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Amy Sheng
Amy has experience in the medical device industry and led a team of hardware and software engineers to develop an automated imaging device for hematology applications that was cleared by the FDA. Amy received a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford and is an MBA candidate at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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Andree Sosler
Andrée joined Potential Energy in 2009 as its first full-time employee. Andrée has a decade of experience in poverty alleviation and economic development and has worked in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. As Program Associate at the Trickle Up Program, she oversaw grassroots microfinance projects in Haiti, Benin, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Uganda. Andrée was also an Associate at the OTF Group, a strategy consulting firm that advises organizations, countries and regions on competitiveness. Based in Kigali, Andrée contributed to OTF’s work advising the Government of Rwanda on private sector development and led the firm’s projects in Republic of Congo and Angola. Andrée earned an MBA from The Wharton School, and an AB in Development Studies from Brown University.
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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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Betty Hsu
Betty has worked as an education consultant, English teacher, and SAT prep tutor. She scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT & GMAT. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College, an Ed.M in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Cameron Goldie-Scot
Cameron has three years microfinance and East Africa experience. He is currently responsible for managing the ongoing development of the Musoni system, as well as the continued provision of IT services to Musoni Kenya. He previously worked in Business Development for Musoni BV, and before that was Implementation Team Manager, responsible for setting up operations on the ground in Kenya. Before Musoni, Cameron worked as an independent consultant in East Africa, advising and running projects with multiple MFIs on how best to enable their clients to partner with mobile operators. Cameron graduated with an MA (Hons) from St Andrew's University, Scotland.
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Cynthia Koenig
ynthia is an entrepreneur whose career focuses on incubating mission-based businesses designed to alleviate poverty in the developing world. She spent the last decade living and working throughout Central America, Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, where she became intimately familiar with the challenges associated with the lack of access to clean water. Cynthia launched Wello with a bold vision – to effectively deliver clean water to a thirsty world. By reframing the water crisis as an opportunity, Wello reinvented the wheel, and developed an innovative business model that empowers individuals to use the WaterWheel as an income-generating tool to lift their families out of poverty. Cynthia holds a BA in anthropology from Trinity College and dual MBA/MS degrees from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment. She believes that the sky is the limit, that every cloud has a silver lining, and that the glass is always half full.
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Dahna Goldstein
Dahna Goldstein, Founder and CEO of PhilanTech, develops web-based applications for the nonprofit sector, and has worked for venture philanthropies, including Ashoka and Blue Ridge Foundation New York. Dahna also produced interactive eLearning programs, including the award-winning "What Is a Leader?" program, for Harvard Business School Publishing and Global Education Network. Dahna holds a BA from Williams College, a Master of Education degree, with a concentration in technology, from Harvard University, and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business. She serves on the board of JustGive.org and was named one of BusinessWeek’s 25 Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.
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Edrizio De La Cruz
Edrizio is the founder and CEO of Regalii. His passion in disruptive technologies and commitment in the Latino community have led him in the path of entrepreneurship. He has been exposed to remittances as a recipient and a sender and understands the pains of the remittance process. When he lived in Santo Domingo, remittances were the economic lifeblood for his mother and brother. His vision of creating a free remittance platform that will help millions of Latinos in the US and Latin America is his ultimate goal and dedicates all of his time and effort in it.
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Harshil Parikh
Harshil has been obsessed with the simple idea of learning from events unfolding around us since he started tutoring as a sophomore in high school. He launched TuvaLabs out of a coffee shop in New Delhi after spending six months learning how to program while he was teaching at a tutoring centre for economically disadvantaged students at a large slum in South Delhi. As an undergraduate, he was rated as an Excellent Teacher by students for every semester he taught physics for the UIUC Department of Physics. During his college years, he also had the opportunity to conduct internships at various academic and corporate institutions, including summer internships at Brookhaven National Lab, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Capital One Bank. Immediately prior to building TuvaLabs, Harshil spent seventeen months in India, helping Greenlight Planet, a venture backed clean energy company with their solar lantern distribution in rural India. He also helped Arpana, a New Delhi based NGO plan a first-of-its-kind learning center in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh.
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Ivan Chang
Ivan Chang is the web developer behind ProfessorWord. Ivan has worked as a magement consultant and an investment analyst. He has volunteered as a literacy and SAT prep tutor. He scoredin the 99th percentile on the SAT & GMAT and hold a B.S. from Yale College, double-majoring in Applied Mathematics and Political Science.
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Jagdish Repaswal
Currently a founder at mangoreader - we bring books to life. Previously a director of engineering at Tabula Digita(DimensionU), I have been building and scaling consumer web-sites for over 10 years. In previous Avatars, I worked at and held leadership positions at startups ranging from social media (Direct Message Lab) , Casual and social web games(Double Trump) and Biometrics (SBA Technologies) and Oracle India. Also cofounded Mangosense Technologies (Mobile social learning and games company) and spends most of his time working on Ideas for mobile and social applications. Cofounder of Bridg.Me(The conference calls you), a simple conference calling solution.
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Keneth Mitambo
Kenneth is a social entrepreneur with extensive, hands-on experience with social enterprise and sustainable livelihoods development. He has worked extensively with NGOs and CBOs in Kenya in developing their capacity and fundraising. He holds a Master’s degree in community care HIV and AIDS from University of Wales Trinity David (UK) with a bias in sustainable livelihoods. He has a lot of experience in entrepreneurship and business management through trainings and exposure. He will be pursuing his PHD in social entrepreneurships later in the year. Through his work with women’s groups in Kibera, Kawangware and Ruiru, STAMP director Kenneth Ndua observed that water borne diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea are common due to people drinking contaminated water from shallow wells, and that women in the community spend a significant amount of their time caring for family and friends who are ill. Most people cannot afford the extra fuel needed to boil water and sanitise it due to high living costs and low purchasing power: a typical family has an average income of USD 1.2 per day, of which USD 0.7 (~60%) is spent on fuel, and the remainder is spent on meeting other basic needs such as buying food and paying rent. In response to this challenge, Kenneth developed the Energy Conserving Stove (ECOS) – a fuel-efficient biomass stove featuring an innovative built-in jacket that can be filled with 7 litres of water. This feature both helps to insulate the stove, making it more efficient, and allows the user to simultaneously boil water whilst cooking. Several prototypes were developed before the design was finalized of stove ECOS Profession: - Program management, trainer of trainers / facilitator on: - gender, governance sustainable livelihoods development, social enterprise, energy, HIV and AIDS mitigation. Professional experience :- Fourteen years’ experience as an innovator , trainer / facilitator in gender , advocacy, mentoring and coaching youths ,women i
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Keya Dannenbaum
Keya Dannenbaum is the founder and CEO at Versa, a fast-growing company on a mission to elevate public dialogue around the most salient issues of the day. Her passion for public affairs and undying pursuit of meaningful work has taken her on a far-ranging journey, through myriad disciplines and around the world.
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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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Manuel Wiechers
Manuel Wiechers is eradicating energy poverty in Mexico by combining community investment, low-cost, renewable energy, and cooperation across the public, private and social sectors to foster social and economic development in rural areas. His vision for the year 2025 is, “No Mexican without light.”
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Melanie St. James
Melanie is a creative social entrepreneur, building a team of fellow visionaries dedicated to building a thriving world from the ground up and the inside out. Her passion for social change began with a college semester abroad in mainland China, an experience that awakened her to some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. After completing an international education in Madrid, sustainable development field studies in Senegal and Zimbabwe and the uniquely talented, under valued local social entrepreneurs she met, inspired the creation of Empowerment WORKS and it's flagship approach, "7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS)". Ready to turn local resources into solutions, in 2001, Melanie formed “Empowerment Works” as a collective for social innovators, and a vehicle to connect the world's most culturally rich, yet economically challenged communities with the access to markets, tools and partners they need to thrive. In 2007 after participating in the World Social Forum in Kenya, Melanie co-developed and produced The Global Summit (2008- 2020) to unite social, economic and environmental movements for a sustainable future. Returning to China in Fall 2009 to co-create the service learning program for the World Academy for the Future of Women, Melanie delivered "7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS)" as a curriculum, which continues to evolve as an open source Asset-Based Community Development knowledge base. Speaker and leadership highlights on the journey with Empowerment WORKS include the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the 2004 Sustainable Resources Conference in Boulder; Chairing/ Moderating the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth, 2008 Global Sound Conference; Co-founder & Capacity Building Director of the Coalition for a Sustainable Africa (CSA), Global Women's Leadership Network 2012 program graduate, & SOCAP13 Social Entrepreneur Scholarship Awardee. Melanie holds a Masters of Public Administration in International Ma
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Michelle Lee
Michelle spent the first part of her career as senior user experience designer on Google's Docs and Maps teams. She was a 2012 fellow at Code for America. Previously, she designed online trust and safety tools for eBay, cars for baby boomers, and studied human-computer interaction at Stanford University’s Symbolic Systems Program.
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Miroslav Vrankic
Miroslav Vrankic, Managing Director at E-GLAS,E-GLAS was founded in 2009. by a group of scientists at the Science and Technology Park of the University of Rijeka. The primary reason for starting E-GLAS was to merge our technical skills with our ideals of helping people. We formed a highly educated team of experts in the fields of information and communication technologies, digital signal processing, speech recognition and synthesis, acoustics, electronics and automation. Our main product is Servus, a voice controlled home automation system that was created for all the persons that are living in difficult conditions due to physical disability, old age, illness or disability in general. We created Servus to change their lives for better. Servus is an electronic assistant which enables users to control their home through voice commands. Having Servus, one can literally talk with his home and thus control lights, TV, telephone, door opening, radio, heating, air conditioning, make an emergency call or even surf the web. With Servus, all these functions are performed completely hands-free. More information on Servus can be found at www.servus-control.com. Servus is intended for people with disabilities and the elderly and infirm, but also for those who are looking for a maximum comfort in their home. Servus currently supports Croatian, Slovenian, English, German, Italian and Dutch, with additional languages being prepared. We target the markets of the EU countries, USA and Canada.
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