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Abigail Noble

She is the Head for Impact Investing Initiatives and Associate Director of Investors Industries at World Economic Forum since July 2012.

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Akaya Windwood

I'm dedicated to elevating the effectiveness of leadership and collaboration in the nonprofit and social benefit sectors. My vision for our global community includes infusing a sense of purpose, delight and wonder into everything we do. I have a life-long commitment to working for a fair and equitable society, and believe that Rockwood’s network of more than 5,000 powerful, collaborative, and interconnected leaders will help lead the way.

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Alex Fiance

As the Global President of the Kairos Society, Alex Fiance oversees internal and external operations for the organization. He joined us in 2012 from Activision, where he traveled extensively to bring new products and IPs to global markets. He has experience working with some of the largest entertainment properties in the world, as well as managing organizations over the last 8 years. He holds a degree in Business Administration and Consumer Behavior from the University of Southern California, and currently resides in Venice Beach, CA.

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Andrew Zolli

Andrew Zolli is a futures researcher who studies the complex forces at the intersection of technology, sustainability and global society that are shaping our future. He has served as a Fellow of the National Geographic Society, and his work and ideas regularly appear in dozens of leading publications and media outlets. Andrew's book Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back was published in 2012 by Free Press.

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Website: http://www.poptech.org/‎

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Aparajita Agrawal

Aparajita leads the Sankalp Forum Initiative, which is Asia's largest social enterprise and investing platform. She also focuses on leveraging the platform to expand Intellecap's work with early stage social enterprises to South and South East Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. In a career spanning over 12 years, Aparajita has built expertise in creating and scaling up knowledge and research products, building and managing multi-cultural teams, and designing large-scale interventions to address challenges of social enterprise development. In the past, Aparajita has helped create a unique knowledge practice within Intellecap; and conceptualize initiatives such as Microfinance Insights, Beyond Profit, Srijan Financial Inclusion Forum and more recently the Sankalp Forum. She holds a management degree from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) India.

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Ben Thornley

Ben Thornley is a Managing Director at Pacific Community Ventures and leads PCV InSight – the global research and consulting practice in impact investing. He manages a number of projects and partnerships, including on impact investing best practices with CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssets, and on the role of policy in impact investing, with the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University and the World Economic Forum. He created the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative together with the IRI, a global network of researchers and public officials, and, as an authority in the field, was recently tasked by the White House with presenting the U.S. experience in impact investing to a G8 taskforce. He also advises institutions including CalPERS, Citi, Annie E Casey Foundation, the California Department of Insurance, and The California Endowment through PCV InSight’s work as a prominent third-party evaluator of the social and economic impacts resulting from over $25 billion of investments, across asset classes.

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Website: http://iipcollaborative.org/

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Betsy McKinney

Betsy Hall McKinney is a mother, social entrepreneur, and President of The Founding Family. Her current projects in addition to The Founding Family include: ReStore Our World combined Betsy’s vision of a global restoration movement with a beautiful storefront in Telluride, CO. The result was a vibrant community hub for education, inspiration, and action.

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Betsy Zeidman

Betsy Zeidman is principal of Strategic Impact Solutions, which advises private- and social-sector organizations on building and growing investment programs that generate sustainable financial and social returns. She is also a fellow at the Milken Institute and senior fellow with the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative. She has expertise in impact investing, community development finance, corporate governance and strategic philanthropy. She previously served as the inaugural director of the RFK Compass Program at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The RFK Compass Program engages institutional investors to explore and advance the connections among investment performance, fiduciary duty, and public interest issues. Earlier, Zeidman launched and directed the Milken Institute's Center for Emerging Domestic Markets, where she managed the Institute's work in mission-related investing and development finance, working with institutional and individual investors, foundations, governments, entrepreneurs and policymakers. Prior to joining the Milken Institute, Zeidman provided strategic management and marketing advisory services to clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, with a specialty in corporate responsibility and financial performance. She also held senior roles in financial and business affairs at several entertainment companies. Zeidman is a member of the board of directors of US SIF - the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, and sits on the advisory board of the Center for Community Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Council of National Advisors for Springboard Enterprises, a national organization catalyzing equity capital for high-growth, women-led companies. She has authored numerous reports and op-eds, and speaks frequently at industry conferences and to the media. She received both her B.A., cum laude with distinction, and her M.B.A. from Yale University.

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Website: http://www.milkeninstitute.org/

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Bonny Moellenbrock

Bonny is the Executive Director of both Investors’ Circle and SJF Institute and brings extensive entrepreneurial, venture capital, sustainable business, and nonprofit management experience to her role. She is also a member of the GIIRS Developed Markets Standards Advisory Council and serves on the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South. Prior to her current position, Bonny was a Managing Director at SJF Ventures, a leading impact venture fund investing in high-growth, positive impact companies in the cleantech, sustainability, and technology-enhanced services sectors. Before joining SJF in 2000, she served as COO and CFO of Preservation North Carolina, a nonprofit that promotes historic preservation and protects properties through its award-winning endangered properties acquisition and redevelopment program, and also served as VP of Administration for Orange Recycling Services, an entrepreneurial commercial recycling company. Bonny holds an MBA, a Master of Regional Planning, and a BA in Environmental Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute. She enjoys gardening and making music with her husband and two daughters at their historic bungalow in Durham, NC.

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Website: http://www.investorscircle.net/‎

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Christal Jackson

For nearly two decades Christal has worked in the non-profit/philanthropy sector. Her efforts are focused on education, health, poverty, and women’s issues. She brings a unique focus to her work based on her diverse experience and broad roles in the field. Recognized by Ebony Magazine as one of the Future 30 Leaders of America, this was a foreshadowing of her founding of Head and Heart. It is the only philanthropic consultancy that addresses the specific needs of communities of color that connects philanthropists and practitioners of color. She is a proud graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, GA and Duke University in Durham, NC.

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Website: http://www.headandheartphilanthropy.com/

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Courtney Martin

Courtney E. Martin has been called “one of our most insightful culture critics and one of our finest young writers” by Parker Palmer, and her writing has been described as “varied, transformational, and necessary for us all” by Jane Fonda and “a hardcover punch in the gut” by Arianna Huffington.

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Daniel Epstein

Daniel’s life has been shaped by a fundamental belief that entrepreneurship is the answer to nearly all the issues we face today. By the time he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy, he had already started three companies. In 2009, with a founding team who shared his healthy disregard for the impossible, Daniel founded the Unreasonable InstItute. In 2012 he was recognized by Inc. Magazine as a “30 under 30 entrepreneur” and by Forbes as one of the “top 30 most impactful entrepreneurs” of the year. Today, this passion for entrepreneurship and startups has led to the creation of Unreasonable Group (www.unreasonablegroup.com). The vision of Unreasonable Group is to create a portfolio of companies that will, together, put a dent on the seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges of this century. Daniel is proudly the founder of many other Unreasonable companies beyond the Institute, including UNREASONABLE.is, Unreasonable@Sea, Unreasonable Adventures, & co-founder of Unreasonable Media. Daniel believes in militant transparency in his everyday life and in all of the projects he is part of. He also has an overt love for Boulder, Colorado and for his dog Kaya.

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Darlene Damm

Darlene joined Ashoka in 2007 and works with the Strategic Partnerships Team and Changemakers Team on several initiatives related to technology and social innovation. Prior to Ashoka, Darlene launched Asia Society Young Professionals for the Asia Society Washington Center, developed a service-learning program for an experimental high school in Burma, managed cross-cultural leadership programs for Volunteers in Asia/Stanford University, developed an overseas education program for American teenagers in Vietnam and served as a Fellow with Japan-US Community Education and Exchange in Tokyo. She is a co-founder of the Matternet and founder of DIYRockets.org. She received her bachelor's degree in History from Stanford University, her master's degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS and attended the Singularity University in the Silicon Valley.

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David Wood

David Wood is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and the Director of the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University. His current research focuses on a range of issues related to impact investing and community development, including responsible investment policies, mission investment by foundation endowments, and the changing nature of the supply of and capacity to receive capital for community investment in the U.S.

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Website: http://iipcollaborative.org/

Email: [email protected]

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Deborah Nelson

For the past twelve years, Deb Nelson has been the Executive Director of Social Venture Network (SVN), an organization of 600 business leaders, impact investors and social entrepreneurs who are leveraging the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. Prior to SVN, Deb worked for Working Assets and American Express, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. She has a B.A. in English from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in marketing and management strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. When she's not at SVN, Deb enjoys exploring the Bay Area with her two sons, Sam and Will.

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Website: http://svn.org/

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Devon Davey

She is currently the Associate Manager for Development and Communications at Taproot Foundation.

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Website: http://www.taprootfoundation.org/‎

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Diana Aviv

Diana Aviv is president and CEO of Independent Sector, the national leadership network for America’s nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs. By representing tens of thousands of organizations across the country, Independent Sector advances the common good by leading, strengthening, and mobilizing the charitable community. Diana is a frequent speaker on trends in and key issues for the sector. She has testified before Congress and has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and MSNBC.com.

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Drew von Glahn

Strong capability to establish the critical working relationships to successfully manage companies, strategic partnerships and projects. As CEO of a social enterprise led the successful realignment of business model, resulting in strengthened financial sustainability and highly focused mission.

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Elliott Bisnow

Elliott Bisnow is the Founder & CEO of Summit, the Co-Founder & Vice Chairman of Bisnow Media, and a founding board member of the United Nations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council. Summit is the owner of Powder Mountain Ski Resort in Eden, Utah, which is best known as the ski resort with the most skiable terrain in North America. For the past 6 years, the resort has been ranked by Ski Magazine out of 400 resorts in North America as the #1 value resort and most recently was ranked #4 in character, #2 in Snow and #9 in overall satisfaction. On the back side of Power Mountain, Summit is developing a 500 homesite community and core village called Summit Eden. Summit is excited about the opportunity to preserve the character and history of the resort, which opened in 1972. As the 300 people who work at Pow Mow say, you’re only a stranger once! Read about Summit Eden here. Elliott founded Summit in 2008, and as CEO oversees its annual gatherings, which Forbes has called “The Davos of Generation Y.” He also helps lead its Action Fund, which made 15 startup investments in the past 36 months, including Warby Parker, Scribd, Uber & Qwiki (acquired by Yahoo!). Elliott is Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Bisnow Media Corporation, the largest publisher of commercial real estate news in North America and one of the largest business event producers in the United States. In 2013, Craine’s ranked Bisnow Media the 12th fastest growing private company in New York City. Elliott is a venture partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund which invests in companies revolutionizing how the world learns and currently has the largest portfolio of education technology investments in the world including Edmodo, Bridge Academies, General Assembly and Coursera. He co-founded The Get Well Soon Tour, which brings iconic musicians to perform for sick children. At each Get Well Soon Tour stop, children in hospitals across America are surprised by bedside visits from their idols, who so far have included Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Bruno Mars, John Legend, Pitbull, and Mandy Moore.

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Website: http://www.summit.co/

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Erin Roach

At present, she is the Vice President for Investor Relations and Marketing at Farmland LP. Erin is passionate about using business as a lever for social and environmental change and has spent her entire career helping values-driven businesses grow. As a member of the start-up team for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and for the 10 years that followed, she saw first-hand how business can create positive impact beyond profit and how to take a great idea to fruition. Her experiences at Work/Family Directions and Presidio Graduate School provided insight into how corporations and government agencies incorporate sustainability into core, strategic operations. As a co-founder of GoCityKids, a parent-focused website sold to Viacom in 2005, she harnessed the web as a means to build community and help urban parents have a better quality of life with their children. At the pioneering non-profit Social Venture Network (SVN), she helped entrepreneurs and the public-at-large realize the positive potential of business. Erin met Craig Wichner and Jason Bradford through SVN and was impressed by Farmland LP’s exceptional level of direct, positive impact on people and the environment.

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Jane Wales

Jane Wales is CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum and the World Affairs Council; vice president of the Aspen Institute; and host of the nationally-syndicated National Public Radio interview show It’s Your World.

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Jenny Everett

Jenny Everett has twelve years experience in the private and non-profit sectors. Most recently, she was the Senior Program Manager, Membership and Individual Donors at Hispanics in Philanthropy. She has also worked with DoubleClick in San Francisco and the Concha y Toro winery in Santiago, Chile. During business school, she worked with Agora Partnerships in Nicaragua, Enterprise Solutions for Poverty in New York, and Investors’ Circle in San Francisco. She is a former member of the Advisory Council of the New and the Board of Refugee Transitions in San Francisco. She has an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and a BA in Latin American Studies from Davidson College. Right now, she is an Associate Director of The Aspen Institute.

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Website: http://http://www.aspeninstitute.org/

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Jessica Fleuti

Jessica Fleuti leads Net Impact’s efforts to develop and deliver our annual conference: a tremendous event that brings together 2,800 students and young professionals for 100+ sessions over three days in the fall. She coordinates internal efforts and work with external partners to produce the world’s largest event for people who are working to make a difference through their careers. She started her career as a Legal Investigator at the California Appellate Project, a nonprofit legal resource center dedicated to capital appeals, and came to Net Impact by way of the World Affairs Council of Northern California and the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Jessy Tolkan

Jessy Tolkan works as an independent strategist with a focus on climate and energy issues, progressive movement building, and experimenting with the role of consumers in creating shifts in the global marketplace. She has spent the last decade working to build progressive change in the United States.

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Website: http://webofchange.com/

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Joel Solomon

Joel Solomon is Chairman of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest social venture capital firm. Launching in 2013, Renewal3 and the Instinct Fund now build upon the legacy of aligning money with values established by Renewal2 and Renewal Partners. Joel serves as a Senior Advisor with RSF Social Finance and speaks frequently throughout North America, including a recent TEDxVancouver talk. He is a founding member of Social Venture Network (SVN), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the Tides Canada Foundation, and is board chair of Hollyhock.

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Website: http://svn.org/

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John Cary

John Cary is a connector, writer, speaker, and curator focused on social change, with an emphasis on design for the public good.

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Website: http://johncary.us/

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John Rosser

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Website: http://www.sustainatopia.com/home

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Jon Isham

At Middlebury College, I am a Professor of Economics, the Director of Environmental Studies, and the Faculty Director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

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Website: http://sites.middlebury.edu/jisham/

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Jonah Wittkamper

He has organized global networks of young philanthropists for nearly a decade, inspiring new charitable activity from many wealthy families. Prior to co-founding Nexus, Jonah served as the US Director of Search for Common Ground and was part of Distributive Networks Inc., where he helped to build the text messaging technology used by the Obama campaign.

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Website: http://www.nexusyouthsummit.org/

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Justin Desrosiers

He is passionate about entrepreneurship, positive impact investing and environmentally sustainable business models. He started his career in consulting and spent eight years advising Fortune 500 clients in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa. In 2011, he founded his own company in the environmental space and subsequently led a team to successfully pitch our startup idea in the 2-month, incubator-style, Cherokee Startup Challenge. He is now working with Investors’ Circle and the PCC '13 investment fund to scale the domestic impact investing marketplace as a Director of Investments. Since 2012, he helped to facilitate over $22 million in impact investments into nearly 60 impact enterprises.

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Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones creates information businesses inside emerging markets. He believes that markets emerge in conversation, as people try to explain and understand value. But this market is not like others he’s been in, and that’s what makes it more interesting and more important. The social capital market adds the dimension of impact, what your money actually does in the world before it comes back to you as a gain or loss, to the traditional risk and reward investment equation. “Looking at impact is what has enabled SOCAP to be at the vital intersection of money and meaning”, Kevin said. Besides SOCAP, Kevin is founder of Good Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in social enterprises. He is also part of the team launching the first U.S. node of the Hub, a network of more than a dozen work spaces for social entrepreneurs in cities across the world from Cairo to London. His previous six businesses all achieved market dominance before he left or sold them. As a journalist, he has been a columnist for Forbes and Business 2.0 magazines. Early in his career as a journalist his reporting sent a sheriff to prison on 53 counts of fraud. He has been on the boards of Social Enterprise Alliance, the association of non-profit social enterprises, and Social Venture Partners International, a network of engaged philanthropy circles. Kevin also led a malaria project in Zwaziland and Mozambique, working with Jeff Sachs of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Finally, during his 20 year business career in Mississippi he was heavily involved in public school advocacy.

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Kevin Lynch

Kevin Lynch is the President and CEO of Social Enterprise Alliance. Lynch is, first and foremost, a social enterprise practitioner. From 2003 until mid-2011, he served as President of Rebuild Resources, Inc., a nationally recognized non-profit social enterprise in St. Paul, Minnesota that exclusively employs recovering ex-offenders. After starting and selling a direct mail business in college, Lynch worked from 1980 to 2001 in the advertising industry, the last 14 years as founder and principal of Lynch Jarvis Jones, a social enterprise ad agency whose mission was to create positive social change through the power of advertising and marketing. Lynch is the primary co-author of Mission, Inc., The Practitioner's Guide To Social Enterprise, a highly regarded, practical book that focuses on the day-to-day challenges and opportunities faced by social enterprise practitioners. He has keynoted across the United States and on three continents.

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Liz Maw

Liz Maw joined Net Impact as CEO in 2004. During her tenure, Net Impact has tripled its chapter network to more than 300, formed partnerships with over 50 global corporations, and developed multiple new programs that engage students and professionals in sustainability. Liz is a frequent speaker and writer, with blogs appearing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Huffington Post, GreenBiz, and World Economic Forum, which recognized Liz as a Young Global Leader in 2010. In 2011, Liz was named one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere. Liz is also a Board Member of the World Environment Center. Prior to leading Net Impact, Liz's professional experience included strategic consulting to nonprofits with the Bridgespan Group, as well as fundraising and direct marketing for nonprofit organizations in New York City and Washington, D.C. She holds a BA with honors from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

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Website: https://netimpact.org/netimpactconference‎

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Manas Ratha

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Mark Newberg

Mark Newberg is Managing Director of Impact Investment Strategies for 5 Stone Green Capital. Mark designed and leads the firm’s “layered impact” strategy, incorporating impact principles into each project, in ways that support the core business while producing tangible external benefits. Mark also serves as Deputy Director of the Global Innovation Summit, a gathering of global thought leaders spurring the creation of innovation ecosystems, and an advisor to T2 Venture Creation, based in Silicon Valley. He was previously a Senior Policy Advisor at the US Small Business Administration, where he led impact investing policy efforts and the Startup America: Reducing Barriers series as part of his high-growth entrepreneurship and innovation portfolio. Prior to his time at SBA, Mark was a post-Katrina Advisor to the New Orleans City Council, focusing on big picture policy issues in the recovery. Currently based in Washington, DC, he is a frequent speaker on issues of impact, has written occasional opinion pieces for various outlets, including the recent Spectrum of Impact in America, and advises several high-growth, high-impact startups. Mark holds a BA from Tulane University, a JD from Tulane Law School, and was a Visiting Student at Harvard Law School.

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Website: http://www.innosummit.com/‎

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Mark Van Ness

A serial entrepreneur, he co-founded the Social Enterprise Loan Fund (SELFund) is a director of Impact Assets and founded Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate Advisors.

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Website: http://real-leaders.com/

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Michael Simmons

Michael Simmons is an award-winning, social entrepreneur, Forbes columnist, bestselling author, and internationally recognized keynote speaker.

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Website: http://www.iempact.com/index.php

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Pamela Chaloult

Pamela is an accomplished professional with decades of experience in executive management, marketing, communications, facilitation, event management and organizational development. She possesses a passion for sustainability and the advancement of women leaders. Previously, Pamela served as Managing Director and COO for Renewal, Vice President of Renewal2 Investment Fund, Senior Advisor to Tides Canada and Hollyhock, Co-Executive Director of Social Venture Network (SVN), Communications & Marketing Director for California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and Communications Director for Planned Parenthood. Before joining the nonprofit sector, she led the marketing and advertising efforts for the CBS affiliate KPIX TV & Radio and for a variety of film and entertainment groups in Los Angeles. Pamela is a member of the Women's Executive Network, Association of Women in Finance, Women Speakers Association, Social Venture Network and sits on a variety of social purpose boards across North America. When not at the BALLE office, you can find Pam racing after her 4 year old daughter at any number of parks across the Bay Area.

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Website: http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erenewalpartners%2Ecom&urlhash=fS8Z

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Phil Collis

As Senior Manager of Digital, Phil Collis is responsible for sourcing and leveraging digital technologies, social media and syndicated channels in direct support of the Foundation’s global community, knowledge and networks strategy.

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Website: http://www.skollfoundation.org/

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Rachel Cohen Gerrol

Rachel Cohen Gerrol is the Co-Founder and Curator of Nexus. She is also the founding Executive Director of PVBLIC Foundation, an innovative in-kind grant-making organization that harnesses the power of unused media assets to drive social change.

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Website: http://www.nexusyouthsummit.org/

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Rahim Kanani

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Website: http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erahimkanani%2Ecom&urlhash=_6gq

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Rob Garris

Rob Garris is a member of the Senior Leadership team at the Rockefeller Foundation, working as Managing Director for Programs at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center and as manager of the Foundation's work to strengthen the philanthropic sector. Prior to joining The Rockefeller Foundation in 2009, Rob spent eight years at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where he served most recently as Senior Associate Dean. In this role, he was responsible for ensuring that strategic planning, external affairs, global partnerships, and student affairs advanced the School’s core mission to produce graduates and research that strengthened global public policy. He has also held leadership positions at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Garris holds a Ph.D. in European History from the University of North Carolina with a focus on immigration and urban policy.

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Rosa Lee Harden

Rosa Lee is the Executive Producer of SOCAP. Co-Producer with Heidi Kleinmaus of SOCAP09 and 08, Rosa Lee was previously COO of a highly profitable $18 million events company she sold at the peak of the dot com era. As one of the original founders of the SOCAP conference, Rosa Lee was the architect of SOCAP08‘s wildly successful open space third day last year. She is a successful serial entrepreneur and for 25 years was an owner and publisher of newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, accomplishing turnarounds and launching successful startups that became the top publications in their markets.

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Website: http://http://www.socap.org/

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Sam Vaghar

I serve as the Executive Director and Co-founder of The Millennium Campus Network, empowering university student organizations across the United States to be effective partners for global development. In this capacity, I engage with numerous partners from Microsoft and The Jenzabar Foundation to the United Nations Foundation and HP. The MCN educates over 1,000 campus leaders through annual conferences, trains emerging leaders through an innovative fellowship program, and allocates Student Action Grants to support activism on campuses and overseas.

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Sara VanLear

Sara VanLear joined the The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in 2010 and serves as the Program Associate for the Effective Philanthropy group. In her work at the Foundation, she provides a broad range of project management support to the Philanthropy grantmaking portfolio and the Organizational Effectiveness Program, partnering with organizations to make philanthropic and nonprofit practices more effective as well as working internally with staff on their grantees’ capacity building priorities. Sara comes to the Foundation from the development department at the San Francisco Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra prior to her move to California. A native of Clifton Forge Virginia, she completed her B.A. in History at the College of William and Mary and has worked on issues ranging from housing to education to the arts.

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Website: http://http://www.hewlett.org/

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Shilpa Jain

Shilpa Jain is currently rooting herself in Oakland/Berkeley, CA, where she serves as the Executive Director of YES!. Prior to taking on this role, Shilpa spent two years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator of Other Worlds and ten years as a learning activist with Shikshantar:

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Website: http://www.yesworld.org/

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Steve Schueth

Steve Schueth is President, Chief Marketing Officer, and Managing Member of First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC, an independent Registered Investment Advisor that offers Sustainable Investment Solutions™ for socially conscious individual and institutional investors. He has been with First Affirmative since 1999.

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Website: http://www.sriconference.com/

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Ted Ning

Ted is widely regarded as the epicenter of all things LOHAS leading many to affectionately refer to him as ‘Mr. LOHAS’. He is a change agent, trend spotter and executive director of the LOHAS. Ted is renowned for leading the annual LOHAS Forum, LOHAS.com and LOHAS Journal the past 8 years. He has worked closely with executive teams pursuing environmental, social and wellness innovations at corporations including Coca-Cola, MINI, Mohawk Flooring, Rancho La Puerta, Jurlique, Macy’s, Ecobonus and Natureworks. He is uniquely positioned to have a large picture understanding of macro trends affecting the LOHAS market that can indirectly affect how a company conducts business in the future and assess new opportunities. He has been instrumental in the development of the global LOHAS concept that has spread rapidly throughout the world as an identifier of elevated and deeper connection with planet, people, profit and healthy living. Ted is a highly sought international speaker on LOHAS market insights and presents frequently to Universities, business associations, and companies. He is a contributing writer to various national and international business publications including Care2.com, Spa Business UK, American Spa magazine, LOHAS China and Organic Style Taiwan. He also serves on several boards promoting sustainability, education, social entrepreneurship, racial integration and micro-credit enterprises. Ted grew up as an outdoor enthusiast in the mountains of Colorado where his family developed a nonprofit that helps impoverished women in Vietnam and Guatemala through micro credit financing and currently has over 5,000 loans in the field. He has been involved in community outreach and nonprofit work from a young age. He has a Bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Colorado and a Master’s degree in adult education from Regis University. Ted has a strong passion for teaching and igniting the spark of insight in people. He has lived overseas in Asia where he assisted in nonprofit work and studied Chinese. He also lived in Japan and was a ski coach during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. He, his wife and his dog currently reside outside of Boulder Colorado.

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Website: http://www.tedning.com

Email: [email protected]

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Teju Ravilochan

Teju Ravilochan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unreasonable Institute. From a young age, Teju wondered what we could to tackle problems like global poverty. Frustrated that this BA in International Affairs wasn't preparing him to do so, he obtained a University Grant to conduct research about the effectiveness of non-profits in India. He learned that traditional charity-based models are not effectively combating poverty. He became inspired by Paul Polak, whose entrepreneurial work has lifted over 19 million farmers out of poverty, and began working with him as his assistant at D-Rev: Design for the Other 90%, eventually leaving to co-found the Unreasonable Institute.

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Website: http://unreasonableclimax.org/

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Tim Freundlich

Tim is an innovator in new financial instruments in the social enterprise sector. Over the last fourteen years, he has served in a number of capacities at Calvert Social Investment Foundation (http://www.calvertfoundation.org), including his current role as Special Consultant. While there, Tim conceived of and launched the Giving Fund – that has since become a more than $60 million impact investment-based donor advised fund and been spun out to a new organization, ImpactAssets (http://www.impactassets.org), for which he serves as President. He was also instrumental in building the $225 million Calvert Community Investment Note sourced from 12,000 investors large and small (with more than $750 million invested into 300+ nonprofits and for profits globally), and helped launch Community Investment Partners, an analysis and asset administration group for community development and social enterprise investment with $300 million under administration. He co-founded and serves as Managing Partner for Good Capital (http://www.goodcap.net), which in addition to its Social Enterprise Expansion Fund LP, has two operating spin outs, the annual SOCAP Conferences in both San Francisco and Europe attracting more than 2,000 people (http://www.socialcapitalmarkets.net), and is partner lead on Hub Bay Area (http://www.hubbayarea.com), a co-working, meeting and community space for 800 social innovators across two locations – and part of a global network of 25 Hubs across five continents with 4,000+ members. He received a BA from Wesleyan University, an MBA from the University of San Francisco, and lives in San Francisco with his wife Julie and sons Milo and Gus.

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Victor Hwang

Victor is Executive Director of the Global Innovation Summit, a conference on building innovation ecosystems that attracts delegates from nearly 50 countries. Victor is past President of Larta Institute, a leading organization commercializing technology from key government agencies, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

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Zeev Klein

Zeev Klein is part of the founding team of Landmark Ventures and responsible for business development, investment banking and venture capital investments working with a portfolio of early-stage technology companies.

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Website: http://www.socinnovation.com/ehome/79546/home/

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