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Benzi Ronen
Benzi Ronen consults to farms on how to take advantage of Internet related technologies to increase their profitability and sustainability. While he grew up between Manhattan's high-rises, he was always drawn to the outdoors. He volunteered on several farms where he took advantage of his six foot six physique to pick the high hanging fruit. He has a passion for travel and has been to many remote places in the world, experiencing the locals through their agriculture and culinary culture. Regions of travel include: South & Central America, The Far East, Australia/New Zealand and the Middle East.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.farmigo.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Brenden Millstein
In 2010, Brenden co-founded Carbon Lighthouse, where he is responsible for corporate growth, engineering, and long-term planning. Under Brenden’s leadership, Carbon Lighthouse became profitable and began reducing emissions within 6 months of operations. Brenden Millstein previously worked for NYSERDA, the State agency charged with addressing New York’s largest energy and environmental issues. Working with a small team comprised of leading energy experts, Brenden co-administered a budget of $87 million, executing energy efficiency and demand response projects at 250+ manufacturing plants and high-rise office buildings in New York City. Brenden’s clients included Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, CBRE, and many other banks and property management companies. Additionally, he also worked as a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, investigating both Li-ion batteries and advanced building materials.
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Chief Daddy-O
From the moment that he first heard the words, "it's a girl," Neil knew that he was now part of something much greater than himself. He knew in that moment that he would spend the rest of his life loving, nurturing and protecting this little girl. It was in those early years that he realized the incredible importance that food and nourishment played in his daughter's health and development. As his second daughter entered their world, the wheels began to turn…
| Investors: | Website: http://www.plumorganics.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Claude Barras
Currently the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Obviam, an independent investment advisor specialized in long-term investments in emerging and frontier markets.
| Investors: Investor | Website: http://www.obviam.ch/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Connor Landgraf
Through his background in biomedical devices, web, and mobile development, Connor is the main programmer and has been able to develop the software and algorithms for audio analysis and signal processing. As the CEO, Connor is in charge of the direction and vision of the company
| Investors: | Website: http://ekodevices.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Crispin Murira
Crispin has more than eleven years of executive leadership and business experience. A proven entrepreneur, Crispin founded and led a successful New York City fashion accessories design company where he devised and executed product development, managed sales and marketing, and grew distribution to more than 100 retail locations throughout the United States. Previously he worked as a senior mergers and acquisitions analyst for investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston (now Credit Suisse) participating in over two billion dollars of acquisitions and divestitures. Since 2005 Crispin has been leading the marketing efforts for Blinds To Go, North America’s largest retailer and manufacturer of Blinds and Shades. As marketing director, he built and managed the team responsible for identifying appropriate media channels, developing effective consumer marketing campaigns and executing those campaigns to successfully generate $125 million of annual revenues. Crispin grew up in Nairobi, Kenya before coming to the United States to attend university. He is fluent in Swahili, holds an A.B. in Economics and Physics from Bowdoin College and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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David Kim
A seasoned Executive and Entrepreneur in the digital media, education and online/search technology sectors. As CEO of Ace Learning, David is responsible for corporate strategy & operations, finance and product strategy. Prior to Ace Learning Company, David has held executive-level roles in large technology organizations such as Yahoo! & Overture and founding management team-level positions in fast growing technology start-up firms such as eCandy
| Investors: | Website: http://www.acelearningco.com/index/ | Email: [email protected] |
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George Overholser
For the past ten years, George Overholser has committed himself to the social sector. In 2010, as an Entrepreneur in Residence at New Profit Inc., he co-founded Third Sector Capital Partners. Previously, he founded NFF Capital Partners, a division housed within Nonprofit Finance Fund that has so far helped 16 high-performing nonprofits to secure over $300 million of philanthropic growth capital and continues to operate under the leadership of Craig Reigel. The NFF Capital Partners portfolio has grown its programmatic output five-fold since the investments were made, while also markedly improving metrics of financial sustainability. In 1999, George formed North Hill Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital firm, with $125 million under management, focused on early-stage financial and marketing technology firms. He was a member of Capital One’s founding management team, where he headed up strategy and oversaw the launch of 20 new businesses. George commenced his career as a strategy consultant at Strategic Planning Associates, serving a wide range of Fortune 500 clients. George is a frequent speaker and writer on the topic of innovation in nonprofit sector finance, having been covered in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Business Week and New York Times. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Physics and a MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. George focuses on deal construction, rigorous impact evaluation design, and thought leadership at Third Sector.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.thirdsectorcap.org/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Gillian Henker
Gillian is co-founder and CEO of DIIME and leads the product development of Hemafuse. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in mechanical engineering and a minor in multidisciplinary design. She is passionate about sustainable, collaborative design for international development. Within the Global Health Specialization program at Michigan, she traveled with a team of peers to Kumasi, Ghana where they conducted interviews and observations in the local teaching hospital. She founded DIIME with several others in May 2011 to continue their work with the clinicians in Kumasi, Ghana in order to commercialize impactful technologies.
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Heather Hiles
Current CEO and founder of Pathbrite.
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Joseph Thompson
Joseph is the CEO of AIDTech. He combines a background in management consultancy with considerable expertise in strategic IT management. Holding 2 IT related degrees a strategic management Masters degree and an MBA from Manchester university Joseph has a wealth of practical and theoretical knowledge. Joseph is also currently undertaking the world s first master s degree in Digital Currency via the University of Nicosia in Cyprus. Joseph has previously worked in senior roles for Bearing Point Ericsson The Litmus Group and AIB. Joseph had the vision to create a company that can be profitable as well as socially responsible. Harnessing cutting edge technology and making the experience as seamless as possible for the unbanked and digitally under served has been Joseph s objective from day one.
| Investors: | Website: http://aid.technology/team/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Krista Donaldson
Krista Donaldson, PhD, has driven innovation in product design, engineering, and international development for more than 15 years. As D-Rev’s CEO, Krista’s has led the release of Brilliance, a revolutionary technology treating neonatal jaundice, and the ReMotion prosthetic knee. Her leadership has won Krista acclaim as a Silicon Valley “40 Under 40” winner, a TEDx and Clinton Global Initiative speaker, and she was recently named to Fast Company’s Co.Design 50 Designers Shaping the Future, and the Public Interest Design 100. She is a 2010-2012 Rainer Arnhold Fellow and a 2011 Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow
| Investors: | Website: http://www.d-rev.org/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Landon Wiedenman
Co-founder & CEO
| Investors: | Website: http://www.profilehealthsystems.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Mark Hlady
Chief Financial Officer of Finance for Good
| Investors: | Website: http://www.financeforgood.ca | Email: [email protected] |
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Mark Loranger
Mark Loranger is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chrysalis. As CEO, Mark sets Chrysalis’ strategy in partnership with the Board of Directors and oversees its operations. He led the organization’s recently-approved five year strategic plan, which focuses on providing enhanced soft skills and technology training and additional transitional job opportunities – key areas for clients as they face an increasingly competitive job market.
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Matt Stanton
An avid hiker, Matt is no stranger to the need of power while off the grid. This personal experience was on his mind while developing an energy harvesting shoe insert at Carnegie Mellon University with fellow co-founder Hahna. As a result, he decided to be a part of SolePower’s formation and bring forth a new and more reliable off-grid personal energy solution. Beyond being SolePower's CEO, he is an extremely capable engineer who, with a little bit of superglue and a dremel, can make just about anything work. He was recently honored on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list in the energy category.
| Investors: | Website: http://http://solepowertech.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Michael Lundquist
Michael Lundquist, Executive Director, has worked for 35+ years in community-based human services and developed the Polus Center’s international programs beginning in 1997. He has published articles on community based rehabilitation in the Journal of Mine Action and O & P World and presented at the World Bank, U.S. Department of State, Society for International Development, and numerous non-government organizations (NGO’s) throughout the world. He has been a guest speaker on subjects ranging from Strategies in International Development, Landmine Victims Assistance, and Valued Social and Economic Roles for People with Disabilities. He has presented at several universities and colleges including Michigan State University, Cambridge College, Smith College’s Kahn Institute and Bridgewater State University.
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Molly Baldwin
Molly Baldwin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Roca, Inc. A graduate of UMass, Amherst, Molly began her professional life as a street worker and community organizer, andMolly Photo_Molly Baldwin page soon founded Roca in 1988. For over twenty-five years, she has been a tireless advocate, mentor, and community convener, reaching out to the highest-risk young people from our area’s most dangerous urban communities, and bringing together the major institutions, corporations, and agencies that affect these young people’s lives. Her 5’3” stature belies her magnanimous presence – with the help of engaged institutions and a committed team of youth workers, Molly’s efforts at Roca have helped over 25,000 young people make positive and profound changes in their lives. Today, Roca intensively reaches out to over 700 participants each year, operating on the singular belief that – with the right help – people can change in spite of seemingly insurmountable circumstances. Molly has been the recipient of numerous regional and national awards and has been recognized as one of the Boston Globe’s Top 100 Innovators for 2013. She holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Lesley University and an honorary Ph.D. from Salem State University.
| Investors: | Website: http://rocainc.org/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Myrtille Danse
Myrtille is an internationally recognized expert on the intersection of business strategy and sustainable poverty alleviation. She facilitates the design of enterprise strategies and poverty alleviation approaches for low-income markets, developing capabilities of new market entry, building cross sector collaborations, and evaluating the sustainability impact of business ventures. She has 20 years of experience on value chain development and inclusive business strategies with Multi National Enterprises and local private sector in transition and developing economies. This experience was obtained as a project leader of numerous international business development projects in Europe, Africa, South East-Asia and Latin America. Her experience as a private sector advisor, including more than 8 years in Central America- policy advisor and trade attaché of the Dutch Embassy for Central America, and advisor on local private sector development for an international NGO on development cooperation, enables her to mediate between the private sector and vital societal actors required to develop successful pro-poor market-based innovations.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.bopinc.org/ | Email: |
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Scott Jacobs
Scott Jacobs is the CEO and Co-Founder of Generate Capital. Scott has also served as a Managing Director and Co-Founder of EFW Partners, an investment firm focused on the world’s critical resources: energy, food and water. Generate Capital and EFW illustrate Scott’s long-standing emphasis on innovative approaches to thematic investing, focusing broadly on the “resource revolution.” In 2007, Scott co-founded McKinsey & Company’s global CleanTech practice, advising companies, institutional investors, NGOs and several national and regional governments around the world. Before joining McKinsey, Scott spent over a decade in technology and venture capital, helping start and grow a number of companies, including PolyServe (acquired by HP) and Alliance Data Systems (acquired by FiServ). Scott received his MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a George F. Baker Scholar, and his BA cum laude from Dartmouth College. Scott also serves on the Board of Rare, a leading global conservation non-profit. Scott lives in San Francisco, enjoys a range of outdoor activities and frequents the local farmers’ markets on weekends in order to create feasts for his family and friends.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.generatecapital.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Sean Marx
Sean Marx grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated with a B.A. in economics from Occidental College, and began his career on the West Coast in 1988 as a territory sales representative for Ricoh copiers in San Francisco. He quickly became a top performer and was promoted to sales management. Soon after, he was approached by Mike Hannigan with the idea of starting Give Something Back. Says Marx, "Growing up in Cambridge during the '70s had a permanent effect on my impression of the world around me. Cambridge is very diverse, and being exposed to that and big city problems made me extremely sensitive to social issues. As a sales manager, I was very successful financially, but I was disillusioned with the priorities of my peers. Focus on material wealth and a lack of concern for world problems did not fit with my upbringing. So when Mike approached me with the idea of starting a company based on the concept behind Paul Newman's food company, I jumped at the chance."
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Shane Gring
Shane Gring is the Director of Sustainability and Co-Founder of BOULD, an experiential education company focused on green building education, while simultaneously supporting community building projects. In 2.5 years, he scaled education programming to 10 states, sold training to 400 developing professionals and supported and consulted over 40 LEED certified residential projects. He has earned entrepreneurship and innovation fellowships with the Unreasonable Institute, the Hitachi Foundation and the Huffington Post’s Millennial Impact Challenge. Shane has presented at 30+ green industry events, representing millennial leaders and inclusive sustainability, including 1,000+ attendee keynotes and TEDx.
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Tarrus Richardson
Mr. Richardson has more than 20 years of experience in private equity, mergers & acquisitions and community leadership. Mr. Richardson has co-founded or served as CEO for five companies: ICV Partners, a $440 million minority-owned private equity fund; Chung’s Foods, a $20 million Asian food company; Gold Coast Securities, a $4 million investment bank in Ghana; HBS Cleaners (a $300,000 business that he ran while attending Harvard Business School); and IMB. He has been equally committed to community leadership and has founded or served as president of the Council of Urban Professionals (CUP); the MBE M&A Summit; the Plan Sponsor and Emerging Manager Conference; REACH NYC; and the Purdue Black Alumni Organization. He received a BS in Accounting from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Robert Toigo Fellow.
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Tom Davidson
Tom Davidson picked the "CEO" slip out of the hat at a recent EverFi staff party and has yet to be fired by the Board of Directors. Davidson ran for the Maine State Legislature while a senior at Bowdoin College in 1994 and spent the better part of three terms working to bring education technology to students in the Pine Tree State. As Chairman of the Utilities and Energy Committee, Davidson led a successful effort with Governor Angus King to provide laptops to every Maine seventh grader as well as to create a major expansion of the wiring of schools and libraries across the State. After deciding that he needed to tell his children one day that he actually once earned a paycheck, Davidson left the Legislature in 2000 and began investing in early-stage technology companies in the education and social media spaces. He was a Venture Partner with Village Ventures, a network of venture capital firms across the U.S. Davidson graduated from Bowdoin College devoid of any academic honors of any consequence.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.everfi.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Will Byrne
As Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Will oversees the strategy and management of Groundswell. Under his leadership, Groundswell has grown into one of the most innovative social sector organizations in the United States’ emerging clean energy economy. In 2012, he was awarded a Fellowship from Ashoka Innovators for the Public, the world’s largest social entrepreneurship network. In addition, Forbes magazine named him to its 30 Under 30 list of social entrepreneurs. Will was selected to attend the June 2011 Clinton Global Initiative America conference in Chicago - the first event of its kind focused on creating jobs and driving economic growth in the U.S. President Bill Clinton honored Groundswell's Commitment to Action to deploy nationwide its new market organizing model to advance clean energy economic opportunity in communities across the U.S. In 2011, in recognition of Groundswell's community-led impact in the clean energy sector, the White House awarded Will the Champions of Change honor, and the World Economic Forum selected him as a member of its Young Global Shapers community.
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