman
Adam Brotman is Chief Digital Officer for Starbucks Coffee Company. In this role, he has
responsibility for Starbucks core digital businesses, including web, mobile, social media, card,
loyalty, e-commerce, Wi-Fi, and the Starbucks Digital Network. Adam leads the company’s
emerging in-store digital and entertainment teams and serves as a key member of Starbucks
senior leadership team.
Adam previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Ventures, where he led the enterprise
digital platform strategy, roadmap and delivery for core web and mobile offerings including the Starbucks Digital
Network, Wi-Fi, StarbucksStore.com, Starbucks Apps for iPhone and Android, Starbucks.com and
Starbucks.com/partners, the Starbucks partner portal and My Starbucks Idea.
Prior to joining Starbucks in April 2009, Adam held several key leadership positions at leading digital media companies,
and most recently was CEO of Barefoot Yoga Company, a Seattle-based e-commerce company. He served as Senior
Vice President at the digital image licensing and e-commerce company Corbis, and founded PlayNetwork, Inc., a leading
provider of in-store digital media and entertainment services for businesses worldwide.
Adam serves on several corporate and non-profit boards including the University of Washington Master of
Communication in Digital Media advisory board. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California,
Los Angeles, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington. Adam grew up in Seattle and is happy to still call it
home. He is interested in health, wellness, and sustainability. He is a Starbucks Coffee Master whose typical Starbucks
beverage is a tall drip coffee.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Howard W. Buffett
Executive Director
Howard G. Buffett Foundation
@hbuffett
Howard W. Buffett is the Executive Director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, which
strengthens food security for vulnerable populations globally. Prior to this role, he served in the
US Department of Defense, overseeing agricultural reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan and
received the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award – the highest civilian honor given by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He previously led the cross-sector partnerships portfolio for the White House Domestic Policy Council, and developed
the expansion strategy for the US Cooperative Extension System while serving in the Office of the Secretary at the US
Department of Agriculture.
Howard has surveyed agricultural practices while traveling in over 70 countries and has previously worked for the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations. Named a “Top 99 Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders”, Howard earned
a BA from Northwestern University and an MPA in Advanced Management and Finance from Columbia University. He is
a native of Omaha, Nebraska were he operates a 400 acre no-till farm.
Shari K. Bryan
Vice President
National Democratic Institute
@skbryan
Shari Bryan is NDI's vice president. She joined NDI in 1998 and served as senior associate and
regional director of the Institute's democratic programs in Southern and East Africa from 2001
through early 2008.
Ms. Bryan has been actively involved in law, international development and foreign affairs since
1988 and has traveled extensively throughout the world. She has conducted assessments or missions to more than 30
countries during her tenure at NDI, and played a key role promoting democratic assistance programs in Africa;
conceptualizing and organizing projects on political party finance; governance and HIV/AIDS; and increasing the role of
legislatures in overseeing the extractive industries.
Ms. Bryan is a guest and commentator for many major news outlets including CNN and the BBC, has testified before
the U.S. Congress, and has presented papers before a variety of organizations including the National Intelligence
Council, the UNDP, the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the U.K. Department for International
Development (DFID). She has has co-authored Money in Politics – A Study of Party Financing Practices in 22 Countries,
published in 2005, and Transparency and Accountability in Africa’s Extractive Industries: The Role of the Legislature,
published in 2007.
Before joining NDI, Ms. Bryan served as an attorney in the former UN Trust Territory of Palau, where she worked on
negotiating the Compact for Free Association in 2004. She also worked as an attorney for the United States
government and served with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Soon-Hong Choi
Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer
United Nations
Dr. Choi Soon-Hong is the Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer of
the United Nations. In this capacity, he is responsible for the overall direction and performance of
information management, communications and technology activities in the Organization. He acts
as the principal advisor of the United Nations Secretary-General, HE Ban Ki-moon, on information
and technology issues.
Dr. Choi has over thirty years of technical and management experience in the public and private sectors. He worked for
the International Monetary Fund and rose to its top ICT executive. He has also significant experience in the private
sector including working for a Fortune-100 company and a small entrepreneurial firm. Dr. Choi has lectured and
researched in the fields of public policy, strategic management, and innovation. His current interests include digital
economy, technology competition, innovation models, crisis information management, corporate responsibility, and
multi-stakeholder partnership. He has a PhD in Strategic Management and Public Policy from the George Washington
University, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School), and a Master of Science degree in
Computer Science from the George Washington University.
June Cohen
Director
TED Media
@junecohen
As Executive Producer of TED Media, June is focused on extending TED in new directions —
particularly those that help spread ideas. June launched TEDTalks in 2006, TED.com in 2007,
and the Open Translation Project in 2009. She also co-produces and co-hosts the annual
conference in Long Beach, manages TED’s talented media team, and continues to look for new
ways to spread ideas. As of mid-2011, TEDTalks have been watched more than 500 million times
worldwide. And TED's Open Translation Project, which allows volunteers worldwide to translate TEDTalks into their own
languages, has been buoyed up by 6000+ translators, who have produced 20,000+ translations in 80+ languages.
June is continually amazed by their dedication.
June’s career has been focused on the intersection of media and technology. In the 90s, while she was a student, she
led the Stanford team that developed the world’s first networked multimedia magazine. It was built in HyperCard, using
just-released QuickTime, and distributed over the campus network. It got a fair bit of attention in the press. After that,
June joined the team launching HotWired.com, the pioneering website from Wired Magazine. HotWired was one of the
earliest web companies, and the comapny introduced many of the conventions now commonplace on the web (from ad
banners to discussion threads around news stories to the concept of "membership"). June wrote "Net Surf," one of the
web’s proto-blogs, and she also founded Webmonkey.com, the much-loved developers’ site, which is still used by
millions. June ultimately helped lead HotWired to profitability as VP of Content, overseeing all creative development on
sites, from Animation Express to the HotBot search engine. The people she worked with and projects she worked on
there have influenced everything in her life since then.
After leaving Wired, June wrote “The Unusually Useful Web Book”, which collected just about everything she’d learned
about how to make a successful website. Eventually, June will make time to write her second book, exploring trends in
media, technology and culture. The main idea: That modern technologies are actually returning us to very ancient forms
of media, communication and community. And that we're all the better for it. June has a BA in political science from
Stanford (minors in Human Biology, Anthropology, African studies). She was Editor in Chief of The Stanford Daily –
another formative experience that has influenced everything she’s done since.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Petri Darby
Director of Marketing, Communications & Digital Strategy
Make-a-Wish Foundation
@darbydarnit
Petri Darby, APR, is a seasoned brand marketing, digital, creative, and communications strategist.
He has worked on the agency and client sides, in the non-profit and corporate arenas. He is
among a group of elite professionals who are nationally accredited in public relations.
Petri spearheads brand marketing, communications, and digital strategy for one of the nation’s
top 10 charity brands. He also has directed communications for a top 50 law firm. While running his own public
relations, branding, and marketing agency, he represented clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to emerging
growth ventures. He also worked on more than a dozen political campaigns.
Petri loves bacon, books, and politics. He hates clowns and quitter socks. As far as Petri knows, he is the only two-time
winner of the USA Today Online Haiku Contest.
Jeff Davidoff
Chief Marketing Officer
The ONE Campaign
@jeffdavidoff
Jeff Davidoff serves as ONE’s Chief Marketing Officer, overseeing the organizations global
marketing, branding, online action and creative product development.
Prior to ONE Jeff was the Chief Marketing Officer at Orbitz Worldwide, leading marketing for
Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com. He directed a 100-person global marketing organization and
was responsible for demand generation, brand positioning, integrated marketing development, and all other aspects of
marketing. Prior to that, Davidoff spent six years as Vice President of Brand Marketing & Communications at Whirlpool
Corporation, responsible for Whirlpool, Maytag, Amana, KitchenAid and Jenn-Air brands. He has more than 25 years of
experience in the marketing business.
Davidoff was also a founding member of UPSHOT, an integrated marketing agency with a blue chip client roster
including Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch, SONY, and Mirage Resorts. He received his MBA from Northwestern University's
Kellogg School of Management, and his BA from Dartmouth College.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Kimberly Brown Davis
President
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
In 2006 after the merger of JPMorgan Chase and Bank One, Kimberly Davis, a leader with
experience in Business, Talent Management and Civic Revitalization, became the president of the
newly reconstituted JPMorgan Chase Foundation, one of the world's largest corporate
foundations. Including the Foundation and the firm's corporate giving programs, Ms. Davis
oversees over $150 million in charitable investments annually.
Ms. Davis has significant leadership experience in the consulting, civic, nonprofit and philanthropic sector. In 2003, she
co-founded Springboard, Partners in Cross-Cultural Leadership – a leadership education and consulting company. In
2004, she collaborated with Spelman College on the design and implementation of the first Leadership Center for
Women of Color at a US college/university – Spelman Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement. She has served on
the boards of the United Way, US Business and Civic Chamber, Kenan Institute at University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill and the Darden Business School Advisory Board.
Ms. Davis has had an impressive career with JPMorgan Chase (and its predecessor firms), serving as Director of Talent
Management and Leadership (2003-2006) Director of Human Resources for Latin American and Investment Banking
(1997-2003) and National Director of Affluent Sales and Marketing (1992-1997). She began her business career as a
Management Associate with Aetna Life and Casualty, Hartford, Connecticut.
Ms. Davis has long been committed to college access, improving economic opportunity for low-income communities
and civic revitalization. She was the architect of “Women in Partnership”, a national mentoring program. She has
developed a college access program, - “college initiative” a regional partnership of school superintendents, community
leaders and business executives. She currently serves on the board of the Executive Leadership Council and Spelman
College, where she chairs the Human Resources Committee.
Ms. Davis has been a noted keynote speaker at numerous executive conferences, colleges and universities. She was a
featured panelist at the Forbes’ Inaugural Women’s Leadership Summit. She has been showcased in a number of
publications including Essence Magazine’s “28 Most Influential Black Women,” Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative
People in Business, Forbes, Pink Magazine and Black Enterprise. She earned a BA in Economics from Spelman College
in 1981.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Tara DeGeorges
Online Content Manager of Public Affairs
Time Warner Cable
@taradegeorges
Tara DeGeorges is the Online Content Manager of Public Affairs for Time Warner Cable, where she
leads the digital marketing strategy for Connect a Million Minds, Time Warner Cable's $100M,
five-year community initiative to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
opportunities and careers for young people. Before joining Time Warner Cable, Tara worked at
MTV, where she oversaw digital content for the brand's Latino-targeted music network, MTV Tr3s.
Desh Desphande
Philanthropist; Chairman and Founder
Sycamore Networks
Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande co-founded Sycamore and has served as Chairman of the Board of
Directors since Sycamore's inception in February 1998. Before founding Sycamore, Dr.
Deshpande co-founded Cascade Communications Corp., a provider of wide area network
switches. In addition to Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande is the President of Sparta Group LLC,
and Chairman of A123 Systems, Inc. and Tejas Networks.
Dr. Deshpande serves as a member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous support has made possible MIT's
Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology – Madras, an Master of Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and a PhD from
Queens University in Canada.
He and his wife are involved in several non-profit initiatives that include support for MIT, IIT, Akshaya Patra Foundation,
and the Social Entrepreneurship Sandboxes in India and the USA. Dr. Deshpande co-chairs a National Council to
support President Obama's innovation and entrepreneurship strategy with Mary Sue Coleman, President of the
University of Michigan and Steve Case, Co-Founder of AOL.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Annette Diefenthaler
Senior Design Research Specialist
IDEO
@antenne_d
Annette Diefenthaler is a Senior Design Researcher and Project Lead for award-winning global
innovation consultancy IDEO. Her insatiable curiosity about people, their beliefs and behaviors
leads her to identify human needs and desires that can inspire design strategies. She enjoys
complex challenges that require deep thought and scrutiny. Yet in her mind, strategies are only as
good as their applicability, and with a background as a carpenter and product designer, Annette is
passionate about translating her findings into actionable opportunities and tangible design solutions. Since joining
IDEO in January 2008, Annette has guided teams in designing bank branches, toys, hospital experiences, and multiple
services for chronic disease patients, organizational change programs or food products. She has extensive experience
in designing solutions in the area of healthcare.
Annette has shared her deep process understanding and experience in applying Design Thinking in countless
workshops as well as in creating IDEO’s publicly available Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators. She enjoys writing and
is a contributor to the Design Dictionary (2008, Board of International Research in Design, Editors: M. Erlhoff, T.
Marshall). Annette is passionate about bringing human-centered thinking and design to systemic challenges in
education. She has recently focused on working with educators, entrepreneurs and organizations, thinking about what
new solutions will enable learners to thrive in the changing environments of the future. Annette enjoys learning from
and with students and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy at NYU Wagner’a Graduate School of Public
Service.
Now based in New York, Annette grew up in Germany and has lived and worked in many cultural contexts, including
Russia, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, and is always curious to travel and explore more.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Amir Dossal
Chairman
Global Partnerships Forum
Amir Dossal is Founder and Chairman of the Global Partnerships Forum, an international platform
to address economic and social challenges through innovative partnerships:
www.Partnerships.org. He is also the Co-Initiator of the Pearl Initiative, a CEO-led program,
promoting transparency and accountability in the Gulf Region.
In addition, Amir is Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the International
Telecommunication Union for Global Partnerships and also serves as Commissioner of the Broadband Commission. He
is also Special Adviser to the Chief Information Technology Officer of the United Nations. Amir is a 25 year veteran of
the United Nations, and prior to creating the Global Partnerships Forum, he was Executive Director of the UN Office for
Partnerships, and served as the UN’s Chief Liaison for Partnerships and focal point for the partnership with media
mogul Ted Turner to manage the $1B gift to the UN. In that capacity, he forged strategic alliances with governments,
corporations, foundations, and philanthropists uniting these partners for a common purpose: to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals.
As the primary interface for the UN Foundation, Amir successfully attracted new investments of over $560 million from
various donors, which supported over 450 international projects for women and children’s health, climate change, and
bio-diversity. He has developed numerous partnerships and secured sizable social investments from such major names
as the American Red Cross, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Coca-Cola, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Rotary
International. Amir also oversaw management of the UN Democracy Fund, which he established in 2005 as an
instrument to strengthen democratic institutions and enhance governance in new and restored democracies.
Amir works globally across all sectors, including Health, Education, Environment, Peace, Security, and Human Rights.
He has built complex, crucial alliances between governments, multilateral agencies, business groups, foundations and
civil society, including but not limited to: Arab Foundations Forum, Business Council for International Understanding,
Chambers of Commerce, China World Peace Foundation, Committee for Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, CITYarts,
Commonwealth Business Council, European Foundation Centre, Foreign Policy Association, Humpty Dumpty Institute,
IDP Foundation, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, Institute for International Sport, Institute for
Large Scale Innovation, Jewish Children’s Museum, LTB Foundation, NEPAD Business Group, Rockefeller Brothers
Fund, Synergos Institute, United Nations Associations, US Council for International Business, US Department of State,
World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Rob Eberhardt
Senior Architect
F5
Rob Eberhardt is a Solution Architect at F5 Networks, focused on building secure and highly
available environments. Rob has over 15 years of experience in multiple areas of IT ranging from
PC manufacturing to Cloud Architecture and Digital Media Networks.
Katja Freiwald
Director of Global Partnerships and UN Global Compact Member
Unilever
Katja Freiwald has been working with Unilever since 8 years and has built her career around a
broad expertise in consumer and B2B marketing. Especially in the field of brand and product
development of Unilever´s Foods category she has been working on the nutrition and
sustainability strategy of strategic global brands, such as KNORR.
As director of global partnerships she is since 2011 responsible managing Unilever´s partnership
with the World Food Programme (WFP) and in particular she leads for Unilever Project Laser Beam – a public-private
partnership seeking to significantly reduce child malnutrition. She is contributing her marketing expertise to the overall
partnership supporting behavioral change campaigns as well as seeking innovative business models delivering
sustainable development for business and communities. She is managing the 10M USD engagement Unilever has with
different NGOs and UN agencies to create the greatest possible joint impact for the project intervention areas in
Bangladesh and Indonesia.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Scott Fujita
NFL Linebacker
Cleveland Browns of the National Football League
@scottfujita99
Scott Anthony Fujita was born in Ventura, California on April 28, 1979. He was a two-sport
standout (football and basketball) at Rio Mesa High School in Oxnard, CA before heading to
the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a BA in Political Science and a Master’s
degree in Education. He was originally a walk-on Safety at Cal, but ended up making the transition
to Linebacker as a redshirt freshman. As a senior, he started all games at linebacker and was
named All-Pac 10 honorable mention and Academic All-Pac 10.
Fujita was drafted in the 5th round of the 2002 NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs. He played three seasons with them
before signing with the Dallas Cowboys for the 2005 season. In 2006, Fujita signed with the New Orleans Saints,
reuniting with former coaches Joe Vitt, Gary Gibbs, and Sean Payton. That same year, he was selected as the Defensive
Team Captain by his teammates and held that title until the end of the 2008 season. After winning his first Super Bowl
in 2010, Scott became an unrestricted free agent and joined the Cleveland Browns.
On a personal note, Fujita is the adopted son of Rodney Fujita, who is Japanese-American, and his wife Helen, who is
Caucasian. Fujita grew up celebrating Japanese holidays and festival, and therefore considers himself to be culturally
half-Japanese. He is married to Jaclyn and has 3 daughters, twins Isabell and Delilah, and Marlowe. Off of the playing
field, Scott dedicates a lot of time to his community, as well as a number of charities.
Cynthia Bissett Germanotta
Co-founder & President
Born This Way Foundation
@BTWFoundation
Cynthia Bissett Germanotta is the Co-founder and President of the Born This Way Foundation,
which she founded with her daughter, Lady Gaga, to “empower youth” and “inspire bravery.”
Mrs. Germanotta is a former telecommunications executive whose career spanned 25 years in
sales and sales management. She is a founding member and advocate for the Women’s Council
on Heart Health for the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian Cornell Weill Medical Center. In
addition, she has served on the Ladies Auxiliary Committee of The Columbus Citizens Foundation.
Mrs. Germanotta was an honors graduate of West Virginia University as well as The George Washington University in
Washington, DC, where she received a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and was a candidate for the
Presidential Intern Program.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Bruce Gibney
Partner
Founder’s Fund
Bruce Gibney is a partner at Founders Fund, with a focus on growth-stage investing. Bruce made
his first venture investment in Confinity, which became PayPal, and worked with partners Peter
Thiel and Ken Howery on the first outside investment in Facebook in 2004. After trading public
equities and managing operations at a hedge fund, Bruce returned to private equity as a partner
at Founders Fund and recently led the raise of the firm’s fourth fund, its largest at $625
million. Founders Fund has been an early backer of companies including Facebook, Palantir
Technologies, Spotify, SpaceX, ZocDoc, and Practice Fusion.
Bruce received his BS from Stanford University and JD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Bruce is also
author of a manifesto on venture capital, which can be found at www.foundersfund.com/the-future.
Steve Gleason
Former NFL Player
Founder
Team Gleason Foundation
@team_gleason
Steve Gleason played for The New Orleans Saints from 2000-2008. As a counter-culture athlete
who spent his off-season adventuring in third world countries, he will always be remembered for
his blocked punt on the night the Louisiana Superdome reopened for the first time after
Hurricane Katrina.
Last year Steve was diagnosed with ALS, considered a terminal neuro-muscular disease. Beyond his faith that there is a
solution to heal, it is his mission to show that patients can not only live but thrive after this diagnosis. In doing so, he
hopes to inspire others to do the same
Since founding Team Gleason, Steve has encouraged others to do and help others accomplish extraordinary things.
Each day, Team Gleason is given information that someone has done something out of their ordinary because they
were inspired by Steve. From marathons, to mountain climbing, to day-to-day changes in attitude and from others living
with ALS, Steve’s No White Flags message is resonating. Team Gleason has also sent ALS patients to the 2012 Super
Bowl, the Final Four, Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Gala, gone sky-diving and is scheduled to send an ALS patient to summit
much of Mount Rainier and also another on a Lewis & Clark Canoe Expedition this summer. There are no limits to
extraordinary and Steve intends to inspire others to not only believe it, but live it.
For more on Team Gleason: www.teamgleason.org
FEATURED SPEAKERS
James Gowen
Chief Sustainability Officer
Verizon
@JamesGowen
Jim Gowen is a change agent. Since taking on the complementary roles of Vice President of
Supply Chain Operations and Chief Sustainability Officer for Verizon in 2009, he has enlisted
more than 6,000 Verizon employees around the globe in helping to reduce the company’s carbon
footprint by more than 30 percent over the last two years – drastically increasing the efficiency of
a rapidly growing enterprise.
Focused on working with vendors and business partners to drive efficiency into the supply chain, he also works with
Verizon’s business units on the development of sustainability solutions. Under his leadership, Verizon was the first
company to establish energy efficiency standards for network equipment, which had an impact on the entire industry.
He has also introduced a variety of programs including a carbon intensity metric, fuel and energy reduction, paper
suppression, waste reduction and recycling, and management of end-of-life-cycle material recovery. In his supply chain
role, Gowen leads centralized operations including regional distribution centers and the global customer premises
equipment program with responsibility for more than $2.5 billion in annual through-put and half a billion dollars in
annual inventory.
Having held several positions of increasing levels of responsibility at Verizon, Gowen was the Lead Architect of the
company's supply chain strategy and led the strategic shift from a fixed to a variable inventory business model. While in
corporate sourcing, he led the implementation of Verizon's eProcurement effort, and the standardization of Verizon's
supply chain systems. Gowen earned his MBA from Long Island University and his Bachelor's degree from
Manhattanville College.
Jonathan Greenblatt
Director, Office of Social Innovation
White House
@j0nathan_g
Jonathan Greenblatt is Special Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Social
Innovation and Civic Participation in the White House Domestic Policy Council. Before joining the
White House, Jonathan served as the Director of the Impact Economy Initiative at the Aspen
Institute, an effort to explore how public policy can accelerate impact investing and scale social
enterprise. Prior to this role, Greenblatt founded All for Good (AFG), the open source, web-based
platform developed to enable more Americans to serve.
Jonathan formerly served as CEO of GOOD Worldwide, publisher of GOOD.is and the award-winning GOOD Magazine.
He is the Co-Founder of Ethos Brands, the business that launched Ethos Water, the premium bottled water that helps
children around the world get clean water. Greenblatt worked on the Obama/Biden Presidential Transition Team, and
also served as an aide in the Clinton White House and US Department of Commerce.
Greenblatt earned a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts
cum laude from Tufts University.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Bill Gross
Chairman & CEO
Idealab
@Bill_Gross
Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company's Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer. Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that
capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet.
A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. In high school, he founded
Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. In college at the California Institute of
Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. After graduating from college,
Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called
HAL. In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus
Development. In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third
largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division
of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi.
Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the
California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Bill received his BS in Mechanical Engineering
from the California Institute of Technology.
Richard Hall
Director, Global Strategic Alliances
Intel Corporation
Richard is Director, Global Strategic Alliances for Intel Corporation, the world leader in silicon
innovation that develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people
work and live.
Richard manages Intel’s global executive relationships with the United Nations, NetHope, and
several other development organizations with programs focused on providing technology to
inspire and empower the world’s people. He also leads Intel’s new Social Innovation Initiative to help channel Intel’s
energies to create technology solutions to solve global social problems.
Richard joined Intel in 1991, and previously managed Intel’s California state government affairs, its federal political
action committee (iPAC), and coordination of several Intel government affairs programs among the company’s
corporate, Washington, DC, and international offices. Previously, Richard worked in the news media and in public
affairs roles in the utility and hi-tech industry in California, Illinois, and Arizona.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Alan Hassenfeld
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Hasbro
Alan Hassenfeld is the former Chairman of the Board and present Chairman of the Executive
Committee of Hasbro, Inc., a multi-billion dollar international toy company. Under his leadership,
Hasbro has become a worldwide leader in children’s and family entertainment. Its brands and
products are some of the most recognizable and respected throughout the world.
Alan is a business leader with a passion for philanthropy. His far-reaching impact has crossed
local, regional, national and international borders. From the beginning of his career, he has been involved in literally
hundreds of charitable and social causes. His enthusiasm and spirit has touched the lives of millions of people and
impacted communities across the world. Whether he is fighting for the human rights of manufacturing workers in Asia
or making decisions as the Chairman of the Scholar Athlete Games, his energy and guidance always provide positive
results.
Alan believes in active leadership. Through his charitable work and foundation participation, he has the ability to stay
involved in hundreds of community, social, and political causes. These include primarily children’s issues, social
responsibility, and political reform. His goal is always to focus on what can be done better and what needs to be
developed in order to establish foundations for future success.
Alan has been honored many times for his efforts. His awards come from diverse organizations including universities,
charitable organizations, political and religious communities, as well as corporate institutes. Many are lifetime awards,
which is a reflection of his beliefs. Alan has focused much time throughout his life on issues and concerns throughout
the world. He has used his position as Chairman of the Board at Hasbro to break barriers and build foundations,
positively affecting the lives of people across the world. Alan has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of
Pennsylvania. He has numerous honorary degrees from prestigious universities around the world. He lives in Rhode
Island, USA with his wife of 19 years.
John Hoffman
Vice President, HBO Documentary Films
Executive Producer, The Weight of the Nation
John Hoffman is Vice President of HBO Documentary Films and was named to this position in
June 2006. He is also Executive Producer of The Weight of the Nation, a four-part series and
large-scale public health campaign presented by HBO and the Institute of Medicine in association
with the CDC, NIH, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser Permanente.
An award-winning television producer, Hoffman has been associated with HBO since 1996,
having spearheaded some of the network’s most noteworthy and critically acclaimed documentaries as an independent
producer. Hoffman’s HBO credits include: Two-time Emmy® winner The Alzheimer’s Project (series producer, 2009);
Addiction, an Emmy® Governors Award winner (produced by, 2007); Emmy® nominee Last Letters Home: Voices of
American Troops From the Battlefields of Iraq (executive producer, 2005); A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway
Story (executive producer, 2004); Emmy® and Dupont-Columbia Award-winner In Memoriam, New York City, 9/11/01
(producer, 2002), and Academy Award® nominee Lalee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (supervising producer, 2001).
Prior to HBO, Hoffman created and produced the award-winning Nickelodeon series Allegra’s Window from 1993-96. As
the executive director of AIDSFILMS from 1987-90 he produced six multi-award winning documentaries, including the
PBS special AIDS: Changing the Rules. He is a graduate of Cornell University.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jeffrey Hollender
Co-Founder
Seventh Generation
@JeffHollender
Hollender is the Co-Founder of Seventh Generation, Chair of the American Sustainable Business
Council, an Adjunct Professor at New York University and founder of Jeffrey Hollender Partners, a
business strategy and sustainability consulting firm. He is the author of the recently published
books: “The Responsibility Revolution”, “What Matters Most”, and “Planet Home”. Hollender is
also the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of Greenpeace USA, and a Board Member of Practice
GreenHealth and Verite.
Peter Hopkins
Co Founder and President
Big Think
@PLHopkins
Peter Hopkins articulately speaks with the enthusiasm and advocacy for intellectual growth
befitting the Co-Founder and President of Big Think, the cutting-edge online knowledge company
that’s won praise for championing the big ideas that define the 21st century.
With fellow media veteran and Harvard alum Victoria Brown, Hopkins recognized the Internet’s
inimitable ability to educate and empower, envisioning an online platform where the world’s leading experts could
weigh-in on current issues. The result was Big Think — a multiplatform knowledge company that provides actionable
information and the tools to compete in our modern world.
A true entrepreneur, Hopkins plays many roles at Big Think, overseeing all of Big Think’s innovative content creation
(interviewing Supreme Court justices and Nobel Laureates); securing strategic partnerships with major corporations,
such as Pfizer; and developing the company’s suite of dynamic career advancement tools, including Big Think Edge.
Hopkins also spearheaded the creation — and currently serves as the Provost — of Floating University, Big Think’s
Internet-age approach to higher education, establishing relationships with Harvard, Yale, and Bard to support the
unique product. A tireless advocate for Big Think’s mission, Hopkins has made appearances on NPR, CNN, and “The
Colbert Report.”
Hopkins is a cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University, where he studied Political Economy and
was an Editor and member of the Executive Board at The Crimson. Hopkins’ impressive undergraduate record led to a
position as a Producer for broadcast journalist Charlie Rose on his eponymous PBS interview program. Overseeing the
American politics-themed segments, Brown produced interviews with Beltway heavyweights like former Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld and then-Senator Barack Obama. Brown also collaborated with Google to archive and bring
online the show’s entire back catalog of episodes.
Hopkins may currently live on Manhattan’s bustling Lower East Side, but his global wanderings have led him from the
top of Mount Kilimanjaro to the jungles of Thailand. No matter where he goes, Hopkins remains a passionate
intellectual, a creative businessman, and a true believer that the power of change lies in thinking big.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jennifer Houston
President, WE Studio D
Waggener Edstrom
@JHouston89
Jennifer Houston, as president of the global WE Studio D™, can always be found pushing the edge
of change and innovation. She founded, built, and leads the WE Studio D™ practice, which
focuses exclusively on powering digital influence and engagement to measureable business
outcomes. Charged with growing the agency’s digital storytelling, social media strategy,
measurement and research, and experience design efforts, she has expertise in areas including
perception-shifting campaigns, digital influence, storytelling and narrative generation, competitive strategy
development, business strategy and development, crisis communications and influencer relations.
Jennifer also oversees the agency’s product development and R&D organizations. Her remit also includes being a
strategic driver for WE’s APAC region, working with the APAC leadership team to nurture and accelerate these high
growth markets with local, regional and global clients. In earlier years at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, she served as
Vice President in product development, business development and numerous client-focused communications roles.
Aaron Hurst
President & Founder
Taproot Foundation
@Aaron_Hurst
Aaron is a globally recognized social innovator and leading architect of the growing pro bono
services movement. He is known throughout Taproot offices for his striped socks, Post-it®
doodling, and endless supply of bold ideas.
Aaron’s career is dedicated to challenging and empowering the public and private sectors as well
as individuals and organizations to drive our collective social, environmental, and economic progress. He is the founder
of the Taproot Foundation — a nonprofit organization building a national pro bono marketplace and leading the global
service movement — and is a creative force behind the conception of the national Billion + Change initiative and the
Service Enterprise model. A member of the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50, Aaron is widely known for his
thought-leadership in civic engagement, nonprofit management, and corporate social responsibility. He is a regular
blogger for the Huffington Post and Stanford Social Innovation Review.
An entrepreneur since 16, Aaron began his career as a social innovator at the University of Michigan, where he
designed and led an educational program for local correctional facilities, subsequently becoming the first student to
receive the Michigan Campus Compact Award. Upon graduating, he worked in inner-city education in Chicago before
landing in Silicon Valley as an early employee at two venture-backed social venture companies.
Aaron is one of the most recognized social entrepreneurs in the nation and a recipient of the Ashoka and Draper
Richards Kaplan Foundation fellowships. He has also been formally recognized as a leading social innovator by the
Aspen Institute, Social Venture Network, Fast Company, Commonwealth Club, the Manhattan Institute, the State of
California, and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. In 2009, he received the LSA Humanitarian Service Award, the
highest honor bestowed on University of Michigan alumni.
Aaron currently sits on the International Advisory Board of Directors of CiYuan, a three-year initiative to increase social
investment in China, and serves on the boards of Reimagining Service and BoardSource. He has co-authored the
children’s book “Mommy and Daddy Do It Pro Bono” with his wife, Kara Hurst. Aaron, Kara, and their two children live in
Park Slope, Brooklyn. His favorite root vegetable is the radish.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Michael Jacobson
Director, Corporate Responsibility Office
Intel
Michael Jacobson is Director of Intel’s Corporate Responsibility Office. In this role, he is
responsible for leading Intel’s corporate responsibility strategy with stakeholders across the
company. He has an experienced team of experts in corporate social responsibility, strategic
alliances, marketing and communications, stakeholder management and reporting who are
committed to building upon Intel’s performance as a leading corporate citizen.
Prior to this position Michael managed Intel’s Corporate Affairs team in California and Texas where he was responsible
for leading corporate responsibility programs, philanthropic investments, and public policy. Prior to Intel, he served
eight years in Washington, DC where he served in senior positions in the executive branch and led economic
development for Fort Worth, Texas. He is actively engaged in national and local community based organizations.
Jacobson received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Baylor University. He resides in Folsom, CA with
Kristen, his wife, and Jonathan, their 20 year old son who is attending Arizona State University.
Kim Jasmin
Executive Director and Region Executive
JPMorgan Chase
Kim is the Northeast Region Executive for the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and manages its
social investment portfolio from Boston to DC. The firm’s philanthropic goal is simple: be a
catalyst for meaningful, positive and sustainable change within the highest-need neighborhoods
and communities across the globe.
In her 19 years with the firm, Kim has held a number of leadership positions in Human
Resources, specializing in Learning and Development, Diversity, Talent Acquisition, and Leadership Development. She
has a unique blend of experience in sales, general management, consulting, organization development, and talent
management gained during her tenure at Xerox Corporation and now in JPMorgan Chase.
Kim served on the Board of Directors for Inroads Tampa Bay and was a National Board Council Representative from
2003 — 2006. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Hillsborough County Workforce Board and was an
active member of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Workforce Development Committee, where in 2003 she
served as Chair.
An emerging champion for early childhood education, Kim was recently featured in Winning Beginning NY’s “It’s Our
Business” and “What is Quality StarsNY” videos to help make the case for businesses to invest in early childhood
education.
A graduate of Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies, Kim enjoys
building and working with teams that have a thirst to learn, compulsion to share, and a bias for action (Jack Welch).
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Alicia Keys
Artist; Global Advocate for HIV/AIDS
Co-Founder, Keep a Child Alive
@aliciakeys
Alicia Keys is a modern-day Renaissance woman. At the age of 30, she is an accomplished singer,
songwriter, and music producer with 14 Grammy Awards® and is also an actress, entrepreneur,
and powerful force in the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
Since the 2001 debut of her first album, “Songs in A Minor”, Alicia has built an unparalleled
repertoire of hits and accomplishments with more than 30 million albums sold worldwide. In 2005, she became the
first female R&B artist to have three consecutive #1 debuts on the Billboard 200 album chart in as many releases.
In addition to being a prolific artist, Alicia Keys is also a devoted AIDS activist and philanthropist. In 2003 Alicia Keys co-
founded Keep a Child Alive (KCA), a people’s movement that provides life-saving AIDS medicine and surrounding care
to children and families in Africa and India. Since its inception, KCA has served 250,000 people affected by AIDS and
continues to provide much needed relief and treatment.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Robert Kirkpatrick
Director
UN Global Pulse
@rgkirkpatrick
Robert Kirkpatrick is Director of UN Global Pulse, an innovation initiative of the Secretary-General
harnessing big data and real-time analytics for international development and crisis resilience.
Robert’s activities in government, academia, UN agencies, NGOs and the private sector have
focused on developing innovative solutions at the intersection of technology, policy and social
change. Robert has more than 15 years of experience in the design and use of advanced
technology tools in business, public health, disaster relief, security coordination, citizen journalism, telemedicine, crisis
monitoring, conflict mediation, and peace building activities. His work has focused on strengthening public policy,
enhancing crisis resilience and catalyzing organizational change. Robert advocates open data, open standards, open
source software, and participatory development.
Robert co-founded and led software development for two pioneering private-sector humanitarian technology teams,
first at Groove Networks, and later as Lead Architect for Microsoft's Humanitarian Systems Team. In 2003, he lived and
worked in Baghdad deploying technology for coordination between the CPA, US State Department and the Government
of Iraq. In 2005 he supported response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina and created data collection
tools to assist relief organizations following the Kashmir earthquake. In 2006 he developed tools for telemedicine and
program coordination in Afghanistan. From 2007-2009 he served as CTO of the Silicon Valley nonprofit InSTEDD
(Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters), created by Google in 2006, where he led development of
technologies for disaster relief and early detection of disease outbreaks and established the first public health
innovation lab in Cambodia. He now serves as the Chair of InSTEDD's Board of Directors.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Zeev Klein
General Partner
Landmark Ventures
@zeevklein
Zeev is a General Partner and Co-Founder of Landmark Ventures, a leading investment bank and
corporate advisory firm working with growth-oriented private companies, public companies and
investment funds.
Founded in 1995, Landmark has worked with over 300 emerging growth ventures across the
information technology, enterprise software, digital media, semiconductor, telecom and healthcare sectors. A
significant portion of these activities include cross-border transactions involving the US, Canada, Europe and Israel. He
graduated with a BA in Economics from Northwestern University and received his MBA from NYU Stern School of
Business.
Zeev founded and is actively involved with the Social Innovation Summit (SIS) a private, invitation-only forum that
connects leading business innovators with global peers active in social transformation across the corporate,
investment, government, and non-profit sectors. These Summits were founded as an extension of Landmark Ventures’
corporate philanthropy program, with the goal of leveraging our convening power to create a platform for the business
community to identify, explore and actualize partnership opportunities for driving Social Innovation.
Kay Koplovitz
Chairman, Springboard Enteprises
Founder, USA Networks
Chairman of the Board, Liz Claiborne Inc.
Chairman and CEO, Koplovitz & Company
@KayKoplovitz
Kay was the first woman to head a television network when she founded USANetworks under the
banner of Madison Square Garden Sports in 1977. Kay launched major professional and
collegiate sports on cable television by negotiating the first contracts and creating first cable
coverage for Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the Masters
from Augusta Georgia, the US Tennis Open and a collection of NCAA conference sporting events. She led USA Networks
to first place in cable primetime ratings and it remained there for 14 years.
In 1992, Kay launched the Sci-Fi Channel which has become a top-ten rated cable network known for innovative drama
and mini-series. In 1994, she launched USANetworks International into 60 countries worldwide. In 1998, President
Clinton appointed Kay to chair the bipartisan National Women’s Business Council. She used this platform to launch
Springboard Enterprises. Springboard, her shared vision, has screened over 4000 companies and presented 360 of
them since its first forum in 2000. These companies have raised over $4B in capital and are returning positive results
to investors at record rates. Significantly, Springboard is creating a national human capital network among
entrepreneurs, investors and service providers that improve prospects for success.
In 2001, Kay co-founded Boldcap Ventures, a venture fund backed exclusively by high net worth women seeking to
grow their portfolios with venture investments. Boldcap invests principally in the media, technology, and healthcare
sectors. Additionally, Kay is the author of “Bold Women, Big Ideas” (2002), which she wrote to inform and inspire
women entrepreneurs to create wealth through equity. She is a sought after motivational speaker on subjects ranging
from leadership and management to entrepreneurship, capital formation and emerging media. An experienced public
board member, Kay is currently the Chairman of the Board of Liz Claiborne and a board member of CA. She has served
on the boards of Instinet, Oracle, Nabisco, and General Re.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Genevieve L’Esperance
Student
McGill University
As a 19-year-old undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal, Genevieve Vanderveldt-
L’Esperance is currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science. A Microsoft Certified
Professional at the age of 15 and MCTS at 16, she started teaching girls programming using
Microsoft Small Basic as a way to inspire future generations to engage in community outreach
and global education as future participants in the industry. This past summer, she interned with
Curtis Wong, Principal Researcher at Microsoft producing content for the Worldwide Telescope
and the Worldwide Telescope Ambassador program, as well as social media presence. Genevieve seeks to empower
girls to choose careers in STEM by altering their perception of the technology industry, and engage them in the
development of sustainable technologies for developing countries.
Genevieve hosts and produces her own YouTube web channel GenINCtv and is the recent recipient of the TIAW (The
International Alliance for Women) Young Women Leadership Award in the Under 25 category. She has hosted and
keynoted events like Dare2BDigital (2011, 2012), Microsoft DigiGirlz, Enterprise Greater Moncton’s Women Summit
and May 10, 2012 held her own technology conference 4G (4 Girls) with McGill University and CLUMEQ.
Ellen Lambert
Executive Vice President
The Merck Company Foundation
Ms. Lambert has primary operational responsibility for Merck's Office of Contributions and The
Merck Company Foundation, which together provide cash contributions of some $60M annually
to a wide range of organizations worldwide. Before coming to Merck, Ms. Lambert was Executive
Director of the Roche Foundation, and Director, Corporate Relations and Contributions, at Roche,
where she managed the U.S. corporate contributions program. Among her accomplishments at
Roche were the development of a Web-based grants management tool to streamline grant
compliance processes and to coordinate aggregate spending; and the establishment of the Roche Pro Institute, a New
Jersey high school student mentor/scholarship program providing urban students opportunities to work year-round with
corporate mentors on identifying and developing professional interests and skills.
Before joining Roche, Ms. Lambert was Executive Director of the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, a $160M
private foundation with a mission focused on vulnerable populations and the Jewish community. While at the
Healthcare Foundation, she initiated a five-year, $5M statewide program supporting neighborhood health centers,
which led the way to supporting federally-qualified health center growth in New Jersey; and developed a $4.2M Center
for Humanistic Medicine at the New Jersey Medical School, created to change the way medical students learn
doctoring.
Before moving to the Healthcare Foundation in 1998, Ms. Lambert was Executive Director of the Beth Israel Medical
Center Foundation in Newark (1997-1998) and held positions of increasing responsibility in community relations and
development at Irvington General Hospital, Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey, Seton Hall University, Matheny School and
Hospital, and Special Olympics New York. She also served as a corporate bankruptcy attorney at Cole, Schotz, Meisel,
Forman & Leonard in Hackensack. Ms. Lambert has a BA from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse
University, a Master’s from Tulane University, and a JD from Seton Hall University School of Law.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Libby Leffler
Strategic Partner Manager
Libby Leffler is a Strategic Partner Manager focusing on community partnerships and programs at
Facebook. In this role, Libby works with public figures, nonprofits, cultural institutions and media
organizations that partner with Facebook around high-impact integrations. Libby was the Co-
Anchor of “Facebook Live”, the company's official video streaming channel, during the 2011 and
2012 World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland.
From 2009-2012, Libby was the Business Lead to Facebook's Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg. As the
Business Lead to the Chief Operating Officer, Libby managed public appearances, speaking engagements, and handled
a wide array of projects including research and analysis initiatives.
Libby joined Facebook in 2008 as a member of the Inside Sales team, working with marketers in the retail and
consumer products segments. Prior to Facebook, Libby worked in Online Sales and Operations and Asia Pacific and
Latin America markets at Google. Libby graduated with highest honors from the University of California at Berkeley.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Walter A. Haas School of Business, where she was
also a UC Berkeley Alumni Scholar.
Francine LeFrak
Producer, Philanthropist; Founder
Same Sky
@FrancineLeFrak
Francine LeFrak is an award-winning theatrical, television and film producer, a successful
entrepreneur and a distinguished philanthropist. As a producer, Francine’s work has drawn
attention to social issues of global significance, including HIV/AIDS, conflict and intolerance. Her
films have been screened at major international film festivals such as Cannes, London, Munich,
Milan, and Sundance. Francine’s productions have been recognized with Tony, EMMY, and
Peabody Awards.
In recognition of Francine’s humanitarian efforts, she received the Women Together Award from the United Nations; the
Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations; and the Human Spirit Award from the
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. She’s been named “Woman Who Cares” by the United Cerebral Palsy and
USO “Woman of the Year”, to name a few.
In 2008, Francine founded Same Sky, a socially-conscious jewelry line that enables female artisans to achieve
economic self-sufficiency. Same Sky’s inaugural project in Kigali, Rwanda, provides employment to HIV-positive
survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. 100 percent of net-proceeds from jewelry sales are reinvested into
expanding the business to other regions of the world spreading the “women helping women” mission of Same Sky.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Bianca Louis
Vice President, ING-Girls Inc. Investment Challenge
Girls Inc.
A member of Girls Inc. of New York City for five years, Bianca Louis is their Vice President for the
ING-Girls Inc. Investment Challenge Program. She is a rising high school junior at the Urban
Assembly Institute of Math & Science for Young Women in Brooklyn.
As Vice President, Bianca leads the group in making crucial portfolio decisions and serves as a
spokesperson for financial empowerment in her school. The ING-Girls Inc. Investment Challenge is
an innovative program that teaches girls to invest in the stock market as well as other investment vehicles.
Bianca is also an active member of her school’s student government where she works with peers to promote sisterhood
throughout her school community. In addition to her school led initiatives, Bianca is a consistent youth volunteer at her
local soup kitchen and a member of the NYPD peer leadership program.
Johnnie Lovett
Chief Executive Officer
Fresh Connection Brand
@JohnnieFresh
Johnnie is a 2011 graduate of Illinois State University where he obtained a Bachelors of Science
degree. He is currently an Assistant Account Planner for Common Ground Marketing in Chicago,
IL, alum of the Marcus Graham Project, and inaugural recipient of the Bill Sharp Future of
Advertising award, presented by JWT Atlanta, and the winner of the Citywide Business Plan
Competition in 2007 and the Runner-Up at NFTE’s National Business Plan Competition in the
same year.
Johnnie started his brand consulting business, StayFreshOnline, Inc., while he was a NFTE student at Gwendolyn
Brooks College Prep, and has since launched his own lifestyle and apparel line called Fresh Connection Brand, LLC.
Johnnie showed off his unique style as a model in the 2011 Geek 2 Chic fashion show, produced by Microsoft and in
partnership with Bloomingdale’s.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Monica Lozano
Chief Executive Officer
impreMedia
Monica Lozano is Chief Executive Officer of impreMedia, the leading Hispanic News and
Information Company in the United States. She has served as the Company’s CEO since May 24,
2010 and prior to that she was the Senior Vice President overseeing its publishing group. She
has over 25 years of experience in Hispanic media having started with La Opinión in 1985
working her way up to the position of Publisher and CEO of La Opinión, a title which she continues
to hold.
Lozano is leading the transformation of impreMedia to a fully-integrated multi-media Hispanic content company
leveraging the distinct brands, audience engagement, and influence of their products. impreMedia publishes the most
highly respected and influential Spanish language newspapers and websites including La Opinión in Los Angeles and El
Diario La Prensa in New York. impreMedia products reach over 11M Hispanic adults.
Lozano is widely regarded as one of the most influential Latinas in the country serving on the boards of corporate and
non-profit boards Bank of America, the Walt Disney Company, the University of California, the University of Southern
California, and the Weingart Foundation. She was recently appointed by President Obama to the President’s Council on
Jobs and Competitiveness.
Rebecca Lucore
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Bayer Corporation
Rebecca L. Lucore joined Bayer Corporation in 1994 and presently serves as Executive Director of
the Bayer USA Foundation and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for Bayer
Corporation. She is responsible for directing Bayer’s CSR programs, including the company’s
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education partnerships and flagship program
Making Science Make Sense® (MSMS). Bayer’s MSMS program was honored in 2000 by
President Clinton with the President’s Service Award; in 2006 by Secretary of Commerce
Gutierrez with the Ron Brown Award; and received a national honor in 2008 by the National Science Board.
Ms. Lucore has worked with several school districts across the United States to assist them in partnering with local
nonprofits/corporations to implement systemic science education reform. She is Board President of Achieving Student
Success through Excellence in Teaching (ASSET) Inc. in Pittsburgh and serves as an advisory committee member for the
National Governors Association’s STEM Center and Chairs the Diversity and Underrepresentation Committee for Change
the Equation.
In addition, Ms. Lucore is responsible for overseeing the Bayer USA Foundation and donations management for the
United States and has more than a decade of experience working with the nonprofit sector. She is the Advisory Board
Chair for the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh and is currently co-
chairing the Center’s 74% Project which examines women and leadership issues in the nonprofit sector. Ms. Lucore
also serves as a Board member for Grantmakers of Southwestern PA.
Ms. Lucore was named one of the Top 25 Women in Business by the Pittsburgh Business Times in 2010 and received
Duquesne University’s Excellence in Communication Ethics Alumni Award in 2008. She resides in Pittsburgh with her
husband and three boys.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Ellen Luger
Executive Director
General Mills Foundation
Ellen Goldberg Luger is currently Executive Director of the General Mills Foundation and Vice
President of General Mills, Inc. Her responsibilities include leadership and management of the
strategic vision and operations of the Foundation as well as program responsibilities for the
General Mills Africa Women and Children’s Hunger Project and arts and culture grantmaking at
the Foundation. While at General Mills, she served in a cross-functional capacity as an Assistant
Marketing Manager for Yoplait’s Strategic Growth Channels business, where she received the
Commitment Award for distinguished performance. She also served as a lobbyist for General Mills at the State
Legislature during a rotation through the General Mills’ Public Affairs department.
Prior to joining the General Mills Foundation, in August of 1997, Luger practiced corporate law for 10 years. Her career
began in private practice in New York City and then moved in house as a corporate lawyer for Best Foods. Upon her
return to Minneapolis, Luger practiced and was a partner at Leonard, Street and Deinard, P.A.
Luger’s current volunteer work includes serving as an Executive Committee member and Chair of the Governance
Committee of the Wellesley College Board of Trustees, a Trustee at Breck School, and as a member of the Advisory
Board of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. She
also serves on the National Council on Foundations Committee on International Grantmaking and is the former Chair of
The Conference Board’s Contributions Council. She co-chaired Senator Amy Klobuchar’s U.S. District Court Judicial
Selection Advisory Committee. Ellen formerly served as President of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association, Vice-
Chair and board member of the Minnesota Council on Foundations, Vice-Chair and Trustee of Twin Cities Public
Television, member of the National Council on Foundations Corporate Grantmaking Committee, Director of the
Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund, Director of Women Venture, and member of the Minneapolis United Way’s Legal
Division Steering Committee.
Luger graduated from Wellesley College in 1983 and earned a BA with honors in Political Science and Sociology. Luger
also graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, served as President of College Government and was a
Minnesota finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship. After Wellesley, Luger earned her JD from Georgetown University Law
Center where she served as Articles and Notes Editor: “The American Criminal Law Review”. Luger is married to Andrew
Luger, an attorney and partner with Greene Espel, LLP and they have two children: Stephanie and Joshua.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Ali Marano
Head of Technology for Social Good
JPMorgan Chase
Ali Marano runs the Technology for Social Good program at JPMorgan Chase a program she
started in the summer of 2010. The Technology for Social Good program leverages the talent and
strength of JPMorgan Chase’s technology staff and vendor relationships for social initiatives
across the globe. Sample recent initiatives include: The King Center Imaging Project – digitization
of Dr. King’s historical documents and display on a newly designed website; Operation Morale
Call – connecting deployed American military heroes with family back home via video
conferencing; and a University Engagement program providing real world NGO projects to undergraduate technology
students that provide replicable solutions to the social sector.
She started her career as a documentary filmmaker focused on social issues and then worked as a strategy and
management consultant at Accenture. While at Accenture, she became an Executive on loan to a new nonprofit called
NPower, which provides technology services to nonprofit organizations. In the fall of 2000, she left Accenture and
joined NPower full-time, where while focusing on engaging corporations in the work of the nonprofit community, she
created an online volunteer matching portal connecting nonprofits’ technology needs with skilled volunteers. The
solution, The Community Corps, is now actively used within JPMorgan Chase and across the globe.
Ali holds a BA in Spanish and International Business from the University of Buffalo and also studied at the University of
Seville in Spain. She is a graduate of the American Express Nonprofit Leadership Academy and the Coro fellowship
program Leadership New York. Ali also sits on the Board of Directors at Global Nomads Group, a nonprofit fostering
dialogue and understanding amongst the world’s youth. Ali lives in Manhattan with her husband and two young sons.
Ross Martin
Executive Vice President
Scratch – Viacom Media Networks
@RossMartin1
Ross Martin is an Executive Vice President at Viacom Media Networks and runs Scratch, a
creative swat team driving innovation across the company, including MTV, VH1, Comedy Central
and more. Scratch channels the power of Viacom's portfolio and its unparalleled connection to
youth in new ways, including consumer insights, product development, design, branding and the
development, production and distribution of original content in all media.
Previously, Ross served as Senior Vice President of MTV 360 Production and Development, working across MTV, MTV2,
and mtvU. Ross joined MTV in 2004 as the first Head of Programming for Emmy and Peabody Award winning college
network, mtvU. In this role, he oversaw the development and production of all original programming, on-air, online and
on mobile. Prior to MTV, Ross founded Plant Film, a Los Angeles-based production company partnered with Fox, VH1,
and Dimension Films; was a development executive for Spike Lee's 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks; and taught poetry
at Washington University, the Rhode Island School of Design and The New School. His writing appears in The Kenyon
Review, The Harvard Review, McSweeney's, Denver Quarterly, BOMB Magazine and multiple anthologies, and has been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His first book, "The Cop Who Rides Alone," was published in 2002.
Ross is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Viacom Marketing Council, and the advisory board
of St. Jude's Children’s Hospital. In 2012, he was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People In
Business.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Dan Matte
EVP, Marketing & Business Development
F5 Networks
@dmatte
Dan Matte is Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at F5 Networks.
He is responsible for leading all corporate marketing and product management efforts at F5 and
has a primary involvement in the company's technology partnerships and corporate development
activities.
Matte has more than 20 years' experience in the technology and data communications industries. At F5, he has been
instrumental in helping pioneer the load balancing market, establishing the technology as a critical component of
today's networking infrastructure. Prior to joining F5 in February 1997, he worked with Memotec Communications, an
innovator in frame relay and voice-over-frame-relay technologies, and he founded REON Corporation, a company
specializing in secure remote access and wireless data communications.
Matte holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen's University and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
Avery Winthrop McCall
Teen Advisor
Girl Up
Avery McCall is a straight-A student in eighth grade at North Shore Country Day School in
Winnetka, IL. She was selected as one of 14 Teen Advisors in the US to the United Nations
Foundation Girl Up Campaign. In her role as a Teen Advisor, she has launched a “Be the Change,
GIRL UP!” club, runs various fundraisers, and has given speeches on girls’ rights. She has been
passionate about advancing and advocating for girls’ rights since reading Nicholas Kristof and
Sheryl WuDunn’s book, “Half the Sky.”
Avery spends much of her free time networking with human right’s activists and attending lectures and events focusing
on issues of gender-based violence, refugees and equal access to education. She has also competed nationally in both
soccer and squash.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Timothy McClimon
President
American Express Foundation
@tmcclimonCSRNow
Timothy J. McClimon is President of the American Express Foundation and Vice President for
Corporate Social Responsibility, American Express Company. In this role, he directs all of the
American Express Company’s global social responsibility, philanthropy, and employee
engagement programs.
Prior to joining American Express, Mr. McClimon was Executive Director of Second Stage Theatre where he led one of
the largest nonprofit theaters in New York City. He also served as the Executive Director of the AT&T Foundation where
he directed AT&T’s global philanthropy and corporate citizenship programs.
A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Mr. McClimon joined AT&T from the New York law firm of Webster &
Sheffield where he was a lawyer specializing in nonprofit corporate law. Prior to that, he managed the Inter-Arts
Program at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC.
In addition to his Law degree, he holds a Bachelor's degree from Luther College in Iowa and a Master's degree from St.
Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Mr. McClimon currently serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including Americans for the Arts, Merce
Cunningham Dance Company, and Second Stage Theatre. He is also chairman of the Corporate Advisory Council of the
American Red Cross.
Since 1990, Mr. McClimon has been an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches two graduate-
levelcourses in Arts Administration and Nonprofit Management. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
Patrick McNamara
Senior Consultant
Refinery Leadership Partners
Patrick McNamara is a Senior Consultant at The Refinery Leadership Partners, a leading
Canadian leadership development organization. Patrick brings a solid background in consulting
and an innovative, integral approach to his work at The Refinery. With ongoing international
interests and a fluency in Spanish, French, and English, Patrick has led consulting assignments in
Europe, South America, Asia as well as the United States in the areas of strategy, culture change,
and organizational development.
Patrick’s passion for social innovation, sustainability, and social impact led him to design and facilitation work at the
annual Social Innovation Summit at the UN and a UNDP leadership development programme. His experience convening
multi-disciplinary teams to create breakthrough initiatives for solving complex challenges and his skills in collaborative
leadership for profound innovation and change bring highly-valued assets to The Refinery team.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jane Meseck
Director, Technology for Good, Citizenship & Public Affairs
Microsoft Corporation
@JaneMeseck
Jane Meseck, Director of Global Citizenship & Public Affairs at Microsoft Corporation, leads
strategy and implementation of global philanthropic programs. This includes the Microsoft’s
Technology for Good initiative and Microsoft’s commitment to provide nonprofits worldwide with
access to technology products, services, and solutions to create social change.
During Jane’s 15 plus years with Microsoft, she has led the development and expansion of such signature partnerships
and initiatives as NPowerNW; telecentre.org; Nonprofit Technology Network; NetHope; and TechSoup’s US and global
expansion efforts.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 1997, Jane was a researcher and manager at University of Washington’s Institute for Public
Policy and Management. She also lectured at the UW Daniel J. Evan’s School of Public Affairs. Jane previously worked
as a Management Consultant, designing technology solutions for fortune 500 companies.
Jane has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from University of Washington and Bachelor’s degrees in both
Finance and Marketing from Texas A&M University.
Rhonda Mims
President
ING Foundation
Rhonda Mims is responsible for creating an enterprise-wide community relations platform
focusing on financial literacy, children’s education and diversity, including advancing the
company’s workforce diversity and inclusion strategy.
Prior to her current role, Mims was a member of ING’s external affairs team. She served as ING
US PAC treasurer, ethics officer, and conducted government affairs for some of the Midwestern
states and the City of Atlanta. Prior to that role, she was counsel with the ING US litigation team overseeing the
management of outside counsel on litigation matters, and a territorial sales manager for ING based in Fairfax, VA.
Prior to joining ING, she served as an Environmental Civil Litigation Attorney with the US Department of Justice and as a
Senior Attorney with the National District Attorney Association's American Prosecutor's Research Institute.
Mims received her Bachelor’s degree and her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina. She currently holds
FINRA Series 7 and 66 designations.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Aziz Mohamed
Manager, Sustainability and Social Innovation Initiatives
Hewlett-Packard Company
Aziz Mohamed is Manager of Global Healthcare Initiatives within HP’s Sustainability and Social
Innovation organization. He drives social innovation healthcare programs aligned with HP’s
business strategy and focuses on solving social issues in the area of healthcare in collaboration
with nonprofit organizations, governments, customers and partners.
Aziz Mohamed is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in the marketing and IT
sector. He joined HP in 1999 and has held several management roles in enterprise and corporate marketing,
communications, and government affairs in the Middle East and in Canada.
Aziz Mohamed holds a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from University of Cairo.
Jason Moriber
Vice President, Digital Consulting
Waggener Edstrom
@jasonmoriber
Jason is a 10-plus year veteran of digital marketing and communications with an emphasis on
strategy and planning. He interprets future trends, delivers the insights, and creates actionable
plans that drive programs, initiatives and businesses. Jason counsels all stages of innovative and
emergent companies from tech startups to global brands to organic farmers. The overarching
path of his career has been to bring clients into “the now” with low organizational pain, greater
rewards and joyful verve.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Nicholas Negroponte
Founder & Chairman
One Laptop Per Child
@nnegroponte
Nicholas is Founder and Chairman of the One Laptop per Child nonprofit. He is currently on leave
from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B.
Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.
A graduate of MIT, Nicholas was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a
member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985. He is also
author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages.
In the private sector, Nicholas serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture
capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has provided start-up funds for
more than 40 companies, including Wired magazine.
Dr. Maura O’Neill
Chief Innovation Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
@MauraAtUSAID
Dr. Maura O’Neill is the Senior Counselor to the Administrator and Chief Innovation Officer at the
US Agency for International Development. She has responsibility for driving innovation in
development as well as public-private partnerships in the Agency which operates in 80 countries.
Maura has co-led USAID Forward, the Agency's worldwide reform effort. Breakthrough innovations
in mobile, climate change, election fraud, maternal mortality, financial inclusion and disaster and
reconstruction response have been hallmarks. To drive costs down and accelerate penetration, her team adapted for
development the venture capital model of staged financing to source and scale innovations. Maura also serves on the
White House Innovation Cohort.
In the public, private, and academic sectors, Dr. O’Neill has focused on creating entrepreneurial and public policy
solutions for some of the world’s toughest problems in the fields of energy, education and infrastructure financing. Dr.
O’Neill has started four companies in the field of energy efficiency and curbside recycling, utility billing and metering
services including smart grid, internet apps and digital education. In addition, she has advised/invested on dozens
more including participating in a Broadway syndicate for two Tony-nominated musicals. She was named the Greater
Seattle Business Person of the Year in 1989.
Dr. O’Neill was appointed in 2009 as Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for Energy and Climate at the US Department of
Agriculture, and in 2008 was Chief of Staff for US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA).
Dr. O’Neill graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA from the University of Washington. She has received MBAs from
Columbia University and University of California at Berkeley and currently on leave from the faculty of the Lester Center
for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UC Berkeley. She earned her PhD at the University of Washington, where her
pioneering research focused on how narrow-mindedness occurs and the errors it leads to in science, medicine,
business, and political decision-making.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Shelly Palmer
Host
Shelly Palmer Digital Living
@shellypalmer
Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York‘s On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television’s
monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network‘s, Shelly
Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary
and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is
Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and
business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards). He invented the underlying technology for
Enhanced Television (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Monday Night Football), the most popular form of interactive
television in the United States. Six-time Emmy® Award-nominated, his professional vitae includes years of experience in
television production and musical composition.
A prolific composer, Palmer was the recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP’s)
12th Annual Film and Television Music Award for ABC’s hit series Spin City. He was also recognized the following
season in the category of “Most Performed Television Themes.” Palmer’s music credits include the theme songs for
Live with Regis & Kelly, Rivera Live and MSNBC as well as the digital debut of the “real” cat singing the classic “Meow,
Meow, Meow, Meow.”
He is a weekly columnist for the Jack Myers Media Business Report, The Huffington Post and a regular technology
commentator for CNN and CNNi. Palmer is the author of Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to
Networked TV 2nd Edition (York House Press, 2008) the seminal book about the technological, economic, and
sociological forces that are changing everything and, Overcoming The Digital Divide: How to use Social Media and
Digital Tools to Reinvent Yourself and Your Career (York House Press, 2011) For more information, visit
shellypalmer.com.
Nitzan Pelman
Executive Director
Citizen Schools New York
Nitzan Pelman opened the New York region of Citizen Schools in September of 2007 and serves
as its founding Executive Director. In her role as Executive Director, she oversees a state office
comprised of 50 staff members who in turn work with 600 students in five public schools in three
boroughs. She is also responsible for raising 2.4M dollars in FY11. Citizen Schools was founded in
1995 to bring new solutions the education reform landscape and seeks to reimage the school
day.
Prior to joining Citizen Schools, she worked at the New York City Department of Education for four years in the
Klein/Bloomberg administration. In that time, she served as the Assistant Director of the Office of New Teacher
Induction and helped create a mentoring program for 6,500 new teachers. In her final year at the DOE, she developed,
designed, and implemented the citywide "learning environment survey" administered to 1.8M people through the Office
of Accountability. She also served as the first Development Director for Teach For America New York where she
organized its first New York City benefit.
Nitzan has participated in CORO's Leadership New York program and served in special project capacities at KIPP and at
New Leaders for New Schools. She is a graduate of New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
and Stern College for Women.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Marc Pollick
Founder and President
The Giving Back Fund
After graduating from the University of Chicago, Marc subsequently earned graduate degrees in
Social Science, East European Jewish History, and Holocaust Studies. He pursued his doctoral
studies at Boston University under the direction of Professor Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986
Nobel Prize for Peace. He lectures often throughout the United States and Israel, and has taught
courses on The Holocaust at the high school and university levels.
In 1982, Marc was appointed Founding Executive Director of the Zachor Institute for Holocaust Studies in Miami,
Florida. One year later, he created and hosted the cable TV series, We Remember. He has twice led student groups to
Holocaust sites in Eastern Europe, and in 1983, led the first-ever group of children of Holocaust survivors on a “Journey
of Conscience” to Eastern Europe and Israel. In 1989, he served as a senior researcher for the permanent exhibition of
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Prior to founding The Giving Back Fund in February 1997, Marc was the Assistant Director of the Center for Jewish
Studies at Harvard University and the Founder of The Elie Wiesel Institute for Humanitarian Studies. Working with
Wiesel, Marc came to appreciate the unique power and opportunity inherent in leveraging celebrity and wealth on
behalf of philanthropy. He formulated the idea for an organization that would work with celebrities to use their fame for
the common good, and in 1997 he established The Giving Back Fund (GBF) to provide philanthropic management and
consulting to professional athletes and entertainers. By concentrating on celebrities, Marc sought to diversify the typical
donor base to include people of color, women, and young people, groups often underrepresented in traditional
philanthropy. The first athlete with whom GBF consulted was Boston Celtic Captain Dee Brown, followed soon after by
BC legend and NFL Quarterback Doug Flutie, and performing artists Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
Marc contributes frequently to major periodicals on the topic of philanthropy and writes a regular column on sports
philanthropy for Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal. Marc was recently recognized for his achievements as a
recipient of the 2004 University of Chicago Alumni Award for Public Service.
Deepak Puri
Director, Business Development (VMware Foundation Advisor)
VMware
@deepak_puri
Deepak is a Silicon Valley veteran and has held leadership roles at Oracle, Netscape and VMware
over the last 17 years. He is currently responsible for business development of Mobile and Cloud
based solutions at VMware and also assists the VMware Philanthropic Foundation.
He has volunteered with several non-profit groups including Ashoka.org, NDI.org,
JumaVentures.org, and TapRoot.org to leverage technology to further their missions. Deepak has undertaken volunteer
projects through IESC.org in Panama, Romania, Ukraine, and Egypt which involved using technology locally to boost
training, generate employment and support humanitarian projects. He is currently working with TechSoup, NPower, and
NetHope to bring the power of Cloud Computing to other nonprofits.
Deepak's high tech experience combined with ongoing volunteering experience make him highly effective in engaging
resources and skills from commercial enterprises to support philanthropy. He has helped design the Humanitarian
Cloud and obtain resource commitment from different high tech firms.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jason Radford
Cloud Architect
Illini cloud
Jason Radford has invested over 18 years with technology architect. Beginning with embedded
systems and design, Radford has held managerial positions involving the design of scalable and
resilient storage networking and compute environments for companies ranging from the Fortune
100 to Internet-scale such as Internet.com.
Radford's current role is Cloud Architect for the IlliniCloud (www.illinicloud.org), which provides
cloud services to the educational community in five states. Jason resides with his wife Leanna and young son Simon in
Peoria, Illinois.
Gina Reiss-Wilchins
Executive Director
Girl Up
Gina is the Director of Girl Up, providing strategic direction for the campaign’s work in the US and
in country. Before joining the United Nations Foundation, Gina served as the Executive Director of
TrueChild, an action tank devoted to bringing “gender transformative” approaches to US policy
and programmatic work.
Gina’s 20+ years of advocacy and nonprofit experience working with disadvantaged American
youth on the local, state and national level includes serving as the Executive Director of TrueChild, Managing Director of
the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, Action-Vice President of NOW-NJ and a founding member of Equality Federation.
Gina is the proud mother of a 5-year-old daughter and is a graduate of UCLA with a degree in English Literature and
Women Studies.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jeff Richardson
Vice President, Global Health Access
Abbott Fund
Jeff Richardson, Vice President of Abbott Fund, oversees its Global Health Access program
primarily in the developing world. Abbott Fund is the philanthropic arm of the global health care
company Abbott. Abbott Fund’s Global Health Access program focuses in the areas of HIV/AIDS,
maternal and child health, nutrition, non-communicable and neglected tropical diseases.
Jeff previously served as a managing director in Burson-Marsteller’s US healthcare practice. Prior
to joining Burson-Marsteller, Jeff was the Executive Director of the GMHC, the largest US AIDS service organization. He
served under Governor Evan Bayh as Secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration and
Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Human Services. Jeff has been an adjunct professor at Indiana University
and the City University of New York and currently teaches as a guest lecturer at Northwestern University on global
health issues. Jeff started his professional career at Eli Lilly & Company. He received all three of his degrees – Law,
Master’s in Public Administration, and Bachelor’s -- from Indiana University.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jean-Pierre Rosso
Chairman
World Economic Forum USA
Jean-Pierre Rosso currently serves as the Chairman of the World Economic Forum USA Inc. Jean-
Pierre served as CEO of Case Corporation and CNH (Case New Holland) from 1994 to 2000 and
chairman of the board from 1996 to April 2004. In 2003, CNH, a public company quoted on the
NYSE, was the world leader in farm tractors and combines and number three in construction
equipment with annual revenues of $10.7B, and a captive finance company with a loan portfolio
of $11B. Rosso was appointed to the position of Chairman and CEO in November 1999, when
Case Corporation and New Holland N.V. merged to become CNH and to the position of Chairman in November 2000.
Rosso joined Case as President and CEO in April 1994 and was elected Chairman in March 1996. Under Rosso’s
tenure, Case returned to public ownership in June 1994 through a public offering. The company achieved significant
earnings and sales growth and expanded into new markets around the world. The company also executed a large
restructuring program of its manufacturing footprint on a global basis to enable a successful turnaround. Between
1994 and 1998 sales went from $4.4B to $6.1B and operating income from breakeven in 1993 to an average of 8.6%
for the period. In 1999, Fiat/New Holland acquired Case for $4.3B plus debt in a cash transaction.
Prior to joining Case, Rosso served as president of the worldwide Home and Building Control business of Honeywell Inc.,
a position he held from January 1992 to March 1994. Prior to this assignment, he held several executive positions at
Honeywell, including President of Honeywell Europe (1987-1991); Group Vice President of Information Systems
International (1985-1986); Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell Medical Electronics Division (1983-
1984); and Vice President of Business Development and operations for Honeywell Europe (1981-1982). As president of
Honeywell Europe, Jean-Pierre Rosso implemented a complete reorganization, reengineered the supply chain, grew
revenues from $.8B to $1.5B from internal growth and acquisition and improved profits from 6% to 11% of sales
between 1987 and 1991.
Rosso began his career at Honeywell France in 1969, advancing from positions of Finance and Administrative Manager,
to Director of Honeywell’s Africa business, and then Director of Sales Operations for Honeywell-Bull, France. Rosso left
Honeywell in 1975 to become President and CEO of Rossignol Ski Company Inc. Under his leadership, Rossignol Ski
Company grew from $11M to $100M between 1975 and 1980 and by 1998 had become the number one ski company
in the United States. He returned to Honeywell in 1981.
Rosso received a Civil Engineering diploma from the École Polytechnique de Lausanne in Switzerland and an MBA from
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Rosso is a member of the Board of Directors of Bombardier and Medtronic. He is also a member of the Wharton Board
of Overseers and chairman of the Lauder Institute Board of Governors. He has been a member of President Bush’s
Advisory Committee for Trade Policy & Negotiations (ACTPN), of the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Export-Import
Bank Advisory Board. Prior Board memberships include: Crédit Lyonnais; Crown Cork & Seal; The Principal Financial
Group; Inland Steel; Ryerson Tull; Case Corporation; and CNH Global.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Barry Sanders
Global Program Director, Shared Services
NetHope
Barry is a global program director with NetHope. In that role, he has oversight and/or involvement
with a variety of key strategic NetHope initiatives, including his current role as Program Manager
of the NetHope Shared Services initiative. Barry has been in this role with NetHope since mid-year
2007. Prior to that, Barry was associated with NetHope as Director of Information Technology
with Children International (CI), one of the seven founding members of NetHope. During the
formational years of NetHope, Barry served on the NetHope Board of Directors as Executive Vice
President. Barry also functions as member liaison for NetHope, supporting the CEO with activities that help insure that
NetHope members receive appropriate value for their NetHope membership. Barry also assists with many strategic
sourcing arrangements between NetHope and various vendor/partners, to achieve better pricing for NetHope members
based on aggregated demand.
Through his role of IT Director at CI, Barry has been associated with the internationally-focused NGO community since
1999. During those eight years at CI, Barry was responsible for all ICT (Information and Communications Technology)
activities, and oversaw a wide variety of projects in excess of $1million, including: successful replacement of all home-
grown back-office legacy systems with a modern SQL Server based client server ERP product; creation of field data
collection and management systems, including building a repository for over 1,000,000 digital photos of sponsored
children in 3rd world countries; and implementation of security hardware and software for both HQ field agencies that
provides for remote management of all remote LANS and desktops from a HQ portal.
Prior to his role at CI, Barry has filled senior IT management roles for several organizations in the private sector,
including two national organizations in the transportation and health-care industries. He also brings a total of over 30
years of IT industry experience, including software development, network management, and end-user support. Barry
earned his BA and MA in Mathematics from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and his MBA from the University of
Central Missouri.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jason Saul
CEO
Mission Measurement
Jason Saul is one of the nation's leading experts on measuring social impact. He is the Founder
and CEO of Mission Measurement LLC, a strategy consulting firm that helps corporations,
nonprofits and public sector clients measure and improve their social impact. He has advised
some of the world's largest corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits, including:
Walmart; Starbucks; McDonald's; Kraft; Levi Straus & Co.; Easter Seals; American Red Cross; the
Smithsonian; and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Prior to founding Mission
Measurement, Jason practiced as a public finance attorney at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago.
Jason serves on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he teaches
corporate social responsibility and nonprofit management. He also serves on the CMO Council's Academic Liaison
Committee. Jason is the Founder of the Center for What Works, a national nonprofit focused on benchmarking and
performance measurement. He is the author of numerous books and articles on social strategy and measurement,
including: “Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Manage, Measure and Improve Performance” (Fieldstone Press
2006); “Social Innovation, Inc.: Five Strategies to Drive Business Value through Social Change” (Jossey-Bass, October
2010); and “The End of Fundraising: How to Raise More by Selling Your Impact” (Jossey-Bass, February 2011).
Jason was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for leadership and public service and was selected as a
Leadership Greater Chicago fellow. In 2008, Jason was recognized as one of Crain's Chicago Business “40 under 40”
business leaders, and in 2010, he was named by BusinessWeek as one of the Nation's 25 Most Promising Social
Entrepreneurs. Jason holds a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law; an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University; and a BA in Government and French Literature from Cornell University.
Rob Schreiner, MD, FACP, FCCP
Executive Medical Director
Kaiser Permanente of Georgia
@drrobschreiner
Dr. Schreiner has served as the Executive Medical Director for The Southeast Permanente
Medical Group, Inc (TSPMG) since 2008. In this role, he leads one of Atlanta’s largest multi-
specialty medical groups, with overall executive responsibility for the cost and quality of
healthcare provided to over 240,000 Kaiser Permanente members in 28 medical facilities and 4
hospitals in a 28-county metropolitan service area, by over 740 TSPMG physicians, associate
practitioners and professional staff . Dr. Schreiner designs and implements the business strategy
of Kaiser Permanente of Georgia (KPGA) in collaboration with his business partner Mr. Kerry Kohnen, Regional Health
Plan President.
Dr. Schreiner joined TSPMG in 1994 as a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine physician. He has served in a number
of leadership roles within the group, including chairs of Continuing Medical Education, the Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine, and the Department of Hospital Services. From 2005 to 2007, he was TSPMG's Associate
Medical Director for Hospital, Specialty and Ancillary Care. From 2007-2008 he served as COO for the Medical Group.
He is the past recipient of several awards recognizing his clinical and leadership skills. In addition to his duties at
Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Schreiner is active in the Atlanta medical community. He is President-Elect for the Medical
Association of Atlanta (MAA) and is increasingly involved in the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG). He serves on the
Board of Directors of Trees Atlanta, a nonprofit organization that has enhanced and preserved Atlanta’s urban forest
since 1985. He is a member of the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) Board of Advisors, also serving on the Environmental
Policy and Sustainability Committee. For over 10 years, Dr. Schreiner served in several physician-leadership roles on
the Medical Executive Committee (MEC) of Northside Hospital Atlanta. He is also a long-time volunteer at Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Home (OLPHH), an Atlanta area hospice that provides no-cost care for patients with terminal cancer.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Shannon Schuyler
Senior Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility Leader
PwC
@Shannon_Sustain
Shannon Schuyler has been with PwC for 15 years and is a Senior Managing Director and the
firm's Corporate Responsibility (CR) Leader and an Officer of the Board for the PwC Charitable
Foundation. She oversees the actions, programs and initiatives for the firm's global internal
strategy around PwC's four CR pillars: Marketplace, Community, People, and Environment. In this
role, she identifies and implements employee engagement strategies aligned to CR efforts,
interacts with suppliers and vendors to understand and assess their sustainability impact, oversees national and global
non-profit partners, and has ownership for the firm's environmental impact.
Shannon is a sought after expert on CR, social innovation, and youth education. She has worked closely with the
Department of Education on the importance of environmental literacy and related curriculum. She has also served as
an advisor to the national government on the role of business in enhancing a culture of service and fostering social
innovation. Additionally, Shannon spends a percentage of time dedicated to the firm's external client facing practice,
Sustainability Business Solutions, facilitating discussions with clients on their approach to CR and offering guidance on
establishing a CR framework, employee engagement strategies and communications.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jeff Seabright
Chief Environmental Officer
The Coca-Cola Company
Jeff Seabright is the Chief Environmental Officer at The Coca-Cola Company, where he is
responsible for environmental governance and leadership across global operations of the Coca-
Cola system. He leads a team of nearly 20 experts working together to integrate water
stewardship, sustainable packaging, energy management and climate protection practices into
all Company business decisions and practices worldwide. Jeff and his team collaborate with
senior management, the Board of Directors, Coca-Cola's bottling partners, the external
Environmental Advisory Board, and NGO partners on environmental management. Under Jeff's leadership, Coca-Cola
has set a global goal to return to nature and communities an amount of water equal to what is used in all of its
beverages and their production. The team also has initiated a worldwide sustainable packaging strategy to ensure the
Coca-Cola system leads the beverage industry by reducing non-renewable resources used in packaging, innovating
post-consumer recovery models and industry-leading practices for packaging reuse.
Jeff also led the development of Coca-Cola's energy management and climate protection strategy, which has set
specific global emissions reduction goals for manufacturing and advanced the development of HFC-free refrigeration.
Under Jeff’s direction, The Coca-Cola Company and its bottlers have also established partnerships with organizations
that include the US Agency for International Development (USAID), CARE, The United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and hundreds of local communities. These partnerships are a united effort to
apply the resources of the Coca-Cola system toward the protection and improvement of environmental resources in
communities across the globe. Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Jeff served as a Foreign Service Officer at the
State Department posted in Brussels with NATO, and was a legislative assistant to US Senators John D. Rockefeller IV
and Timothy E. Wirth. Beginning in 1994, Jeff served as Director of the Office of Energy, Environment and Technology at
the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In 1999, Jeff played an integral role in the negotiations of the
Kyoto Protocol, following an appointment by President Clinton as Executive Director of the Climate Change Task Force.
He then joined Texaco (now ChevronTexaco) as its Vice President for Policy Planning reporting to the CEO.
Immediately prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Jeff was an environmental consultant for clients ranging from the
United Nations to Fortune 500 companies. Jeff has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Oberlin College in Ohio and a
Masters of Science in International Relations from The London School of Economics. He is chairman of the Board of the
World Environment Center and a member of the Environmental Technology and Trade Advisory Council, a Federal
Advisory Committee (FACA) serving the Secretary of Commerce. Jeff also serves on the Boards of The Nature
Conservancy (Georgia), Sustainable Atlanta, The Global Water Challenge, Pace Academy, Savannah Ocean Exchange,
Erb Institute Strategic Advisory Council for the University of Michigan, Center for Energy, Development and the Global
Environment (EDGE) at Duke University and the National Council for Science and the Environment
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Tom Shadyac
Director, Screenwriter, and Producer
Tom Shadyac’s writing/directing career was launched in 1994 with the Jim Carrey smash hit Ace
Ventura: Pet Detective. In the years that followed, Shadyac would establish himself as one of the
most prolific comedy directors in Hollywood while working with some of the biggest names in the
business. Huge hits such as Liar Liar, The Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty, Patch Adams,
Accepted, and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, have helped establish Shadyac as one of
Hollywood’s most successful writer/director/producers.
A Virginia native, Shadyac has received four People’s Choice awards, including three for Best Comedy (Liar, Liar, The
Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty) and one for best new Television Comedy, with 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage
Daughter. With Patch Adams, Shadyac earned his first Golden Globe nomination, also for Best Comedy.
In his latest project, a documentary entitled I AM, Shadyac asks some of today’s most profound thinkers, two questions
– What’s wrong with our world, and what can we do about it? This moving, inspiring film won the Audience Choice
Award and the Student Choice Award at the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride Colorado, where it premiered in May.
Jigar Shah
Board Member
Carbon War Room
@Indiantiger24
Jigar Shah is an entrepreneur and visionary committed to leveraging the next economy by solving
the challenging issues of our time. Shah has recognized this as “The Impact Economy.” Shah has
noted that a global "Impact Economy" is one in which mainstream investors team up with
corporations, entrepreneurs, and governments at scale to solve the big problems of our time
while generating compelling financial returns – not concessionary returns.
Today, he is CEO of Jigar Shah Consulting. He works closely with some of the world’s leading influencers and guides
policy makers around the globe on key issues to implement profitable solutions to climate change that will unlock $5
Trillion into the impact economy by 2020.
His first foray in realizing his vision was the founding of SunEdison in 2003; today the world’s leading solar services
company. SunEdison, through Shah’s perseverance and vision, simplified solar as a service through the
implementation of the power purchase agreement (PPA) business model. That model changed the status quo, allowing
organizations to purchase solar energy services under long-term predictably priced contracts and avoid the significant
capital costs of ownership and operation of solar energy systems. The SunEdison business model is a recognized
catalyst that turned solar PV into a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. From 2009 to March 2012, Shah served as
the first CEO of the Carbon War Room, the global organization founded by Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to harness
the power of entrepreneurship to unlock the potential of proven climate change solution technologies to be deployed at
scale. During Shah’s tenure he was a trailblazer in helping build the organization into one of global importance.
Prior to launching SunEdison and his tenure as Carbon War Room CEO, Shah managed mergers & acquisitions,
corporate strategy, and sales efforts for BP Solar, specializing in national commercial accounts. He also worked as a
contractor for the Department of Energy on alternative vehicles and fuel cell programs.
Shah holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and an MBA from The
University of Maryland. Besides the Carbon War Room, he also sits on the boards of the SolarNexus, KMR
Infrastructure, Prometheus Institute and Greenpeace USA.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Asha Sharma
Co-Founder
The A-List
@Asha_Sharma
Asha is a Microsoft entrepreneur and MACH hire launching a commercial cloud product in the US
– the next billion dollar business for Windows. She is the Co-Founder of a 501 (c)3 in Minnesota,
The A-list. The A-list is a one stop shop for youth that employs 18 at-risk teens, provides after
school educational opportunities, and hosts creative arts events in the evening for hundreds.
Offering a new take on the traditional youth center, The A-list is a social entrepreneurship venture
in which teens produce 30% of the revenue to support the organization’s continued operation. Grossing over $750k in
donations, six-figures in earned income, and in the process of expansion, The A-list was recently identified by the White
House and President as one of the top 15 organizations to help the US “out innovate and out educate the rest of the
world”.
Asha graduated with a BSB from the University of Minnesota in 2011 and has also started two for-profit companies,
worked for Fortune 500s, and is a VC pitcher for startups.
Brian Sirgutz
Senior Vice President of Social Impact
AOL/ Huffington Post Media Group
@Sirgutz
Brian Sirgutz is the Senior Vice President of Social Impact at AOL/ Huffington Post Media Group,
where he leads all aspects of its global Impact content and engagement strategy; oversees as the
General Manager the Impact, Green and Education sections and develops new Impact business
and product development innovations on the AOL/Huffington Post’s platform. Impact and
Education are one of the largest platforms on the web using content as a means for global social
change.
Prior to this he was the President of Causecast, a pioneering firm specializing in cause marketing technology platforms,
during which he co-founded and led the launch of the HuffPost’s award-winning Impact and Education verticals.
In his earlier career in the music industry, Brian was a partner with Shawn Fanning, the Founder of Napster at NoN
Records and President of Elementree Records. Brian was also the manager of recording artist Aaliyah’s estate and
nonprofit foundation after her passing. He holds a Bachelor of the Arts degree from the Gallatin School at New York
University.
Brian is also a 9/11 recovery worker and sits on the boards of several nonprofits including We Advance and the
Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Doug Smith
Vice President, Global Partner Strategy & Operations
VMware
@vmwarevpn
Doug Smith is Vice President, Global Partner Strategy & Operations at VMware. In this position,
he manages VMware’s global partners team, which spans programs, operations, and sales.
During his 20+ years in the technology industry, he has held numerous executive positions in
business development, OEM and alliance sales, and channel marketing.
Prior to joining VMware, Doug served as Senior Director, Business Development at EMC. Previously, he was Senior
Director, Channel Sales and Marketing at Exabyte. He has also worked at several smaller companies throughout his
distinguished career.
Doug earned an MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a
Bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Colorado.
Nancy Snyderman
Chief Medical Editor
NBC News
@DrNancyNBCNEWS
Dr. Nancy Snyderman joined NBC News as the Chief Medical Editor in September 2006. Her
reports appear on “Today,” “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Rock Center with Brian
Williams,” “Dateline NBC,” MSNBC, and MSNBC.com.
Snyderman is an award-winning journalist and has garnered several of the industries most
distinguished honors including Emmy’s, DuPont, and Edward R. Murrow awards. She has reported on wide-ranging
topics affecting society and has traveled the world extensively, reporting from many of the world's most troubled areas.
Snyderman also serves as the Medial Director of GE’s healthymagination initiative and serves on the board of directors
of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She is on staff in the Department of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck
Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining NBC News, Snyderman served as Vice President of Consumer Education at Johnson & Johnson where
she focused on the importance of digital health. Before that, she served as the medical correspondent for ABC News for
17 years and was a contributor to “20/20,” “Primetime,” and “Good Morning America.” She was a frequent substitute
co-host on “Good Morning America.”
Snyderman attended medical school at the University of Nebraska and continued with residencies in Pediatrics and
Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. She joined the surgical staff at the University of Arkansas
in 1983 and began her broadcasting career shortly after at KATV, the ABC affiliates in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Snyderman’s medical work has been widely published in peer review journals and she is the recipient of numerous
research grants. She was awarded a Kellogg fellowship in 1987. She has also been recognized in broadcasting with
Emmy, DuPont, and Gracie awards. She is a New York Times bestselling author, having written five books: “Dr Nancy
Snyderman's Guide to Good Health for Women Over Forty,” “Necessary Journeys,” “Girl in the Mirror: Mothers and
Daughters in the Years of Adolescence,” “Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat,” and “Medical Myths That Can Kill You.”
Snyderman lives in Princeton, New Jersey and is the mother of three children. She is an avid equestrian and hiker.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Soltis
Consultant – Leadership for Results Programme, Africa Adaptation Programme
UNDP
Elizabeth Soltis is a consultant for the UNDP Africa Adaptation Programme, serving as the
facilitator of a transformational results-based leadership development programme in support of
climate change. She is also an independent organizational development practitioner who
envisions collaborative multi-stakeholder partnership dialogue as the new frontier of viable
development work. With a holistic approach, Elizabeth is committed to bridging the micro-level of
leadership empowerment to the macro-level of positive social change. Ultimately, generating
innovation for external change involves sourcing wisdom from within. This is the key to sustainability. It is the UN future
waiting to emerge.
Sree Sreenivasan
CNET blogger and Dean of Student Affairs
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
@sree
Sree Sreenivasan is a technology expert and Dean of Student Affairs at the Journalism School,
where he teaches in the digital journalism program. He specializes in explaining technology to
consumers, readers, viewers, and users.
For more than eight years, he served as Technology Reporter for WABC-TV and WNBC-TV in NYC
and now occasionally appears on various TV shows to talk tech. For more than six years, he wrote a Web Tips column
for Poynter.org. He has written articles for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, National Journal,
Bloomberg, Forbes, and Popular Science. He is Co-Founder of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, a group of
1,000+ journalists across the US and Canada (SAJA is based at the Journalism School).
In March 2004, Newsweek magazine named him one of the nation's “20 most influential South Asians” and in 2009,
AdAge named him "one of 25 media people to follow on Twitter."
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Benjamin Stone
Chief Executive Officer
Indego Africa
@stonebenjam
Ben is the CEO of Indego Africa, a design-driven, women’s empowerment social enterprise that
connects artisans in Rwanda with global commerce and business education. With an unwavering
commitment to accountability and transparency, coupled with a core focus on business systems
and measurable impact, Ben led Indego Africa from scrappy start-up into a preeminent global
brand, spurring dramatic life improvements for more than 400 Rwandan women and their
families and driving 115% revenue growth in both 2010 and 2011.
Indego Africa has executed ground-breaking partnerships with corporations (Goldman Sachs and Orrick, Herrington &
Sutcliffe LLP), major brands (J.Crew, Nicole Miller, Anthropologie, Madewell, and Dannijo Jewelry), academic institutions
(Harvard Business School and Columbia Law), and NGOs (VisionSpring and Generation Rwanda). Indego Africa is the
subject of a Harvard Business School case study and won the Atlas Economic Institute’s Templeton Freedom Award in
Social Entrepreneurship and the Fair Trade Federation’s Award for Most Positive Change in a Producer Community.
Ben received a BA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000, a JD from New York University
School of Law in 2004, and in 2010 completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program in Social
Entrepreneurship. Ben frequently speaks on leadership, social enterprise, ethics, and international affairs at a wide
range of professional, academic, and industry venues. Ben was named one of Diplomatic Courier magazine’s “Top 99
Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders,” received The Global Leaders’ Future Global Leader Award, and is an honorary
member of 85 Broads “Guys Who Rock.”
Jeff Swartz
Former CEO & President
Timberland
Jeff Swartz was the third generation of the Swartz family to lead Timberland. Jeff was promoted to
President and CEO in 1998, after working in virtually every functional area of the company since
1986.
Timberland today competes in 85 countries around the world, designing, manufacturing and
marketing footwear, apparel and accessories for men, women and children. For many years
Timberland has been one of the 100 Best Companies To Work For in America and one of the Best Places to Work by
Working Mother magazine. They have been listed on Business Ethics list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens and in 2002,
Timberland received the Ron Brown Award, a Presidential award recognizing outstanding corporate leadership in social
responsibility. Timberland's social justice platform has four elements--citizen service, environmental stewardship,
transparent stakeholder engagement, and human rights in the value chain.
In September 2011, after nearly 100 years of cumulative investment from the Swartz family, Timberland was sold to VF
Corp and Jeff left the company.
Jeff received an MBA from Dartmouth in 1984, and a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown in 1982.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Eileen Sweeney
Senior Director, Giving and Community Relations
Motorola Mobility
Eileen has over 15 years in philanthropy. She has lead the Motorola Foundation and global
Corporate Contributions for the last four years in its mission to benefit the communities in which it
operates around the world, by making strategic grants, forging strong partnerships, fostering
innovation, and engaging stakeholders.
Eileen joined Motorola from the Inkindex Corporation where she was Chief Executive Officer.
Inkindex is an online company that obtains resources for non-profit groups. Before that, Eileen served as Director of
Civic Affairs for United Airlines where she was responsible for global corporate philanthropy, employee volunteerism,
and employee giving. During her tenure at United, she launched the Mileage Plus Charity Miles program which to date,
has collected over half a billion miles for charity.
She is a founding member of the National Science Advisory Committee for the Girl Scouts of the USA, and currently sits
on the boards of Working in the Schools, Chicago; Project Exploration, Chicago; Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago; the
Women’s Power Network, and is on the National Advisory Council for the Dream Foundation and a Founder of the North
Lawndale College Prep Charter High School of Chicago. Eileen represented US business on the national steering
committee for the United Nations International Year of Volunteers, 2001 and is the immediate past-Chair of The
Contributions Council of the Conference Board.
Eileen received a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Loyola University and a Masters in Education from Harvard
Graduate School for Education with a focus on building strategic business-education partnerships.
Yvonne Thomas
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Citizenship & Public Affairs
Microsoft Corporation
@ymthomas
Yvonne Thomas is a Senior Program Manager within the Microsoft Corporate Citizenship and
Public Affairs team. In this role, she leads the Microsoft Opportunity for Youth program, which is
focused on narrowing the opportunity divide faced by young people around the world.
Prior to her current role, Ms. Thomas led Microsoft Elevate America, a set of national programs
and partnerships, including the Microsoft Elevate America Veterans Initiative and Community Initiative, focused on
providing people with the technology skills and other resources needed to successfully prepare for job opportunities in
today’s changing economy.
Prior to joining Microsoft nearly 12 years ago, she worked in the nonprofit sector, with a focus on youth development
programs.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Robert J. Torres, Ph.D
Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Robert is a Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supporting their digital
media and college readiness work. Until recently, he served at the Chief Research Officer at
Institute of Play where he co-founded Quest to Learn, a games-based school in New York City. His
research at Quest to Learn and on Gamestar Mechanic, a video game designed to support kids
development of basic game skills, has focused on the potential game design and games-based
environments have in supporting cognitive development.
Robert has worked as a Teacher, School Principal, and Education Consultant since 1988, including serving as Teacher
in Oakland, President of Teach For America's national faculty and a School Leader and Designer in NYC.
Robert has a BA from Oberlin College, a Masters in Policy and School Administration from Bank Street College of
Education and was a Stanford University Research Fellow. Robert completed a PhD in Games and Learning at New York
University.
Chris Van Wagoner
Chief Global Strategy Officer
Commvault
Chris Van Wagoner serves as Chief Global Strategy Officer. He teams with CommVault’s senior
management to identify, evaluate, and execute on business and product growth opportunities
across all technology, business, and market segments. Chris also drives the investigation, analysis
and recommendations of Global corporate strategies and tactics, including competitive threats.
Chris joined CommVault in 1996 after serving in senior leadership roles with companies in the
consumer high tech, HBA and consumer packaged goods segments.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
J. Craig Venter
Chairman & President
J. Craig Venter Institute
@JCVenter
J. Craig Venter, PhD, is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his
numerous invaluable contributions to genomic research. He is Founder, Chairman, and President
of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a nonprofit, research organization with approximately 300
scientists and staff dedicated to human, microbial, plant, synthetic and environmental genomic
research, and the exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics.
Dr. Venter is also Founder and CEO of Synthetic Genomics Inc., a privately held company dedicated to commercializing
genomic-driven solutions to address global needs such as new sources of energy, new food and nutritional products,
and next generation vaccines.
Dr. Venter began his formal education after a tour of duty as a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. After
earning both a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of
California at San Diego, he was appointed Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park
Cancer Institute. In 1984, he moved to the National Institutes of Health campus where he developed Expressed
Sequence Tags or ESTs, a revolutionary new strategy for rapid gene discovery. In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute
for Genomic Research (TIGR, now part of JCVI), a nonprofit research institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded
the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole genome
shotgun technique.
In 1998, Dr. Venter founded Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome using new tools and techniques he and
his team developed. This research culminated with the February 2001 publication of the human genome in the journal,
Science. He and his team at Celera also sequenced the fruit fly, mouse, and rat genomes.
Dr. Venter and his team at JCVI continue to blaze new trails in genomics. They have sequenced and analyzed hundreds
of genomes, and have published numerous important papers covering such areas as environmental genomics, the first
complete diploid human genome, and the groundbreaking advance in creating the first self-replicating bacterial cell
constructed entirely with synthetic DNA.
Dr. Venter is one of the most frequently cited scientists, and the author of more than 250 research articles. He is also
the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards, including the 2008 United States
National Medal of Science, the 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award and the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig
Darmstaedter Prize. Dr. Venter is a member of numerous prestigious scientific organizations including the National
Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Society for Microbiology.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Judy Vredenburgh
President & CEO
Girls Inc.
Judy Vredenburgh brings a lifelong passion for social justice and for supporting vulnerable girls
and young women to her role as President and CEO of Girls Inc. Girls Inc. is the leading nonprofit
provider of research-based programs focused on preparing girls from at-risk communities for lives
of educational achievement and economic independence.
Vredenburgh began her career in the retail industry, rising to Executive Vice President of Sizes Unlimited/Lerner Woman
and CEO of Chess King, a division of the Melville Corporation. She created opportunities for advancement for female
executives and mentored women in business, both professionally and as a volunteer coach. Her personal commitment
to advancing the social good led Vredenburgh to the nonprofit sector. In her six-year tenure as the Senior Vice
President of Revenue Development and Marketing at the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, she led revenue
growth from $121M to $181M.
As President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the evidence-based mentoring organization for
disadvantaged youth, Vredenburgh led unprecedented growth. Between 1999 and 2009, the organization more than
doubled the number of children it served annually, from 118,000 to 255,000, with commensurate revenue growth from
$171M to $290M.
Vredenburgh’s innovative leadership and track record of success have garnered broad recognition. She served on
President Obama’s Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Advisory Council and was a member of the
University of Pennsylvania Board of Overseers and on the Board of Directors of Independent Sector.
Vredenburgh holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the State University of New York,
Buffalo. She holds honorary degrees from Lynchburg College and Philadelphia University.
Aleem Walji
Innovation Practice Manager
World Bank
@alwalji
Aleem Walji is the Practice Manager of World Bank Institute’s Innovation Team. He oversees the
Development Marketplace program which provides social entrepreneurs access to early stage,
mezzanine, and growth financing for the delivery of public goods. Mr. Walji also oversees projects
focused on Open Government, Transparency and Accountability. As part of his role, Aleem leads
efforts related to Open Data, Open Innovation and managing the Bank's competition
management platform designed to surface solutions to complex development problems.
Prior to joining WBI, Aleem served as a Head of Global Development Initiatives at Google.org, with a focus on eastern
Africa. He led efforts related to increasing transparency and accountability in government and supporting the growth of
small and medium-size enterprises in Africa. Aleem was also the first CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation in Syria. His
particular interests lie in rural economic development, entrepreneurship, and public-private partnerships. He completed
his Bachelor's degree in Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology from Emory University and his Master's degree in
International Development and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Hunter Walk
Head of Social Good Initiatives
YouTube
@hunterwalk
Hunter Walk focuses on YouTube as a platform for social good, learning and free expression. He
views YouTube’s relationship with ‘good’ as supported by three main pillars: Causes & Non
Profits; Education; and, finally, Activism and Free Expression. He previously led consumer product
management at YouTube, delivering billions of playbacks a day to the world's largest video
community. Since joining Google in 2003, he has also managed product and sales efforts for
Google's contextual advertising business.
Prior to this, Walk was a founding member of the product and marketing team at Linden Lab. Earlier, he was a
management consultant and also spent a year at Late Night with Conan O'Brien, broadcasting to an audience of
insomniacs, truckers and college students.
Hunter has a BA in History from Vassar and an MBA from Stanford University.
Xiaojun ‘Grace’ Wang
Practice Manager - Global Initiative of Scaling Up Innovations
UNDP
@Ocean_Heart
Xiaojun Grace Wang is the Practice Manager of the Poverty Reduction Practice in the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She is responsible for integrated work planning, result
based management, and oversees knowledge management, operations, communication and
partnership in the Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policies of UNDP. She lead s the
global initiative on Scaling-up Local Innovations for Transformational Change.
Prior to her present appointment, Xiaojun (Grace) worked 7 years in UNDP Country Office in China (2002-2009). There
she had led teams and programmes on pro-poor fiscal reforms, MDG-based national planning, ICT for development,
public administration reform, rule of law, civil society development, gender, HIV/AIDS and disaster risk management.
She spearheaded the UNDP flagship programme in China, which provided over 400 senior policy makers with training
on balanced and sustainable development. In the aftermath of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China, she has
successfully led her team in setting up a participatory and comprehensive recovery model to be disseminated to over
4800 poorest villages affected by the earthquake and to be integrated into the national poverty reduction strategy.
Before joining UNDP in 2002, Grace had dynamic working experiences with governments, international NGOs,
academic institutions and media. She has a PhD degree in Education and International Development from University of
London. Her research focuses on the human and cultural dynamics in international development management.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Valarie Wilson
Executive Director
The BeltLine Partnership
Valarie Wilson serves as Executive Director of the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, a private,
nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering support for Atlanta’s BeltLine, the most
comprehensive, ambitious urban redevelopment project in America.
As Executive Director, Ms. Wilson is responsible for a capital campaign to raise $60M in private
funds to meet critical Atlanta BeltLine needs, and she oversees extensive public education and
community outreach programs. In the nearly five years since she assumed leadership of the
Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, more than $30M has been raised, almost 10,000 people have toured the Atlanta
BeltLine, thousands more have participated in Atlanta BeltLine education programs, and the organization gave birth to
the Atlanta Land Trust Collaborative.
Ms. Wilson has invested more than 20 years in public service and meeting community needs. Before being selected to
lead the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership in August 2006, she served as Director of the Fulton County Human Services
Department. Ms. Wilson was responsible for an annual budget of $26M, and she directing programs that serve the
elderly, children, and youth. During her tenure as Director, Ms. Wilson developed initiatives that secured millions of
dollars for service delivery and spearheaded the creation of three nonprofit agencies that deliver aging programs
throughout Fulton County. Before her role as Department Director, she served as Director of the Office of Aging from
1991-1996.
Ms. Wilson is a graduate of Clark College who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, and she completed graduate
studies at Troy State University in Public Administration. She is passionately engaged in supporting public schools,
serving as the President-elect of the Georgia School Board Association, and as a third-term elected member of the City
of Decatur’s Board of Education. Ms. Wilson is a member of the Decatur Education Foundation and the Decatur Arts
Alliance. She is a native of Swainsboro, Georgia who now lives in Decatur with her husband, Carter. Her son, Nicholas,
is a second-year student in college.
Dalila Wilson-Scott
CFO, Global Philanthropy
JPMorgan Chase
@dalila_says
Dalila Wilson-Scott is currently Chief Financial Officer of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the
Global Philanthropy Division at JPMorgan Chase & Co. In this role, she has oversight for
administrative functions for the bank's philanthropic arm including strategic planning, finance,
legal, compliance, technology, and operations. Mrs. Wilson-Scott is also credited for her lead role
in launching Chase Community Giving, one of the most successful crowdsourced philanthropy
programs on Facebook.
Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as part of the task force charged with managing the merger integration of
JPMorgan Chase and Bank One, one of the largest and most significant mergers in the financial services industry. She
has also served in a number of strategic planning and finance roles throughout the bank with focus on merger and
acquisition analysis for retail and commercial banking.
Mrs. Wilson-Scott holds an MBA in Finance and Management from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of
Business and a BA in Economics from NYU's College of Arts and Science. She resides in Northern New Jersey with her
husband, S. Christopher Scott and their three children.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Andrew Yang
Founder and President
Venture for America @venture4america
Andrew Yang is the Founder and President of Venture for America, a fellowship program that
places top college graduates in start-ups for 2 years in low-cost U.S. cities to generate job growth
and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Andrew has worked in start-ups and early stage growth companies as a founder or executive for
more than twelve years. He was the CEO and President of Manhattan GMAT, a test preparation company that was
acquired by the Washington Post/Kaplan in 2009. He has also served as the co-founder of an Internet company and
an executive at a health care software start-up. He has appeared on CNBC, Fox News, TIME, Techcrunch, the Wall St.
Journal, and many other media outlets.
Andrew was named a Champion of Change by the White House in 2011 for his work with Venture for America and was
named one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business" for 2012. He is a graduate of Columbia Law
and Brown University.
Paull Young
Director of Digital
charity: water
@paullyoung
Paull Young is Director of Digital at charity: water, a nonprofit devoted to bringing clean and safe
drinking water to the 1 billion people without. Frequently nominated as one of the leading digital
nonprofits, charity: water was the first nonprofit to have 1 million Twitter followers and has 75% of
its fundraising come through digital channels. In just 5 years, charity: water has provided clean
and safe drinking water to over 2 million people and raised almost $30M in 2011.
Paull formerly was Senior Account Director with social media agency Converseon, where he led award-winning
campaigns for Fortune 500 clients such as Graco, Kohler, Telstra, and Citrix.
Paull has been a well-known PR and Marketing blogger and commentator since 2006, firstly at Young PR and now at
PaullYoung.com. His work has been featured on FOX News, Wall St Journal, Sydney Morning Herald, CNN.com, NY1,
and the Australian Financial Review. In 2011, he was named an industry “Rising Star” by the Direct Marketing
Educational Foundation.
Speeding the diagnosis andtreatment of HIV-positive babies.When newborns are diagnosed with HIV, there’s no time to wait to begin treatment. Without early diagnosis and treatment, nearly half won’t live to see their second birthday. But all too often, infants die because of antiquated, ineffective paper-based systems which delay the return of test results, slowing their diagnosis and the start of treatment.
Together with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Kenyan government, HP has improved the Early Infant Diagnosis process which is dramatically accelerating testing and treatment for more than 120,000 infants at risk of HIV in Kenya each year. HP is providing technology that reduces the turnaround time for HIV test results from as long as several months to less than 30 days—a huge improvement that helps save thousands of lives. Learn more about HP’s health initiatives on hp.com/go/socialinnovationhealth
How HP drives business growth and global citizenship.
The interdependence of corporate success and social contribution.
At HP, corporate success and social contribution are interdependent. The journey to this point started in a garage in California in 1939—modest beginnings for an organization that is now the largest technology company in the world, recognized as a leader in responsible business growth and global citizenship.
HP employs around 350,000 staff, with expertise from printing to cloud computing. This immense scale enables the organiza-tion to play a much greater role than ever before in driving social change.
Instead of taking the traditional approach of donating money and materials, HP is doing much more. It contributes to society with a shared value model that leverages a range of assets, including employee skills, business acumen, and partner networks.
HP applies the same resources and approach to problem solving that makes it successful in business—passion, energy, and a culture of innovation— to also make a profound and positive social impact in the world.
HP mobilizes its people and technology and collaborates with leading private sector organizations, governments, and NGOs to provide solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems in education, health, and the environment. This becomes a virtuous circle – creating social value rethinking the ways business is done, which ultimately ensures corporate sustainability and strength.
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of
America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to
provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the
communities we serve. We serve more than 9 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia.
Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians,
specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by
industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the art
care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care
innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. For more information,
go to: www.kp.org/newscenter.
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products, and initiatives to continually
advance how people work and live. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel
introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971.
Throughout Intel’s history, we have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible to improve how people work,
live, and play. Our vision for the next decade is even more ambitious:
To create and extend computing technology to connect and enrich the lives of every person on earth.
The Motorola Mobility Foundation is proud to support The Social Innovation Summit 2012 and join in the
mission to effect positive social change.
Chadbourne & Parke LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York City, provides a full range of
legal services, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, project finance, private funds, corporate
finance, energy, communications and technology, commercial and products liability litigation, securities
litigation and reguatory enforcement, special investigations and litigation, intellectual property, antitrust,
domestic and international tax, insurance and reinsurance, environmental, real estate, bankruptcy and
financial restructuring, employment law and ERISA, trusts and estates and government contract matters.
Major geographical areas of concentration include Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Central Asia, the
Middle East and Latin America. The firm has offices in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Mexico City,
Sâo Paulo, London, Moscow, Warsaw, Kyiv, Istanbul, Dubai and Beijing.
CSRwire is the leading global source of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability news.
Founded in 1999 to advance the movement towards a more economically-just and environmentally-
sustainable society and away from single bottom line capitalism, CSRwire has paved the way for new
standards of corporate citizenship, earning the international respect of thought leaders, business leaders,
academics, philanthropists, activists and the media community. Through innovative techniques and strategic
partnerships, CSRwire continues to expand its content, communication technology and distribution channels
exponentially.
CSRwire content reaches a broad and highly-engaged audience in the international CSR market through
syndication partners, members, subscribers, visitors, mobile technology, databases, newsrooms, social
media networks, search engines, financial portals, websites and online communities. As the exclusive
distributor of CSR news and information for NASDAQ OMX’s Globe Newswire and Marketwire, CSRwire offers
more visibility than any other newswire in the world.
etouches develops cloud-based event management software that is offered as a subscription in a software-
as-a-service (SaaS) business model. The etouches event management platform is ideal for any size
organization and can be used any type of virtual or face-to-face event, including the planning, management
and marketing of an organization’s entire event portfolio. The etouches product line allows professionals to
plan, market, and manage events with simple, straightforward tools that can handle even the most complex
of registration workflows, reporting needs and agendas. The event platform supports event websites, email
marketing, social networking and registration sites in multiple languages and currencies.
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide is one of the largest global independent communications firms in the world
and a champion for international market leaders, including 3M, Clinton Global Initiative, GE Healthcare,
Mercy Corps, Microsoft and UN Foundation, among others. WE turn innovation in to impact using an award-
winning combination of technological tools and human analytical expertise. Social Innovation is a natural
extension of Waggener Edstrom’s agency brand. WE help organizations across sectors – for-profits, non-
profits, governmental and inter-governmental organizations – accelerate the adoption of solutions that
improve lives and transform societies. WE do this by this by delivering integrated communication services
that help clients navigate the increasingly complex intersection where private sector meets public good. Our
focus areas are Corporate Social Responsibility, Global Health, Global Development and Sustainability.
At the intersection of the corporate, investment and public sector’s quest
for positive social impact, the following partners are proud
to promote innovation and leading connectivity technologies.
The launch of the Humanitarian cloud concept benefiting nonprofits globally.
info@thehumanitariancloud.org | www.thehumanitariancloud.org
ORGANIZING PARTNER
The Social Innovation Summit was founded as part of Landmark Ventures’ corporate philanthropy program,
with the goal of leveraging our convening power to create a platform for the business community to identify,
explore and actualize partnership opportunities for driving global social innovation.
The Summit is a private, invitation-only forum that connects leading business innovators with those active in
social transformation across the corporate, investment, and non-profit sectors. Attendees include hundreds
of top Fortune 500 Corporate Executives, Venture Capitalists, Government Leaders, Foundation Heads and
Social Entrepreneurs eager to discuss social challenges, analyze innovative approaches for problem-solving
and build lasting partnerships that enable them and their organizations to affect positive social change.
Landmark Ventures was founded in 1995 as a family office and today has grown to encompass a broader
footprint as a global investment bank and corporate advisory firm. Our business activities focus on
opportunities within the Innovation Economy (technology, media, communications, semiconductors, internet,
cleantech and healthcare) where we provide mergers & acquisition advisory, corporate development and
capital raising services for a unique client roster of growth-oriented private companies, leading public
companies and investment funds. The Social Innovation Summit represents our passion for fostering growth
and innovation in the for-profit sector and applying the same business principles to the non-profit sector.
We are honored to welcome today a variety of friends, colleagues and global innovators who share this same
passion and represent various key parts of the social innovation ecosystem. We subscribe to the philosophy
of focusing on issues that are “Big Enough to Matter, and Small Enough to Win.” What is your issue? We
invite you to consider this question as you enjoy today’s event, network with your peers and learn about
some of the newest developments in Social Innovation.
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