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Adam Pisoni
Mr. Adam Pisoni co-founded Yammer, Inc. in 2008 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer and Director. Mr. Pisoni served as Director of Web Engineering at Shopzilla, playing a pivotal role in systems architecture and product development. Mr. Pisoni also co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of Cnation, a web development consultancy with clients including CBS MarketWatch, BizRate.com, Fox Interactive, Nissan of Japan, and Honda. Cnation's work for Honda earned them the 1997 Clio award for interactive design.
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Bas Hoefman
Bas Hoefman is social entrepreneur, founder and director of Text to Change (TTC). Back in 2006, while working at ING Bank in the Netherlands, he was inspired by the growth of mobile technology in Africa from where he discovered the potential of using mobile technology for social development. He co-founded Text to Change with a close friend, together they implemented one of the first large scale mHealth projects in Africa. TTC has led the way in using interactive mobile messaging for development in Africa and South America and has so far implemented over 70 successful mobile communication programs in 17 countries.
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Benje Williams
Benje is the cofounder of Amal Academy, a Stanford-funded education startup that prepares disadvantaged Pakistani students with the soft skills they need to pursue their professional dreams. Prior to Amal, he lived in Nairobi, Kenya, where he spent his time making investments with Acumen Fund, developing a food security project with TechnoServe, launching an education resource center with his football team in the Mathare slum, and unsuccessfully launching a waste-to-energy venture. He has also advised a global pharmacy company with Dalberg Global Advisors in South Africa, developed/implemented a marketing strategy for an ambulance company in India, and helped build the marketing strategy/team at a healthcare company in Lahore as a Global Acumen Fellow. Prior to working in emerging markets, Benje spent several years consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York and getting into trouble with his older sister and 8 [adopted] younger siblings in California. He has a BSc in Business Administration (major) and African American Studies (minor) from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Bob DeMaria
Dr. Robert DeMaria is a catalyst for health and well-being. As owner of the Drugless Doctor brands, Dr. Bob’s techniques have restored optimal health to thousands of patients without the need for prescription medication. His research and daily experiences can be seen throughout his seven books, including the bestseller, “Dr. Bob’s Drugless Guide to Balancing Female Hormones”. Dr. Bob has consulted for FedEx, VitaMix, and other national brands, and appeared on multiple media portals including ABC Family, TBN, Fox 8 Cleveland, and WFAN NYC.
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Brigitte Daniel
Brigitte Daniel is committed to efforts that provide innovative solutions that address the digital divide within communities in the United States and abroad.
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Christian Kunkel
Christian has extensive experience in education and startups through founding both for-profit and non-profit companies. His first startup, the ABAA, a marketing and events company, targeted the college demographic. After spending a number of years researching and designing corporate universities and leadership development programs with CorpU, he founded Startup Corps, a high school entrepreneurship incubator that helps high school students develop entrepreneurial skills and mindsets as they solve real world problems. His background in education research and entrepreneurial skills provides the foundation for Slate’s efforts to modernize education outcomes.
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Chuck Templeton
Chuck Templeton is the Managing Director at the Impact Engine. He is passionate about early stage and emerging companies, and is focused on using business principles to find solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. He has had the pleasure of being involved with over two-dozen startups as an investor, board member, or advisor, but spends the majority of his time helping impact companies as the Managing Director of Impact Engine.
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Deborah Quazzo
Deborah is an advisor and small business owner. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of GSV Advisors, which she started in April 2009. GSV Advisors is a broker dealer providing advisory services to the education and business services sectors. Additionally, GSV Advisors co-hosts an annual Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, AZ with Arizona State University, the nation's largest public university. This event, now in its fifth year, and attended by over 1,400 people, celebrates innovations and innovators across the education landscape from early childhood to lifelong learning. Prior to GSV Advisors, Deborah co-founded ThinkEquity Partners an investment bank with offices across the U.S. While at ThinkEquity, Deborah was President and Head of Investment Banking. The firm was acquired in March 2007 and Deborah was a board member of the London-based Panmure Gordon (AIM: PMR) through December 2008. Previously, Deborah was a Managing Director in Investment Banking and head of the Global Growth Group at Merrill Lynch & Co.
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Dune Lankard
Dune Lankard is a strategic and guiding force for the Eyak Preservation Council. His stances in his community have shown vision and courage, and suffice it to say that they have not always been popular and understood by some. He is ancestrally from, and a lifelong resident of, Cordova. Dune’s Eyak name is Jamachakih, which translates: Little Bird that screams really loud and won’t shut up.The morning he found his homelands covered with oil from the Exxon Valdez disaster he turned from commercial fisherman to dedicated community activist. Since that day, he has been recognized for his abilities to link cultural and environmental solutions. For his work, he was selected by Time magazine as one of its “Heroes of the Planet”. In 2006, he was named an Ashoka Social Entrepreneur Fellow; in 2007, his non-profit business idea for the Cordova Cold Storage and Cookery was awarded a Marketplace Alaska award by the Alaska Federation of Natives. He was recently awarded a Hunt Alternatives Fund-Prime Movers Fellowship: Cultivating Social Capital Award. He sits on boards of the Bioneers, EPC, the NATIVE Conservancy, REDOIL, and the FIRE Fund and on the advisory board of the Seva Foundation and the Alaska Wildlife Alliance. Currently, he is very involved in EPC’s Tribal Copper River Keeper program, Bering Coal Conservation Opportunity, and the Shepard Point campaigns. He is one of EPC’s Copper River Wilderness Raft guides.
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Erica Williamson
Erica Williamson brings a diverse set of business and education experiences to Second Home. She founded Second Home Early Child Care Centers in 2012. Erica is also the Senior Director of Human Capital at Achievement First Charter School Network, where she is responsible for supporting Achievement First’s activities around HR systems, talent strategy, employment policies, benefits, performance improvement and compensation. Erica was also a fellow with the Education Pioneers 2008 New York cohort. During her fellowship, she worked at Teach For America on the recruitment strategy for emerging markets. Erica began her career working as a strategy consultant at Monitor Group. Erica holds an M.B.A. and an M.Ed. from Stanford University, and a B.S. in industrial engineering from Northwestern University.
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Erina McWilliam-Lopez
Erina McWilliam-Lopez is a strategic communications and program management professional who is passionate about connecting talented and purposed-fueled professionals with meaningful opportunities in social enterprise management and impact investing. She holds an exciting role at the Monterey Institute's Center for Social Impact Learning where she supports programs including the Frontier Market Scouts (go.miis.edu/fms), Ambassador Corps, Development Consulting, as well as an ongoing lineup of special events and workshops featuring some of the world's most committed change-makers. Engage: @erinamclopez
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Fabrice Grinda
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors. He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll. Fabrice is currently investing in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding. Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets. Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.
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Frank Bonsal Jr.
Frank Bonsal Jr. joined New Markets Venture Partners as a Special Partnerin 2007. He has over 30 years of exemplary venture capital experience as General Partner of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), which he co-founded in 1978 and has become one of the U.S. ‘s largest venture capital firms ($8.5B managed) and as Co-Founder and Director of Red Abbey Venture Partners, a vintage 2004 life sciences fund.Since retiring from his General Partner role at NEA in 2003, Frank has remained an active venture investor, as Founder and Managing Partner of Bonsal Capital, LLC and as advisor to and Limited Partner in numerous funds in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe, including Amadeus Capital Partners (UK), Boulder Ventures (MD/CO), Novak Biddle Venture Partners (MD), Sterling Ventures (MD), Trellis Partners (TX), Venturehouse (DC), and Windward Ventures (CA).Frank is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Endowment Board. He serves on numerous Boards, including Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Co., CeraTech, CIBERNET, CorasWorks, and Veran Medical Technologies. Prior to co-founding NEA in 1978, Frank was a General Partner with Alex. Brown & Sons for 15 years. Frank graduated from Princeton University where he majored in Economics. He is married with three children and seven grandchildren.
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Gouri Mirpuri
Gouri calls herself a "backyard activist" She joined TLF in 2008 and, although having recently moved to the United States, Gouri has been very active in Indonesian environmental initiatives over many years.
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Greg Waldorf
Greg is CEO of Invoice2go and is responsible for driving global expansion of the business. He has a long history of involvement with leading technology businesses. Prior to joining Invoice2go, Greg was affiliated with Accel Partners as CEO-in-residence. Greg also served as CEO of eHarmony from 2006-2010 where he drove significant global growth through an expansion to 15 countries worldwide. He holds a BA from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Hardy Farrow
Hardy Farrow is currently the Executive Director of Let s Innovate through Education (LITE Memphis). Hardy was named one of the Forbes 30 under 30 in Education in 2017 and recognized as a Global Semifinalist for the Forbes Change the World Competition in fall 2016 as one of the top 20 changemakers in the world. Hardy was the recipient of the National Innovation in Teaching award as a first year Teach for America teacher and was selected as a regional finalist for the Sue Lehmann Excellence in Teaching Award via Teach for America in his second year. Hardy is currently a member of the Leadership Memphis Executive Class and a proud graduate of the George Washington University where he majored in political science.
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Jane Wilson
Jane's background is in correctional education, law, and political science. She worked as an educator in correctional facilities in San Francisco, Utah, and New York, and on the strategy team of NYC’s Department of Education’s District 79 (Alternative Schools and Programs). She assisted in founding the ROADS Charter High Schools, a network of schools serving overage, under-credited youth, and now serves on their Board of Directors. She also worked as an attorney in the corporate department of Kaye Scholer, LLP. Jane graduated from Stanford in Political Science with Honors in Education, and holds a J.D. and Masters in Educational Leadership from Columbia. She is currently pursuing a Masters from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and, with Jen, is a 2013 Open Society Black Male Achievement Fellow.
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Joanne Wilson
Joanne Wilson is an angel investor and blogger. Joanne has had several careers starting out as a buyer at Macys to running a company in the rag trade eventually leading to spearheading sales for a start-up magazine/e-zine/events company called Silicon Alley Reporter. On to the non-profit world where she chaired MOUSE (Making Opportunities in Upgrading Schools in Education) an organization focused on technology in inner-city schools. She has sat on a number of profit and non-profit boards and has been involved with a variety of real estate transactions from beginning to end. Joanne has been blogging since 1994 under the name Gotham Gal. She is involved with the start-up community as an angel investor and adviser. She has been a champion of women in tech by starting and co-chairing the Women’s Entrepreneurial Festival with the ITP division of NYU. Many of the companies she is working with are owned or started by women.
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Kalimah Priforce
Kalimah Priforce is a social entrepreneur with a vision to change the lives of underprivileged children, those who live in poverty ridden areas. Kalimah wants to expose these kids to the digital world and e-commerce helping them cultivate their professional image and establish successful careers; He has made it his mission to provide these resources to these kids.Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, he established his first computer company when he was 17, now he turned his entrepreneur and mentorship experience towards developing innovative and technology based solutions for bridging the gaps in education for the less fortunate. Next was his venture to propagate his ‘our kids, our future’ mission. He was 22, the Thurgood Marshall Club of America, a youth-led venture between the Gallup Organization, the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise, and the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund which reached out pre dominantly to black majority institutes offering leadership programs. “It takes a digital village to raise the 21st century child. Closing the technology gap begins with our most promising upstarts – today’s at-risk youth” Following this, Kalimah co-founded Qyeno labs together with other socially conscious people in 2010. The idea was to provide career guidance in the form of a gaming platform, where students can earn merit badges and rewards by reaching certain milestones in their career path. Mentoring from real professional is also available through video chats or scheduled meetings and the students get a chance to learn the insider’s scope of fields they are interested in, get internships and scholarships also. Under the Qyeno labs program, they have launched a “STEM4girls” – encouraging girls from minority and poor schools to take part in the science and technology ventures and Caeerrsters launched in 2011, which matches kids with the right career path for them and provides them a platform to get information, form discussion groups and
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Laura Weidman Powers
Laura has a background in entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, youth development, and technology. She has started two organizations in the education space, one nonprofit arts education organization in West Philadelphia that is now in its eighth year, and one for-profit tutoring company that gave rise to a book. Laura first explored the tech space as a project manager in a small web development shop and, most recently before CODE2040, she served as VP of Product at a consumer web startup based in Los Angeles, redesigning the product development process to be inclusive of engineers. Laura is a 2013 Echoing Green and Open Society Black Male Achievement Fellow and a 2013 Stanford Social Innovation Fellow. She has an AB cum laude from Harvard College and a JD and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Maile Broccoli-Hickey
Maile Broccoli Hickey has been involved in immigrant services in Houston and Austin for over 13 years. During that time she has worked as an English instructor translator/interpreter program manager and advocate. Maile is a graduate of the LBJ School of Public Affairs where her research focused on adult language acquisition and immigrant rights. She draws equally on the education she received as a secretary food service and factory employee in her work supporting Texas' immigrant community. Maile founded English at Work while waiting tables at Guero's Taco Bar in 2005.
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Manmeet Kaur
Manmeet Kaur (pronounced “mun-meeth kawr”) has been a champion for healthier communities and equitable livelihoods for the past 10 years. She has worked in New York City to improve the working conditions of “unregulated” workers, in India to stabilize the chaotic lives of construction day laborers at a social enterprise called LabourNet, and in South Africa to help HIV+ individuals build their own health food business with Mamelani Projects. Before launching City Health Works, Manmeet was an advisor to the Earth Institute’s strategy on the retention and financing of community health workers in the Millennium Villages Project, which has contributed to the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign across Sub-Saharan Africa. In launching City Health Works, Manmeet saw the potential for reverse innovation from lower cost community health systems across the world applied to domestic health. Manmeet incubated City Health Works while completing an MBA at Columbia with the goal of creating an organization that harnesses the power of community members to create jobs and improve health in New York City. Manmeet also has a B.A. in History/Anthropology from Barnard College, where she was selected as a Third Millennium Human Rights fellow. Manmeet was born and raised in New York City and lives in Harlem with her husband and son.
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Neil D'Souza
Neil D'Souza is the founder of Zaya, a disruptive educational non-profit startup that is bringing the online education revolution to the bottom of the pyramid. In 2012 he was selected by the San Francisco Hub of World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper and also won the NASSCOM Social Innovation Award in India. Neil has an engineering background and worked in the computer networking industry for over four years at Cisco Systems where he focused on Mobile Internet and Video Technologies. He was also part of a team that spearheaded the 4G/LTE protocol that forms the core for most mobile networks in US. During his time at Cisco, Neil developed a strong passion to help underprivileged communities and he set his sights on how to bridge the education gap for children in remote regions of the world. While he was on sabbatical he developed his ClassCloud technology that now powers 20 schools and orphanages in India, Indonesia and Mongolia. He has consulted with the World Bank on a Sustainable Livelihood project for technology in Mongolia and worked with the Spark Program as an apprentice teacher in San Francisco. He is also an active advisor to several startups and a mentor with Startup Weekend. He has lived, traveled and worked in 40 countries and is an Ironman Triathlete. From 1997-2003 he held the National Swimming Record in India for the longest swim at 79 Hours. Originally from Mumbai, India, Neil received his Masters in computer science with a specialty in computer networks from North Carolina State University.
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Noura Sa'd
Originally from Jordan, Noura Saad moved over seven times in the 10 years leading up to the launch of her company, Tadreesna. ‘I couldn’t have stable employment because my husband was always moving from one job to another.’ Noura, who holds a degree in chemistry, decided to create her own job by offering private tutoring at home. ‘But I did not know how to expand the business.’ After reading an article about the online sector, she decided ‘the trigger was to use the Internet.’ Her research of the sector revealed that no online learning services existed in Arabic for the Middle East. In hopes of filling this market gap, in 2011 she created Tadreesna, which means ‘how we teach’ in Arabic.
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Ryan Meinzer
By age 16, I had sold over $20,000 worth of kitchen knives to strangers. By age 21, I managed over 20 employees at a marketing research firm. Within one year of receiving my BBA and by age 24, I led the international business of a Japanese marketing firm in Tokyo, Japan with Fortune 500 and major multinational clientele. By age 26, I founded PlaySay Inc. out of my own need to learn Japanese and had raised seed funding from the Director of PayPal, Japan. By age 28, I raised funding from the most active venture capitalists in the education space of the USA and had also closed deals with the largest foreign language learning publisher of the USA along with the largest foreign language learning dictionary publisher of the world.
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Ted Mitchell
Ted Mitchell is president and CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund. He has long been a leader in education reform in California and nationally. From 2008 through 2010, he served as president of the California State Board of Education. Prior to taking the helm at NewSchools in 2005, Ted was president of Occidental College, vice chancellor and dean of the School of Education and Information Studies at the UCLA, and professor and chair of the Department of Education at Dartmouth College. He has served on a number of policy commissions, including chairing the Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence and the Commission on Teacher Effectiveness for the Los Angeles Unified School District. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of Khan Academy, New Leaders for New Schools, The Teaching Channel, ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career and The McClatchy Company. Dr. Mitchell received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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