Caroline Kim Oh is an Executive Coach to nonprofit leaders.
Prior to coaching, Caroline worked for more than 12 years with iMentor, serving as its first director of programs, before becoming the executive director and then president. During her tenure, Caroline helped steer iMentor from a startup pilot phase to national expansion and rapid growth. Under her leadership, iMentor's budget grew from $350,000 to more than $10 million, mentor / mentee pairs increased from 180 to 2,600 annually, and the staff grew from four to more than 80 full-time employees.
Caroline Kim Oh received her B.A. from Cornell University and M.P.A. from New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.
Bridget Lowell is Vice President of Strategic Communications and Outreach at Urban Institute.
With more than 15 years as a communications strategist, spokesperson, and on-air reporter, her experience spans the nonprofit and private sectors, Capitol Hill, and the media industry. Before joining the Institute, she served as director of strategic communications at Change.org, the world's fastest-growing digital platform for social change. She held the same position at The Nature Conservancy, a global nonprofit with 3,800 employees across three dozen countries. Lowell is known for her success in revamping organizational message architecture, executing complex communications plans, and expanding media coverage.
From 2001 to 2006, Lowell was communications director for U.S. Representative David Price. She also worked as an on-air reporter at the ABC affiliate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She got her start as an on-air reporter and producer for the Regional News Network, a cable news channel in Kingston, New York.
Bridget Lowell is a graduate of Cornell University.
Hamdi Ulukaya is a Turkish American entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Chobani, the number one-selling Greek yogurt brand in the U.S.
Originating from a Kurdish dairy-farming family in a small village in Turkey, Ulukaya came to the U.S. in 1994 to study English and took a few business courses as well. He started a modest feta-cheese factory in 2002 on the advice of his father, but his real success came from taking a major risk: purchasing a large defunct yogurt factory in upstate New York in 2005. With no prior experience in the yogurt business, he created a yogurt empire, Chobani, that went from zero to over $1 billion in annual sales in less than five years, becoming the leading yogurt brand in the U.S. by 2011. Ernst & Young named Ulukaya the World Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013.
Tasha Lewis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design. Her research interests include the disruptive impact of technology in the apparel industry, the behavior of fashion brands, global and domestic apparel production ("glocalization") issues, and the significance of social responsibility and sustainability throughout the global apparel supply chain. Tasha Lewis received her undergraduate and Master's degrees from The Ohio State University and her PhD from Cornell University.
Fox's interview is one of a four-part interview series of interview with "dot com" entrepreneurs (Micah Rosenbloom, Harold Fox, Zach Thompson, and Tai Nguyen). It documents an Internet start-up, Handshake.com, which was founded in 1999 and provided an Internet service to connect consumers to local merchants.
Sarah Mayo-Evans is the owner of Peach Recruitment. Peach Recruitment is an independently owned agency specializing in the provision of temporary, contract and permanent office staff. Sarah took up her first recruitment consultant role in 1999 and set up Peach Recruitment in 2002. Sarah also owns and runs Peach Legal. Sarah Mayo-Evans has a degree in law from London Guildhall University
Dan Sommer became division president of social media and marketing Services at XL Marketing after its acquisition of Caridan Marketing Labs, an interactive marketing agency that he founded in 2007.
Prior to founding Caridan Marketing Labs, Sommer served as SVP at HNW (www.hnw.com), a strategic marketing agency focused on the affluent segment. He was responsible for leading marketing engagements, and managing some of the firm's largest relationships with financial services and luxury brands. While at HNW, Sommer was instrumental in developing the firm's direct and interactive marketing practice area. Prior to HNW, Dan worked in the marketing group of Digitas Inc. (www.digitas.com) where he led interactive marketing and web development efforts for American Express. Prior to Digitas, he served as vice president at Zustek (www.Zustek.com), an interactive marketing agency, where he developed and implemented marketing strategies for Fortune 500 companies including Time Inc., Caesars Entertainment, Alliance Capital Management and a host of entrepreneurial firms.
Sommer was co-founder and COO of SimplyDone Business Solutions, an enterprise software and consulting firm that sold a unique CRM application to large service-based franchise businesses. He began his career at Sapient Corporation (www.sapient.com), a systems integrator and ecommerce consultancy.
Sommer has an MS from NYU in direct and interactive marketing and a BS in applied economics and business management from Cornell University.
Archana Shah is a senior executive director in the emerging markets derivative sales group at Morgan Stanley. She currently acts as co-chair of the New York chapter of Woman Advancing Microfinance (WAM), which is an international organization with 13 chapters worldwide, which supports gender issues and women's empowerment. Shah also supports Equity for Africa (EFA), a UK-based charity that provides capital to small business owners through lease financing in northern Tanzania, and is active within the microfinance community at Morgan Stanley.
Her interest is rooted in her diverse upbringing. She was born in Kenya to Indian parents and raised in Hong Kong and Tanzania. She moved to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BS in finance and a B.A in French. She continued on to New York University to receive her master's in economics.
Elizabeth Francis is the Chief Marketing Officer at Intelligent Beauty Intelligent Beauty creates and operates businesses in the personal care, beauty and fashion spaces. The company believes in a better way to launch and grow businesses in the marketplace today, utilizing technology and a disciplined approach to brand building.
Elizabeth Francis has more than a decade of marketing and advertising experience, both offline and online. As CMO of Intelligent Beauty she manages the Interactive Agency, IB Interactive, supporting all divisions of IB Inc. including JustFabulous, Dermstore and SENSA. Intelligent Beauty spends over $60 million annually in advertising across all businesses. In addition to being CMO she is president of IB's newest business, JustFabulous, an online fashion company offering virtual personal styling and hand-selected fashions for customers. She is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the business, driving strategy and marketing. Prior to joining Intelligent Beauty, Francis was a vice president at Alena, a Fox Interactive company and director of marketing at LowerMyBills.com, an Experian Interactive company.
Elizabeth Francis is a graduate of Cornell University.