Pireeni Sundaralingam is a scientist, artist, and dedicated brain activist. As a cognitive neuroscientist, she conducted her doctoral research at the University of Oxford and post-doctoral work at M.I.T.’s Department of Brain and Cognitives Sciences, researching decision-making, innovation and the brain, and has led numerous research programs, including her role as Principal Advisor on Human Potential for a recent United Nations initiative on behavior change in accelerating climate action, health development and more. 

As an artist, her work has won national literary awards, been translated into 5 languages, and she collaborated with a range of dancers, composers, VR artists and painters. Her work as both a scientist and artist has led to her current post as the inaugural interdisciplinary Catalyst at Oxford University’s oldest college, where she runs the SPARK program : "Helping People Think the Unthinkable”.  
 
Pireeni notes: “It's my lifelong passion to foster innovation and resilience throughout the community, and to help each one of us make the best of our unique, extraordinary brains.

Jane Hirshfield, in poems described by The Washington Post as belonging "among the modern masters" and in The New York Times Magazine as "among the most important poetry in the world today," addresses the urgent immediacies of our time. Ranging from the political, ecological, and scientific to the metaphysical, personal, and passionate, Hirshfield praises the radiance of particularity and reckons the consequence of the daily. Her poems and essays traverse the crises of the biosphere, questions of social justice, and the myriad interior quandaries of heart, mind, and spirit. Her work lives at the intersection of facts and imagination, desire and loss, impermanence and beauty - all the dimensions of our shared existence within what one poem calls "the pure democracy of being."

Her ten poetry books include the newly published The Asking: New & Selected Poems (September, 2023); Ledger (March, 2020), The Beauty, long-listed for the 2015 National Book Award; Given Sugar, Given Salt, a finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award; and After, named a "best book of 2006" by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and England's Financial Times. Her two collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (2015), have become classics in their field, as have her four books collecting and co-translating the work of world poets from the past: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Komachi & Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Japanese Court; Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women; Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems; and The Heart of Haiku, on Matsuo Basho, named an Amazon Best Book of 2011.

Hirshfield's other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets; Columbia University's Translation Center Award; The Poetry Center Book Award, The California Book Award, the Northern California Book Reviewers Award, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, Orion, and ten editions of The Best American Poems. In 2004, Jane Hirshfield was awarded the 70th Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by The Academy of American Poets, an honor formerly held by such poets as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Elizabeth Bishop. In 2012, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2017, in conjunction with reading to an estimated 50,000 people on the Washington Mall at the first March For Science, she co-founded the Poets For Science traveling installation, housed with the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. In 2019, she was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Hirshfield has taught at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Bennington College, Queen's University Belfast, and elsewhere. Her frequent appearances at universities, writers' conferences, symposia, and festivals in this country and abroad are highly acclaimed. Her poems and essays have been translated into over fifteen languages and her work has been set by numerous composers, including John Adams and Philip Glass. Her TED-ED animated lesson on metaphor has received over 1.5 million views.

Saydeah Howard is the Founding Partner & Managing Partner at Cherryrock Capital, the first Black woman-founded, multi-hundred-million-dollar venture firm focused on Black and Latine founders. Alongside Stacy Brown-Philpot, Saydeah founded Cherryrock to help the best emerging technology startups scale from $1M to $100M through operational excellence and talent development.

Before Cherryrock, Saydeah was a Partner & Chief Talent Officer at IVP, a premier late-stage venture capital firm. In this role, she was responsible for advising the firm's portfolio companies on human capital issues, including executive search strategy, leadership, talent development, and several other services. She also led human resources and operations internally, overseeing HR, Technology, Facilities, and Admin for the firm.

Prior to joining IVP, Saydeah served as Vice President of Human Resources & Organizational Development at LeapFrog Enterprises. With global human resources and facilities responsibility, she successfully implemented a new performance management approach, an employee recognition program, and rebuilt the recruiting department.
Previously, Saydeah was an Associate at Russell Reynolds Associates, an international executive search and assessment firm, where she led senior executive searches for technology and media companies. Before that, she held various roles at Turner Broadcasting System, managing client relationships with cable operators including Comcast, Time Warner, and Cox Communications. Early in her career, Saydeah was the Director of Client Services at Truis Corporation, providing customer intelligence services to leading technology companies including Microsoft, Business Objects, and CNET.

Saydeah received a B.A. in History from Stanford University and a Master of Science in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco.

Doug Scott is CEO and co-founder of Ethic, a personalized and sustainable investment platform for advisors and institutions. Ethic manages over $5 Billion in assets as of 3/31/24, and is backed by venture investors including Oak HC/FT, Nyca, Fidelity, UBS, and Sound Ventures. Doug was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30, Business Insider’s Rising Star of Wall Street and is on the Board of Stanford University’s Long-Term Investing Initiative. Previously he worked in M&A investment banking at Deutsche Bank AG.

Camilla Nestor currently serves as CEO of MCE Social Capital. Over her two-decade career, she has focused on strategies that improve the economic lives of people around the world. 
 
Prior to joining MCE, she served as CEO of MIX, where she launched new strategic directions and worked to design and structure a merger with the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion. Before that, in over a decade in leadership positions at Grameen Foundation, Camilla led global programs in financial inclusion, agriculture and health. She built the organization’s impact investing arm, placing debt, equity and guarantees that generated over $250 million for financial service providers. Earlier in her career, she worked at Citigroup executing debt financing for emerging markets firms, and spent four years working in Indonesia and the Balkans setting up microfinance institutions. 
 
Camilla serves as adjunct professor of financial inclusion at Columbia University, where she also received an MBA and Masters in International Affairs. She lives outside New York City with her husband and dog. 
 

Jasmine Crowe-Houston is an award-winning social entrepreneur, children's book author, and determined leader dedicated to making the world a better place.

In 2017, after years of feeding people experiencing homelessness from her own kitchen, Jasmine launched Goodr, a sustainable waste management and hunger solutions company that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. She has been featured on CNBC, in Oprah Magazine, Forbes, Fast Co., and the New York Times, and has been named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 100 influential female founders and Insider's 100 People Transforming Business.

Under Jasmine's leadership, Goodr has provided over 34 million meals and counting to those in need and redirected more than 25 million pounds of materials from landfills. The company was named by Fortune Magazine as a World Changing Company. She currently sits on the boards of the Metro Atlanta Chamber and Drawdown Georgia.
An active community member and advocate, Jasmine is also a devoted wife and mother of two daughters, Journey and Justice. She loves to travel, read, and serve her community, continually striving to create positive change both locally and globally.

Dr. Ashby Monk serves as the Executive Director of the Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing. With over 20 years of experience in studying and advising investment organizations, Ashby is a renowned expert in the field of institutional investing.
He has authored multiple books and published hundreds of research papers on the topic. His latest book, The Technologized Investor, won the 2021 Silver Medal from the Axiom Business Book Awards in the Business Technology category.

Beyond academia, Ashby has co-founded several companies aimed at improving investment decision-making, including Real Capital Innovation (acquired by Addepar), FutureProof, GrowthsphereAI, Long Game Savings (acquired by Truist), NetPurpose, D.A.T.A., SheltonAI, and ThirdAct.

He is also the co-founder and managing partner of KDX, a venture capital firm focused on investment technologies.
Ashby is a member of the CFA Institute's Future of Finance Advisory Council and was named by CIO Magazine as one of the most influential academics in the institutional investing world.

He holds a Doctorate in Economic Geography from the University of Oxford, a Master's in International Economics from the Université de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne, and a Bachelor's in Economics from Princeton University.

Gaurab Bansal is dedicated to making complex systems work better for people. He has devoted himself to increasing excellence in public education, making our economy and democracy more inclusive, and building a thriving tech ecosystem that advances human progress and the public good.

Gaurab’s vocation is to coach. He has advised leaders navigating uncertainty in and across business, government, politics, advocacy, law, and philanthropy. He supports leaders pursuing change by focusing on organizational development, narrative, resource mobilization, incentives, behavior, and culture change.

Gaurab currently leads Responsible Innovation Labs (RIL). RIL accelerates tech leaders on their journey to solve human problems at enduring scale.

Gaurab brings multi-sector experience spanning government, campaigns, business, and civil society. Gaurab served in the Obama Administration. He was a founding teacher of an early KIPP public middle school. He has counseled startups and venture funds as a lawyer. Gaurab has advised public entities and NGOs, including Economic Security Project, National Democratic Institute, and the City of Seattle.

Gaurab earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from the University of Washington School of Law. He lives in Seattle, WA and is originally from Baltimore, MD.

Bruno Van Tuykom is the CEO and co-founder of Twentyeight Health, a women's health platform focused on increasing reproductive & sexual health care access to underserved communities. Prior to founding Twentyeight Health, Bruno worked for 4 years helping the Gates Foundation on increasing access to healthcare, with a focus on Family Planning, HIV and Malaria. He is extremely passionate about increasing access to healthcare – and thinks there is still a lot to do to achieve gender equity and make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and convenient for all.

Previously, Bruno was a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group and is an electrical engineer by training.

Jane Swan, CFA is a Partner and Senior Advisor in the San Francisco office of Veris Wealth Partners. Jane began working in the field of socially responsible investing in 1996. Jane serves as investment advisor to foundations and endowments interested in leveraging their investment strategy to maximize community impact in service of their mission. She builds holistic relationships with wealthy families, individuals, foundations, and endowments, integrating their values and mission with a customized investment strategy. 

Jane serves on Veris’ DEIB Committee in the role of Partner Sponsor. She also serves as Head of Advisory Services, and on Veris’ Management Team, Investment Committee, Compensation Committee, and Compliance Committee. Jane brings an equity lens to each of these committees, reinforcing that we cannot simply be better than our industry peers on issues like compensation and career pathing. We must recognize areas where industry standards perpetuate inequality, and we must also strive to dismantle those barriers to equality. In leading our Advisory Services, she elevates opportunities for innovation on impact with a robust investment analysis process.  

Prior to joining Veris, Jane worked as a Portfolio Manager and Vice President with Northern Trust where she served families as well as private and community foundations. Jane got her start in the investment industry at Progressive Asset Management. 

Jane is on the Board of Horizons Foundation, supporting LGBTQ+ communities, primarily in California. She is chair of their Investment Committee and serves on their Executive Committee. Jane graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California with a degree in Economics and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.  

Stephanie Cohn Rupp is the Chief Executive Officer and Partnership Chair at Veris Wealth Partners. She has more than 20 years of global impact investing experience. Throughout her career, Stephanie has focused on building scalable, profitable, sustainable businesses. Based in Denver, she helps lead the firm’s impact wealth management growth strategies, financial performance, and client experience. 

Before joining Veris, Stephanie was Managing Director, Partner, and Head of Impact Investing at Tiedemann Advisors where she served clients as a Wealth Advisor and led the development of the impact investing platform and impact client experience. Prior to that, she was CEO of Toniic, a global community of impact investors which she grew tenfold. Previously, Stephanie held globally focused investment roles at Omidyar Network, PlaNet Finance, UBS, and The World Bank and built greenfield microfinance institutions financed by USAID.

Stephanie is a Board Director and Board Secretary of the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF), a member of the Impact Assets 50 Review Committee, and an advisory board member to the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance (PRIME Finance) based in the Hague.  

Stephanie earned her Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and her Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a French and US binational. In 2017, Stephanie co-authored The ImpactAssets Handbook with Jed Emerson and since has published multiple editorials on the Impact and ESG sector, including in Medium and the Financial Times.

Karen Skelton has advised U.S. Presidents, Vice Presidents, U.S. Cabinet Secretaries, Governors, First Ladies, Fortune 100 corporations, philanthropies, Boards of Directors for 35 years.

Most recently, Skelton served as a Senior Policy Advisor to both Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and the President’s top Climate Diplomat, John Podesta. During this time, Skelton played a key role in managing political, policy, and communication strategies to accelerate the nation’s industrial policy transition to a clean energy economy. Skelton collaborated with private sector stakeholders to gain access to hundreds of billions of dollars in grants, tax credits, loans, and other investments that address the climate crisis, rebuild American manufacturing, and lower costs for consumers and businesses.

Skelton’s work included co-leading the establishment of the Interagency Working Group on Coal & Power Plant Communities & Economic Revitalization (See www.Energycommunities.gov), now responsible for delivering over $170 billion in federal resources to help revitalize America’s energy communities; organizing private and public sector engagement in key states as Congress considered support for the Inflation Reduction Act; managing a White House effort to build a coalition of philanthropies which have contributed so far over $3 Billion in pooled funds and aligned tables to implement the President’s climate package; heading the inaugural launch of the DOE’s Foundation of Energy Security and Innovation.

Karen Skelton joined the Biden-Harris Administration from California, where she spent two decades running and selling two companies. Skelton spent a decade as the founder of Skelton Strategies, a policy and political consulting firm working on energy, climate, technology, economic justice, and women’s health. Skelton served as Governor Jerry Brown's Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Global Climate Action Summit, where she drove high-level corporate commitments designed to combat climate change. With Maria Shriver, Skelton founded and managed a series of groundbreaking reports on the transformational role of women in American life, including an Emmy-nominated documentary. Clients included Governor Schwarzenegger’s Women’s Conference, HBO, Bloom Energy, Segway, the National Basketball Association, UCLA’s Baseball team, T-Mobile, Google, YouTube, Amazon, John Doerr and Mayor Willie Brown.

Previously, Skelton served in the Clinton-Gore Administration as Vice President Al Gore’s first Political Director and Deputy Political Director to the President, in the U.S. Departments of Justice as a prosecutor, and at the United States Department of Transportation as Chief Counsel of the Federal Highway Administration.

Skelton earned her B.A. in English with Honors from UCLA, a Master’s degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. from the UC Berkeley Law School.

Skelton and her husband, a life-long public defender, live in Sacramento and have two grown daughters and one lively Brittany spaniel.

Jeff leads Fiduciary Trust International’s sustainable investing research, working across all asset classes to identify investment opportunities that advance our clients’ investment and sustainability objectives. Prior to joining Fiduciary Trust International, Jeff was an Investment Officer with the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program, a public-private investment fund housed within the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Jeff was hired into government as a Presidential Management Fellow and completed a rotation with the Office of African Nations at the U.S. Department of Treasury. Previously, Jeff served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, West Africa. Jeff received his Master of Arts in international finance and development from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Bachelor of Arts in international relations from Tufts University.

Jeff was a member of the Global Impact Investing Network’s Listed Equities Working Group and advised on the development of the GIIN’s “Guidelines for Pursuing Impact in Listed Equities” (March 2023). He is Co-author – Investing in Gender Equality, January 2018; Author – Building Impact Portfolios, April 2017; Co-author - Social Finance and the Postmodern Portfolio: Theory & Practice, Journal of Wealth Management, Spring 2016.

Jeff is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and Member, CFA Society Boston.

Mark Kramer is widely recognized as a thought leader, writer, speaker and consultant on strategies for social impact.  He has given hundreds of presentations around the world and published more than 30 articles in Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review. He is best known for articles on Collective Impact, Creating Shared Value, Catalytic Philanthropy and, most recently, Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong.

In 2000, together with Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, Mark co-founded FSG, a 150-person nonprofit social impact consulting firm with offices in the US, Europe and Asia.  FSG has developed social impact strategies for many of the world’s largest foundations, and corporations.  Porter and Kramer also co-founded the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a U.S. nonprofit that helps major foundations measure and improve their effectiveness.

For more than 20 years, Mark worked with Professor Michael Porter on the intersection between social impact and competitive strategy, culminating in the concept of Creating Shared Value.  From 2016 to 2022, Mark developed and taught MBA and Executive Education courses on Purpose & Profit as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He has served as a sustainability advisor to major corporations such as Kimberly Clark and Nestlé. Mark is also an active impact investor with more than $12 million in impact investments.  In 2021, he co-founded Maternal Newborn Health Innovations to commercialize a life-saving medical device for obstructed labor, and in 2023, he was a founding partner in Congruence Capital, a public equity impact investing hedge fund.

Prior to founding FSG, Mark served as President of the private equity firm Kramer Capital Management. Before that he was an Associate at the law firm of Ropes & Gray.   He earned his BA summa cum laude from Brandeis University, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

 Cody Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Coactive AI, an analytics platform for visual content. Coactive leverages AI to make it easy for enterprises to search, filter, and analyze large amounts of image and video data by bringing structure to unstructured data.

He is also a co-creator of DAWNBench and MLPerf , a founding member of MLCommons, and his work spans from high-performance deep learning to data-centric AI. Additionally, he is the founder of the Black Founders Summit in San Francisco. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and MEng and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

 Prior to Congruence, Mr. Hoff was a principal and the Director of Research at Centerline Capital Management, a Platinum Equity affiliate, where he focused on investments in small and mid-cap public companies with the potential for value creation through operational improvements.

Prior to Centerline, Mr. Hoff was a senior member of the investment team at Archer Capital for nine years, where he focused on public investments in equity and debt securities issued by small and mid-cap companies.

Previously, he worked at Macquarie Group where he was responsible for investing proprietary and client capital in credit instruments. He began his career at Western Asset Management.

Mr. Hoff graduated from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance.  He is a CFA charterholder.

Dan is the founder and CEO of Plankton Energy, a commerical-scale development firm based in Brooklyn, NY. Dan leads the solar project development efforts at Plankton. In addition to his role at Plankton, he is also a Professor at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he teaches a course on Solar Project Development.

Prior to founding Plankton, Dan was a Vice President at Safari Energy, where led the financing and development of over 100 MW of distributed solar projects. Before joining Safari, Dan worked in Social Venture Investing in both India and Bhutan. Dan began his career in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he focused on the Power, Utilities & Renewables industry.

Dan received an MS in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a BA cum laude, with honors in Economics from Wake Forest University.

Peter Knight is a Founding Partner of Generation Investment Management, which focuses on sustainable investing strategies in public and private markets. Until his retirement in 2017, Knight oversaw Generation’s U.S. business and played a vital role in establishing its position as a global sustainable investing leader with assets under management totaling more than $20 billion. Prior to Generation, Peter was a Managing Director of Met West Financial, an LA based asset management company.

Mr. Knight started his career at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. From 1977 to 1989, he served as the Chief of Staff to Representative and later Senator Al Gore. He has also served in senior positions on four Presidential campaigns including serving as the Campaign Manager for President Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign. 

Mr. Knight has extensive board experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. He has served on six public company Boards and currently serves on the Fund Boards of Generation Investment Management and the Board of bioAffinity. He also serves as Chair of the Climate Museum, the World Resources Institute’s Global Leadership Board and  the Board of the Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters, one of the nation’s newest National Monuments. 

Peter holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School and a B.A. from Cornell University.

Erika Seth Davies is the CEO of Rhia Ventures, which aims to transform the U.S. market for sexual, reproductive, and maternal health into a vibrant and equitable one through its impact investing, ecosystem building, corporate engagement, and narrative change work. She is a seasoned leader with more than 20 years of experience in development and fundraising, program design, collaboration and partnership management, and racial equity advocacy.

Erika is the Founder of The Racial Equity Asset Lab (The REAL), a venture that centers racial equity in impact investing and works to shift capital to address the persistent racial wealth gap. She previously served as Vice President of External Affairs at ABFE (Association of Black Foundation Executives) where she designed the SMART Investing Initiative, a field-wide effort to encourage foundations to incorporate a racial equity lens in endowment management practices through increased access for racially diverse- and women-owned investment management firms.  

Erika was a Social Entrepreneur in Residence with Common Future and a former Fellow, Equitable Access to Capital Markets in the Fair Finance portfolio of the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University. She was a member of the inaugural class of the ABFE Connecting Leaders Fellowship program, a recipient of the NYU Wagner School of Public Service IGNITE Fellowship for Women of Color in the Social Sector, and a member of the class of 2017 for Executive Leadership Institute of CFLeads. 

Erika was previously the Associate Director of Philanthropy at McDonogh School and served as the Chief of Staff of the Baltimore Community Foundation. She enjoys volunteering and serves as a member of the board of Impact Hub Baltimore.

Additional positions and activities include serving on the McDonogh School Board, the T. Rowe Price Charitable Board, Glenmede’s Sustainable and Impact Investing Advisory Council, the Investment Committee for the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Impact Investing Committee of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, and the Repower Investment Advisory Committee.

Her most significant role is that of mother to Ethan and Evelyn.

Nicole Musicco was most recently CIO at CalPERS, a $460 billion US pension plan. She was previously a Partner at RedBird Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on building high growth companies, predominately in Sports, Media, Leisure & Entertainment.

Additionally, Nicole spent over 16 years in a broad range of senior leadership roles at Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan (“OTPP”), a $200 billion Canadian pension plan, overseeing Private & Public Equity asset classes, and establishing OTPP’s presence in Asia by building out its Pan-Asian investment platform based in Hong Kong.

At Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (“IMCO”), a $70 billion pension asset management firm, Nicole led the $20 billion Private Markets investment program, across Private Equity, Infrastructure, and Real Estate.

Lisette Cooper, PhD, Vice Chair and former CEO of Athena Capital Advisors, has over 30 years of investment management experience. She is a member of Fiduciary Trust's Board of Directors and a member of Franklin Templeton's Management Committee.

Dr. Cooper founded Athena Capital Advisors, an award-winning OCIO (outsourced Chief Investment Officer) and wealth management firm, which was sold to Fiduciary Trust International in March 2020. At Fiduciary Trust, Dr. Cooper leads the firm's sustainable and impact investing practice as well as its investment risk management initiative.

Dr. Cooper is a leading advocate on equality and diversity through shareholder activism. She is a board member of the Boston Youth Sanctuary, the Mind and Life Institute, and the Center for Healthy Minds Innovations, as well as serving on many advisory boards for social justice and environmental organizations. She is a trustee emerita of The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.

Dr. Cooper is a Mind and Life Fellow and has served as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab. She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and a PhD from Harvard University. She holds the CFA designation as well as several patents.

Karine Sarkissian is Managing Partner at Tamar Ventures, an early-stage female led VC fund with an integrated venture studio, Le Studio, where she co-leads investment strategy, design projects, and portfolio management. She is also a founding partner at Tamar Capital, a
single-family office active in the Middle East, UK, and US, where she oversees the Impact and Venture portfolio in the US. With a background in design and strategy, Karine co-founded Le Studio to support startups through design, impact measurement, and strategic development.

Since 2020, Le Studio has supported over 700 entrepreneurs across four continents. Karine has contributed to social innovation initiatives by co-creating the Open IDEO NYC Chapter and mentoring students at NYU and the Hult Prize accelerator. She also freelances as
a graphic designer and illustrator, and enjoys spending time outdoors and in the ocean.

Emilie is a climate tech entrepreneur and investor with 18 years of experience working at the intersection of climate change and finance. She is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Tailwind, a venture firm focused on accelerating innovation for climate adaptation and resilience solutions. Emilie is also a Board Member of Climate Resilience for All, a gender-focused climate adaptation nonprofit dedicated to the protection of people and livelihoods from extreme heat and all its impacts.

A lifelong social entrepreneur, Bo Ghirardelli was born and raised by a family of entrepreneurs with strong humanitarian values in Oakland, California. He loves entrepreneurs. He knows that talent is distributed equally, but opportunity isn’t. Early on in his career, Bo served as a public middle school teacher through Teach For America and as a business development consultant with the Peace Corps in North Africa. Bo has been the founder of four organizations, two not-for-profit and two for-profit, that collectively employ over 50 people.

He has spent over a decade as the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Skysthelimit.org, a tech nonprofit that provides business mentoring, startup grants, and training to underrepresented young adult entrepreneurs across the country and beyond. Seeking to close the opportunity gap in entrepreneurship, over 80,000 entrepreneurs have signed up on their digital platform, over 80% of whom are BIPOC, 68% women, and 85% low-income when they join Skysthelimit.org. Bo spends his time building partnerships, working on the design of the platform & curriculum, fundraising, and leading the executive team.

Anamitra Deb currently serves as the Managing Director of Responsible Tech at Omidyar Network, a philanthropic organization dedicated to steering the digital revolution towards shared power, prosperity, and possibility. In this role, he oversees teams focused on various critical areas including tech platform accountability and regulation, privacy, data governance, online trust and safety, the development of better tech cultures and products, responsible and open-source technology, as well as establishing guardrails for emergent technologies such as generative AI.

Anamitra has authored numerous reports addressing responsible tech, market-based solutions, impact investing, and strategic philanthropy, and he has lectured on these subjects at esteemed institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University. His insights and writings have been featured in prominent publications like The Economist, The Washington Post, Wired, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Techonomy, MIT Innovations, Inside Philanthropy, The Times of India, and Outlook India. Additionally, Anamitra is a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and serves on several advisory boards including Consumer Reports’ Innovation Council and the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas.

A Rhodes Scholar, he holds two master’s degrees from the University of Oxford and is a proud alumnus of Mount Allison University and the Lester B. Pearson United World College in Canada. Originally from India, Anamitra resides in California with his wife and their two energetic sons.

Thomas Kamei is a Portfolio Manager at Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management (Long-only, Multi-cap Growth strategies with ~$25B under management). Thomas covered the Internet Sector for 10 years as an analyst at MSIM before launching the Tailwinds Strategy in 2023, a fund designed to capture alpha from differentiated Sustainability Research. Thomas worked at Kleiner Perkins’ Greentech Growth Fund in 2009, was a First Movers Fellow at the Aspen Institute in 2015, and he has attended 28 consecutive Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meetings. Thomas is a graduate of the USC School of Architecture and Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco.

Jacob started Dirt Capital Partners in 2013 as a platform to channel private investment in support of farmland access, conservation and long-term land security for sustainable farmers. Previously, he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in Asia, where he spent five years acquiring and developing real estate and infrastructure on behalf of the firm.

Jacob chairs Dirt Capital’s Investment Committee and also serves on the New York Advisory Council of American Farmland Trust, the Investment Committee for Belltown Farms. He previously served on the Board of the National Young Farmers Coalition for 10 years from 2013-2023 including several years as Treasurer. He has an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA from Williams College.