Parker Harris
Parker Harris drives technology vision and architecture across Salesforce. He is also a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Parker founded Salesforce along with Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez in the spring of 1999. Prior to Salesforce, Parker developed cloud computing expertise at Left Coast Software, a company he co-founded in 1996, […]
Governor Andy Beshear
Governor Andy Beshear grew up in central Kentucky and graduated from Henry Clay High School before attending Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia School of Law. His family and community instilled in him the values of faith, family, and public service. He has leaned on those values more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Ashley Smith
A native of Lexington, KY, Ashley C. Smith graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. She is the Co-founder and COO of Black Soil: Our Better Nature, a statewide agritourism company with a mission of reconnecting Black Kentuckians to their legacy and heritage in agriculture. Smith has […]
Colby Hall
Colby Hall is a born and raised Eastern Kentuckian. A 2015 graduate of the University of Kentucky, Colby pursued a successful sales career in Atlanta, Georgia before returning home to become the Executive Director of Shaping Our Appalachian Region, a nonprofit focused on economic revitalization in the Eastern Kentucky coalfields. Colby resides in Pikeville, KY […]
Adam Met
Adam’s interests bridge the worlds of music, sustainability, law, academia, policy, marketing, and technology. As the bassist for AJR, he has traveled the world on sold-out tours, achieved platinum certifications in numerous countries, and recorded a repertoire of music that has garnered more than 2.5 billion streams worldwide. As the founder and Executive Director of […]
Noah Budnick
Noah leads Together for Safer Roads’ work to make businesses active participants in the United Nations’ Decade of Action for Road Safety, local Vision Zero initiatives and similarly ambitious road safety campaigns. He is responsible for overseeing the organization’s strategic direction on behalf of TSR’s Governing Board and membership, growing the organization’s membership and network […]
Henry Childs
Henry Childs II is the founder of the Minority Wealth Commission and the Chief Fund Manager of the Business Consortium Fund. Prior to becoming a fund manager, Mr. Childs was the 17th National Director for the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency. During his tenure at MBDA, Director Childs’ investments facilitated $4.7 billion […]
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) is a national political correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for CNN. He joined the Times in 2013 after working as a senior political writer for POLITICO. His work has been featured in The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Most recently, […]
Benjamin Backer
Benji Backer is President and Founder of the American Conservation Coalition, the largest right-of-center environmental organization in the country. For his work with the ACC, he has been awarded the Fortune 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, GreenBiz 30 Under 30, and Grist 50. He serves as a Board member for the Wisconsin Conservative […]
Congressman John Yarmuth
Congressman John Yarmuth represents Kentucky’s Third Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Now in his eighth term, he has served as Chairman of the House Budget Committee since 2019. Yarmuth has been recognized for his work to improve education, expand access to affordable health care, and for his leadership in enacting the American […]
Luis Salazar
Luis Salazar is the co-founder and CEO of Giving Tech Labs, where since 2017 they have launched 7 successful Tech for Good enterprises that benefit +100,000 people every month, including VidaNyx, the leading software solution serving the needs of centers that help children survivors of sexual abuse and neglect. As a serial tech entrepreneur and […]