Kyle Westaway is a writer and attorney based in Brooklyn, NY.
Kyle writes on entrepreneurship, tech and social innovation for The Guardian, Quartz, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Venture Beat and GOOD. He's been featured by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider. Kyle is currently working on a book called Profit & Purpose (Wiley, Fall 2014). He launched socentlaw.com - the first blog on social entrepreneurship law, and careerinbeta.com - a blog about the future of work.
When Kyle is not writing he spends his time as Founding Partner of Westaway Law, an innovative Brooklyn law firm that counsels social entrepreneurs.
Kyle Westaway received his undergraduate degree from University of Tennessee-Knoxville, his Master's degree from Regent University and his law degree from Regent University School of Law.
Perry Odak began his career as an accounting associate at Armour Foods. Nine years later, after resigning from his post as senior vice president at Armour, he began working for a small start-up company, Jovan, Inc. After seven years, Odak and his partners sold Jovan, Inc. and he became president of the Consumer Product Group at Atari. From there he became a partner in Catalyst Technologies, where he restructured and started numerous holdings, including a company called ETAK, Inc., which in 1985 produced the first vehicle navigation system. In 1990 Odak became a consultant operating as a temporary CEO to help companies in trouble.
Over the next six years, he came to the rescue of a half dozen firms, where he engineered mergers, boosted sales, and, perhaps most important, won the hearts of employees whose jobs he saved. In 1997, when Ben & Jerry's lured him away from U.S. Repeating Arms, the gunmaker's workers petitioned its management to do whatever was necessary to convince him to stay.
Perry Odak left Ben & Jerry's in 2000 and was appointed as CEO and President of Wild Oats Markets, Inc., the second largest natural foods supermarket chain in North America.
Perry Odak is a graduate of Cornell University.
Daniel Glickberg joined Fairway Market full-time in 2005. He helped open the Red Hook Brooklyn store with great success in 2006 and has since helped open three more new stores. Danny also runs Fairway's marketing department and the Fairway Wines & Spirits operation. In 2008, he launched Discover Fairway, a video-focused website featuring food tips and monthly cooking segments with Mitchel London, Fairway's Chef de Cuisine. Danny and London also host a weekly cooking segment on NBC's LX New York, and, in 2011, Danny launched a new food segment, "At the Table," on News Talk radio 710 WOR with Joan Hamburg.
Daniel Glickberg is a graduate of Trinity College.
Greg Van Kirk is an Ashoka Lemelson Fellow and the-co founder of The New Development Solutions Group. This includes Community Enterprise Solutions, Social Entrepreneur Corps and NDS Consulting. These are all ventures whose mission is to design and implement innovative responses to long-standing development challenges.
Greg also works part time as "Social Entrepreneur in Residence" at NYU. He and his team are now focused on expanding the reach of their innovative "MicroConsignment Model" globally.
Greg began working in rural small business development as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2001. He has served as an economic development consultant for organizations such as USAID, Chemonics, Columbia University, Vision Spring, Soros Foundation, Church World Service, OneRoof, Fundacion Solar, Fundacion Paraguaya, IDB and Water4People. He has completed successful consulting engagements in Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Senegal, The Gambia, South Africa, Paraguay, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
Greg worked in investment banking for five years before arriving in Guatemala. Two deals he led at UBS during this time won "Deal of the Year" honors from "Structured Finance International" magazine.
Greg is a graduate of Miami University (Ohio).
David Levine is Assistant Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hospital for Special Surgery and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College. David attended Cornell University where he graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences with 'Distinction in All Subjects' in 1988. He attended the Weill Cornell Medical College, achieving his degree in 1992. He subsequently performed a General Surgery Internship at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center. He returned to New York City in 1993 to begin his Orthopedic Surgery Residency at Hospital for Special Surgery. Completing his residency training in 1997, he received the Jean C. McDaniel Award for 'Excellence in Orthopedics' from his peers. In 1997-98 he received Fellowship Training in Orthopedic Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery of the Foot and Ankle at Harborview Medical Center / University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.
Jonathan Levine is an Aesthetic Dentist and founder of Jonathan B. Levine & Associates. As a renowned dentist and prosthodontist in practice for nearly 30 years, Levine offers a comprehensive approach to dental health, intersecting beauty with function. Levine is a visionary product inventor, clinical researcher and published author. Holding three patents and 12 patents pending in oral care, Levine is responsible for modernizing the way people whiten their teeth. He has appeared on several national television networks and shows, including CNN, Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show (as a regular expert), The View and more. As an authoritative source in smile health and beauty, he is frequently quoted in top national print publications, including InStyle, Marie Claire, Men's Health, People Stylewatch, Self, The New York Times, USA Today and more.
Bill Pence is Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of WebMD. He has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of WebMD since November 2007 and has also served Chief Operating Officer of WebMD since May 2012.
Before joining WebMD, Mr. Pence had served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Napster since 2003. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Pence was the Chief Technology Officer for Universal Music Groupâ€[TM]s online initiatives and for the pressplay joint venture with Sony. That joint venture later served as the basis for the relaunched Napster service. Previously, Mr. Pence spent more than a decade at IBM, where he held various technology management positions in research as well as in the software division, focused on guiding research and development and commercializing technology for IBM product divisions.
Bill Pence received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Educator and activist, Jill Iscol, EdD, is President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation, a family foundation established in 1989 to support domestic and international efforts to strengthen democracy and reduce the social, economic, and educational inequalities that threaten it. For the past two decades Jill has supported and participated in numerous organizations and has developed an expertise in identifying visionary leaders and programs at early stages of their development. She fosters their advancement by providing seed capital and guidance enabling them to become stable, sustainable and successful organizations, impacting lives around the globe. As a Democratic Party activist, Jill served as Co-Chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate's New York Finance Committee and as National Vice-Chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton for President's 2008 Finance Committee. In addition, Jill serves as a Trustee of Horizons National, on the Advisory Board of the Center for New American Security inWashington, as a member of the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and was most recently appointed to the US-Afghan Women's Council. Jill received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from University of Pittsburgh (1967), a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University (1976), and a Master of Philosophy in Sociology from Yale (1990).
Peter Knight, Partner at Generation Investment Management, has held senior positions on four presidential campaigns, including serving as the Campaign Manager for the 1996 re-election of President Clinton. In addition, Knight currently serves as a director on a number of public and private company boards and he is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Park Foundation. Peter Knight is a graduate of Cornell University.