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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. Carmel Shelter for Women, The National Underground Railroad, and the Friends of the University of Natal, South Africa.

Amy DeVylder Levanat, Director, Willis Towers Watson Amy DeVylder is a director in Willis Towers Watson’s Human Capital & Benefits (HCB) segment, and co-founded Willis Towers Watson’s CHRO Thinking Ahead Group – a forum for innovative, disruptive, and early-adopter CHROs to share findings, conduct research, and prioritize and collaborate on topics that are driving their global human capital business agenda. She has spent a good portion of her career working with complex global organizations to connect their purpose with their customer experience as well as the experience of their talent through culture and human capital programs. Most recently, DeVylder has been heavily focused on working with organizations on purpose-driven leadership and purpose-driven benefits, which includes articulating and connecting institutional and individual purpose with key business processes and performance. She serves as theme leader for HCB’s Sustainable Human Capital Management offering, as well as Inclusion & Diversity market offering, and has a passion for developing healthy company cultures that include dignity, psychological safety, ethical conduct, agility, and tolerance for risk-taking, as well as creating supporting total rewards strategies and programs. DeVylder is also involved with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Workplace Dignity effort, focused on raising awareness of workplace dignity and developing programs to minimize actions associated with marginalization in the workplace.

3 DeVylder has overseen the development of Willis Towers Watson’s Evolved Organization platform, which focuses on practices of companies that enable them to thrive in disruptive environments, embracing change by adopting mindsets to actively transform the way they approach work, talent, wellbeing and total rewards in fast-paced and quickly-changing markets. She has co-authored multiple articles on purpose, the evolved organization, sustainable human capital, benefits, and total rewards. She has directed numerous large, complex, global assignments, and has a demonstrated track record working with leaders and change. She resides in Connecticut with her husband and three children. She is actively involved in the local community, and is a graduate of Fairfield University.

Jennifer DiGrazia, Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional Client and Investor Relations, Ariel Investments Jenn DiGrazia serves as head of Ariel’s Institutional Client and Investor Relations group, which handles all aspects of client communications, reporting and onboarding, as well as board reports, marketing materials and press relations. In addition to serving as a client liaison for their institutional portfolios, DiGrazia is a member of Ariel’s investment committee and works closely with portfolio managers on client relationships. DiGrazia rejoined the firm in 2019, after serving as head of investor relations for DreamWorks Animation and subsequently MGM Studios. In these roles, DiGrazia developed relationships with key stakeholders in the investment community, including institutional investors, portfolio managers and investment research analysts. She was also responsible for articulating the companies’ strategic priorities while fostering confidence and credibility among the investment community. Before DreamWorks, DiGrazia held senior positions at DIRECTV and various roles in Corporate Finance and Strategic Planning at Time Warner Cable and MTV Networks. Beyond Ariel, DiGrazia serves on the board of directors for Communities In Schools Los Angeles and the Los Angeles chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute. She graduated summa cum laude with a BS in business administration from the University of Connecticut.

Daryn Dodson, Founder and Managing Director, Illumen Capital Daryn Dodson is a passionate advocate of social and economic justice, especially for disadvantaged and marginalized groups. His work with impact investors, private equity funds, Fortune 100 companies, universities and foundations has been viewed through the lens of addressing the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. Dodson is the founder and managing director of Illumen Capital, an impact fund of funds that seeks to increase gender and racial equity within the financial markets. Illumen Capital invests in the top growth, private equity and venture impact funds, and then provides coaching and tools to fund managers designed to reduce implicit bias.

Dodson previously led the Special Equities Program as a consultant to the Board of the Calvert Funds, a $12 billion pioneer of the impact investing field. Through this vehicle, Calvert maintains a portfolio of more than 40 funds on five continents, representing over 350 underlying portfolio companies. Prior to serving as a consultant to Calvert, Dodson served as director of university and corporate partnership for The Idea Village, where he created a platform engaging leading private equity firms, business schools, and Fortune 500 companies to invest over 100,000 hours and $2 million into more than 1,000 New Orleans entrepreneurs post-Hurricane Katrina. Dodson is the co-author of published research that examines the influence of race in financial judgements of asset allocators, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Ben and Jerry’s. He earned his MBA from Stanford, where he serves on the Dean’s Management Board, and his AB from Duke University.

Gail Evertz, Director and Special Projects Advisor, Guggenheim Partners Gail Evertz has been with Guggenheim Partners since its inception in 1999 and involved in business development, relationship management, corporate social responsibility and hospitality as an ambassador of the firm. In her current role, Evertz provides strategic leadership for some of the firm’s corporate social responsibility initiatives and business development and has curated Guggenheim Partners’ private art collection.

4 Evertz has coordinated a multitude of charitable and philanthropic participation for 20 years on behalf of the firm. She is personally, deeply committed to environmental issues, human rights issues and the underserved and less fortunate who need a voice. Her philanthropic work has taken her around the world many times. Evertz spent 6 weeks at Ground Zero helping set up a base camp to feed 8,000 meals 24 hrs daily to first responders and rescue workers. She journeyed to Haiti after the earthquake procuring 4,000 pounds of supplies and equipment and personally delivering them to Port au Prince and distributing to a village that was virtually cut off. The Southeast Asia Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Newtown/SandyHook tragedy, Hurricane Sandy, and many more disasters have seen Evertz suit up and show up to help on her own as well as on behalf of Guggenheim Partners. For six years, Evertz served as the national co-chair of the Children’s Cancer and Blood Foundation. She has been actively involved in numerous aspects of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ initiatives and serves as the vice chair of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Leadership Council.

David Fann, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, TorreyCove Capital Partners David Fann is founder, president and CEO of TorreyCove Capital Partners, and a member of the firm’s board of directors and executive and investment committees. He has led investment organizations that have invested/committed over $50 billion in private equity investments. With over 30 years of experience in the private equity industry, he has invested in 26 leveraged buyout, private equity and venture capital investments as a lead investor or co-investor, of which ten became publicly traded through successful initial public offerings and a number were acquired by Fortune 500 companies. Prior to co-founding TorreyCove, Fann was the president and CEO of PCG Asset Management, LLC. Previously, he was a managing director of US Trust and vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital. Fann has served on the board of directors of 11 companies, as a board observer for seven, and as chairman of the board of directors for two. He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers and the Robert H. Togio Foundation. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering and economics from Stanford University.

José Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Clearlake Capital Group José Feliciano is co-founder and managing partner of Clearlake Capital Group, a leading private investment firm which has managed approximately $9 billion of institutional capital since inception. Feliciano is involved in the investment side of the firm, as well as its day-to-day management and currently serves on the board of directors of several Clearlake portfolio companies. Feliciano started his career in investment banking in the mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance groups at Goldman, Sachs & Co and, before co-founding Clearlake, was a partner and member of the investment committee at Tennenbaum Capital Partners and CFO of govWorks, Inc.

As well as being a board member of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, which works alongside activists to ensure positive changes in governments and corporations, Feliciano also sits on the board of directors of the Robert H. Toigo Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting the career advancement and increased leadership of under-represented talent. In 2014, Feliciano and his wife, Kwanza Jones, founded the SUPERCHARGED Initiative, a philanthropic grant-making and impact investment organization. He graduated from Princeton University with a BS in mechanical & aerospace engineering and received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Jamie Ford, President, Vista Equity Patners; President, Vista Public Strategies Jamie Ford joined Vista Equity Partners in 2000 and is a Principal at Vista Equity Partners as well as President of Vista Public Strategies (VPS). Ford helped found and currently manages VPS, in addition to serving as a member of the VPS Advisory Board, and Vista’s Compliance Committee. Previously, he served as Vista’s chief operating officer and president of Vista Credit Partners. Ford was also actively involved in Vista Private Equity Funds’ investments in Accero, Aspect Communications, DealerSocket, Misys, P2 Energy Solutions, TIBCO, Turaz, Websense, Ventyx, SER, SourceNet Solutions, SRC Software, and The ACTIVE Network. Prior to joining Vista, Ford worked in the mergers and acquisitions group of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he advised clients in a variety of industries, including consumer products, chemicals, energy and power, and media. In addition to his work at Vista, Ford serves as a board member of SquashDrive and of the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco. 5 Michael Frerichs, Treasurer, State of Illinois Michael Frerichs was elected Illinois State Treasurer in November 2014, becoming the 74th person to serve in this role. In Illinois, the treasurer is the state’s chief investment officer and Frerichs is a certified public finance officer. The Office of the Treasurer actively manages approximately $25 billion. The investment approach is cautious to ensure the preservation of principal. The investment returns are significant: for every $1 spent to run the office, he nets $28 for the state’s residents. Since taking office, Frerichs has made significant strides in the fight for consumers by making sure Illinois residents get what is owed to them through the unclaimed property program. A record- breaking $159 million in forgotten cash and stock was returned to individuals, employers, and nonprofits in Fiscal Year 2017.

By making changes to the Bright Start and Bright Directions college savings programs, he has lowered fees and provided more investment options, making college more affordable for families saving for their child’s future. Under his leadership, Illinois now leads a multi-state alliance that allows parents of children with blindness or a disability to save for their child without jeopardizing their federal disability benefits. Achieving a Better Life Experience Program (ABLE) is the national standard, offering high-quality and low-cost investment options.

Frerichs was born in the Downstate farming community of Gifford, Illinois. He graduated from Yale University and spent two years in Taiwan where he taught English to young students and learned to speak Chinese. He returned to Champaign County and launched his own technology business. He was elected to the Champaign County Board and elected Champaign County Auditor. He also served as a volunteer firefighter. In 2006, he was elected Illinois state senator representing East Central Illinois. As chairman of the higher education committee, Frerichs championed efforts to make college more affordable. He also served as chairman of the agriculture and conservation committee. Frerichs currently serves as vice chairman of the National Association of State Treasurer’s Legislative Committee as well as trustee on the Illinois State Board of Investment. He lives in Champaign with his young daughter, Ella.

Heather Froehlich, Vice President, Business Manager, Federated Investors Heather Froehlich is the business manager within Federated Investors’ Institutional Business Development team. Froehlich has more than 20 years of experience at Federated wherein she has had responsibility for managing acquisition-related activity across the infrastructure; leading project teams to successfully launch and execute new product initiatives; and servicing and strengthening proprietary client relationships. In her current role, Froehlich works closely with the director of institutional business development on strategic sales planning and performs a variety of functions to help the team advance the sales cycle for Institutional business, including business plan development and management of multi-faceted projects across resources. She also acts in the role of relationship manager to several of the clients. Froehlich holds a bachelor of science degree in finance from Pennsylvania State University.

Jennifer Gadberry, Vice President of Asset Management, Heifer International Foundation Jennifer Gadberry joined Heifer Foundation as the vice president of asset management in 2016, following a 20-year human resources and finance career in telecommunications. Gadberry is a graduate of Hendrix College with a degree in economics and business. She is an active member of Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church and lives in Little Rock with her husband Brady and their two daughters.

James Giacin, Managing Director, Diatoms Jim Giacin was a principal at Apollo Global Management from 2016 to 2018, leading the insurance asset management and structured products businesses. He also worked closely with the Athene enterprise, which was created by Apollo, on several product and business development initiatives. Prior to that time, Giacin was head of the insurance asset management business at Standard Life Investments. Prior to Standard Life Investments, he was a director in the financial institutions group at Bancorp Services, LLC from 1997 to 2014. Giacin has been in the corporate finance and

6 investment business for more than 20 years with extensive experience executing structured finance and investment management transactions in the financial institution marketplace. He also has a deep understanding of the tax, accounting, and regulatory guidelines related to those transactions. Giacin graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BA in economics.

Jonathan Grabel, Chief Investment Officer, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) As CIO for the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, Jonathan Grabel manages a $58 billion defined benefit pension fund on behalf of LACERA’s 165,000 active and retired members. In addition, he oversees the investments for the LACERA-administered $700 million healthcare benefits program. Prior to his appointment with LACERA, Grabel was the chief investment officer for the Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico. In this role, he had responsibility for the NM PERA defined benefit and defined contribution plans. Grabel also served as chief investment officer for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. Previously, he was a general partner at Baker Capital, a New York-based private equity firm. Earlier in his career, Grabel was an investment banker at SBC Warburg and with Nomura Securities. He also worked in public accounting at Arthur Andersen. Grabel received his BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a CPA.

Xavier Gutierrez, Managing Director, Clearlake Capital Xavier Gutierrez joined Clearlake in 2017 as a managing director, focusing on investments, operations, and strategic development. He is a member and contributor to Clearlake’s Executive and Investment Committees. Prior to joining Clearlake, he was chief investment officer of Meruelo Group, the family office of US business executive Alex Meruelo, and president & chief investment officer of Meruelo Investment Partners. At Meruelo Group, Gutierrez oversaw investments and acquisitions, deal origination, underwriting, execution, capital sourcing, and led the strategic management of a portfolio of 35+ companies. Prior to Meruelo Group, Gutierrez was principal & managing director with Phoenix Realty Group, a real estate private equity firm managing approximately $1 billion in institutional capital. In addition, Gutierrez has held positions with the law firm of Latham & Watkins, Lehman Brothers, and the League Office of the National Football League.

Gutierrez also serves, and has served, on the board of directors for several public and private companies. Notably, Gutierrez currently serves on the board of directors for Commercial Bank of California, the largest Latino-owned bank in California. Previously, Gutierrez served as a voting member of the United States Securities Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. Gutierrez has been very active with a number of nonprofit, academic, and philanthropic organizations. Currently, Gutierrez serves on the board of directors and the investment committee of the California Community Foundation (CCF), which stewards nearly $1.7 billion in assets and manages more than 1,600 charitable foundations, funds and legacies. In addition, Gutierrez serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Investment Companies and on the advisory council for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

Previously, Gutierrez served on the board of directors of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and on the board of trustees for Southern California Public Radio. In addition, Gutierrez also previously served on the Loyola Marymount University Board of Regents, the board of the Harvard Club of Southern California, the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, and the young alumni committee of the Harvard Alumni Association. Gutierrez received his bachelor of arts in government cum laude from Harvard University, and his juris doctorate from Stanford Law School.

Kelly Hardeman, Vice President, Investor Relations and Capital Formation, Insight Partners Kelly Hardeman is a member of the investor relations and capital formation team; she focuses primarily on new business generation and relationship management. Prior to joining Insight, she was a vice president at Source ETF Investments where she focused on marketing initiatives and outreach for the North American region. Previously, Hardeman worked at Pegasus Capital Advisors leading portfolio reporting for the firm’s active funds and participating as a member of the investor relations and fundraising team. Earlier in her career she worked at Morgan

7 Stanley Merchant Banking in the IR team covering several strategies ranging from buyout to infrastructure. Hardeman received a BA in mathematics from New York University. She is an avid movie watcher, New England Patriots fan and enjoys attending comic book conventions and traveling the world.

Sara Healy, Marketing and Executive Assistant, Malk Partners Sara Healy is the marketing and executive assistant at Malk Partners. Healy joined Malk in 2019. Prior to Malk, Healy was the marketing manager at LaCantina Doors. Healy holds a BA in social and behavioral sciences and a minor in public relations and strategic communication from Arizona State University.

Gary Hecker, Managing Partner, MWM Gary A. Hecker is the managing partner of MWM’s Los Angeles office and part of the firm’s technology/intellectual property law group. Hecker is one of the nation’s leading intellectual property attorneys and is recognized for his diverse experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, rights of publicity, entertainment, internet and computer law, unfair competition, and trade secrets. Hecker’s experience and expertise also include innumerable patent applications, patent evaluations, “prior art” investigations, patent due diligence, and patent reexamination proceedings. He has also developed his own proprietary approach and materials for establishing and implementing corporate patent and trademark programs for both established and emerging companies.

He has represented many of the world’s leading companies in intellectual property matters. He has designed and implemented intellectual property and patent programs for Fortune 1000 companies, Silicon Valley pioneers, and new venture startups. Hecker received his JD from the University of San Diego School of Law and is a member of the San Diego Law Review. He is the author of the Comment entitled “Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion on the High Seas: Toward an International Regulatory Regime,” published in the San Diego Law Review. He also served as a judicial intern to Justice Work of the California Court of Appeals, 4th District. Hecker also holds a BS in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Rhode Island, and is a member of the Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, Pi Tau Sigma. Prior to practicing law, Hecker was a power systems engineer at the architectural engineering consulting firm Stone and Webster Engineering Corp. Prior to joining MWM, Hecker established The Hecker Law Group in 1988 and served as the founding partner. Prior to starting his own firm, Hecker was a partner at the intellectual property law firm Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor and Zafman.

Sharon Hendricks, Board Chair, California State Teachers’ Retirement Systems (CalSTRS) Sharon Hendricks, a communication studies instructor at Los Angeles City College for the past 15 years, was elected in 2011 to the California State Teachers’ Retirement Board. While on the board, she has advocated for the development of investment beliefs, transparency on investment fees, and managing environmental, social and governance risks like climate change, corporate board diversity and fair labor practices.

Daniel Hennessy, Senior Consultant, NEPC Daniel Hennessy joined NEPC in 2014 and provides investment advice to a range of public and Taft-Hartley defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans. Prior to becoming an investment consultant, Hennessy was an equity analyst at Accretive Research and at Franklin Templeton, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. Hennessy holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in mathematical economics from Pomona College, and is a CFA and CAIA. He is a frequent speaker for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, and in his free time he enjoys rowing crew in the San Francisco Bay.

8 Andrea Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer, Culture Shift Labs Andrea Hoffman is an advisor, dealmaker, strategist, speaker, author and the founder and CEO of Culture Shift Labs (CSL), a diversity and innovation management consulting firm. CSL advises tech, Fortune 500s, nonprofits, investors and private clients on growth and innovation through diversity and inclusion (D&I). Her work includes increasing diversity in mergers and acquisitions, corporate venture, corporate development, corporate social responsibility, in the c-suite and on corporate and nonprofit boards. She connects clients to subject matter experts by activating her database of over 8K accomplished black and hispanic subject matter experts. Hoffman produces Culture Shifting: A Weekend of Technology, Innovation & Social Impact, which takes place in New York and Silicon Valley. This event enables deals and collaborations among guests and is the largest gathering of black and hispanic leaders in tech, innovation, social impact and venture investing.

Hoffman is the co-founder of Katapult Tech, a SaaS tool that helps companies assess, measure and improve their diversity and inclusion efforts. She serves on the advisory board of Singularity University, is an advisory council member for JPMorgan Chase’s Advancing Black Pathways, and a Senior Fellow of Social Innovation at Babson College. Hoffman is the co-author of Black is the New Green, and 50 BILLION Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership (nominated for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work).

Ivor Horn, Clinical Advisor, Accolade Dr. Ivor Braden Horn is clinical advisor for Accolade, a technology-enabled health and benefits navigation and advocacy company. Most recently, she served as Accolade’s Chief Medical Officer. Prior to joining Accolade, she was medical director of the Center for Diversity and Health Equity at Seattle Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is a board-certified pediatrician and NIH-funded researcher with over 20 years of physician leadership experience in health system, academic and entrepreneurial environments. Horn has served on advisory committees and boards for organizations including the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Academic Pediatric Association.

Horn holds a BS in biology from Spelman College, an MPH from the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Sciences and an MD from Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and her fellowship in general academic pediatrics at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Horn lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. In her free time, she enjoys travel with her family where they choose adventures that stretch them beyond their comfort zones. Horn is passionate about supporting people and communities to achieve health equity.

Daniel Ingram, Vice President, Responsible Investment Research and Consulting, Wilshire Associates Daniel Ingram has been designing sustainable investment solutions and driving improvements in environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) performance for nearly 15 years. He is a strategist, trusted adviser, and product specialist in public and private equity, fixed income and alternative asset classes.

Ingram informs investment decisions and builds impactful portfolios by providing educational collateral on investment cases for ESG and conducting investment manager evaluations. IRRI ranked him as the number one US-based ESG investment consultant in 2017. He has also been recognized by Chief Investment Officer magazine as a member of the “40 under 40 rising stars.” Other achievements include creating an award-winning ESG strategy - the UK’s largest defined- benefit retirement plan, improved ESG practices at over 20 global large cap companies, and advised Nick Stern in his Review of the Economics of Climate Change. Ingram holds a UK CFA Institute’s Investment Management Certificate, a post-graduate certificate in sustainable business from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and has published multiple influential guides and thought-leadership pieces on climate change and ESG reporting.

9 Kwanza Jones, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Kwanza Jones & José E. Feliciano SUPERCHARGED Initiative Kwanza Jones is the co-founder and CEO of the Kwanza Jones & José E. Feliciano SUPERCHARGED Initiative, a philanthropic grant-making and impact investment organization, making a lasting effect across four key areas: education, entrepreneurship, equal opportunity and empowerment (kjsi.org). Prior to founding the SUPERCHARGED Initiative, Jones taught cross- cultural negotiations at New York University, was a mediator for the New York City Civil Court, and started her career in media and production at Innovation Empowerment Group. She is also the founder of SUPERCHARGED ® by Kwanza Jones, a lifestyle and personal development brand that helps individuals and organizations continuously improve. With a multifaceted background spanning music, media, production, law, business and philanthropy, some say she is a renaissance woman, others call her a boss. Given her background as a nine-time and Top 10 Billboard charting dance music artist, it’s no surprise — her energy ignites confidence and action. It’s all part of her passion and purpose, to be a catalyst for the betterment of humanity.

Kerry Kennedy, President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Since 1981, Kerry Kennedy has worked on diverse human rights issues including child labor, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, impunity, women’s rights, and the environment. Kennedy is the author of the New York Times Best Seller ‘Being Catholic Now’, ‘Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope,’ and ‘Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World.’ Kennedy founded RFK Compass, which convenes biannual meetings of institutional investors who collectively control $5 to $7 trillion in assets to address the impact of human rights violations on investment outcomes. She serves on the boards of the U.S. Institute of Peace, Human Rights First, Ethics in Action, SDG USA, Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa, Health eVillages, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, Nizami Ganjavi International Center as well as several public companies. A graduate of Brown University and Boston College Law School, she received the Medal for Social Activism from the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates along with many other awards and honorary degrees. Kennedy is the mother of three daughters, Cara, Mariah, and Michaela.

Matt Kennedy, Managing Director, Diatoms Matt Kennedy is the founder and managing partner of Converge. Previously, Kennedy served in senior roles in the Obama Administration at the Department of Commerce, Department of the Treasury, and the White House. As the director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships at Commerce, he worked closely with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Export-Import Bank of the United States to develop innovative public-private partnerships with leading trade organizations and several Fortune 500 businesses. Kennedy graduated from Stanford University with a BS in management science and engineering and holds an MBA from Harvard University. He sits on the boards of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation.

Cara Kennedy Cuomo, Associate, 17 Asset Management Cara Kennedy Cuomo is an Associate at 17 Asset Management, a global asset management firm which designs, implements, and manages investments aligned with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She provides insight into impact measurement to inform the investment strategy. Previously, she worked on the implementation of the SDGs for a United Nations initiative led by Jeffrey Sachs. Cuomo holds an AB in government from Harvard College, where she was on the sailing team.

10 Lindsey King, Head of Investor Relations, Crestview Partners Lindsey King is responsible for managing all investor and consultant relationships, fundraising and marketing. Prior to joining Crestview, she was a member of Macquarie’s infrastructure and real assets team where she led relationships with a diverse group of institutional investors and consultants. She also worked in Citigroup’s investment strategy group, analyzing healthcare companies and advising clients on their investments. King served on the board of directors of NYDJ Apparel. King holds a BS with an emphasis in finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute and New York Society of Securities Analysts.

Cheryl Leahy, Vice President, Investor Relations, Vista Equity Partners Cheryl Cecchini Leahy joined Vista Equity Partners in 2019. Leahy is responsible for leading Vista’s investor engagement and client development efforts throughout the western region of the United States. Prior to joining Vista, Leahy served as principal of business development and strategy at TPG Sixth Street Partners, where she was responsible for capital raising, investor relations, and strategy. Before her time with TPG Sixth Street Partners, Leahy worked at Goldman Sachs as a vice president where she was a trader on the leveraged loan desk and a member of the hedge fund strategies investment team. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Leahy worked at Merrill Lynch as an analyst in the investment banking practice.

Michael Levitt, Chief Executive Officer, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Mike Levitt is the chief executive officer of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, LP. Kayne, founded in 1984, is a leading alternative investment management firm focused on niche investing in energy, including renewables and infrastructure, real estate, credit and growth equity. Prior to joining Kayne, Levitt served as a vice chairman with Apollo Global Management, LLC. In 2001, Levitt founded Stone Tower Capital LLC. He served as chairman, chief executive officer, and chief investment officer, and grew Stone Tower to $17 billion in credit-focused alternative investments. Stone Tower was acquired by Apollo in 2012. Before founding Stone Tower, Levitt worked as a partner at private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated, where he invested in media and consumer businesses. Earlier in his career, Levitt served as the co-head of the investment banking division of Smith Barney Inc. Levitt began his investment banking career at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. where he oversaw corporate finance and advisory businesses related to private equity firms and non-investment grade companies.

Levitt has a BBA and JD from the University of Michigan, and serves on the University’s Investment Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Ross School of Business Visiting Committee and the trustee of the Law School’s Cook Trust. Over the years, Levitt has worked with numerous philanthropic organizations, including the Make-A-Wish Foundations of America and New York, and the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund.

Philip Lo, Managing Director, Investor Relations, Siris Capital Philip Lo is a managing director of Siris Capital. Lo was a founding team member of Siris Capital in 2011 and SAC Private Capital Group (SAC PCG) in 2007. Prior to joining SAC PCG, Lo was a member of the investment banking groups of Deutsche Bank Securities and Houlihan Lokey. Lo graduated from Georgetown University where he received, with distinction, a BSBA with a concentration in finance and international business.

11 Fiona Ma, Treasurer, State of California Fiona Ma is California’s 34th State Treasurer. She was elected with more votes than any other candidate for treasurer in the state’s history, and is the first woman of color and the first woman certified public accountant (CPA) elected to the position.

The State Treasurer’s Office, which provides financing for schools, roads, housing, and other crucial infrastructure projects that better the lives of residents, processes more than $2 trillion in payments within a typical year and provides transparency and oversight for an investment portfolio of more than $90 billion, approximately $20 billion of which are local government funds. She also is responsible for $85 billion in outstanding general obligation and lease revenue bonds of the state. Ma works closely with the State Legislature to ensure that its members know the state’s financial condition and gives her own recommendations for the annual budget. Treasurer Ma was a member of the State Assembly from 2006-2012, serving as Speaker pro tempore from 2010 to 2012. She built a reputation as a solution-oriented public servant.

Prior to serving as Speaker pro tempore, she was Assembly majority whip and built coalitions during a state budget crisis to pass groundbreaking legislation that protected public education and the environment while also expanding access to health care. As an assembly member, she authored 60 bills that were signed into law by two different governors. Her successful legislation to ban toxic chemicals in baby products became a model for federal legislation in 2008. She chaired the Assembly Select Committee on Domestic Violence and spearheaded legislation that strengthened laws protecting victims of domestic violence, consumers and working families; prevented the spread of Hepatitis B; increased access to quality healthcare; and, provided equal rights for all Californians. From 2002-2006, she served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and championed a human rights campaign to end human trafficking in massage parlors and to close prostitution rings. She led an effort to create the city’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program to empower small businesses to more easily participate in public works projects. Treasurer Ma first became involved in public service in 1994 when she was elected president of the Asian Business Association.

Most recently before being elected Treasurer, she was an elected member of the California Board of Equalization. Her district covered 23 counties in California and included approximately 9.5 million people. Upon being selected Chairperson of the Board of Equalization in 2016, she ordered three external audits of the agency and helped lead the biggest reforms for accountability and efficiency in that agency’s history. By requiring sales tax on online retail giants and taxing e-cigarettes as other tobacco products, Ma’s efforts amounted to generating between $2.1 and $3.5 billion in new revenue. Also while on the Board of Equalization, she identified the cannabis industry as the largest shadow economy in California and led efforts to regulate the industry. Ma holds a bachelor’s in accounting from the Rochester Institute of Technology, a master’s in taxation from Golden Gate University, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. She is a Member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants and serves on the Board of California Women Lead. She is married to Jason Hodge, a full-time firefighter and Oxnard Harbor Commissioner.

Andrew Malk, Managing Partner, Malk Partners Andrew Malk, managing partner of Malk Partners, founded the firm after recognizing that even the most astute investors and well-managed companies need guidance to leverage environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management to protect and create value. Malk has worked with over 60 investment firms, representing more than $350 billion in assets under management, to design and deliver impactful ESG strategies. He has built long-standing advisory partnerships by earning the trust of Malk’s clients.

Malk is a recognized ESG expert and his views are sought by industry publications and organizations such as Bloomberg/Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, Private Equity International, Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst, ILPA, ACG, and Responsible Investor. He has presented at SuperReturn, American Investment Council, PEI’s Responsible Investment Forum, and Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Conferences. He is a member of the Private Equity Working Group of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative and a content contributor to the American Investment Council. He is also a sustainability advisor to various Stanford University departments. Prior to founding the firm, Malk led strategy and acquisitions for the Midtown Niki

12 Group, a real estate private equity firm and started the firm’s Green Finance Program, an investment program promoting development of high-performing, more energy efficient greener buildings. Before joining Midtown Niki, he built the business development group at Entrisphere, a telecom start-up bought by Ericsson. Malk began his career at the World Resources Institute, a globally- respected environmental think tank and leader in sustainability and climate change issues. Malk holds a BS and MS in environmental science from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Malk was born in South Africa, where he developed a passion for wildlife conservation. Malk lives with his wife and two daughters in La Jolla, California.

Kerin K. McCauley, Senior Associate Director, Center for Business and Human Rights, Stern School of Business, New York University Kerin McCauley oversees strategic planning and leads the NYU Stern’s Center for Business and Human Rights’ efforts to encourage university endowment funds to provide greater opportunities to investment firms owned by women and under-represented minorities. McCauley worked at NYU Stern for five years prior to joining the Center, first in faculty affairs, and most recently in the admissions office. Before coming to Stern, McCauley worked with the faculty administration team at Harvard Business School. McCauley has an MBA from NYU Stern with specializations in sustainable business & innovation and law & business. She holds a BA with honors from College of the Holy Cross and a design certificate from Massachusetts College of Art.

Taylor McPartland, Chief Executive Officer, ScaleLA A Northern California native, Taylor McPartland moved south in 2003 to attend Whittier College. Upon graduating, he became heavily involved in the growing Los Angeles tech community when he co-founded a data marketing platform in 2010. Over the next several years, McPartland developed a passion for empowering entrepreneurs to chase solutions to the systemic problems that face our society. With this mission in mind, he founded ScaleLA in 2016 and, subsequently, the ScaleLA Foundation. ScaleLA’s vision is to be the engine of progress by building communication and collaboration between startups, community, and the public sector. Currently, ScaleLA has a 15,000 sq ft health innovation space in West LA to apply this vision to our regions healthcare sector. Recent guests to our space have included Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris. McPartland serves as a board member and chairman of the ScaleLA Foundation.

Sumil Menon, Senior Vice President, Crescent Capital Group Sumil Menon is a senior vice president with Crescent Capital Group LP focusing on business development and marketing. He is responsible for developing and managing relationships with consultants and various institutional plans, primarily on the West Coast and in the Midwest. Prior to joining the team, Menon worked as an institutional investment consultant with Wilshire Associates Incorporated. He began his career with Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) working on the money market trading desk. Menon received a BS in business administration and marketing from the University of Southern California. He holds the Series 7 and 66 licenses.

Erin Michelotti, Vice President, Malk Partners Erin Michelotti is a vice president at Malk Partners where she specializes in strategic planning, market assessment, and corporate development. As part of the Malk team, Michelotti provides advice on ESG management to assist private equity firms in successfully integrating ESG practices throughout their investment process. Prior to joining Malk, Michelotti worked in financial services at Merrill Lynch.

Charlie “Chuck” Mills, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Salera Capital Management Chuck Mills is founder and CEO of Salera Capital Management, a financial services and business consulting firm. Since its inception in 1998, Salera has successfully provided short term and asset based lending to small businesses in the government contracting industry. In 2007 Mills co-founded his second firm, Salera Employee Benefits Solutions, a firm focused on providing

13 employee benefits solutions to US federal government contractors.Salera’s client list includes some of the largest government contracting firms in the US. In addition to his successful entrepreneurial pursuits, Mills professional career includes: Bear Stearns bond trader and vice president within the company’s emerging markets unit where he was responsible for a $300 million dollar bond portfolio; appointee of Virginia Governor Mark Warner as agency director for the Virginia Department of Business Assistance where he had oversight responsibilities for providing economic development solutions to the over 200,000 existing businesses within the Commonwealth of Virginia; and speaker for the US State Department where he provided presentations on small business, economic and strategic development, and public policies on 5 different continents. Mills is a graduate of the US Naval Academy with a BS in mathematics. He served nine years in the US Marine Corps as a Cobra helicopter pilot. His tours of duty include the first Iraq conflict and his selection as a “Marine One” helicopter pilot for Presidents George H. W. Bush and William Clinton. He has served on numerous boards, including as the Secretary of the Board of Visitors at George Mason University.

Scott Minerd, Managing Partner, Chairman of Investments and Global Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners Scott Minerd is a founding and managing partner at Guggenheim Partners. In his role as global chief investment officer, Minerd guides the firm’s investment strategies and oversees client accounts across a broad range of fixed-income and equity securities.

Previously, Minerd was a managing director with Credit Suisse First Boston in charge of trading and risk management for the Fixed Income Credit Trading Group. In this position, he was responsible for the corporate bond, preferred stock, money markets, US government agency and sovereign debt, derivatives securities, structured debt and interest rate swaps trading business units. Prior to that, Minerd was Morgan Stanley’s London based European Capital Markets Products Trading and Risk Manager responsible for Eurobonds, Euro-MTNs, domestic European Bonds, FRNs, derivative securities and money market products in 12 European currencies and Asian markets. He has also held capital markets positions with Merrill Lynch and Continental Bank. Prior to that, he was a CPA and worked for the public accounting firm of Price Waterhouse.

Minerd is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, helping advise the NY Fed President and senior management at the bank about the current financial markets and ways the public and private sectors can better understand and mitigate systematic risks. Minerd also works with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), advising on research and analysis of private sector infrastructure investment, and is a contributing member of the World Economic Forum (WEF). He is a regularly featured guest and contributor to leading financial media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and CNBC where he shares insights on today’s financial climate. Minerd holds a BS in economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and has completed graduate work at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Clinton Misamore, Founder, Clint&Joe Clinton Misamore is a global leader specializing in marketing, partnerships and event curation in the entertainment space. Over the last 15 years, he has successfully built two nonprofits and led programs and partnerships for organizations such as The GRAMMYs, Martha Stewart and Mike Milken.

14 John Morris, Chief Executive Officer, 17 Asset Management John Morris leads day-to-day operations and management for 17 Asset Management, and also serves as managing partner of intentional media. Previously, Morris co-founded Snowden Lane Advisors, a wealth management firm currently with $3.5 billion in assets. He also co-founded Clearbrook Global Advisors, an institutional asset management advisory firm that grew assets to over $20 billion in AUAs. Earlier, Morris spent 23 years at Merrill Lynch, 15 years working in London and Dubai, then New York where he was chairman of Latin America and head of international product and marketing. He and his wife live in Princeton, New Jersey, and are most often chasing one of their four daughters or two granddaughters.

Paul Muratore, Trustee and Investment Committee Member, SAG-Producers Pension Plan Paul Muratore was president and CEO of Talent Partners, the leader in talent and production support services for more than 750 agency and advertiser clients representing 1,500 brands, with more than $1 billion in annual billings. In his 13 year tenure at the helm, Muratore spearheaded a visionary transformation of this 50 year-old company, from a specialty payroll service focused on commercial talent to a powerhouse provider of more than 125 essential services for the ever-evolving advertising industry, including talent negotiations and business affairs, traffic and clearance, rights and royalty management, signatory services, and more. The firm’s client roster included 23 of the Top 25 largest US advertising agencies and 23 of the Top 25 largest US advertisers. Muratore lead the charge to make Talent Partners a global enterprise, with launches of Talent Partners Europe, Talent Partners Canada, and adding many international clients.

Prior to joining Talent Partners, Muratore spent 18 years at Donovan Data Systems, rising from entry-level client rep to executive vice president and director of client services, honing both his skills in client management and technology. In his ultimate position here, he led specialized teams in the design and implementation of media, production and financial systems for the most prominent advertising agencies and media specialists around the globe. Since 2007, he has served as a trustee of Screen Actors Guild Producers Pension & Health Plans. He helped implement the most recent SAG/AFTRA contract with the commercial industry, which created new provisions to better meet the needs of advertisers and talent in the increasingly digital-centric world. Muratore has complemented his college studies, an accounting degree from Fairfield University, by pursuing advanced programs. These include two certification programs – one from the Wharton School of Business, and taking a sabbatical to attend the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University’s School of Business. He is the founder and executive director of Connections, a foster mentor program of The Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, NY.

Malik T. Murray, Senior Vice President, Institutional Marketing, Ariel Investments Malik Murray joined Ariel in 2004 and focuses on institutional business development and client services. Previously, he spent eight years with Bank One Brokerage, most recently serving as the lead broker on the European shift for its international exchange-traded products group. Outside of Ariel, Murray is a member of the board of trustees of St. Ignatius College Prep and serves on the school board of Ariel Community Academy. He is also a director for the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP), the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and a member of the DePaul University Department of Finance Advisory Board.

Melanie Myers, Assistant Director, American Federation of Teachers Melanie Myers works for the American Federation of Teachers (ATF) in research and strategic initiatives, focusing on state legislative issues, retirement security and investor/capital market issues on behalf of AFT’s 1.8 million members, who together participate in pension funds totaling nearly $3 trillion in workers’ capital assets. Myers has more than 20 years of experience working on labor and social justice issues with several labor and non-profit organizations.

15 Eileen Neill, Managing Director and Senior Consultant, Verus Investments For more than twenty years, Eileen Neill has provided a broad range of consulting services to a variety of institutional plan sponsors with respect to the successful development and implementation of their investment programs, including risk management, strategic asset allocation, manager structure analysis, investment policy development, manager selection, and the ongoing education of their fiduciaries. Neill joined Verus in 2017 from Wilshire Associates, where she served as a senior investment consultant. At Wilshire, she consulted to plan sponsors of varying sizes and complexity whose assets ranged from $100 million to $150 billion, a collection that included public institutions, corporate defined contribution and defined benefit plans, endowments and foundations, healthcare organizations, and insurance companies. Neill has served as a guest speaker at industry conferences on a wide range of investment topics, such as ESG investing, emerging manager programs, credit strategies, currency management, investment strategy implementation, performance-based fees, portable alpha, and many others.

Neill earned a BSBA from the University of Arizona, and an MBA with an emphasis in finance from Chapman University. She is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles. Neill currently serves as an advisory council member for the Women in Institutional Investments Network, as well as an investment committee member for the Chadwick School Endowment Fund, and is on the West Coast Steering Committee for WAVE (Women’s Association of Venture and Equity). Neill is also a member of the CFALA ESG Member Community and is a mentor for the CFALA Career Mentorship Program. Before entering the investment consulting industry, she was a corporate financial analyst at a Fortune 100 company. She also sits on Verus’ alternative investments committee.

Fanta NGom, Manager, Compass Investor Program, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Fanta NGom is the manager for the Robert F. Kennedy Compass Investor Program supporting the content development and strategy of our work with 200+ institutional investors and fund managers who are committed to addressing the “S” in ESG. In this role, NGom also leads the RFK Compass Investor Conferences that gather investors, fiduciaries and other stakeholders to discuss ways to invest with consideration for human rights across the themes of diversity, technology, and supply chain. Prior to joining Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, NGom was a global product marketer at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), helping to launch and build out marketing content for the Liquidity Team’s Ultra-Short Income Portfolio, the fastest-growing mutual fund in the US in 2017. Due to the success of the fund, NGom aided in the launch of a tax-exempt version of this fund in the US as well as an offshore version, supporting marketing activities for launch and external promotions. In addition, she was the project manager for the development of marketing content for MSIM’s ESG and Sustainable Investing (SI) efforts, helping to create awareness of the firm’s commitment to ESG and SI.

Prior to joining MSIM, NGom co-founded P.R.O.M.O.: Protecting the Rights Of the Marginalized and Oppressed, a nonprofit that sought to address the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/ AIDS in Ghana, focusing on not only treatment and prevention, but also the socio-cultural factors that can affect an HIV positive woman’s wellbeing. Through P.R.O.M.O, a safe space in Accra called Yagyewo was established where HIV positive women underwent extensive training to create products (i.e purses, clothing) using Ghanaian prints and provided space for emotional healing. NGom holds a BA in psychology from New York University and a MPH from George Washington University. She seeks to use her platform and expertise to address the mental and public health concerns that arise from human rights violations across the globe. NGom loves to attend kickboxing classes, practice self-care, and brunch on the weekends. She loves to travel the world with her three sisters and best friends and hopes to visit 10 more countries by the time she turns 30.

Kristin Nimsger, Chief Executive Officer, Social Solutions Kristin Nimsger brings an extensive background in the nonprofit technology space and a proven track record as a software executive to the Social Solutions team. Known for driving transformation and growth in software organizations of many sizes, her experience spans small private companies, fortune 500 holding companies, and private equity models. Prior to joining Social Solutions

16 Nimsger served as CEO of MicroEdge, LLC., a leading provider of financial management, grants management and employee engagement software solutions, which was part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio of companies. During her tenure, she led an evolution in the way foundations invest to deliver results and outcomes for their constituents and partners, and ultimately led the sale of MicroEdge to publicly traded Blackbaud, Inc (BLKB) in 2014.

Prior to MicroEdge, Nimsger oversaw a suite of productivity software products and services for legal professionals at Thomson Reuters, and prior to that served in many key leadership roles for E-Discovery, data recovery and computer forensics technology provider Kroll Ontrack, ultimately serving as president of the company for four years. Kroll Ontrack is a B2B provider of technology enabled services, software, and SaaS solutions for the legal industry with 1500 employees in 23 countries. Kroll Ontrack was sold to Providence Equity Partners in 2010. Nimsger is passionate about sharing her expertise through service and currently serves on the board of directors for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Nimsger earned a JD cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, a BA in English/communications from the University of Minnesota, Duluth and a Management and Leadership Certificate from MIT – Sloan School of Management.

Dr. Safiya Noble, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies where she serves as the co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She also holds appointments in African American studies and gender studies. Recently, she was a visiting faculty member at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in journals and periodicals including the Los Angeles Review of Books, featured in the New York Public Library 2018 Best Books for Adults (non-fiction), and recognized by Bustle magazine as one of 10 Books about Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You.

Noble is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias by national and international press.

Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online and Emotions, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journals and advisory boards, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She holds a PhD and an MS in library & information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a BA in sociology from California State University, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018.

Oraine O’Riggio, Senior Consultant, Compass, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Oraine O’Riggio is the senior consultant for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Compass Investor Program. In her role, she supports the team in the planning, management and execution of the Compass Investor Conferences through content development, relationship management and vendor coordination. Previously O’Riggio worked in marketing and sales focusing on reducing water inputs in agriculture. She is a proud Michigan State Spartan and her current hobby is making lists of acclaimed books she will never get around to reading.

17 David Ourlicht, Commissioner, New York State Insurance Fund David Ourlicht is managing director and special advisor to the Chairman of GAMCO, a $43 billion asset management firm offering a combination of value equity and investment partnership strategies to address investment solution for the institutional marketplace. He is responsible for growing the separate account business across all the institutional verticals. Ourlicht is a commissioner of the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), chairman of the investment committee, and a member of the budget and audit committee. NYSIF is an over 100-year old State Agency which provides approximately 32% of Workers Compensation insurance policies in New York State. The fund has over $17 billion dollars that it is investing on behalf of policyholders and the Fund. As chairman of the investment committee, he overseas fund policy regarding asset allocation, performance guidelines, as well as leading the commissioners efforts in manager review and selection, and issues regarding custodial and consulting services. Ourlicht is a trustee of the State of New York Construction Fund, the Construction Fund and chair of the audit committee the Fund is responsible for design, building and maintenance of all the construction projects occurring on all SUNY Campuses.

John Oxtoby, Vice President, Director of Impact Investing, Ariel Investments John Oxtoby leads Ariel’s efforts to integrate best-in-class environmental, social, and governance- related considerations into our investment process. As ESG analyst for their domestic research team, he proactively works with portfolio companies to adopt and strengthen their social impact and governance practices. Oxtoby also oversees Ariel’s public policy and civic engagement strategies. Prior to joining Ariel, he worked in the White House with Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee, on public-private partnerships, including the CEO-led President’s Jobs Council. He graduated with a BA in economics from Harvard College and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Nisa Patel, Manager, Stakeholder Engagement, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Nisa Patel supports stakeholder engagement across Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ breadth of leadership platforms and programs, along with event and project management. Most recently, Patel provided oversight for GBCHealth’s communications and external events, coordinated the organization’s engagement in the maternal, newborn and child health space and played a key interface role with the board of directors. She also gained experience in project management at an Indian NGO focused on education and women’s empowerment initiatives, serving as liaison between the organization and local education officers, providing support and supervision for students and volunteers across 3 government schools, and participating in district-wide health education campaigns. Patel holds a MPH in international community health from New York University and a BA in international relations, focusing on development, from American University. Fluent in Hindi and Gujarati, she is currently learning Spanish. Patel spends her free time baking sweet treats and planning special events for those closest to her.

Jessica Peake, Assistant Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law Jessica Peake, is the director of International and Comparative Law Program at UCLA School of Law, and the assistant director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Prior to coming to UCLA, Peake was the executive director of a women’s rights nonprofit in New York, worked in the Defense Services Section at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague, the Netherlands. Peake’s research focuses on international criminal law and procedure, international humanitarian law and human rights. She teaches courses on the Law of War and the War on Terror and Methods and Theories of International and Comparative Law. Peake supervises students in a variety of projects related to her fields of expertise and coaches UCLA Law teams in international humanitarian law and human rights law moot court competitions. Peake has an LLM in public international law from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, and gained an LLM with a concentration in human rights from the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar.

18 Michael C. Perkinson, Chief of Staff to Chief Investment Officer, Head of Asia Business Management, Guggenheim Partners Michael Perkinson joined Guggenheim in 2012 as the chief of staff to the global chief investment officer. In that role, he has administrative responsibility for the investment management business at Guggenheim Investments. He is also the head of Asia business management, overseeing Guggenheim’s business in East Asia. Perkinson has a 30-year track record of proven management and leadership ability from his role as a United States naval officer, a US diplomat and a partner in a consultancy focused on providing strategic advisory services in emerging markets. He has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East and was, for five years, a diplomat assigned in the People’s Republic of China. He has been an advisor to several Western intelligence services, and was a partner with Veracity Worldwide, LLC, where he founded the China practice. Perkinson received his BA in political science from American University, studied Chinese politics at the Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies and earned an MS in finance from the Johns Hopkins’ Carey Business School. He is a native of Newport, Rhode Island, lives in Santa Monica, California and speaks Mandarin.

Joseph Petrillo, Co-Founder, Managing Partner, WUF Joe Petrillo is a native from Detroit and currently living in LA. He is the co-founder and managing partner in WUF - a media and content company that explores and celebrates the profound bond between dogs and humans. He has spent his career in media working for Martha Stewart for over 11 years managing her brand partnerships. Petrillo lives in Hollywood with Tim, his partner of 18 years, with their dogs Henry and Dino. Outside of work and family, he is an avid painter and loves to create abstract watercolor works.

Michael Posner, Director and Professor of Business and Society, Center for Business and Human Rights, NYU Stern School of Business Michael Posner is the Jerome Kohlberg professor of ethics and finance at NYU Stern School of Business and director of the Center for Business and Human Rights. Posner served in the Obama Administration from September 2009 until March 2013, as the assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Prior to that, Posner was the longtime executive director and president of Human Rights First, a US-based human rights advocacy organization. He was also a visiting lecturer at Yale and Columbia law schools. Posner has played a major role in shaping US policy from inside and outside of government on issues ranging from refugee and asylum law and policy, to national security and human rights, to internet freedom, and most recently on a range of business and human rights issues. Posner chairs the board of the Fair Labor Association, which addresses supply chain labor issues in the apparel, athletic footwear and agriculture sectors.

Gloria Reuben, Actor, Singer, Author, Activist Gloria Reuben is an acclaimed actress, singer, producer, and author known for her impressive credentials in film, television, theatre, and music. Throughout her career, Reuben has explored a wide variety of roles, spanning hit television series, several solo music albums, and far reaching activism campaigns. Reuben was most recently seen in the highly anticipated return of Mr. Robot, a thriller series about a brilliant cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, starring opposite Rami Malek and Christian Slater as Krista Gordon, Elliot’s (Malek) therapist. She was also recently seen in City on a Hill, the new crime-drama series on Showtime opposite Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge, and opposite Emma Roberts in Who We Are Now, Matthew Newton’s indie drama about an ex-con who tries to get back custody of her son.

Reuben’s landmark roles include her breakthrough role as “Jeanie Boulet” in the NBC drama series ER; and portraying “Elizabeth Keckley” opposite Daniel Day Lewis and Sally Field in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster, Lincoln. Reuben has received critical recognition for her roles on ER, Lincoln, and Mr. Robot. She garnered four Screen Actors Guild Awards, one Online Film & Television Association Award, two Viewers for Quality Television’s Q Awards, four Online Film & Television Association nominations, two Primetime Emmy nominations, one Golden Globe nomination, and five Image Awards nominations for her performance on ER. Reuben’s performance in Lincoln earned her an Image Award nomination.

19 In 2000, Reuben launched her music career singing backup vocals for globally acclaimed Tina Turner on the North American leg of her Twenty Four Seven tour. Following the tour, Reuben released her first album, Just For You, in 2004. Reuben released her debut jazz album Perchance to Dream in 2015 and has just completed For All We Know, her second album under the MCG Jazz label to be released in October 2019. This November marks a monumental milestone for Reuben as she adds author to her list of accomplishments. Reuben’s deeply personal and heart-wrenching book, My Brothers’ Keeper: Two Brothers. Loved. And Lost., follows the tragic deaths of her brothers and the impact that loss has had on her view of love and life.

In addition to her impressive credits, Reuben has also worked behind the camera. In 2007, she was an executive producer for Sangre de mi sangre. The drama, following a Mexican boy who smuggles himself into Brooklyn to find his father, received rave reviews and won Best Film at the Sundance Film Festival and nominations for the Satellite Awards, Goya Awards, Golden Trailer Awards, and Film Independent Spirit Awards. In the same year, she produced the television movie Positive Voices: Women and HIV. The 45-minute, small-screen film features Reuben as herself interviewing women who are living with or working with HIV/AIDS. Reuben’s activism includes involvement with Vibrant Emotional Health, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and The Climate Reality Project.

Virgil Roberts, Founder and Managing Partner, Bobbit & Roberts Virgil Roberts attended UCLA graduating with a BA in 1968. Among his achievements at UCLA was assisting in creating UCLA’s African American Studies Center. After a year of graduate studies at UCLA, he received a JD from Harvard Law School. Roberts specialized in civil litigation, civil rights and civil liberties matters. He joined Solar Records as executive vice president and general counsel in 1981, became president of Dick Griffey Productions (DGP) in 1982, and president of Solar Records in 1990. One of the most successful African American-owned record companies in the 80’s, Solar had an impressive roster of gold and platinum-selling artists including Babyface, The Whispers, and The Calloways. In 1996, Roberts left Solar/DGP to form the law firm of Bobbitt & Roberts which specializes in representing entertainment industry clients, concentrating on television, film, music, theater licensing, and merchandising. Roberts has represented clients such as Usher, Kanye West, Chaka Khan, and MTV.

Currently, Roberts is chairman of the board of Broadway Federal Bank and Trust, and a board member of The James Irvine Foundation, Families in Schools, Southern California Public Radio, the Fedco Foundation, Community Build, and the Alliance for College Ready Public Schools. He is also vice chairman of Usher’s New Look Foundation, and chairman of African American Board Leadership Institute. Roberts also has served in the past as chairman of the boards of the California Community Foundation and the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project, a school reform organization, which under Roberts’ leadership, raised and spent more than $120,000,000. Roberts is married to writer/editor Brenda (Banks) Roberts, author of “Jazzy Miz Mozetta,” a children’s book that won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for its illustrations. Virgil and Brenda are the proud parents of two daughters, Gisele Simone and Hayley Tasha.

Hilton Romanski, Partner, Siris Capital Prior to joining Siris, Hilton Romanski was SVP & chief strategy officer at Cisco Systems where he led strategy, acquisitions, venture investments, strategic alliances, and strategic innovation. Romanski started his career at JP Morgan & Co in its mergers and acquisitions group and co- founded its West Coast telecom’s practice. Romanski earned an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Columbia University.

20 Frank Ruffino, Pensions and Benefits Director, Treasurer’s Office, State of California Frank Ruffino served six years as a gubernatorial appointee to the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners. He was appointed by the state Senate to serve as a member of the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists. He was the general services administrator at the California Department of Veterans Affairs; a regional administrative officer at the California Department of Fish and Game; and community partnership manager at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. From 1985 to 2000, he served multiple management positions in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. In addition, Ruffino served as chair of the board of the California State Employees Association, and as president of the Association of California State Supervisors.

Allen Ruiz, Director, Barings Allen Ruiz is a member of Barings Alternative Investments. He has worked in the industry since 2007 and has experience investing in and managing private equity assets as a direct investor and as a limited partner. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Ruiz was a director and founding team member at Aldea Capital Partners, where he focused on sourcing and underwriting direct/co-investment opportunities. Prior to Aldea, he was a VP at Meruelo Investment Partners, executing direct private equity and public market investments. Prior to Meruelo, Ruiz was an associate at Credit Suisse. Ruiz holds a BS from the University of California at Riverside and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ruiz lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. He enjoys spending time with family, engaging in community outreach & impact activities, investing, and participating in / watching sports (basketball, baseball, and track & field).

David Russo, Co-Founder, Dimora Group David Russo is a founding partner of Dimora Group, a New York based real estate investment and management company. He brings a unique blend of technological competence with an entrepreneurial spirit. While working for Siemens AG, Russo navigated his way from entry-level engineer to Global Marketing Manager of one of the largest products in their healthcare diagnostic portfolio. Concurrently, Russo volunteered to spearhead the engagement of Siemens AG with building a remote hospital in the Peruvian Amazon in collaboration with Engineers Without Borders. He is recognized as a global leader in social impact, having been selected as a One Young World ambassador three times and presented in South Africa alongside Blake Mycoskie, founder of Tom’s Shoes, on his efforts to make positive sustainable change throughout the world. In 2016, Russo co-founded a real estate investment company in the Hudson Valley with a focus on value-add mixed-use property. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Binghamton University and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business with specializations in entrepreneurship and business operations.

Betty Salanic, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Accelerate Investors Betty Salanic is the founder and CEO of Accelerate Investors. She partners with pension funds, endowments, foundations, asset managers, investment consultants and other investment industry stakeholders who represent over one trillion dollars in assets under management. Accelerate Investors is accelerating underrepresented minorities managing institutional capital by developing a diverse and supportive network of investment leaders, creating educational programming, highlighting diverse-led asset managers, and serving as a strategic partner to asset owners. Further, on the Accelerate Investors podcast Salanic interviews CIOs and other industry leaders on investment topics and on their support of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive investment industry.

Salanic began her career as an analyst at J.P. Morgan Asset Management in New York. She later joined an impact investment fund, Root Capital, in investor relations - raising capital from foundations, government agencies and socially responsible investors. Subsequently, she conducted research and due-diligence on multi-million dollar private equity and venture capital investments for Rice University’s $6.3 billion endowment. Salanic graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Finance and a BS in Corporate Communication. In addition, she

21 studied in Milan at Bocconi University and in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where she focused on international economics and finance, and emerging markets respectively. Salanic also serves on the financial advisory committee for the New York Junior League, one of the oldest nonprofit organizations in New York City. Additionally, she serves on The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business BBA Advisory Board. Salanic is fluent in Spanish, enjoys swimming and hiking, and has traveled to 42 countries.

Gina Sanchez, Trustee, Los Angeles Country Employee Retirement Assocation (LACERA) Gina Sanchez is an appointed member of the LACERA Board of Investments and has a long career in investment management. She is the founder and CEO of Chantico Global, LLC, as well as a contributor and guest host for CNBC. She has more than 20 years of experience managing asset allocation mandates for mutual funds and foundations, and consulting with pension funds and family offices. Throughout her career, Sanchez has held several key roles at Roubini Global Economics, Ford Foundation, The California Endowment, American Century Investment Management, Infinity Financial, and JP Morgan, She is the recipient of the Institutional Investor’s 2009 Foundations and Endowments Rising Stars Award. Sanchez has a master’s degree in international policy studies from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University.

Lindsay Scola, Director of Strategic Communications and Social Impact, Friends at Work Lindsay Scola has been invested in creating social and political change since she started volunteering for, and eventually managing, local campaigns when she was in elementary school. A graduate of the University of Washington, she began her career working for Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) in his Washington, D.C. office. In 2007, Scola quit her job, bought a car, and moved to Iowa to work on Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, organizing students at the University of Iowa, later joining the National Advance Staff and joining his 2009 administration as the director of scheduling at the Department of Energy. Scola spent multiple years with the Obama Administration doing Advance work for the White House, working with Ambassador Susan Rice at the US Mission to the UN and running First Lady Michelle Obama’s Advance operation during the 2012 election. In 2013, she directed the Inaugural Parade, where there were over 12,000 participants and 250,000 attendees.

In 2016, Scola took a jump out of politics, merging her love of entertainment and social good, specifically to work on television moving the social needle. As the head of talent relations for the Television Academy (Emmys), Scola worked to pair showrunners and experts to talk about how television can both entertain, challenge and educate the public on important social issues. Using her experience as a logistics and publicity savant in both the government and entertainment worlds, in 2019 Scola became director of strategic communications and social impact at Friends at Work, a talent management and entertainment company grounded in social impact. In her role, Scola works on impact projects across the entertainment industry, working with artists to give back and infuse social good into their art, and impacters and changemakers to build their brands and grow their messages. Recently, Scola has celebrated the launch of Tour Support - a program which will give touring artists and their crews access to mental health resources and tools to help them improve their mental state while on the road and beyond.

Nilza Serrano, Commissioner, Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System (LACERS) Nilza R. Serrano originally was appointed to the board of administration of the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System by Mayor Eric Garcetti on February 25, 2014. She was reappointed on July 14, 2015 for the term ending June 30, 2020. Serrano, an entrepreneur, founded TMS Production and Post Production firm with an extensive client network that includes General Motors, Paramount Studios, Ford Motor Company, Mobil Oil Company, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks. Her international client base includes China, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada, and Peru. Raised in Lincoln Heights, Serrano is a graduate of Lincoln High School and has attended East Los Angeles College, and California State University, Los Angeles.

22 Michael Sheresky, Talent Agent, United Talent Agency Michael Sheresky is a partner at United Talent Agency and has served as a motion picture talent agent there since June 2009, where he is responsible for structuring projects and deals in the areas of motion picture and television development, production, and distribution. From 1992 until 1995, and then from 1997 until May 2009, Sheresky held a number of positions at the William Morris Agency, a talent agency, most recently senior vice president in its motion picture department. During that time, he represented authors, journalists, screenwriters, directors, producers and actors in the motion picture and television businesses. Sheresky holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Vassar College. Sheresky’s entertainment experience, obtained from his various positions at William Morris Agency and United Talent Agency, is an important asset to the board of directors, and as such, the board of directors has deemed him qualified to serve as a director.

Anne Simpson, Director, Board Governance and Strategy, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) As CalPERS’ Director of Board Governance & Strategy, Anne Simpson reports to the CEO and is responsible for strategic initiatives across the $370 billion fund. These include Climate Action 100+, a global investor alliance of $33 trillion driving business action on climate change. Simpson also serves on the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee, the Robert F. Kennedy Leadership Council, and senior advisory board of the Center for Responsible Business at Haas Business School, UC Berkeley. Among her publications is the forthcoming book “The Financial Ecosystem: The Role of Finance in Advancing Sustainability” (Palgrave MacMillan) with Satyajit Bose and Dong Guo, at Columbia University.

Alex Sloan, Chairman and President, EXCELerate Foundation Alex Sloan has spent his career investing in and successfully growing entrepreneurial for- profit and nonprofit organizations that seek to drive financial and/or social impact. Sloan most recently served as vice president of strategic partnerships & communications at Tides, a global philanthropic partner and nonprofit accelerator that facilitates effective grantmaking and impact investing for individual and institutional donors and also provides infrastructure and nonprofit management services to hundreds of social change organizations nationwide. He led Tides’ marketing, communications and client engagement efforts and served on Tides’ Executive Team. Sloan was previously director of innovation investments and portfolio director at the Skoll Foundation. Sloan has served for over 25 years as founding chairman and president of Excelerate Foundation and serves on several other charitable boards. He spent 20 years in the venture capital industry focused on venture investments in Vietnam, then in information technologies and clean technologies. Sloan often lectures and speaks on industry panels on effective philanthropy, impact reporting and storytelling, social entrepreneurship, and impact investing.

Debra Smith, Chief Operating Investment Officer, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) Debra Smith has over 30 years of finance and management experience in both the private and public sectors and has worked for CalSTRS for over 20 years. CalSTRS is the largest educator-only pension fund in the world, with an investment portfolio valued at $236.9 billion as of June 30, 2019. Smith began her tenure with CalSTRS in 1996 and received promotions throughout her career. By 2010, she was promoted to investment operations director and was appointed to her current position, chief operating investment officer (COIO) in November 2014. She reports directly to the chief investment officer, with independent reporting responsibilities to the investment committee semi-annually. As COIO, Smith oversees investment operations, branch administration, compliance, internal controls, ethics, and business continuity. Smith holds a bachelor of science degree from California State University, Fresno in business administration, finance and marketing.

She received the Leadership in Business Award in November 2016 from the Sacramento Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW). In December 2016, she was appointed to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB) Standing Advisory Group and is currently serving a three-year term. Smith participated and successfully completed CalSTRS’ inaugural Executive Development Program in November 2014 and has represented CalSTRS at various investment and diversity conferences.

23 Harriet Steel, Global Head of Business Development, Hermes Investment Management Harriet Steel is head of business development, a member of the executive committee (ExCo) and an executive board director. She joined the firm in 2011 with responsibility for sales, client service, marketing, communications and product strategy. Under her leadership, Hermes has built a fast- growing and profitable third-party business comprising many of the world’s leading institutional and wholesale investors. As a result, Hermes now generates almost 80% of its revenues from external clients, compared with 20% in 2011, and has established a reputation as one of the leading integrated ESG investment brands in the world. As a member of ExCo, her responsibilities include development of corporate strategy and delivery of profitability. Appointed to the board of Hermes in 2013, Steel became the company’s first female executive director and is a leader for cultural change at Hermes.

Steel has more than 25 years’ experience in finance. In 1990 she joined the global trading team at Bankers Trust, initially trading currency options and subsequently holding senior derivatives sales roles in Paris, London and New York before joining Morgan Stanley’s fixed income group in 1996. In 2003, Steel established Portico Advisors, an asset raising and marketing advisory firm for alternative investment managers, including hedge funds, private equity and real estate strategies, where she raised over $2 billion in under eight years during her leadership before joining Hermes. A mother of three, Steel acts as a mentor to female executives at Hermes, encouraging them to fulfil their potential and providing practical insight and guidance on how to achieve success in the city. Steel is a regular commentator in the print and broadcast media on business, economic and diversity issues and, for the last five years, has been recognised as one of the top 100 women in European finance by Financial News. Steel’s interests include skiing, sailing and triathlon, and in 2009 qualified for the 2009 Ironman 70.3 world championships. Steel holds a BA in architecture from Princeton University.

Terry Tamminen, President, 7th Generation Advisors Terry Tamminen is an author, lecturer, and strategist on energy and the environment. In 2003, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him as Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency. In December 2004, he was appointed Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor. He continues to advise the former governor, and other regional, national, and international leaders, on energy and environmental policy.

Sue Toigo, Co-Founder, Robert H. Toigo Foundation and Chairman, Fitzgibbon Toigo & Co. Sue Toigo is the chairman of Fitzgibbon Toigo & Co. which provides access for emerging and established investment managers to the global institutional investment community. She is also a principal in Goldmine Consulting, which provides career and business development counsel to investment professionals. Toigo is the past chairman and cofounder of the Institute for Fiduciary Education (IFE) and a director and cofounder of the Robert H. Toigo Foundation.

Steve Tremitiere, Chief Development Officer, Briovation; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, GrayHare Ventures Steve Tremitiere is a catalyst and connector who is intensely focused on innovation at the intersection of health and social impact. He has 30 years of executive experience in strategic business development across a wide range of industries and an extensive background working with new business initiatives. As the chief development officer of the investment firm Briovation, Tremitiere leads Brio’s business development efforts as it aims to transform health globally by partnering with world class organizations to identify, optimize and leverage innovation to address the transformation underway in this critical sector. This includes funding, growing and advising Brio’s portfolio of over 90 companies, strategic advisory for CEOs of multi billion dollar healthcare firms and a partnership with the Greater Manchester (UK) international health innovation initiative.

24 Tremitiere is also the CEO and founder of GrayHare Ventures, a consulting organization focused on fostering innovation in health, technology and social impact. GHV is dedicated to working with innovative clients: established organizations, exciting early stage companies, and fast growth startups - leading them in creating highly effective business “ecosystems” through integrated leadership, business development, partnership and sales strategies. Tremitiere engaged with CEO David Feinberg and the executive team at Geisinger Health to create and launch Springboard Health, a highly innovative population health initiative. Springboard Health was founded in 2016 as a breakthrough approach to solving critical national and global health challenges. Prior to 2012, Tremitiere spent 25 years in the technology space, providing executive leadership in business development and partnership development for a range of organizations including companies which pioneered mobile technology. In addition to his professional work, Tremitiere serves on advisory boards for a number of national health and social impact organizations including the SXSW Health Track Advisory Committee, Esther Dyson’s Wellville Initiative, EveryoneOn, Social Innovations Lab, The Network Towards Unity for Health and the WISER Girls Initiative in Kenya.

Jennifer Urdan, Former Managing Director of Cambridge Associates (ret.) Jennifer Urdan is a financial services executive with extensive experience in investment management, portfolio management and corporate finance. Urdan retired as a Managing Director at Cambridge Associates, a global investment portfolio management and advisory services firm. She led Cambridge Associates’ work with some of the world’s largest institutional investors, public pensions, endowments and private clients, ranging in size from under $100 million to over $200 billion. She has deep expertise in private equity and venture capital, has implemented investment portfolios with ESG investment objectives, served on Cambridge Associates advisory committees, and frequently presents at industry conferences. Urdan was named in Chief Investment Officer’s annual ranking of the 25 most influential advisors in the institutional investment universe. Prior to joining Cambridge Associates in 1998, Urdan was a senior member of the private capital group at Robertson Stephens & Co., where she raised equity for growth companies. Prior to this, she was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan in corporate finance in New York and San Francisco, a role in which she worked with corporate clients in the US and Asia across a broad range of industry sectors. Urdan received an AB from Stanford University. She also serves as a volunteer professional mentor, is on E2’s policy committee and is a Stanford Associate.

Mark Vlasic, Executive Producer and Professor, Georgeotwn University Law Center Mark V. Vlasic is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, a senior fellow at Georgetown’s Institute for Law, Science & Global Security, and its Institute of International Economic Law, and leads the international practice at Madison Law & Strategy Group. He serves as an outside pro bono ITAC advisor to the US secretary of commerce and is an executive producer with CBS Television Studios, serving as the inspiration for the character Danny McNamara on the network series Blood & Treasure.

As public sector specialist at the World Bank Group, Vlasic served as the first head of operations of the STAR Secretariat, a joint United Nations-World Bank presidential initiative to help developing countries recover stolen assets from past dictators. Before joining the Bank, he served as a White House fellow/special assistant to the secretary of defense and advisor to the President’s Special Envoy to Sudan, and was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. Prior to his government service, Vlasic practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and served on the Slobodan Milosevic and Srebrenica genocide prosecution trial teams at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Vlasic studied business, theology and government at Georgetown University and received his JD, cum laude, from Georgetown Law Center. He holds certificates in international law from The Hague Academy of International Law, conducted postdoctoral research at Universiteit Leiden as a NAF-Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands, and completed the World Economic Forum’s executive leadership programs at Oxford and Harvard. As a US Army officer, he has been attached to Capitol Hill and the Defense Attaché Office at the US Embassy in The Hague, and awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Knighted by the Vatican, Vlasic is a fellow with the UN Alliance of Civilizations, a member of the bars of California, the District of Columbia, and the

25 Supreme Court of the United States, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Vlasic serves as co-chair of the YGL SDG Advisory Council and has advised numerous boards, including the White House Fellow Foundation, Kinecta Federal Credit Union, and Kinecta Financial Management Company.

George Vradenburg, Chairman and Co-Founder, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s (UsA2) George Vradenburg is the chairman and co-founder of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s (UsA2), a disruptive and catalytic force committed to stopping Alzheimer’s by 2020. The UsA2 platform seeks to escalate the fight against Alzheimer’s through a broad range of powerful voices from various walks of life. UsA2 serves as the convener of the only industry coalition dedicated to stopping Alzheimer’s --the Global CEO Initiative (CEOi) on Alzheimer’s—as well as the co-convener of a 90+ member coalition of the Alzheimer’s-serving community—Leaders Engaged on Alzheimer’s Disease. As a result of his UsA2 work, Vradenburg was appointed to the World Dementia Council by Prime Minister David Cameron in March, 2014. In 2011, the United States Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services named Vradenburg to serve on the National Alzheimer’s Advisory Council on Research, Care and Services for the first-of-its-kind National Alzheimer’s Strategic Plan.

Two years later, he was appointed by Congress to the Long Term Care Commission charged with devising a comprehensive long term support and services plan for the United States. Among other efforts, Vradenburg has testified twice before the U.S. Congress regarding the Global Alzheimer’s pandemic; conceived and supported the Alzheimer’s Study Group; and, through the Vradenburg Foundation, has supported the Alzheimer’s Disease International World Alzheimer’s Reports and the National Institute of Health’s Global Alzheimer’s Research Summit. Vradenbueg is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of Washington. He received his BA from Oberlin College, magna cum laude, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his JD from Harvard Law School, cum laude.

Alexandria Walden, Counsel, Free Expression and Human Rights, Google

Alexandria Walden is Google’s global policy lead for global human rights and free expression. With colleagues in more than 40 countries, Walden builds partnerships to promote free speech and expression and to combat Internet censorship and filtering around the globe. Based in Washington, DC, Walden coordinates policy and strategy around these issues for the company. She also represents Google at the Global Network Initiative (GNI) -- a multi-stakeholder coalition of companies, human rights groups, investors, and academics that develops best practices for respecting human rights on the Internet and in the communications sector. Prior to joining Google, Walden worked at The Raben Group, The Center for American Progress, and NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She has also served as a law clerk for the US Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, and for the US House of Representatives in the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights & Liberties; and worked with the US EEOC; US Department of Labor; and Bay Area Legal Aid during law school. Walden holds a BA in political science from American University and a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Wendy Walker, Managing Director, Cambridge Associates Wendy Walker is a managing director in Cambridge Associates’ San Francisco office and a chief investment officer in CA Capital Management, Cambridge Associates’ outsourced investment office business. Walker works with endowment & foundation clients and is a member of the firm’s Mission- Related Investing Council, providing strategic guidance for the firm’s sustainable and impact investing platform and oversight of related initiatives. Prior to joining Cambridge Associates, Walker worked on the investment teams at Imprint Capital Advisors, focusing on socially responsible and environmental-themed fund managers, and at Parnassus Investments, integrating environmental, social and governance factors into industry and company-specific research. She is a former vice chair of the sustainable investing committee of the New York Society of Security Analysts. Walker graduated cum laude from Yale University and earned an MBA (with honors) from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and holds a CFA. She serves on the advisory committee to the Haas Sustainable Investment Fund. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and cat (and sister’s family in an adjoining cottage).

26 D.A. Wallach, General Partner, Time BioVentures D.A. Wallach is a recording artist, songwriter, and investor who Kanye West and Pharrell Williams discovered while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. He has been featured in GQ, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and numerous other publications, and has toured with N*E*R*D, Lady Gaga, and Weezer. Wallach has also performed on TV Shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. As one half of Chester French, Wallach has released three full-length albums, and has written and performed on records with Janelle Monae, Rick Ross, Diddy, and many others. Beyond music, Wallach invests in and advises several start-up technology companies, including SpaceX, Doctor On Demand, Ripple, Glympse, Beam, and Spotify, where he was the official Artist in Residence. Forbes selected Wallach as one of its 30 Under 30 and Fast Company named him one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. In 2015, he launched Inevitable Ventures, an investment partnership with multibillionaire Ron Burkle that supports radical entrepreneurs in areas including health care, the life sciences, and financial technologies. He is also an advisor to The Dreamers Fund, a partnership with actor Will Smith. In 2016, Wallach made his feature film debut in La La Land, which won a record number of Golden Globe Awards and received 14 Academy Award nominations, making it one of the 3 most nominated films in history.

John White, Managing Director, Cardinal Systems Venture Holdings John White is the managing director and chief operating officer of Cardinal’s venture company, Cardinal System Venture Holdings. He also serves as a director and member of the investment committee at Cardinal System Holdings, (“Cardinal”), a single family office holding company that serves as a platform for multi-generational business ownership and strategic investments. White pioneered a “tech-hybrid” investment approach for Cardinal that merges two worlds – traditional brick and mortar business assets and leading technology solutions – seeking out common threads across wide ranging industries and disciplines. Day to day, he leads venture investing, business development, partnerships, and the sourcing of controlling interest opportunities in suppliers and manufacturers that provide mission critical products and services to corporations and government entities. John also maintains a robust limited partner investment portfolio, along with a network of leading venture capital firms, incubators, accelerators, entrepreneurs, and thought-leaders. For his work in venture capital, White was recently selected as a 2019 REALITY Venture participate through the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Initiative.

Prior to Cardinal, White worked with MetricStream Inc., a venture-backed technology company based in Palo Alto, CA. He was MetricStream’s first regional & country head for Australia, New Zealand (ANZ) and Asia Pacific markets. Under his leadership, White launched MetricStream’s office in Sydney, Australia, led the company’s first market entry in the Philippines and Vietnam, and secured the company’s first customers and partners in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand. White is the founder and shareholder of Raum, LLC (“RaumCo”) . He serves on the board of directors of RSM Products International, Inc., a food and beverage manufacturing company, Florida Venture Forum, Summer Search – New York City, and the Alpha Rho Chapter Alumni Association (APCAA). White graduated from Morehouse College, where he embarked on a Bardoli Global “Gap- Year” Fellowship after college, and New Mexico Military Institute, where he served as the first African-American Regimental Commander (highest ranked student/cadet) in the Institute’s 113 year history.

April Wilcox, Director of Investment Operations, California State Teachers’ Retirement System April Wilcox is the director of investment operations for California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest educator-only pension fund in the world with an investment portfolio valued at over $228 billion. Wilcox has over 20 years of investment experience across the front, middle, and back office. She joined CalSTRS in 2004 from California Housing Finance Agency. Prior to managing Investment Operations, Wilcox spent five years in Fixed Income, overseeing the Fixed Income opportunistic portfolio. Wilcox obtained a BS in finance from California State University, Sacramento; was awarded the Investment Foundations certificate by CFA Institute; and holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.

27 India Williams, Executive Director, ScaleLA Foundation India Williams has naturally found a passion for the startup world. She comes from a family of entrepreneurs and majored in entrepreneurship while attending Loyola Marymount University. During her college tenure, Williams gained many strong mentors in her personal and professional life that she credits for getting her to where she is today. In 2017, she was awarded the title of Miss California USA, which allowed her to continue her roles in volunteerism, philanthropy, and create a nonprofit program to discuss the value of mentorship both state and nationwide. Williams currently serves as executive director of The ScaleLA Foundation, a nonprofit that empowers under- resourced youth to leverage entrepreneurial thinking to tackle systemic issues in their communities. The ScaleLA Foundation’s current initiative, Mentor2Mentor, works to develop and manage a mentorship pipeline between high school students from diverse backgrounds, entrepreneurial college students, and tech companies in the Los Angeles area as a way to provide career and college opportunities and increase diversity in the tech sector.

Leah Yablonka, ESG Research Analyst, Ariel Investments Leah Yablonka is an ESG analyst on the research team at Ariel Investments. Prior to joining the team at Ariel, Yablonka graduated from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with a master of environmental management focused on ESG, finance, and climate change. During her time at Yale, she interned on the impact investing team at the Dalio Family Office and on the ESG team at KKR. Prior to returning to graduate school, Yablonka was a consultant at PwC working on sustainability and technology projects.

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