speaker bios

SPEAKER BIOS
Andre Agassi
Founder, Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation
Andre Agassi began his professional tennis career in 1986 at the age
of 16. His performance on the court earned him 60 career men’s
singles titles, including eight Grand Slam singles championships. Mr.
Agassi is the only male player in the world to win all four Grand Slam
titles and an Olympic gold medal.
In 1994, he established The Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation to
provide recreational and educational opportunities for at-risk youth in
his hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada. Since its inception, the
Foundation has raised more than $70 million for programs designed
to enhance a child’s character, self esteem, and career possibilities.
He is married to former tennis superstar Stefanie Graf, and the
couple has two children, Jaden Gil and Jaz Elle.
The Andre Agassi Charitable
Foundation (AACF) was created to
provide recreational and educational
opportunities for at-risk boys and girls. The
Foundation strives to assist those
underprivileged, abused, and abandoned
children who may be deprived of basic
options in life. The Foundation also offers a
combination of emotional, physical, and
academic programs designed to enhance a
child’s character, self-esteem, and career
possibilities. To date, the AACF has raised
more than $70 million through innovative
fundraising efforts such as the Grand Slam
for Children concert benefit and sponsors
including Genworth Financial.
Byron G. Auguste
Director, McKinsey & Company
Byron Auguste is the worldwide managing director of McKinsey’s
Social Sector Office, which houses McKinsey & Company’s practices
in Global Public Health, Economic Development & Opportunity
Creation, Education, and Philanthropy. McKinsey’s Social Sector
works with leading intergovernmental organizations, NGOs,
philanthropic foundations, and private companies to develop and
implement solutions to pressing societal challenges.
Based in Washington DC since 2007, Mr. Auguste spent 14 years in
McKinsey’s Los Angeles Office, where he was elected principal in
1999 and director in 2005. His private sector client work focuses on
helping technology, media, and services companies to achieve faster
growth, greater productivity, and higher profitability, and on
designing and building information and services businesses across a
wide range of industries. He founded and led McKinsey’s High Tech
Services Sector globally, has served on the global committees that
elect and evaluate new partners, and leads the firm’s Diversity
initiative globally.
Mr. Auguste received a B.A. in economics and political science summa
cum laude from Yale University, where he was chosen as a Truman
Scholar, and a M. Phil. and D.Phil. (doctorate) in economics from
Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
McKinsey & Company is an
international management consulting firm
that helps leading corporations and
organizations make distinctive, lasting, and
substantial improvements in their
performance. With over 8,500 consultants
deployed from 90 offices in about 50
countries, McKinsey has extensive experience
in all major industry sectors and primary
functional areas, and in-depth expertise in
high-priority areas for today’s business
leaders. McKinsey also helps a diverse range
of government institutions, public
administrations, and non-profit organizations
with their management challenges.
Victoria B. Bjorklund
Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Victoria Bjorklund is a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
where she heads the Firm’s Exempt Organizations Group. She
advises public charities, private foundations, boards, and donors. In
2001, Ms. Bjorklund was appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury to serve as one of six exempt organization members on
the IRS’s Tax Exempt/Government Entities Advisory Committee
and served as Chair for 2004-2005. In June 2005, she received the
IRS Tax Exempt Division Commissioner’s Award for “groundbreaking service” to the Advisory Committee.
Ms. Bjorklund speaks and writes frequently on exemptorganization subjects. Every year since 1989 she has spoken at the
ALI-ABA Charitable Giving Program on “Choosing Among
Private Foundations, Supporting Organizations, and DonorAdvised Funds,” a topic she also addresses at the annual
Georgetown Conference. She is the co-author with Jim Fishman
and Dan Kurtz of New York Nonprofit Law and Practice (LexisNexis, 2d
Ed. 2007).
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is a
leading global law firm with offices in New York,
Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Washington, D.C.,
Beijing, Hong Kong, London, and Tokyo.
Established in 1884, the Firm currently has more
than 800 lawyers. On a world-wide basis, the
Firm provides coordinated legal advice on the
largest and most complex corporate transactions
and litigation matters in industries which include
financial services, insurance, power and natural
resources, consumer products, services, technology,
telecommunications, media, pharmaceuticals, and
healthcare industries.
She earned her J.D. at Columbia University School of Law, a
Ph.D. in medieval studies from Yale University, and a B.A. magna
cum laude from Princeton University, where she graduated in three
years and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Sheila Bonini
Senior Expert Consultant, McKinsey & Company
Sheila Bonini is a senior expert consultant based in the Silicon
Valley Office of McKinsey & Company. She has been with
McKinsey for over 8 years working out of their New York, Madrid,
Copenhagen, London, and Santiago offices. Ms. Bonini is one of
the leaders of the Business in Society and Regulatory Strategy
service line within McKinsey’s Strategy Practice.
Ms. Bonini has significant experience advising clients across sectors
on the impact of social and regulatory issues, including multiple
engagements on corporate social responsibility, sustainability,
stakeholder management, and regulatory strategy. Ms. Bonini
joined McKinsey after working for both Goldman Sachs and
Merrill Lynch in their investment banking divisions. She also took a
3-year leave from McKinsey to work in the nonprofit/foundation
sector.
Ms. Bonini holds an A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard
University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of
Business.
McKinsey & Company is an international
management consulting firm that helps leading
corporations and organizations make distinctive,
lasting, and substantial improvements in their
performance. With over 8,500 consultants
deployed from 90 offices in about 50 countries,
McKinsey has extensive experience in all major
industry sectors and primary functional areas, and
in-depth expertise in high-priority areas for today’s
business leaders. McKinsey also helps a diverse
range of government institutions, public
administrations, and non-profit organizations with
their management challenges.
Jean Case
CEO, Case Foundation
Jean Case is an actively engaged philanthropist and a pioneer in the
world of interactive technologies. Her career as a technology
executive in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she
and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997.
Its mission focuses on investing in individuals and organizations that
aim to connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action.
The Case Foundation was created by
Steve and Jean Case in 1997. The Foundation
invests in individuals, nonprofits, and social
enterprises aiming to connect people, deepen civic
engagement, increase giving, and catalyze civic
action.
In 2006, Ms. Case was appointed by President George W. Bush to
serve as Chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic
Participation. A key priority for the Council is leveraging the
professional skills of individuals and companies through pro bono
service programs to help the nonprofit sector achieve more
meaningful outcomes for communities.
In 2007, she was appointed by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice to serve as a co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership to
promote economic opportunity for the Palestinian people, prepare
Palestinian youth for the responsibilities of citizenship and good
governance, as well as marshal new private investment in the West
Bank.
In addition to this work, Ms. Case serves on the boards of PlayPumps
International, Points of Light/Hands On Network, Malaria No
More, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), ePals, Millennium
Promise, America's Promise, and the Potomac School. She also serves
on the advisory council of the National Geographic Society and the
advisory board to the National Conference on Citizenship.
Margaret M. Coady
Program Manager, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
Margaret M. Coady spearheads the Committee Encouraging
Corporate Philanthropy’s online Corporate Giving Standard (CGS)
measurement and benchmarking program. The tool’s primary
applications include data collection, reporting, benchmarking, and
analysis. Companies have submitted nearly $50 billion in domestic
and international giving data since 2001.
Since joining CECP in early 2005, Ms. Coady has tripled the number
of companies actively involved in benchmarking their giving using the
CGS system; 150 companies, including nearly 70 of the Fortune100,
currently participate in the initiative. This work has generated an
unprecedented storehouse of data, and Ms. Coady authors a growing
library of reports for giving professionals based on her analysis. She
often lectures for national and international audiences on these
publications. In addition, Ms. Coady consults one-on-one with
survey respondents to create company-specific giving profiles, which
corporate philanthropy professionals find essential in planning giving
strategy and presenting findings to senior management.
Prior to joining CECP, Ms. Coady worked as a Senior IT Consultant
with PricewaterhouseCoopers and played a key technical role in
several global custom software implementation projects for Fortune
500 clients. She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from
Williams College and currently lives in New York.
CECP's mission is to lead the business
community in raising the level and quality of
corporate philanthropy. CECP is the only
international network of corporate leaders
actively working to affect positive change through
corporate philanthropy. The organization’s
membership consists of 175 CEOs who seek
and create opportunities to serve as corporate
giving advocates to advance the case for
philanthropy and to inspire other business
leaders to make a lasting commitment to
community giving.
Douglas R. Conant
President and CEO, Campbell Soup Company
Douglas R. Conant was appointed president and chief executive
officer of Campbell Soup Company in January of 2001. He also was
elected a director of the company at that time. Mr. Conant is
Campbell’s 11th leader in the company’s nearly 140-year history.
Under Mr. Conant’s leadership, Campbell has reversed a precipitous
decline in market value and employee engagement. The company has
made significant investments to improve product quality and
packaging, strengthen the effectiveness of its marketing programs, and
develop a robust innovation pipeline. Campbell also has improved its
financial profile, enhanced its relationships with its customers, and
consistently improved its employee engagement through investments
in its organization.
Campbell Soup Company is a global
manufacturer and marketer of high-quality foods
and simple meals, including soup, baked snacks,
and vegetable-based beverages. Founded in
1869, the company has a portfolio of marketleading brands, including “Campbell’s,”
“Pepperidge Farm,” “Arnott’s,” and “V8.”
Mr. Conant joined Campbell with 25 years of extensive food industry
experience from three of the world’s leading food companies: General
Mills, Inc., Kraft Foods, and Nabisco. Mr. Conant began his career in
1976 in marketing at General Mills. After 10 years with General
Mills, he then moved to Kraft, where he held top management
positions in marketing and strategy. Immediately prior to joining
Campbell, Mr. Conant was president of the $3.5 billion Nabisco
Foods Company, where he led that unit to five consecutive years of
double-digit earnings growth.
A native of Chicago, he earned his B.A. from Northwestern
University and his master’s degree in business administration from the
J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.
Carol Cone
Founder and Chairman, Cone, Inc.
As the founder and chairman of Cone, Inc. for over 25 years Carol
Cone has defined the landscape for building sustainable, authentic,
and socially oriented brands for companies. More recently she has led
the firm to enhance nonprofit brands through the optimum alignment
of mission, communications, and development.
Ms. Cone and her firm have pioneered vibrant new alliances for
private/public partnerships to create signature programs for a host of
Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits, including the Avon Breast
Cancer Crusade, ConAgra Foods’ Feeding Children Better, PNC Grow Up Great,
the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women and Start!, Reebok’s
Human Rights Awards, Western Union’s Our World, Our Family and P&G
Live, Learn & Thrive among others. Overall, Cone’s signature cause
programs have raised more than $1 billion for various social causes.
Today, Cone, Inc. is acknowledged as the nation’s leading cause
branding and corporate responsibility firm.
She graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University with a B.S. in
fine arts, and Boston University with a master’s in communications.
In 1991, Cone completed the Owner/President Management
Program at the Harvard Business School.
For over 25 years, Cone, Inc. has believed
that business must stand for something beyond
the bottom line that is authentic to the
organization, supportive of core values and
operational objectives, while critical to society’s
health. Cone, Inc. has helped prove that
alignment between a company and
social/environmental issues today is an expected
part of doing business, helping organizations
raise more than $1 billion for social issues
around the world while strengthening their bonds
with core stakeholders, building market, mind
and share of heart.
Katie Couric
Anchor and Managing Editor, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Co-Founder, National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance
Katie Couric is the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening
News with Katie Couric, a 60 Minutes correspondent, and anchor of
CBS News primetime specials. When the CBS Evening News with
Katie Couric debuted on Sept. 5, 2006, Ms. Couric became the first
female solo anchor of a weekday network evening news broadcast.
Ms. Couric completed a 15-year award-winning run as co-anchor of
NBC News’ “Today” on May 31, 2006. While at NBC, she was also
contributing anchor for “Dateline NBC.” She was a “Today”
substitute co-anchor from February 1991 before taking over the job
permanently two months later. Ms. Couric joined NBC News in
1989 as deputy Pentagon reporter before serving its first national
correspondent in June 1990, which included two stints covering the
Gulf War.
The National Colorectal Cancer
Research Alliance (NCCRA), a
program of the Entertainment Industry
Foundation, is dedicated to the eradication of
colorectal cancer by promoting the importance of
early medical screening and funding research to
develop better tests, treatments, and ultimately a
cure. The NCCRA has raised $30 million to
date for public education and medical research.
NCCRA was founded by CBS Evening News
anchor Katie Couric, cancer activist Lilly
Tartikoff, and the Entertainment Industry
Foundation
Ms. Couric has interviewed an extraordinarily diverse collection of
newsmakers, from presidents and prime ministers to captains of
industry and cultural icons, including Presidents Jimmy Carter,
George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; Vice President
Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Sandra Day
O’Connor; and many first ladies. She has interviewed major world
leaders including Kofi Annan, Tony Blair, Ariel Sharon, Saudi
Crown Prince Abdullah (in his first U.S. television interview),
Benjamin Netanyahu, and Shimon Peres.
After losing her husband to colon cancer, Ms. Couric launched the
National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance in March 2000 in
association with the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lilly
Tartikoff. She also played a leadership role in establishing The Jay
Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at New YorkPresbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell.
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John L. Damonti
President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
John L. Damonti is the president of the Bristol-Myers Squibb
Foundation and vice president of corporate philanthropy at BristolMyers Squibb Company, a worldwide pharmaceutical and related
health care products company.
The most significant and largest program that Mr. Damonti has led at
Bristol-Myers Squibb has been its “Secure the Future” initiative.
Launched in 1999, it was the first major private philanthropic
commitment and the largest single corporate commitment of its kind.
This innovative program is a $150 million comprehensive publicprivate initiative to address issues related to HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Mr. Damonti has more than 20 years of experience working in the
areas of health policy, community relations, and philanthropy. He is
also on the boards of directors of the Cabrini Mission Foundation and
of FEI Behavioral Health Inc., and participates in several health care
policy committees.
Mr. Damonti completed his undergraduate degree in psychology at
Bowling Green State University and received a master’s in social
work degree from Fordham University.
Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global
biopharmaceutical and related health care
products company whose mission is to extend
and enhance human life. The Bristol-Myers
Squibb Foundation seeks to improve the health
outcomes of populations disproportionately
affected by HIV, hepatitis, serious mental
illness, and cancer. Recognizing the critical role
of community-based care and support, the
Foundation develops and supports partnerships
that strengthen and integrate health care worker
capacity and supportive services at the
community level around the world.
Chris Deri
Executive Vice President, New York
Director of Global CSR Practice
Chris Deri advises Fortune 500 companies across various sectors on
issues and strategies related to the environmental and social impacts of
their activities. He also works with NGOs that focus on sustainability,
ethical conduct, and global public health. Mr. Deri provides counsel
and support around communications strategy and programming, issues
management, public affairs, CSR reporting, management training,
public-private partnerships, and stakeholder engagement.
Select key clients include: Starbucks, Avaya, Merck, AIG, and the
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Before joining Edelman, Mr. Deri served as Vice President Al Gore’s
Regional Business Outreach & Finance Director in the Northeast for
three years. He was responsible for finance, as well as acting as the Vice
President’s liaison to elected officials and business leaders in the region.
Prior to that, Mr. Deri served as the Director of Institutional Affairs for
the National Minority AIDS Council’s (NMAC) – a national training &
lobbying organization representing 3000 + community-based
organizations.
Edelman is the world’s leading independent
public relations firm, with 3,200 employees in
51 offices worldwide. Edelman was named
PRWeek’s “Large Agency of the Year in
2008,” The Holmes Report “Global Agency of
the Year in 2008,” and a top-10 firm in
Advertising Age’s “2007 Agency A-List,” the
first and only PR firm to receive this recognition.
In 2007, CEO Richard Edelman was honored
as “Agency Executive of the Year” by
Advertising Age and “Most Powerful PR
Executive” by PRWeek.
Mr. Deri taught English at Shandong University in the People’s
Republic of China and speaks Mandarin. He is a term member of the
Council on Foreign Relations.
Allison H. Fine
Author and Activist
Allison H. Fine is a social entrepreneur and writer dedicated to helping
grassroots organizations and activists successfully implement social
change. She is the author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the
Connected Age, which was published in 2006 by Wiley & Sons and
winner of the Terry McAdams National Book Award.
As a senior fellow on the Democracy Team at Demos, a network for
change and action in New York City, Ms. Fine researches and writes
about the future of social change and civic engagement in this new
digital age. Ms. Fine is also a senior editor at the Personal Democracy
Forum. Her articles have been published in the Boston Globe, San
Jose Mercury Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is also a
frequent contributor to Huffington Post, Personal Democracy Forum,
Alternet, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Ms. Fine served as the CEO of The E-Volve Foundation from 20042005 and was the founder and executive director of Innovation
Network, Inc. from 1992-2004.
Ms. Fine has a master’s in public administration from New York
University and a Bachelor of Arts in political science and history from
Vanderbilt University.
Demos is a non-partisan public policy
research and advocacy organization.
Headquartered in New York City, Demos works
with advocates and policymakers around the
country in pursuit of four overarching goals: a
more equitable economy; a vibrant and inclusive
democracy; an empowered public sector that
works for the common good; and responsible
U.S. engagement in an interdependent world.
Michael D. Fraizer
Chairman, President and CEO, Genworth Financial
Michael D. Fraizer is chairman, president and chief executive officer
of Genworth Financial. He has held this position since the
completion of Genworth’s IPO in May of 2004. Prior to that he was
a senior vice president of GE since June 2000 and served as chairman
of the board and president and chief executive officer of GE Financial
Assurance Holdings, Inc.
Mr. Fraizer also was a director of GE Capital and General Electric
Capital Services, Inc. Mr. Fraizer led the Consumer Savings and
Insurance Group, a predecessor of GE Financial Assurance, from
February 1996 until October 1996. Prior to that, Mr. Fraizer was
president and chief executive officer of GE Capital Commercial Real
Estate from July 1993 to December 1996. From July 1991 to June of
1993, he was vice president—Portfolio Acquisitions and Ventures of
GE Capital Commercial Real Estate.
Genworth Financial, Inc. is a leading
public Fortune 500 global financial security
company. Genworth has $114 billion in assets
and employs approximately 7,000 people in 25
countries. Its products and services help meet the
investment, protection, retirement, and lifestyle
needs of over 15 million customers. Genworth
operates through three segments: Retirement and
Protection, International, and U.S. Mortgage
Insurance. Its products and services are offered
through financial intermediaries, advisors,
independent distributors, and sales specialists.
From December 1989 to June 1991, Mr. Fraizer was president and
managing director, GE Japan. From July 1983 to November 1989
Mr. Fraizer served in various capacities as a member of GE’s
Corporate Audit Staff and Corporate Business Development after
joining GE in June 1980 in its Financial Management Program.
Mr. Fraizer currently is a trustee of the Virginia Foundation for
Independent Colleges and serves on the boards of the Andre Agassi
Charitable Foundation, the Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Business Foundation, and the Richmond Performing Arts
CenterStage. He is an active supporter of Richmond community
programs and, along with his wife, founded the Mary & Frances
Youth Center on the VCU campus in partnership with the
University.
Mr. Fraizer received a B.A. in political science from Carleton College
in 1980.
Donna M. Funk
Senior Vice President, Community and Philanthropic Services,
HSBC North America Holdings Inc.
Donna M. Funk is the senior vice president of community and
philanthropic services at HSBC North America Holdings Inc., a
wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, one of the world’s
largest banking and financial services organizations.
In her role as senior vice president, Ms. Funk is responsible for the
development of socially responsible, focused programs that support
the business goals for HSBC North America. Prior to her
appointment to senior vice president in 2004, Ms. Funk served as the
director of community and philanthropic services for six years
beginning in 1998. She has also held a number of positions within
community and philanthropic services including manager and
program director. Her career at HSBC began in 1975.
Ms. Funk is a member of the Donor’s Forum of Chicago, chair of
The Conference Board’s Contribution Council II, and serves on the
board of directors of the Earthwatch Foundation and the Foundation
for Independent Higher Education.
Ms. Funk attended Carthage Business School, Boston College and
Indiana University, where she completed programs in philanthropy and
business.
HSBC North America Holdings
Inc. is one of the top 10 financial services
organizations in the United States with assets
totaling more than $300 billion. HSBC North America is the holding company for all of
HSBC’s U.S. and Canadian businesses. The
company’s businesses serve more than 60
million customers in five key areas: personal
financial services, consumer finance, commercial
banking, private banking, and corporate
investment banking and markets.
Cari Hills
Director of Operations, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
Cari Hills is the director of operations at the Committee Encouraging
Corporate Philanthropy (CECP). Having joined CECP in 2003, Ms.
Hills was instrumental in bringing many of CECP’s early projects to
life—including the development of the Corporate Giving Standard
proprietary measurement system that defines world class standards in
corporate philanthropy and has collected over $50 billion in
corporate giving, the creation of the annual ‘Board of Boards’ CEO
Conference which recently convened 40 CEOs in New York and was
named by WeberShandwick as one of the Top 5 Executive
Gatherings of the Year, and the establishment of National Corporate
Philanthropy Day. Ms. Hills spearheads several of the Committee’s
signature programs, including CECP's annual Excellence in
Corporate Philanthropy Awards selection and recognition events and
the annual Corporate Philanthropy Summit for over 200 senior
giving professionals. Since joining the Committee, Ms. Hills has also
led and participated in various research projects on corporate
philanthropy. Most recently she authored a report with McKinsey &
Company titled, Business’s Contract with Society: Capturing the Corporate
Philanthropy Opportunity.
CECP's mission is to lead the business
community in raising the level and quality of
corporate philanthropy. CECP is the only
international network of corporate leaders
actively working to affect positive change through
corporate philanthropy. The organization’s
membership consists of 175 CEOs who seek
and create opportunities to serve as corporate
giving advocates to advance the case for
philanthropy and to inspire other business
leaders to make a lasting commitment to
community giving.
Ms. Hills also serves as the director of the South Asia Earthquake
Relief Fund, a $116M initiative led by President Bush and five
distinguished CEOs from Citigroup, GE, Pfizer, UPS, and Xerox
which is scheduled to deliver 16 state-of-the-art health and education
facilities in rural areas of Pakistan by 2009.
Prior to joining CECP, Ms. Hills was in sales and marketing at
JPMorgan Chase Alternative Asset Management. Before that she was
a consultant at Accenture LLP in financial services with leading
clients such as Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase in New York City.
Ms. Hills holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Cornell
University and is a member of Cornell's Athletic Alumni Advisory
Committee.
Evan L. Hochberg
National Director Community Involvement, Deloitte Services LP
Evan L. Hochberg is the national director of community involvement
for Deloitte Services LP where he provides strategic direction for
philanthropy, volunteerism, pro bono, and workplace giving. In this
role, Mr. Hochberg has spearheaded a complete refocusing of
Deloitte’s community involvement approach which is centered on the
contribution of the organization’s intellectual capital to help
strengthen the capacity of the nonprofit sector. As the latest step in
this long-term process, Deloitte recently announced a three-year, $50
million commitment to the delivery of pro bono service to nonprofit
organizations.
Mr. Hochberg is a member of the board of the Taproot Foundation
and the Hands On Network/Points of Light Foundation Corporate
Volunteer Council. He is also co-chair of the Pro Bono Leadership
Council, which was recently formed by the President’s Council on
Service and Civic Participation. He is also a member of the
Conference Board’s Corporate Contributions Council.
Mr. Hochberg received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in management of
human services from the Heller School at Brandeis University.
“Deloitte” is the brand under which tens of
thousands of dedicated professionals in
independent firms throughout the world
collaborate to provide audit, consulting,
financial advisory, risk management, and tax
services to selected clients. In the US, Deloitte’s
community involvement strategy is focused on
leveraging the organization’s intellectual capital
to create social impact and business value. The
strategy centers on achieving outcomes and is
brought to life through skills-based volunteering,
pro bono support, nonprofit board service,
capacity-building philanthropy, and thought
leadership.
Richard C. Holbrooke
President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Richard C. Holbrooke is president and chief executive officer of the
Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
(GBC), assuming this role in June 2001.
In addition to his leadership at the GBC, Ambassador Holbrooke is
the founding chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, the vice
chairman of Perseus LLC, and vice chairman of the Asia Society. He
also serves as a board member of American International Group
(AIG), the Museum of Natural History, the National Endowment for
Democracy, Human Genome Sciences, and Refugees International.
GBC is a Coalition of more than 225
companies united to keep the fight against
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria a
global priority. The Coalition’s members share
learnings from the front lines of the fight, and
GBC provides tailored support so that
companies can take an active role in defeating
the pandemics. GBC also organizes collective
actions among companies, and links the public
and private sectors in ways that pool talents
and resources.
Ambassador Holbrooke has played a central role in the development
of U.S. policy toward the United Nations, the Balkans, Africa, the
Middle East and humanitarian crisis issues with refugee populations
and HIV/AIDS. He most recently served as the United States
Ambassador to the United Nations, where he was also a member of
President Clinton's cabinet. From 1994-96 he served as Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, where he most
notably led negotiations for the historic Dayton Peace Accords that
ended the war in Bosnia. In 1977, President Carter appointed him
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, a post
during which he established full diplomatic relations with China.
Ambassador Holbrooke has been very active in the nonprofit arena,
serving as chairman of Refugees International and twice was a
member of the board of the International Rescue Committee. He is
also an experienced businessman having held senior positions at two
leading Wall Street firms, Credit Suisse First Boston and Lehman
Brothers.
Dr. Steve Howard
CEO and Co-Founder, The Climate Group
Dr. Steve Howard, CEO and co-founder of The Climate Group, has
worked on social and environmental issues from within business,
NGOs and the UN in more than 30 countries. As a member of
HSBC's Carbon Management Task Force, Dr. Howard assisted
HSBC in developing a carbon neutral strategy to become the world's
first carbon neutral Fortune 100 company.
Dr. Howard is a member of the World Economic Forum's Carbon
Standards Disclosure Board, worked with the City of London to
establish the London Climate Change agency, and founded the C40
large cities initiative. He has advised and briefed many leading
companies, CEOs, and state and government leaders on various
aspects of climate change, has given several hundred climate change
presentations to diverse audiences, and has chaired meetings with
business and government leaders including the Long Beach meeting
with Governor Schwarzenegger and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Dr. Howard has a first class honors degree in ecology and a PhD. in
environmental physics based on work as Senior Fellow at the
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry in Kenya and the
University of Nottingham.
The Climate Group is an independent,
international nonprofit dedicated to advancing
business and government leadership on climate
change. Through partnerships with gamechanging corporations, institutions and
individuals and through research/publications
and high-impact events, TCG promotes best
practice exchange and education to “make the
case” that emissions reductions, while essential,
also support the corporate bottom line. TCG
works to encourage for public benefit solutions
based on sound business and economic analysis
to help mitigate climate change and to catalyze
the growth of the low-carbon economy.
Jamie Hartman
Director of the Taproot Foundation’s Pro Bono Action Tank
Jamie Hartman leads the Pro Bono Action Tank’s efforts to identify
and overcome barriers to the adoption of the pro bono ethic in the
professional community and to set national quality standards for pro
bono work.
Ms. Hartman brings over twelve years of experience in marketing,
business management, and implementation consulting that spans public
and private sector organizations around the world. She has a track
record of success in advising start-up and established firms regarding
strategic plan development, market expansion, business process reengineering and complex enterprise technology deployments.
Prior to joining the Taproot Foundation, Ms. Hartman has held
positions including, Senior Managing Consultant for IBM Business
Consulting Services and a Senior Marketing Consultant at J.D.
Edwards. Ms. Hartman has a deep-rooted commitment to the public
sector. She has worked with Net Impact, United Way, the US Senate
Subcommittee for Children and Families and the Children’s Defense
Fund among others.
The Taproot Foundation exists to
ensure organizations serving the public good have
access to the professional services they need to
achieve their missions. Its Pro Bono Action
Tank is a coalition of leaders across sectors
working together to unleash billions of dollars in
high-quality pro bono services. Additionally,
through its Service Grant Program, the Taproot
Foundation recruits and manages thousands of
business professionals on pro bono projects that
strengthen nonprofit organizations. Over 800
projects, valued at $32 million, have been
awarded to nonprofits across the country.
Ms. Hartman holds a MA in Public Policy from Georgetown University
and a BS from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
John V. Kania
Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors
With twenty years' experience advising senior management on issues
of strategy, organization and reputation building, John V. Kania now
oversees FSG’s consulting practice. While at FSG he has led several
dozen strategic planning efforts for foundations, nonprofits, and
corporate philanthropy programs. Mr. Kania’s FSG engagements
include significant experience in international health, U.S. healthcare,
U.S. education, the environment, and nonprofit capacity building.
Mr. Kania has been instrumental in developing customized
applications of FSG’s strategy and problem solving tools for the social
sector including the use of scenario planning, adaptive leadership
principles, organizational change management processes, and
product cost modeling for community foundations. Prior to joining
FSG, he was a partner at both Mercer Management Consulting and
Corporate Decisions, Inc. He began his career at Leo Burnett
Company, a global advertising agency. Mr. Kania has been published
in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Wall Street Journal and The Journal
of Business Strategy and is a featured author of Learning from the Future, the
leading contemporary text on scenario planning. He speaks
frequently around the U.S. on improving the impact of philanthropy
and corporate social responsibility.
He has an M.M.A. from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of
Management and a B.A., cum laude, from Dartmouth College.
FSG Social Impact Advisors is a
501(c)3 nonprofit organization that works with
foundations, corporations, governments, and
nonprofits to accelerate social progress by
advancing the practice of philanthropy and
corporate social responsibility. FSG is also a
thought leader, sharing learning from its research
and client work that can benefit the entire field.
As a consultant, a generator of new ideas, and
an incubator of initiatives designed to strengthen
the field, FSG is committed to promoting
responsible social change.
David Kirkpatrick
Senior Editor, Internet & Technology, Fortune Magazine
David Kirkpatrick, senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune,
specializes in the computer industries as well as in the impact of the
Internet on business and society. His Fast Forward column appears
weekly on fortune.com, CNNMoney.com and through free e-mail
subscription. He is regularly ranked one of the world’s top technology
journalists.
Mr. Kirkpatrick is program director for Brainstorm Tech, a multidisciplinary conference in Half Moon Bay, California July 21-23, 2008.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Fortune is a global business magazine
published by Time Inc.'s Fortune | Money
Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the
publishing business, including Time, Life,
Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become
Time Warner, the world's largest media
conglomerate. The magazine is especially known
for its annual features ranking companies by
revenue. CNNMoney.com is the online home of
Fortune, in addition to Money and Fortune
Small Business.
Mark R. Kramer
Founder and Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors
Mark R. Kramer oversees FSG's consulting practice and action
initiatives. He serves as a Senior Fellow in the CSR Initiative of the
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business in Government at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Kramer is a founder and
served as initial board chair of the Center for Effective Philanthropy,
a nonprofit research organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He
also serves as a member of the jury to select the annual recipients of
the Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Awards given by the
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy.
Mr. Kramer has spoken and published extensively on topics in
philanthropy and corporate social responsibility, including strategy,
evaluation, leadership, social entrepreneurship, community
foundations, venture philanthropy, cross-sector collaboration, and
social investment. He is co-author, with Professor Michael E. Porter,
of three influential Harvard Business Review articles, and has published
in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Mr. Kramer received a B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis
University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and a J.D. magna
cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
FSG Social Impact Advisors is a
501(c)3 nonprofit organization that works with
foundations, corporations, governments, and
nonprofits to accelerate social progress by
advancing the practice of philanthropy and
corporate social responsibility. FSG is also a
thought leader, sharing learning from its research
and client work that can benefit the entire field.
As a consultant, a generator of new ideas, and
an incubator of initiatives designed to strengthen
the field, FSG is committed to promoting
responsible social change.
Deidre S. Lind
Executive Director, Mattel Children’s Foundation and
Corporate Philanthropy for Mattel, Inc.
Deidre S. Lind is currently the executive director for Mattel Children's
Foundation and Corporate Philanthropy for Mattel, Inc. In this
position, she is responsible for leading Mattel's philanthropic presence
nationally and internationally and building Mattel's reputation as a
responsible corporate citizen. Under Ms. Lind's direction, Mattel and
the Mattel Children's Foundation are building partnerships with
globally recognized nonprofits as well as local programs directly
impacting children in over 40 countries around the world.
Ms. Lind previously served as Kaiser Permanente’s California Division
associate director for Government and Community Relations and prior
to joining Kaiser Permanente worked on social policy for the Chief of
Staff to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan.
Mattel, Inc. is the worldwide leader in the
design, manufacture, and marketing of toys and
family products. Mattel employs more than
30,000 people in 43 countries and sells
products in more than 150 nations. Committed
to ethical manufacturing and sustainable
business practices, Mattel marked a 10-year
milestone in 2007 for its Global Manufacturing
Principles. Mattel contributes more than 2% of
its pretax profit to philanthropic activities,
including the Mattel Children’s Foundation,
product donations, and Mattel PLAYers
volunteer activities.
Ms. Lind currently serves on the board of directors of Community
Partners, a nonprofit incubator and leader in community-based strategy
and management, and also serves on the Council on Foundations'
Committee on Corporate Grantmaking, the Conference Board’s
Contributions Council II and the Program Committee for Southern
California Grantmakers.
Ms. Lind received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa
Barbara, and both a Master of Social Work and a Master of Public
Administration from the University of Southern California.
Stanley S. Litow
VP, Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President,
IBM International Foundation
Stanley S. Litow heads the global corporate citizenship efforts at IBM
across over 170 countries. Under his leadership, IBM has developed a
number of innovative programs and initiatives, including “Reinventing
Education”, a program serving over 100,000 teachers and 10 million
children globally, IBM's Global Citizen's Portfolio consisting of
matching accounts for learning, and a corporate version of the Peace
Corps called the Corporate Services Corps to train 600 future IBM
leaders.
Before joining IBM, Mr. Litow served as the Deputy Chancellor of
Schools for New York City and prior to his service with the City's
public schools, he founded and ran Interface, the nonprofit think-tank
and served as an aide to both the Mayor and Governor of New York.
Mr. Litow's articles and essays have appeared in the Yale Law Review,
Annual Survey of American Law, Brookings Papers, the American
Academy of Sciences, the Journal for the Center for National Policy
and the Urban School's Journal, New York Times and Newsday.
He chairs the Global Leadership Network and serves on the board of
Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, Independent
Sector, Citizen's Budget Commission, and the After School
Corporation.
IBM is the world’s leading information
technology and services company.
Innovation - joining invention and insight to
produce important, new value-is at the heart of
what we are as a company, for our clients and
for the world. Our diverse and sustained
programs support education, workforce
development, arts and culture, and communities
in need through targeted grants of technology and
project funds.
Gerald W. McElvy
Deputy Manager, Public Affairs, Exxon Mobil Corporation and
President, ExxonMobil Foundation
Gerald W. McElvy has been employed by ExxonMobil for more than
30 years and has extensive financial and general management
experience. In recent years, he was assigned as European downstream
planning manager of Exxon Company International, finance director
and controller of Esso Australia, upstream controller of Exxon Mobil
Production Company, U.S.A., and general auditor of Exxon Mobil
Corporation.
Mr. McElvy is a trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships, which
sponsors U.S. internships for emerging global leaders, and serves on
the Executive Advisory Council at the University of Houston's Bauer
College of Business. He is a board member of Reasoning Mind, an
innovative, web-based middle school math education program
focused on improving math education and closing the achievement
gap. Mr. McElvy is also a member of Financial Executives
International, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
and the Executive Leadership Council.
Exxon Mobil Corporation and
ExxonMobil Foundation engage in a range of
philanthropic activities that advance education,
health, and public policy in the communities
where ExxonMobil has significant operations.
In the United States, ExxonMobil supports
initiatives to improve math and science
education. Globally, ExxonMobil provides
funding to improve basic education and combat
malaria and other infectious diseases in
developing countries. In 2007, together with its
employees and retirees, Exxon Mobil
Corporation and the ExxonMobil Foundation
provided $207 million in contributions
worldwide.
Mr. McElvy is a native of Ft. Worth, Texas and earned a B.B.A
degree in economics and accounting with honors from the University
of Houston and completed an M.B.A. in finance from UCLA.
Charles H. Moore
Executive Director, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
Charles H. Moore is currently executive director of the Committee
Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. He has actively served in the
field of international business and finance, athletic administration,
and corporate philanthropy. After forty years of senior management
with multi-national corporations, Mr. Moore returned to his alma
mater, Cornell University, to serve as Director of Athletics from 1994
to 1999. A gold medalist in the 1952 Olympics, he served as a Public
Sector Director of the United States Olympic Committee from 1992
to 2000, after which he served as chairman for the USOC 2012 Bid
City Task Force. He is currently a member of the President’s Council
on Physical Fitness and Sports and a Commissioner of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
CECP's mission is to lead the business
community in raising the level and quality of
corporate philanthropy. CECP is the only
international network of corporate leaders
actively working to affect positive change through
corporate philanthropy. The organization’s
membership consists of 175 CEOs who seek
and create opportunities to serve as corporate
giving advocates to advance the case for
philanthropy and to inspire other business
leaders to make a lasting commitment to
community giving.
Jane Nelson
Senior Fellow and Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative,
Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Business Leadership and Strategy, Prince of
Wales International Business Leaders Forum; Non-resident Senior Fellow,
Brookings Institution
Jane Nelson is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for
Business and Government and Director of the Corporate Social
Responsibility Initiative, at the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government. She serves as a director at the Prince of Wales
International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) and is a non-resident
senior fellow of the Brookings Institution.
During 2001 she worked in the office of the UN Secretary-General,
Kofi Annan, preparing a report for the United Nations General
Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector,
which supported the first UN resolution on such cooperation. Prior to
joining the IBLF, Ms. Nelson was a vice president at Citibank.
The Corporate Social
Responsibility Initiative at the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government is a
multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder
program that seeks to study and enhance the
public contributions of private enterprise. It
explores the intersection of corporate
responsibility, corporate governance, public
policy, and international development. It bridges
theory and practice, builds leadership skills, and
supports constructive dialogue and collaboration
among business, government, civil society and
academics.
Ms. Nelson has authored four books and over fifty reports, papers,
book chapters, and articles on public-private partnerships and the
changing role of business in society, especially in emerging markets,
and co-authored four of the World Economic Forum's Global
Corporate Citizenship reports. She has a B.Sc.in agricultural
economics from the University of Natal, South Africa, an M.A. in
politics, philosophy and economics, from Oxford University, and has
been a Rhodes Scholar, a Rotary International student, a fellow of
the 21st Century Trust, an Aspen Institute scholar, and recipient of
the Keystone Center's 2005 ‘Leadership in Education’ Award.
Sean Parker
Chairman, Project Agape
Sean Parker is the co-founder and chairman of “Project Agape,” a new
network that aims to enable large-scale political and social activism on
the Internet. Mr. Parker is also a managing partner at The Founders
Fund, an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco.
Previously, Mr. Parker was the co-founder of the category-defining
Web ventures Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook. At Napster, he helped to
design the Napster client software and led the company’s initial
financing and strategy. Under Mr. Parker’s leadership, Napster became
the fastest adopted client software application in history.
Following Napster, he co-founded and served as president of Plaxo,
where he pioneered the viral engineering techniques used to deploy
Plaxo's flagship smart address book product, ultimately acquiring more
than 15 million users. In 2004, he left Plaxo to become the founding
president of Facebook, one of the most rapidly growing sites on the
Internet today. Mr. Parker sits on the boards of several private
companies.
Causes has become the leading platform for
activism on the internet since its launch one year
ago. Causes empowers individuals to leverage
their network of friends to effect positive change.
The Causes application on Facebook has grown
to over 12 million users and raised over $2.5
million for nonprofits across the continent since
last May. It also provides opportunities for
corporations to make public matching grants
thereby multiplying the effect of individuals'
contributions, increasing awareness and the
donor base of nonprofits, and providing branding
for the corporation itself.
Richard D. Parsons
Chairman of the Board, Time Warner Inc.
Richard D. Parsons is chairman of the board of Time Warner Inc.,
whose businesses include filmed entertainment, interactive services,
television networks, cable systems, and publishing. From May 2002 to
December 2007, Mr. Parsons served as Time Warner’s chief
executive officer.
As CEO, Mr. Parsons led Time Warner’s turnaround and set the
company on a solid path toward achieving sustainable growth. In its
January 2005 report on America’s Best CEOs, Institutional Investor
magazine named Mr. Parsons the top CEO in the entertainment
industry.
Mr. Parsons joined Time Warner as its president in February 1995,
and has been a member of the company's board of directors since
January 1991. As president, he oversaw the company's filmed
entertainment and music businesses, and all corporate staff functions,
including financial activities, legal affairs, public affairs, and
administration.
Time Warner Inc. is a leading media and
entertainment company, whose businesses
include interactive services, cable systems, filmed
entertainment, television networks, and
publishing. Time Warner is an innovator in
technology, products and services, and digital
products and services that reinforce the
company’s industry-leading brands on all
platforms. The leadership of Time Warner’s
people at every level with their creativity, talent
and commitment to excellence, ensure that Time
Warner continues to provide high-performance
service, trustworthy information, and enjoyable
entertainment.
Before joining Time Warner, Mr. Parsons was chairman and chief
executive officer of Dime Bancorp, Inc., one of the largest thrift
institutions in the United States. Previously, he was the managing
partner of the New York law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler
and held various positions in state and federal government, as counsel
for Nelson Rockefeller and as a senior White House aide under
President Gerald Ford. Mr. Parsons received his undergraduate
education at the University of Hawaii and his legal training at Union
University's Albany Law School.
Mr. Parsons’ civic and nonprofit commitments include co-chairman
of the Mayor’s Commission on Economic Opportunity in New York,
chairman emeritus of the Partnership for New York City, chairman of
the Apollo Theatre Foundation and service on the boards of Howard
University, the Museum of Modern Art, and the American Museum
of Natural History. He also serves on the boards of Citigroup and
Estée Lauder.
Dina Habib Powell
Managing Director and Global Head of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs
Dina Habib Powell is global head of the Office of Corporate
Engagement at Goldman Sachs, which is comprised of the Goldman
Sachs Foundation, Charitable Services Group, 10,000 Women, and
Goldman Sachs Gives. Previously, Ms. Powell served as Assistant
Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs and as Deputy
Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
Prior to being confirmed as Assistant Secretary, Ms. Powell served as
Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel, a senior staff
position at the White House.
Ms. Powell serves as a member of the J.William Fulbright Foreign
Scholarship Board, a member of the Board of Trustees at the
American University in Cairo, and a member of the Vital Voices
Global Partnership Board of Directors. She is a term member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and a Young Global Leader at the
World Economic Forum.
Goldman Sachs is a leading global
investment banking, securities, and investment
management firm that provides a wide range of
services worldwide to a substantial and
diversified client base that includes corporations,
financial institutions, governments, and high net
worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one
of the oldest and largest investment banking
firms. The firm is headquartered in New York
and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt,
Tokyo, Hong Kong, and other major financial
centers around the world.
Lisa M. Quiroz
Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, Time Warner Inc.
President, Time Warner Foundation
Lisa M. Quiroz is the senior vice president of corporate responsibility
for Time Warner. She was appointed to this position in December
2003. In this role, Ms. Quiroz is responsible for setting and
implementing the strategic direction of Time Warner’s corporate
responsibility efforts. In August of 2006, Ms. Quiroz's role expanded
to include global diversity and inclusion efforts, including initiatives
aimed at better serving and reaching a more diverse marketplace.
Prior to assuming her current position, Ms. Quiroz worked at Time
Inc. where she was founding publisher of People en Español, the bestselling Hispanic magazine in the U.S. Under her leadership, the
magazine topped Adweek’s “10 Under 40 Magazine” Hot List for
three consecutive years. Previously, at Time Inc., she created and
launched Time For Kids, an award-winning classroom news magazine
for elementary school kids with a circulation of over 3.5 million.
Time Warner Inc. is a leading media and
entertainment company, whose businesses
include interactive services, cable systems, filmed
entertainment, television networks, and
publishing. Time Warner is an innovator in
technology, products and services, and digital
products and services that reinforce the
company’s industry-leading brands on all
platforms. The leadership of Time Warner’s
people at every level with their creativity, talent
and commitment to excellence, ensure that Time
Warner continues to provide high-performance
service, trustworthy information, and enjoyable
entertainment.
Ms. Quiroz was appointed to the New York City Commission on
Human Rights by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. She
also serves on the board of directors of a number of foundation and
nonprofit groups including the Knowledge Works Foundation, the
Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Hispanic Federation, and the College
Board. Ms. Quiroz was recently elected to the board of SiTV, the
English language television network serving Hispanic consumers.
Ms. Quiroz, of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent, was born and
raised in New York City and received both her undergraduate degree
and her master’s in business administration from Harvard University.
Andrew C. Schulz
Deputy Counsel and Managing Director, Governance, Council on Foundations
Andrew C. Schulz is the deputy general counsel and managing
director, Governance for the Council on Foundations. Mr. Schulz’s
responsibilities include maintaining ongoing expertise in a broad
cross-section of tax, legislative, and regulatory issues in order to
provide assistance and consultation to Council members and the
general public. He facilitates the day-to-day corporate counsel
requirements typical of a national, nonprofit membership
organization.
Mr. Schulz works closely with the Council’s board of directors,
oversees the Annual Meeting of Members, and supports other
governance functions. He is also primarily responsible for the
Council’s ethics work, including staffing the Ethics and Practices
Committee and managing the Council’s sanctions process for
member organizations.
Prior to joining the Council in 2000, Mr. Schulz was an associate at
the law firm of Dorn & Klamp in Washington, DC, where he
specialized in the laws affecting nonprofit organizations.
Mr. Schulz has written numerous publications on legal issues affecting
non-profits, including the popular Top 10 Ways Corporate Foundations
Get Into Trouble and Top 10 Ways Independent Foundations Get Into Trouble.
He is a graduate of the College of Wooster (Wooster, OH) and the
George Washington University Law School. He is a member of the
Maryland Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.
The Council on Foundations is a
Washington, D.C., area-based nonprofit
membership association of more than 2,100
grant-making foundations and corporations. The
assets of Council members total more than $282
billion. The Council works to create an
environment in which the movement can grow
and thrive, and to provide Council members with
the products and services they need to do their
best work.
Cynthia Shultz Cusick
Director of Sponsorship and Corporate Relationships,
National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions
Cynthia Shultz Cusick has more than 15 years of association and
nonprofit experience in a variety of roles, including sponsorship and
corporate relationships, educational program management, research
and policy development, and member services/chapter relations. Her
career included positions at the National Association of Counties, the
American Podiatric Medical Association, and Transplant Recipients
International Organization, Inc., all in the metro-Washington, DC
area.
Since 2004, Ms. Shultz Cusick has served as the director of
sponsorship and corporate relationships for the National Association
of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions. In this role, she is
responsible for relationship cultivation, budget management,
marketing, delivery, and assessment of the association’s sponsorship
and corporate relationships. She has built the association’s
sponsorship and corporate relationships department over her ten year
tenure at NACHRI.
The National Association of
Children's Hospitals and Related
Institutions is an organization of children's
hospitals with 218 members in the United
States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom,
Italy, China, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
NACHRI promotes the health and well-being of
all children and their families through support of
children's hospitals and health systems that are
committed to excellence in providing health care
to children.
Ms. Shultz Cusick holds a Masters of Public Policy degree, with a
concentration in historic preservation and urban planning, from Duke
University. She received a Bachelors of Arts degree in economics and
history, cum laude, from the University of Delaware.
Lindsay M. Siegel
Marketing & Communications Specialist,
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
Lindsay M. Siegel is the marketing and communications specialist for
the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Having joined
the organization in November 2006, she has focused on developing
and executing the Committee's strategy regarding media outreach,
events, online activities, and internal communication efforts to the
CECP community of CEOs and giving practitioners.
Ms. Siegel spearheads the media platform of National Corporate
Philanthropy Day, and works closely with the CECP community to
promote this outreach initiative. She is also the editor of The Corporate
Philanthropist, CECP’s quarterly publication, and is instrumental in
increasing the visibility of corporate philanthropy in print, online, and
via broadcast media.
Prior to joining CECP, Ms. Siegel was programs manager for
Diversified Agency Services, a division of Omnicom Group, where
she implemented an international professional development series,
convenings for new business directors, and an organization-wide
client database. She previously ran a bed and breakfast in rural
Ecuador. Ms. Siegel holds a Bachelor of Science in communication
studies from Northwestern University.
CECP's mission is to lead the business
community in raising the level and quality of
corporate philanthropy. CECP is the only
international network of corporate leaders
actively working to affect positive change through
corporate philanthropy. The organization’s
membership consists of 175 CEOs who seek
and create opportunities to serve as corporate
giving advocates to advance the case for
philanthropy and to inspire other business
leaders to make a lasting commitment to
community giving.
Margaret Spellings
U.S. Secretary of Education
Secretary Spellings is working to ensure that every young American has
the knowledge and skills to succeed in the 21st century. She has
partnered with states to implement and enforce the No Child Left Behind
Act, which commits U.S. schools to bringing all students up to grade
level or better in reading and math by 2014. The law has led to rising
test scores and shrinking achievement gaps in states across the country.
Secretary Spellings has been a leader in reform to make education
more innovative and responsive. She supported teachers with new
financial incentives for gains in student achievement and parents with
new educational choices and options. She announced new rules to
ensure that students with disabilities and English language learners are
educated to the highest standards. She also proposed a landmark Plan
for Higher Education that would improve accessibility, affordability
and accountability.
Prior to her tenure as Education Secretary, Ms. Spellings served as
assistant to the President for domestic policy, where she helped create
the No Child Left Behind Act and crafted policies on education,
immigration, health care, labor, transportation, justice, housing, and
other elements of the President's domestic agenda. Previously, Ms.
Spellings worked for six years as senior advisor to Governor George W.
Bush with responsibility for developing and implementing the
Governor's education reforms and policies.
The U.S. Department of Education
was created in 1980 by combining offices from
several federal agencies. ED's mission is to
promote student achievement and preparation for
global competitiveness by fostering educational
excellence and ensuring equal access. ED's
4,200 employees and $68.6 billion budget are
dedicated to:
• Establishing and distributing policies on
federal financial aid for education as well as
monitoring those funds.
• Collecting data on America's schools and
disseminating research.
• Focusing national attention on key
educational issues.
• Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring
equal access to education.
Ms. Spellings graduated from the University of Houston with a
bachelor's degree in political science.
Laysha Ward
Vice President Community Relations, Target Corporation
Laysha Ward oversees Target Corporation and Target Foundation’s
domestic and international grant making, community sponsorships,
cause marketing initiatives, volunteerism, and other civic activities.
Ms. Ward started her career with the Target Corporation in 1991.
Since opening its first store in 1962, Target has partnered with civic
and nonprofit organizations, guests and team members to help meet
community needs. Every year Target contributes 5% of income to
communities where it does business, equaling more than $3 million a
week.
Ms. Ward serves on the boards of the Executive Leadership Council, a
national membership organization for African-American executives,
the Tiger Woods Learning Center, an education facility located in
Southern California, and is a member of The Links, an international
women’s service organization.
She received a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University in
Bloomington and a master’s in social service administration, with an
emphasis in nonprofit management and public policy, from the
University of Chicago.
Minneapolis-based Target serves guests at
1,613 stores in 47 states nationwide by
delivering today's best retail trends at affordable
prices. Target is committed to providing guests
with great design through innovative products,
in-store experiences, and community
partnerships. Since 1946, the corporation has
donated five percent of its income and millions of
volunteer hours in the communities it serves.
Target gives more than $3 million a week to
support education, the arts, social services, and
volunteerism.
Tom Watson
Chief Strategy Officer, Changing Our World, Inc.
Tom Watson is chief strategy officer of Changing Our World Inc., a
national philanthropic services company he helped to found.
Changing Our World was acquired by the Omnicom Group in 2002,
and provides a wide range of consulting services to nonprofits,
corporations, foundations, and individuals in philanthropy.
A journalist and media critic whose work has appeared in The New
York Times, Industry Standard, Inside, Contribute, Worth, and Wired
magazines, Mr. Watson is responsible for the company’s marketing,
communications, and technology; he is also heavily involved in
business development and corporate partnerships for the firm.
Changing Our World's consultants look
beyond philanthropy when working with
corporate clients to the broader concept of
corporate social engagement. Changing Our
World helps companies maximize the positive
impact they have in society while simultaneously
addressing core objectives across the business.
The organization’s goal is to help every client
pinpoint its objectives for being engaged in
society, and design a plan of action to achieve a
return on their social investment.
Under his leadership, Changing Our World created onPhilanthropy.com,
a leading online resource for philanthropy professionals that includes
the popular blogs Buzz, onLine, and Future Leaders in Philanthropy.
Outside of his work with Changing Our World, Mr. Watson is the
founder and publisher of newcritics.com, an online journal of cultural
criticism. Before joining Changing Our World, he was co-founder of
@NY, the pioneering Internet news and information service that
chronicled New York’s Silicon Alley.
Sanford I. Weill
Chairman Emeritus, Citigroup Inc.
Sanford I. Weill is chairman emeritus of Citigroup Inc. He retired as
CEO of Citigroup on October 1, 2003, and served as chairman until
April 18, 2006. Formerly, Mr. Weill served as president of American
Express Company and chairman and chief executive officer of its
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company subsidiary. Mr. Weill became a
director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2001 and served
in this capacity until December 31, 2006. He also served as a director
on the boards of United Technologies Corp., AT&T Corp., and E. I.
Du Pont Nemours and Company.
In 2002, Mr. Weill was the recipient of Chief Executive magazine’s
CEO of the Year Award. The 1997 recipient of the New York State
Governor’s Art Award, Mr. Weill has been chairman of the board of
trustees of Carnegie Hall since 1991 and is also a director of the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He is chairman of the board of
overseers for The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and
Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, and is a
trustee of New York Presbyterian Hospital and an overseer of
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Mr. Weill is a lifetime
member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Long a proponent of education, Mr. Weill instituted a joint program
with the New York City Board of Education in 1980 that created the
Academy of Finance, which trains high school students for careers in
financial services. He serves as founder and chairman of the National
Academy Foundation (NAF), which oversees more than 500 careerthemed Academies in 41 states, as well as the District of Columbia.
NAF recently began an exciting, new partnership with the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation.
In July 2004, Mr. Weill was named chairman
of the board of the Committee Encouraging
Corporate Philanthropy and is now honorary
chairman. Mr. Weill was instrumental in
overseeing the early development and growth of
the organization from its founding to a
membership roster of more than 100 leading
CEOs.
Randi Weingarten
President, United Federation of Teachers
Randi Weingarten is president of the United Federation of Teachers,
the largest union local in the country. She is also a vice president of the
American Federation of Teachers and of the New York City Central
Labor Council (AFL-CIO), and heads the city’s Municipal Labor
Committee, an umbrella organization for 100-plus city unions.
Ms. Weingarten and the UFT have fought to make sure teachers are
treated with respect and dignity, have a voice in the exducation of their
students, are given the resources they need to succeed in the classroom,
and that every school is a place where parents want to send their
children and educators want to work.
The UFT, under Ms. Weingarten, has expanded its outreach to parents
and students. Each year the union awards more than $1 million in
scholarships to needy high school seniors, and Dial-A-Teacher, its afterschool homework help program, helps tens of thousands of students and
their parents each year.
Ms. Weingarten holds degrees from Cornell University and the
Cardozo School of Law. She worked as a lawyer for the Wall Street
firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from 1983 to 1986. She is an active
member of the Democratic National Committee and numerous
professional, civic and philanthropic organizations.
Representing more than 200,000 people, the
United Federation of Teachers
(UFT) is the sole bargaining agent for most of
the non-supervisory educators who work in the
New York City public schools. It represents
approximately 74,000 teachers and 17,000
classroom paraprofessionals, along with school
secretaries, attendance teachers, guidance
counselors, psychologists, social workers,
education evaluators, nurses, laboratory
technicians, adult education teachers and
32,000 retired members.
The UFT also represents teachers and other
employees of some private educational
institutions.