Oscar Salazar Gaitan
Oscar Salazar Gaitan is a seasoned entrepreneur, senior executive, and investor in numerous successful technology firms. Mr. Salazar was one of the co-founders of Uber. Through Uber he was instrumental in helping to redesign the architecture of on-demand transportation worldwide. Mr. Salazar provides his telecommunications and engineering expertise in the design and architecture of innovative […]
Lars Wiigh
Lars Wiigh works as European Union and Business Development Executive for IBM Nordic. He holds a Master of Science in Electro Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and a Master of Business Administration at the SDA Bocconi University in Milan. Lars has over 20 years of vast experience from leadership roles in […]
Lally Graham Weymouth
Lally Weymouth has been writing on foreign affairs and conducting interviews with foreign heads of state for over twenty five years. Recently, she conducted the first foreign interview with President Tsai Ing-Wen of Taiwan. Last June, Brazil’s new President Michel Temer gave Lally Weymouth his first US interview as did Argentina’s new President, Mauricio Macri […]
Ron Waldman
Ron Waldman, MD began his career as a volunteer in the World Health Organization’s Smallpox Eradication Program, serving for two years in rural Bangladesh. He joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1979 and was assigned to the Michigan State Health Department where he became the principal […]
Blair Taylor
In April 2016, Blair Taylor became Chief Executive Officer of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance (MBK Alliance), a nonprofit launched by the White House in 2015 to advance communities of color broadly and boys and men of color more specifically. In this current role, Taylor leads one of the nation’s most dynamic initiatives focused on America’s […]
Richard Swett
Ambassador Swett, a licensed architect, has thirty years experience in the architecture and energy fields. He most recently was the Managing Principal of the DC office and international contracts of Leo A. Daly Architects. He worked as an alternative energy entrepreneur in the Northeast, building biomass power plants in New Hampshire. He served as a […]
Amb. Alan Solomont
Alan D. Solomont became the Dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University in January, 2014. The mission of Tisch College is to ensure that every student at Tufts University is educated to be an active citizen. From January, 2010 until July, 2013, Solomont was the United States Ambassador to Spain […]
Jeff Seabright
Jeff is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Unilever. Previously, he served as Vice President for Environmental and Water Resources at the Coca-Cola Company. After receiving a Master’s degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics, he began his career as a strategy consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton. He went on to serve […]
Steve Schmida
Mr. Schmida is an innovative international entrepreneur and proven project manager with more than 19 years’ experience working in more than 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, and Latin America. Mr. Schmida has played a leading role in developing innovative financial and business model solutions to development challenges in climate resiliency, clean energy, broadband access, […]
Richard Rogers
As the Managing Director of Rogers MacJohn, Richard helps companies move beyond traditional CSR to become primary agents for delivering societal and shareholder value. He leverages insight and experience from over 20 years in industry, management consulting, and philanthropy at industry-leading organizations. While at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Richard developed and managed a […]
John Rice
John G. Rice is vice chairman of GE. In November 2010, the GE Board of Directors named Rice to lead the company’s global operations based in Hong Kong. Rice began his GE career in 1978 and has held several leadership positions based both in the United States and in other global markets including Hong Kong, […]