2014 ANDE Annual Conference

Participant Bios

Jane Abramovich: A2F Practice Group, TechnoServe Inc., [email protected]

Prior to joining TechnoServe, Jane has held financial advisory and deal origination roles, both in the US and in the emerging markets, including at UBS Investment Bank, and most recently as National Director of Capital Markets at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), a global real estate firm. At TechnoServe, Jane leads TechnoServe's global Access to Finance Practice Group, which manages strategic regional and global financial relationships, provides technical expertise to project teams, shares best practices, innovations and knowledge with industry partners. Jane holds a BA in Economics and International Studies from Northwestern University and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Olawale Anifowose: General Manager, Enterprise Development Centre of Pan-Atlantic University, [email protected]

Olawale Anifowose graduated from the university of lagos in 2000 with a bachelors degree in Economics, and completed his masters degree in marketing in 2009 also from the University of Lagos. He started out with Wema Bank Plc as a youth corper and was retained in 2001, later Olawale joined Campaign and Concept a brand and marketing organization where he gained reasonable experience in relationship management in 2003. In July 2003, Olawale joined the Enterprise Development Services now Enterprise Development Centre as a research assistant and was part of the team that set up the administrative structure of the organization; He was also responsible for program coordination and marketing. Olawale has now gained 11years experience in SME Development and has being part of the team that successfully implemented several SME development projects such as the Youth with innovation in Nigeria (YOUWIN), Federal Government of Nigeria business plan competition. He has been the National coordinator of the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Nigeria in the last 3 years. Olawale has over the years provided business advisory to participants of the entrepreneurship management program, this has built his capacity to offer very credible business advisory to SMEs. He has also reviewed thousands of business proposals over the years. He regularly sits on business plan competition panels; Diamond Bank-Building Entrepreneurs Today, Etisalat- Easy Business millionaire hunt, Goldman Sachs 10,000 women program. Olawale is currently the General Manager, programs and partnership at Enterprise Development Centre and member of the management board.

Anabela Appleton: Company Secretary / Donor Relations Coordinator, ATMS Foundation/AMSCO, [email protected]

Project to assist their skills development initiatives. In 2011 she was instrumental in securing funding for corporate governance training to enterprises in Namibia, Kenya and Ghana. Anabela is also responsible for liaison on all legal matters relating to the ATMS Project in the Netherlands, including statutory requirements for the Foundation and AMSCO BV.

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Giselle Aris: Senior Technical Advisor, Land O'Lakes, Inc., [email protected]

Giselle Aris is Senior Technical Advisor for Enterprise Acceleration, Technology and Gender for Land O'Lakes International Development. Land O'Lakes International Development is a division of Land O'Lakes, Inc., the second largest agriculture cooperative in the United States and a Fortune 200 company. Giselle led the collaborative, division-wide development of Land O'Lakes International's strategy to become externally recognized as one of the highest impact enterprise accelerators in operation. She is currently leading and managing the global implementation of this strategy. Giselle began her work with Land O'Lakes based in East and Southern Africa; she is now based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Land O'Lakes Giselle worked in India's dairy sector for two years, where she designed, managed, and sustainably brought to scale a farmer-owned dairy business. She has also worked with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Women's Campaign International, and the U.S. Department of State Africa Bureau. Giselle holds a master's degree in International Development from the University of Oxford, where she was a Thouron Scholar, and a summa cum laude bachelor's degree in African Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She has several years of experience working across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with a primary focus on strengthening small and growing businesses.

Oscar Artiga: Program Manager, TechnoServe Inc., [email protected]

Oscar Artiga is the Program Manager for TechnoServe's regional Entrepreneurship Program, which includes business plan competitions spanning Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Burkina Faso. He previously managed a social entrepreneurship program with TechnoServe in Chile. Oscar has deep experience with Central America's financial system, including work in organizational processes, fraud prevention, project evaluation and management, and market analysis across the region. He holds an MBA from the Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, and a BS in civil engineering from the Universidad Centroamericana.

Philip Auerswald: Adviser, Global Entrepreneurship Research Network, Kauffman Foundation, [email protected]

Philip Auerswald is an associate professor of public policy at George Mason University and senior adviser to the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network at the Kauffman Foundation. His most recent book is The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy. He is the founder of Innovations, a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. From 2010 to 2013 he was an an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, focusing on job creation and market-based solutions.

Dan Awendo: CEO, Investeq Capital, [email protected]

Dan is an accounting and finance professional with over 20 years of post qualification experience in audit, accounting, management consultancy and corporate finance advisory. He is a Certified Public Accountant of

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Kenya and a professional Financial Analyst and Management Consultant. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme of Strathmore Business School in Kenya. Dan is the founder and Chief Executive of Investeq Capital Limited, a firm whose goal is to provide financing solutions to SMEs and corporate finance advisory services in the African SME market. Dan has also worked in senior management positions in local and international companies including Loita Capital Partners & Loita Asset Management (General Manager, 2000 – 2003); Loita Holdings Group (Group Financial Controller, 1996 - 2000) and Dominion Consultants Group (Senior Consultant, Finance and Information Management, 1991 – 1996). In addition to serving as a board member of various companies in the telecommunications, real estate and social entreprise sectors, Dan was until end of 2009 a board member of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, a KSh 2.75billion (US$ 36million) fund established by the government in 2006 to fund entrepreneurial development and enterprise activities of the youth in Kenya. Dan is also the chairman of the Investments Committee of the Enablis East African Loan Fund, the Treasurer and Council Member of the Kenya Institute of Management, and a member of an SME Think Tank in Kenya.

Denise Baer: Evaluation Officer, Center for International Private Enterprise, [email protected]

Denise Baer is the Evaluation Officer for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). As CIPE's principal internal expert on evaluation, she conducts evaluation research and other assessments of CIPE programs, works with CIPE's program staff from the proposal stage to final reporting to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation, and acts as a resource to build evaluation capacity among CIPE staff and partners. Prior to joining CIPE, she has been a consultant providing research, governance and social science consulting for a variety of federal agencies and nonprofit organizations, including international work for USAID, National Democratic Institute, IFES and the Institute for Women's Policy Research. She is an adjunct faculty at Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy and she has worked for the U.S. Congress and the Congressional Research Service. Baer is the author or co-author of three books and scholarly articles which use experimental, survey and qualitative data, and she is completing work on a book Delivering Measurable Performance: Performance Evaluation Methods, Strategies and Tools for Policymaking and Public Management, under contract with SAGE Press. Baer holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in political science from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She is a member of the American and International Political Science Associations, American Evaluation Association, and the National Press Club and serves on the board of the National Women's History Project.

Andrés Bello: Entrepreneurship Project Manager, Fundacion Bolivar Davivienda, [email protected]

I'm the entrepreneurship projects manager at the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation. my experience is focused on managing capacities development programas for entrepreneurs, and also i've been an entrepreneur.

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Dan Berelowitz: CEO, International Centre for Social Franchising, [email protected]

Dan is Founder Chief Executive of the International Centre for Social Franchising. The ICSF is a not-for-profit that helps proven social projects replicate. At ICSF Dan has developed successful scaling strategies for a range of organisations from Oxfam to Nike Foundation and PSI, to a number of dynamic smaller organisations globally. One of Dan's current focuses is on scaling primary care in the developing world and he is delivering a research project on this topic with GSK, Gates Foundation, Merck, Save the Children and others. Previously Dan was first director of Tzedek, an NGO working in Ghana and India to alleviate poverty, which more than quadrupled in size during his leadership. Dan is a regular conference presenter, writer, Clore Social Leadership Fellow, has a BSc in Management from Nottingham University, and is a Rothschild Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Shari Berenbach: President & CEO, United States African Development Foundation, [email protected]

Shari Berenbach is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the United States African Development Foundation, a public corporation of the U.S. government that awards economic development grants to marginalized and underserved populations in conflict and post-conflict areas of Africa. Her distinguished 30- year career spans from microfinance to international banking. At USAID from 2010-12, she directed the Office of Microenterprise & Private Enterprise Promotion, increasing the reach of financial and market resources to rural areas and smallholder farmers. A pioneer in the impact investing field, Ms. Berenbach served as President and CEO of the Calvert Foundation, a non-profit financial intermediary that mobilizes capital from social investors to meet critical financing needs in communities. Over 14 years, Ms. Berenbach grew the foundation from a pilot project to a $500 million institution serving thousands of investors and hundreds of local financial intermediaries in the US and around the globe. Ms. Berenbach's earlier international development work included in-country programming in more than two dozen countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In the mid-1990s, Ms. Berenbach was engaged in various consultancies – preparing a monograph on banking regulation for microfinance, helping to launch MicroRate, and conducting program design and evaluations on behalf of USAID and the World Bank. Ms. Berenbach served as an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation, and also has held private sector positions at Solomon Brothers, Citigroup and a start-up telecommunications firm, Radio Movil Digital.

Meg Berger: Vice President, Evaluation and Research, Vital Voices Global Partnership, [email protected]

Marguerite (Meg) Berger is Vice President for Impact, Evaluation and Research with Vital Voices Global Partnership. She has over 30 years of experience in the Americas and Asia, focusing on gender issues, women's economic empowerment, micro and small enterprise development, access to finance, private sector reform and public financial management. She has led program design and execution, monitoring, evaluation and research in these areas. Prior to joining Vital Voices, Meg served in various capacities at the Inter-American Development Bank. She began her career there as Advisor for Women in Development and led the creation of the Women in Development Unit as its first Chief. She is also the former Chief of the Bank's Microenterprise Unit and Grants

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and Co-financing Management Unit and was seconded to the Brazilian small business agency, Sebrae, as an advisor to the President. She was an economist at the International Center for Research on Women, and has consulted for the US Small Business Administration, UNCDF, IFAD, USAID and the World Bank. Meg is a Fulbright Scholar with a doctorate in Economics from the American University. She has authored numerous books, articles and evaluations, including An Inside View of Latin American Microfinance (with Goldmark and Miller) and Women's Ventures (with Mayra Buvinic).

Suzanne Biegel: Catalyst at Large, [email protected]

Suzanne is Founder of Catalyst at Large Ltd, is Investment Director for a new project funded by DFID, Nike Foundation, and USAID focused on adolescent girls, and founded and runs the Clearly Social Angels network in the UK for ClearlySo, where she is an adjunct part of the senior team. She serves on the Advisory Board of angel network Investors' Circle, and on the Board of Directors of Confluence Philanthropy, in the US. She is a Catto Fellow at the Aspen Institute. For the past 14 years, Suzanne has been an active angel investor, philanthropist, and board member. She founded Women in Social Finance in 2011, in London, with a group of top women in their respective fields. She is Senior Advisor for the Women Effect project from Criterion Institute, and co- founded the Values-Based Investing Circle for Women Donors Network. Suzanne's passion lies in encouraging more women to be social impact investors, and to invest in companies which benefit the lives of women and girls and address the challenges and opportunities of our time.

Peter Bladin: Chief Program & Impact Officer, Global Partnerships, [email protected]

Peter oversees Global Partnerships' (GP) Programs and Impact Initiatives Team, which researches, develops and executes programmatic work across all impact areas. The team provides technical assistance to GP's partners that are using market-sustainable solutions. Peter's team also drives GP's research into new impact areas and impact measurement. Peter joined GP's staff in September 2012, having previously served on its board. Prior to joining GP, Peter was the executive vice president of programs and regions at Grameen Foundation (GF), where he oversaw all microfinance and technology programs as well as the foundation's global strategies. He joined GF in 2001 when he founded the Grameen Technology Center and built it into a global leader in using information and communication technologies (ICT) for alleviating poverty. Peter started his career at Microsoft Corporation in 1987 where he spent a decade in a variety of leadership roles focused on international work, product support and marketing. Peter has served on boards in Africa that focus on providing villages with access to mobile phone technologies. He currently serves on the board of Grameen Foundation and is a frequent speaker at various international development conferences. Peter has a degree in mathematics and economics from the University of Uppsala Sweden.

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Amira Bliss: Senior Program Associate, Rockefeller Foundation, [email protected]

Amira Bliss joined The Rockefeller Foundation in 2010. As a Senior Program Associate, Mrs. Bliss manages relationships with current and prospective grantees throughout the grantmaking process, coordinates Foundation work with partners, and conducts research in support of the strategic development and execution of Foundation initiatives. She currently works on supporting more equitable and sustainable transportation in the United States, as well as building the innovation capacity of the Foundation and the social sector. She manages projects and tools, such as Innovation Labs, to surface and spread innovative solutions to achieve greater social impact at scale. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Mrs. Bliss served as the Assistant Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) and an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Mrs. Bliss received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College and an executive master's of public policy and administration degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Mara Bolis: Senior Advisor, Market Systems, Private Sector Dept., Oxfam America, [email protected]

Mara Bolis has over 10 years of experience working in the fields of international development, emerging markets finance and business. Most recently, Mara consulted with the Middle East Investment Initiative, a public-private partnership of the Aspen Institute, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Palestinian Investment Fund, to develop a new form of small business insurance to help Palestinian exporters hindered by travel restrictions. Prior to that, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an emerging markets financial sector analyst. She has worked with various international finance and development organizations, including US Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the World Bank. She has an MBA from Johns Hopkins and a Masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Mara speaks fluent Latvian and basic Russian.

Fernanda Bombardi: Executive Director, ICE (Entrepreneurial Citizenship Institute), [email protected]

Fernanda Bombardi, currently attending MBA in Management of Socio-Environmental Business USP, psychologist formed from the Catholic University of São Paulo and a specialist in local development by the International Labour Organization. In ICE since 2006, conceived, implemented and coordinated the Pajiroba Project - focused on income generation and family farming in the Amazon - until 2009 In 2010 assumed the executive management of the Institute, being co-responsible for the organization's strategy in the area of social finance and social business, team management, budgeting, corporate communication and governance strategies. Has previously worked for AmCham (American Chamber of Comerce of São Paulo), where she completed the Trainee Program Organization and served on the Education Quality Institute, social project created by the organization. Began operating in the social sector still at university, volunteering for community processes in slums in the south of São Paulo.

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Susan Bornstein: Senior Manager, Practice Areas and Strategic Partnerships, Land O'Lakes, Inc., [email protected]

Susan Bornstein is Senior Mangaer, Practice Areas and Strategic Partnerships for Land O'Lakes International Development. Land O'Lakes International Development is a division of Land O'Lakes, Inc., the second largest agriculture cooperative in the United States and a Fortune 200 company. Susan joined Land O' Lakes in September 2014. Prior to joining Land O'Lakes Susan worked for 17 years at TechnoServe's Washinngton office. She served as senior director for program development, where she worked with US and field teams in Africa, India and Latin America to design and develop new market system and enterprise development programs with public and private partners. This included design of public-private partnerships with corporates including General Mills, Cargill and John Deere Foundation. Susan's other roles included interim country director for Kenya and acting Africa regional director. Prior, Susan supported agriculture development programs at VOCA. She was also a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal. Susan holds a master's degree in International Transactions (trade, Africa focus) from George Mason University and a bachelor's degree in International Studies (African studies/agriculture economics focus) from Michigan State University. She has over 20 years of experience working across sub-Saharan Africa, with experience in Latin America and India, with a primary focus on market sytems and enterprise development.

Paul Breloff: Managing Director Venture Lab, Accion, [email protected]

Paul Breloff is the founding managing director of the Accion Venture Lab, which invests in the world's most innovative financial inclusion startups. He has advised CGAP (a financial inclusion research center housed at the World Bank) on policy and technical issues related to branchless banking and has been engaged by Root Capital, Shell Foundation, BRAC, and others on access-to-finance issues globally. Previously, Paul worked with SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinance institution, leading business development and strategic initiatives and assisting on capital raising. While at SKS, he led new product launches and managed strategic partnerships across mobile/mobile banking, energy, education, water, and rural distribution. He has also practiced corporate law with Mayer Brown, worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., and worked as an advertising account executive for Leo Burnett. Paul graduated from Amherst College and the Yale Law School.

Michelle Buckles: Director of Sustainable Finance, Rainforest Alliance, [email protected]

Michelle leads Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Finance Initiative. She is responsible for evaluating the financing needs, capacities and solutions for enterprises and smallholders in RA's sustainable agriculture, forestry and climate programs. Michelle is currently working on projects to increase financing for cocoa productivity improvements in West Africa, implementing RA's new financial literacy and coop business management training programs, enabling technology to more efficiently collect coop information, and "making the business case for sustainability" as Co-Chair of the ANDE Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. Michelle also manages the SFI's global strategy, partnership development, fundraising and project implementation. Previously Michelle was the East Africa Regional Credit Manager for the TechnoServe Coffee Initiative based in Rwanda and Ethiopia for two

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years. Michelle has also consulted with Verde Ventures/Conservation International and Impact Assets. Michelle holds a BS in Finance from Indiana University, Bloomington and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. Michelle is based in San Francisco, California.

Deborah Burand: Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, [email protected]

Deborah Burand is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. She is the founding director of the Law School's International Transactions Clinic, and she has led a law seminar that focuses on "impact investment lawyering" (lawyering transactions that intentionally generate multiple returns). Her current areas of research include impact investment, social impact bonds, social enterprise, microfranchising and building inclusive business opportunities at the base of the economic pyramid. From August 2010 through October 2011, Deborah took a leave of absence from the Law School to serve as Vice President and General Counsel of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government's development finance institution. Prior to directing the launch of the University of Michigan Law School's International Transactions Clinic in 2008, Deborah was active in the microfinance sector where she worked in senior management positions for two global microfinance networks. Deborah also has held senior, internationally-focused positions at the US Federal Reserve Board and US Treasury Department. And she worked as an international corporate attorney at the law firm, Shearman & Sterling, in New York. In 2009 Deborah was the Co-Topic Leader for the Finance track of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). She also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former International Affairs Fellow of the Council. Deborah holds a joint graduate degree from Georgetown University, combining law with international business and development (JD/MSFS with honors), and a bachelor degree, cum laude, from DePauw University.

Sönke Buschmann: Director, Sustainable Business Practices, Enclude, [email protected]

Sönke Buschmann: Director, Sustainable Business Practices at Enclude (formerly ShoreBank International Ltd. and Triodos Facet), a global advisory firm delivering integrated capacity and capital solutions designed to meet the human needs of entrepreneurs and small & growing enterprises. Mr Buschmann has 20 years experience in designing, implementing and evaluating programmes, support systems and ecosystem development initiatives to stimulate the growth of private enterprises, empowering entrepreneurs and improving the environmental and social conditions in enterprises and sectors. Mr Buschmann is 8 years with Enclude, and has worked in 26 developing countries on private sector development initiatives.

Maurizio Caio: Founder and Managing Partner, TLcom Capital LLP, [email protected]

Maurizio Caio is the Founder and Managing Partner of TLcom Capital, a London and Nairobi based venture capital firm, investing since 1999 in technology-enabled fast growth businesses across Europe, Israel and Sub- Saharan Africa. TLcom has recently launched the TIDE (Technology and Innovation for Developing Economies) Africa Fund, with a target size of $100m. Before TLcom, Maurizio was a Director of Bain & Company, leading the 9

firm's European Technology practice. Previously, he worked at McKinsey, focusing on technology and growth strategy. Maurizio cooperates with the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) and their innovation centers in Accra and Nairobi, and the GSMA Mobile for Development initiative. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Office. Maurizio has a Summa cum Laude Laurea degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and New York University, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Bruce Campbell: Chief Legal Officer, Blue Haven Initiative, [email protected]

Bruce is the Chief Happiness Officer of Blue Dot Advocates, and wakes up every day motivated by the opportunity to leverage his profession in service of the global community. With over 15 years of experience as a corporate attorney – including six years at the international law firm Hogan Lovells Bruce brings a true depth of expertise to serve impact investors and entrepreneurs. He has advised clients on transactions worth billions of dollars in the aggregate, ranging from angel financings for start-ups to public offerings for multi-national companies. Bruce has completed corporate transactions on six continents, and he regularly visits with clients and collaborators and reviews projects in Europe, the UK, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Bruce is himself an impact investor, and has committed to invest 100% of his assets in support of sustainable business practices. He sits on a number of boards of directors, including Impact HUB in his home city of Boulder, Colorado, and an affordable housing development in Nairobi, Kenya called Karibu Homes. When he's not "working,"Bruce enjoys all things outdoors, especially trail running, biking and snowboarding. He also helps facilitate mindfulness retreats as well as a weekly meditation group in Boulder.

Geoffrey Chalmers: Managing Director, ACDI/VOCA, [email protected]

International development professional with experience in micro finance, girl finance, and agricultural development.

Clare Clifton: Pro-Poor Market Development Project Manager, Christian Aid, [email protected]

Clare Clifton is the Inclusive Markets Development Project Manager at Christian Aid - aUK based NGO which works with people, of all faiths and none, in around 50 countries, to eradicate poverty. Clare works with a team of specialist internationally based programme advisors who together shape and deliver markets focused programmes in 15 countries globally. These programmes focus on making agricultural markets more inclusive, particularly for marginalised farmers and also on enabling access to goods and services to improve livelihoods (such as off grid energy products). They also seek to address access to finance for enterprises. She has a specific role developing partnerships in the UK relating to our market programmes with peer NGOs, companies and donors.

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Nicholas Colloff: Executive Director, Argidius Foundation, [email protected]

I was born in Stratford upon Avon, was educated at the same school as Shakespeare, before departing for London where I studied theology and philosophy at university. Unsure what to do next, I helped start the Prison Phoenix Trust that teaches meditation and yoga in prisons in the UK. Starting things became a trend, so working for a venture philanthropy fund, I helped launch the microfinance charity, Opportunity International UK and Basic Needs that works on mental health in low income countries. Working for Opportunity, I helped design its global network and launched two microfinance banks in Eastern Europe – in Macedonia and Russia. Midway through life (hopefully) I thought I might become a Dominican but that did not come to pass and I found myself as Oxfam GB's Country Director in Russia, then their Director of Innovation, before finding my way to Zug and the Argidius Foundation.

Taylor Conger: Senior Associate, Echoing Green, [email protected]

As part of the Echoing Green Fellowship team, Taylor provides support to the 2014 class of Global Fellows. Prior to joining us, Taylor designed and managed a domestic fellowship program at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and previously worked resettling refugees with the International Rescue Committee. Before moving across the country to NYC, Taylor worked closely with globally-minded, socially-driven MBAs as a manager at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University. She holds a Master in Public Health in Forced Migration and a Master of Science in Social Work, both from Columbia University.

Giulia Corinaldi: Mentoring Programme Director, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, [email protected]

Giulia joined the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in 2010 and has been an integral part of the Foundation's growth. Giulia as Mentoring Director pioneered an innovative online platform that crosses borders to reach entrepreneurs around the world and led the Foundation for 4 months as Interim CEO in 2013. She also serves as Women Working Group Chair for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. She is now realising her goal of supporting many more entrepreneurs through her Director of Strategy role at the Foundation.

Carmen Correa: Manager, Fundación AVINA, [email protected]

Carmen Correa is responsible for Avina Uruguay's strategy and the Impact Businesses' strategy at the regional level. Avina's main objective is to contribute to concrete and relevant changes that lead to more sustainable development in Latin Americais. From 2005 to 2009 Carmen was the Managing Director of Endeavor Uruguay and from 2000 to 2004 she was the Chief Operations Officer of the same organization. Endeavor is an international non for profit organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurs. From 1999 to 2000 she was the Administrative Manager at DeRemate.com in Uruguay an online auction site. From 1992 to 1999 Carmen occupied various positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC. From 1990 to

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1992 she worked at the Organization of the American States (OAS) in Uruguay. Carmen holds a BS in Management from National- Louis University in McLean, VA, she has a Business Administration Certificate from Georgetown University, among other management development courses from John Hopkins University in Washington DC, USDA in Washington DC and ESADE in Uruguay. Carmen is married and has three kids.

Fernando Cortes: Director, Fundacion Bolivar Davivienda, [email protected]

MBA in Thunderbird Global School of Management. Currently I'm the executive director of the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation, also i'm an entrepreneur.

Logan Couce: Project Associate, IPIHD, Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), [email protected]

Logan supports growth-stage healthcare-focused social enterprises in scaling their impact through his work at the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) and the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD). At both SEAD and IPIHD, Logan has a special focus on scaling strategies, business support, and capacity building provided through direct coaching and support, as well as through the development of a curriculum focused on scaling global health companies in emerging markets. Prior to IPIHD Logan was an early employee in several social sector startups, and worked as an organizational development and strategy consultant for a wide variety of organizations, ranging from for-profit startups to public sector institutions. Originally from North Carolina, Logan attended UNC-Chapel Hill and is a lifelong Tar Heel basketball fan and avid rock climber. Logan is interested in meeting with any investors, accelerators, academics or anyone else interested in global health entrepreneurship opportunities and collaborations.

Hugh Courtney: Director, Nesa Capital, [email protected]

Hugh is a qualified chartered accountant who served his articles in one of SA's prominent investment banks. Hugh took on a role as a deal originator in the Debt Capital Markets team catering to a number of blue chip clients in the financial and mining sectors respectively. He also dealt with some of the structured and high yield issuances in the bond market at the time. Subsequent to the successful issuance of the SBK12 and SBK13 structured tier II notes (in excess of R5 billion) in 2009, Hugh left the bank to focus on capital raising for Greenfields and brownfields projects in the mining sector. Southern Resources had been formed for this purpose a few years previously and Hugh was able to successfully bring his clients projects up to production and assist in debt and balance sheet restructurings. With his intricate knowledge and experience in capital raising and credit risk, Hugh joined Nesa Capital later that year and co-founded and oversaw the successful launch of the Nesa Enterprise Development Fund.

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Steve Cumming: Program Manager, Youth Learning, The MasterCard Foundation, [email protected]

Steve has ten years of development experience. He currently manages a portfolio of Economic Opportunities for Youth projects at the MasterCard Foundation focusing on skills training and connecting young people to markets. Steve is also the focal point within the Foundation for the Youth Think Tank. He has lived and worked in South Sudan, Angola and Sierra Leone in field management positions and was also the International Programs Director for a Youth Development organization. Steve has a Master's in Social Work from Carleton University and a Master's of Post-War Reconstruction and Development from the University of York

Jacob Cusack: Managing Partner, CrossBoundary, [email protected]

Jake Cusack has a joint Masters in Public Policy and Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame's Honors Program. He served as a Marine Corps officer and his military decorations include the Bronze Star, Navy Commendation Medal, and Combat Action Ribbon. Mr. Cusack has worked as a geopolitical analyst for the US government and at Abraaj Capital, a leading emerging market private equity fund. He is on the board of the Harvard Leadership Institute, has written for the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes, was a contributing author to Passion & Purpose from Harvard Business Press and published research on frontier markets with the Center for a New American Security and Kauffman Foundation. He has spoken at the Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Center for Public Leadership, the US Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, and appeared on NPR, in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Carol Dahl: Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation, [email protected]

Dr. Carol Dahl is the Executive Director of The Lemelson Foundation. With a background in discovery sciences, innovation programs, and global health and development, Dr. Dahl leads the foundation's work to use the power of invention to improve lives. The Foundation inspires and enables the next generation of inventors and invention-based enterprises to promote economic growth in the US, and help solve social and economic problems for the poorest populations in developing countries.Prior to joining the Foundation, Dahl served as founding Director of the Global Health Discovery Program and Director of Staff for the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previous roles included Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at Biospect Inc. (now Pathworks Diagnostics), founding Director of the Office of Technology and Industrial Relations at the National Cancer Institute and Program Director at the National Center for Human Genome Research.

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Jim Daniell: Chief Operating Officer - Oxfam America, Oxfam America, [email protected]

Jim Daniell joined Oxfam America as COO in 2009 to help Ray Offenheiser realize his vision for a next generation NGO. Since then, his background in global strategy, scale operations, and the flexibility of start-up companies has been put to good use in support of Oxfam's global mission as he oversees all of the agency's global staff and operations. Jim has been a proud technology geek with a fascination for startup businesses since an early age. After earning a Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. in technology over a six-year period, he spent the next eight years in technology and telecommunications companies focused on strategy and business development. Supported by superb mentors, including industry legends Roel Pieper and John Petrillo, Jim was able to work at the highest levels of the technology industry. After completing many large, global projects involving billions of dollars and tens of thousands of staff, in 1997 he returned to Boston and his start-up roots. Since 1997, Jim has been the CEO of multiple start-up companies, he co-founded Common Angels angel investment group, and continues to serve on the Board of the Mass Technology Leadership Council and the Museum of Science.

Kurt Dassel: Director, Monitor Deloitte, [email protected]

Economic development consultant.

David Dayhoff: VP of Programs & Operations, Partners in Food Solutions, [email protected]

David Dayhoff is an accomplished leader in the agriculture, supply chain and nonprofit sectors. He spent more than 14 years at Cargill in roles such as: technology management, innovation, project portfolio management and international strategy and business development. For the past two years, he has been the director of partnership engagement and advocacy at Hunger-Free Minnesota, working with non-profit, corporate and government partners to end Minnesota's missing meal gap.

Arianna De Leo: Director of Dev Impact and CEO TIDE Foundation, TLcom Capital LLP, [email protected]

Arianna De Leo works as Director of Development Impact focusing on impact and environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and metrics for TLcom. Arianna also leads the TIDE Foundation, a separate non profit entity aimed at the development of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem in developing countries that has been set up by TLcom in conjunction with the formation of the TLcom TIDE Africa Fund. Her current board seats include a social media company for diaspora in Europe and a for profit youth employment agency in frontier markets. .Before joining TLcom, Arianna worked for 15 years as Director of Operations of Progetto Continenti, an international NGO operating in Sub Saharan Africa, South East Asia and Central America, with a focus on women entrepreneurship and youth employment, and as a free-lance development consultant for International Organizations and NGOs on the subject of entrepreneurship for development. She brings a unique and complementary set of skills to the TLcom team as we engage in a proactive pursuit and measurement of the

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development impact of our investments with the TLcom TIDE Africa fund. Arianna has a Summa cum Laude Laurea degree in Business Administration from LUISS University and a Master in Development Economics and International Cooperation from Ferrara University.

Russell deLucia: Executive Director, Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund, [email protected]

Russell J. deLucia is the primary founder, President and Executive Director of S3IDF-US. He was also the Founding Chairman, no Senior Advisor, of its affiliate S3IDF-India. Trained in engineering and economics (Ph.D., Harvard University), Dr. deLucia is a pioneer in the field of development finance and infrastructure development with experience in more than sixty countries with developing or transition economies, covering every geographic area of the world. Prior to creating S3IDF, he was a consultant for bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions (ADB, IBRD, IDB, IFAD and IFC) and their member countries, serving both as team leader and/or specialist expert. He has advised governments, private firms, financial institutions and NGOs regarding policy and project matters. Much of his prior consulting was on small-scale infrastructure and related investments (e.g. energy-dependent agro-processing schemes) and mechanisms to yield greater development synergies. His experience has influenced the practicum of institutional, regulatory and financing approaches to facilitate small-investments and broader program efforts in different contexts.

Tahira Dosani: Director of Portfolio Engagement, Accion, [email protected]

Tahira Dosani is the Director of Portfolio Engagement at Venture Lab, working with the fund's portfolio companies to accelerate their growth by improving their profitability and amplifying their impact. Venture Lab is a seed-stage impact investing initiative that provides capital and expertise to early-stage businesses in the financial inclusion space. Tahira previously led strategic projects at LeapFrog Investments, a specialist financial services emerging market PE fund. Prior to that, Tahira worked as Director of Strategy at the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development. Based in Dubai, she drove strategic initiatives for portfolio companies and led new investments in South and Central Asia and the Middle East. She also worked at Roshan, Afghanistan's leading telecommunications operator, where she was Head of Corporate Strategy and launched the country's first mobile money platform. Tahira began her career as a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston. Tahira holds an MBA from INSEAD and BAs in International Relations, Computer Science, and Education from Brown University.

Jeff Dykstra: CEO, Partners in Food Solutions, [email protected]

Jeff currently serves as the CEO of Partners in Food Solutions, a consortium of leading global food companies - General Mills, Cargill, DSM and Bühler - who are committed to improving food security by sharing the knowledge and expertise of their employees with small and growing food processors across Africa. Jeff's career has included numerous business development, marketing and communication roles at both large, global 15

organizations like Cargill and World Vision as well as at several smaller start-up ventures. Jeff's current work is shaped and informed by having spent half his career in business and the other half in relief and development (including two years living and working in Lusaka, Zambia) leading to a unique and practical understanding of how both of these sectors can benefit from the other and accomplish more together than apart. A Colorado native, Jeff is a graduate of Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA and currently resides in Edina, Minnesota, USA with his wife, Molly and three children – Mackenzie, Clara & Bennett.

Kathryn Ernst: Managing Director, Center for Advancement of Sustainable Enterprise at Colorado State University, [email protected]

Kathryn Ernst has a BA in International Studies and a BA in Spanish from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, and an MBA in Global, Social & Sustainable Enterprise (GSSE) from Colorado State University. After working for a family-owned bicycle tour company for a year, she served 2 years in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic as a Community Economic Development volunteer. Her work in the DR with an organic coffee cooperative inspired her to research alternative supply chain models that benefit small-holder farmers in the developing world. During the GSSE program, Kathryn co-founded Organic Oasis, an aquaponics business whose family-sized units increase nutrition and income to bottom of the pyramid families in Lima, Peru via efficient vegetable and fish production. Kathryn worked as Research Associate for CASE for nearly 2 years before moving into her current position as Managing Director, where she is working on marketing, recruiting, fundraising, and designing new educational programs.

Sara Eshelman: Manager, Intellectual Capital, Omidyar Network, [email protected]

Sara is a member of Omidyar Network's intellectual capital team. She focuses on research and strategy efforts related to US financial inclusion, property rights, and consumer internet and mobile sectors.

Nicole Etchart: Co-founder and CEO, NESsT, [email protected]

Nicole is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of NESsT, where she leads NESsT's strategy, growth and impact worldwide including entrance to ten countries, diversification of the portfolio to new target markets, and the use of diverse financial instruments. Nicole is responsible for the development of NESsT's new initiatives as well as its capacity and investment strategy and tools. She manages key donor relations and oversees a senior management team to carry out NESsT's goals while maximizing the organization's resources and impact. Nicole is also author, editor and contributor to numerous publications and articles on social enterprise and impact investing in emerging market countries

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Lalarukh Faiz: Director - Financial Innovation Programs, Santa Clara University - CSTS, [email protected]

Prior to joining the Impact Capital team at Santa Clara, Lalarukh (Lala) Faiz led the Grand Challenges for Development team in the Global Development Lab at USAID. Previously, she was the Senior Partnerships Advisor in the U.S. Secretary of State's Office of Global Partnership Initiatives (S/GPI) where she led the Global Impact Economy Initiative. Prior to that, she served as a USAID Foreign Service Officer where she developed new business opportunities through public-private partnerships in emerging markets such as Colombia, Ecuador and South Africa and structured credit guarantees to increase access to micro, small,and medium enterprise finance. Before that, she consulted for Booz Allen Hamilton and numerous donors and NGOs. Lala began her career as a researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/National Institutes of Health. She holds her BA in Neuroscience and History from Oberlin College and her Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Alan Feldbaum: Director, The Americas, Low Carbon Enterprise Fund, [email protected]

Alan joined the Low Carbon Enterprise Fund in late 2011 and is Director of the Americas where he focuses on investments in solar, wind, clean cookstoves, pico-hydro, and other low carbon energy access technologies. He is a retired partner from ERM, the global sustainability firm, where he focused on the environmental and social impact of finance and capital markets, led the mergers & acquisition practice, and directed environmental due diligence for clients in developed and developing markets. In 2010 he led the Strategic Review for the Equator Principles, the landmark environmental and social risk management framework in the field of project finance. Alan holds a bachelor's degree in Biology from Bard College, a Masters in Environmental Management from Duke University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Katleen Felix: President, Haitian Hometown Associations Resource Group, [email protected]

Katleen Felix chairs the Haitian Hometown Associations Resource Group (HHTARG also called the RG). The RG was formed in March 2008 by a group of HHTA (Haitian Hometown Associations) leaders for the purpose of strengthening community development projects in Haiti in order to foster economic and social growth with the aim of alleviating poverty in Haiti. Important information on day passes, please read! If you plan on commuting to and from Glen Cove each day, be sure to check the appropriate box for which days you'll be attending under "Optional Tickets" in addition to your registration fee. Guests staying overnight at Glen Cove do not need to purchase day passes; please make arrangements for your stay directly with Glen Cove.She has assembled a database of nearly 350 HHTAs and support groups worldwide. Her work with the Haitian Diaspora includes organizing capacity-building programs, informational and networking activities for the HHTAs in New York, Miami and Boston. She is one of the leaders behind the design of www.zafen.org a crowdfunding website where the public can directly support SGB, SMEs and social projects in Haiti. She has over 10 years of experience as a senior financial officer for major corporations, 20 years in leadership and volunteer roles in not-for-profit organizations working with SMEs in Canada and the USA. She is well integrated in the business scene and is the

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recipient of many awards. Katleen holds a bachelor and master degree in Finance & International business from HEC Montreal (www.hec.ca). She speaks French, English, Creole and Portuguese.

Michael Finney: Clinical Associate Professor of Management, Thunderbird Emerging Markets Laboratories, [email protected]

Michael L. Finney, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Global Leadership and Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He teaches international consulting to students and global leadership and organizational behavior to both students and corporate executives. He is also the Faculty Director of the Thunderbird Emerging Market Laboratory (TEM Lab), a capstone international consulting practicum. His work with TEM Lab involves the academic oversight of teams of Thunderbird MBA candidates assigned to social and economic infrastructure development consulting projects in emerging markets for the Exxon Mobil Foundation, the Grameen Foundation, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and other institutional partners. Finney has worked as an independent consultant and educator for 25 years, assisting NGOs, governments, and universities and corporations of all sizes develop and shape their organizational strategies. His clients have ranged from large for- profit corporations employing thousands to small not-for-profits. His expertise includes not-for-profit/NGO capacity building and strategic planning. Some of his top clients have included the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Hopi Indian Nation, the State of New Mexico and the University of Southern California. Prior to joining Thunderbird, Finney taught at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and at Rice University. Finney earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration and Organizational Development at the University of Southern California. He received his MA in Organizational and Interpersonal Communication from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and he earned his BS in Psychology at the University of Central Arkansas.

Benjamin Firmenich: Partner, Impact Finance Management SA, [email protected]

Benjamin is a founding partner of Impact Finance, he is in charge of the relations with investors. He is based in Geneva and manages a portfolio of investments in Western Europe and Latin America.He is an environmental science and social impact analysis specialist. He was sent by Wetlands International to Indonesia to assess the total economic value of a mangrove ecosystem and he took part in an emission-modeling project at the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands. Benjamin visited over 50 impact enterprises. He is member of the Board of the Swiss Better Gold Association and seats in the Philanthropic Committee of the Firmenich Family. Benjamin holds a Master of Arts in Political Sciences from the Universty of Geneva and a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University.

Linda Fitzgerald: Executive Director, Peru Opportunity Fund, [email protected]

Linda has more than fourteen years' experience in economic development and philanthropy. Before joining Peru Opportunity Fund in 2009, she served as Hispanics in Philanthropy's Director of Transnational Programs, where 18

she implemented a multi-million dollar grant-making program focused on economic development in six Latin American countries. Linda was also Deputy Director of the Community Partners Program at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, where she contributed to the implementation of the program's strategy across Knight's 26 communities and managed several community portfolios. Linda has lived in Brazil, where she worked for a Maryland-based consulting firm specializing in international economic development. Linda received her master's degree in business administration from the University of Maryland and a bachelor's degree in economics from George Washington University.

Willy Foote: Founder/CEO, Root Capital, [email protected]

Willy Foote is the founder and CEO of Root Capital. He began his career on Wall Street as a financial analyst in Latin American corporate finance. Later, he worked as a business journalist in Mexico, where he discovered the challenges faced by cooperatives and small producers who lacked access to credit and markets. He founded Root Capital in 1999. Since then, Root Capital has grown to over 125 employees, with clients across Latin America and Africa, and $100 million in assets. Willy received the Skoll Award for 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). He is on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Willy holds an M.S. in development economics from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University.

Rebecca Fries: Director, Value for Women, [email protected]

Director of Value for Women, Rebecca has been co-chair of the ANDE Women's Working group since 2012. Rebecca has expertise on a range of research, policy development and technical support initiatives related to gender justice and economic development. Rebecca develops and manages research and development projects focused on women-led small and growing business, as well as capacity building projects on women's economic leadership. Rebecca has published extensively in women's economic development and entreprenurship.

Sara Gallagher: Program Officer, International diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA), [email protected]

Sara Gallagher is the Program Officer for the International diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA). Sara leads IdEA's programs across IdEA's four pillars of investment and entrepreneurship, volunteerism, philanthropy, and innovation. She also coordinates IdEA's marketing and communications. Previously, Sara worked in various roles in the nonprofit sector including Chair of the Do Good Challenge at the Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership; Communications and Marketing Philanthropy Fellow at the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region; and Development professional for the Arlington Arts Center. She received her Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland and her BA from McGill University in Québec, Canada. Sara's professional 19

passion is strengthening the nonprofit sector on a macro level and building the capacity of effective organizations to scale their impact.

PR Ganapathy: Chief Operating Officer, Villgro Innovations Foundation, [email protected]

PR "Guns" Ganapathy is the COO at Villgro Innovations, one of India's oldest and most respected social enterprise incubators. Villgro's mission is to "make impactful innovators succeed", and Guns has operational and strategic responsibility for all major programs that make that vision a reality. In addition to running Villgro's programs, Guns directly mentors several social enterprises in the Villgro portfolio, spending significant amounts of time helping entrepreneurs overcome their challenges and scale. He is also actively involved in building the social enterprise ecosystem in India, through organizations like ANDE, by active participation in various industry bodies and working groups, and by giving inspirational talks at forums like TEDx. Prior to Villgro, Guns co- founded a venture-funded startup and held leadership positions at small and large corporations in India and the US. He has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and an Honors degree in Mathematics from Hindu College.

Alexis Geaneotes: Operations Officer, International Finance Corporation, [email protected]

Alexis Geaneotes is an Operations Officer at IFC and member of the Inclusive Business Models team. She leads customized market insights projects that focus on deriving meaningful insights for inclusive business clients on their base of the pyramid customer base or supply chains and on measuring results. She has authored several reports on inclusive business including "A Review of Coca-Cola's Manual Distribution Centers in Ethiopia and Tanzania" and "Accelerating Inclusive Business Opportunities: Business Models that Make a Difference". Prior to IFC, she worked for several years as a strategy consultant to pharmaceutical and biotech companies operating in developed and emerging markets. Alexis holds a master's degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she focused on business and government policy and conducted her master's research on the investment climate in the Dominican Republic. She received her undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Marla Gitterman: Chief Program Officer, Bpeace (Business Council for Peace), [email protected]

As Chief Program Officer of Bpeace, Marla Gitterman manages Bpeace's capacity development programs in Afghanistan, Rwanda, El Salvador and Guatemala. Bpeace is the award-winning non-profit that provides pro- bono skills development and consulting to small and medium-size business owners in conflicted affected countries. Prior to joining Bpeace in 2005 as its first full-time employee, Marla worked as Technical Program Officer at Women's World Banking where she helped support the development of microfinance institutions in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

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Alan Glasgow: Director of Business Development, GOAL, [email protected]

Alan Glasgow – Director of Business Development. Alan has over seventeen years' extensive humanitarian and development experience. Following a career in marketing within the private sector, he joined GOAL in 1997 where he worked in an emergency response capacity in Kenya, Angola and GOAL's Kosovo response. In 2001, he took up an overseas post with GOAL before taking the role of Country Director in South Sudan, and later becoming Country Director in North Sudan, GOAL's largest humanitarian programme with an estimated budget of €20m. Alan left GOAL in 2006 to join International Rescue Committee as Country Director for Sierra Leone, where he spent three years. He then spent a year in the Middle East, as Business Development Manager for Mercy Corps. These experiences allowed him to deepen his understanding of the workings of international organisations around the areas of business development, programme management and policy development. Alan re-joined GOAL in 2010 in his current role with responsibility for new initiatives, partnerships and alliances; new country development, including the management of GOAL's humanitarian and emergency response capacity; and the management of GOAL's institutional funding portfolio. Alan's focus has been to ensure that GOAL is positioned strategically both at country and international level to maximise the impact of GOAL programmes. Alan holds a Master's Degree in Humanitarian Assistance from UCD and a Post Grad Dip. in HRM from the University of Leicester. Additionally, he is a qualified Sphere Master Trainer who has delivered extensive emergency training to the wider humanitarian community.

Natasha Goldstein: CFO, MCE Social Capital, [email protected]

Prior to joining MCE in 2013, Natasha served as Finance Director at Hot Bread Kitchen, a social enterprise and commercial bakery providing on-the-job training to immigrant women in New York City. In 2010, Natasha founded LIFT Investments, a social enterprise focused on business development and skills training in Nairobi, Kenya. From 2010 to 2012, Natasha also worked for boutique management consulting firm ESV Strategies, where she advised nonprofits and social enterprises on their financial growth. Earlier in her career, Natasha worked at UBS Investment Bank as a financial analyst, where she focused on multi-million and billion dollar cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and equity transactions. Natasha is a regular public speaker on launching social ventures, impact investing and social enterprise. Venues have included Columbia University, New York University, Women Advancing Microfinance and various corporate and industry conferences.

Richard Gomes, Head of Policy & Advocacy, Shell Foundation, [email protected]

Richard works with public and private actors in the social investment ecosystem to explore new forms of collaboration as a way to accelerate innovation and collective impact. He has led Shell Foundation’s strategic communications work since joining in 2009 and has researched, edited and co-authored several reports examining the lessons learned from our programmes. Richard previously worked for the Shell Group across a variety of financial and commercial roles in the UK, Europe and Asia. He holds an Economics degree from the University of Warwick and a post-graduate diploma from the London School of Journalism.

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Ana Paula Gonzalez: Business Strategy Director, New Ventures Mexico, [email protected]

Ana Paula González is the Business Strategy Director at New Ventures, where she leads sourcing for the investment fund (Adobe Capital) and the accelaration programs, oversees acceleration and technical assistance programs and is building the company's business intelligence area. Previous to New Ventures, Ms. González was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Mexico City, where she worked in private equity, consumer goods and financial services industries, supporting clientes on such topics as: investment strategies, IPOs, market entry strategies, go-to-market strategies and organizational reestructuring. Ms. González holds an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School, where she obtained the "Nathan Gantcher Prize for Social Enterprise" and has an undergraduate degree in Business at Tec de Monterrey campus Guadalajara.

Grant Gottesman: Director, Strategic Partnerships, Verb, [email protected]

Grant is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Verb and focuses on identifying new partnerships and competitions as well as strengthening and building on Verb's existing relationships. Before joining Verb, Grant was involved in commercial real estate in Austin, TX and Washington, DC and community development in Uganda. Grant graduated from the University of Virginia and now lives in Austin, Texas.

Jesse Grainger: Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Agora Partnerships, [email protected]

After working on a variety of international development projects in Africa during his undergraduate studies ranging from educational initiatives to aid distribution, Jesse was hired as a marketing consultant for a small- business development project called Africa B2B that extended mid-size loans to companies in Uganda. It was here where he discovered the importance of SGB growth to international development efforts. After attending graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill for Journalism & Mass Communication and working as a social media specialist at a record label, Jesse joined the staff of Agora Partnerships. Currently, Jesse is the Director of Strategy and Partnerships.

Matthew Guttentag: Partnerships Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development, [email protected]

Matt Guttentag is a Partnerships Advisor with the U.S. Agency for International Development. He focuses on entrepreneurship, and co-manages the Partnering to Accelerate Entrepreneurship (PACE) initiative in the U.S. Global Development Lab.

James Haga: Vice President, Global Partnerships, EWB Canada, [email protected]

Born and raised in Vancouver, James Haga is the Vice-President of Global Partnerships at EWB Canada, an organization that invests in systemic innovations that reduce poverty across Sub-Saharan Africa. James has

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played many roles at EWB, including as founding Director of Policy & Advocacy. Presently, James spends his time the strategy and investment process for the 16 ventures EWB invests in across Africa. He has lived in several countries, including Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, the UK and the US. Loving a good adventure, James has also spent time working on ships and in ports throughout the Gulf of Mexico and South America. His commentary on global development has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, and on CBC News. In 2013, he was selected for the Action Canada Fellowship. James' purpose in life is to try and be useful and make the world a better place. He is still learning how to do this in big and small ways on a daily basis.

Angela Hansen: Partner, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, [email protected]

Angela is a Partner in Dalberg's Johannesburg office and leads the firm's Agriculture and Food Security Practice globally. Angela has a depth of experience helping clients enhance their performance, meet their objectives, and design organizational strategies using approaches that ensure results-based, actionable recommendations. Angela has advised across the World Bank Group, the United Nations system and civil society. Additionally, Angela has extensive experience supporting private sector agribusinesses; her clients in this arena include multinational food and beverage companies, private equity firms and indigenous SMEs. Angela also has a depth of experience in agricultural policy development; she has lead multiple engagements addressing issues of sustainable land and water management, food security, agricultural market access and infrastructure in multiple countries across Africa. Prior to Dalberg, Angela worked in Accenture's Global Business Solutions practice where she specialized in strategic planning for corporate clients in North America and Asia. She was educated at the University of Minnesota (BSc), Columbia Business School and the University of Cape Town, South Africa (MBA). Angela has been a guest lecturer at the University of Geneva's International Organizations MBA programme and the African Leadership Academy; a groundbreaking Pan-African baccalaureate programme shaping the continent's future leaders. Angela is a contributing author to the book Corporate Citizenship in Africa: Lessons from the Past, Paths to the Future, in which she examines the current and potential future regulatory limitations and cultural expectations of corporate behaviour across African states.

Rebecca Harrison: Co-Founder & CEO, African Management Initiative, [email protected]

Rebecca is Co-Founder and CEO of the African Management Initiative, a social enterprise that works to empower managers and entrepreneurs at African SGBs. Rebecca has over a decade of experience at the intersection of business and development in Africa. She was previously a journalist and manager at Reuters News in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She previously co-founded an award-winning social enterprise serving women in rural South Africa. She has an MBA (cum laude) from theUniversity of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science and a BA from the University of Manchester.

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Njideka Harry: President & CEO, Youth for Technology Foundation, [email protected]

Njideka U. Harry is the President and CEO of Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF), an innovative non-profit organization focused on using the power of technology to transform the lives of youth and women living in developing countries. YTF's strength lies in its ability to access market demands, design developmental programs, provide linkages that accelerate business opportunities and administer customized ICT and entrepreneurship training programs that uplift youth and women from poverty. Mrs. Harry serves as a consultant to several social enterprises, for-profit businesses with a social mission and international agencies on matters related to technology for development, youth entrepreneurship, gender/impact investing and corporate social responsibility. She has moderated and served on hundreds of panels in international forums and her work has been featured world renowned journals, books on ICT and development and in Forbes and the Huffington Post. Mrs. Harry earned her BBA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She completed her post-graduate studies at Stanford University were she was a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow. Mrs. Harry is an Ashoka Fellow and in 2013 was awarded ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year’ by the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum.

Mark Harwood: Economic Development Learning and Support Manager, World Vision Australia, [email protected]

Mark joined World Vision Australia in March 2011 working as a Strategy and Operations Advisor and is now working as the Project Model Learning and Support Manager in the SEED unit. He has developed the PALS (Project model Accredited Learning & Support) approach to support the scale-up of the Economic Development Project Models across World Vision globally by developing and recognising the expertise of our field-based practitioners. Using a simple online platform, PALS provides ongoing learning and support for economic development practitioners working directly on the ground with communities and encourages participatory peer- to-peer learning through interactive group activities, knowledge sharing and scenario-based learning. Prior to joining World Vision Australia, Mark worked with Accenture as a Management Consultant in their Change Management division for six years, based out of Australia, Africa and Asia. When not working Mark enjoys cycling on land and surfing on water.

Katelyn Hepworth: Research and Evaluation Officer, Bernard van Leer Foundation, [email protected]

Katelyn Hepworth is a Research and Evaluation Officer for the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Within the foundation, Katelyn helps to manage internal and external research and provides technical support to the program portfolio.Katelyn joined the foundation in 2014. Previously, she worked as a Consultant at the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. She holds a master's degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with a regional focus on Latin America.

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Mayra Hernández: Executive Director, Social Responibility, Banorte, [email protected]

Mayra is a creative entrepreneur whose 18-year career has focused on the fusion of strategic branding, design and sustainability. She is the Head of Corporate Responsibility of Grupo Financiero Banorte, the third largest financial institution in Mexico. Since 2009 she's been responsible for finding opportunities for the bank to provide financial, social and environmental benefits while contributing to the organization's growth. Mayra's belief in the importance of giving back manifests itself in the combination of philanthropy and initiatives to inspire social innovation. Having Banorte as one of her clients, in 2004 she designed Mujer Banorte. This was the first program of its kind in Mexico to financially empower women. She has served on the Board of Fundación Origen, a non-profit that supports underprivileged women in Mexico, and has co-chaired several fundraising events in New York. Mayra was selected as part of the 2012 Class of the First Movers Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute and serves in the board of Synergos, a not for profit organization that supports change-making leaders and institutions around the world addressing the complex challenges of poverty and social injustice. Mayra received a Special Studies Certificate in Administrative Science from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from Universidad Iberoamericana.

Devin Hibbard: CEO, BeadforLife, [email protected]

Devin is a thought leader on social entrepreneurship and how to use business training + social empowerment to allow women to transform their lives. As the founder and CEO of BeadforLife, Devin has created an innovative model of Transformation Trade in which impoverished women earn income through the creation of hand-made paper jewelry, but use that as a spring board into starting their own local businesses before graduating.

Devin holds an MPA in International Development and Non-Profit management from the Evans School at the University of Washington. She is an American Marshall Fellow, a graduate of Leadership Tomorrow, a Master Course Instructor at Watson University, and a Mentor at Unreasonable Institute East Africa.

Nonni Hlongwane: Investment Professional, Omidyar Network, [email protected]

Nonni's work focuses on developing the entrepreneurship ecosystem across Africa. She leads investments in education, technology and financial inclusion on behalf of Omidyar Network, a social impact venture capital fund. Prior to Omidyar Network, Nonni spent over 3 years in Nigeria with one of Africa's leading private equity firms - Emerging Capital Partners ("ECP"). At ECP, she was involved in deal sourcing, execution and portfolio monitoring of agri-business, petrochemicals, financial services and telecoms transactions across West Africa. She was also part of the founding team at Phatisa, an agribusiness fund focused on small to medium markets across the continent. Nonni started her career in finance at UBS Investment Bank, where she was part of the South African M&A and private equity advisory team. She is a graduate of Macalester College in the US and a South African native.

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Caren Holzman: Director, Enabling Outcomes Ltd, [email protected]

Caren focuses on using the power of business to make positive economic, environmental and social contributions to the globalized economy. Her company, Enabling Outcomes, designs tools and strategies and facilitates processes that empower clients to achieve their sustainability ambitions and measure their impact. She has held senior leadership positions at SustainAbility, Fairtrade International, and Fair Trade USA. Caren led the evaluation of the Argidius-ANDE Finance Challenge and is evaluating ANDE's Capacity Development Fund. She is based in London, UK.

Miguel Hoyos: Director Ejecutivo, Fundación para la Producción, [email protected]

Miguel Hoyos is an economist with 32 years of experience, mainly in the design, organization and implementation of financial programs for the micro, small and medium enterprises. He is the Executive Director of FUNDA-PRO, a private foundation that manages financial and non-financial programs aimed to promote the development of the micro, small and medium enterprises in Bolivia. Mr. Hoyos has promoted the organization of other institutions such as The International Center for Financial Innovations, NeoEmpresa and Finance for All. In these organizations he was the President of the Board. He was also the General Coordinator of the Bolivian Entrepreneurship Network, whose members from all over Bolivia, provide financial and development services to entrepreneurs. He has done consultancy work for international organizations such as the World Bank, IDB, GTZ and ASDI. He is also a university professor of economics and development finance.

Kenneth Hynes: Managing Director, Rianta Capital, Artha Initiative, [email protected]

Ken is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Artha Networks Inc. Ken has 15 years of experience working with SMEs in emerging markets through value chains and cluster based programs. Ken's primary interest is in supporting entrepreneurs and SMEs whose innovative thinking and perseverance make them compelling role models to their communities.

Diyanto Imam: Executive Director, Inotek, [email protected]

Diyanto is the Executive Director of Inotek Foundation, a Jakarta-based business incubator that supports the development of invention and technology-based SGBs that are environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in business advisory services, including more than 8 years in venture capital, angel investment, impact investment and business incubation fields. Prior to Inotek he had worked for various organizations including World Resources Institute (WRI), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, Queensland State Government Trade and Investment Office and Australian Trade Commission. He holds Master of International Business degree from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and Bachelor of Business (Management) from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

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Shai Ingber: Senior Commercial Counsel, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, [email protected]

Shai Ingber is an assistant general counsel at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, a U.S. government agency that provides financing and political risk insurance to companies and individuals investing in projects in developing countries. Prior to his time at OPIC, Shai helped run a restaurant and entertainment company affiliated with the Cordish companies based in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to that, he was an attorney in the development group at Marriott International specializing in the development of Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Latin America and the Caribbean. Shai spent the first part of his career as an attorney focusing on project finance and bank finance at the law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP in New York and in Washington DC . Shai studied politics at Princeton University and law at Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia , Shai spent a year in Jerusalem clerking for Israeli Supreme Court Justice Mishael Cheshin. Shai resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland with his wife Melissa and three kids.

Juan Carlos Iturri: Executive Director, Fundacion IES, [email protected]

Masters Degree in Public Administration graduate with 25 years of cumulative academic and practical work experience in Bolivia and Latin America. Specific experience in the central government, design and development of program with the International Cooperation in Bolivia; experience in the academic sector, as Academic Dean of an MBA and professor of Strategy, Leadership, negotiation, experience as analyst for sectors such as: macroeconomic, investment, strategy, reengineering, organizational behavior, mergers and acquisitions and launching of new enterprises. Member of several Board of Directors and Trusts, coordinated several events in support of the productive sector in Bolivia, specially SMS. Knowledgeable of programs and objectives of USAID, World Bank, IDB, EU and other donors. Familiar with Bolivian labor law and human resources practices, human resources policy development and application.

Daniel Izzo: Executive Director, Vox Capital, [email protected]

Executive director and co-founder at Vox Capital, Brazil's first impact investing venture capital firm, focused on high potential startups and early stage businesses serving the Brazilian low income population with solutions with the potential to improve their lives. Before founding Vox Capital, Daniel has worked for 12 years in marketing and business development positions at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Division in Brazil and at the Brazilian e-commerce pioneer Submarino (www.submarino.com.br), during its startup phase. He has been working with the Brazilian low-income population since 2007 when, while still working at J&J Brazil, he led the company's business development area for the base of the pyramid. Daniel is a board member for several companies, a former Steering Committee Leader for the ANDE (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs) Brazilian Chapter and a World Young Leader by the BMW Foundation.

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Irvyne Jean-Baptiste: Zafen Program Manager, Fonkoze, [email protected]

I was borned and raised in haiti. I attended a private catholic school during my primary and secondary years. i have studied civil engineering and i have worked in the social field as a civil engineer. in 1998, i was the recipient of a fullbright scholarship and i have studied business administration at the university of rochester. i am working at the fonkoze foundation as the director of zafen , a program that lend money to Small growing Businesses at a subsidized rate. i have been managing the program for 5 years now.

Karin Jensma: Head of Business Development & Communications, PUM Netherlands Senior Experts, [email protected]

Karin Jensma has gained 15 years experience in business development, marketing, fundraising, communications, project and relationship management, in both the profit and the non-profit sector. In those years she has particularly been involved in developing business opportunities, establishing (international) partnerships, creating and executing marketing campaigns and maintaining high levels of communication with all stakeholders involved. Karin is currently Head of Business Development & Communications at PUM Netherlands senior experts.

Leslie Johnston: Executive Director, C&A Foundation, [email protected]

Leslie Johnston joined C&A Foundation as its first Executive Director in August 2013, bringing 17 years of management experience across multiple sectors, including smallholder agribusiness, entrepreneurship and corporate philanthropy. Prior to this role, she managed the Swiss-based Argidius and COFRA Foundations, committed to helping enterprising people to help themselves. As the Deputy Director for TechnoServe in West and Southern Africa, she co-managed a $20 million portfolio and a diverse team working to help African farmers and entrepreneurs improve their bottom line. She also brings top-tier management consulting experience, having worked for McKinsey & Company in DC and South Africa. Leslie currently serves on the board of COFRA Foundation, the ANDE Executive Committee and TechnoServe's Global Advisory Council.

Chris Jones: Vice President, Resource Development, Fair Trade USA, [email protected]

Chris joined Fair Trade USA in February, 2014, with responsibility for all private and public donation revenue, including funding from individuals, foundations, corporations, events and government agencies. Chris comes to Fair Trade with more than 20 years experience in fundraising, grant-making, and non-profit management. Most recently, he was director of development for Guide Dogs for the Blind, the second largest guide dog school in the world and a global leader in service dog production. Prior to that, Chris served as VP of Development and then COO for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the nation's largest Latino education organization, where he helped extend regional presence and established national partnerships that enabled HSF to reach millions more Hispanic youth. Before that, Chris oversaw Microsoft's corporate giving outside the U.S., working to align and

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optimize community affairs programs in more than 45 countries on six continents. During the 1990s, Chris led corporate and foundation relations programs at both UCLA and the University of Washington. A civil engineering graduate of Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, Chris spent the first decade of his career as a working engineer and program manager for projects throughout Latin America and Asia.

Linda Jones: R&D Director, Impact Investing, Mennonite Economic Development Associates, [email protected]

Dr. Linda Jones is an international consultant in the field of inclusive economic development with a strong focus on pro-poor private sector development (including investment), women's empowerment and market systems approaches (value chain, M4P, market development). Linda has extensive strategy and implementation experience across Asia and Africa through long-term positions and consulting assignments for local and international implementing agencies, multi-lateral organisations and private sector entities. Following a successful career as a business executive, Linda was Senior Technical Advisor at the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, Technical Director at MEDA and Director of the Centre for Women's Leadership at the Coady International Institute, both in Canada. Currently, as a key part of her consulting practice, Linda is the R&D Director for Impact Investing at MEDA, and works for many other agencies around the world. She has contributed to the overall advancement of the pro-poor economic development field through positions such as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the SEEP Network, Editor of the Enterprise Development and Microfinance Journal, Founder and Chair of Women Advancing Microfinance, Canada, and Advisor to the Eurasia Foundation on women's entrepreneurship. Linda has published extensively, and has been a facilitator/trainer with the Southern New Hampshire University, the SEEP Network, the Boulder Institute, and the International Labour Organisation among others. Linda was a Commonwealth Scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from McMaster University and a diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies from Conrad Grebel College.

Abbie Jung: Co-Founder, Synergy Social Ventures, [email protected]

Abbie Jung is the co-founder of Synergy Social Ventures, a nonprofit organization which supports and engages in philanthropy and social entrepreneurship as innovative tools for sustainable development. She has a background in venture capital, social investment, public health and international development working with agencies such as Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières and the World Health Organization. She currently works with social entrepreneurs, philanthropists and intermediaries who utilize the full scope of new social change models and funding tools to solve pressing socioeconomic and environmental problems. Abbie believes in the power of collaborative communities of social change leaders from all sectors and creates such opportunities in Asia by spearheading the expansion of the Nexus Global Youth Summit (Nexus) into China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand, launching ANDE's East and Southeast Asia Chapter and serving as a connector with the +Social Good Community which leverages technology and new media to make the world a better place. She has an undergraduate degree in neuroscience from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in international public health from Columbia University.

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Nakul Kadaba: Project Associate, Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund, [email protected]

Nakul Kadaba is a Project Associate at S3IDF and assists with their programs and partnership development in India, Nepal, Myanmar, Cambodia, and elsewhere. He worked on projects centering on innovative finance models, enterprise development, poverty alleviation, and livelihoods promotions projects for several non- governmental and private organizations. He is currently based in S3IDF's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received a Masters in Public Administration and a Bachelors in Economics and History.

Tom Kagerer: COO, LGT Venture Philanthropy, [email protected]

Tom Kagerer is the COO of LGT Venture Philanthropy. He gained rich experience in the industry as a General Manager with Heart Social Investments, a social enterprise incubator in Cape Town, South Africa. Previously, he was working in different management positions at BMW Financial Services in Munich, Germany and Hook, United Kingdom. After 9 years of private sector experience, he decided to make a career change to create positive impact on less advantaged people. Tom Kagerer holds a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of Applied Science of Munich, Germany.

Frederick Kellett: Director, Programs & Investments, Aga Khan Foundation, [email protected]

Frederick Kellett is the Director of Programs and Investments at the Aga Khan Foundation USA.

Johnni Kjelsgaard: Founder & CEO, GrowthAfrica, [email protected]

Johnni has been active in the start-up scene in Africa over the past 16 years, as an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, mentor and consultant. With GrowthAfrica, Johnni and his team has for the past decade accelerated more than 1700 start-ups' and contributed to their success in various ways. Based on the accumulation of this experience Johnni and his team has developed the ImpactCompass„¢ - a comprehensive learning and business planning tool shaped around the needs and reality of African entrepreneurs with great ambition. Johnni founded GrowthAfrica in 2002 and acts as its chief executive.

John Kohler: Director, Impact Capital Program, Global Social Benefit Institute at Santa Clara University, [email protected]

For the past several years, John has been a mentor to Social Entrepreneurs at the Global Social Benefit Accelerator and also serves as Director of Impact Capital at Santa Clara's Center for Science, Technology and Society. In 2011 he authored a report on impact investing entitled Coordinating Impact Capital: a New Approach to Investing in Small and Growing Businesses. He is now pioneering a new investment vehicle – the Demand Dividend - that presents investors with a ‘structured exit’ alternative to equity. In addition, he is Chairman and

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co-founder of Toniic, a syndication network of impact investors. He is a managing member of the UCLA Venture Capital Fund and serves on the CSTS Advisory Board and the UCLA Sciences Board of Visitors. John received his bachelor's degree concentrating in international economics from UCLA and completed executive programs at Wharton and Stanford business schools. He also serves on advisory committees with the World Economic Forum, and HUB Ventures.

Katrin Kuhlmann: President, New Markets Lab (including TransFarm Africa), [email protected]

Katrin Kuhlmann is President and Founder of the New Markets Lab, a non-profit organization created to pioneer an inclusive new approach to commercial legal and regulatory reform in developing markets, and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. She is also a Senior Advisor at the Corporate Council on Africa and a fellow with the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Ms. Kuhlmann is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Harvard Law and International Development Society (LIDS), in connection with which she co-created and directs the Trade Innovation Initiative, and Georgetown University Law Center LIDS. She also serves on the boards of the Washington International Trade Association and the Malaika Foundation and is a member of the Trade Advisory Committee on Africa of the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Ms. Kuhlmann was a 2012-13 Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School. She has served as President of TransFarm Africa (now part of the New Markets Lab), a fellow at the German Marshall Fund, and a senior fellow and director at the Aspen Institute. She also served as the Director for Eastern Europe and Eurasia in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and practiced law in New York and Washington D.C. She frequently writes and speaks on issues of international law, economic development, and trade policy and has testified before Congress on these issues. Ms. Kuhlmann holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Creighton University, and she was the recipient of a Fulbright grant in 1992.

Olivier Lafourcade: Chairman of the Board, Investisseurs & Partenaires, [email protected]

Olivier Lafourcade joined the World Bank in 1973 and for 30 years held a variety of senior leaderhip positions, in Latin America and Africa. His last position was Director for Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. He is now an international consultant specialized in economic development issues. He has been a board member of I&P since its inception and he has been Chairman of the board since last year.

Rob Lalka: Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Village Capital, [email protected]

Rob Lalka is the Director of Strategy and Partnerships for Village Capital. Previously, he was the Senior Advisor for Global Partnerships at the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, where he directed efforts to leverage the foundation's assets through philanthropic-private partnerships. Prior to that, Lalka served in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Office of Global Partnerships and was a member of her Policy Planning Staff. He co-authored the President's cross-sector partnerships strategy and coordinated partnerships for signature presidential initiatives in the Middle East and Africa, which earned him both the State Department's Superior Honor Award and 31

Meritorious Honor Award. Lalka has co-authored partnership strategies for the United Nations and the World Bank, and he has taught executive-level courses on public-private partnerships to senior policymakers and business leaders from over two dozen countries. He has been a Presidential Management Fellow, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and a Truman National Security Project Fellow. He graduated from Yale University and holds his master's degree in global public policy from Duke University.

Steven Lee: Fund Manager, Spark/IGNITE Fund, [email protected]

Manages Spark's Impact Investment Fund called IGNITE fund, a growth capital equity investment fund for SGBs in Post Conflict and Fragile States where Spark operates.

Gustavo Leiva: Director of Development, FundaSistemas, [email protected]

I have an educational background that includes various disciplines: literature, philosophy, art, political sciences, economy, sociology and financial development. My first working experience was teaching and then I became a senior researcher for institutions such as the Stanford Food Institute and the Central American Economic Secretariat with the Brookings Institution. Then I was Vice-Minister of finance in my country, Guatemala, where I was the creator of the Social Investment Fund, that was taken as a model by the World Bank and the UNDP to be replicated in other countries besides the Central American region. Then, I formed my own consulting enterprise and have been working on community development in the rural areas. Now I am working on the creation of a learning impact fund for Guatemala under the financial assistance of USAID project: Feed the Future.

Andy Lieberman: New Programs Director, Global Social Benefit Institute at Santa Clara University, [email protected]

Andy Lieberman is the New Programs Director for Santa Clara University's Global Social Benefit Institute, where he focuses on partnership building and content development. Before joining the GSBI, Andy lived in Guatemala for many years, first working as a teacher, and later pioneering efforts to bring educational technology to rural communities through a NGO he founded. In a previous life he worked as a microprocessor designer.

Nancy Swanson Linked Foundation: Executive Director, Linked Foundation, [email protected]

As Executive Director of Linked Foundation, Nancy is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the portfolio. Prior to joining Linked, she worked in the private sector as an executive in the telecommunications industry. She is an alumna of the Santa Barbara Foundation's Katherine Harvey Fellows program, and serves as the current Board Chair of the Eleos Foundation and as a trustee for Leading from Within. Nancy holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. in 32

Communications Management from the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Southern California.

Fabian Llinares: EDP Portfolio Manager LAC, Oxfam, [email protected]

Fabian is the portfolio manager of Oxfams Enterprise Development Program for Latin America and the Caribbean. He also serves as the portfolio manager of Oxfam Americas WISE program in Guatemala. Prior to joining Oxfam Fabian was the COO at New Ventures Mexico. He holds a BSC in Information and Communication Engineering from TU Darmstadt and a Master in International Business from ESCP EUROPE/ITESM.

Wallace Louie: Director of Communications, Stanford University, [email protected]

Responsible for marketing, brand and communications at the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED).

Lisa MacDougall: Office of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs - 10,000 Women Initiative, [email protected]

Lisa works in Goldman Sachs' Office of Corporate Engagement on the 10,000 Women initiative, which provides business and management education to growing women owned small businesses around the world. Lisa previously worked at the World Bank Group designing and managing business and management education programs in Africa. Lisa has worked as a Legislative Assistant and Policy Advisor and served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa. Lisa is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Michael MacHarg: Senior Advisor, Social Ventures, Mercy Corps, [email protected]

Michael is currently Sr. Advisor to the new Social Ventures team at the international NGO Mercy Corps - seeking to identify, invest in, build and scale businesses that can leverage market-based approaches to achieve outsized social impact. Prior to Mercy Corps, Michael was Co-Founder of Simpa Networks, a venture-backed energy services company with a bold mission: to make modern energy simple, affordable, and accessible for everyone. Simpa sells distributed clean energy solutions on a pay-as-you-go basis to underserved consumers across rural India. Prior to Simpa, Michael led Arc Finance's research into micropayment approaches for financing pro-poor clean energy and water enterprises in developing countries. Michael also served as a strategic consultant to WECARE Solar, targeting off-grid health facilities globally. Prior to Arc, Michael consulted to the social venture capital fund, Acumen Fund, mapping private sector investments across east Africa. Michael was on the founding team of the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, the Institute for OneWorld Health, whose goal is clinical development and distribution of affordable new medicines for diseases of poverty in the developing world. 33

Michael spent his early career with the Social Development Department of the World Bank. Michael holds degrees from Duke University (CASE Scholar) and Vanderbilt University (Ingram Scholar) and has studied at the Universidad de la Habana in Cuba.

Graham Macmillan: Senior Program Officer, Citi Foundation, [email protected]

Graham Macmillan is the Senior Program Officer for Financial Inclusion at the Citi Foundation. He is responsible for leading the Foundation's international portfolio while developing and managing key thought-leadership and innovation investments. Previously, he managed the Foundation's Microfinance and Enterprise Development portfolios. Prior to Citi, Graham was Senior Director of VisionSpring, an award-winning social enterprise selling consumer products to promote economic development, and a Director of Business Development at Helen Keller International, a leading international non-governmental organization. Graham is the 2014 inaugural recipient of the Magis Global Changemaker Award from Santa Clara University. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Graham received his BA from Colby College, MSc from NYU Wagner, and MBA through a joint program at NYU Stern, London School of Economics and HEC Paris School of Management.

Saadia Madsbjerg: Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation, [email protected]

Saadia Madsbjerg joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2013. As Managing Director, she leads the Foundation's work on Innovation. Her responsibilities include shaping and scaling innovative finance solutions that change the status quo and raise private sector investment capital for the social sector in promotion of the Foundation's dual goals of building resilience and promoting inclusive economies. Before joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Ms. Madsbjerg was the Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). There she led a portfolio of projects focused on transformative opportunities to creating more equitable and resilient growth for New York City. These included game-changing ideas spanning economic diversification, promoting upward income mobility and economic and community development in underutilized neighborhoods. Prior to NYCEDC, Saadia was head of the Strategy and Analytics team for Cisco's TelePresence Technology Group, and an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company. Ms. Madsbjerg holds a Master of Science in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School, and George Washington University and she has her Bachelor of Science degree in International Business from Copenhagen Business School and Boston College.

Kershni Maharaj: Head: Selection and Efficacy, Raizcorp, [email protected]

Kershni has a banking background working for a major bank in South Africa for the most of her career spanning over 22 years. She worked in retail, corporate, rural, commercial, credit, branch and private banking. While at the bank, Kershni gained vast experience in sales, strategy, relationship and portfolio management, setting up new businesses, project management of new initiatives, providing innovative solutions to meet market needs 34

and building networking platforms to increase and grow sustainable business opportunities. Her roles included research, collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, planning, business case and strategy development and implementation of initiatives and projects that will promote growth, advocacy and loyalty through building engaging partnerships with clients. She was instrumental in the development and implementation of a new Value Proposition for Black Economic Empowerment for the bank. And as a result was appointed as Project Manager and then as Head of the Business Unit. Kershni joined Raizcorp a little over 4 years ago as Head of Selection and Efficacy where she oversees the operational day to day running of the company ensuring that projects and deliverables executed within the business and to our clients are done so in accordance to the processes and policies. She is also responsible for developing key metrics to measure the success of entrepreneurs through the various programmes at Raizcorp. Kershni has a keen eye to detail and is constantly adding policies and processes to the business in order to improve service delivery to all stakeholders. Kershni sits at an executive level in the business.

Paul Malherbe: CEO & Managing Director, ATMS Foundation/AMSCO, [email protected]

Paul Malherbe joined AMSCO in November 2008 as Managing Director and CEO. Prior to joining AMSCO, Paul was head of Mentorship and Consulting Services at Business Partners Ltd, South Africa's leading investor in SMEs, for 5 years. As head of the Mentor Service, he was responsible for technical assistance and mentorship activities, not only to Business Partners clients but also to other corporate institutions (banks, NGO, DFI's) servicing the Southern African SME market. This was preceded by 8 years in the operational division of Business Partners where he was involved in the appraisal and structuring of risk and equity based finance to SMEs. Before joining Business Partners, he completed his accounting apprenticeship at Coopers & Lybrand, now pwc. He holds a B.Compt and an MBL degree, both from the University of South Africa. Paul is a member of the ANDE Executive Committee.

Marcos Mancini: Director of Sustainable Banking, Banorte, [email protected]

Marcos is a sustainability business professional with consulting experience across several industries. He is director of sustainable banking at Grupo Financiero Banorte, the third largest financial institution in Mexico. As part of his work at Banorte, Marcos looks to develop innovative financial products incorporating environmental and social components to them. Marcos is also in charge of developing different approaches for the bank to engage in the impact investing space. He represents Banorte at the Sustainability committee at the Mexican Banking Association and at CESPEDES, the organization representing the World business Council for Sustainable Development in Mexico. Marcos also forms part of the steering committee for the Central America and Mexico chapter at ANDE (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs). He also teaches the Sustainable Finance module at the Banorte-Ixe / UNAM course. Prior to his current position Marcos focused, as a consultant, on measuring and communicating sustainability value to accelerate the adoption of sustainability, integrating it throughout a company's operations and inspiring strategies to deliver new customers, grow market share and increase profit margins. Marcos holds a dual MBA/MS degree from the University of Michigan (The Erb Institute for Global sustainable Enterprise) and an executive master in environmental management from EOI. 35

Jonathan Marks: Head Impact Assurance, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, [email protected]

Jonathan Marks is Head of Impact Assurance at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, as well as a Doctorate in Philosophy, focused on entrepreneurship, from the University of Cape Town's faculty of engineering and the built environment. Dr Marks was founding director of the Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development (located at UCT) and was responsible for entrepreneurial knowledge management at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. He was Senior Lecturer and Director of the Entrepreneurship MBA Programme at the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science.

Jose Martinez: Environmental Sustainability Officer, FEMSA, [email protected]

Bachelor in Chemical Engineering with minor in Environmental Management and Entrepreneurial Development. Master degree in Renewable Energies. Experience in the food and beverage, metalworking and cement industries in several production areas such as production, maintenance, quality and logistics, as well as strategic planning and development of new initiatives. He has developed continuous improvement projects related to increased productivity, reduced wastage, improving the level of customer service, reduced costs and increased use of alternative fuels in the operation.

David Martinez: Executive Director, FundaSistemas, [email protected]

I have been the Executive Director of FundaSistemas since 2005. During the years working in this institution, I realized that my studies in Systems Engineering and my MBA, are necessary but no good enough for having successfull economic development programs and being sustainable at the same time. Therefore my objective is to be connected to new learning networks as ANDE, where we can share our experiences, some good and some not so much. The importance of learning these new skills is being able to share them with my own network, I mean, with my team in Fundasistemas, with my students at the university, with my wife and daughter and with my group of friends with whom I bike every Sunday. The more I share what I've learned, the more my life has meaning.

Michael McCreless: Director of Strategy and Impact, Root Capital, [email protected]

Mike leads monitoring and evaluation and strategic planning for Root Capital. Previously, he worked at the International Finance Corporation and Acumen Fund. He has also consulted for Monitor Company and conducted research for Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Mike holds an M.B.A. and an M.P.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Yale University.

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Leslie Meek-Wohl: VP and Business Leader, MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, leslie_meek- [email protected]

Leslie Meek-Wohl is a Senior Program Officer for Global Philanthropy at the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth. In this position, she is responsible for managing philanthropic investments in Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Europe. This includes programs and partnerships that further financial inclusion through entrepreneurship, by enabling youth and adults to access the education and resources needed to start and grow their businesses. Prior to joining MasterCard, Leslie worked in corporate philanthropy and international development at organizations including the Citi Foundation, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, The Synergos Institute and Peace Corps. Leslie holds a BA in Business Administration from Georgetown University and a joint MBA/MA in International Affairs from Columbia University.

John Meyers: Managing Director - North America, Swisscontact, [email protected]

John Meyers is Managing Director – North America, Swisscontact. Since 2012, he has represented Swisscontact to corporations, foundations, and partner organizations in North America; he also serves as the Swisscontact representative to the UN Economic and Social Council. Active internationally for much of his career, John has been appointed twice to the United States delegation to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Human Resource Development Working Group; formerly served as Executive Director of Lawyers Without Borders; and was a founding editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education. Prior to joining Swisscontact, John served as Director, Global Programs, and Senior Advisor, New Business Development and Social Investing at Aid to Artisans. John has also served on the Board of Directors of The American University of Paris; Reach the World; and United Nations Association – Connecticut. He has spoken on topics ranging from business-education partnerships and international education to philanthropy and digital convergence and has served as a subject matter resource to publications including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Black Enterprise and Chronicle of Philanthropy. John received his B.A. in International Relations from The American University of Paris; M.A. in History from Columbia University; and MLS from Rutgers University.

Aaron Mihaly: Senior Consultant, FSG, [email protected]

As a senior consultant at FSG, Aaron helps clients tackle complex social and environmental problems by applying FSG's innovative approaches to strategic social impact. He is currently working with a major beverage corporation on a shared value strategy. Aaron plans to continue working in the areas of global development and global health while developing an expertise in creating shared value. Prior to joining FSG, Aaron worked as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co. in the firm's Brussels and Lisbon offices, managing projects with public, corporate, and nonprofit clients in the areas of sustainability, economic development, organizational design, and corporate strategy. At McKinsey, Aaron was selected as a Sustainability & Resource Productivity Fellow, specializing in consulting engagements on sustainable economic development topics in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to McKinsey, Aaron worked for two years for the Clinton Foundation helping build and run an HIV/AIDS treatment clinic in a rural and resource-poor district in Mozambique. Additionally, Aaron helped

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launch a housing microfinance product with Ashoka in Brazil and has worked with several NGOs in Argentina, Bolivia, and Nicaragua.

Brian Milder: Sr. VP of Strategy, Advisory & Innovation, Root Capital, [email protected]

Brian leads Root Capital's Financial Advisory Services team as well as the Strategy, Knowledge & Innovation team, which includes research & development on new products and services, impact assessment, and field building. Prior to joining Root Capital, he worked as Boston site director for Health Leads (formerly Project HEALTH). He was also an entrepreneur-in-residence for the Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT), which operates venture funds to incubate sustainable social enterprises in Latin America and Central Europe. Brian holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in social studies from Harvard College.

Elisabeth Mondl: Investment Officer, Inter-American Development Bank, [email protected]

Elisabeth Mondl is an Investment Officer at "Opportunities for the Majority" departement of the Inter-American Development Bank, where she works on the analysis and structuring of loans and guarantees for inclusive business models in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining the IDB, Elisabeth worked for Dalberg Global Development Advisors in Geneva and New York, supporting several different international organizations in the implementation of investment strategies with the goal of increasing their social impact. Prior to Dalberg, Elisabeth worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Vienna, and the International Finance Corporation in Mexico. Elisabeth holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a Master's in Economics from the Vienna School of Economics and Business.

Marina Monteiro de Oliveira: Organizational Development Analyst, ICE (Entrepreneurial Citizenship Institute), [email protected]

Marina Monteiro is a Veterinary graduated by University of São Paulo (FMVZ-USP/2009) and worked with sales analysis of the livestock sector for three years at a pharmaceutical company. In 2011 she moved to the United States of America and developed studies as a volunteer for the Global Diaspora Initiative of Ashoka. Back to Brazil in 2012 and decided to change her career path, she enrolled in a program of civil society organization management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas and started as a volunteer at ICE, working with organizational development. Six months later, she assumed the position of Organizational Development Analyst at ICE. Previously, she was a volunteer at OCA – Association of indian village of Carapicuiba, where she was responsible for fundraising and financial management.

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Carol Moore: Director, Global Alliances & Strategic Initiatives, Heifer International, [email protected]

Carol Moore joined the Global Partnerships and Alliances team at Heifer International in 2011. She is responsible for managing a portfolio of partnerships and strategic alliances with corporations, foundations and international NGOs. Carol has 30 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. Her career includes senior level fundraising, strategic alliance and management positions with CARE; Emory University Institute for Developing Nations and Rollins School of Public Health; St. Charles Medical Center, Bend, Oregon; and Atlanta International School. Carol served as the first executive director of the Society of International Business Fellows, a private, Atlanta-based association for senior executives engaged in international business, trade and finance. At Heifer International, Carol manages the organization's relationships with Keurig Green Mountain, The MasterCard Foundation, The Coca-Cola Company, Land O'Lakes, PepsiCo, venture”‚dairy, Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation. In 2012, Carol led Heifer's first-ever corporate summit, Beyond the Bottom Line: Creating Shared Value through Partnership. Currently, she leads an organization-wide initiative to strengthen Heifer International's corporate development expertise at the country office level, and she manages a cross-sector stakeholder group focused on building a sustainable domestic dairy industry in Haiti. Carol is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar; a board member of Medshare's Southeast Regional Council; a member of the Society of International Business Fellows; a member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE); and a founding member of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. Carol received her undergraduate degree from Emory University in Atlanta and her Master in International Service degree from American University in Washington, DC. Her areas of expertise include international development; cross-sector partnerships and multi-stakeholder initiatives; major gift, foundation and corporate fundraising; and trends in corporate philanthropy, corporate social responsibility and shared value. Carol has worked, traveled and studied in 40 countries. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Manuela Müller: Director, edge, [email protected]

Manuela has experience in the consulting, corporate and academic fields and initiated and led various community development initiatives. After obtaining a M.Sc. Business Information Systems with majors in HR management and B2B marketing from a German University, she lived in East Africa for three years, taking a lead in AIESEC's leadership development activities. Her engagement with local slum community initiatives inspired her to build a career driving sustainable solutions for social problems. She joined edge in 2011, running different programs and is currently based in London, leading edge globally.

David Munnich: Investment Officer, Investisseurs & Partenaires, [email protected]

David Munnich has been working for I&P since 2009. At I&P he is an Investment Manager in charge of Equity Vehicles dedicated to small SMEs ("the pioneer gap"). He as been working in Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. Before joining I&P, he spent 3 years at Agence Française de Développement, in Paris and in Mauritania. He graduated in business and economics from HEC and in sociology from University Paris 7.

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Tara Murphy Forde: Director of Research & Impact, Global Partnerships, [email protected]

Tara joined Global Partnerships (GP) in January 2009 and leads strategic research and impact evaluation efforts. Tara has a rich background of academic and professional experience in the areas of poverty, gender and conflict. Prior to joining Global Partnerships, she served as the vice president of development for Ahmsa, a Colombian nonprofit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty and creating economic opportunities for the country's most marginalized groups. As a Fulbright Scholar, Tara researched the gender-differentiated effects of the armed conflict in Colombia and provided international support and consulting regarding the socio-economic reintegration of displaced families. In addition to her time in Colombia, Tara has lived and studied in Cuba and Northern Ireland. Tara holds a B.A. in political science from Vassar College and certificate in executive leadership from the Albers School of Business at Seattle University.

Kyle Muther: Consultant, FSG, [email protected]

Kyle Muther is a consultant at FSG, where he conducts research and analysis to provide clients with strategic insights and tools to effectively leverage their core competencies and achieve greater social impact. Kyle is part of FSG's Global Development and U.S. Health practices. Prior to joining FSG, Kyle interned with MercyCorps' Social Innovations team, where he conducted market research on opportunities to provide farmers with mobile agricultural information and financial services in Indonesia and Uganda. Prior to completing his masters degree, Kyle was a project officer at La Clinica Del Pueblo (LCDP), a community health center, primarily serving immigrant populations in Washington, D.C. At LCDP, he applied for, managed, and helped evaluate grants and contracts supporting La Clinica's HIV, mental health, substance abuse, and health education programs. Prior to La Clinica, Kyle worked with EcoVentures International (EVI), an environmental enterprise development nonprofit. Kyle Muther is a consultant at FSG where he At EVI, he conducted value chain research and analysis related to youth employment and enterprise development opportunities in emerging green business sectors in South Africa, the Eastern Caribbean and Bangladesh. Kyle also worked with the Yanapuma Foundation in Ecuador, helping to strengthen a cocoa farmers association and assisting the foundation to develop its first strategic plan.

Moses Mwaura: President - Enablis Africa Region, Enablis, [email protected]

Moses, 45, is the President of Enablis Africa Region, a Canadian NGO that develops entrepreneurs across Africa and most recently in Argentina (www.enablis.org). He has been in various leadership positions in Enablis in the last seven years including Regional Director for Enablis East Africa, and Chief Operations Officer for Enablis Africa. Previously, for seven years, he was the Managing Director of Multiple Skills Consultants for Africa (MSCA) in Kenya and Rwanda, where he provided leadership on a young CEOs development programme for the region and was on various consultancy and training assignments in Rwanda and Kenya. In the nineties, he was worked as a Management, Information and Corporate Governance Consultant in Kenya for seven years, where he was

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involved in both consultancy assignments and in running management-training courses. He is passionate about the potential and future of Africa, and in the development of young leadership to actualise that potential. Moses is a B. Ed., with post graduate management training and is also a certified director and qualified corporate governance trainer by the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance.

Rashmi Nakhooda: Country Director, BeadforLife, [email protected]

Rashmi Nakhooda is the Country Director at Bead for Life Uganda, a non profit organisation that supports women at the bottom of the pyramid to start sustainable micro-enterprises as the route out of poverty. With Headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, BeadforLife has a unique model of sustainable social business. Ms Nakhooda focuses on the organisation's development work in Uganda and is closely engaged with expanding the impact of poverty eradication globally. Previously, she led the Entrepreneurial Program at Bead for Life, working to provide entrepreneurial skills to women and help them start their own businesses. Before joining Bead for Life she has worked in different sectors of the non-profit business world. She worked with Life in Africa, a microfinance institution in Uganda, working with poor entrepreneurs in need of business finance. In addition, she has been very involved in business education and outreach at the International School in Uganda. Rashmi has also worked as a management consultant in Kenya and India. Ms. Nakhooda has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and over twenty years experience working in East Africa.

Rehana Nathoo: Associate, Rockefeller Foundation, [email protected]

Rehana Nathoojoined The Rockefeller Foundation in 2013. As a member of the Foundation Initiatives team, Rehana works on program initiatives that pertain broadly to economic development, including the coordination and facilitation of the Foundation's engagement with the Impact Investing industry and its Innovative Finance work. Rehana also participates in the development, management, and execution of future strategy. Prior to joining the Foundation, Rehana served as an Assistant Director at the Global Clearinghouse for Development Finance, working to utilize project finance in strengthening domestic financial institutions in East Africa. She has also worked with the UN Capital Development Fund to assist developing countries in strengthening their economic growth through the provision of grants and loans.Rehana has a Bachelor of Arts with Honors degree in Political Science from Queen's University and a Master's degree in International Relations and Development, with a focus on International Economic Development and Foreign Policy Analysis, from the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations.

Marleen New: Sr. Director, Global Partnerships and Alliances, Heifer International, [email protected]

Marleen New, Senior Director of Global Partnerships and Alliances, joined Heifer International in 2003. She leads the team responsible for developing and implementing the short- and long-term growth strategy for mutually beneficial corporate relationships, new business development and strategic partnerships for the global

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organization. She has spearheaded Heifer's multi-year relationships with Kuerig Green Mountain, Elanco Animal Health, Danone, Starbucks Coffee Company, and Walmart, among many others.

Prior to her decade of experience in the development sector, Marleen spent 25 years in marketing, public relations and advertising holding senior level positions in account and project management. Marleen attended the University of Arkansas and currently lives in Little Rock with her husband and three children.

John Njoroge: Country Director - Kenya, Swisscontact, [email protected]

John Njoroge joined Swisscontact in 2007; he currently serves as the Country Director for Kenya and Manager of Financial Services for East Africa, which includes Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda. Over the past three years, John has been instrumental in the expansion of Swisscontact's Microleasing initiative in East Africa and serves as Swisscontact's global resource for the replication and innovation of the asset-backed finance models in Asia and Latin America. As the Swisscontact country director for Kenya, John has country management responsibilities, including fiscal management, overseeing a staff of 12, and fundraising to support program expansion and innovation. Widely recognized as an authority on Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOS) in Kenya, John has substantial experience in rural development, microfinance, as well as capacity building of local based financial organizations, community-based organization and women groups. John has authored research papers and contributed to studies on topics including The Role of Microfinance in Addressing Poverty and Inequality in Kenya and a handbook on Agricultural Finance in East Africa. He is currently researching the role of microfinance in addressing poverty and inequality in Kenya. He has a Masters of Development Studies from Mount Kenya University and an MBA and BA in Social Sciences from the University of Nairobi.

Neera Nundy: Founder & Partner, Dasra, [email protected]

Neera plays a leading role in bringing managerial skills, knowledge and critical analysis to Dasra. Most recently, she led the launch of the Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program with Harvard Business School, the first-of-its- kind executive education program for sector leaders in India. Neera has supported the analysis of over 22 Dasra sector reports in the education, health and livelihoods which has enabled over $40 million of funding for hundreds of social enterprises. She has closely worked with Dasra's successful portfolio organizations such as Educate Girls, SNEHA, Sarathi and Aangan to refine their strategies and accelerate their growth by 20 - 30x. She played a pivotal role in engaging with USAID, Piramal Foundation and Kiawah Trust to form the Dasra Girls Alliance that focuses on reproductive- maternal- new-born child healthcare and adolescents girls empowerment in India. Neera holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, is an Indian Leadership Initiative Fellow with Aspen Institute and is an elected executive committee member of Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs.

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Fortune is an Alumnus of the University of Benin where she graduated in 2006.In 2007, she joined Intercontinental Bank Plc (One of the top 10 banks in Nigeria), which later became Access Bank, from where joined Regcharles Finance and Capital Limited. . She began her career at Intercontinental Bank, where she was part of a team that spearheaded the development of a rural branch of the bank, focusing on financial inclusion as well as providing micro loans for Bottom of the Pyramid rural farmers and entrepreneurs. Her banking experience covers Relationship Management, Corporate Banking, Private Banking and Wealth Management where she spearheaded some ground breaking deals in product development for SMEs

Rotimi Odubogun: Investment Analyst, Alitheia Capital, [email protected]

Rotimi Odubogun graduated with a business degree, specializing in accounting and finance, from the American University, DC. Currently, he works as an investment analyst at Alitheia Capital, an impact investment fund based in Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to Alitheia Capital, he worked as an auditor at Deloitte, NY, having performed financial audits on hedge and private equity funds in the NYC metro area. Additionally, he has worked an equity research analyst at FBN capital, a leading investment bank in Nigeria, assisting the equity research head in covering the financial and consumer goods sector.

Valdemar Oliveira Neto: Manager, World Transforming Technologies, [email protected]

Maneto is the Executive Director of WTT (World-Transforming Technologies) and a member of Fundación Avina's Institutional Strategy Committee. Before joining Avina in 2003, Maneto was founding executive director of Instituto Ethos, a business membership association that promotes corporate social responsibility in Brazil. Having been elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 1986, Maneto went on to serve as its vice president from 1994 to 1998 and was responsible for launching Ashoka's Global Fellowship Program for social entrepreneurs.

Andrea Onate: Private Equity Operations Officer, International Finance Corporation, IFC - World Ban, [email protected]

Andrea Onate is a Private Equity Operations Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), where she specializes in structuring and investing in SME private equity funds in frontier markets. Andrea has over twelve years of experience in emerging markets banking and finance. Before joining the Private Equity Funds group, Andrea led several SME Banking projects at IFC, with a focus on strengthening the performance of financial institutions in emerging markets and developing new programs to meet the financing needs of SMEs. Prior to joining IFC, Andrea worked as an Investment Officer in the Financial Markets Units of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Investment Corporation focusing on trade finance, debt and sub- debt instruments for banks in Latin America. She also specialized in Cash Management for HSBC in El Salvador, developing tailored cash management solutions for corporate clients. Andrea holds an MBA from George Washington University.

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Nobuyuki Otsuka: Lead Specialist, Multilateral Investment Fund, IADB – Multilateral Investment Fund, [email protected]

Nobu Otsuka is Value Chain Topic Lead at the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) where he coordinates value chain-related projects and strategies including Inclusive Business, Agricultural High Value Markets, Social Innovation including Crowdfunding and Micro-franchising. Nobu has been working for the IDB over 15 years, taking different positions including Investment Officer and Financial Sector Specialist. In addition to the financial and capital markets development, he has structured, implemented, and evaluated numerous micro and small enterprise development projects throughout the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Recently Nobu has been engaged in projects related to seed capital, business angel, SME finance, entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as research on high-impact firms (gazelles) and SME's effects on poverty reduction. He holds graduate degrees from ESADE Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Rob Packer: Portfolio Manager, SITAWI, [email protected]

Rob Packer is the manager of SITAWI's Social Finance area and has been with the organization since 2011. He is originally from the UK and has prior experience in both microfinance and investment banking. He served as a Portfolio Manager in the area of microfinance at Kiva representing it in numerous Latin American countries and worked for 5 years at Goldman Sachs in London and Hong Kong after graduating from the University of Cambridge (2004).

Roshan Paul: President, Amani Institute, [email protected]

Roshan Paul has built a career around connecting global citizens to solve social problems across boundaries. He co-founded the Amani Institute, a new model of higher education that develops talent to solve 21st-century problems, with these values in mind. The seeds of Amani were cultivated while Roshan worked at Ashoka for more than seven years, where he designed and launched five new programs and managed two other global projects. These included Ashoka's Peace Initiative (supporting social entrepreneurs in conflict zones) and the Globalizer program (helping social entrepreneurs scale up their innovations). Born in Bangalore, India, Roshan has a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, a Bachelor's in International Political Economy from Davidson College (a degree he self-designed), and a certificate in Creative Leadership as one of the founding participants of The Amsterdam School for Creative Leadership. He has guest-lectured at over a dozen universities in the United States and Europe, including Harvard, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and HEC Business School Paris, and has served on the Advisory Boards of several organizations working in peace building and education. His writing has been published in Forbes, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, MIT's Innovations Journal, India Today, as well as in the recent book, Dream of a Nation. Roshan has studied and worked on every continent (aside from Antarctica, where he hopes to travel next). A self-declared "cricket junkie", he also loves good writing and fusing cuisines together in unexpected ways.

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Julie Peachey: Director, Social Performance Management, Grameen Foundation, [email protected]

Julie Peachey directs Grameen Foundation's social performance management activities across the organization. She was most recently Grameen Foundation's Country Director for the Philippines, where she also served as the project manager for a four-year microsavings initiative at CARD Bank. Ms. Peachey is a cross-cultural team leader with 20 years of business and non-profit experience. She has expertise in savings mobilization, institution building, and change leadership. She started her career as a public accountant at KPMG and received her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She joined Grameen Foundation in November 2002.

Min Pease: Manager, Impact Investing, Echoing Green, [email protected]

Min leads Echoing Green's thought leadership around impact investing and supports Fellows seeking or receiving investment. Previously she worked at the Global Impact Investing Network producing research and supporting outreach and development. She has also worked in government on economic and workforce development, consulted in impact investing, and received a Fulbright scholarship. She has a BA in Economics from Whitman College and a MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liesbet Peeters: Managing Partner, D. Capital Partners, [email protected]

Liesbet Peeters, Founding and Managing Partner of D. Capital, is a known expert in the impact investment space, with strong investor relationships, deep understanding of financial solutions to development challenges, and extensive experience investing in Sub Saharan Africa and Latin America. Liesbet provides transactional and investment advisory services to foundations, private individuals and international organizations on strategic growth and investment management. Over the last 5 years, Liesbet has built up extensive experience assisting private foundations, family offices and institutional public-private partnerships in building up impact investment portfolios and fund structures in emerging markets. She has successfully led multiple direct investment transactions in Latin America and Africa. Additionally, she is recognized as an emerging leader in financial product structuring for international development, having led the creation of products such as HUGinsure, a social insurance platform, and the Mozambique Malaria Performance Bond. Liesbet holds a MBA from MIT Sloan and a Master's degree in Commercial Engineering from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. She speaks English, French, Dutch, and is conversant in Spanish.

Maure Pessanha: Director, ARTEMISIA, [email protected]

Maure is the Executive Director of ARTEMISIA and serves the organization since 2007. She has worked in the creation and implementation of training methodologies cocreated by ARTEMISIA and other renowned

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organizations. Before joining ARTEMISIA, Maure worked for four years at Ashoka – Social Enterprise, acting in the selection of entrepreneurs and in the partnership with the strategic consultancy McKinsey on initiatives that aimed at transfering knowledge and management tools between private and social sector. While in college, Maure participated in the founding of a pre-college program that has benefited over 2000 people. She has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Sao Paulo – USP, and an specialization in Evaluation of Social Programs by FIA-USP. Maure has also taken courses in Entrepreneuship from Insper São Paulo and Development studies from Harvard University.

Sean Peters: Program Manager, Social Enterprise at Goizueta, Emory University, [email protected]

Sean Peters is the Program Manager for the Impact of Entrepreneurship Database, based out of Emory University. This research initiative focuses on entrepreneur accelerators around the world, with an aim to better understand what factors have the greatest impact on entrepreneurial growth - they are currently tracking over 1600 entrepreneurs around the globe. Previously, as a founder and leader at the non-profit Global Agents for Change since 2006, his work helped create over $1 million in impact on global poverty through microfinance loans, education scholarships, and innovative youth leadership experiences. Growing from this work, Sean was a founder of the Global Catalyst Initiative, a $300,000 program working with high-growth social ventures in Kenya and Uganda to try to address a critical lack of capital and technical support for early stage innovators. He is also a co-founder of RADIUS Ventures, an Vancouver-based impact accelerator.

Jan Piercy: Senior Advisor, Enclude, [email protected]

Jan Piercy is Senior Advisor at Enclude, engaged in the capital mobilization practice, business development, and strategic partnerships. Jan previously served a seven year term representing the United States on the Board of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where she chaired Board Committees on Personnel and Development Effectiveness and served on the Board Audit Committee. She received the US Treasury Medal of Honor for her service at the Treasury and World Bank. In President Clinton's first term, Jan was Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Presidential Appointments in the White House. She was also a Senior Vice President at ShoreBank Corporation, and earlier in her career headed public interest management programs at Cornell and then Stanford graduate schools of business. She also worked for non-profit economic development agencies in the US and South Asia. Jan serves on the board of the DC Homeless Children's Playtime Project and the advisory councils of Acumen and the Global Philanthropy Forum and she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Duncan Pollard: AVP Stakeholders Engagement in Sustainability, Nestlé, [email protected]

Duncan Pollard's career has seen him move from the corporate sector, to the non-profit sector and back again. With a degree in forestry he worked for a variety of forest companies and spent 9 years with Shell firstly in their London head office, and then in Chile and Uruguay. He spent almost 10 years with WWF International heading 46

their Forest Programme in Europe, then as Director of the Global Forest Programme and finally as the Director responsible for WWF's global thematic work on energy, water, forests, species, oceans and policy. In 2010 he joined Nestlé as Sustainability Advisor, providing advice and support on a range of sustainability issues across the organisation, in particular on responsible sourcing of commodities, rural development, and management training. He is also assisting in the development of Nestlé's approach to water stewardship, natural capital and rural development.

Pradeep Prabhala: Senior Manager (Associate Partner), Monitor Deloitte, [email protected]

Pradeep is a Senior Manager with Monitor Inclusive Markets. He specializes on Market Based Solutions to Poverty. He worked in Sub Saharan Africa, Asia, Middle East over the last decade evaluating private secotor business models in BoP markets.

Mauricio Preciado Awad: Commercial Analyst - Inclusive Markets, Christian Aid, mpreciado-awad@christian- aid.org

Born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, Mauricio moved to the UK to read an undergraduate course in Economics and Management at Bristol University. He subsequently joined PwC London where he worked in the Top Tier department (FTSE 100s) and qualified as a CA with the Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland. In 2007 he left PwC to become a co-founder of a still successful theater enterprise, Theatre Delicatessen, that linked up with large property companies to utilize recession-empty buildings in central London. In 2010 Mauricio joined Christian Aid, where he is now supporting the development of work on Inclusive Markets, Enterprise Based Development and Impact Investment. After 12 years in the UK and long stints in NY, Sierra Leone and DRC, he has now returned to his native Colombia.

Margot Quaegebeur: Impact Investing Manager, Anthos Asset Management, [email protected]

Margot is investment manager within a small impact investing team at Anthos. The team manages investments in high impact funds and companies that generate social, environmental and financial returns. Prior to joining Anthos, Margot worked at Unilever and AT Kearney in The Netherlands, and with the Latin America project finance team at Nord/LB in New York. In addition, she was involved in consulting projects with the World Bank, UN Millennium Villages Project, ICICI Bank and SKS, and with a remittances project of HSBC Bank USA. Margot holds a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York, with a specialisation in development finance. She also holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Utrecht and a Bachelor's degree in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Margot sits on the board of the Max Foundation, which aims to reduce child mortality in Bangladesh by applying water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions.

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Maité Rago: Busniess Developmen Manager, PUM Netherlands Senior Experts, [email protected]

Maité Rago, an International Development Studies Master's graduate from the University of Amsterdam, is a detail-oriented fundraiser with seven years of experience in various cultural contexts. As Business Development Manager at PUM in The Hague, The Netherlands, she promotes sustainable development of small and medium- sized enterprises in developing countries and emerging markets. Previously, as Manager Business Development at Fairfood International in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, she advocated for the sustainability of food and beverage supply chains worldwide. Maité Rago has essential skills and knowledge for managing key areas of Fundraising as well as Corporate Sustainability.

Teju Ravilochan: Co-founder and CEO, Unreasonable Institute, [email protected]

Teju is the co-founder and CEO of The Unreasonable Institute, a mentorship and training program for entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental problems. Each year, the Institute unites two dozen entrepreneurs from around the world to live under the same roof for a summer in Boulder, Colorado. They receive training from 50 mentors, ranging the Chairman of Whole Foods to an entrepreneur whose helped over 20 million people out of poverty. In the process, they form relationships with 40 investment funds, receive legal advice & design consulting, and pitch to more than 100 potential funders and 900 local supporters. 93 companies from 41 countries have come through the program. 79% of them have have raised funds, totaling over $53 million, and in total, they've delivered products and services to over four million people.

Louise Raymond: Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, McGraw Hill Financial, [email protected]

Louise R. Raymond is Vice President of Corporate Responsibility (CR) for McGraw Hill Financial. She oversees development and implementation of MHFI's CR strategy and programs globally. Among the areas of focus are environmental and supply chain strategy, MHFI's "Green Teams", stakeholder engagement, and collection and tracking of key CR-related data particularly in the area of Environmental, Social & Governance performance. Louise manages MHFI's annual reporting on its CR performance externally including to Socially Responsible Investment funds. Louise is also responsible for oversight of the corporation's philanthropy programs globally. This includes MHFI's employee workplace giving and volunteer engagement programs, as well as the corporation's grantmaking, which leverages MHFI's business and community resources to foster economic opportunity and financial inclusion. Louise was appointed in 1998 as Director, Corporate Contributions & Community Relations. Previously, she held several positions in New York City Government including Assistant Ombudsman to the NYC Council President and Queens Borough President's Special Liaison for Immigrant Affairs. Louise's nonprofit board service includes the Women's Network for a Sustainable Future, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and the New York Better Business Bureau's Education & Research Foundation. She is a member of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Sustainability Leaders Network; LBG Research Institute Corporate Responsibility Thought Leaders Forum and E&Y's Climate Change & Sustainability Leadership Committee.

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Charles Reeves: Program Director, Thunderbird Emerging Markets Laboratories, [email protected]

Charles Reeves has over nine years of professional experience, largely working in the international business development and consulting fields. He lived in Benin and Ethiopia for three of those years, with the US Peace Corps and the Millennium Villages Project, respectively. For the past five years he has been the Program Director of the Thunderbird Emerging Markets Laboratory (TEM Lab) at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. As TEM Lab Program Director Charles manages up to 15 international consulting projects every year, typically in South America, Africa and South East Asia. He has experience in in agribusiness development, social enterprise business planning and financing, impact investing, rural development, and cross-cultural communication. Most recently, in July of 2014, Charles worked through Winrock International's Farmer-to- Farmer program in Nepal to consult Nepal's Agriculture and Forestry University on the design of an MBA in agribusiness degree. Charles is from Birmingham, Alabama. He studied business administration at the University of Alabama where he was a three-year letterman and All-SEC Scholar Athlete on the swim team. He received his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Alberto Riaño: Executive Director, Inversor, [email protected]

Mr. Riaño joined Inversor as Executive Director on 2009, after being part of the structuring team of the Fund. Prior, he worked at Bancolombia's Investment Bank as Capital Investments manager where he was responsible for the management of several portfolio companies and for analyzing, structuring and implementing new investments opportunities in strategic sectors. Previously, he worked at Altra Investments, a leading Private Equity Fund with an important trajectory in Colombia.

Peter Righi: Global Director - CEED, Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), [email protected]

Peter is the co-founder and Global Director of CEED with over 15 years of experience working on economic development and private sector initiatives in emerging markets. Before launching CEED, Peter ran the Business Development Unit for SEAF which oversaw and implemented direct consulting and technical assistance for all of SEAF's portfolio companies. Peter worked directly with investee firms to develop and sell value added products and services into Western export markets. Peter is a graduate of Middlebury College and American University's School of International Service, where he focused on international economics and development. He speaks fluent Spanish and has a working knowledge of French. He spends most of his free time with his wife raising their 3 young children, but he finds time to work with outreach organizations that aid and assist the homeless and ex-offenders to integrate back into the community in the Washington area.

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Henning Ringholz: Global Livelihoods Advisor, GOAL, [email protected]

Henning is GOAL's market development and livelihoods advisor. He has more than 15 year of experience in business, entrepreneurship, strategy consulting and international development. Henning started his career in a German food processing company based out of Germany and Chile. Following his studies at Cambridge University, Henning pursued a career in strategy consulting, which took him to Spain, Saudi Arabia and Sierra Leone. Henning has worked at GOAL since 2010, and has led the organization's livelihoods practice since 2012, putting a key emphasis on market development and private sector engagement.

Michele Rivard: Chief of Staff, United States African Development Foundation, [email protected]

Alicia Robb: Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation, [email protected]

Dr. Alicia Robb is a Senior Fellow with the Kauffman Foundation. She is also a Visiting Scholar with the University of California in Berkeley and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the Founder and past Executive Director and Board Chair of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, an international development organization working in Latin America, Africa, and India. (www.fsdinternational.org). Dr. Robb received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has previously worked with the Office of Economic Research in the Small Business Administration and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is also a prolific author on the topic of entrepreneurship. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the co-author of Race and Entrepreneurial Success published by MIT Press and A Rising Tide: Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Businesses by Stanford University Press. She serves on the Board of the National Advisory Council for Minority Business Enterprise, the Advisory Board for Global Entrepreneurship Week, and is a guest contributor to outlets such as Huffington Post and Forbes.

Annie Roberts: Partner, Open Capital Advisors, [email protected]

Annie Roberts brings professional experience in global management consulting, having advised Fortune 100 clients in developed and emerging markets with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). At BCG, Annie led multi- divisional client teams on projects spanning manufacturing, supply chain, organizational strategy, new product development, and customer marketing. She has worked across industries with clients in international finance, ICT, consumer packaged goods, and industrial goods, among others. Annie has traveled extensively and worked on advisory assignments for SMEs in East Africa and Latin America, offering strategic guidance related to expansion and capital-raising. On a global level, Annie has advised large multi-national corporations on strategies to expand global manufacturing and sales to East Africa in order to target the rapidly growing consumer demand in the region. As Partner at OCA, Annie has helped design firm strategy and worked directly with clients on consulting and capital raise engagements. She has advised more than twenty clients for whom OCA has successfully completed projects including growth strategy work, capital raises, and portfolio 50

management. These clients have included SMEs across East Africa, impact investment funds, and NGOs across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Peter Roberts: Assoc Professor, Organization & Mgmt, Social Enterprise at Goizueta, Emory University, [email protected]

Peter Roberts' research interests relate to how the behavior and performance of organizations evolve over time. This incorporates related interests in innovation and entrepreneurship; reputation, status and identity; and industry evolution. He has studied these issues in diverse settings, including the pharmaceutical, hotel, wine and restaurant industries. Recently, Peter is directing his interests in entrepreneurship and organizational performance toward topics in the field of social enterprise. His current projects focus on social entrepreneurs, on microfinance institutions, and on philanthropic organizations and foundations. For the past several years, he has also been spearheading Social Enterprise @ Goizueta, whose focus is to better understand how business principles and market-based solutions can be applied to address a range of important social issues.

Juan Pablo Rodriguez Neira: Manager, Fundacion Bavaria, [email protected]

Industrial Engineering with postgraduate studies in Strategic Management and Executive MBA. More than 15 years of experiences in multinational and national organizations in Colombia in financial, administrative, business controls and operations. High experience and work during the last 4 years in entrepreneurship development in Fundacion Bavaria and some universities. Responsible for one of the 2 angel investor networks to support high potential entrepreneurs. Teacher in finance, risks and entrepreneurship

Delilah Rothenberg: BPeace Board Member/Development Capital Strategies, Bpeace (Business Council for Peace), [email protected]

Delilah Rothenberg is Managing Director of Development Capital Strategies (DCS), an advisory firm specializing in sustainable business development and investment in sub-Saharan Africa. At DCS, Ms. Rothenberg provides advisory services focused on investor relations, financing, business development, stakeholder engagement and sustainable project development (e.g. in accordance with IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles and United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment). She has worked with companies and investors in the following sectors: private equity, palm oil and agribusiness, infrastructure, personal care, real estate, food and beverage, and education. Ms. Rothenberg also serves as Director of Business Development for Tiossan, the first high-end, natural skin care company inspired by African traditional healing formulations. Ms. Rothenberg's past experience includes institutional equities at Bear, Stearns & Co, emerging markets private equity with Zephyr Management, and investment research with Gerson Lehrman Group. Ms. Rothenberg serves on the Business Council for Peace (Bpeace) Executive Council and Board of Directors, is the founder of their Young Professionals Committee, and was on their founding mission to Rwanda. Through Bpeace, Ms. Rothenberg focuses on small- and-medium-sized enterprise (SME) development in conflict-affected countries. Ms. Rothenberg has a B.A. in 51

History, Politics, and Africa Studies from New York University, where she also studied Swahili. Ms. Rothenberg's work has been featured in the New York Times, on CNN, and NPR, among other media outlets, and she has been asked to speak by institutions such as the South African Chamber of Commerce and Harvard Business School on private equity, venture capital and SMEs in Africa.

Chris Rowlands: Manager, SEED Unit, World Vision Australia, [email protected]

Chris Rowlands joined World Vision Australia (WVA) in 2008 and his role at World Vision has involved analysis, design, implementation, leadership and training on innovative economic development initiatives in poor communities. Chris leads the Social Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (SEED) unit which exists to research, design and support the scale-up of economic development and inclusive business approaches throughout WV's programs internationally. Prior to this role, Chris led the research, development and scale up of the Local Value Chain Development project model for use in World Vision supported communities. Chris also sits on World Vision International's Economic Development Community of Practice Executive Team which provides strategic direction to its economic development work around the globe. Before joining WVA, Chris held roles with Ipsos Business Consulting and Westpac Bank. Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce with first class Honours in Marketing and a Post-Graduate Diploma in International and Community Development. Outside of work, Chris spends his time with family and his other interests include travel, reading and improving his distance running.

Sylvia Sable: Research Associate, Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), [email protected]

Sylvia Sable works as a Research Associate at the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD), a key partner in the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD). She received her master's degree in global health from Duke in December 2013, completing her thesis work on a nutrition and food security project in Nyanza Province, Kenya. For IPIHD, Sylvia works on various research and knowledge development projects and is interested in creating more efficient and effective global health delivery programs through the proliferation of social entrepreneurship and innovation.

Anna Samake: Portfolio Manager West and Central Africa, Lundin Foundation, [email protected]

Ténemba Anna Samaké has 17 years of experience in financial sector, Banking, Impact Investing and Microfinance. She has thorough knowledge of urban and rural Microfinance sector in West African region. Ténemba has experience in rural entrepreneurship constraints as funder and entrepreneur in the agriculture sector herself. She has developed a network of partners that support Micros, Small and Medium Enterprises access to financing through product development, funding schemes and network building. She has also developed experience in impact measurement tools. Tenemba Manages Lundin Foundation Portfolio for West and Central Africa since August 2012.

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Lucia Sanchez: Director, SME Initiative, Innovations for Poverty Action, [email protected]

Lucia Sanchez is the Director of the Small & Medium Enterprise Initiative at IPA. She provides strategic direction to the initiative, coordinates its research network and agenda, and leads the initiative's efforts on project development, fundraising and external outreach to stakeholders in the sector. Prior to joining IPA, she worked on the design and implementation of SME development policies in Vietnam (at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization), and Argentina (both at the National Ministry of Industry and at the National Bank of Argentina). Lucia holds a Masters degree in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Fulbright and Harvard Presidential Fellow. She also holds a graduate degree in Development Economics from FLACSO, and an BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires.

Abigail Sarmac: Program Officer, The Lemelson Foundation, [email protected]

Abby Sarmac manages The Lemelson Foundation's support to organizations that incubate and help launch investment-ready, self-sustaining, invention-based enterprises that address significant human needs in developing countries. She joined the Foundation after living and working in Senegal, Ecuador, Italy and the U.S. with several international environmental organizations, including the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Abby earned a M.Sc. in Environmental Science from Yale University, and a B.Sc. in Science, Technology and International Affairs, with minors in African Studies and Cultural Anthropology, from Georgetown University. Abby is fluent in English, Spanish and French and conversant in Italian, Wolof and Tagalog.

Rachna Saxena: Manager, Monitor Deloitte, [email protected]

Rachna Saxena is a Manager within Monitor Deloitte, the strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting. At Monitor Deloitte, Rachna has primarily focused on Economic Development work. She has led several engagements to develop private sector investment strategies for the agriculture sectors of various emerging markets. She is currently working with the Rockefeller Foundation to help uncover innovative acceleration solutions to enable social impact enterprises to grow to scale. Prior to her time at Monitor Deloitte, Rachna was a macroeconomist at Deutsche Bank where she covered the South Asian and Middle Eastern markets. In addition, she has spent time working at the World Bank as a consultant in the Poverty Reduction Group. She has a BBA from the University of Michigan and a M.A. in Economics and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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Marc Schleifer: Regional Director, Eurasia and South Asia, Center for International Private Enterprise, [email protected]

Marc Schleifer is the Regional Director for Eurasia and South Asia at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in Washington, DC. Mr. Schleifer's programmatic expertise includes anticorruption, policy advocacy, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and youth and women entrepreneurship. He also focuses on nonprofit management and governance, having advised the boards and staff of numerous business associations, chambers of commerce and think tanks on issues of strategic planning, membership development, communications, financial sustainability, and policy advocacy. Mr. Schleifer oversees CIPE's field offices in Karachi, Kabul, Kyiv, and Moscow, and previously served as CIPE's Senior Program Officer for South Asia and Program Officer for Eurasia. Prior to joining CIPE, he was Program Officer for Russia and Ukraine at the National Endowment for Democracy. Mr. Schleifer resided for eight years in Russia, where he worked at the Eurasia Foundation and the law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP, as well as managing and producing an independent music project. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University in Russian Language and Literature and the College of Letters (an interdisciplinary program in philosophy, literature and history), and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in international relations and economics, focused on international development.

Robert Schneider: Senior Partnerships Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development, [email protected]

Rob Schneider serves as Senior Partnerships Advisor in the Global Partnerships Division of the Center for Transformational Partnerships at the U.S. Global Development Lab. He leads the office's strategic partnerships efforts on social enterprise, entrepreneurship, and impact investing. Rob joined USAID in 2005 as a Presidential Management Fellow where he worked on local economic development and housing. Prior to USAID, Rob managed company-wide procurement processes and construction programs for a wireless telecommunications carrier and worked as a manufacturing engineer. Originally from Winston-Salem, NC, Rob holds an MBA and Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois. He and his wife live with their two sons in the District of Columbia.

Anne Schoemaker: Operations and Product Development, SCOPEinsight, [email protected]

I strongly believe in the empowerment of individuals, be it women or men, be it in developed or in developing countries. Everyone should be and feel responsible for their own development. However, people should also be enabled and have the opportunity to do whatever it takes to improve their lives, especially in emerging countries.Access to finance in those regions is often a critical point. As finance is a key economical driver, it is crucial that individuals and companies in emerging markets have access to it in order to operate and grow in a sustainable manner.I am a very analytical yet pragmatic person with good communication skills combined with cultural sensitivity. I have a master's degree in Business Mathematics & Informatics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and I have over three years of financial experience in the asset management industry.

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Paul Scott: Program Manager, ASME, [email protected]

Paul Scott is working within ASME's "Engineering for Global Development" group to establish a social innovation program focused on providing hardware led social ventures with access to the financial, human and physical capital needed for innovators to navigate their "engineering journey". Paul is a sustainability & global development specialist with experience in strategy, public private partnerships, global supply chains (ESG) and social entrepreneurship. Paul has worked across sectors and industries, holds an MPA from Columbia University (SIPA) and started life as a geographer (so knows every capital city and can color in maps really well)!

Audrey Selian: Director, Rianta Capital, Artha Initiative, [email protected]

Audrey Selian currently serves as Director of the Artha Initiative associated with Rianta Capital Zurich, an investment advisory structure to the Singh family trusts, and is co-founder of Artha Networks Inc. She is also an advisor to the Halloran Philanthropies, and recent co-founder of the Impact Hub Yerevan. She has been active in the impact investing sector since 2006. Audrey has a background in management consulting from PricewaterhouseCoopers, and her entrepreneurial experience includes several years spent in business development, marketing and sales at an NSF-funded software start-up called Wireless Grids. She holds a PhD in Technology Policy & Development Studies from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and degrees from The London School of Economics and Wellesley College. In 2003-4 she was a doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Durreen Shahnaz: Founder, IIX and Shujog, [email protected]

Durreen Shahnaz, an investment banker- and media executive-turned-social entrepreneur from Bangladesh, is the founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), the home of world's first social stock exchange and world's largest private placement platform for impact investing. Shahnaz also founded Shujog, the impact accelerator for social enterprises in Asia and Africa. Shahnaz began her career at Morgan Stanley in New York City and worked at Grameen Bank, World Bank, Merrill Lynch, Hearst Magazines, and Reader's Digest. She also taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. In addition, she founded, ran, and sold oneNest, a social enterprise and global marketplace for handmade goods. Cumulatively IIX, Shujog and oneNest's work has positively impacted lives of over 10 million people across Asia Pacific and Africa. Shahnaz holds a BA from Smith College; a joint degree -- MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Shahnaz is an appointed member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and on the advisory board for CASE i3 at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Shahnaz is the Social Entrepreneur in Residence for INSEAD.

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Shailaja Sharma: Director, National Entrepreneurship Network, [email protected]

A Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Bombay, Shailaja started her career in 1990 with the World Bank in New Delhi as a statistician on a national scale primary education programme. She continued to work in the development sector for 10 years. Starting in 1999, Shailaja worked in the corporate world, primarily with Royal Dutch Shell in India, handling alternative energy, sustainable development and corporate affairs. Since 2013, Shailaja has focused her leadership, management and business skills on developing an entrepreneurship support strategy and programme at NEN.

Sabina Shelby: President, Peru Opportunity Fund, [email protected]

Sabina Shelby is a founding member of Hampshire Foundation and has managed the foundation's growth from the time it was a one-person operation. Sabina has a strong interest in the relationship between natural resource management and rural poverty in Peru. She brings this commitment to her other philanthropic efforts as well. She has supported numerous initiatives to provide incentives for energy efficiency and alternative energy in her home state of Connecticut. Recently she co-founded a public-private partnership with other funders to promote the alternative energy economy alongside the "Green Bank" of Connecticut.

Sachi Shenoy: Executive Director, Upaya Social Ventures, [email protected]

Sachi Shenoy is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Upaya Social Ventures. Prior to Upaya, Sachi spent three years at Unitus, where she most recently served as Director of Global Programs and led the Social Performance Management Implementation Project (SPM IP) and Sorenson / Unitus Ultra Poor Initiative. Prior to Unitus, Sachi served as Area Manager at SKS Microfinance Pvt. Ltd., leading the organization's entry into the New Delhi urban microfinance market. In 2005, Sachi authored the business proposal for the SKS Ultra Poor Program, designed to uplift rural, destitute populations. Sachi has also worked at New York-based CDVCA, where she evaluated seed-stage social enterprises and constructed investment recommendations for its Central Fund; JP Morgan Chase, where she worked in the Sales & Trading division; and Price Waterhouse LLP, where she served as a management consultant for the financial services industry. Sachi holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.B.A. in Finance and Entrepreneurship with High Honors from the University of Chicago.

Jon Shepard: Director,Enterprise Growth Services, EY, [email protected]

Jon leads Enterprise Growth Services: an extension of EY's business, operating not-for-profit, not-for-loss to change lives and livelihoods in low and middle-income countries. EGS teams are drawn from EY offices across the world, and work hands-on with job-creating small businesses and innovative social enterprises at heavily- subsidised rates. We help enterprises reduce costs, operate more efficiently, and position themselves for growth. We also work with foundations, NGOs and multinational corporations, piloting and scaling market-

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based projects to improve health and education in poor communities. And by doing so, we give our people extraordinary opportunities for personal and professional development, as part of an EY career.

Suzi Sosa: CEO, Verb, Inc, [email protected]

Suzi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Verb, Inc. Verb produces massive social innovation competitions in partnership with large global corporations and foundations. Verb's goal is to stimulate the creation of entrepreneurial ecosystems by mobilizing entrepreneurs, investors, distribution partners, and other key stakeholders and resources.

In 2013 Verb spun out of the University of Texas at Austin where it began as the Dell Social Innovation Challenge and accelerated over 8,000 ventures from 60 countries.

From 2010 - 2013 Suzi led the Social Entrepreneurship program at the University of Texas at Austin and before that spent several years as a senior executive in the private sector. She was awarded the 2014 Ernst&Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She has a Masters in International Development from Harvard and lives in Austin, Texas.

Tyler Spalding: Global Manager, Social Innovation, eBay Inc., [email protected]

Tyler Spalding works passionately at the intersection of business and social change. In his role on eBay Inc.'s Social Innovation team, Tyler cultivates and manages internal and external stakeholder relationships, and drives strategy to position eBay Inc. as an innovative, transparent, and purpose-driven business. He also leads the team's "Creating Economic Opportunity" focus area.

Prior to joining eBay Inc., Tyler worked in Edelman's Business + Social Purpose practice where he consulted with multinational companies, multilateral institutions and nonprofit organizations to design and launch initiatives aimed at creating positive social and environmental impact. Tyler began his career at Ashoka, an international organization dedicated to finding the most innovative social change projects in the world, and supporting and bringing together the entrepreneurs behind those initiatives. In his four years there, Tyler led many of the organization's marketing and communications efforts across the globe, innovating new ways to tell Ashoka's story and stewarding many of the organization's highest profile relationships. Tyler studied at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and previously served on the national Board of Directors for Saving Promise. He currently resides in San Francisco, serves as an advisor to The Collaborative and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Laurie Spengler: President, Enclude, [email protected]

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entrepreneurs, small & growing enterprises, un(der)served households and more. The firm's clients are financial institutions, business support organisations, private-sector companies, funders and investors focused on the real economy. Ms. Spengler has 25+ years' experience in strategy and transaction services, especially capital raising, M&A, and private equity with a particular focus on structuring and launching investment vehicles designed to expand access to appropriately aligned capital for funds, financial institutions and enterprises. Ms. Spengler's current directorships include Enclude Ltd, TBC Kredit and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Ms. Spengler is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Spengler splits her time among the Washington, DC, London and Zeist offices of Enclude.

Phindile Nelo Spies: CEO, Thembani International Guarantee Fund, [email protected]

Over 20 years experience in financial management in various industries and sectors. Currently running an NPC which is aimed at unlocking access to credit for SMME's with a bias towards women, youth and rural entities.

Gijs Spoor: Founder, UnLtd India, [email protected]

Studied rural development in Netherlands, worked in Africa, then India for 12 years. Ashoka fellow and founder of various social enterprises. Now incubating changemakers across Tamil Nadu -a state in South India with a population of 80 million (same as the UK)

Andrew Stern: Partner, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, [email protected]

Andrew is the Executive Director for the Global Development Incubator and a former Partner at Dalberg Global Development Advisors. Andrew helped to design and launch the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, a program at the Aspen Institute that helps to build small and growing businesses in developing countries, and serves on its Executive Committee. He has also recently helped to create innovative financing mechanisms for agriculture, clean energy, and youth employment. Prior to joining Dalberg, Andrew was in Accenture's Government Strategy practice. He is the former founding Co-Chair and current Board member of mothers2mothers, an innovative program preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Andrew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in Economics from Princeton.

Robyn Stewart: Manager of US Program Development Funding, Cuso International, [email protected]

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developing programs that allow Cuso International to deliver on its vision of promoting sustainable economic growth and development through volunteering. Robyn Stewart is currently managing partnerships and programs that incorporate corporate volunteering at Cuso International. She brings the unique perspective of managing a project that engages diaspora professionals in international corporate volunteering and "e- volunteering". Robyn also lead's Cuso International's Impact Investment and Enterprise Assistance strategy.

Mitchell Strauss: Special Advisor, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, [email protected]

Ms. Strauss is Special Advisor for Socially Responsible Investment Finance at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, a U. S. government corporation charged with mobilizing and facilitating US private investment and skills transfer in developing countries throughout the world. She is responsible for policy matters and origination of innovative financing structures designed specifically to leverage socially responsible investment into sustainable projects in emerging markets. She focuses on product development and implementation for impact investing programs. She collaborates with other U.S. government agencies, international financial institutions, corporations, individuals and NGOs to assist in coordinating public funding with private sector resources to efficiently support projects with social, environmental and financial returns. She focuses on sectors such as education, access to finance and housing for the poor, healthcare, renewable energy, SME finance, water and sanitation. Formerly the Director of Credit Policy at OPIC and active in the SME Finance group, she held private sector positions in credit administration, corporate banking, and loan review.

Dorothy Stuehmke: Program Officer, International Programs, Citi Foundation, [email protected]

Dorothy Stuehmke is the Program Officer for International Programs, responsible for managing the Foundation's giving program in 17 markets across the Asia Pacific region. She also manages the Foundation's relations with key partners in microfinance and enterprise development, and works to structure long-term post-disaster economic recovery efforts. Prior to joining the Citi Foundation, Dorothy held positions in the public and private sectors, including with the U.S. government, United Nations and nonprofits, where she focused on foreign policy, international development, public affairs and communications in the Asia Pacific region. Notable positions include her role as Foreign Affairs Officer with the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where she represented the U.S. government in official negotiations on finance, free trade, humanitarian aid, and nuclear disarmament. Dorothy was also the Senior Advisor to the 2008-2009 U.S.-North Korea Food Aid Program for the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she oversaw implementation of the largest U.S. government food aid initiative in history in North Korea in coordination with a consortium of U.S. NGOs and the UN World Food Programme. Dorothy's background also includes work with the Asia and Pacific Division of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs, the Open Society Institute, and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Dorothy was a Boren National Security Education Program Fellow and a Korean Language Flagship Fellow. She holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member (2008-2013) and speaks Korean and German.

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Kamael Sugrim: Associate Director, Operations, Stanford University, [email protected] efore joining SEED, Kamael co-founded mPowering, an innovative non-profit leveraging mobile technology and rewards-based business models to help the ultra-poor in India and Nepal. She served as the organization's CEO, President and Board Member until March 2012. Prior to mPowering, Kamael was a member of the marketing team for Salesforce.com and SAP, where she designed, developed, and executed comprehensive marketing strategies for their platform technologies. She began her career as a Wall Street analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston and Neuberger Berman. A graduate of Barnard College, where she earned a BA in economics, Kamael also holds an MBA with Public and Global Management certificates from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Kamael serves on the Board of EcoenergyFinance, a non-profit social enterprise that delivers solar energy solutions to empower the rural poor in Pakistan. She is also an active team leader for Stanford's Alumni Consulting Team projects, providing pro-bono consulting to local and international non-profits. She blogs about technology's role in alleviating global poverty at techdoesgood.com.

Jana Svedova: Co-founder, Synergy Social Ventures, [email protected]

Jana has a professional background in the financial industry in wealth management and business banking, which inspired her interest in socially focused business. She worked as Investment Manager for one of Asia's first impact investments funds based in Hong Kong, conducting due diligence on investment opportunities and providing post investment support to ventures throughout Southeast Asia and China. Recognizing the need for more support for young social ventures in the region Jana co-founded Synergy Social Ventures, a San Francisco and Hong Kong based nonprofit organization that supports the development of the social venture sector of the region. At Synergy Jana oversees the venture support and funding programs focused on early stage ventures in Southeast Asia. Currently Jana is leads an Impact Investing program at ISIS, a social innovation and sustainability centre at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, where she previously led a social venture accelerator program. Jana holds a BA in International Relations and an MBA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Rob Taylor: Chairman, Columba Leadership, [email protected]

Founding Chairman of Columba Leadership and The David Rattray Foundation and prior to that was an Executive Director of Dimension Data, number 32 on FTSE on listing. He worked for the Rennies Group serving under the Chairman Charles Fiddian-Green, was CEO at Woodcreations P.L. (SA Unlisted Company of the year 1989) and prior to that was a consultant with Accenture and served articles with Arthur Andersen. A member YPO for over 25 years and actively served on the Board of the National Business Initiative and is a Trustee of World Wildlife Fund SA.Rob qualified as a chartered accountant with a B. Comm (Hons) degree and Higher Diploma in Taxation, his interests include philosophy, conservation, long-distance running, golf and flying. Rob has a wife Sarah (a practicing psychologist) and three daughters Nicky (1984), Kim (1987) and Julia (1990).

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Priya Thachadi: Program Head - Fellowship, Villgro Innovations Foundation, [email protected]

I currently head Fellowship and Mentoring programs at Villgro Innovations Foundation in India. My work is focused on identifying and building solutions for human capital needs - both in the form of talent and mentoring for early stage social enterprises. I come from a public policy and international development background, having worked closely with Members of Parliament in India - providing legislative research support for over two years.

Joshua Tosteson: Senior VP, Programs Planning & Assessment, The Rainforest Alliance, [email protected]

Joshua Tosteson (BA Harvard; MS Columbia) currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Programs, Planning and Assessment at the Rainforest Alliance. In this role, he is responsible for managing the Rainforest Alliance's field program activities in agriculture, forestry, climate, certification, tourism and related services, with a portfolio of clients in approximately 80 countries covering more than 70 million hectares of managed lands. Prior to joining the Rainforest Alliance, Josh served as the co-director of Project Nouvelle Vie where he conducted integrated education and training in leadership, permaculture and entrepreneurship – serving tens of thousands of Haitians through community-based initiatives. He also served as the president and director of HydroGen Corporation, where he raised more than $40 million in private and public funding, brought the company public and oversaw technology and market development.

Joan Trant: Director of Marketing & Impact, TriLinc Global, [email protected]

Joan Trant serves as the Director of Marketing and Impact for TriLinc Global, a private investment management company dedicated to launching and managing innovative funds that exponentially increase participation in impact investing. Previously, Joan launched and was Executive Director of the International Association of Microfinance Investors (IAMFI). IAMFI's Limited Partner members' microfinance commitments/investments totaled $780 million, and General Partner members managed an aggregate portfolio of $1.84 billion. IAMFI led the microfinance investment industry with proprietary research, contributions to third party publications, educational and networking meetings, and consensus-building on best practices for responsible microfinance investment. Prior to IAMFI, Joan was Deputy Executive Director of The Resource Foundation, supporting community-building programs in 20 Latin American countries, benefiting annually 4.6 million underserved children, youths, women and men. She previously spent 15 years in the financial services industry, holding international sales, financial advisory and operations management positions at Bankers Trust and Citibank, with specific experience in the Spanish, Mexican and Argentine markets. Joan serves on the Finance Committee of the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, whose endowment is invested in line with sustainability principles.Joan is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business Executive Level Nonprofit Management Certification Program and has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University. She lives in New York City.

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Shannon Trilli: Director, Corporate Responsibility Strategy, McGraw Hill Financial, [email protected]

As the Director, Corporate Responsibility Strategy, Shannon Trilli is charged with the implementation of the "Financial Essentials" and "Community Essentials" frameworks for McGraw Hill Financial (MHFI). This role includes engaging and coordinating key stakeholders, from business unit leaders and employees to nonprofit partners and policymakers, to meet the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Goals of the Corporation; which ultimately aim to create stronger economies and provide for jobs and greater access to opportunity.Before joining MHFI, Shannon served at the Director of Global Health for the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR); where she designed, scaled and lead UMCOR's Signature Health and Sustainability Program to provide funding and technical support to community based health organizations around the world. Before being named the Global Health Director in 2011, Shannon's program responsibilities at UMCOR included overseeing UMCOR's $75 million Imagine No Malaria Program in Sub-Sahara Africa, with partners such as the U.N. Foundation and The Global Fund. Prior to joining UMCOR, Trilli served as a Micro- enterprise Development Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia. Before serving in the Peace Corps, she was the manager of Global Employee Programs for the Contributions and Community Relations unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Shannon earned a Master's in Public Administration from New York University, and a Bachelor's in Government from The University of Texas at Austin.

Renata Truzzi: Country Director Brazil, NESsT, [email protected]

Renata Truzzi de Souza is the Country Director for the Brazil office and is responsible for managing the NESsT portfolio of social enterprises and further developing NESsT activities in Brazil.Prior to joining NESsT, Renata gained an extensive experience in fundraising, marketing, communications and management, working with Brazilian nonprofits. She has worked on building and developing teams, individual and corporate fundraising, communication, media and direct marketing. She has also developing database structures for major organizations, representative of social and cultural areas in Brazil. Renata's background is in Business Administration, Social Sector Administration and Direct Marketing.

Katie Turner: Senior Project Manager, Mennonite Economic Development Associates, [email protected]

Katie Turner is a Senior Project Manager / Consultant in MEDA's SME Investment department where she is dedicated to SME impact investing with a focus on impact measurement and technical assistance (including ESG). In this role, she manages MEDA's INFRONT (Impact Investing in Frontier Markets) program, in which the Sarona Asset Management impact investment fund of up to $250 million is paired with technical assistance provided by MEDA and the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing. Prior to this, Katie worked for six years in MEDA's agriculture market linkages department, supporting the integration of agribusinesses and small farmers into profitable value chains. She also carries out short term consultancies for a variety of clients including Heifer International, World Vision, Keegan Resources, and Aga Khan. Katie holds an Honours BA in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Post Graduate Degree in International Development. Country experience

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includes Armenia, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Tajikistan, Tunisia and Ukraine. She is fluent in English and Spanish.

Jen Tweddell: Manager, Impact Investing and Carbon Finance, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, [email protected]

Jen's role at the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has been to develop and implement the Alliance's strategy to increase investment in the clean cooking sector. Jen has worked with investors to understand the barriers to their engagement in the sector and developed a suite of innovative financial products to enable clean cookstoves and fuels enterprises to grow their businesses and become more investment ready. Using grants and other forms of soft and patient capital the Alliance is preparing a pipeline of opportunities for investors through supporting innovation, building capacity and financing growth. Prior to joining the Alliance Jen worked for Shell where she held global roles working on climate change strategy and Shell's Access to Energy community investment program. Jen holds a M.Sc. in Chemistry from MIT.

Nnenna Ugwu: Alumni Director, Enterprise Development Centre of Pan-Atlantic University, [email protected]

Nnenna is currently the Alumni Director of Enterprise Development Centre. She also doubles as clientele Management Executive A lawyer by profession but with passion in developing small growing businesses. An SME specialist with interest in gender empowerment. Nnenna is also marriage counselor and Theologian building families. Her core responsibility at the centre is relationship management of the members of the network

Noor Ullah: Global Head of Agriculture, Acumen, [email protected]

Noor is a senior impact investment professional and is the Global Head for Agriculture at Acumen. He has been leading Acumen efforts in the agriculture investing space for the last 7 years. In addition, he also has experience in investment management in alternative energy, water and health portfolios. Before joining Acumen, Noor served as a consultant for the World Bank, where he studied the socio-economic impact of environmental degradation in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Noor holds a Bachelor degree with Honors, in Economics and Computer Sciences from Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Simon Ulvund: Global Managing Director, Impact Hub, [email protected]

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Lina Maria Useche Kempf: President, Aliança Empreendedora, [email protected]

Graduated in Management by Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), postgadruated in Third Sector's Law by Universidade Positivo, certificated in Strategic Management for Non-porfits by Harvard Business School, Lina is one of the founders and current CEO of Aliança Empreendedora, Aliança Empreendedora is a non-profit, social organization that supports organizations, NGO's, and governments nation-wide to design, test and implement inclusive business models and projects that stimulate and support entrepreneurship for low-income communities. As a social entrepreneur Lina was selected to be part of the Global Shapers Community, from the World Economic Forum in 2012, she was also selected by the International Youth Foundation's network, being recognized as YouthActionNet Global Fellow 2010.

Julian Vargas: Mananger, Innovation & Development, Fundacion IES, [email protected]

Born in La Paz in 1986. I have a Bsc in Computer Science from Universidad Católica Boliviana and a Msc (cum laude) in Innovation Sciences from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands). Currently working on IES Foundation in projects to gain a better understanding of Impact Investing in the region, and the way we can foster the grow of the ecosystem.

Rodrigo Villar: Director, New Ventures Mexico, [email protected]

Rodrigo launched New Ventures Mexico in 2004 and has led its remarkable growth into the leading sustainable business accelerator in the country. He was also instrumental in the creation of Las Paginas Verdes, the only sustainable product and service directory in Mexico and one of the largest in the world with an annual circulation in excess of 250,000 copies. Adobe Capital Co-Founder and Partner. As an Ashoka Fellow, Rodrigo is widely recognized as one of the country's leading figures on social and environmental sustainability, and accordingly received the 2008 UBS Visionaris Social Entrepreneur of the year award. Rodrigo received an MBA from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Accounting and Financial Management degree from the Tecnologico de Monterrey.

Mike Vincent: Director of Impact & Standards, Fair Trade USA, [email protected]

Mike joins Fair Trade USA with a passion for developing market-based solutions for sustainable community development and building the conscious consumerism movement in the United States. As Director of Impact & Standards, Mike leads the innovation of Fair Trade USA's impact management system and the development of the organization's standards. Mike began his career in Accenture's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) practice, consulting for clients in Europe, East Asia and the United States. He also spent a year and a half in Accenture Development Partnerships, the firm's corporate social enterprise. After Accenture, Mike moved to Latin America to teach mathematics and reading to children outside the school system, and to start a social enterprise that would serve as a parent organization to street children centers globally. Outside of work, Mike

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has volunteered extensively with youth and education programs, and has served on the boards of directors of Leadership High School and Friends of the Children in San Francisco. Mike received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Santa Clara University and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of California Berkeley.

Pooja Virani: Senior Program Associate, Rockefeller Foundation - Aspen Institute Diaspora, [email protected]

Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Pooja consulted for various international development organizations, developing business, financial, and strategic plans for Mercy Corp's youth leadership and global citizenship program in the Middle East, a sports for development social enterprise in Bolivia, and a food security and nutrition NGO in Kenya. Most recently, she worked with Ashoka to conduct an impact analysis of its global network of social entrepreneurs. Pooja also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Paraguay, where she advised agricultural production cooperatives, trained municipal employees, established youth and women's committees, and taught health and environmental education. She holds a dual degree MBA in nonprofit management and MA in sustainable international development from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and a BA in international studies and BA in economics from American University.

Ted Volchok: Private Sector Engagement Advisor, Mercy Corps, [email protected]

Ted Volchok is an international development expert who specializes in market-driven development, program partnerships with private businesses, employability and youth. Ted is currently the Private Sector Engagement Adviser in Mercy Corps' Economic and Market Development unit providing technical assistance to field and headquarters teams on program design, development, and implementation. He also provides internal training on market systems development, private sector engagement, and participatory labor market assessments, and recently authored a Private Sector Engagement Toolkit. Ted has two decades of progressive leadership experience in private sector social enterprises.

Aline Wachner: Research fellow / PhD Candidate, Zeppelin University, [email protected]

Aline Wachner is a PhD candidate at Zeppelin University in Germany. She has studied international cultural and business studies at the University of Passau, where she graduated with a master thesis on partnerships between multinational corporations and social entrepreneurs at the base of the pyramid (BoP). Aline Wachner has served as an analyst for a corporate responsibility consultancy in Hamburg and Munich for two years and as an associate at the Grameen Creative Lab, a think tank and accelerator for social businesses initiated by Prof. Muhammad Yunus, for another two years. Since May 2011 she is a doctoral candidate at the Civil Society Center of Zeppelin University and a scholarship holder of the International Research Network on Social Economic Empowerment supported by Siemens Stiftung. In her research, Aline has been conducting multiple case studies 65

on health care social enterprises in Colombia, Mexico, Kenya and South Africa in order to understand the business models that enable social enterprises to serve low-income customers in a financially viable way. With her colleagues at Zeppelin University she has furthermore conducted a new study about social investors and social enterprises within these same four countries.

Chris Walker: Manager, Innovative Finance, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, [email protected]

Chris Walker directs the Innovative Finance Program at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). In this capacity, he manages partnerships with impact investors to provide equity and debt financing to companies having a positive impact on nutrition, led the development of the Access to Nutrition Index (www.accesstonutrition.org), and designs and develops other initiatives that channel more investment capital into fighting malnutrition. Prior to joining GAIN, Chris was a Fellow with Acumen Fund, a non-profit social venture capital fund. He worked for one of Acumen Fund's investments, the Dial 1298 for Ambulance Service in Mumbai, India, as the Head of Marketing and Business Development. Chris previously worked on a range of international economic and development policy issues in the U.S. Government, including as Associate Director of International Relations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation; as an International Economist at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he worked on macroeconomic, financial, and development policies in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East; and in the Economic Bureau of the U.S. State Department. He has also lived in southern Africa and in Central America, where he worked on a range of economic development programs. Chris has a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University, where he specialized in international development, and a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College.

William Warshauer: President & CEO, TechnoServe Inc., [email protected]

Will Warshauer is the president and CEO of TechnoServe, a nonprofit that works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries. He brings more than 25 years of experience in international development and the private sector to his position as President and . He launched his career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone and has since worked in 40 developing countries. In his latest role, Will served as chief operating officer of Pact, Inc. and as president of the Pact Global Microfinance Fund – one of the world's largest microfinance institutions – which made over $120 million in loans to poor rural women in 2013. Previously, Will served as executive vice president for health and development solutions with Voxiva Inc., where he led the development of innovative, mobile phone-based health information systems. As a former executive vice president at PSI, he led initiatives such as the development of the organization's global strategic plan and oversaw a $90 million portfolio of health programs in Africa. Will is a regular guest lecturer at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia on topic of social entrepreneurship. He has been a featured speaker at the Net Impact Conference, Harvard's Social Enterprise Conference and the American Marketing Association. Will graduated with honors from Yale University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English, and received a master's degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

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Randy Welsch: CEO, Jibu, L3C, [email protected]

Randy has launched, led and managed a wide variety of complex charitable, corporate, and entrepreneurial enterprises in has career. Main current focus is co-founder/CEO of Jibu, which functions as a franchisor and bank to equip co-invested emerging market entrepreneurs to sell drinking water to the urban poor in Africa at a price they can afford. He also is an angel investor with a broad international portfolio. He leads the Rockwise Foundation whose primary purpose is leadership development. This Foundation recently launched a new for- profit company, Catapult, whose purpose is to help nonprofits better monetize their mission through blended capital approaches that reduce donor-dependency. He also is the Chairman of AFMIN, a charitable organization that trains leaders in Africa. His past experience includes corporate management, professor and the launch of numerous high-tech companies. He lives in Colorado, USA when not in Africa.

Mark Wensley: Program Manager, Financial Inclusion, The MasterCard Foundation, [email protected]

Mark Wensley is a Program Manager on the Financial Inclusion team at The MasterCard Foundation, where he has led the development of a portfolio that expands access to financial services using technology and supports innovation. Mark manages a range of projects in the areas of branchless banking, client-centricity, and responsible finance. He has worked in the field for over ten years, where he focused on scaling innovative and market-led approaches for financial inclusion. Prior to joining the Foundation, he worked for Unitus, where he led the creation of new partnerships to provide catalytic capital and advisory to high-growth institutions in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Elizabeth West: Programs and Investments Officer, Aga Khan Foundation, [email protected]

Elizabeth West is the Programs and Investments Officer for the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A.'s Impact Investing Initiative. In this role, Elizabeth supports the development of impact investment initiatives, with responsibilities including research, due diligence, social metrics measurement, relationship management, and communications. Prior to joining the Foundation, Elizabeth worked as a program manager at the Milken Institute's Center for Accelerated Medical Solutions (FasterCures) supporting initiatives in medical philanthropy and innovative financing within the biomedical research and development field. Her additional previous experience includes business consulting and trade association management for biotechnology companies, consulting on international health education projects, and research on international energy and climate change topics. Elizabeth holds a Master's degree in International Science and Technology Policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University and received her bachelor's degree in Political Science and Japanese from the University of Hawai'i.

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Zane Wilemon: Founder/ Executive Director, CTC International, [email protected]

Zane Wilemon is the Founder and Executive Director of CTC International. Zane discovered his life's calling after purchasing a one-way ticket to Kenya in 2000. After living in Kenya for a year, Zane's life was changed as he recognized that our lives are inextricably tied to God and one another. CTC's core value is to create opportunities that empower each other to lift ourselves beyond our perceived limitations. Zane is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas and his Masters in Divinity from the Seminary of the Southwest.

Natalia Wills: Associate Director, Operations, Fundemex, [email protected]

Natalia was born in Medellin, Colombia. She holds a B.A. in International Business from EAFIT University (Colombia) and a Masters in Development Evaluation and Management from the Institute of Development Policy and Management of the Antwerp University (Belgium). In 2007 she was awarded the Development Cooperation Prize from the Province of Antwerp for her dissertation: "Public Spaces and Transport as Policy Instruments for Reducing Inequality: The Case of Medellin". Her professional experience started in the private sector, where she worked in the marketing areas of multinational corporations such as Schwarzkopf Henkel (Germany) and 3M (Mexico). During the last ten years she has worked in civil society organizations and foundations in Colombia and Mexico. Today, she is Fundemex Deputy Director, where she has worked since 2008.

Pat Wilson: Investment Associate, Accion, Frontier Investments Group, [email protected]

Pat Wilson is an Investment Associate with Accion's Frontier Investments Group, an early-stage impact investing venture fund that invests in innovative financial inclusion startups globally. Over the past 10 years, Pat has been both a social entrepreneur and private equity professional most recently founding Antelope Capital Partners, a double bottom-line real estate investment firm specializing in the acquisition, renovation and management of low-income housing. As Managing Partner of Antelope, he was responsible for acquiring, rehabilitating and bringing to market over 1,000 affordable housing units throughout the southern United States. Prior to Antelope, Pat served as a Senior Associate in the Private Equity Group of HBK Capital Management, a global hedge fund managing $14 billion in equity capital. Prior to that, he worked as an investment banker and private equity investor at Citigroup, National City and Brazos Private Equity Partners. Pat attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a bachelor of science in economics with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship.

Simon Winter: SVP of Development, TechnoServe Inc., [email protected]

Simon Winter is TechnoServe's Senior Vice President of Development. He is responsible for leading and managing strategy and strategic planning, thought leadership, and business and program development. He is

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also responsible for managing and incubating innovative programs, including around capital access for SMEs. Previously he was Regional Director for Africa. He joined TechnoServe in 2003. From the time he first witnessed deep poverty at first hand in Cote d'Ivoire in 1984, Simon has been passionate about helping people acquire the skills, competencies and connections that will enable them to create the dynamic businesses that will end poverty. On his journey to TechnoServe, Simon acquired business advisory and strategic skills as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company (1998-2003) during which he co-led the firm's international development practice. Prior to that, he learned practical development solutions while working as an economic planner for the Botswana government, and a development consultant in Southern Africa. And he became skilled in finance and banking with Barclays Bank plc in the UK, Cote d'Ivoire and Australia. Simon is a founding Executive Committee member of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a Board Member of Root Capital, a member of the steering committee for Initiative on Smallholder Finance, the Advisory Board of www.nextbillion.net, the German Marshall Fund's Advisory Board for Transformational Partnerships, and Board Member, East African Leadership Initiative Foundation. Simon originates from the UK and holds a PhD in development economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1998, which focused on the opportunities for the development of the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe.

Jocelyn Wyatt: Executive Director, IDEO.org, [email protected]

Jocelyn Wyatt is the Executive Director and Co-Lead of IDEO.org, the nonprofit organization started by IDEO to address poverty-related challenges through design and encourage the use of the human-centered approach to innovation in the social sector. Before launching IDEO.org, she led IDEO's Social Innovation practice for four years. Previously, she worked as an Acumen Fund fellow in Kenya, as Country Director for VisionSpring in India, and as International Training Manager for Chemonics, a USAID contractor in Washington, DC. Jocelyn has an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College.

Percy Ying: Director, Nesa Capital, [email protected]

Percy is a Chartered Accountant and CFA Charterholder with over 10 years experience in corporate finance, portfolio management and financial reporting. In addition to working full-time at Nesa Capital and its enterprise development fund, Percy also serves on the board of various JSE listed public companies as an independent non- executive director.

Yasmina Zaidman: Director of Strategic Partnerships, Acumen, [email protected]

Yasmina Zaidman is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Acumen, a global non-profit venture fund working to change the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders and ideas. She leads its work to engage with strategic corporate partners and institutions that share Acumen's commitment to supporting entrepreneurial approaches to tackling poverty. Previously, Ms. Zaidman initiated and managed the Water Portfolio at Acumen, where she invested in start-up water and sanitation enterprises in India and East Africa 69

that have brought safe drinking water to over 4 million people and access to sanitation to tens of thousands. She led Acumen's Communications work for six years, helping to position Acumen's unique approach as a pioneering new model featured in Time, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, The NYT and across broadcast media as well as in major global forums. Ms. Zaidman has worked in the arenas of international development, corporate sustainability and social entrepreneurship for eighteen years including three years at Ashoka working with its environmental fellows. She received a BA from Vassar College and her MBA from Stanford's GSB with a certificate in Public Management.

Tao Zhang: Founding Managing Director, China Impact Fund/New Ventures China, [email protected]

Tao Zhang is Founding Managing Director of Dao Ventures, a China-focused impact investment consortium with co-headquartered offices in both China and the US that primarily consist of ACBridge Global Advisors, China Impact Fund, and New Ventures Global. The various entities of Dao Ventures have so far made and/or facilitated investments of over $200 million into China's environmental small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Tao is Co-Founder and Managing Director of China Impact Fund, the chief entity under Dao Ventures, that is considered China's first impact fund that specializes in financing and accelerating SMEs providing environmentally friendly products and services as well as companies with an environmental value proposition for the country's Base of Pyramid (BoP) population, primarily those in sustainable land use, clean energy and water access.

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