Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the Non Profit space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sergey Brin
Co-Founder & President of The Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Sergey Brin, President of Alphabet and one of Google’s founders, has served as a member of Alphabet’s board of directors since October 2015. He has served as a member of Google’s board of directors since its inception in September 1998. From July 2001 to April 2011, Sergey served as Google’s President, Technology. In addition, from September 1998 to July 2001, Sergey served as Google’s President and chairman of Google’s board of directors. Sergey holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science degree with high honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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About Google Launchpad Accelerator, The Brin Wojcicki Foundation: The Brin Wojcicki Foundation was founded by Sergey Brin & Anne Wojcicki. (formerly The Brin Foundation)
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Moxie Marlinspike
Founder & CEO of Signal Messenger
Moxie Marlinspike is the founder of Signal and Open Whisper Systems. He is a renowned cyber security expert and cryptographer. Moxie is known for his in-depth research of online privacy and anonymity issues. Moxie is also a member of the Institute for Disruptive Studies, and was formerly the Director of Product Security at Twitter.
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About Signal Messenger: Signal is an encrypted communications application for Android and iOS that focuses on advancing secure communications.
Jed McCaleb
Co-Founder of Stellar Development Foundation
Jed McCaleb, Stellar cofounder, believes in consciously leveraging technology to reduce inefficiency and improve the human condition. He created eDonkey, one of the largest file-sharing networks of its time, as well as Mt. Gox, the first bitcoin exchange. In 2011, Jed founded Ripple. Recognizing that the world’s financial infrastructure is broken and that too many people are left without resources, he cofounded Stellar in 2014. Jed leads technical development of Stellar, a universal financial network that aims to increase economic participation for all individuals. The Stellar network is supported by Stellar.org, a nonprofit that couples technology with digital financial literacy and contributes to open-source software. Jed is also an advisor to MIRI, which researches artificial intelligence for positive impact.
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About Pantera Capital, Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Sean Parker
Founder & Chairman of Causes
Sean Parker is the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Brigade.
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About Airtime, Brigade, Causes, Economic Innovation Group, FWD.us, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy: Causes.com is an online campaigning platform for people who support a common cause.
Cynthia Germanotta
Co-Founder of Born This Way Foundation
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About Born This Way Foundation: BTWF is for the wellness of young people, and empowering them to create a kinder and braver world.
Nick Bilogorskiy
Founder and Co-Chairman of Nova Ukraine
Nick Bilogorskiy is a founding team member at Cyphort, a next-generation anti-malware startup, and is currently leading security research there. He came to Cyphort from Facebook where he was the chief malware expert and a security spokesperson for the company, keeping 1 billion active users safe and secure. His Facebook focus was on annihilating botnets that targeted Facebook (e.g., Koobface) by developing countermeasures, remediating victims and working with law enforcement agencies on bad actor attribution and enforcement. Prior to joining Facebook, Nick managed virus research teams at SonicWALL and Fortinet. Nick is skilled in reverse engineering, analysis, writing patterns and tracking malware, frequently quoted in the media. He presented and published research papers at major security conferences. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing science and philosophy from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and a GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) certification. He holds several patents in computer security. Nick has been an angel investor since 2012, investing into 2-3 seed stage companies per year, focusing on cybersecurity, AI and IOT. He invested in Petcube, Cymmetria and Uber, among others. Nick Bilogorskiy is also the founder and a Director of the largest Ukrainian charity in California, Nova Ukraine, helping Ukraine by fighting corruption, providing humanitarian aid, and increasing awareness about Ukrainian culture in the US.
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About 408 Ventures, Alchemist Accelerator, Google, Nova Ukraine: Nova Ukraine is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening civil society in Ukraine.
Amy Gips
Founder of Astia Angels
Founder at Astia Angels.
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About Astia Angels: Astia Angels is a global network of both female and male angel investors that invest in high-growth companies.
Asha Jadeja
Founder of Motwani Jadeja Foundation
Asha founded Dot Edu Ventures in March 2000 to fund innovative technologies emerging from top US universities. Among her many investments are Bytemobile, Kaltix (now Google), Jareva (now Veritas), and Mimosa Systems. Alongside her career in venture capital Asha founded and ran as CEO iScale Inc, a peered networking company for distributing large file content across the internet using proprietary technology. Before iScale Asha was an angel investor and advisor in various silicon valley startups. Asha studied civil engineering for undergrad in India and transitioned into urban planning and policy studies for graduate studies at USC, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. She held several research and analyst positions at multinational agencies such as the United Nations’ Transnationals Corporation and the World Bank while pursuing graduate studies. Her civil engineering and urban planning work included projects such as the Los Angeles Metro Rail.
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About Dot Edu Ventures, Motwani Jadeja Foundation, Various: Motwani Jadeja Foundation is a not-for-profit global venture fund that supports and empowers entrepreneurs to enable exponential change.
Ann Shepherd
COO and Co-Founder of Him For Her
Ann Shepherd is co-founder of social impact venture Him For Her. She serves on the board of fintech startup HoneyBook. Previously Ann was the Senior Vice President of Marketing at OpenTable.
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About Him For Her: Him For Her is a social venture that accelerates the diversity on corporate boards.
Jocelyn Mangan
CEO and Co-Founder of Him For Her
Jocelyn Mangan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Him For Her.
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About Him For Her, Snagajob: Him For Her is a social venture that accelerates the diversity on corporate boards.
Sara M. Williams
Co-Founder of Sara & Evan Williams Foundation
Sara Morishige Williams
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About Sara & Evan Williams Foundation: Sara & Evan Williams Foundation
Vinton Cerf
Founder of Internet Society
Vinton G. Cerf has served as Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. Cerf also served at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Agency (DARPA), and as a member of the Stanford University Faculty. Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Cerf is the co-inventor of the architecture and basic protocols of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M.Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. The Turing award is sometimes called the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science.” In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn received the prestigious Japan Prize. Cerf served as chairman of the board of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007and as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995, and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf also served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry boards and committees focused on cyber-security and other topics. Cerf has received numerous other awards and commendations, nationally and internationally, in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, the Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Medal of Science from Tunisia. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the Annenberg Center for Communications at USC, the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, the Hasso Platner Institute and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2011, he was made Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year’s “25 Most Intriguing People.” Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He has received twenty honorary degrees.
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About Google, Internet Society: The Internet Society engages in a wide spectrum of internet issues, including policy, governance, technology, and development.
Sepideh Nasiri
Founder & CEO of Persian Women In Tech
Sepideh (“Sepi”) Nasiri is an award winning serial Entrepreneur with 16 years of experience working in the Tech Industry, the Founder of Persian Women In Tech, the former Vice President at Women 2.0 and a life-time advocate for women, diversity and inclusion. Mrs. Nasiri started her career as a Co-founder and Managing Editor of a digital and print Los Angeles Magazine and later joined a number of successful startups in Silicon Valley. In 2014, she was recognized by San Francisco Business Times/Journal “40under40” and Diversity Journal’s 2014 “Women Worth Watching”. Currently, Mrs. Nasiri advises early stage startups including at global initiatives such as WeMENA (a program by the World Bank) and mentors globally many female entrepreneurs and founders in technology serving as an advisor to initiatives such as TechWomen, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
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About Persian Women In Tech: Persian Women In Tech supports Iranian women in Tech/STEM from all across the Globe’s landscape.
Ellen Pao
Co-Founder & CEO of Project Include
One of Silicon Valley’s leading advocates for diversity and inclusion, Ellen K. Pao is not only a long-time entrepreneur and tech investor, but her landmark gender discrimination case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, propelled her to the front of the fight — years before the Times Up movement. Her 2012 lawsuit helped encourage other women, people of color and especially women of color to stand-up against harassment and discrimination in tech in what has been called the “Pao Effect.” Currently, Ellen serves as CEO and co-founder of nonprofit Project Include, where she works closely with tech leaders to bring fairness to all tech workers, using data-based, practical solutions and recommendations. As interim CEO of reddit, she was the first leader of a large social media company to ban revenge porn and unauthorized nude photos as part of her broader efforts to curtail harassment on the site. Before reddit, she spent seven years as a investment partner at Kleiner Perkins. During her two decades in Silicon Valley, she has also served as a board member, engineering manager, software programmer, and business development executive. She received her BSE in electrical engineering and public policy certificate from Princeton University, her JD from Harvard Law School, and her MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Project Include: Project Include promotes diversity and inclusion through research and advocacy. We are a non-profit, and we are hiring.
Laurene Powell
Founder & President of Emerson Collective
Laurene Powell Jobs is founder and chair of Emerson Collective, an organization that supports social entrepreneurs who are committed to the ideal that everyone ought to have the chance to live to their full potential. Most of the work of Emerson Collective is anchored around ways to open doors to opportunity – focus areas include improving our nation’s schools, advocating for common sense immigration reform, and collaborating with partners who are innovating ways to create durable avenues for social and economic mobility. Powell Jobs shapes the vision of Emerson Collective, reviews impact, amplifies the momentum of its partners, and sets the operational direction of the organization. Many of the priorities championed by Emerson Collective are formed by the work of College Track, a program Powell Jobs founded in 1997 to prepare disadvantaged high school students for success in college. Today Powell Jobs is president of College Track’s board of directors, which now works with more than 2,000 students from Oakland, San Francisco, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Aurora, Colorado. More than 90 percent of College Track high school graduates go on to college (many of them are first generation students), and the program’s college graduation rate is more than double to that of low-income students. In addition to her work with Emerson Collective and College Track, she serves on the boards of directors of NewSchools Venture Fund, Teach for All, OZY Media, Conservation International and Stanford University. She also is a member of the Chairman’s advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Powell Jobs holds a BA and a BSE from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Earlier in her career, she spent several years working in investment banking and later co-founded a natural foods company in California.
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About College Track, Emerson Collective: Emerson Collective strengthens schools, secures rights for immigrants, and restores relationship between humanity and nature.
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, Chairman, and head of admissions and oversee investment vehicles of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Cameron Teitelman is the Founder and Chairman of StartX, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that runs an accelerator for Stanford affiliated entrepreneurs. Under his management, StartX has supported more than 1,100+ founders building 500+ companies. StartX companies have raised over $3.3B to date. In 2013, the Stanford-StartX Fund was launched. To date, SSF has invested in 250 StartX companies across 400+ rounds, investing $130 million in capital.
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Kimberly Bryant
Founder & CEO of Black Girls CODE
Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls CODE, a non-profit organization dedicated to “changing the face of technology” by introducing girls of color (ages 7-17) to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts. Kimberly has enjoyed a successful 25+ year professional career in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as an Engineering Manager in a series of technical leadership roles for various Fortune 100 companies such as Genentech, Merck, and Pfizer. Since 2011 Kimberly has helped Black Girls CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international organization with seven chapters across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Black Girls CODE has currently reached over 3000 students and continues to grow and thrive. Kimberly serves on the National Champions Board for the National Girls Collaborative Project, and the National Board of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance. Kimberly and Black Girls CODE have been nationally recognized as a social innovator and for her work to increase opportunities for women and girls in the tech industry. In August 2012 Kimberly was given the prestigious Jefferson Award for Community Service for her work to support communities in the Bay Area. In 2013 Kimberly was highlighted by Business Insider on its list of “The 25 Most Influential African- Americans in Technology” and was named to The Root 100 and the Ebony Power 100 lists. A highlight of 2013 for Kimberly was being invited to the White House as a Champion of Change for her work in tech inclusion and for her focus on bridging the digital divide for girls of color. In 2014 Kimberly received an American Ingenuity Award in Social Progress from the Smithsonian along with being given the Inaugural Women Who Rule Award in Technology via Politico. She has been identified as a thought leader in the area of tech inclusion and has spoken on the topic at events such as Personal Democracy Forum, TedX Kansas City, Platform Summit, Big Ideas Festival, SXSW, and many others.
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About Black Girls CODE: Black Girls CODE is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching girls aged 7 to 17 about computer programming and digital technology.
Evan Marwell
Founder & CEO of EducationSuperHighway
Evan is a serial entrepreneur, having started companies over the last 25 years in the telecom, software, hedge fund, and consumer retailing industries including INFONXX (now KGB) and Criterion Capital Management. Collectively, these businesses created thousands of jobs and generated billions of dollars of revenues and investment returns. Evan founded the non-profit EducationSuperHighway in 2012. In its first three years, the organization helped shape President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and served as a catalyst for modernization of the Federal Communications Commission’s $3.9 billion E-rate program, earning Evan the 2015 Visionary of the Year award from the San Francisco Chronicle. Evan is an honors graduate of Harvard College ’87 and Harvard Business School ’92.
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About EducationSuperHighway: EducationSuperHighway is focused on providing internet infrastructure that students and teachers need for digital learning.
Caroline Beckman
Founder and CEO of Nouri Life
Caroline Beckman is a Co-Founder & CEO at Nomva.
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About Nomva, Nouri Life, Suja Life: Nouri is for men and women around the world who believe in increasing their mental and physical health.
Jeff Miller
Co-Founder and CEO of Helping Hands Community
Jeff Miller is the Co-Founder and CEO of Helping Hands Community.
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About Helping Hands Community, Uber: Helping Hands Community is not for profit community that serves COVID-19 vulnerable members with medicine, food and supplies.
Dan Whaley
CEO & Founder of Hypothes.is
Dan Whaley is the Founding Board Member at Getaground.
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About BTP, BTPIndex, Hypothes.is: Hypothes.is a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information.
Ben Rattray
Founder & CEO of Change.org
Ben Rattray is the founder and CEO of Change.org, the world’s largest platform for social change.He has been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40 rising young business leaders. A graduate of Stanford University and the London School of Economics, Rattray leads Change.org’s strategic vision and is a frequent public speaker about the intersection of technology and social change. There are more than 75 million Change.org users in 196 countries, and every day, people use its tools to transform their communities – locally, nationally and globally. Whether it’s a mother fighting bullying in her daughter’s school, customers pressing banks to drop unfair fees, or citizens holding corrupt officials to account, thousands of campaigns started by ordinary people have won on Change.org, and more win every day. Time Magazine writes, “Rattray’s site has quietly enabled tens of thousands of people, many with little exposure to social activism, to launch homegrown crusades on issues ranging from corporate malpractice to immigration reform without ever gathering in a park or square. By marrying one of the world’s oldest organizing tools, the petition, to one of its newest, the social-media loop, Change.org is putting companies and governments under tremendous pressure to change their policies, sometimes in a matter of a few weeks or less, and it has invited everyone around the globe to participate.”
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About Change.org: Change.org is social change platform with over 150 million users worldwide.
Mark Dimas
Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Change.org
CTO & founding team member of Change.org.
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About Change.org: Change.org is social change platform with over 150 million users worldwide.
Jim Steyer
Founder and CEO of Common Sense Media
Jim has spent more than 20 years as one of the most respected experts and entrepreneurs on issues related to children’s policy and media in the United States. As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families. Prior to founding Common Sense, Jim was Chairman and CEO of JP Kids, a respected family media company. Before that, he served as President of Children Now, a leading national advocacy and media organization for children, which he founded in 1988. Jim began his career as an elementary school teacher and then became a public interest lawyer. He served as a law clerk for the California Supreme Court, as a deputy district attorney, and as a civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In addition to his duties at Common Sense, Jim teaches popular courses on civil rights, civil liberties, and children’s issues at Stanford University, where he has taught for the past 22 years in the School of Education and Department of Political Science. During that period, he has received a number of Stanford’s highest teaching honors. Jim is also the author of the widely acclaimed book The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children, which draws upon his extensive experience as a leading child advocate, educational media expert, and dad. Over the past decade, Jim has appeared regularly on a variety of national television and radio programs, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah, CNN, The O’Reilly Factor, and Larry King. He hosts a regular weekly segment, “Kids and the Media,” on CBS-5 TV in San Francisco, and his work has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. Jim grew up in New York City and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He received his JD from Stanford Law School, where he founded the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. Jim is the father of four children and lives with his family in the Bay Area.
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About Common Sense Media: Common Sense Media provides information and education to help kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology.
Priscilla Chan
Co-Founder of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Priscilla Chan is co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization she started with her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, in December 2015. As a pediatrician and former teacher, her work with patients and students in communities across the Bay Area has informed her desire to make learning more personalized and find a path to cure disease. She is also the founder of The Primary School, which integrates health and education and serves children and families in East Palo Alto and the Belle Haven neighborhood in Menlo Park, California. Priscilla earned her BA in Biology at Harvard University and her MD at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her pediatrics training in the UCSF/PLUS Pediatrics Residency.
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About Breakthrough Energy Coalition, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Startup:Education: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative supports community-driven solutions to accelerate progress in science, education, and justice.
Melinda Woolf
Founder of Future Of Humanity
Melinda Woolf is a Founder of Future Of Humanity.
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About Future Of Humanity: Future of Humanity is a non-profit and an open-sourced platform.
David Spradlin
CEO & Founder of The Village
David Spradlin lives and works in Sacramento, California as the CEO and Founder of Golden Valley Security. David’s security company provides unparalleled overnight security detail service for companies of all sizes, as well as vehicle patrol, personal bodyguards, and plain clothes investigation. Golden Valley Security’s comprehensive training, hiring, and quality leadership under David Spradlin has made it one of the most sought after companies in the industry. Additionally, David is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Village: a non-profit organization dedicated to providing healthy food and frequent meals to underprivileged children and families in the Sacramento area. Through programs such as Full Belly backpacks and community movie nights, David Spradlin and his team has been able to make a difference in the lives of people in need, and his commitment to doing so drives every facet of his life. Outside of work, David Spradlin is passionate about spending time with his wife and children and supporting them in their personal endeavors. David also appreciates and supports local art, values exercise and healthy eating, and volunteering. Though he is from California’s bay area, David Spradlin has grown to love Sacramento and is dedicated to serving his community where possible.
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About The Village: The Village is a formal non-profit organization designed to help the less fortunate and needy within the Sacramento, CA area.
Kevin Jennison
Co-Founder & CTO of Tab for a Cause
Kevin Jennison is the Co-Founder & CTO at Tab for a Cause.
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About Gladly, Tab for a Cause: Save the world, one tab at a time.
Sedale Turbovsky
CEO and Founder of OpenGrants
Sedale Turbovsky’s career has been focused on startups, and innovation. As an Independent business consultant and strategic business development expert, Sedale specializes in fundraising, leadership, project management, program management, and data analysis. He is passionate about economic empowerment, conservation, and sustainability. Sedale attended Sacramento State University, where his studies focused on economics, political science, and international development. After an extended gap year, he pursued a career as an international adventure guide working in Argentina, Chile and various counties in Europe for five years. During this time he launched a startup studio, Guerrilla Digital. Guerrilla Digital is a collection of leaders, designers and builders focused on enabling large-scale societal improvements. Their mission is to establish and grow sustainable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems and inefficiencies by bringing cutting-edge technology to late-adopting industries. Guerrilla Digital partners with investors, advisors and government leaders to help entrepreneurs build out product concepts, test business models, find market fit, connect with difficult-to-reach public/private networks, and achieve the discipline required for growth. In 2012 Sedale and his team were engaged to launch carbonBLU, a machine learning SaaS product for the transportation sector, backed by an emissions testing technology. Sedale lead the team to raise $500k in seed capital while supporting day to day operations and product development. While at carobnBLU Sedale built at 2.5M dollar pipeline in government sales, won the people choice award of the CleanTech Open Accelerator and was accepted into and completed Impact Venture Capital’s accelerator program. In 2018, Sedale served as CEO of carbonBLU for a year, eventually exiting with the Guerrilla Digital team to start OpenGrants, a SaaS company focused on connecting startups to non-dilutive capital. As a founder of OpenGrants, Sedale helped source the founding team, secured pre-seed and seed capital, while engaging strategic partners like AWS and Momentum.
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Arzav Jain
Founder of Zariya
Arzav Jain is the founder of Zariya. He is also a software engineer at Affinity Inc. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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About Zariya: Zariya offers confidential legal and counselling help, available for free for women facing violence.
Sahar Khan
Founder of Zariya
Founder at Zariya.
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Demi Moore
Founder of Thorn
Demi is an actress and a long-standing advocate for women’s issues. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her role in _If These Walls Could Talk_ and a Director’s Guild nomination for _Five_, an anthology of short films that explore the impact of breast cancer. She partnered with CNN Freedom Project for the documentary Nepal’s Stolen Children to highlight the work of anti-trafficking advocate Anuradha Koirala.
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About Thorn: Thorn, digital defenders of children, drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.
Katharine Corriveau
Head of Growth & Customer Support, Co-Founder of Instrumentl
Prior to co-founding Instrumentl, Katharine was a fundraiser for UC Berkeley and worked with their Museum of Vertebrate Zoology as well as the Botanic Garden. Being a Kat of nine lives she also surveyed alpine plants in the mountains of British Columbia, collected data on red squirrels and their response to changing climate in the Yukon and protected piping plovers on the Atlantic coast. Katharine holds an MBA/MA in Museum Studies, & an MS and BSC in Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.
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About Instrumentl: The best platform for nonprofits & grant writers looking to grow revenue (YC S16)
Elaine Hsieh
Co-Founder & Head of Corporate Partnerships & Marketing of Third Derivative
Elaine Hsieh heads the programming for GreenBiz Group’s VERGE events. She has almost 20 years of industry experience consulting with Fortune 500 companies on a wide range of sustainability, green building, and technology issues. She brings solid technical background with a understanding of the energy, construction, biotechnology, education, retail, manufacturing, and finance industries. Hsieh is an effective communicator to people across diverse age groups, cultures, and business sectors and is passionate about helping people understand and respect the interconnectedness of our world. Hsieh has been featured in Mashable, Green Economy Post, Reuters, The Guardian, and other publications for her social media influence within the green building, green business, and sustainability communities.
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About Third Derivative: Third Derivative is an accelerator focused on clean energy and climate tech.
Rachel Thomas
Founder & CEO of Lean In
Rachel Thomas is the Founder & CEO of Lean in.
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About Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation: LeanIn.Org is a nonprofit organization that aims to offer women with inspiration and support to help them achieve their goals.
Steve Nasiri
Founder of The Nasiri Foundation
Over the past 35 years, Mr. Nasiri has been a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in semiconductor space with six startups. His most recent venture was InvenSense, which he founded in 2003 and served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairmen from inception until October of 2012 where he decided to step down. Under his leadership, the company became the pioneer and global market leader in motion tracking solutions for motion-based user interfaces in consumer electronic including smartphones, tablets, game consoles, wearable electronics, and more. In November 2011, Mr. Nasiri took the company through the initial public offering (IPO), listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol INVN with nearly $800M market cap. InvenSense has been recognized by Global Semiconductor Alliance as “The Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company,” and one of the top three best financially managed semiconductor companies with annual sales of up to $500M in 2012. InvenSense was also recognized as the 2nd Fastest Growing Semiconductor Company in North America by Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500™. Prior to founding InvenSense, Mr. Nasiri held various key positions as a co-founder and or executive of several pioneering startup companies, including SenSym (acquired by Honeywell), NovaSensor (acquired by General Electric), Integrated Sensor Solutions (acquired by Texas Instruments), ISS-Nagano GmbH, Intelligent Sensing Solutions (acquired by Maxim Integrated), and Transparent Optical Networks. Mr. Nasiri has been the inventor and co-inventor in nearly 100 patents and patent applications, and has authored many papers and articles in MEMS and consumer electronics. In 2010, he was selected by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the year for Northern California and in 2013 he was given Alumni Awards of Distinction by San Jose State University.
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About The Nasiri Foundation: The Nasiri Foundation supports innovative non-profit organizations by leveraging technology platforms to alleviate global social problems.
Tiffani Bell
Founder & Executive Director of The Human Utility
Tiffani Ashley Bell is the Founder and Executive Director of The Human Utility, a platform bringing people together from around the world to help people in the United States with their water bills. Since its founding in July 2014, The Human Utility has helped over 3,000 people and is a Y Combinator-backed not-for-profit. Tiffani was a 2017 Technology & Democracy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was a 2014 Code for America Fellow and previously, was the CEO & Founder of Pencil You In, enabling over 2,000 local businesses to accept appointments online, bringing many of them online for the first time. In 2015, she was nominated and voted as one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans for her work protecting the right to water. She was also named to the inaugural Mic 50 class celebrating impactful leaders, cultural influencers, and breakthrough innovators. In 2016, she was named as an inaugural Grist 50 awardee as an innovator working toward a more sustainable future. Tiffani is a programmer who earned a Bachelor of Science in Systems & Computer Science from Howard University. In 2021, Tiffani will start a one-year Master of Science in Management program as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Tiffani invests.
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About The Human Utility: The Human Utility helps low income and elderly families with their water bills.
Santiago Siri
Founder of Democracy Earth Foundation
Founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, a Y Combinator backed non-profit building incorruptible digital governance for small and large communities; and the Partido de la Red (Peers Party), a political party that aims to improve representation with candidates committed to citizens requests online. Partner of Bitex.la, the largest bitcoin exchange in Latin America. Published ‘Hacktivismo’ in 2015 with Random House. Co-founded Argentine Game Developers Association. World Economic Forum member. Contributed in radio and TV.
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About DAO Education, Democracy Earth Foundation: DEF is building an open-source liquid democracy platform built on blockchain technology that makes governance transparent and auditable.
Herb Stephens
Co-Founder of Democracy Earth Foundation
Herb is a co-founder and the Treasurer of Democracy Earth Foundation. For the past 25 years, Herb has been a serial software entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, mostly building systems where power purposefully shifts to the user through technology. Since learning of blockchain technology in 2012 and considering it “the best invention since the Internet itself”, Herb dedicated the rest of his career to social entrepreneurism. Herb was COO & CFO of Intershop (world’s first online catalogue technology, IPO 1998), Founder and CEO of Outcome (web service management company), and Founder & CEO of Nuehealth (a Salesforce.com global healthcare partner/ISV). Prior to software, Herb held corporate finance and global systems roles at General Motors, NCR Corporation, IBM, GE and GE Capital. Born in Flint, Michigan, Herb is the second of eight children in a household where both parents were small-business entrepreneurs, and in his worn words “has worn a tool belt since he could walk!” Herb studied math and computer science at University of Michigan and earned a bachelors degree in Financial Administration at Michigan State University. He has travelled, lived and worked all over the world(45 countries, and counting). When not hacking for Democracy.Earth, Herb is an avid back country alpine heli-skier, snowboarder and mountain biker. Most recently, Herb presented on the intersection of blockchains, democracy and artificial intelligence at Taiwan’s Connect AI and attended the Bancor-led consortium at Bretton Woods. Check out Herb’s appearance on World Affairs; keep up with Herb on Twitter @HerbStephens.
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About Democracy Earth Foundation: DEF is building an open-source liquid democracy platform built on blockchain technology that makes governance transparent and auditable.
Brian Acton
Founder & Executive Chairman of Signal Technology Foundation
Brian Acton is Founder and Executive Chairman of Signal Technology Foundation whose mission is to develop open source privacy technology that protects free expression and enables secure global communication. As more and more of our lives happen online, data protection and privacy have become critical. Signal Technology Foundation is the parent company of Signal Messenger, a fast, simple and secure messaging app. At his core, Brian is a software builder. He’s also a Silicon Valley veteran having worked at Apple, Adobe, and Yahoo before embarking on his adventure with WhatsApp. In 2009, Brian cofounded WhatsApp and grew the service to over a billion users worldwide. Brian grew up in Central Florida and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University. He lives in the SF Bay Area with his wife and two rugrats, I mean kids. In his free time, he builds Lego and plays ultimate frisbee.
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About Signal Technology Foundation: A non-profit organization founded in 2018 by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton
Premal Shah
Co-Founder & President of Kiva
Three billion people are left out of, or poorly served, by the global financial system. Their lives are so much harder than they need to be. But for the first time, we have new tools that may help change this: new data sources, data analytics, mobile phones, the Internet, cloud computing, and other technologies are changing every aspect of financial services and can fundamentally transform the way we serve those who have historically been left out. Premal Shah is an advisor to Branch.co and several other social enterprises. He is the co-founder of Kiva, a non-profit that helped provide financial access to over 3 million underserved people in 80 countries. Prior to Kiva, Premal was a Principal Product Manager at PayPal. Premal began his career at Oliver Wyman in New York & graduated from Stanford.
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About Kiva: Kiva is an international non-profit organization that enables families to make small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Daniel Molano
Co-Founder of Defilanthropy
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About Adext AI, Defilanthropy: Defilanthropy is a web3 Software as a service for non-profits and non-governmental organizations.
Peter Knights
Founder and Executive Director of WildAid
Peter Knights was formerly a program director working on illegal wildlife trade with Global Survival Network and a senior investigator for the Environmental Investigation Agency. He specialized in conducting global on-site investigations and campaigned against the trade in wild birds for pets and the consumption of endangered species in traditional Chinese medicine, such as bear gallbladder, rhino horn, and tiger bone. On birds, this work led to over 150 airlines stopping the carriage of wild birds and the Wild Bird Conservation Act, which cut imports of wild birds into the US from 800,000 to 40,000. In 1996 while working across Asia, Peter created the first international program aimed at reducing demand for endangered species products. He received an Associate Laureate of the Rolex Award for Enterprise for this work. The program used sophisticated advertising techniques, donated airtime, and celebrity spokespeople with the message “When the buying stops, the killing can too” and has over 100 actors, athletes, and musicians appearing in its campaigns. In 2011 it raised $200 million in donated media in China alone. The campaign Peter started on shark fin is attributed with helping to reduce demand for fins by 50-70% in China in 2012 and helping to secure bans in a number of US states.Peter has served as Executive Director of WildAid since its founding in 2000. He initiated the Marine Protection Program and currently leads the Demand Reduction Program for shark fin, manta ray gill rakers, ivory, and rhino horn. Peter holds a B. Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
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About WildAid: WildAid is a organization that aims to conserve wildlife through public awareness programs.
Doug Galen
Founder & CEO of RippleWorks
In addition to RippleWorks, Doug is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Doug sits on the non-profit Boards of Heifer International, Positive Coaching Alliance, and Jasper Ridge Farm and advises early stage companies. Prior to RippleWorks, Doug served as Chief Revenue Officer at Shopkick, a mobile app startup that was bought by SK Telecom. Prior to Shopkick, he was SVP of business and corporate development at Shutterfly, where he helped grow revenue from $50 million to $500 million. Doug served as VP and GM of new ventures for eBay, and was employee #3 as Vice President of Sales and BD for publicly traded E-LOAN.
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About RippleWorks, Stanford Graduate School of Business: RippleWorks pairs startup and technology experts with social ventures around the world to jointly conquer scaling challenges.
Brewster Kahle
Founder & Digital Librarian of Internet Archive
A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. He is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world. Soon after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied artificial intelligence, Kahle helped found the company Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker. In 1989, Kahle created the Internet’s first publishing system called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), later selling the company to AOL. In 1996, Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, which helps catalog the Web, selling it to Amazon.com in 1999. The Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996, now preserves 20 petabytes of data – the books, Web pages, music, television, and software of our cultural heritage, working with more than 400 library and university partners to create a digital library, accessible to all.
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About Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit internet library.
Ro Valiao
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Flipcause
Business executive and entrepreneur passionate about social impact and the nonprofit community. Experience includes renewable energy, technology, and social enterprise. Recognized for identifying problems, contributing innovative solutions, and spearheading change.
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About Flipcause: Fundraising technology and services for nonprofits
Emerson Ravyn
Executive Chairman, Co-Founder of Flipcause
Emerson Ravyn is the CEO and Founder of Flipcause, Inc. Flipcause is an award winning software company that helps thousands of nonprofits across the US optimize their development programs through innovative technology. Mr. Ravyn, a San Francisco Bay Area native, has over a decade of experience building businesses, developing software, and helping nonprofits fundraise. Throughout his career, it became clear to Mr. Ravyn that many nonprofits lacked the technical staff to implement and maintain a modern technology infrastructure. With that in mind, Mr. Ravyn spent the last 5 years working to ensure that any sized organization, regardless of their budgets or technical chops, have access to the tools they deserve at a price they can afford. @emravyn @flipcause
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About Flipcause: Fundraising technology and services for nonprofits
M.R. Rangaswami
Founder of Indiaspora
M.R. Rangaswami is a software executive, investor, entrepreneur, corporate eco-strategy expert, community builder and philanthropist. In 1997, he co-founded Sand Hill Group one of the earliest “angel” investment firms and was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Rangaswami produced the prestigious Enterprise and Software conferences that were held in Silicon Valley. He was also listed on the Forbes “Midas” list of investors. Rangaswami is also the Founder of Corporate Eco Forum, an invitation-only membership organization for Global 500 companies that demonstrate a serious commitment to environment as a business strategy issue. In 2012, Rangaswami founded Indiaspora (a non-profit) to unite Indian Americans and to transform their success into meaningful impact in India and on the global stage.
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About Corporate Eco Forum, Indiaspora, Sand Hill Group LLC: Transforming the success of Indian Americans into meaningful impact worldwide.
Julianna Rapu Leong
Co-Founder of Kupu Hawaii
Julianna was born and raised in Rapa Nui, Chile. Her family immigrated to Hau’ula, Oahu, in pursuit of educational opportunities for herself and her younger brother in the 1990s. After graduating from Punahou School, Julianna earned a BA in Biology from Scripps College, CA. She is married to John Leong and together are blessed with three children: TeAraMa’eha, Heikura Hererangi, and Mataora Taharoa. Julianna feels blessed to be able to invest time in both the Hawaii and Rapa Nui communities.Julianna has a deep love of open spaces and nature. She is a founding member and current Vice President of Pono Pacific Land Management, which in 2001 began providing land owners and conservation agencies with cost-effective land management services. Pono Pacific currently works on/manages over 45,000 acres statewide with offices on Oahu, Hawaii Island, and Molokai.Julianna is also passionate about education and encouraging individuals and communities to thrive. She is a founding member of Kupu, a Hawaii based non-profit whose mission is to “empower youth to serve their communities through character-building, service-learning, and environmental stewardship opportunities that encourage integrity (pono) with God, self, and others.” Kupu partners with over 80 organizations throughout Hawaii. In 2012, Kupu programs provided an average of $2.8 dollars in community benefit for every $1 in cost. The same year, Kupu volunteers logged over 250,000 volunteer hours and provided a total benefit to Hawaii of $8.8 million dollars.
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About Kupu Hawaii: Kupu, based in Hawaii, aims to empower the youth to serve the community through character building and environmental stewardship.
Adam Harriss
CEO & Founder of doGood
Adam’s background includes venture capital, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship at HP, strategy, business development, and product management. During the original dot-com boom, Adam worked in venture capital. From there he moved to HP, where he co-founded the Retail Photo business winning Walmart and Tesco accounts and displaced Kodak from Australia. Since then, he has worked in VP and Director roles or as a consultant for various mobile advertising and SaaS startups. Adam obtained his MBA from the Haas School of Business where he studied under Steve Blank, amongst other notable professors.
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About doGood: doGood building a platform that engages the crowd to help both sides of the funder/funded.
Scot Chisholm
CEO & Co-Founder of Classy
Scot is the CEO & Co-Founder of Classy, a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising tools for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate global social impact. When one of the largest cancer organizations refused to accept the money he raised during a pub crawl held to honor his mom, a two-time breast cancer survivor, Scot was inspired to start Classy to make it easier for anyone to support a cause that’s meaningful to them—and just as easy for organizations to make purposeful and lasting connections with their supporters. Since 2011, fundraising on the Classy platform has doubled each year—resulting in thousands of nonprofits collectively raising over half a billion dollars. Classy partners with organizations of all sizes, from the fastest-growing nonprofits such as Team Rubicon and Malala Fund, to some of the world’s largest social organizations, such as Acumen Fund, Oxfam, and Shriners Hospitals for Children. Based in San Diego, CA, Classy has raised $53 million to-date in growth capital and is backed by prominent technology investors including JMI Equity, Mithril, Salesforce Ventures, and Bullpen Capital. Classy was selected by Fast Company as one of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies in Social Good,” and recognized on the “100 Brilliant Companies” list by Entrepreneur Magazine. Most recently, Scot was recognized by Glassdoor as a Highest Rated CEO in 2017. Outside of Classy, Scot is an active advisor and angel investor, investing out of a fund called Mixture that includes investments in Change.org, inDinero, Casetext and FanDuel. He’s also part of the founding investor group and on the Board of Directors at San Francisco City Football Club, the country’s first social enterprise semi-professional soccer club. Previously he served for four years on the founding Board of Directors at Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster relief nonprofit. Prior to Classy, Scot was a Senior Consultant and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Booz Allen Hamilton. Scot earned a B.S in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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About Classy, Mixture: Classy offers an online and mobile platform that enables socially good organizations to raise funds for various causes.
Marshall Peden
Co-Founder & Director of Customer Success of Classy
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About Classy: Classy offers an online and mobile platform that enables socially good organizations to raise funds for various causes.
Michael Omidi
Co-Founder of No More Poverty
Dr. Michael Omidi is a double-board certified plastic surgeon practicing in Beverly Hills and Greater Los Angeles area. Dr. Omidi has performed thousands of face, nose, breast and body procedures over the last 15 years, diligently fine-tuning current day procedures with his own techniques to achieve exceptional results while maintaining optimal patient safety. His background as a board-certified breast and abdominal surgeon has allowed him to advance current techniques in breast and body contouring. He is one of the few plastic surgeons that has had advanced training in facial and nose contouring surgery and performs many complex and revision nose, eyelid and face surgeries. Dr. Omidi has built a reputation for delivering consistently excellent results through combining safe surgical and nonsurgical modalities such as lasers and radiofrequency procedures that promote quick recovery. Dr. Michael Omidi’s peers and patients alike have repeatedly rated him as the top plastic surgeon on reputable review sites. Dr. Omidi has been ranked #1 plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills out of 246 by RateMDs for 3 consecutive years, named as the best Breast Augmentation and Rhinoplasty Doctor by Cosmetic Town Journal and featured on the hit E! reality television series Dr. 90210. Dr. Omidi is caring and passionate about each and every patient and procedure he performs. He has a down-to-earth and humble demeanor spending ample time to listen to his patients and identify their true needs. Dr. Omidi personally organizes and funds his own team of doctors and nurses to take pro bono international missions treating patients with pediatric deformities, burns, cleft lips/palates, head/neck tumors and breast cancers. He was recently named America’s Most Honored Professional and also received the Vitals Compassionate Doctor award.
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About Animal Support, Children’s Obesity Fund, No More Poverty: No More Poverty is a non-profit entity that provides support to charities focused on alleviating and eliminating poverty.
Brett Hagler
CEO & Co-Founder of New Story Charity
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About Forbes Nonprofit Council, Hometeam Ventures, New Story Charity: New Story Charity are crowdfunding life-changing homes for families around the world.
Alexandria Lafci
Co-Founder, Advisor of New Story Charity
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About Hometeam Ventures, New Story Charity: New Story Charity are crowdfunding life-changing homes for families around the world.
Matthew Marshall
Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer of New Story Charity
Matthew Marshall is the Co-founder & Chief Impact Officer at New Story
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About New Story Charity: New Story Charity are crowdfunding life-changing homes for families around the world.
Karin Underwood
Founder of Verano Health
Karin Underwood is a Stanford Social Innovation Fellow and founder of CoachMe Health. She holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BA degree from the Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Verano Health: Verano Health is an accredited non profit digital health tech diabetes platform.
John Ramey
Co-Founder of Nomadic Mentors
John Ramey is a founder, investor, mentor, and product nerd from San Francisco. He was most recently the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of [isocket](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/isocket) (acquired 2014) and is the Founder of Nomadic Mentors, a nonprofit that connects traveling mentors with developing ecosystems around the world. A three-time successful founder, John was the youngest entrepreneur in the world to raise VC in 2009. In 2012 he was awarded by the White House / US Chamber of Commerce as one of the top entrepreneurs in the US under 30. He previously founded Maven Ventures, Lythargic Media, and electronicfood.com.
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About ADVON Partners, Nomadic Mentors: Non-profit connecting top startup mentors with developing ecosystems
J. Venter
Founder & President of J. Craig Venter Institute
J. Craig Venter, PhD, is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his numerous invaluable contributions to genomic research. In addition to his role at HLI, Venter is also Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit, genomics-focused research organization with approximately 250 scientists and staff, and is Founder and CEO of Synthetic Genomics Inc.,a privately held company dedicated to commercializing genomic-driven solutions to address global needs such as new sources of energy, new food and nutritional products, and next generation vaccines. Venter began his formal education after a tour of duty as a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. After earning both a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California at San Diego, he was appointed professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1984, he moved to the National Institutes of Health campus where he developed Expressed Sequence Tags or ESTs, a revolutionary new strategy for rapid gene discovery. In 1992 Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR, now part of JCVI), a not-for-profit research institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole genome shotgun technique. In 1998, Venter founded Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome using new tools and techniques he and his team developed. This research culminated with the February 2001 publication of the human genome in the journal, Science. He and his team at Celera also sequenced the fruit fly, mouse and rat genomes. Venter and his team at JCVI continue to blaze new trails in genomics. They have sequenced and analyzed hundreds of genomes, and have published numerous important papers covering such areas as environmental genomics, the first complete diploid human genome, and the ground-breaking advance in creating the first self-replicating bacterial cell constructed entirely with synthetic DNA. Venter is one of the most frequently cited scientists, and the author of more than 280 research articles. He is also the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards, including the 2008 United States National Medal of Science, the 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award and the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. Venter is a member of numerous prestigious scientific organizations including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Society for Microbiology. Venter has published two books, his autobiography A Life Decoded (Viking 2007) and Life at the Speed of Light (Viking 2013) which examines the history and future application of synthetic biology.
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About Agradis, Human Genome Sciences, Human Longevity, J. Craig Venter Institute, Viridos: J. Craig Venter Institute is a non-profit organization engaged in the research of genomics.
Jeremy Schwartz
Co-Founder & Executive Director of World Possible
Jeremy is the Executive Director and Cofounder of World Possible. Jeremy has led World Possible since he became the organization’s first Executive Director in October 2012. Prior to running World Possible, Jeremy was a venture capital associate at Norwest Venture Partners focused on growing for-profit education and technology enterprises. Before Norwest, Jeremy spent four years as an investment banking Associate at Wells Fargo. Jeremy graduated UCLA with a dual degree in business economics and political science. His passion for information technology and global change is attributed to his time on Semester at Sea, a global study ship based abroad program.
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About World Possible: World Possible is a small non-profit based in San Francisco, CA.
Lilli Oetting
Technical Co-Founder of Esper
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About Esper: Esper provides a platform for governments to create and manage public policy from a single dahsboard.
Ashraf Samhouri
Co-Founder and CEO of GivingLoop
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About flying.events, GivingLoop: GivingLoop aims to disrupt how nonprofits raise funds and become sustainable.
Daniela Fernandez
Founder and CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance
Daniela V. Fernandez founded Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) as a college-room idea. Five years later, she has built SOA into a global organization that is cultivating and accelerating innovative solutions to protect and sustain the health of the ocean. With phenomenal speed, SOA has created the world’s largest network of young ocean leaders – through establishing a presence in over 80 countries, launching the world’s first Ocean Solutions Accelerator to support ocean startups, and partnering with corporations, such as Lindblad Expeditions and The Economist , NGOs, and governments, including Indonesia and the European Union, to develop technological solutions that can address the greatest threats facing our planet. Daniela has been recognized for her work by former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, President Bill Clinton, and EU Commissioner Karmenu Vella. She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and a member of the Friends of Ocean Action, a select group of leaders coming together to fast-track solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the ocean. She has been named a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, named one of Glamour Magazine’s College Women of the Year, listed as Zula’s Top 5 Ocean Heroes of 2016, received the Peter Benchley Ocean Award, and Bustle Upstart Award. Fernandez is also a contributor to National Geographic and Sustainable Brands, has been interviewed by Voice of America, New York City TV, and Ocean Radio. She has been a speaker at multiple high-level events including: The Economist World Ocean Summit, the Global Climate Summit, The Global Convening of Mayors, The United Nations, U.S. Capitol Hill Ocean Week, Collision Conference, Sustainable Brands Conference, WE Day, and Davos 2019 – The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting.
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About Ocean Solutions Accelerator, Sustainable Ocean Alliance: SOA advances the impact of start-ups and youth-centered initiatives that are developing solutions to protect and sustain the ocean.
Chaim Sztabzyb
Co-Founder of Nadanu
Chaim brings a wealth of programming knowledge and expertise to Nadanu. At a very young age he began to take an interest in technology when he received his first desktop computer: an IBM personal desktop running MS-DOS. As a co-founder of Nadanu, Chaim sought to create a functional yet simple to manage system to increase global giving and donor interaction.
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About Nadanu: Nadanu Technologies provides online and mobile fundraising solutions for churches to collect donations through websites.
Adam Kircher
Co-Founder of SIRUM
Co-founder at SIRUM
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About SIRUM: SIRUM is an innovative organization committed to reducing barriers to health for underserved populations.
George Wang
Co-Founder & Director of SIRUM
Co-founder SIRUM
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About SIRUM: SIRUM is an innovative organization committed to reducing barriers to health for underserved populations.
Kiah Williams
Co-Founder of SIRUM
Co-founder SIRUM.
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About SIRUM: SIRUM is an innovative organization committed to reducing barriers to health for underserved populations.
Garrett Johnson
Co-Founder & Chairman of Lincoln Network
Garrett Johnson is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lincoln Network.
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About Lincoln Network: Lincoln Network provides opportunities for the entrepreneurial community to learn about market-based and tech-powered solutions.
Rose Broome
Co-Founder & CEO of HandUp PBC
Rose is the co-founder and CEO of HandUp, a crowdfunding website for homeless people and neighbors in need. 100% of donations on HandUp.us go towards basics like food, medical care, and housing through partnering social service organizations. In 2014, HandUp was named the Most Innovative Startup of the day by Fast Company and won the 1776 Global Challenge Cup Competition; Rose and her co-founder Zac Witte were also named in the Top People in Tech by Business Insider. Previously, Rose served as COO at SuperBetter Labs and as a Data Manager for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. She studied Campaign Management at Santa Clara University and Psychological Research at San Francisco State University. Rose lives in San Francisco and is a core organizer of Science Hack Day and Tech for Good SF.
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About GiveCrypto.org, HandUp PBC: HandUp is an online platform where anyone can donate directly to homeless people and others in need.
Chuck Slaughter
Founder, President of Living Goods
Founder of TravelSmith and Living Goods
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About Living Goods, TravelSite.com: Living Goods is a social enterprise harnessing the power of micro-entrepreneurs to deliver life-changing products.
Debra Miller
CEO & Founder of Cure Duchenne
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About Cure Duchenne, CureDuchenne Ventures: Duchenne is the most common muscle disease in children.
Neeru Khosla
Co-Founder and Executive Director of CK-12 Foundation
Neeru Khosla is a co-founder and executive director at [CK-12 Foundation](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ck12#/entity), a non-profit organization that provides access to education materials for K-12 students and teachers. She has served as a member on several advisory boards, including The Nueva School’s board of trustees, the board of directors for High Tech High School’s Graduate School of Education, the advisory board for Stanford University’s School of Education, and the advisory board for IDEO.org. Khosla is currently a member on the advisory board for the Wikimedia Foundation, the advisory board for DonorsChoose, and is one of the founding members of the K-12 Initiative of the Design School at Stanford University. She holds a master’s degree in molecular biology from San Jose State University and another master’s degree from Stanford University.
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About CK-12 Foundation: CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization providing access to education materials for K-12 students and teachers.
David Spinks
Founder and CEO of CMX
David is the founder and CEO of CMX Media. Above all else, David seeks to help and empower community builders. He started CMX Summit and CMX Hub after he noticed that the thousands of community builders in the world weren’t talking to one another. Before CMX, David co-founded an online cooking school called Feast (part of 500 Startups) and BlogDash, a platform to help businesses with blogger outreach. As a consultant and employee, David has worked with some amazing companies such as Zaarly, LeWeb, Udemy, Seatgeek, Binpress, and more. Hailing from New York originally, he now lives in the Mission District of San Francisco.
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About Bevy, CMX: CMX is advancing the community industry and helping community professionals thrive.
Kevin F. Adler
Founder and CEO of Miracle Messages
Kevin F. Adler is Founder and CEO, Miracle Messages.
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About Homeless GoPro, inthis, Miracle Messages, NearShot, Presidential Leadership Scholars, Rowman & Littlefield, TED, University of California Berkeley: Miracle Messages, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, helps people experiencing homelessness reconnect with their long-lost loved ones.
Mariska Hargitay
Founder and President of Joyful Heart Foundation
Mariska Hargitay is an American actress and the founder and president of Joyful Heart Foundation. Mariska is best known for her role as NYPD Special Victims Unit Detective/Sergeant/Lieutenant Olivia Benson on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, for which she has earned multiple awards and nominations, including an Emmy and Golden Globe. She made her film debut in the 1985 horror-comedy film Ghoulies and her major television debut in the 1986 adventure drama series Downtown. She appeared in numerous roles in film and television shows throughout the late 1980s and 1990s before being cast as Olivia Benson. Mariska Magdolna Hargitay is the daughter of bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay and actress Jayne Mansfield.
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About Joyful Heart Foundation: Joyful Heart Foundation is a national organization that provides support to women who have been sexually abused.
Amrit Baveja
Founder of Enlyter
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About Enlyter: Enlyter is a free, non-profit service dedicated to providing people with an easy to interpret explanation on how companies use their data.
Fabien Lamaison
Founder & CEO of bunny.money
Fabien Lamaison is Founder & CEO at bunny.money
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About bunny.money, UC Berkeley, Haas Business School: We help caring citizens easily save & donate based on their financial wellness while their favorite nonprofits can fundraise for free
Jennifer Lawrence
Founder of Jennifer Lawrence Foundation
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her Hollywood films have grossed over $5.5 billion worldwide, and she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016. She appeared in Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2013 and in the Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2014 and 2016.
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About Jennifer Lawrence Foundation: The Jennifer Lawrence Foundation assists and empowers charitable organizations that fulfill children’s vital needs.
Svetha Janumpalli
Founder and CEO of New Incentives
Svetha Janumpalli is the Founder and CEO at New Incentives.
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About New Incentives: New Incentives is a non-profit that changes the lives of the world’s poorest mothers and newborns.
Pratyush Agarwal
Co-Founder and COO of New Incentives
Cofounder & COO at New Incentives.
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About New Incentives: New Incentives is a non-profit that changes the lives of the world’s poorest mothers and newborns.
Jacob Martinez
Founder/CEO of Digital NEST
Prior to establishing the Digital NEST in 2014, Jacob Martinez spent ten years leading innovative computer-based programs in Pajaro Valley schools and beyond, with a particular focus on encouraging Latina girls to enter high tech fields. He is a frequent speaker at technology and educational conferences and symposia, and has been honored by business, community, and educational institutions for his innovation and leadership. He spoke in 2015 at the first White House Tech Meetup and was named by Tech Crunch as one of 2014’s Top 10 Men in the Country Supporting Women in Technology. Digital NEST founder Jacob Martinez holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Masters degree in Instructional Science and Technology from California State University, Monterey Bay. Jacob continues to seek opportunities to build on the broad coalition of supporters that have made Digital NEST a reality, and welcomes your inquiry.
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About Digital NEST, University of California, Santa Cruz: Digital NEST creates sustainable and scalable technology centers in vulnerable communities all over California.
Shawn Wehan
Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Givsum
Shawn Wehan is the Co-Founder/CEO of Givsum.
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About Givsum: Givsum is a comprehensive management and engagement platform that manages their organization’s operations and fundraising efforts.
Robert Kollar
Co-Founder, Vice President, and General Counsel of Givsum
Robert Kollar is the co-founder, vice president, and general counsel of Givsum.
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About Givsum: Givsum is a comprehensive management and engagement platform that manages their organization’s operations and fundraising efforts.
Patricia Dugan
Founder of It’s The Community
Patricia Dugan is a communications and behaviorally-oriented community architect, creating structure, marketing and branding vehicles to create lasting value for the world’s largest and strongest companies. Her core community representations surround open source, cloud, networking, infrastructure, virtualization and SDN, as well as strengthening the communities around languages and systems such as ONOS, Java and OpenStack. She has helped build two digital publishing companies from the ground up and is the epitome of the passionate “maker” in the startup world. She’s a yogi and fitness nut who is always on the search to optimize awesome.
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Katharine DeShaw
President / Founder of Philanthropology
Katharine DeShaw is a consultant and teacher devoted to best practices in philanthropy and nonprofit management. Ms. DeShaw has led successful grant- making programs and delivered record-breaking fundraising campaigns for arts, health, and social service-related causes throughout her career. She has proven expertise working with international leadership from the fields of philanthropy, technology, business, politics, and entertainment. She has experience in all areas of nonprofit philanthropy, including crowdfunding. She is currently writing a book about her life in philanthropy to be published by the web platform NationBuilder in 2015.
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About Philanthropology: Philanthropology offers strategic counsel, fundraising back office, and expert training for nonprofits.
Elizabeth Timme
Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director of LA-Mas
Elizabeth Timme is co-founder and co-executive director of LA-Más, a non-profit design firm that seeks to establish the potential for design-based outcomes in Los Angeles. With a diverse background working in resource-limited environments, Elizabeth has led the office to focus on projects that critically engage systemic problems and provide solutions based on research and community engagement. To date she’s led the LA Watts Community Studio project and the Reseda Great Streets initiative to pilot alternative uses for pedestrian-oriented streets that would reshape and rethink the future of equitable city growth. Elizabeth teaches at Woodbury University’s Architecture & Civic Engagement (ACE) Center and serves on the Zoning Advisory Committee of Re:Code LA, a city-led effort to transform the city’s outdated zoning code. She holds a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a bachelors’ degree in architecture from the University of Southern California.
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About LA-Mas: LA-Mas is a multidisciplinary, non-profit community design organization.
Conn Fishburn
Founder + CEO of F3 Ideas
Conn Fishburn is the Founder and CEO of Fibonacci, Fellini and Fishburn (aka F3 Ideas) which provides consulting and advisory services for entrepreneurs, senior executives, and investors via Research, Strategy, Marketing, M+A, Investments; Partnerships, and New Ventures. With more than 20 years of experience, Fishburn is an expert in strategy, innovation and brand building and a highly sought after advisor who speaks frequently on these subjects. He has built a career and reputation by providing insight and business-building strategy to some of the world’s most powerful brands, including American Express, Barclayʼs Capital, Cablevision, Coca-Cola, Conde’ Nast, Disney, Guggenheim Digital Partners, National Football League, NBCUniversal, Motorola, News Corp., Unilever, UBS, Verizon, Viacom, the Women’s Tennis Association and Zealot Networks. Fishburn is on the Board of Directors of The Broad Stage and an active Member of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fishburn graduated from Emory University with a dual degree in Social Theory and Creative Writing. Originally from Bean Station, Tennessee, Fishburn now lives in Venice, California with the artist and designer Marlen Lugo.
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About F3 Ideas: F3 Ideas helps innovators, entrepreneurs, leaders and investors imagine, prepare and create a better future.
Jameson Welch
Founder and CEO of Glis
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About Glis: A Social Network for Good that connects volunteers with charities and allows them to spread their impact.
Tammy Chan
Executive Director & Co-Founder of Conversations for Good
She has carried over her experience in Finance and Information Technology to co-found a nonprofit called Conversations for Good, a 501(c)(3) charity that provides the underserved communities to provide resources to navigate into a fulfilling career. She is actively involved as the Executive Director in implementing programs in the East Bay of San Francisco. Tammy is also involved as the Director of Operations for IIIJ Foundation, think tank commissioned by the tech elite, formed to advance the understanding of innovation, involving programmatic activities domestically and internationally. She’s responsible for managing business operations and overall programs.
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About California League of Conservation Voters, Conversations for Good, IIIJ: Conversations for Good is a non-profit organization connecting career seekers with experienced professionals.
Sawyer Steele
Founder / COO / Head of Productions of Let It Ripple
Sawyer Steele is Senior Producer for The Moxie Institute Film Studio + Lab and Senior Producer and co-founder of Let it Ripple: The Cloud Filmmaking Studio. He has produced, written, and co-edited several award-winning films with acclaimed Director Tiffany Shlain including The Science of Character, A Declaration of Interdependence, Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks, and Engage. He co-wrote the award-winning Sundance film Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology. He also produced and co-wrote the AOL Original series The Future Starts Here, which explores the intersections of humanity, society, and technology as we rush head first into the 21st century and which has received nearly 40 Million views in its first three months. His work with Tiffany Shlain has been instrumental in pioneering a new type of participatory filmmaking they call “Cloud Filmmaking.” He was born and raised in New England, has a degree from Colby College, and lives in Oakland, CA.
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About Let It Ripple: Let it Tripple is an online platform that enables users to convert their pictures into brick mosaic images.
Elizabeth Lee
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Online SOS
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About Online SOS: Online SOS is a nonprofit that serves and supports people experiencing online harassment.
Jack Buckingham
Founder of Positively Social
Jack Buckingham is a founder of Positively Social, a non-profit organization that works to promote positivity on social media. Jack is also the son of marketing expert Jane Buckingham and author Marcus Buckingham, as well as the brother of actress and Positively Social co-founder Lilia Buckingham.
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About Positively Social: Non-profit organization
Scott Duncan
Co-Founder & CEO of The Veteran Advantage
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) United States Marine Corps April 1992 – November 2012 (20 years 8 months) Scott is a successful leader, senior executive and logistician with over twenty years of experience in a dynamic, demanding and fast paced industry – the U.S. Military. Throughout his military career he effectively led and managed organizations of progressively larger scale and complexity (up to 1,100 employees). His strong operational focus and ability to lead and coordinate efforts across the business domain have resulted in a proven history of performance – one of quality outcomes and consistency in achieving organizational goals and objectives. Scott’s military experience and leadership skills provide The Veteran Advantage the necessary tools to successfully train and place U.S. military veterans.
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About The Veteran Advantage, The Veteran Advantage: The Veteran Advantage [TVA] is a non-profit organization.
Steve Fulgham
Co-Founder & President of The Veteran Advantage
Steve is a visionary, an experienced building professional, and an accredited solar expert, who has turned his passion for America and the environment into co-founding The Veteran Asset. Steve has succeeded in building one of the most robust resumes in the renewable energy industry. He is double-certified by the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners [NABCEP], the “gold standard” within the solar industry. He carries NABCEP PV Installer and NABCEP PV Technical Sales certificates. Adding to the relevancy of his experience are his previous engagements as a solar integrator, custom home builder, and Senior Vice President of Sales for a multi-billion dollar software firm. Fulgham currently carries California licenses B (General Contractor) and C46 (Solar/Renewable Energy). He is a notable leader and speaker in today’s renewable energy arena.
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About Ambassador Energy Inc, The Veteran Advantage, The Veteran Advantage: The Veteran Advantage [TVA] is a non-profit organization.
Kelly Smith
Co-Founder & VP of The Veteran Advantage
Kelly brings her entrepreneurial and construction experience, philanthropic background, journalism degree, and unique solar photovoltaic skill set to The Veteran Asset. Becoming involved in the solar industry in 2006, she cut her teeth on sales, marketing, and crafting franchise models for those entering the solar photovoltaic industry. The recipients of the franchise-style offering were contractors, whom Kelly helped train on all aspects of operating a solar sales and installation company. In addition to her long career in the for-profit private sector, Kelly has held many leadership positions within a number of philanthropies. She brings the experience of both private enterprise and non-profit leadership to her role at TVA. Kelly has owned several business and is the daughter and granddaughter of U.S. military veterans. Kelly earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from Southern Methodist University.
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About Ambassador Energy Inc, The Veteran Advantage, The Veteran Advantage: The Veteran Advantage [TVA] is a non-profit organization.
Janete Perez
Co-Founder of Present Company
As a co-founder of Present, Janete Perez focuses on bringing Present to the masses and, overall, on the strategy for the company. She leads a team of rock star engineers and marketing mavens. Janete is passionate about creating spaces for women to connect, support each other and have impactful, meaningful conversations. Before founding Present, Janete spent her career working at some of the world’s top technology companies. Most recently, she worked as a product manager for Messenger’s growth team at Facebook. Before Facebook, she was a senior product manager at Zynga, where she led teams across various verticals including analytics, machine learning and mobile. Janete also spent five years at Microsoft helping to advance projects within the Visual Studio team for Microsoft Expression.
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About Present Company: With Present women can rally around interests they care about in their local communities.
Michael Green
Founder and CEO of Center for Environmental Health
In 1996, Michael founded the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) to raise public awareness of the corporate use of toxic chemicals and of the many viable, pragmatic solutions to this pervasive threat to public health. Since then he has helped lead national efforts to stop toxic exposures and protect public health. He has also pioneered the groundbreaking legal work that has won landmark victories to protect the public from hazardous consumer products and toxic emissions. Michael has worked in Washington D.C. for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, and the US EPA’s Working Group on Environmental Equity. Michael designed a solid waste management plan for the Tibetan refugee community in Dharamsala, India, and cared for the sick at Mother Teresa’s mission in Calcutta, India. He was awarded the California Wellness Foundation’s annual Leadership Award, as well as the prestigious Compassion in Action Award which is presented jointly from the Dalai Lama Foundation and the Committee of 100 for Tibet each year. He has testified in front of Congress, serves on numerous boards of directors, and is frequently quoted in national and international media. Michael has an MS in Natural Resources and an MPP in Public Policy, both from the University of Michigan.
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About Center for Environmental Health: Center for Environmental Health has helped lead the growing, nationwide effort to protect people from toxic chemicals.
David Risher
Founder & President of Worldreader.org
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About Worldreader.org: Worldreader works globally with partners to support vulnerable and underserved communities with digital reading solutions.
Emily Pilloton
Founder & Executive Director of Project H
Emily founded Project H in 2008, believing deeply in the power of design and building to excite learning and citizenship. Her first crush, MacGyver, sparked her love of constrained problem-solving and tinkering. She went on to study architecture and building because it was the one thing that allowed her to geek out about everything, from math and structural engineering to ethnography and the fascinating behavior of people. Emily believes that by giving youth, particularly girls and students of color, the skills to design and build their wildest ideas, we can support the next generation of creative, confident changemakers. Her ideas and work have made their way to the TED Stage, The Colbert Report, the New York Times, and more. She is the author of two books, Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People, and Tell Them I Built This: Transforming Schools, Communities, and Lives with Design-Based Education. When she isn’t welding with her 10-year-old Camp H girls or co-teaching Studio H, Emily loves to run, write, rabble-rouse, and eat unreasonable amounts of Mexican food.
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About Project H: A 501c3 nonprofit teaching youth to design and build their future with heart, hands, and hammers.
Josette Melchor
Executive Director & Founder of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
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About Gray Area Foundation for the Arts: Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is a Non-Profit organization that applies art and technology to create positive social impact.
