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Cedric Brown
Cedric Brown is the Managing Partner, overseeing programs and philanthropic partnerships as well as day-to-day operations. He brings over 20 years of experience as an educator and funder, working with the Kapor Foundation, SF Foundation, SF Education Fund, Switzer Foundation, SF Cultural Equity Grants, and Level Playing Field Institute among others. Cedric is the co-founder of the College Bound Brotherhood, which aims to serve 5000 African American young men on the path to a college degree. He has served as a board/committee member of Color of Change.org, Northern California Grantmakers, Funders Committee for Civic Participation, Council on Foundation’s Family Philanthropy Committee, and Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy. Cedric received an ABFE Emerging Leader in Philanthropy Award and was profiled as a San Francisco Chronicle Changemaker. Cedric holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and Stanford University and executive certificates from Georgetown and Rutgers universities. A native North Carolinian, Cedric practices the diplomatic arts of a Southern gentleman.
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Darin Peterson
I love bringing people together to do what cannot be done alone. I’m an entrepreneur, having started several organizations including faith communities/congregations, businesses, and community development corporations. I founded Relational Tithe where I actively give leadership and vision to connecting people and their resources to people in their lives. I also give leadership and vision to The Simple Way, a web of subversive friends, conspiring to spread the vision of “Loving God, Loving People, and Following Jesus” in our neighborhoods and in our world. I run Provision that focuses on social entrepreneurial approaches to improve the quality of life. I’m marriage to Meeghan, have two sons, and split my time between Oakland, CA and Philadelphia, PA
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David Nkwanga
Am an Natural Resources Management and Community Development professional. I have initiated community development projects to uplift grassroots communities in my country, Uganda. Am a founder of Nature Palace Foundation and Botanic Garden. Nature Palace Foundation is a not-for-profit Community Development and Human-well being focused organization that operates on the principle of blending Conservation with Development. We respond to universal concerns of Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, Poverty and Disease through innovative community-based approaches that include a Community Botanic Garden, Home Herbal Gardens, Pro-poor Eco-tourism etc. Please see our Community Botanic garden program here: http://botanic.naturepalace.net/ See our Pro-poor Eco-tourism Project here: http://www.ruffordsmallgrants.org/rsg/projects/david_nkwanga_0 See information on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Sites) where we have conservation projects on our Eco-life sub-domain: http://ecolife.naturepalace.net/ One of my objectives is linking other people and organizations to directly contribute to the welfare of disadvantaged people in my country. For this reason Nature Palace Foundation started one of the few private botanic gardens in Uganda - Nature Palace Botanic Garden - a unique garden with high involvement of surrounding communities. Visitors to the garden get naturally connected to the local people. Nature Palace Foundation has also promoted a community-driven eco-tourism project at Mabamba bay Wetland one of the best sites in Africa for bird watchers.
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Eric Reynolds
Eric Reynolds is a “serial entrepreneur” from USA, was the founder/CEO/Chairman of several companies in the outdoor sports industry. He co-founded and served as CEO/Chairman of Marmot, was the start-up CEO/Chairman of SweetWater, and the founder/Chairman of Nau. These three companies created several thousand jobs, hundreds of millions of revenues, and he and the executive teams raised USD $52 million in capital. Reynolds recently sold virtually all assets and has moved long term to Rwanda where he now resides in Gisenyi on the north shore of Lake Kivu. Eric has a personal investment of $400,000 in Inyenyeri.
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Femi Oye
Femi Oye, Co founder of SMEfunds began a research in poverty alleviation through enterprise development for SMEs. His experience span through transforming enterprise based ideas to solving economic problems. Led various capacity development programmes that have created thousand of jobs and small business for young people across Nigeria, Benin republic, Nairobi, Ghana and Cameroon. Oye, the president of the MicrofinanceAfrica, the only specialized publication focusing on the activities around the microfinance sector in Africa; have also formed partnership with SMEDAN, Microsoft, Cisco, NITDA, British council, SPDC and many stakeholders in entrepreneurship development. Among other things, Femi was responsible for the establishment of ACADedu, an online education scholarship programme for scholars. Oye pioneered the deployment of e-learning enterprise in Nigerian secondary schools in 2006 with technical support by Virtual Workspace, UK, and a foremost e-learning enterprise solution provider in Europe (Nord Anglia Corporation). In 2007, received a license from the Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria to establish an Innovative Business Institute with yearly admission of 6,000 students; an institute that have received a global stance at developing informed entrepreneurs that foster growth and national development in the labour market of Nigerian economy. Femi, a business coach at Innerveil Business institute championed the charter process of Toastmasters International, Nigeria a world-class organization into developing public speakers and tailored communication skills. Chartered four (4) clubs in 6 months with growing member of over 2000. 2007 & 2008 saw the establishment of Disney Treasures Club, Nigeria; a social business organization with over 50,000 memberships in 10 months. DTC Nigeria continues to pioneered social entrepreneurship in Nigeria, teaching and developing entrepreneurs by attracting social investors. In 2008, after spending two years li
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Karan Singh
"Karan leads customer development and sales at Ginger.io. He has experience across the healthcare ecosystem working at Humedica (informatics), Signal Point Partners (emerging markets), and ZS Associates (consulting). He recently earned his MBA from MIT Sloan and a fellowship from the MIT Legatum Center. He is currently on leave from the Harvard-MIT Health Science Technology program. Karan received his B.A. and B.S. in Economics & Business Administration from UC Berkeley."
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Peter Scott
Peter Scott (CEO)is considered one of the world’s leading experts in cookstove commercialization. He has trained producers in over 20 countries to set up for-profit stove businesses. In 2006, he received an Ashden Award for designing and promoting Institutional cookstoves in Southern Africa. In 2010 he was chosen as one of the Top100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine.
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Saif Rashid
Director and CEO of JITA Bangladesh leading a team of 100+ people in bangladesh. Founder and Director of Good Little Enterprise Ltd. Business development and enterprise expert with diverse work background in business development and social business areas. Work and consultency experisence in Japan, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, ghana. Before Joining JITA, he initiated and leaded the highly innovative Rural Sales program at CARE for 5 years and transformed this project as a separate social business at CARE and thus CARE international has took social business as a flagship initiative for future. The development and progress of RSP has been published in different international magazine including Forbes, Guardian and his innovation and role is now taught as a case study at Said Business School, Oxford University. Before Joining JITA, he was leading the Private Sector Engagement of CARE and developed more than 10 innovative partnerships with MNC such as Unilever, Telenor, Danone, GlaxoSmith Kline, Sheseido and Accenture etc, academics like Said business school at Oxford business school. He has a professional background of working at MNC and Local business and NGO of more than 8 years. He works with different For-Profit Company to develop CSR project, high impact products and services and understand need of BoP consumers. Saif has masters in Business administration and have studied business in Development courses, BDS and value chain development for the poor. Shaikh has presented papers on Enterprenurship, Gender and development, BoP, CSR, Rural Activations in different university, NGO and in conferences of multinational and national companies.
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