Institutional Investors – Agriculture & Food
Ari Gendason
Chief Investment Officer, Continental Grain Company
Bruce Kahn, Ph.D.
Portfolio Manager, Sustainable Insight Capital Management
Arama Kukutai
Managing Director, Finistere Ventures
Rob Leclerc
CEO, AgFunder
Paul Matteucci
Operating Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
William Mott
Founder, Agland Investment Services
Aaron Niederhelman
Principal & Co-Founder, EAF Agrarian Fund
Bill Scott
Senior Technical Advisor, Agland Investment Services
Lisa Sebesta
Managing Partner, Fresh Source Capital
Kamal Shah
Vice President, Donald Smith
Andy Ziolkowski
Managing Director, Cultivian Sandbox
Environment
David Beutel
Aquaculture and Fisheries Coordinator, RI Coastal Resources Management Council
John Denniston
Founder and Chairman, Shared-X
Ken Kaplan
Senior Health System Advisor, MIT
Michael Leviton
Former Board Chair, Chefs Collaborative
Tony Salas, Ph.D.
Former Undersecretary, Agriculture of Peru
Øistein Thorsen
Director, FAI Farms, a Benchmark PLC Company
Eric Wang
Executive Director, Ecofibre
Institutional Investors – Healthcare
Neta Batscha
Analyst, RA Capital Management
Isaac Blech
Founder, Celgene, ICOS, Nova Pharmaceutical, Pathogenesis, and Genetics Systems
Alfonso Chang
Managing Director, Relativity Healthcare Partners
Bihua Chen
Founder and Portfolio Manager, Cormorant Asset Management
Randolph Cohen, Ph.D.
Partner, Exsight Capital
Laura Deming
Partner, The Longevity Fund
Les Funtleyder
Portfolio Manager, E Squared Capital
Jeffrey Jay, M.D.
Senior Managing Member, Great Point Partners
Jeff Jonas
Portfolio Manager, Gabelli Funds
Peter Kolchinksy, Ph.D.
Portfolio Manager and Managing Director, RA Capital
Jeffrey Moore, DPhil
President, MP Healthcare Venture Management
Scott Morenstein
Managing Director, CAM Capital
Kuldeep Neote, Ph.D.
Senior Director, New Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
David Nikodem, Ph.D.
Managing Director and Head of Biopharma Investments, Ally Bridge Group
Deepa Pakianathan, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, Delphi Ventures
Sergei Petukhov, Ph.D.
Partner, Enso Ventures
David Sable, M.D.
Portfolio Manager, Special Situations Life Sciences Fund
Frank Yu
Founder, CEO and CIO, Ally Bridge Group
Joon Yun, M.D.
President, Palo Alto Investors
Healthcare
Gary Cohen
Executive Vice President, BD
Karen Drexler
CEO, Sandstone Diagnostics
Robert Klein
President, Klein Financial Corp.
Pete Lambert
Director, Program Management of the Inhaled Oxytocin Project, Monash University
Corey McCann, M.D., Ph.D.
President and CEO, Pear Therapeutics
Michael Meng
Principal, Apax Partners
Dr. Richard Park
CEO, CityMD
Greg Simon
Director, Biden Cancer Initiative, Biden Foundation
Christian Suojanen
Partner, Valor Management
Medical Professionals
David Ahern, Ph.D.
Special Advisor, National Cancer Institute
Kumar Bhargava, Ph.D., MBA
Executive Director, Merck
David Cognetti, M.D.
Co-Director, Jefferson Center for Head and Neck Surgery, Jefferson Health
Bahar Dasgebv, M.D.
Jefferson University Physician, Jefferson Health
James R. Doty, M.D.
Founder and Director, CCARE, Stanford University
Hoyoung Huh, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder, Healthcare & Humanity Foundation
Lorraine Iacovitti, Ph.D.
Professor, Neuroscience, Jefferson
Stephen Klasko, M.D.
President and CEO, Jefferson
Karen Knudsen, Ph.D.
Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Jefferson
Nevan Krogan, Ph.D
Director, Quantitative Biosciences Institute, UCSF
Mark Laret
President and CEO, UCSF Health
Michael McCullough, M.D., M.Sc.
Founder and President, QuestBridge
David Nash, M.D.
Founding Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Jefferson
Andrew Newberg, M.D.
Director of Research, Jefferson Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine
Charles Pollack, Jr., M.S., M.D.
Associate Provost, Innovation in Education, Jefferson
Pierluigi Porcu, M.D.
Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Jefferson
Diane Reibel, Ph.D.
Director, Mindfullness Institute
Isidore Rigoutsos, Ph.D.
Founding Director of the Computational Medicine Center, Jefferson
Barry Selick, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor of BusDev, Innovation & Partnerships , UCSF Innovation Ventures
Nelson Teng, M.D.
Professor, Stanford University
Scott Waldman, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Jefferson
Institutional Investors – Technology
Julie Allegro
Founder & General Partner, FYRFLY
David Blumberg
Founder and Managing Partner, Blumberg Capital
Steve Brotman
Managing Partner, Alpha Venture Partners
Michael Collett
Managing Partner, Promus Ventures
Josef Feldman
Founding Partner, FoundersGuild
John Frankel
Founding Partner, ff Venture Capital
Brian Garrett
Co-Founder and Managing Director, CrossCut Ventures
Michael Greeley
General Partner, Flare Capital Partners
Ammar Hanafi
Co-Founder and General Partner, Moment Ventures
Lou Kerner
Co-Founder and Partner, CryptoOracle.io
Jim Scheinman
Founding Managing Partner, Maven Ventures
Brian Smiga
Partner, Alpha Venture Partners
Philipp Stauffer
Founder & General Partner, FYRFLY
Institutional Investors – Real Estate
Douglas Funke
Managing Director, Iceberg Real Estate
Jonathan Litt
Founder and CEO, Land & Buildings
Kenneth Pasternak
Founder and Executive Chairman, KABR Group
David Perlstein
Managing Partner, Debartolo-Mainstreet Capital Partners
Institutional Investors – Generalist
John Ason
Angel Investor, Kewpie Associates
Kesha Cash
Founder and General Partner, Impact America Fund
Ray Conley
Managing Partner, Finance Technology Leverage
Anuroop Duggal
Partner, 3G Capital
Dave Furneaux
Founder, Furneaux Capital
Robert Horrocks
CIO and Portfolio Manager, Matthews Asia
Eriko Ishikawa
Global Head of Inclusive Business, International Finance Corporation
Gerald Kaminsky
Sr. Portfolio Manager, Managing Director, Neuberger Berman
Erika Karp
Founder and CEO, Cornerstone Capital Group
Trevor Kienzle
Managing Director, Correlation Ventures
Henriette Kolb
Head, Gender Secretariat, International Finance Corporation
David Kopp
Managing Partner and CEO, KBG
Marc Lasry
Chairman, Ceo and Co-Founder, Avenue Capital Group
Ted Levinson
Founder and CEO, Beneficial Returns
Steve Massocca
Chief Investment Officer, Wedbush Equity Management
George Mussalli
CIO and Head of Research, PanAgora
David Nadel
Portfolio Manager, Principal, The Royce Funds
Scott Norman
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Velorum Capital
James O’Shaughnessy
Principal, Chairman and Co-CIO, Portfolio Manager, OSAM
Eric Rice, Ph.D.
Head of Impact Investing - BlackRock
Camille Samuels
Partner, Venrock
Greg Shell
Managing Director, Bain Capital
Barclay Simmons
Non-Executive Chairman, Butterfield Group
Katherine St. Onge
Senior Officer, Calvert Foundation
Phin Upham
Managing Partner, Haymaker Capital
Jeremy Zhu
Managing Director, Wedbush Opportunity Capital
Fund Investors
Bradley Belt
Former Executive Director and CEO, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC)
Tarik Dalton
Director, North Carolina Department of State Treasurer
Thomas Donahoe
Executive Director & CIO, Homeland Foundation
David Enriquez
Head of Private Equity, New York City Comptroller Office
Tom Heck
Chief Investment Officer, Ball State University Foundation
David Phillips
Direct, Pension & Investments, SABIC Capital
Michael Oliver Weinberg
Head of Hedge Funds and Alternative Alpha, APG
Family Offices
Jen Bawden
Founder and CEO, Bawden Capital
Candice Beaumont
Chief Investment Officer, L Investments
Giovanni de Francisci
Portfolio Manager, Petschek Trust
Tal Haparnas
Managing Member, Robust Capital
Sidney Kimmel
Philanthropist
Matthew McCarthy
Vice President, Nottingham Spirk
Kevin McGovern
Founder and Chairman, The Water Initiative®
Kevin Primat
Investment Committee Member, Primwest Family Office
Michael Sury
Chairman, INDORUS Holdings
Jeffrey Walker
Chairman, New Profit
Government
Alexis Bonnell
Chief Innovation Officer, USAID
Governor Doug Ducey
State of Arizona (former)
Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization
Ambassador Thomas Graham
Executive Chairman, Lightbridge Corporation
Ambassador Choonghee Hahn
Deputy Permanent Representative, Republic of Korea to the United Nations
Sheila Hess
City Representative, City of Philadelphia
Vuk Jeremić
Past President, United Nations General Assembly
Ambassador Dr. John N. Nkengasong
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Health Diplomacy - The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Governor Edward Rendell
State of Pennsylvania (former)
Michel Sidibé
Executive Director of UNAIDS, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
H.E. Ambassador Karel van Oosterom
Permanent Representative of the Netherlands
Ambassador James Woolsey
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Civil Society
Roberta Baskin
Executive Director, AIM2Flourish
Amir Dossal
President and CEO, Global Partnerships Forum
Jamie Dougherty
CEO, New Era World Model
Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Ari Eisentat
CEO and Founder, Dream Ventures Global
Mariya Filipova
Cancer XPRIZE Prize-Developer, XPRIZE Foundation
Christopher Frangione
Vice President of Prize Development and Execution, XPRIZE Foundation
Manoj Gautam
Co-Founder of Animal Welfare Network Nepal
Leymah Gbowee
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE
Founder of The Jane Goodall Institute, & UN Messenger of Peace
Karenna Gore
Director, Center for Earth Ethics
Jonathan Granoff
President, Global Security Institute
Ilmi Granoff
Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Sande Hart
Founding Director, Charter For Compassion International Women and Girls
Ira Helfand, M.D.
Co-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Tawakkol Karman
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Kerri Kelly
Founder, CTZNWELL
Kerry Kennedy
President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Hooman Khalili
Radio Personality, Alice Radio
Bruce Knotts
Director, Unitarian Universalist Association
Jeremy Kohomban, Ph.D.
President and CEO, The Children's Village
Mari Malek
Supermodel & Philanthropist
Ndaba Mandela
Chairman and Co-Founder, Africa Rising Foundation
Joanne Manrique
President, Global Health and Diplomacy
Chris Martenson, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, PeakProsperity.com
Alaa Murabit, M.D.
SDG Global Advocate, United Nations
Chaeli Mycroft
Co-Founder, The Chaeli Campaign
John O'Leary
President, Live Inspired
Martha Rebour
Senior Director Shot@Life Campaign, United Nations Foundation
John Schaetzl
Lead Non-Executive Director, SustainAbility
Louis Venturelli
Youth Program Officer, World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Telma Viale
Director, Global Influence & Partnerships, World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Mary-Frances Wain
Executive Director of Philanthropic Investments, United Nations Foundation
Carole Wainaina
Chief Operating Officer, Africa50 Infrastructure Fund
Bart Weetjens
Awareness Co-Lead, The Well-being Project
Craig Young
Executive Director, Inspiring Service
Artists & Musicians
Michael Fitzpatrick
Founder, Millenia Music
Michael Green
Author, The Illuminated Rumi
Ronald Lowry
Cellist
Maestro Steven Mercurio
Composer & Conductor
Lawrence Schiller
President, Wiener Schiller Productions
Authors & Journalists
Philip Auerswald
Author, The Code Economy
William D. Cohan
Author, The Price of Silence
Seema Mody
Global Markets Reporter, CNBC
Victoria Moran
Author, Main Street Vegan
Ron Suskind
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Sam Weinman
Digital Editor, Golf Digest
Robert Wiedemer
Author, Aftershock
Entertainment
Myles Nestel
Co-Founder and Partner, The Solution Entertainment Group
David Oliver
Finance Director, Tribeca Enterprises
John Arthur Pinckard
Managing Partner, Tilted Windmills Theatricals
Vivian Tarn
Vice President, The Weinstein Company
Milo Ventimiglia
Actor
Skip Williamson
Producer, Lakeshore Entertainment
