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Scott Edward Anderson - US
Scott has over 16 years of experience in non-profit management, most recently as vice president of Ashoka, a social venture capital organization investing in leading social entrepreneurs. There he developed a $16M partnership with the Gates Foundation to catalyze investments in agricultural innovations in sub-Saharan Africa and India .
As a director at the Nature Conservancy (TNC), he was responsible for securing $10M+ investments from HNW clients, creating marketing products for HNW audiences, and developing TNC’s $5B capital campaign.
As a media entrepreneur, Scott has founded print and online magazines, as well as the popular blog, “the green skeptic: blogging the new green economy™. While at TNC, Scott was elected a John Sawhill Conservation Leadership Fellow and was part of its global Marine and Climate Change strategy teams, and is currently a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP). Declan Conway - Ireland
Declan is an experienced entrepreneur specializing in the telecom sector, having founded telecom infrastructure companies and mobile carriers that operate globally. His career spans more than 20 years in the Telecommunications and Software industry. Declan was founder of Openet Telecom Ltd, in 1999, the world leader in Real-Time Charging and Transactional Intelligence for the wireless market. Openet secured contracts with over 100 carriers globally including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Orange Group, and BT and processes billions of dollars of transactions daily. Declan served as President and Chairman of the Company until he exited in 2002 and sold his shares to a consortium of institutional investors. Openet has been recognized globally as a technology and industry leader, winning many industry awards. It continues to enjoy high year on year profitable growth and shareholders includes institutions such as Benchmark Capital, Orange, SAIC, Cross Atlantic & AIB. Since exiting Openet, Declan has focused on technology investing and social entrepreneurship. He co-founded VOIP enabler Flint Telecom Ltd in 2004 (NASDAQ:SMOA), founded Kinsale Mobile Ltd in 2005 and his social ventures include the Encircle Foundation Ltd in 2003, as a vehicle to engage corporates and communities to support Corporate Social Responsibility. Encircle established the world’s first GSM charity network, Call4care, a mobile network in partnership with Red Cross, Amnesty International, Cancer Research and other global charities as an efficient and transparent tool to raise money for these organizations. Call4care is currently operating profitably in Europe and the USA and supports projects in Africa, Asia and Central America in partnership with T-Mobile, KPN, AT&T and other carrier groups. Prior to 1999, Declan headed sales and marketing in Europe for Vertel Corporation (NASDAQ: “VRTL”). Declan graduated from Dublin City University as an Electronic Engineer in 1988 and was a nominated finalist in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001. Declan services on a number of advisory boards including Traidlinks, an Irish Aid funded organization supporting the development of the private sector in the developing world. Lynne E. Dant - U.S.
Lynne has a background in global management and marketing, as well as business operations. In 2002, she completed her MBA at Wharton and has a chemical engineering degree from University of Dayton. She has a strong interest in microfinance and clean energy. She is Chair of the Dayton School of Engineering Advisory Council.
For the past 19 years, Lynne has worked with Rohm and Haas Company. Most recently she was Marketing Director of Architectural Coatings, leading a global marketing segment team, managing the global research portfolio and marketing a roadmap for a $1.2 billion business unit within an $8 billion specialty chemicals company. She was accountable for developing strategies, working closely with regional business groups to achieve strategic goals.
Recently she has joined Genscape, Inc. relocating to Louisville, Kentucky as VP of Operations and Controls. Genscape, Inc., with operations in the US and Europe, is the world's only provider of critical, real-time energy generation and transmission data. Richard Donald - Canada Richard Donald is the VP International at Jacques Whitford, a consulting firm that has delivered exceptional solutions to clients in more than 85 countries worldwide since 1972. Jacques Whitford is a 100% employee-owned company, with over 1600 scientists, engineers and technical support staff. In 2006, Jacques Whitford was selected as one of the Top 100 Employers in Canada. In 2005, Jacques Whitford acquired AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd. to become one of Canada’s largest environmental and engineering consulting firms.
As a multi-disciplinary firm of Environmental, Engineering, Scientific, Planning, and Management professionals, Jacques Whitford has provided consulting services on over 100,000 projects throughout Canada, the USA, and internationally in such areas as the Middle East, Caribbean, South and Central America, China, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia. Jacques Whitford currently has over 45 offices across North America, including Philadelphia, and internationally. Through a variety of strategic partnerships, they have developed a network of key relationships ready to respond to clients’ needs around the world with local knowledge and expertise.
Howard Finkelstein - US
Howard Finkelstein has developed an extensive practice in the structured finance area. He has represented issuers, commercial-paper conduits, underwriters, servicers, investors and trustees in connection with a wide variety of asset-backed securitizations. Howard has worked on both traditional structured finance transactions such as credit-card, equipment lease, automobile loan and lease and trade receivables securitizations, as well as the securitization of emerging asset classes, such as charged-off consumer receivables, home security system and personal emergency response system receivables and music and film royalty receivables. Notably, Howard was the lead attorney in the securitization of the royalty receivables of the British rock band, Iron Maiden. Over the past five years, Howard has been one of the country's pioneers in the securitization of microfinance-related obligations. In 2004, he was the lead attorney in the $87 million securitization known as Blue Orchard Microfinance Securities I, in which he successfully structured the securitization of loans to microfinance institutions in 7 countries spanning 3 continents. In 2006, he was the lead attorney in the $60 million securitization known as MicroFinance Securities (MFS) XXEB, in which he successfully structured the multi-currency securitization of loans to 30 microfinance institutions in 15 countries. Howard has also represented both borrowers and lenders in a wide variety of financing transactions, including warehouse financing, asset-based, LBO and debtor-in-possession financing, maritime finance and letter of credit facilities. Howard has spoken at many industry seminars and events on a wide variety of topics. He is a member of the Structured Finance Committee and Opinions Subcommittee of the New York City Bar Association. Robert N. Meyer - U.S.
Robert is a consultant with 20 years of wide-ranging experiences. More recently his role has been to envision, strategize, architect, and manage the creation of enterprise Information Technology solutions. Robert is one of the original architects that helped create EquiLend, a company that has standardized security lending for the world’s leading financial services firms. Additional experiences include building complex grid computing solutions on Wall Street, and architecting business process management solutions for large operation centers. Presently, he consults at a Fortune 500 high tech manufacturing firm, working as a chief solutions architect designing multimillion dollar systems that streamline global customer service operations.
Robert has strong interest in green technologies. He has a background in civil engineering, and was awarded an advanced degree from MIT in environmental engineering with a specialization in quantitative analysis of coastal systems. He worked as a consultant for a number of years with CH2M Hill, a world renowned environmental engineering consulting firm. His work included building models of polluted estuarines and coast lines, and conducting environmental impact studies of rivers and other wetlands. He has sailed extensively on tall ships in the Atlantic, conducting environmental impact studies and studying oceanic fauna distributions.
Robert grew up in rural third world countries including Dominica, Nepal and India. He has hiked multiple Himalayan ranges and continues to enjoy the outdoors in the United States as he chooses to commute to work by bike instead of by car. Karen Seeh, Strategic Advisor - US
Karen brings over 10 years of experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors focused on advancing sustainable development. Karen started her career with the US EPA, where she led a range of marketing and communications efforts for the Design for Environment Program, a government-industry partnership which promotes cleaner production. This led to an early interest in multi-stakeholders partnerships as well as in corporate social responsibility. While at the EPA, Karen was also engaged in bringing the Agency into the information age. She followed her passion for information technology into a position in the private sector with Commerce One, where she led cross-functional teams to create and market websites for environmental non-profit clients. Most recently, Karen has been testing her skills internationally as well as applying her multi-sectoral background, program development and communications skills to both corporate social responsibility and social enterprise ventures. For example, she was a key team member in the initial launch of InterfaceRAISE, a corporate sustainability consulting firm founded by Interface, Inc. Karen also helped Envirofit International, a growth-stage, clean-technology social enterprise, expand the funder base for its two-stroke retrofit technology. Karen holds an MBA in International Business and Sustainable Enterprise from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and a BA in Political Science and Environmental Studies from Indiana University - Bloomington. |
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