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Andrew Parrucci
Creative communications/marketing professional focused on helping mission-driven organizations tell the story of their social and environmental impact. Experience includes sustainable investing, community forestry, and international development.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.calvertfoundation.org/ | Email: |
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Andy Bamber
Andy Bamber is Business Development Manager with Cutting Edge Capital, where he helps businesses raise capital in a way that fits with their long-term goals. Previously, he worked on USAID-funded economic development projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He has a degree in geography from UMass Amherst and a degree in Russian studies from UT Austin. He was once a Peace Corps volunteer in Azerbaijan.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.cuttingedgecapital.com/ | Email: [email protected]. |
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Anton Root
Admin at crowdsoursing.org
| Investors: | Website: http://www.crowdsourcing.org/ | Email: |
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Gina Anderson
Anderson is the Philanthropy Fellow at CSI, leading a new research project on the activities of charitable foundations entitled ‘Where the Money Goes’. The research will utilise existing information published by foundations on their grantmaking activities.
| Investors: | Website: http://temporaryweb.csi.edu.au/ | Email: |
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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.
| Investors: Investor | Website: http://gothamgal.com/ | Email: |
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R. Todd Johnson
Todd works with renewable energy, sustainable growth and energy efficiency companies, as well as companies using the internet and “for-benefit” models to ensure global, long-term, social, environmental and economic well-being. For 25 years, Todd has practiced at Jones Day, a global law firm with more than 2,400 lawyers, including more than 400 in Europe and 200 in Asia, located in centers of business and finance throughout the world. Todd founded Jones Day’s Northern California presence in 2000 by opening its Silicon Valley office, and today heads the Firm’s Energy Practice where he leads its renewable energy and sustainability focus. Todd serves or has served as regular outside counsel for public companies and start-ups alike, as well as counsel for venture capital funds, private equity funds, and investment bankers, including companies such as Embrace Technologies, Network for Good, and SunPower Corporation. Todd’s social entrepreurship and impact investing leadership dates back to 2003, before mainstream use of the terms, and over the past decade, he has counseled, advised and represented dozens of organizations seeking to alleviate some of the world’s most challenging problems, in some of the world’s hardest places. Todd has worked with dozens of social enterprises and funds, including Ashoka (innovators to the public), B-Lab (certifier of “B Corporations”), D-REV (extreme affordability design lab), Ecotrust (building economies in the Pacific Northwest that restore nature and invest in people), Embrace Innovations (providing extremely affordable infant warmers to the world’s poor), Fair Trade Pictures and their film, Call + Response, their social activism through “Slavery Footprint” and their supply chain transparency, through “Made in a Free World” (fighting human trafficking), GlobalGiving (online platform for micro-donations in the developing world), Good Capital (impact investing fund), Grameen Trust (micro-finance providers), Hattery (social enterprise incubator), Inyenyeri (developing gasification cookstoves for Africa), LawGives (and their online legal decision tree for social entrepreneurs), Network for Good (the online philanthropy platform), Nuru International (providing holistic development in conflict zones of the developing world), Pura Vida Coffee (a fair trade, shade grown, organic coffee company giving back to help at-risk children in coffee growing regions of the world), Roadtrip Nation (re-defining opportunities through education for under-advantaged youth “Finding their own Road in Life”), San Diego Zoo (and its proposed center for bio-inspiration), Springhill Equity Partners (small to medium-sized African enterprise impact fund), Trade As One (online marketing platform of goods from the developing world, alleviating the effects of extreme poverty, such as human exploitation), the founders of Verb (innovators of the Dell Social Innovation Challenge), and Uprising Capital (a new impact investing fund).
| Investors: | Website: http://www.jonesday.com/rtjohnson | Email: [email protected] |
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Tsega Belachew
Tsega manages global digital and social media for Ashoka working within the Framework Change and Changemakers teams. Her professional work spans project coordination, digital media strategy, partnership building and disruptive technologies for emerging markets. She has worked for the U.S. government, social innovation fellowship, technology social enterprise, foundations and more. Her interests are at the intersection of African economic development - technology, global health and youth/women's issues. She has a B.Sc. in International Studies - Africa & Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from University of Richmond.
| Investors: | Website: https://www.ashoka.org | Email: |