President Bill Clinton Founder of the Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States Under William Jefferson Clinton’s leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation with the mission to improve global health, strengthen economies, promote health and wellness, and protect the environment. In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has served as the top United Nations envoy for the Indian Ocean tsunami recovery effort and as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti. Today, the Clinton Foundation is supporting economic growth, capacity building, and education. President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New York. Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. 47th Vice President of the United States Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Senate before becoming the 47th Vice President of the United States. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was born November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first of four siblings. In 1953, the Biden family moved from Pennsylvania to Claymont, Delaware. He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council. Then, at age 29, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate. Just weeks after the election, tragedy struck the Biden family when Biden’s wife, Neilia and their one-year-old daughter, Naomi, were killed and their two young sons critically injured in an auto accident. Vice President Biden was sworn in to the U.S. Senate at his sons’ hospital bedside and began commuting to Washington every day by train, a practice he maintained throughout his career in the Senate. In 1977, Vice President Biden married Jill Jacobs. Jill Biden, who holds a Ph.D. in Education, is a life-long educator and currently teaches at a community college in Northern Virginia. The Vice President’s son, Beau, was Delaware’s Attorney General from 2007-2015 and a Major in the 261st Signal Brigade of the Delaware National Guard. He was deployed to Iraq in 2008-2009. Beau passed away in 2015 after battling with brain cancer with the same integrity, courage, and strength he demonstrated every day of his life. The Vice President’s other son, Hunter, is an attorney who manages a private equity firm in Washington, D.C. and is Chairman of the World Food Program USA. And his daughter Ashley is a social worker and is Executive Director of the Delaware Center for Justice. Vice President Biden has five grandchildren: Naomi, Finnegan, Roberta Mabel (“Maisy”), Natalie, and Robert Hunter. As a Senator from Delaware for 36 years, Vice President Biden established himself as a leader in facing some of our nation’s most important domestic and international challenges. As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for 17 years, then-Senator Biden was widely recognized for his work on criminal justice issues, including the landmark 1994 Crime Act and the Violence Against Women Act. As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years, then-Senator Biden played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy. He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. As the 47th Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden continued his leadership on important issues facing the nation and represented our country abroad traveling over 1.2 million miles to more than 50 countries. Vice President Biden convened sessions of the President’s Cabinet, led interagency efforts, and worked with Congress in his fight to raise the living standards of middle class Americans, reduce gun violence, address violence against women, and end cancer as we know it. Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Joe Kiani Founder & Chairman, Patient Safety Movement Foundation; Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Masimo Joe Kiani runs one of the world’s most admired medical technology companies, is an inventor of world-changing noninvasive patient monitoring devices, a trusted voice for patient safety and care, and a convention-breaking maverick. As the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Masimo, a global medical technology innovator, Mr. Kiani has been a beacon for patient safety and innovation in healthcare for more than 25 years. Convinced that the use of adaptive signal processing could solve the problems of motion artifact and noise that plagued pulse oximetry—widely recognized as the 5th vital sign—he founded Masimo in 1989 to improve patient outcome and reduce the cost of care by taking noninvasive monitoring to new sites and applications. Under his leadership, Masimo has grown from a “garage start up” into a successful publicly traded company (NASDAQ: MASI) employing more than 3,500 people worldwide and providing its technology and clinical-leading Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry technology directly and through leading OEM patient monitoring manufacturers. Today, Masimo is an innovative powerhouse delivering key noninvasive medical breakthroughs, including: rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry™—the first blood constituent monitoring platform to measure multiple blood constituents noninvasively that previously could only be measured invasively and help clinicians improve patient safety and reduce cost of care. Masimo also introduced wearable rainbow SET Radius-7 as well as the bedside rainbow SET Radical-7 and Patient SafetyNet™—the first remote monitoring and wireless clinician notification system shown to help hospitals improve patient safety and clinical outcomes by dramatically decreasing rescue events and costly ICU transfers. Patient SafetyNet is helping hospitals save lives in places like the post-surgical wards where reliable monitoring was not feasible before due to excessive false alarms. With Root’s new open architecture, cockpit and connectivity hub patient monitoring platform, clinical distraction, complexity and cost are expected to decrease and innovation in patient monitoring are expected to accelerate. Mr. Kiani and Masimo have helped to solve the “unsolvable” problems plaguing patient monitoring through significant inventions with more than 600 issued and pending patents worldwide. Committed to patient safety, Mr. Kiani founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation in 2012 and the World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) has the goal of eliminating preventable deaths by 2020 in the US, and to significantly reduce preventable deaths in hospitals worldwide. Under Mr. Kiani’s leadership, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation has been able to get over 60 companies to make the pledge to share their data with whoever can use it to make patients safer. Patient Safety Movement is expecting the data sharing pledges will help create a new ecosystem of predictive algorithms, tapping into the individual patient data superhighway, to help clinicians save more lives. In addition, over a dozen Actionable Patient Safety Solutions have been created to help hospitals implement processes to avoid human errors becoming fatal to patients. The Patient Safety Movement has convened hundreds of leading clinicians, hospital CEOs, medical technology CEOs, and government officials from around the globe to work together towards the goal of zero preventable deaths by 2020. Today, PSMF has over 1700 hospitals from around the world that have committed to patient safety. In January 2016, the hospitals that had joined Patient Safety Movement reported 24, 643 lives saved annually. Joe Kiani also leads Cercacor Labs, a spinoff company from Masimo, and serves on the Board of Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Chapman University’s President’s Cabinet, SDSU’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, Clinton Foundation Executive Council, MDMA Board, Masimo Foundation of Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare, and is an angel investor and sits on some of the Boards of promising start-up companies with unique positive lifesaving and societal consequences. Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS 17th Surgeon Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006); Distinguished Professor, University of Arizona Born to a poor Hispanic family in New York City, Dr. Carmona experienced homelessness, hunger, and health disparities during his youth. The experiences greatly sensitized him to the relationships among culture, health, education and economic status and shaped his future. After dropping out of high school, Dr. Carmona enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967. While serving, he earned his General Equivalency Diploma and went on to become a combat-decorated Special Forces Vietnam veteran. After leaving active duty, he attended Bronx Community College of the City University of New York through an open enrollment program for veterans. He received an associate of arts degree. He then attended the University of California, San Francisco, where he received a bachelor of science degree (1977) and medical degree (1979). At the University of California Medical School, Dr. Carmona was awarded the prestigious gold-headed cane as the top graduate. Trained in general and vascular surgery, Dr. Carmona also completed a National Institutes of Health-sponsored fellowship in trauma, burns, and critical care. Dr. Carmona was then recruited jointly by the Tucson (Arizona) Medical Center and the University of Arizona to start and direct Arizona’s first regional trauma care system. He went on to become the chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System, a professor of surgery, public health and family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department surgeon and deputy sheriff.