Our people
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Experienced Vice President of Finance and Operations with a demonstrat-ed history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong financeprofessional skilled in negotiation, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, private equity,and turnaround strategy. High tech early stage investor.

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President of Kroma Superfoods, a functional lifestyle nutrition and holisticwellness company. Venture Partner at Invermaster Ventures, an investment banking firmproviding early stage capital to experiesced entrepreneurs. Vice Chair of the YPO PersonalCouncil and the past Chair of the Personal Investing Network.

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Seasoned social impact leader focusing on social innovation andCSR for systems transformation. Vice President, Impact, MaRS Discovery District, sup-porting Canada’s most promising startups. Specialties: social impact acceleration, CSRNext, All things innovation; fund development; social innovation; social entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur, investor, innovation catalyst, GM and Chief Innova-tion & Growth Officer, XPRIZE; Curator and Co-Founder AI for Good. Amir helps start,grow, and run innovative ventures, focusing on working with startups and growth-orient-ed companies on products and initiatives that could trigger significant breakthrough withsubstantial economic and societal impact.

Bob is a recognized expert on peer forums, having co-authored the Harvard Business Review article “How to Get the Most out of Peer Support Groups: A Guide to the Benefits and Best Practices,” and been a featured guest on HBR’s Management Channel. Bob is a YPO certified forum facilitator and former Chief Education Officer at YPO, and has been a senior executive education leader at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Babson College.  He is a Research Affiliate (and former Executive Director) at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, and Chairman of the Academic Board of the Emeritus Institute of Management, a collaboration between MIT Sloan, Columbia, and Dartmouth Tuck Business Schools.

ITU's former elected officer (Director) initiated the "AI for Good Global Summit" in 2017.

More than 35 years of experience in ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) led to various technologies such as NGN, IPTV, Fixed Mobile Convergence, IoTs, identity management, AI/ML applications in ICTs, including AI for Health, climate change and waste management.

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Former Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Managementand Budget under President George W. Bush. Former Assistant to the President forPresidential Personnel, Clay was the Chief Operating Officer for the Dallas Museum ofArt and the President of the Horchow and Neiman Marcus Mail Order companies.

Connector, conduit and idea generator, Corrie is a mission-drivenadvisor with the ability to unlock potential for impact. Focused on collaborations andsupport of organizations that combat human trafficking/exploitation, support education,and economic empowerment of marginalized communities. Chair, YPO Impact Networks(People Action Network)

Founder & Inaugural Director @New Global Center, ExecDir for the GeoTech Commission Atlantic Council. Leading Global, People-Centered, Data & Tech Ventures and Strategic C-Suite Executive, Founder, BridgeBuilder, GlobalKeynoter, ChangeAgent. Named top "24 Americans Who Are Changing the World" byBusiness Insider and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Led Bio-terrorism Preparedness & Response Program’s tech response to 9/11, anthrax, WestNile, SARS and other outbreaks.

Executive fellow with the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership,which supports CEOs in pursuing a broader mission that transcends quarterly returnto investors. David co-founded and was CFO and CMO at American SustainableBusiness Council. David was a partner at Accenture and held other executive roles inmanagement consulting and high tech, helping leaders navigate strategic challengesin the media, computing and communications industries.

Alliance Ecosystem Development at XPRIZE, and trustxviiExecutive Director, Dominic works at the intersection of trust, strategy and impact forbetter futures for all. He integrates a systems approach to identify leverage points,creating fresh perspectives and fostering exponential outcomes for just economicprosperity, human flourishing and environmental resilience.

Sarah teaches International Business graduate courses at American University. Sarah founded Blu World, launched in collaboration with Google and Cisco Foundation to provide opportunities to youth in developing countries. She co-founded The Remembering Site -- initially funded by the Elon Musk Foundation. Sarah served the United Nations as manager of the United Nations Development Program Information and Communications Technology for Development practice and was on the Panel of Advisers to the United Nations Global Alliance for Technology and Development.

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Eli is Chief of Staff of the Sager Foundation overseeing its global im-pact efforts. She leads TKP’s Impact Council and advises TIE Global Artisans, a proj-ect of PYXERA Global and one of TKP’s charter project partners. Eli’s career began infinance and technology. Eli consulted to Fortune 50 companies on digital accelerationand worked for PBS/NPR developing digital media startups. She was Chief NetworksOfficer at YPO, overseeing its social impact efforts. She founded SDG Imperative tohelp companies align investment with impact and serves as a Human Rights Commis-sioner in Newton, Massachusetts.

Founder and CEO of the Dignity Fund, one of the first for-profit funds investing in high potential micro finance institutions. Elizabeth started the social enterprise, DignityMoves, to build innovative interim housing for the tens of thousands of individuals and families facing homelessness. She intertwines profit and purpose, harnessing the power of capitalism to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Founding President en Social Global Leaders México SAPI de CVMexico. Civil Engineer (Universidad Iberoamericana); MBA (Egade Business School);AD2 (IPADE Business School); ECLA (Columbia Business School); OPM50 (HarvardBusiness School). Endeavor entrepreneur, "Entrepreneur of the year 2012"; Selected by Ernst & Young to be part of its “Hall of Fame 2012”; chosen as Entrepreneur of theYear 2012 by CNN Expansión. Selected as one of the Mexican Leaders by the maga-zine “Líderes Mexicanos”.

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Senior Vice President - Strategy, Partnerships & Corporate Development at IronNet Cybersecurity. Founded the National Security Institute, a startup think tank at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Served in the U.S. government in a variety of roles, including on the leadership team of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and at the House Permanent Select Committee onIntelligence. Also served on the leadership team of the Justice Department’s NationalSecurity Division and in the White House as an Associate Counsel to President GeorgeW. Bush. He also worked for Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.

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Business Development, AI at Google. Jana has worked for Google for more than a decade, in New York and Palo Alto. In addition to her current role in AIBusiness Development, Jana was on the Google Assistant team, Area 120, a work shop for Google’s experimental products as well as X, The Mooshot Factiory, which invents and launches “moonshot” technologies that Google hopes could someday make the world a radically better place. Jana learned Mandarin at Beijing University, attendedHarvard Business School Executive Education and received her BA from McGill University in Commerce, Management & Neuropsychology. Jena is a longtime volunteer withMentor/We Are Family Foundation and Code to Inspire.

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Kume is founder and CEO of Afrovalley, the blockchain cross border trading platform and ecosystem that will serve as the peer-to-peer marketplace connecting farmers with wholesalers, assuring quality and quantity to the buyer while opening direct financing, market opportunities, and greater return for producers. Kume also ran her own supply chain management company across the energy and water sector to support Rural Africa socio-economic development.

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Mark is the principal of Going Global Ventures, a cognitive AI strategist and expert and venture capitalist. He is a senior advisor/fellow affiliated with UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services), G20/B20, Council onCompetitiveness, IPSoft, BCG, SwissCognitive, Bootstrap Labs, AI Capital and Hanaco VC. Mark contributes to a number of publications, including Forbes, for which he wrote "Future proofing Our Cities With Climate-Smart Solutions." Mark was appointed Chair of AI Policy at the International Research Centre for AI, under the auspices of UNESCO. Forbes named Mark one of the Leaders to Watch in 2017.

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Mark is Partner/Chief Human Element Officer of the 5th ElementGroup, a global impact consultancy recognized by Forbes as an “outstanding global brain trust network” of leaders and influencers. Selected by Business week as one of 150 most influential headhunters in the world, Mark gained business and inter-national awareness and relationships from his experiences with Deloitte, Jaycees International, and two search firms, boutique and global. Mark was the only executive search consultant invited to the United Nations to celebrate International Women’sDay and be a Founding Signatory to the “Decade of Women” in 2018. Mark has conducted hundreds of video interviews with executives and now continues his authentic conversations on the Leaders Who Care® channel.

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Chief Machine Learning Scientist and Head of Machine Learning/AIat Susquehanna International Group and is on the Data Science Faculty at Berkeley. Mike specializes in deep learning and distributed scalable machine learning and is experienced in text comprehension, image recognition, recommender systems, targeted advertising, forecasting, user understanding, and customer analytics. He is a pioneer in developing training programs in industry focused machine learning and data science techniques.

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Managing Partner, Marigold Capital. Canada's Top 40 Under40, Lecturer, BMW Responsible Leader, Social Finance & Innovation. A leader in social finance, Narinder has worked across sectors and silos bringing depth, perspective, and rigor to her work in North America and the Global South.

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Deputy CEO & Chief Strategy Officer, King Khalid Foundation (KKF). Natasha is a global strategist with 25 years of experience in sustainability, philanthropy, and social and economic development. Natasha has extensive experience with systems change and building entrepreneurial ecosystems in the emerging markets. Through her consulting practice, Natasha helps organizations globally develop high-impact strategies and solutions, increase business engagement with theSDGs, and inspire innovation. Natasha has led innovative multi-stakeholder partner-ships for the 2030 Agenda and SDGs.

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Emerging Markets professional with a senior leadership back-ground in private sector development, supply chains, circular economy and sustain-ability, entrepreneurial ecosystems, diaspora engagement and corporate finance. Nii has previous management and P&L responsibility with Fortune 500 companies. Hehas worked globally for multilateral and development finance institutions (DFIs) with advising, consulting and providing thought leadership for private sector development. Nii also focuses on venture building and integrating SMEs and local suppliers to global supply chains for job creation for African youth and young adults.

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Paul is a trusted advisor to European and U.S. executives on international business initiatives, partnerships, commercial transactions and strategies. He specializes in the aerospace, defense, energy, environment, telecommunications and transportation sectors. He has deep expertise in identifying, evaluating, and mitigating corporate risks, understanding political, cultural, and commercial issues internationally.

Payel Farasat is an impact investor and the Co-Founder/Managing Principal of V4 CAPITAL, a bespoke private equity impact house that ‘amplifies the good+the genius of others.’ She currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer and Founding Sponsor Team member of a $288MM IPO, BurTech Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BRKH) poised to bring revolutionary and innovative solutions in the ImpactTech sector to public markets. Payel delivers consistent risk-controlled performance and profitability in the impact space while being accountable for long-term planning with a robust sustainability of value strategy.  Highly experienced in research, analytics, financial operations, and in selecting and developing high performance teams, Payel has effectively led the development and execution of strategic and business plans while successfully targeting and quantifying new growth opportunities and value propositions. Payel has held leadership positions at household firms: Charles Schwab, American Express, and Oracle. She serves on the Board of several global non-profit and for-profit social enterprises such as Centre for Responsible Leadership (CRL), End Poverty Make Trillions (EPMT), Bunker Labs, and Fund A Mom (FAM).

Co-Founder of the Regenerative Alliance and member of YPO’sPlanet Action Network. Faculty of Lancaster University Management School, Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy. Board Member of the Resilience Institute.Former CEO of International NGO Medair and former Chairman of Mercy ShipsSwitzerland. Consultant, researcher, teacher and facilitator in governance, leadership and strategy. Randall was group CEO of Medair. Randall cycled solo across NorthAmerica to raise awareness about hunger and poverty.

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Ravi’s vision and life purpose are to bring the transformative power of mentorship to 100 million people in the world. Ravi is the Founder andCEO of MentorCloud, a human-powered growth platform to rapidly grow capabilities and performance of people through guided mentorship connections at scale. Ravi, a globally recognized thought leader on mentoring and learning, is the author of “TheArt of Mentoring.”

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Chairman of Herald Holdings Ltd, a public-listed industrial and distribution group on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In addition, Rob served as WPOBoard Chair 2011/2012 and has been actively involved in YPO since joining the YPOHong Kong Chapter in 1991. Rob served as Chairman of the Vision 2047 Foundation, a not-for-profit group of longtime Hong Kong residents who promote Hong Kong asAsia's regional business center.

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Founder, STS Capital and Altruvest. Rob started STS to increase the sale values of companies so the owners could donate the additional upside to making the world a better place through supporting philanthropic charities. He created Altruvest to provide training and tools to improve the performance of charitable organizations so they can give more to their causes. In 1998, Rob received the Top 40 Under40 leadership award for the work he had done in creating 1,000 new jobs in Canada, as well as founding and growing Altruvest, which has now contributed over $10 million since its establishment. Rob has held various roles with YPO.

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President of Florentine Strategies, which provides board support, strategic consulting, and investment capital for healthcare, social enterprise and technology companies. Rob is also the CEO of Entrepreneurs in Action, which manages theEIA Social Enterprise Fund, investing in local social enterprises, helping them create successful businesses and jobs while addressing community and global social needs.Rob is part of the University of Central Florida’s Partnership and Innovation team, serving as a Senior Strategic Advisor and Director of the newly created Innovation Districts. Robco founded, ForgeGreen Bio.

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YPO’s longest serving CEO, Scott led the 30,000-member organization from 2011 through 2020. Before becoming YPO’s chief executive, Mordell worked with the Duchossois Group, leading six different business segments within the privately owned family portfolio. He also worked for The Chamberlain Group, Arlington Inter-national Racecourse, Deloitte and KPMG. He led Arlington through its most turbulent periods and negotiated an unprecedented merger of the privately owned institution with publicly traded Churchill Downs Inc.

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Scott is COO and Chief Family Impact Officer of the 5th ElementGroup. A passion for the oceans led him into international conservation and then to dedicate himself to supporting coastal communities working to develop economies that maintain their culture and the environment. Scott spent 13 years building a sustainable future for the 19-million-acre Great Bear Rainforest, first with the Packard Foundation and then co-leading two foundations that partnered with 27 First Nations to use $120Mto create thriving communities.The project won the 2016 Fuller Challenge.

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Chairman & CEO at Burkhan Holdings. Shahal's career as a venture investor spans over 25 years. His past investments encompass software/telecoms, real estate, energy, natural resources, technology and various Industrial sectors. He has been directly responsible for syndication of over $5 billion in equity for projects as a principal in the US, Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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Shamil is a Managing Director at STS Capital Partners; CEO of Altruvest Charitable Services, an affiliated foundation of STS and a global nonprofit organization that provides training and tools to improve the governance of community-based char­ities. In 2016, he was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in “Manufacturing and Industry” - and again in 2017 to the Forbes 30 Under 30 All-Star list. He has also been featured as one of Inc magazine’s “50 Emerging Global Entrepreneurs to Watch.” Shamil co-founded Wiivv Wearables which became one of the world’s largest supplier of custom 3D printed footwear.

Chairman and Founding Managing General Partner REDDS Capital, Founder Chair Outreach ITU ACM XPRIZE AI for Good Global Summit, FoundingChairman Technology Advisory Council FinTech Ideas Festival. Globally unique with chairman, founder, board roles in business/finance, successful entrepreneurship, lead-ing global science orgs, UN innovation programs, top industry-orgs/think tanks, leading summits. 300+ global engagements impacting $100+ trillion in sustainable investments.

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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Peacemaker of Million Peacemakers. Stephen brings over 30 years of personal and business experience to the field of conflict resolution and is co-author of the bestseller, Nonflict: The Art of EverydayPeacemaking. Winner of the Canada Award for Business Excellence and the YMCAPeace Medal, Stephen served YPO leadership at chapter, regional and global levels with a focus on education. In 2019 he was co-chair of the highest-rated YPO international innovation event and has been a leader on the Peace Action Network.

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Co-Founded the IMPACT2030 Initiative in 2015, a private sector led collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and anchored by SDG17, Partnerships for the Goals. Sue is also the Founder of Strategies for Service, a consultancy specializing in helping companies develop high-impact solutions that define and elevate their social impact strategies, increase business engagement with theSDGs, and activate passion for the organization’s purpose. From 2000 to March 2016,Sue was a senior executive with The Ritz-Carlton focused on expanding the company’s“Serve with Purpose” philosophy.

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Executive Vice President, Head - US Delivery Operations and GlobalHead Education, Training & Assessments at Infosys. Tan is an accomplished business leader, with over three decades of experience in the global IT services industry and expertise in strategy, operations, education, talent development and technology implementation. He is passionate about giving back to society and is an advisory member of multiple not-for-profit organizations.

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Partner, RAISE SIG, Founder, Genashtim Innovative Learning, Thomas works primarily in eLearning, with clients in more than 10 countries who are mostlyMNCs and government institutions. Employees are 90% from marginalized communities like refugees and persons with disabilities. Prior to embarking as a social entrepreneur,Thomas spent 25 years as an international executive with major multinational companies in Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. He has been an active member of YPO and was the elected Chair in the Philippines before going on to the regional board. He was YPO Global Impact Awardee for 2016.

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Digital Assets Board Member at the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness at U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Vince created Fintech.TV, broadcast fromt he NYSE and focused on digital assets and legislative issues surrounding the fintech space. Vince has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and was a co-founder of Templum, Inc., and formerly the CEO of its subsidiary, Templum Markets, a FINRA registered broker dealer and Alternative Trading System (ATS). Beyond leading the way toward a more effective and efficient private market, Vince is passionately and deeply committed to impact investing and humanitarian issues.

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Senior Programme Officer, United Nations Office for Partnerships.Will works to promote new partnerships to support the work of the United Nations in alliance with corporations, foundations and civil society. He serves as an interface be-tween the UN Foundation (UNF) and the UN System in facilitating the identification and development of high impact projects and programs for channeling UNF and other partner resources into the UN System.

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