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Jeannine Jacokes
Jeannine Jacokes was appointed CEO of Partners for the Common Good in 2001. Prior to coming to PCG, Jeannine served for more than six years as a senior member of the management team at the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, where she was a leader in designing and implementing the Fund's programs and operations. She went to the CDFI Fund after serving as a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
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Jonathan Lewis
Jonathan C. Lewis has had three successful careers: social entrepreneur, business leader and government policy executive. After retiring in 2002, he has devoted himself on a pro bono basis to global poverty issues and, in particular, microfinance. Jonathan is the Founder, Board Chair and CEO of MicroCredit Enterprises. MicroCredit Enterprises, which Mr. Lewis founded in 2005, is an innovative, not-for-profit microfinance social venture. Within two years, the organization had grown to $35 million in guarantees and $22 million in overseas lending capacity.
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Kirsten Tobey
Kirsten and Kristin saw a huge opportunity to contribute to school efficacy and student health by improving the food offerings that schools made available to their students, particularly in low-income neighborhoods. Initially intended as a non-profit effort, they found that the non-profit structure did not allow start-up or growth capital to address the problem at a greater-than-boutique scale. They set up a company in 2006, Revolution Foods, to drive the impact they wanted to realize.
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Michelle Kaufmann
Michelle Kaufmann is a leading architect and designer with Michelle Kaufmann Studio. Michelle is also a co-founder of Flux. In 2002, Kaufmann founded Michelle Kaufmann Designs, a full service architecture firm specializing in sustainable design. The firm designed and built single-family and multi-family green homes using prefabricated modular technology. The firm was closed in May 2009 and Kaufmann started a new design firm, Michelle Kaufmann Studio. Her firm offers customers a variety of prefabricated homes, as well as options for completely custom built homes as well.
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Tim O'Shea
CleanFish was founded in 2004 by Tim o’Shea, who has spent his career working with socially minded food business operations like Niman Ranch and Odwalla, and Dale Sims, a self-proclaimed ‘recovering commodity brokers,’ who sold millions of pounds of bass, and conventionally farmed salmon. The idea for the company was sparked by a growing awareness of the negative impact on the world’s oceans resulting from the destructive farming practices employed by large-scale fishing operations. The two founders met at a conference where o’Shea presented his vision for a novel seafood company that would link sustainable practices, health and the environment to obtain a market premium and the rest is history.
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Willy Foote
Social Entrepreneurship (SASE) in 2005, was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2007 and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008, became a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) in 2009, was listed as one of Forbes’ “Impact 30” in 2011, and is a Henry Crown Fellow (Class of 2012). Willy holds an M.S. in development economics from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University.
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