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ATTENDEE BIOS Wendy Abrams, Founder, Cool Globes Wendy Abrams is an environmentalist and social activist. She is the founder of Cool Globes, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of climate change that originated as a project stemming from the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006. Designed to utilize the venue of public art and education, the inaugural Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet exhibit opened in Chicago in 2007 and has since traveled to three continents. In 2015, Cool Globes launched a campus activist initiative, KNOW TOMORROW, with the goal of amplifying the voices of youth speaking out on climate change. Abrams proudly serves on the Leadership Council for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and has participated in delegations to Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. She also serves as a trustee for Waterkeeper Alliance, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and the Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation. In 2011, she helped establish the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. She is currently working with the University of Southern California to design a course on the art of activism, which she will convene as an adjunct professor in 2020. Abrams is a principal shareholder of Medline Industries, Inc., the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies in the United States. Abrams graduated from Brown University and received her MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. She lives in Highland Park, Ill., with her husband, Jim. They raised four wonderful children—undoubtedly, her greatest accomplishment. Andrew Barous, Managing Director, New Mountain Capital Andrew D. Barous joined New Mountain in 2006. He previously served as a small-business advisor and community development volunteer with the Peace Corps in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific. He is a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon, International Economics Honorary Society, and received his BA in economics from Hamilton College in 2001. Darius Baxter, Co-Founder and Chief Engagement Officer, GOODProjects In 2016, Darius Baxter was voted by his two best friends Danny and Troye to serve as the executive director of their newly formed social impact organization - GOOD. Shortly after, they rebranded his position to chief engagement officer of GOOD, understanding the real relationships that would need to be created with communities to one day crack the code of how to end childhood poverty in America. While pursuing his BA in women’s studies at Georgetown, Baxter had every intention of following in his mother’s footsteps by becoming a public-school teacher. It was not until a chance encounter with political strategist Frank Luntz on campus one day that he began to understand, lasting change only happened one community; one block; one family at a time. 1 Bob Beitcher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Motion Picture and Television Fund Bob Beitcher has been the CEO and president of The Motion Picture and Television Fund since July 2011. He has 30 years of experience in organizational leadership with various companies in the entertainment industry, including as president and CEO of Panavision, president of Technicolor Creative Services, and various senior positions at Lucasfilm, Jim Henson Productions and Paramount Pictures. Over the course of his career at the The Motion Picture and Television Fund, Beitcher has served as a director, trustee and as a member of the advisory and foundation committees. He and his wife, Carol, live in Santa Monica in a state-of-the-art green home. They have four children. John Bremen, Managing Director, Willis Towers Watson John Bremen is a recognized global business leader, C-suite and board consultant, and thought leader on the future of human capital, purpose-driven organizations, and the modernization of human resources and Total Rewards programs. He serves as managing director of human capital & benefits, as well as global co-leader of health & benefits. He is also an executive sponsor for the Human Capital & Benefits Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) content team and a member of the Willis Towers Watson Global Human Capital and Benefits Leadership Team. Bremen’s career began as a college intern, consulting to the world’s largest organizations on complex human capital issues, which he continues to do today. He has led multi-year research efforts on human capital issues and the future of the human resources profession. He co-founded Willis Towers Watson’s CHRO Thinking Ahead Group, established to provide a forum for innovative, disruptive, and early-adopting CHROs to share perspectives, conduct research, and prioritize and collaborate on topics that are driving their global human capital business agendas. Earlier in his career, he was a management consultant at Johnson & Higgins’ Sibson Consulting, a member of the HR team at The Walt Disney Company, and later a partner at the Center for Workforce Effectiveness. Bremen received an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management with majors in organizational behavior and management strategy. He also holds a BA from Northwestern, including a special certificate in business institutions. He has lectured on topics related to his field at several graduate schools of business, including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Bremen has and continues to serve on a number of industry, community, and advisory boards. Troye Bullock, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, GOODProjects Troye Bullock Jr. is the co-founder and chief operating officer for GOOD. He is a pioneer in the social impact space, creating equity and opportunity for the nation’s most at risk populations. Those who have historically experienced trauma and poverty. As a native of Washington, D.C., Bullock knows what it means to be poor and experience trauma. Growing up in a forgotten community, Bullock was the oldest of three to a mother who suffered from sickle cell anemia and was bedridden during his childhood. It is because of this, Bullock took it upon himself to focus on athletics and academics at a young age. He excelled at DeMatha Catholic High School and earned a scholarship to Georgetown University, where he played football and studied sociology. It was at Georgetown where he found his passion for social impact as he mentored and tutored juvenile youth and ran a Saturday program to increase the test scores of low-income African American high school students. Bullock completed a thesis study on affirmative action and inequity in America’s higher education system. Evril Clayton, Deputy Director, Global Equities, New York State Common Retirement Fund Evril Clayton is New York State’s deputy director of global equity. Clayton joined the investment team as a senior investment officer in 2011. Prior to joining the investment staff, he served as a senior investment analyst focusing on hedge funds and private equity strategies, as part of the investment team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which managed the billion dollar endowment and pension plan of the Institute. Clayton started his career at the former Merrill Lynch & Co’s Global Wealth Management Division. He received an MBA from Clarkson University and a BS from the State University of New York at Potsdam. 2 Sancia Dalley, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Director, RFK Compass Investor Program, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Sancia Dalley leads private sector engagement and business development, while leading the RFK Compass Investor Program, a network of 250 institutional investors and fund managers who are committed to seeking superior risk-adjusted returns while considering human rights and the “S” in ESG. Dalley has over fifteen years of experience in corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, public-private partnership building and management, and global affairs. Before joining Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, she served under Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, and Ray Chambers, the former United Nations Special Envoy on Health Financing, where she led private-sector partnerships and financing in Africa and Latin America. Concurrently, she served as the private sector liaison to the Roll Back Malaria Global Partnership, the Board of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa. Dalley earned her AB in international relations and French at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. She is the founder of Redlake Global LLC, a boutique strategic philanthropy advisory group, and sits on the boards of Center for Active Design (CfAD) in New York and Boardwalk Village Foundation in Negril, Jamaica. Lynn Delaney, Senior Adviser and Executive Director, Robert F. Kennedy Legacy, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Lynn Delaney is a senior adviser and the executive director of RFK Legacy, Awards, and Special Projects. With over 20 years of management experience, Delaney has worked in every area of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights: overseeing the day-to-day operations as well as working with staff and board on planning, budgeting, fundraising and program activities; steering awards committees; and organizing events and ceremonies at venues from the Newseum to the White House. During Delaney’s tenure, she has created new revenue streams, including an annual golf tournament, a yearly membership drive and an online auction that now averages over a million dollars a year in income. She has participated in delegations on a variety of issues to countries including Brazil, South Africa, Cuba, Mexico, Northern Ireland, and Japan. Her work on a proposal to the Ford Foundation resulted in a significant grant to train and then lead a student delegation to the United Nations Conference on Discrimination, Racism and Xenophobia in Durban, South Africa where she exposed 12 college students to the UN system and facilitated their participation in a student task force on discrimination. A graduate of Trinity College and Harvard Business School’s nonprofit management course, Delaney is a member of the National Society of Fundraising Executives and has served on advisory councils for the Mt.

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