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  • Gary Ford
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    Chief Executive Officer, MicroCredit Enterprises. Former Managing Partner & Principal, Groom Law Group. Former ERISA Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Labor and Human Resources. Former General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Recipient: The Best Lawyers in America, Employees Benefits Law, and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Employee Benefits.

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    President & Chief Executive Officer MicroCredit Enterprises Washington, DC
  • Lori Steele
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    Founder and Chief Executive, Everyone Counts, Inc. Board Member,  Greater San Diego Boys and Girls Clubs. Founding Partner, Social Venture Partners, San Diego.

    Mission

    "Democracy is the foundation of civil society. When citizens participate actively and believe in the electoral system, peaceful and constructive advancement of the nation is possible. When citizens are unable to vote, fairness and trust start to fade, leading to a breakdown of democracy.We believe in delivering secure, reliable access to the vote to everyone with a legal right to vote. Everyone Counts is not about any political party nor even a single country, but about a profound belief in the importance of successful, secure elections to ensure democracy everywhere."

    Chief Executive Officer Everyone Counts, Inc. San Diego, California
  • Diana de Castro
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    Director, Investor Relations, Terra Nova Regularizações Fundiárias

    Mission

    "…to transform the lives of poor individuals living in urban slums. Through its unique sustainable land regularization model, TERRA NOVA created a viable way to peacefully solve the complex social, economic and environmental problems associated with urban land rights in Brazil. Terra Nova’s work of regularizing urban slums enables the poor to purchase land on which they live and receive the needed infrastructure including potable water, energy, sewage, paved streets and basic sanitation in an environmentally friendly way."

    Director, Investor Relations Terra Nova Regularizações Fundiárias São Paulo, Brazil & Sagaponack, New York
  • Monique Cohen
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    Founder and President, Microfinance Opportunities. Board Member, Microfinance Center, Poland. Co-Director, Microfinance Impact Assessment, Gates Foundation.

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    “….to facilitate an improvement in poor people's lives by increasing their access to well-designed and well-delivered financial services….within the microfinance industry, providing action-oriented research, training, and technical assistance in three client-focused areas: financial education, microinsurance and client assessment.”

    President Microfinance Opportunities Washington, DC
  • Beth Fletcher Walden
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    Vice President, Planning & Partnerships, Trinity Wall Street.  Additional information pending.

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    Vice President Trinity Wall Street New York, New York
  • Martin Burt
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    Founding Chief Executive Officer, Fundacion Paraguaya. Co-Founder, Teach a Man to Fish. Co-Founder, Bertoni and Mbaracayu Forest Foundations. Former President, Paraguayan-American Chamber of Commerce. Former Mayor, Asuncion, Paraguay. Recipient: Microfinance Award for Excellence in Social Responsibility, Inter-American Development Bank; Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award; Templeton Freedom Award; World Innovative Summit for Education Award; Social Innovation Award, Brigham Young University; Most Innovative Development Project Award, Global Development Network.

    Mission

    “A world free from the extremes of absolute poverty, one in which all individuals are able to enjoy the empowering benefits of an education that meets their needs and aspirations in life. To broaden access for the poor to a high quality education combining vocational training and entrepreneurship by supporting institutions working in this field to increase their financial self-sufficiency.”

    Chief Executive Officer Fundacion Paraguaya Asuncion, Paraguay
  • Topher Wilkins
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    Owner, Organic Bag Lunch. General Manager, Dunton Hot Springs, Colorado. Founder & President, City Club, Boulder, Colorado.

    Co-Chief Operating Officer, Opportunity Collaboration.

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    Co-Chief Operating Officer Opportunity Collaboration Santa Cruz, California
  • Sono Aibe
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    Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives, Pathfinder Interntational. Former Senior Program Manager, Population and Reproductive, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Former Executive Director, Asians and Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health.

    Mission

    "... to ensure that people everywhere have the right and opportunity to live a healthy reproductive life....for creating better opportunities throughout life. When people take charge of their life choices such as when and how often to have children, they gain confidence and strength. They can better pursue their education, contribute to the local economy, and engage in their communities."


    Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives Pathfinder International Watertown, Massachusetts
  • Dana Taylor
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    Social Philanthropist.

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    Social Philanthropist Foster City, California
  • Mark Viso
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    President and Chief Executive Officer, Pact

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     "...to build empowered communities, effective governments and responsible private institutions that give people an opportunity for a better life...by strengthening the capacity of organizations and institutions to be good service providers, represent their stakeholders, network with others for learning and knowledge sharing, and advocate for social, economic and environmental justice. Interdependence, responsible stewardship, inclusion of vulnerable groups, and respect for local ownership and knowledge are core values across all of our programs. Pact envisions an interconnected world in which relationships of trust and mutual benefit among the state, the marketplace and communities provide the inspiration and foundation for taking actions to end poverty, ensure justice and achieve greater equity."

    Chief Executive Officer Pact Washington, DC
  • Robert Pattillo
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    President,Gray Ghost/Rockdale Foundation. Founder, The Rockdale Foundation. Founder, Gray Ghost Microfinance Fund. Founder, Gray Matters Capital. Board Member, Council of Microfinance Equity Funds; ACCION Investments; MicroVest; Deustche Bank Microcredit Development Fund; Catalyst Microfinance Investors.

     

    Mission

    "To enable entrepreneurs to realize their dreams while benefiting the lives of people at the base of the economic pyramid. To deploy needed financial and human resources to high impact social ventures addressing the needs of large, underserved populations."

    President Gray Ghost/Rockdale Foundation Atlanta, Georgia
  • Lucy Reckseit
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    General Counsel, Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (company nominee, BIO Humanitarian Award 2009; and featured company, Clinton Global Initiative 2008); Director, Outreach and Alliance Development, MicroCredit Enterprises; Member, Microfinance Council of Counsels; Member, Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM).

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    General Counsel Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. San Mateo, California
  • Øyvind Aadland
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    Secretary-General, Strømme Foundation.

    Mission

    "...a Norwegian development organisation helping poor people in the global South climb out of poverty through microfinance and education."

    Secretary-General Strømme Foundation Kristiansand, Norway
  • William Abrams
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    President, Trickle Up. Former Senior Executive/Journalist, The New York Times, ABC News and The Wall Street Journal. Former President, New York Times Television. Former President, 1France.com. Former Vice President, Business Development, ABC News. Former President, The Village Temple, New York.

    Mission

    "...to empower people living on less than $1.25 a day to take the first steps out of poverty, providing them with resources to build microenterprises for a better quality of life. In partnership with local agencies, we provide business training and seed capital to launch or expand a microenterprise, and savings support to build assets."

    President Trickle Up New York, New York
  • Michelle Best
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    Director, Business Development & Marketing, Edmodo.com.. Co-Director, Colloquium for the Common Good, Opportunity Collaboration.

    Mission

    "...[to be] a private communication platform built for teachers and students."

    Directo, Business Development & Marketing Edmodo.com San Francisco, California
  • Ritu Sharma
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    Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide. Member, U.S. Delegations, United Nations Summit on Social Development and United Nations General Assembly Session on Women. Member, Women’s Advisory Council, Pax World Mutual Funds. Author, An Introduction to Advocacy: A Training Guide.

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    President Women Thrive Worldwide Washington, DC
  • Dan Geballe
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    Program Associate, Corporation for Enterprise Development.

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    Program Associate Corporation for Enterprise Development San Francisco, California
  • Christopher Hest
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    Chief Executive Officer, Friends Without A Border/Angkor Hospital for Children. Former, Development Director, Living Goods. Former Vice President for External Affairs, Freedom from Hunger. Former, Chief Philanthropy Officer, William J. Clinton Foundation.

    Mission

    "... to improve the health and well being of the children of Cambodia by providing quality medical care, extensive outreach and crucial medical education."

    Chief Executive Officer Friends Without A Border/Angkor Hospital for Children New York, New York
  • Gerald (Jerry) Hildebrand
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    Founder and Executive Director, Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific. Former Chief Executive Officer, Katalysis Partnership.

    Mission

    “…to create a whole new generation of solution-minded pragmatists that are pioneering practical, inventive, and sustainable approaches to address the world’s most pressing social issues: poverty, disease, malnutrition, environmental degradation, injustice and illiteracy.”

    Executive Director Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Stockton, California
  • Cynthia Koenig
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    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Wello.

    Mission

    "...to meet the needs of the billion people worldwide who do not have reliable access to water. Through the application of innovative, appropriate, and low-cost solutions to water transport, storage, and collection, we seek to improve human health and well-being, reduce poverty, and promote the sustainable use of resources."

    Chief Executive Officer Wello Ann Arbor, Michigan
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