David Rachelson
David Rachelson is Rubicon’s Chief Sustainability Officer, spearheading the company’s sustainability efforts focused on achieving the company’s mission to end waste through increased landfill diversion and innovative circular economy solutions. Rachelson’s team oversees calculating and regularly monitoring the waste and recycling related environmental metrics of Rubicon’s customers, engaging with sustainability departments to deliver actionable solutions, […]
Dauda Sesay
Dauda Sesay and his family were resettled in Baton Rouge in 2009, after spending nine years in a refugee camp where he met his beautiful wife, Alima. Upon arrival in the US, Dauda made learning English and acquiring education his top priority for him and his family. As a result, he earned an Associate of […]
Samir Ibrahim
Samir Ibrahim is the CEO and co-founder of SunCulture. SunCulture develops and commercializes life-changing technology that solves the biggest daily challenges for the world’s 570 million smallholder farming households. The company is recognized as a Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer and a Financial Times Transformational Business, and was named to the London Stock Exchange’s “Companies to […]
Katherine Neebe
Katherine joined Duke Energy in 2020 to serve as Vice President of National Engagement and Strategy as well as Chief Sustainability Officer; she is also President of the Duke Energy Foundation. In this capacity, she leads Duke Energy’s stakeholder engagement efforts in service of the company’s purpose to power the lives of our customers and […]
John Barsa
John Barsa is the acting USAID Administrator. Prior to assuming these duties on April 11, 2020, he was sworn in on June 10, 2019, as the Assistant Administrator for USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. Barsa brings considerable experience from decades of service in the public and private sectors. Mr. Barsa comes to […]
Joanne Sonenshine
Joanne Sonenshine is a development economist with a passion for partnership development, and experiences working with government agencies, large and small corporations, and nonprofits. Joanne focuses on collaboration approaches to solve some of our world’s biggest problems. Passionate about societal change, Joanne has devoted her career to helping non-profit decision makers, corporate leaders and entrepreneurs […]
Dr. Dan Vermeer
Dan has spent the last three decades working on some of the world’s “grand challenges” – e.g. poverty, water, climate change, and ocean sustainability – through diverse roles in academia and business. Trained as an anthropologist, Dan spent his 20s working with indigenous people in the Himalayas of Nepal and India. His first-hand experience of […]
Marie Royce
Marie Royce was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs on March 30, 2018. In this capacity, she oversees a wide range of programs to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives through educational, professional, cultural, and sports exchanges that promote mutual understanding between […]
Charity Wallace
Charity Wallace, founder and president of Wallace Global Impact, is a strategic, mission-driven, and pioneering executive leader with expertise in impact investing, social impact, foreign policy, global development and women’s empowerment. She served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, overseeing the team working to cultivate private sector […]
Jeff Fraser
Jeff Fraser is currently the Managing Partner of Blue Dunes Growth, which invests and advises in the technology sector. He was previously the Head of Corporate Development for Mediaocean, reporting to the CEO and owner of the company, Vista Equity Partners. Prior to Mediaocean, he founded a technology-focused investment bank that was acquired in 2017 […]
Matthias Berninger
Matthias Berninger was born in Kassel, Germany where he studied chemistry and political science from 1990 to 1994. Between 1994 and 2007, Matthias Berninger was elected four times as a Member of the German Federal Parliament representing the Green Party of his home state Hessen and served in several committees (Education, Science and Technology, Budget, […]