People + Meetings


1	People + Organizations We're Reaching Out To:
2	Title	First Name	Last Name	Notes	Notes
3	Co-Founder/Co-Director Fight For The Future	Holmes	Wilson
4	Co-Founder/Co-Director Fight For The Future	Tiffany	Cheng
5	Co-Founder/CEO ReCollect	David	Eaves	https://recollect.net/	An entrepreneur and trusted advisor to many governements, David brings strategi thoughtfulness to ReCollect. He envisions a world where organizations use data to make smarter decisions and user centric design to improve services.
6	Founder/CEO of Benetech	Jim	Fruchterman	Benetech	Benetech CEO. Rocket engineer turned tech entrepreneur turned social entrepreneur. MacArthur Fellow, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Schwab Fellow.
7		Gunner
8	Managing Director, Singularity University Labs	Pascal	Finette	past Mozilla: led Mozilla Labs, created Mozilla's accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla's Office of the Chair	"Today I head up Singularity University's Startup Lab, where we grow startups which solve the most intractable problems in the world. I frequently speak and write about the magic which happens at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology & global impact. As a trained Co-Active executive coach I work with clients on achieving their full leadership potential. Most of all - I love to work with entrepreneurs who are making things better and go from zero to one."
9	President & Co-Founder Homeless World Cup.	Mel	Young	Homeless World Cup	The President of the Homeless World Cup, Mel Young (59), is recognised as one of the world's leading social entrepreneurs by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
10	Global Campaigns Director and Co-Founder	Will	Bates	350.org
11	Senior Advisor and Co-Founder	Bill	McKibben	350.org	Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world's 100 most important global thinkers, and theBoston Globe said he was "probably America's most important environmentalist." Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He is founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement.
12		Someone at Facebook translation
13		StudioD folks - so not to overlap
14	Managing Director at IDEO	Jason	Rissman	OpenIdeo	As Managing Director, Jason leads the OpenIDEO team in expanding the impact of IDEO’s Design Thinking methodology by allowing people everywhere to collaborate on pressing global issues. OpenIDEOis an open innovation platform and community that hosts sponsored challenges on topics ranging from Ebola and renewable energy, to early childhood development and youth employment. Based on IDEO’s design process, OpenIDEO enables a human-centered, collaborative and iterative approach to unleash the innovative potential of diverse teams.
15	Executive Director/Founder	Florian	Effenberger	The Document Foundation	Florian Effenberger has been a free software enthusiast for over ten years. He is one of the founders of The Document Foundation, the charitable entity behind LibreOffice. Next to his activities in marketing and public relations, he is a frequent contributor to a variety of professional magazines worldwide. Additionally, his focus is on planning and running Linux-based infrastructure solutions, especially web and mail servers.
16	Pastor	Rick	Warren	Saddleback Church	Dr. Rick Warren is passionate about attacking what he calls the five “Global Goliaths” – spiritual emptiness, egocentric leadership, extreme poverty, pandemic disease, and illiteracy/poor education. His goal is a second Reformation by restoring responsibility in people, credibility in churches, and civility in culture. He is a pastor, global strategist, theologian, and philanthropist.
17	Director and Co-Founder	Dennis	Whittle	Feedback Labs	Dennis is director and co-founder of Feedback Labs. He is also co-founder of GlobalGiving, where he was CEO from 2000 to 2010. Forbes Magazine recently called GlobalGiving "one of the 10 startups changing the world." From 2013 to 2015 Dennis was Executive Chairman of Ashoka Changemakers
18	Sr. VP Strategic Partnerships & Branding	David	Hughes	ex-Habitat	Sr. VP Strategic Partnerships & Branding at YMCA Canada. Former President & CEO of Habitat for Humanity Canada & Pathways to Education Canada. Passionate leader with a strong track record of scaling the impact of organizations that are strengthening the health, education and well-being of children, youth and families, reducing poverty, and addressing important social, economic and environmental issues.
19	CEO and Founder of CMX	David	Spinks	CMX Submit David Spinks Youtube Video	Founder of CMX. Supporting, educating and empowering the world's community builders. Mentor at 500startups and startupchile. "I like helping people."
20	co-founded Peers and is Head of Community at Airbnb.	Douglas	Atkin	Peers and AirBNB	Douglas is Global Head of Community and E-staff member at Airbnb. Co-Founder of Peers.org, a Global movement for the Sharing Economy. Douglas lives in San Francisco with his Partner Matthew and two beagles.
21	Assistant Director for Open Innovation at the White House	Jenn	Gustetic		She loves traveling the world, gator football, good wine/food, and evangelizing for design thinking. Her experience has focused on the public sector with concentrations on prizes and challenges, open government, innovation, public private partnerships, grants management, and technology policy. Currently, on a detail to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Assistant Director for Open Innovation.
22	CEO & Creative Director at ShuffleBrain	Amy	Jo Kim		Self described "Game Designer, Bass Player, Mom." With a background in neuroscience, computer science, and psychology, Amy Jo Kim is part game designer, part web community architect. Her design credits include Rock Band, The Sims, Ultima Online, eBay, family.com, nytimes.com, indiegogo.com. and numerous startups. She's well known for her 2000 book, Community Building on the Web, and her work applying game design to Web and mobile services.
23	XPrize	Jono	Bacon
24	Global Director, MobLab	Michael	Silberman	http://www.mobilisationlab.org
25	Sr. Director of Community Engagement, Wikimedia Foundation	Luis	Villa
26	Past exec @ Ebay	Rachel	Makool