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Ade Mabogunje
He is currently working on the NSF-sponsored project, Digital Libraries for Distributed Innovative Design Education and Teamwork (DIDET), and on the Real-time Venture Design Laboratory for Creating Sustainable Ventures in Economically Challenged Communities. His research interests include learning, engineering, and entrepreneuring processes in design teams; interaction of representations, questions, and emotions during new product development; and design process performance metrics.
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Adiba Barney
As of January 2014, Adiba Barney is the new CEO of SVForum - Silicon Valley´s largest and oldest non-profit organization, dedicated to educating and creating relationships within the technology and startup community. She was prior to that the Executive Director of Silicon Vikings, a non-profit business networking organization connecting the Nordic´s innovation and startup ecosystem to Silicon Valley. Prior to Silicon Vikings, Adiba initiated, developed, and launched Innovative Sweden, a world tour exhibition promoting Sweden as an innovative country by showcasing a new generation of Swedish innovations. That is what brought her from Sweden to Silicon Valley in early 2011. Prior to the Innovative Sweden project, Adiba worked for 13 years within the Swedish innovation ecosystem (science parks, incubators, regional and government development agencies) where she focused on creating sustainable networking platforms, developing/executing high-profile PR projects, and coaching hundreds of startup entrepreneurs in international marketing, business development, market entry, communication, PR and branding. Adiba holds a BA in International Marketing and Business from Mälardalen University in Västerås, Sweden as well as studies in Branding, PR, Media and Communication from Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm, Sweden.
| Investors: | Website: http://svforum.org/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Alfred Watkins
Alfred Watkins is currently the Executive Chairman of the Global Innovation Summit sponsored by T2VC (innosummit.com) which will convene in Silicon Valley on July 16-18, 2012 and an STI policy advisor to a number of international organizations and emerging market governments.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.innosummit.com/ | Email: |
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Ann Badillo
Ann Badillo is leading business strategist and acceleration advisor to Silicon Valley executives and entrepreneurs for more than 20 years. She is a trusted partner to senior executives and managers. Ann supports leaders by helping them accelerate their businesses and results through proven success strategies and maneuver with sound strategy through external and internal complexities. She is an expert in guiding leaders to create momentum, credibility and influence across organizations. Her results produce true innovation, traction and growth. Clients include strong innovators, such as Apple, Google, Pinterest, Skype, Cisco, SGI, Stanford, MIT, and numerous early round start-ups.
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AnnaLee Saxenian
The I School is the newest professional school on the UC Berkeley campus. We take pride in offering a “boutique” program — focused on scholarly and educational excellence in leading edge information domains. We are small enough for intense student engagement and teamwork, while remaining closely connected to the diverse academic strengths of UC Berkeley.
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Anula Jayasuriya
Anula Jayasuriya is a life science venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of the “Evolvence India Life Science Fund” (EILSF), established in 2006 to make investments in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and related contract service companies based in India. The fund has had an initial closing of US $50 million and made its first investment. She was previously a partner with Skyline Ventures in Palo Alto, and prior to that with the German-US venture capital firm TVM, in San Francisco.
| Investors: | Website: http://lifesciencepartner.com/overview/our-team/anula-jayasuriya/ | Email: |
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Arjan Schutte
Arjan Schütte is the founder and a managing partner of Core Innovation Capital. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Center for Financial Services Innovation, the nation’s leading authority on the underbanked market. He was previously a senior manager at CFSI from its inception until Core was launched in 2010. Arjan is a passionate industry expert. Through CFSI and Core, he has invested in some of the most innovative companies serving the underbanked, including AccountNow, CircleLending (acquired by Virgin Group), iSend, L2C, and BankingUp. Arjan serves on the board of portfolio companies Ripple Labs (as an observer), SavvyMoney, TIO Networks, and Wipit and is an advisory board member for several companies including Progreso Financiero. Arjan formerly served as a board member for RentBureau (acquired by Experian). He is cited broadly, blogs for Forbes, and regularly speaks at industry conferences.
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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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Brad Stuart
One of Top 20 HealthLeaders Difference-Makers 2013. Architect of Advanced Illness Management (AIM) at Sutter Health. Founded ACIStrategies as consulting group to help hospitals and integrated systems manage hi-risk, hi-cost population with serious chronic illness.
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Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu
Successful entrepreneur with proven ability to lead teams to grow revenues and market share through innovation and people leadership. A notable consultant to public and private sector on corporate IT and technology ecosystem strategy with focus on value ideation, innovation and impact investing. Immediate past Country Manager for global software company and pioneer Chief Executive Officer of multiple award-winning software solutions company with YOY double-digit revenue growth in challenging market. An industry leader recognised for intellectual capacity and demonstrated commitment to people growth matched with ability to discern market dynamics and position products for explosive growth. Proven track record of strategic posturing, creative conceptualization and people leadership combined with an innate ability to build and maintain strong working relationships. Areas of expertise include:- Strategic Planning, Product Development, Team leadership, Revenue & Profit Growth, Thought Leadership, Positive Client Relationships, Community & Mentoring Key Account Management, Brand/Equity Building, Consumer/Trade Marketing Innovations, Product Positioning, TTL Advertising (ATL+BTL), Market research & insights, Promotions & Events, Influential Presentations
| Investors: | Website: http://www.infographicsnigeria.com/ | Email: |
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Cynthia Muller
Cynthia Muller leads the firm’s impact investing practice. She helps our individual and institutional clients understand the field of impact investing, develop strategies, and structure investments to accomplish their social and environmental goals. Her extensive background in social enterprise and mission investing includes connecting public policy, programs and capital for emerging social innovations to increase economic opportunities for under-served and marginalized communities.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.arabellaadvisors.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Danae Ringelmann
Danae Ringelmann co-founded Indiegogo in 2007 with a mission to democratize fundraising and has since helped to propel the company into the world’s largest crowdfunding platform. Today, Danae leads the Indiegogo’s Customer Happiness division, driving total customer satisfaction and ensuring that Indiegogo consistently exceeds expectations. She also steers the company’s employee culture and values initiatives. Danae was listed on Fast Company ‘s Top 50 Women Innovators in Technology in 2011, and AWNY awarded Danae the "No Apologies" Changemaker award in April 2013. Danae frequently speaks at conferences around the world, including TEDx, SXSW and CeBIT. Danae also testified before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations on “Financing America's Small Businesses: Innovative Ideas for Raising Capital” in June 2013.
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David Green
David Green has worked with many organizations to make medical technology and health care services sustainable, affordable and accessible to all. David is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur. David helped establish Aurolab (India), to produce affordable intraocular lenses (now has 8% of the global market share) and suture. He has helped develop high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees, including Aravind Eye Hospital in India - which performs 300,000 surgeries per year - 70 percent of the care is provided free of charge or below - cost, yet the hospital is able to generate substantial surplus revenue. Within this paradigm of 'humanizing capitalism, he now works as an Ashoka VP (since 2004) to create social investing instruments to support sustainable social enterprises (in eye care and solar energy). He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor in General Studies (1978) and a Masters degree in Public Health (1982). He is the recipient of the 2009 "Spirit of Helen Keller" award for humanitarian efforts in blindness prevention and is the recipient of the 2009 University of Michigan Humanitarian Service Award.
| Investors: | Website: https://www.ashoka.org/fellow/david-green | Email: |
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David Tennenhouse
Dr. David L. Tennenhouse, Ph.D., serves as a Vice President of Technology Policy at Microsoft Corporation. Dr. Tennenhouse was a Partner at New Venture Partners LLC. He joined New Venture Partners in 2007 and was responsible for developing relationships with technology corporations and leading new spinout investments. He was focused on developing relationships with corporate R&D teams and strategic business units. Dr. Tennenhouse has a strong background in technology-driven innovation from Intel Corporation, Amazon.com, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
| Investors: | Website: http://www.microsoft.com/en-ph/default.aspx | Email: |
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Douglas Lawrence
27 years of institutional real estate asset management and portfolio management for major institutions such as TIAA-CREF, and JPMorgan Asset Management Winner of 9 national/international Awards from Industry Associations for superior operating performance as an asset manager Participated in the launch of 2 successful real estate funds including Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund I, JPMorgan Urban Renaissance Fund, and today 5 Stone Green Capital.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.5sgc.com/ | Email: |
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Elizabeth Dreicer
Currently, CEO of Kuity, an advanced analytics solution (product and services) company specializing in financial / econometric, information assurance/cyber, defense, and environment solutions focused on enabling organizations to understand the factors and metrics that drive and optimize performance. Kuity extends the reach of corporate performance management (CPM, BPM and BI) through integration, modeling, simulation, and predictive analytics. In Q4 2013, Kuity spun out Posiba, a big data and analytics powered knowledge commons for the charitable sector (foundations, governments and grantees). Background in healthcare, including top executive roles with firms in medical analytics, expert health system, healthcare technology service organizations (TSO), medical device, community health, managed health care (PPO), medical group purchasing (GPO), healthcare publishing and pharmaceutical distribution industries. Also, experienced with ASP medical benefits management administrator (TPA), science media, and MEMS technology firms.
| Investors: | Website: http://posiba.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Eric Ball
Lead global treasury team. With team, negotiate and execute debt offerings, over $30 billion since 2006. Three of the five largest capital markets offerings ever by a tech company. Credit Magazine cited that “Oracle tapped the market with resounding success”. Named one of "100 Most Influential People in Finance" in 2011 by Treasury & Risk Management magazine.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.oracle.com/index.html | Email: |
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Fran Seegull
Fran leads the Investments team at ImpactAssets. She oversees product development including the forthcoming Investment Strategies offerings. Fran heads investment management for The Giving Fund including investment selection, monitoring and reporting. Prior to joining ImpactAssets, Fran was Managing Director, COO and Venture Partner at Funk Ventures, an early-stage venture capital and acceleration firm, targeting clean technology, sustainable living, health and wellness, and medical technologies. Fran has consulted to a range of purpose-driven organizations including National Geographic, NPR West and many family foundations and offices. She also served as Vice President of Business Development at Novica United, a venture-backed social enterprise that retails and wholesales products made by artisans in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Francisco Manrique
Master in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. Businessman and one of the leaders in innovation and business development in Colombia, is currently President of the Directing Council Connect. Also chairs Estate Solutions, a company he co-founded, dedicated to the development, promotion, sale and construction of real estate projects, with a presence in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.connectbogota.org/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Greg Horowitt
Greg Horowitt is the Co-Founder and Senior Advisor of Global CONNECT, based at the University of California, San Diego. Global CONNECT is a consultancy focused on the development and growth of successful innovation based clusters worldwide, and has grown to encompass one of the world's largest networks of innovation hubs, including 40 programs in 20 countries.
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Jacques Bernier
Jacques is a highly respected venture capitalist, entrepreneur and investor who’s helped shape the Canadian technological innovation scene. Through a 30 year career of contributions to the high-tech community, he has been actively involved in more than a dozen emerging high-tech companies as Founder/CEO or angel investor as well as Senior Vice-President of the Solidarity Fund QFL. Jacques’ widely valued wisdom and experiences continue to define, develop and implement a new approach to venture capital in Québec and abroad.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.teralyscapital.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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James D. Thompson
James D. Thompson, PhD, is coauthor, with Ian (Mac) C. MacMillan, of The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook: Pressure Test Your Start-Up Idea—Step 1. He is also co-founder and director of the Wharton Social Enterprise Program. His current research is focused on social entrepreneurship, future market growth, and investment under conditions of high uncertainty. He has extensive experience in Africa and works around the world with organizations intent on growth in value. Jim has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Long Range Planning, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Research-Technology Management Journal.
| Investors: | Website: http://entrepreneurship.wharton.upenn.edu/social/socialEntrepreneurship/james_thompson.html | Email: |
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Janet Crawford
As a pioneer in the emerging field of neuroleadership, I use neuroscience principles in my work as a coach, organization transformation consultant, facilitator and keynote speaker to: • Create mindsets that make strategic thinking the organizational norm. • Design environments that bring forth the best possible thinking of the organization. • Build time and task management practices which clear distractions and focus clients on the work that matters. • Deepen emotional literacy and underscore the role of emotion in influence and decision-making. • Champion the health practices which support optimal brain function, decrease stress and increase happiness. • Enhance leadership presence by leveraging the non-verbal language of the brain.
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Javier Saade
Javier is the SBA's Associate Administrator for the Office of Investment and Innovation (OII) and is part of the SBA's senior leadership team. He leads the agency's Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program and its Early Stage Investing and Impact Investing initiatives, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. He joins the SBA with 20 years of global general management, principal investing, strategic consulting and entrepreneurial experience. Most recently he was an Advisor to a California-based impact investing and advisory firm, Pacific Community Ventures, and an Advisor to a Colorado-based $1.3 billion family office, Aspen Grove Capital. Concurrently to these, he was a Partner at Brand Maestro LLC, a New York City-based brand strategy firm.
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Jessica Lura
Educator. Passionate about ed form, technology, children's books, disruptive thinking, the environment, and teaching students to be global citizens.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.bullischarterschool.com/site/default.aspx?PageID=1 | Email: |
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Joel Hodgson
Welcome to JoelHodgson.com. I am most famous for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000. Full disclosure, I am also the inventor of the “Ventriloquist Mask” – which may be turning out to be the most popular ventriloquist novelty of the last 100 years. It is currently used by thousands of vents worldwide, including superstars like Terry Fator, Ron Lucas and Nina Conti! Now it can be told!
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John Roberts
Previously, Co-Founder/President at Heal the World, Inc. Others Global Shaper at World Economic Forum Fellow at Power Of Youth Ambassador at Sandbox Network Executive at The Kairos Society
| Investors: | Website: http://captology.stanford.edu/ | Email: |
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Jonas Klevhag
Engineer, Sales Manager, Business Developer in the Automotive industry Script Writer, Producer, Director, Business and Format Developer in TV, film and radio. Currently combining experiences as an inspiring business advisor for exciting startups in the Copenhagen-Malmo area.
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Jordan Novet
I’m a VentureBeat staff writer based in San Francisco. I write about big data, cloud computing, and other technology for business. I previously covered those things at Gigaom. I follow VentureBeat’s ethics statement.
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Julia Sze
Julia Sze manages client portfolios, develops investment strategies, conducts research and supports the firm's investment process. Julia has over twenty years of experience in the investment management field, with a specialization in emerging markets and alternative investments. Prior to joining Sonen, Julia managed large portfolios at Wells Fargo's Family Wealth Group for high net worth clients and foundations. Her personal interest in microfinance and impact investing contributed to the development of that firm's practice in the area. Previous experience includes launching and managing a long/short Asia Pacific hedge fund based in San Francisco, managing several award winning funds in Asia, global gold, Australia/New Zealand, as well as launching and co-managing the first Greater China fund in Hong Kong.
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Jure Leskovec
Jure Leskovec has Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Data mining and machine learning, with emphasis on mining and modeling large networks, link analysis and text mining.
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Kumardev Chatterjee
Kumardev Chatterjee, is the Founder and President of the European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF www.eyif.eu), which he setup in 2010 when he was 31 years old. At EYIF, as President, Kumardev leads the setup and management of strategy, direction, organisational objectives and performance. He is responsible for the management of EYIF's key stakeholder relationships with the European Commission, US State Department, Fortune 100 and 500 Chairpersons and CEOs, and large European and International organisations like the European Investment Fund, OECD and other strategic partners.
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Lea Bajc
Lea firmly believes in the notion that if you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life, and so by it she lives: "Seeing great entrepreneurs let their imagination loose makes my day." Lea Bajc (the family name is pronounced "bytes", as in her nickname "megabytes" - a tribute to her often outlandish memory for obscure details) spent her early years in Croatia. In that place and time, Lea remembers, you had to have an entrepreneurial mindset to make it. The family moved to Sweden and in due time Lea graduated with a joint degree from HEC and Stockholm School of Economics. After graduation Lea spent five years at Morgan Stanley, where her skills were put to use in a number of different fields, including M&A, private equity, Firm management and leveraged finance. And then Lea heard the call to Harvard Business School. During her time at HBS, Lea "specialized" in anything entrepreneurship oriented, laid the foundation for subsequent selection to the Kauffman Fellows Program and even joined a chocolate startup - Sweetriot. After graduation Lea ignored the siren song of the ordinary MBA-route and decided it was time to break free, branch out and set up on her own. Circumstances led her to London, where she successfully created her own Venture Capital and Startup advisory business. One of her projects involved Northzone and the rest will, we harbor no doubts about that, be history. Outside of "office" hours, Lea is an avid sportswoman enjoying yoga, skiing, swimming, diving and hiking. She’s also a licensed aerobics & fitness instructor and nutritionist. Her biggest regret is that she’s never gotten around to fulfilling her dream of becoming an opera singer (there was this minor issue of severe lack of talent that somehow seems to be a problem with most opera houses). But she compensates for this with a passionate relationship with Karaoke.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.impactspace.org/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Margarita Quihuis
A social entrepreneur and mentor capitalist, Margarita Quihuis’s career has focused on innovation, technology incubation, access to capital and entrepreneurship. Her accomplishments include directorship of Astia (formerly known as the Women’s Technology Cluster), a technology incubator focused on women entrepreneurs where her portfolio companies raised $67 million in venture funding, venture capitalist, Reuters Fellow at Stanford, and Director of RI Labs for Ricoh Innovations. She is a researcher at Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and co-directs the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab where she conducts research in behavior design, open innovation, mass collaboration, persuasive technology & the potential of social networks to change society for the better.
| Investors: | Website: http://peaceinnovation.stanford.edu/ | Email: |
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Maria A. Douglass
Maslow’s hammer represents a death knoll for innovation: “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Yet in many spaces, organizations fall back on the proverbial hammer when the situation may call for different tools. A colleague once said of me, “chainsaw or Dremel – you decide.” I am a creative solutions person with a diverse toolset, combining and adapting business models to arrive at innovative strategies for mission-driven programs and organizations.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.kaust.edu.sa/ | Email: |
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Mark Levy
Mark Levy is the founder of Levy Innovation LLC, a positioning and branding firm that helps consultants and other thought leaders increase their fees by up to 2,000%.
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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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Michael Hawes
Michael has over 20 years of experience in General Management of filtration and water purification companies. Before Liquidity, Michael led 3M’s Worldwide Water Group where he was responsible for a sales, marketing, business development and R&D for a department with over $220 M in annual revenue. Michael’s position at 3M followed their acquisition of CUNO, a major international manufacturer of water filters and purification technology. At CUNO Michael led the Asia-Pacific region as General Manager quadrupling the region’s revenue and doubled the staff during his tenure. While working in Asia he developed distribution agreements, built up sales relationships, and managed strong growth of a water company. Michael’s relationships from that period provide Liquidity with great access to key decision makers at water purification OEMs throughout the region. Michael has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales and a Post-Grad diploma in Marketing at Charles Sturt University.
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Miriam Rivera
Deep and broad experience in high technology, from start up to public company. Shaped strategy and culture. Set direction. Inspired and motivated team work. Designed strategic, complex commercial relationships, arrangements and completed or managed thousands of transactions, including dozens worth $100M+ and several worth $1-5B. Ability to scale operations under hypergrowth as well as to recruit, coach and mentor top talent while creating a high performance, high services and fun team culture. Broad legal experience managing corporate, commercial, procurement, licensing, real estate, employment, international trade compliance and ethics and international legal functions.
| Investors: | Website: http://uluventures.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Mitchell Strauss
Mitchell Strauss is the Special Advisor SRI Finance, Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Department, Office of the President and Chief Executive Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation [OPIC]
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Nancy Pfund
Nancy Pfund is a Managing Partner of DBL Investors. Ms. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors of a number of private companies, including Primus Power, SolarCity, Solaria, Ecologic, PowerGenix, and BrightSource Energy. Ms. Pfund also worked closely with exited portfolio companies Tesla Motors and Pandora.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.dblinvestors.com/people/nancy-pfund/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Nathan Fletcher
Nathan Fletcher is Senior Director of Corporate Development for Qualcomm Incorporated. In this role, he helps lead corporate citizenship and business initiatives globally, bringing his more than 16 years of experience in government and international development to help identify and expand opportunities where technology has the power to positively transform people’s lives. He also serves a Professor at the University of California San Diego where he teaches Political Science. Prior to these positions, Nathan was a member of the California State Assemblyman who represented the 75th District. He was the first combat veteran of the Global War on Terror elected to the California State Legislature.
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Ned Breslin
Breslin spent more than 16 years in Africa working on water and sanitation before joining Water For People and introducing bold, systemic solutions to critical issues facing the sector. Water For People partners with communities in developing countries to create sustainable, locally-maintained drinking water solutions and supports market-driven sanitation solutions, such as its Sanitation as a Business program. Accountability and sustainability are major focuses for the organization. It recently developed a new open-source monitoring and evaluation technology called FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch,) which leverages Android technology and Google Earth software for tracking the status of water points at least 10 years after implementation.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.waterforpeople.org/ | Email: |
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P.K. Agarwal
As the CEO of TiE Global, P.K. oversees the development of programs and supports the goals of TiE chapters worldwide to advance the TiE mission of promoting entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education. In his prior role, P.K. was the Chief Technology Officer of the State of California since 2005.
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Phil Wickham
Phil serves as the President and CEO of the Center for Venture Education in Palo Alto, CA. The mission of the Kauffman Fellows Program is to develop the next generation of leaders in venture capital. Success for Phil means that entrepreneurs are building more enduring companies and investors are achieving superior returns. Overseeing all aspects of the CVE, Phil continues to push the program’s international expansion. He also has a special passion for venture capital’s opportunities globally in helping to meet societal needs. Phil is a veteran venture investor and startup entrepreneur. Early in his career Phil co-founded the publishing company Reference Media in Tokyo, Japan, grew it to scale and sold it to the Princeton Review, where he became VP of Sales for Japan and Korea. Later, Phil served as General Partner at JAFCO America Ventures, a billion-dollar fund backed by leading Japanese financial and technology players such as Hitachi, Mitsubishi, NEC, Itochu, Nomura, and Nippon Life Insurance. Phil went on to become a partner and run US operations for Copan, a European venture fund based in Munich, Germany, where Phil also served on the Board. He has shepherded more than 30 investments, including Ikanos, Web Methods, Com21, and Emergent. Phil currently serves on the board of S2 Technologies, Trilibis, and Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), and is an advisor to the Creandum fund in Stockholm. Phil holds a BS from the Aerospace Mechanical Engineering School at the University of Arizona, and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. When not working–or playing hockey–Phil can be found in Los Gatos with his wife and two daughters (11 and 13 years old). A Charter Class member of the Kauffman Fellows Program, Phil served his fellowship at OneLiberty/Flagship Ventures in Boston with mentor Ed Kania. Phil was a CVE founding board member and serves on the board as CEO.
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Renee Kaplan
Renee Kaplan is Chief Strategy Officer and oversees programs at the Skoll Foundation. This role mobilizes foundation resources to: invest in innovations that demonstrate large scale change, cultivate a global community of innovators, and capture and communicate evidence of impact on the world’s most pressing problems. Renee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and International Studies from Washington State University and has a passion for advising social ventures, including the Foster Care Alumni of America in Washington, D.C. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two sons and is an avid soccer player.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.skollfoundation.org/ | Email: |
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Rob Lalka
Rob Lalka is the Director of Strategy and Partnerships for Village Capital. Previously, he was the Senior Advisor for Global Partnerships at the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, where he directed efforts to leverage the foundation's assets through philanthropic-private partnerships, including an agribusiness development partnership with John Deere and DuPont Pioneer in Africa and a series of partnerships to create market-based solutions to global food security challenges along with the New York Times bestselling book 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.vilcap.com/ | Email: |
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Rohit Shukla
Rohit K. Shukla is the chief executive officer of Larta Institute. Larta brings together people, technology, and capital to drive the innovation process, accelerating the transition of cutting-edge technologies to the marketplace. Companies helped by Larta Institute have raised over $1.5 billion in capital. Since 1993, Larta has served as the official commercialization agent for the State of California, and now manages the nationwide
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Sharon Vosmek
Sharon Vosmek has been CEO of Astia since 2007, previously joining as COO in 2004. As CEO of Astia, Sharon has an unwavering passion and a uniquely well-suited background to drive forward the organization’s mission of propelling women’s full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses, fueling innovation and driving economic. Under her guidance, the Astia community of investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders has grown from 20 individuals in Silicon Valley; to more than 5,000 around the globe, representing every continent.
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Stefan Weitz
Stefan Weitz is a Director of Search at Microsoft and is charged with working with people and organizations across the industry to promote and improve Search technologies. While focused on Microsoft’s product line, he works across the industry to understand searcher behavior and in his role as an evangelist for Search, gathers and synthesizes feedback to drive product improvements. Prior to Search, Stefan led the strategy to develop the next generation MSN portal platform and developed Microsoft’s muni WiFi strategy, leading the charge to blanket WiFi across metropolitan cities. A 12-year Microsoft veteran, he has worked in various groups including Windows Server, Security, and IT. Stefan is a huge gadget junkie and can often be found in electronics shops across the world looking for the elusive perfect piece of tech.
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Steve Blank
I might have been chosen “least likely to succeed” in my New York City high school class. My path has taken me from repairing fighter planes in Thailand during the Vietnam War (a member of the Society of Wild Weasels), to spook stuff in undisclosed location(s), and I was lucky enough to arrive at the beginning of the boom times of Silicon Valley in 1978. I served on the California Coastal Commission, (the public body which regulates land use and public access on the California coast,) California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV), the Expert Advisory Panel for the California Ocean Protection Council as well as on the boards of Audubon California (and its past chair), the Audubon National Board as well as the Peninsula Open Space Land Trust (POST) and as a trustee of the U.C. Santa Cruz foundation.
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Ted Lai
Ted has been an active investor and adviser to startup technology, media and consumer-focused companies in both China and the U.S. for nearly 15 years. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Taomee, a Chinese children’s entertainment and media company listed on the NYSE. He earned his MBA at Harvard Business School and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in engineering at Stanford University.
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Thomas Guevara
Thomas Guevara in his capacity as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Affairs directs and supervises the activities of the Economic Development Administration's (EDA) Office of Regional Affairs, including the Performance and National Programs Division and all six EDA Regional Offices. EDA's Regional Offices are responsible for program delivery of investments that fulfill the agency's mission of leading the federal economic development agenda by promoting competitiveness and preparing American regions for growth and success in the worldwide economy. Mr. Guevara brings over 24 years of management experience in financial advisory services, public-private partnership finance, and economic development program management and consulting.
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Tim Williamson
Tim Williamson is the co-founder and CEO of The Idea Village, a private, independent 501(c) (3) non-profit organization founded in 2000 with a mission to identify, support and retain entrepreneurial talent in New Orleans. An entrepreneur by trade and by training, Mr. Williamson has successfully started and operated five entrepreneurial ventures in four different cities and has been a steadfast advocate for making New Orleans a vibrant entrepreneurial community. Mr. Williamson is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and strategies to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem. A graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders, New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute, and CABL’s Louisiana Leadership program, Mr. Williamson was honored among CityBusiness“ Power Generation”, Gambit “40 under 40” and 2009 YLC Role Model. Mr. Williamson also earned the Junior Achievement Rising Star Award and received “Heroes of the Storm” award in 2008. He serves on the boards of City Year New Orleans and the Arts Council of New Orleans. Mr. Williamson received a B.S.M. in Finance from Tulane University in 1987.
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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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Wayne Silby
Wayne Silby founded Calvert, a $15 billion investment management group in Bethesda, MD noted for their leadership in the area of socially responsible investment. Though he is no longer active in most of the day-to-day business of Calvert, he serves as President of Calvert Social Investment Fund and supervises its private equity activities.
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