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Betsy Densmore
Betsy Densmore is Founder and President of Academies for Social Entrepreneurship providing training, peer learning, mentoring and funding guidance for social entrepreneurs. She has worked with hundreds of not-for-profit organizations, catalyzing tens of thousands of dollars in new revenue for innovative charitable ventures.
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Chef Josh Katt
Chef Josh Katt has worked in the restaurant industry for more than 12 years. After spending some time working with an after-school cooking program in 2010, he was hired to prepare meals for a family in need of a personal chef who could cook according to the Anti-Inflammatory Diet. This diet emphasizes the use of whole, unprocessed foods such as fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, and meats, and avoids inflammatory ingredients such as dairy, gluten, soy products.
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Cynthia Jaggi
The Founder of GatherWell, Cynthia has developed a unique approach to supporting practical idealists with a combination of inner resilience and entrepreneurial skills. Formerly a Partner at the Management Consulting firm Fitzgerald Analytics Cynthia focused on Organizational Development, Strategic Planning and Executive Coaching. She advised both for and non-profits, including members of the Fortune 500 and New Profit portfolio social innovators. Cynthia also served as the Chief Program Officer of Catholic Charities of the East Bay, one of the largest Social Service agencies in the East Bay, where she oversaw the development of a radical new social impact strategy and the programmatic leadership team to support it. She holds an M.Sc. in Environmental, Socio-Economic and Technological Planning, and has lived in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, though she now makes her home in the Bay Area.
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Darrell Park
Darrell Park is a life-long public policy nerd who has a passion for finding real world solutions to America’s problems. After earning an undergraduate degree in History from Allegheny College and a graduate degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, Park embarked on a nearly decade-long stint as a career civil servant in the White House complex, where he saw first-hand the historic multi-year balancing of the Federal Budget and experienced what was possible when America is motivated towards a common goal. He moved west to attend Stanford Business School, joined a start-up, and fell in love with the creativity and innovation of entrepreneurship. He is married with a young son, and divides his professional time between new start-up projects and envisioning real-world solutions to America’s toughest problems.
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Heather Hiles
Current CEO and founder of Pathbrite.
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Jason Green
Jason is a Founder and General Partner of Emergence Capital. He has been in the venture business for over 15 years and backed 7 “Unicorns” so far in his career (Visual Networks, DoubleClick, Ask Jeeves, aQuantive, SuccessFactors, Box and Yammer). He serves on the board of the National Venture Capital Association, and he was the Founding Chairman for the Kauffman Fellows Program. Jason also served as Chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and is a Founding Board member of Endeavor, the leading global non-profit supporting entrepreneurship. Jason currently serves on the Boards of CoTap, Lotame, Replicon, ServiceMax, SteelBrick, and xAd and is an observer at Box. Before founding Emergence, Jason was a General Partner with USVP and a Kauffman Fellow with Venrock. He also previously worked at Bain & Company and Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe. Jason graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard with Distinction. Jason was awarded the Charles Williams Fellowship at Harvard Business School for post-graduate research in Entrepreneurship and Finance. Jason is married with two children. The most unique trivia about Jason is that he is a twin married to a twin.
Investors: | Website: http://www.emcap.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Jeffrey Perlman
Jeffrey Perlman is the President and Founder of Bright Power. He spends his days solving the most challenging energy problems facing building owners today. An experienced energy auditor, energy analyst and solar-energy-system designer, Jeff is as happy in a boiler room or on a rooftop as he is in a corporate boardroom
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Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba is a Golden Globe-nominated actress whose career includes roles in films such as "Fantastic Four" and "Little Fockers," as well as television series like "Dark Angel," "The Office" and "Entourage."
Investors: | Website: https://www.honest.com | Email: [email protected] |
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Molly Baldwin
Molly Baldwin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Roca, Inc. A graduate of UMass, Amherst, Molly began her professional life as a street worker and community organizer, andMolly Photo_Molly Baldwin page soon founded Roca in 1988. For over twenty-five years, she has been a tireless advocate, mentor, and community convener, reaching out to the highest-risk young people from our area’s most dangerous urban communities, and bringing together the major institutions, corporations, and agencies that affect these young people’s lives. Her 5’3” stature belies her magnanimous presence – with the help of engaged institutions and a committed team of youth workers, Molly’s efforts at Roca have helped over 25,000 young people make positive and profound changes in their lives. Today, Roca intensively reaches out to over 700 participants each year, operating on the singular belief that – with the right help – people can change in spite of seemingly insurmountable circumstances. Molly has been the recipient of numerous regional and national awards and has been recognized as one of the Boston Globe’s Top 100 Innovators for 2013. She holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Lesley University and an honorary Ph.D. from Salem State University.
Investors: | Website: http://rocainc.org/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Ryan Luce
Ryan spent most of 2000-2009 working for healthcare technology company NexCura, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2005 and then sold to US Oncology at the end of 2009. NexCura has educational tools that are embedded on a variety of websites, including several of the most prominent advocacy groups. As Director of Product Development, he developed completely new product lines in clinical trial recruitment, market research, and physician messaging. Ryan earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Duke University in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Bio-Organic Chemistry from the University of Washington in 1999.
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Tabreez Verjee
Tabreez Verjee is a three-time entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Impact at Scale to invest in and relentlessly support mission driven technology entrepreneurs pursuing epic endeavors that matter. Some of the recent superheroes that he has backed include the people behind Change.org, Amicus, Calm, ClassDojo, Lumo Body Tech, Purpose, and Upworthy amongst others.
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Zoe Hunton
Founder - Hunton Law: Legal Counsel for Social Enterprises
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