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Speakers at the 2016 Shared Value Conference

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FULL 2016 SPEAKER LIST - MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

Jim Yong Kim, World Bank
Barbara Bush, Global Health Corps
Helena Foulkes, CVS
Ashifi Gogo, Sproxil
Alan Murray, Fortune
Jaime Augusto Zobel, Ayala
Lise Kingo, UN Global Compact
Marcelo Castelli, Fibria
Jeffrey Hollender, Sustain
Raj Sisodia, Conscious Capitalism
Eduardo Porter, New York Times
Mindy Lubber, Ceres
Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink
Jakob Riis, Novo Nordisk
Latondra Newton, Toyota
Dan Hendrix, Interface
David Blood, Generation Investment Management
Bea Perez, Coca Cola
Nancy E. Pfund, DBL Partners
David Barash, GE
Shuaib Siddiqui, Acumen
Michael Porter, Harvard Business School

Jim Yong Kim
President, World Bank
Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D. is the 12th President of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed his position in July 2012, the organization established goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to boost shared prosperity for the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries. Kim’s career has revolved around health, education, and delivering services to the poor. Before joining the World Bank Group, Kim, a physician and anthropologist, served as President of Dartmouth College and held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. From 2003-2005, as Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS Department, he led the “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which helped to expand AIDS treatment in developing countries. In 1987, Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a non-profit medical organization now working in poor communities on four continents. He has received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, has been recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report, and TIME magazine in 2006 named Kim among its “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

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Barbara Bush
Co-Founder and CEO, Global Health Corps

Barbara Bush is CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC was founded in 2009 by six twentysomethings who were challenged by Peter Piot at the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit to engage their generation in solving the world’s biggest health challenges. Barbara and her co-founders believe health is a human right and that their generation must build the world where this is realized. Since that time, GHC has placed nearly 600 young leaders from more than 20 countries with non-profit and government health organizations like Partners In Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, and the United States, developing them as creative, effective, and compassionate leaders along the way. Prior to GHC, Barbara worked in educational programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, where she supported design-thinking programs for high school students and faculty across the US. She has worked with Red Cross Children’s Hospital in South Africa and UNICEF in Botswana, and has traveled with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatment. Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and the UN Global Entrepreneurs Council. She sits on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International, PSI, Friends of the Global Fight for AIDS, TB, and Malaria. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. In 2011, Barbara was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year, in 2013 she was recognized as one of Newsweek’s Women of Impact, and in 2015 she was named to Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list. Barbara graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.

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Helena B. Foulkes
Executive Vice President, CVS Health and President, CVS/pharmacy

Helena Foulkes is Executive Vice President of CVS Health and President of CVS/pharmacy, a position she has held since January 2014. In this role, Foulkes has responsibility for all aspects of the company’s retail business including its more than 7,900 retail stores, 18 distribution centers and e-commerce sites, as well as merchandising, supply chain, marketing, real estate, front store and pharmacy operations. In addition, Foulkes manages CVS Health’s enterprise digital, brand and communications teams.

Over the course of her twenty-year career with the company, Foulkes has amassed an extensive background in retail and health care marketing and strategy, and has played an important leadership role in growing the company from its retail roots to the largest pharmacy health care provider in the United States. Most recently, Foulkes served as Executive Vice President and Chief Health Care Strategy and Marketing Officer with responsibility for overall corporate strategy and enterprise marketing and communications for the company.

Foulkes is credited with leading innovations such as groundbreaking pharmacy health care programs, such as Maintenance Choice and Pharmacy Advisor, as well as ExtraCare, the largest retail loyalty program in the country with more than 70 million active cardholders.

Prior to joining the company in 1992, Foulkes worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Tiffany & Co. She has received numerous professional honors, including being ranked #14 on Fortune’s list of the Most Powerful Women in Business in 2015, and serves on the boards of The Home Depot, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS).

Foulkes received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Ashifi Gogo
Founder and CEO, Sproxil

Ashifi Gogo founded Sproxil, Inc. in 2009 and currently serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Sproxil developed its award-winning Mobile Product Authentication™ (MPATM) technology that has been used over 14 million times by consumers in 5 countries to verify the authenticity of their products. The MPA technology is also being used offers mobile marketing services that provide value to end-users and product manufacturers and/or distributors; with consumer engagement and loyalty applications rewarding millions of consumers for their interactions. Former US President Bill Clinton described Sproxil as “a genuinely remarkable achievement... (it's) empowering... putting people in charge of their own healthcare.” Sproxil’s MPA solution is applicable to virtually any tangible product is now used on multiple continents and in many industries including automotive, garment and fast-moving consumer goods.

Ashifi's work has been recognized through a variety of awards and fellowships. He was named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 in 2015 and awarded the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2014 by the Schwab Foundation. In 2013, Sproxil was named the world’s most innovative company in health care by Fast Company, and #7 most innovative worldwide, beating 99 of the Fortune 100 companies. He received a Clinton Foundation Global Initiative Outstanding Commitment Award, led Sproxil to win a grant from the United States Agency for International Development and attract venture funding from Acumen Fund in New York. Ashifi currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and on the Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy.

An expert in end-consumer authentication technologies, Ashifi holds a US Patent and is also a named inventor on multiple published US and foreign patent applications, one of which has been recognized by the US Patent and Trademark Office, winning a Patents for Humanity award for its significant positive humanitarian impact. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and a B.A. in mathematics and physics from Whitman College. He is Dartmouth's first-ever Ph.D. Innovation Fellow.

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Alan Murray
Managing Editor, Fortune

Alan Murray is the editor of Fortune, overseeing the magazine, its conferences and its digital properties.

Prior to assuming this post in August 2014, Murray was president of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. He was previously at The Wall Street Journal, where he served as Deputy Managing Editor and Executive Editor, Online. Murray spent a decade as the Journal’s Washington Bureau Chief, during which the bureau won three Pulitzer Prizes; and he subsequently served as CNBC’s Washington Bureau Chief, co-hosting “Capital Report with Alan Murray and Gloria Borger.” At various times, he wrote the Journal’s weekly Business and Political Capital columns, and won numerous awards for his writing on economics and international issues.

He is the author of four books, including The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management, Revolt in the Boardroom, and Showdown at Gucci Gulch, coauthored with Jeffrey Birnbaum. He is a member of the Gridiron Club, the New York Economic Club and the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Governing Council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Murray began his journalism career as the business and economics editor of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. He also worked at the Congressional Quarterly in Washington as a reporter and at the Japan Economic Journal in Tokyo on a Luce Fellowship.

Mr. Murray received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of North Carolina, where he was a John Motley Morehead scholar, a merit scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a master’s degree in economics at the London School of Economics. In 2005, he completed the Stanford Executive Program.

He is married to Dr. Lori Murray, Distinguished Chair for National Security at the US Naval Academy. They live in Greenwich, CT.

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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala
Chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation

Mr. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ayala Corporation, the holding company of the oldest business group in the Philippines. Ayala Corporation has subsidiaries and affiliates in real estate development, telecommunications, banking and financial services, electronics manufacturing, water distribution, automotive dealerships, business process outsourcing and overseas real estate investments.

Apart from his responsibilities on the boards of the Ayala Group companies, Mr. Zobel is a member of various international and local business and socio-civic organizations, including the JP Morgan International Council and Mitsubishi Corporation International Advisory Committee. He is also Chairman of the Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Advisory Board, a member of the Harvard Global Advisory Council, Chairman Emeritus of the Asia Business Council, Chairman of the World Wildlife Fund Philippine Advisory Council, a member of board of trustees of Endeavor Philippines and the Singapore Management University (SMU). He is also the Philippine Representative to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council.

In 2007, he received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award, the school’s highest recognition. Mr. Zobel is a 2009 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Merit, awarded by the President of the Republic of the Philippines for enhancing the prestige and honor of the Republic of the Philippines both at home and abroad. Subsequently, Mr. Zobel was bestowed the Philippine Legion of Honor, with rank of Grand Commander, by the President of the Republic of the Philippines in recognition of his outstanding public service to the Republic.

Mr. Zobel studied at Harvard University where he earned his BA in Economics (with honors) in 1981 and his MBA in 1987. He is married to Ms. Elizabeth Eder Zobel de Ayala and has four children. He enjoys adventure motorcycling in his spare time.

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Lise Kingo
Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Lise Kingo is the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact and a recognized expert in corporate sustainability. She leads the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative with more than 12,000 signatories from 170 countries that have committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and taking actions that advance societal goals.

Prior to joining the UN Global Compact in 2015, Ms. Kingo was Chief of Staff, Executive Vice-President and member of the Executive Management team at Novo Nordisk A/S that led the company through a significant growth phase to become the sixth largest pharmaceutical company in the world and the largest company in the Nordic region by market capitalization. While at Novo Nordisk, she oversaw the company’s participation in the UN Global Compact and led the integration of sustainability into the company’s business strategy, including the development of “Changing Diabetes” to transform how diabetes is managed and ultimately defeat the disease.

During Ms. Kingo’s years with Novo Nordisk, the company was ranked number 2 in the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Index Pharmaceutical Section, number 2 in the 2014 Access to Health Index, number 1 in the “Corporate Knights’ 2012 annual survey” and named the most sustainable company in the world.

For her work in promoting sustainable business, she received the Edinburgh Medal and Tomorrow Magazine’s Environmental Leadership Award. Ms. Kingo holds multiple degrees including a MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice from the University of Bath, United Kingdom and a B.Com. in Marketing Economics from the Copenhagen Business School.

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Marcelo Castelli
CEO, Fibria

Castelli has more than 25 years of experience in the pulp and paper sector, heading positions of leadership in production, projects, forestry, paper and businesses areas in large companies in Brazil.

At Fibria, he led the integration process, responsible for conceptual and administrative guidelines during the merger of Aracruz and VCP. After a successful merger, he was appointed as CEO in July 2011.

Castelli is a Mechanical Engineering, Pulp and Paper specialist, MBA by Dom Cabral Foundation and attended to a several Top Management Programs in a continuous education.

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Jeffrey Hollender
Founder & CEO, Sustain

Jeffrey Hollender is a leading authority on corporate responsibility, sustainability and social equity. More than twenty-three years ago, he co-founded Seventh Generation and went on to build the fledgling company into a leading natural product brand known for its authenticity, transparency, and progressive business practices. Today, as a CEO, author, speaker, consultant, and activist, Jeffrey's mission is to inspire and provoke business leaders to think differently about the role they and their companies play in society. Along the way, he's working to drive systemic change that makes it easier for businesses to become radically more sustainable, transparent and responsible.

In 1988, Hollender co-founded and was for over two decades the CEO of Seventh Generation, the leading brand of sustainable, non-toxic household and personal care products. Currently Hollender is the Founder and Chief Inspired Protagonist of Hollender Sustainable Brands, makers of Sustain, non-toxic, fair trade, and sustainable personal care and sexual wellness products for women. Sustain products are sold in over 4,000 stores including Whole Foods, Target, CVS and Kroger. Hollender is also an Adjunct Professor for sustainability and social entrepreneurship at New York University.

Hollender's passion for changing the negative impact that industry has on the environment and society is evident in each of his seven books, including 2010's The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win. Hollender has also helped millions of Americans make green and ethical product choices, beginning with his bestselling title, How to Make the World a Better Place, a Beginner’s Guide, in 1990. His most recent book, Planet Home: Conscious Choices for Cleaning & Greening the World You Care About Most (Clarkson Potter/Publishers; December 28, 2010) guides consumers through the dizzying array of decisions they make each day, helping them understand which choices matter most and which have hidden repercussions.

Hollender was the Co-Chair of the Greenpeace US Board of Directors until 2013 and now continues to serve on the Board of Directors. He is also the co-founder and Board Chair of the American Sustainable Business Council, a coalition of over 200,000 business leaders committed to progressive public policy, and serves on the Board of Verité, a leading workers’ rights organization. He divides his time between Charlotte, VT, and New York City.

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Raj Sisodia
Co-Founder, Conscious Capitalism

Raj Sisodia is FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College, and Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc. He has a Ph. D. in Marketing from Columbia University. Raj is co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013) and Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Matters (2015). In 2003, he was cited as one of “50 Leading Marketing Thinkers” by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He was named one of “Ten Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010” by Good Business International, and one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America for 2010 and 2011.

Raj has published eight books and over 100 academic articles. His book Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose was named a top business book of 2007 by Amazon.com. He has consulted with numerous companies, including AT&T, Nokia, LG, DPDHL, POSCO, Kraft Foods, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Walmart, Rabobank, McDonalds and Southern California Edison. He is on the Board of Directors at The Container Store and a trustee of Conscious Capitalism Inc.

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Eduardo Porter
Columnist, New York Times

Eduardo Porter writes the Economic Scene column for The New York Times. Formerly he was a member of The Times’ editorial board, where he wrote about business, economics, and a mix of other matters.

Mr. Porter began his career in journalism over two decades ago as a financial reporter for Notimex, a Mexican news agency, in Mexico City. He was deployed as a correspondent to Tokyo and London, and in 1996 he moved to São Paulo, Brazil, as editor of América Economía, a business magazine.

In 2000, Mr. Porter went to work at The Wall Street Journal in Los Angeles to cover the growing Hispanic population. He joined The New York Times in 2004 to cover economics.

Mr. Porter was born in Phoenix and grew up in the United States, Mexico and Belgium.

He graduated with a degree in physics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has an M.Sc. in quantum fields and fundamental forces from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. He has a son, Mateo, and lives in New York.

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Mindy Lubber
President, Ceres

Mindy S. Lubber is the president of Ceres and a founding board member of the organization. She also directs Ceres’ Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a group of 120 institutional investors managing nearly $13 trillion in assets focused on the business risks and opportunities of climate change.

Under Mindy’s leadership, Ceres launched The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability, a visionary practical guide highlighting environmental and social performance improvements companies and investors must achieve to succeed in the resource-constrained 21st century global economy. She also helps coordinate Ceres' Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP), a coalition of more than 20 leading consumer brand companies advocating for strong climate and clean energy policies in the U.S. and abroad.

In 2010, Mindy was honored by the United Nations and the Foundation for Social Change as one of the “World’s Top Leaders of Change” for her work in mobilizing leading companies to integrate environmental challenges into core business strategies. She is a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was named one of “The 100 Most Influential People in Corporate Governance” by Directorship magazine.

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Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PolicyLink

Angela Glover Blackwell started PolicyLink in 1999 and continues to drive its mission of advancing economic and social equity. Under Blackwell’s leadership, PolicyLink has become a leading voice in the movement to use public policy to improve access and opportunity for all low-income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education, and infrastructure.

Prior to founding PolicyLink, Blackwell served as Senior Vice President at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she oversaw the foundation’s Domestic and Cultural divisions. A lawyer by training, she gained national recognition as founder of the Oakland (CA) Urban Strategies Council, where she pioneered new approaches to neighborhood revitalization. From 1977 to 1987, Blackwell was a partner at Public Advocates, a nationally known public interest law firm.

As a leading voice in the movement for equity in America, Blackwell is a frequent commentator for some of the nation’s top news organizations, including The New York Times, the Huffington Post, Washington Post, Salon, CNN and has appeared regularly on such shows as public radio’s Marketplace, The Tavis Smiley Show, Nightline, and PBS’s Now. Blackwell has also been a guest on the PBS series Moyers & Company and PBS’s NewsHour. Blackwell appears in the sixth and final segment of the PBS six-part series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which aired in October and November, 2013.

Blackwell is the co-author of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010), and contributed to Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream (The New Press, 2007) and The Covenant with Black America (Third World Press, 2006). In 2013, Blackwell and PolicyLink collaborated with the Center for American Progress to write and release All In Nation: An America that Works for All. Blackwell earned a bachelor’s degree from Howard University, and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She serves on numerous boards, including the Children’s Defense Fund and The President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans.

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Jakob Riis
EVP, Asia-Pacific and Head, Triple Bottom Line, Novo Nordisk

Jakob Riis joined Novo Nordisk in 1996 as a health economist. From 2001 through 2005 Mr Riis worked first in the US sales force and then as head of marketing in Japan. In 2005 he was appointed senior vice president for International Marketing. In January 2013 he was appointed executive vice president assuming responsibility for Marketing & Medical Affairs. In April 2015 he assumed the responsibilities the two sales regions China and Pacific, in addition to Marketing, Medical Affairs & Stakeholder Engagement.

Mr. Riis is chairman of the board of Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and a member of the board and chair of the audit committee of ALK-Abelló A/S, both in Denmark.

Mr. Riis has an MSc in Forestry from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark (now the Faculty of Science of the University of Copenhagen) from 1992 where he also obtained a PhD in 1998.

Mr. Riis is a Danish national, born April 1966.

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Latondra Newton
Chief Social Innovation Officer, Toyota

Newton is Group Vice President and Chief Social Innovation Officer, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. and Chief Program Officer, Toyota Mobility Foundation, Toyota Motor Corporation.

As Group Vice President and the first Chief Social Innovation Officer for Toyota Motor North America, Latondra Newton is charged with leading an integrated, holistic social responsibility strategy for the company. She has united Toyota’s diversity and inclusion, philanthropy and community relations efforts across North America under one function for the first time.

Globally, Newton leads the Toyota Mobility Foundation, which was established in 2014 to advance the freedom of mobility for more people everywhere. Additionally, she is on the board of the Toyota USA Foundation, which has a $100 million endowment to support K-12 STEM education, especially in diverse communities.

Newton’s work is focused on advancing Toyota’s mission to address society’s greatest challenges through mobility solutions, bringing together diverse ideas and people to create positive business and social impact. Working with public and private partners around the world, her team harnesses Toyota’s expertise and resources to help more people go more places – so they can live better lives no matter where they are.

Beginning her career at Toyota in 1991, Newton has had a variety of senior leadership roles – spanning corporate planning, research, public affairs, marketing, philanthropy, and diversity. She has held her current title since 2014.

As Toyota’s Chief Diversity Officer, she directed the establishment of a singular diversity and inclusion strategy for the entire company in North America. Today, Toyota is regularly recognized as a top company for diversity, including by DiversityInc, where it is the sole automaker on the organization’s top 50 companies for diversity list; and by Black Enterprise Magazine’s “Best Companies for Diversity” list. Additionally, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) has included Toyota on its “HACR Corporate Inclusion Index” and Toyota is a member of the “Billion Dollar Roundtable” in recognition of more than $1 billion in annual spending with certified minority and women-owned suppliers.

At the same time, Newton has overseen outside advisor groups for Toyota, including the company’s Diversity Advisory Board (DAB), which includes veteran leaders in diversity, public policy, economic development, and community relations. She also oversaw the company’s outside safety panel, chaired by former Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater. This work led to new standards for industry best practices, including the establishment and funding of Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC), which works with leading North American universities, hospitals, research institutions, and agencies to advance auto safety for everyone on the road.

Earlier in her career, she was asked to create the company's first succession management system as well as a development program for team members at all levels of the company, with a specific focus on fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce.

During her external affairs work, she led efforts to foster understanding of Toyota’s economic role in North America, not simply as an employer in communities where it operates, but also as a company with a significant positive effect on the local and national economy. She began her Toyota career in equipment purchasing, where she led efforts to give local and diverse suppliers opportunities to do business with the company.

Linkage’s Women in Leadership Institute gave her its “Passionate Champion Award” in 2014, and Automotive News named Newton one of the “100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry” in 2010.

Newton is on the Board of Directors of the Manufacturing Institute, and was the founding chair of Step Ahead, which is focused on enhancing professional opportunities for women in the manufacturing industry. She serves on the board of the St. Bernard Project, a nonprofit that uses Toyota Production System knowledge to help homeowners and communities reduce the time it takes to recover from natural disasters.

Newton holds a bachelor’s degree in management systems from Kettering University.

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Dan Hendrix
Chairman, President and CEO, Interface, Inc.

Dan Hendrix has been president and CEO of Interface, Inc., a $1 billion, global manufacturer of modular commercial and residential carpet and broadloom carpet, for 14 years. Under his leadership, Interface helped create a viable market for modular carpet globally, a business that once was considered no more than a niche business. The company now leads with a 35 percent share of the market globally. Dan’s mission is to ensure that each of the Interface business regions is a high-performing asset, a great place to work and a good environmental steward focused on the company’s Mission Zero goal to eliminate its negative environmental footprint by the year 2020. Dan was appointed Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors in October 2011, succeeding Interface Founder and Chairman Ray C. Anderson.

Since his appointment as president and CEO in 2001, Dan has extended the company’s global reach with manufacturing on four continents (U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia), including plants in Shanghai, Thailand, Ireland, The Netherlands, the U.S. and Australia. The company has sales in more than 110 countries globally, and is introducing the modular concept to emerging markets in China, Central America, Latin America, India, Africa and the Middle East. He has overseen the launch of the company’s residential modular brand, FLOR, a company with 21 stores in major markets in the U.S. and Toronto.

Dan is credited with orchestrating Interface’s business rebounds in 2001 and 2010 — reducing the company’s overall debt, increasing profitability, focusing on the company’s core modular business and increasing Interface’s global market share. He has led Interface’s strategic diversification beyond its core corporate office market and into new segments with high growth potential such as education, hospitality, healthcare, retail and institutional space, and into the consumer/residential business. The non-corporate office segments have grown to represent approximately 40 percent of our worldwide business and more than half of the U.S. business.

Dan joined Interface, Inc. in 1983, shortly after the company’s initial public offering. He was quickly elevated to chief financial officer in 1985, and in 1989 he was identified as the youngest CFO at a Fortune 500 company. Working as CFO at Ray Anderson’s side, Dan led Interface in a series of acquisitions, both domestic and international, ranging in size from $2 million to $150 million. Several of these acquisitions nearly doubled the company in size, including the 1988 acquisition of the then-largest carpet tile manufacturer in the world, Holland-based Heuga, which firmly established Interface as the global leader in that market segment.

Dan addresses some 40-plus investor groups each year to talk about Interface’s financial progress and the business case for sustainability. He also speaks to a wide range of organizations about how Interface has applied sustainability to its business, discussing the company’s strategy of getting ahead by making investments that are good for the environment, as well as long-term growth.

Dan serves on the Board of Governors for the College of Business at Florida State University, and on the board of directors for American Woodmark, a publicly held company that is the leading manufacturer and distributor of kitchen and bath cabinets for the remodeling and new home construction markets.

A native of Florida, Dan graduated with honors from Florida State University with a B.S. in accounting in 1977. He and his wife Betsy live in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, and have two children, Lauren and John.

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David Blood
Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management

David Blood is co-founder and Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management. Previously, he spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs including serving as co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management from 1999-2003. David received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is on the Board of New Forests, SHINE, Dialight, Ashden, Social Finance UK and The Nature Conservancy, as well as a Life Trustee of Hamilton College.

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Bea Perez
Chief Sustainability Officer, The Coca-Cola Company

Bea Perez is Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) of The Coca-Cola Company. Bea created and now drives a global Sustainability strategy that’s growing the business while making a positive difference for people, communities and the environment. The strategy is helping the Coca-Cola System to economically empower 5 million women, replenish 100% of the water it uses and ensure consumers find the energy balance that’s right for them. Bea is also leading the System’s efforts to integrate Sustainability deeper into the business so that it’s embedded in how Coca-Cola operates. You can read more about the company’s Sustainability programs and progress here.

Prior to becoming Coca-Cola’s first CSO, Bea served as the Chief Marketing Officer for the company’s North American Division. As one of the Company’s top marketers, she helped bring brands to life for consumers by developing strategic partnerships with NASCAR, PGA, NBA, LeBron James, American Idol, the OSCARS, Ryan Seacrest and others. Bea and her team created the Coca-Cola Racing Family as part of their award-winning Motorsports marketing platform, which launched Coca-Cola as the Official Soft Drink of NASCAR. They also created the Coke Digital Network, an innovation in how companies engaged and communicated with consumers.

Bea has been recognized in a number of ways for her business success and Sustainability leadership. She is a member of the American Advertising Hall of Achievement and the Sports Business Journal’s Hall of Fame. In 2014, Hispanic Executive magazine included Bea in its list of Top 10 Leaders, and she was named as one of the “10 Most Powerful Women in Sustainability” by Green Building & Design magazine.

Bea also was recognized as a “Conservation Trailblazer” by The Trust for the Public Land for her leadership in helping to conserve and preserve some of the world’s most important waterways. She has been featured as one of the 25 Most Powerful Latinas on CNN En Espanol and in People en Español.

Bea serves on the boards of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation, the USO, Save the Children, The Boy Scouts of America, Primerica, International Council on Women's Business Leadership and The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. She lives in Atlanta, where she spends her free time outdoors with her family.

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Nancy E. Pfund
Founder and Managing Partner, DBL Partners

Nancy E. Pfund is Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners (formerly Investors), a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, economic and environmental returns in the regions and sectors in which it invests. As a leading player in the growing field of “impact investing”, DBL has helped to reveal the power of venture capital to promote social change and environmental improvement, and Ms. Pfund writes and speaks frequently on this topic.

Ms. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors of several companies, including; SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), where she is Chair of the governance committee and sits on both the audit and compensation committees, Primus Power, Powergenix, Farmers Business Network, The Muse, Advanced Microgrid Solutions and Off-Grid Electric, and, prior to their public offerings, Tesla Motors and Pandora Media. Prior to founding DBL Investors, Ms. Pfund was a Managing Director in Venture Capital at JPMorgan, having started her investment career at Hambrecht & Quist in 1984. Previously, Ms. Pfund worked at Intel Corporation, the State of California, Stanford University and the Sierra Club.

Ms. Pfund was featured #17 in the FORTUNE World’s Top 25 Eco-Innovators and is: Chair of the Advisory Council of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University; a member of the Advisory Board of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; a member of the Advisory Board of the UC Davis Center for Energy Efficiency; a past Lecturer in Management at the Stanford University Graduate School business; and a past Lecturer in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management; a C3E Ambassador to the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Program, led by the U.S. Department of Energy; and is a founding officer and director of ABC2, a foundation aimed at accelerating a cure for brain cancer. In 1988, President Bush appointed Ms. Pfund as a charter member of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. In 1999, Ms. Pfund was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Congressional Web-Based Education Commission.

Ms. Pfund is the author, along with Benjamin Healey of the widely cited report on the history of U.S. energy subsidies entitled, “What Would Jefferson Do? The Historical Role of Federal Subsidies in Shaping America’s Energy Future”, co-authored with Michael Lazar, “Red, White & Green: The True Colors of America’s Clean Tech Jobs”, co-authored with Noah Walker, “Ask Saint Onofrio: Finding What Has Been Lost in A Tale of Two Energy Sources”, and co-authored with Anand Chhabra, “Renewables Are Driving Up Electricity Prices: Wait, What?” She also delivered a widely circulated commencement speech at UC Davis Graduate School of Management in June 2015 entitled “The Impact Generation”.

Ms. Pfund received her BA and MA in anthropology from Stanford University, and her MBA from the Yale School of Management. Follow Nancy on Twitter @NancyPfundDBL.

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David M. Barash, M.D.
Executive Director, Global Health Portfolio and Chief Medical Officer, GE Foundation

David M. Barash, M.D. is the Executive Director of the Global Health Portfolio and Chief Medical Officer for the GE Foundation. The Foundation’s Developing Health initiatives are approached with the belief that simple interventions, along with strong partnerships and leaders, are often the answer to some of healthcare’s most complex problems.

Dr. Barash is a practicing emergency medicine physician with more than 30 years’ experience. He has focused a great deal on understanding how new technologies can be commercialized and delivered to effectively close the gap between brainstorm and bedside.

Prior to joining the GE Foundation, Dr. Barash was Chief Medical Officer of Life Care Solutions and Executive Medical Director of Health Care Services for GE Healthcare. He was also Founder and President of Concord Healthcare Strategies, where he provided strategic and operational expertise to medical technology investors and development stage medical technology companies.

David is a graduate of Cornell University and author of several clinical publications.

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Shuaib Siddiqui
Director of Portfolio, Acumen

Shuaib is Director of Portfolio at Acumen where he oversees our global investing process, management of our global investment committee, new investment origination, and portfolio management.

Prior to Acumen, Shuaib worked for two years in the Quantitative Alpha Generation Group at Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund based in Chicago, where he focused on developing trading strategies utilizing fundamental company data. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch working on The Global Analytic and Thematic Research team. He holds a BA in Economics from New York University.

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Michael E. Porter
Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School

Michael E. Porter is a leading authority on competitive strategy, the competitiveness and economic development of nations, states, and regions, and the application of competitive principles to social problems such as the environment, health care delivery and corporate responsibility.

Professor Porter is generally recognized as the father of the modern strategy field, and has been identified in a variety of rankings and surveys as the world’s most influential thinker on management and competitiveness.

Currently the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at the Harvard Business School, Professor Porter has authored 19 books and over 125 articles on strategy, competition and health care delivery. He has served as a counselor on strategy to the governments of many nations, to leading international corporations, and to nonprofit organizations. Professor Porter leads the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, founded to support his work. His research on economic development in America's inner cities led to the founding of The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a nonprofit initiative to catalyze inner-city business development, where he serves as Chairman. With Mark Kramer, he co-founded both FSG and The Center for Effective Philanthropy.

Professor Porter holds a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S.E. in aerospace engineering from Princeton University. He has received over 30 major awards and honorary degrees, and was voted the most influential strategic thinker by the Strategic Management Society.

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Mark Kramer
Co-Founder and Managing Director, FSG

Mark Kramer is co-founder and Managing Director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm established in 2000 and specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research. As the primary overseer of FSG‘s consulting practice, he helps drive the vision and growth of the firm and leads engagements across all of FSG’s impact areas, with a particular focus on shared value. A prolific author, Mr. Kramer’s work is featured regularly in major publications, and he is a frequent speaker around the world on topics in catalytic philanthropy, collective impact, creating shared value for corporations, new approaches to evaluation, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship. He is the co-author of four Harvard Business Review articles with Professor Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School.

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Justin Bakule
Executive Director, Shared Value Initiative

As the inaugural executive director of the Shared Value Initiative, Justin is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of the Initiative. He works closely with all of the Initiative’s major stakeholders including corporate, civil society, government and academic organizations in order to track and influence the development and capture of shared value research, the shared value idea in practice, and the growing global community of practitioners.

Justin led FSG’s thinking about how to build a shared value field first through the launch of the Shared Value Leadership Summit in 2011, followed by the development of the Shared Value Initiative business plan and partnership development process. These efforts led to the formal launch of the Shared Value Initiative as a 2012 Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action currently supported by 17 leading shared value organizations around the world. Justin is also an experienced public speaker having addressed executive teams, industry organizations, and academic audiences around the world on shared value and the role of the corporation in society.

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