Our portfolio of companies
If the proverb holds that a person is known by the company they keep, our reputation is secure. We are proud of our involvement with the founders who have chosen Reinventure as a partner in their success.
Fatemeh Shirazi | Microvi
Fatemeh Shirazi, PhD is Founder and CEO of Microvi. Drawing on her innovative research and years of industry leadership, Fatemeh and her team are commercializing the proprietary MNE biocatalyst platform for water, wastewater, and bioprocessing. Featuring specially targeted, high-performance microorganisms that are completely incorporated into Microvi MNE biocatalysts, Microvi’s processes provide superior performance at significantly lower cost, reduced energy and chemical consumption, smaller footprint, and far less operator attention than existing alternatives. Microvi is currently deploying MNE solutions for customers across the US and UK.
Fatemeh is an engineer’s engineer with an abiding commitment to delivering global solutions for water, energy, health and the environment, having earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from The University of Tulsa, and an MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering with honors from Oklahoma State University. The Microvi team has received multiple industry honors and recognitions, including as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer.
Reinventure provided bridge funding.
Devo Harris | Adventr
Devo Harris is the founder and CEO of Adventr, an AI-powered streaming platform that connects smart media with data at scale. On its platform novice and professional video content producers alike can transform traditional, passive, watch-only video into immersive video that engages viewers in a highly personalized experience by bringing the full capabilities of the web to video. The Adventr platform also excels due to its low cost, extensive patented features and ease of use.
Devo is a serial media executive who merges world class creative with scalable business strategies . He started his career in technology by hacking YouTube to create some of the first interactive web video experiences in 2010, followed by time leading Product at Vimeo. Before pursuing a technology career, Devo worked in entertainment industry, helping found the popular record label, GOOD Music, with Kanye West. At GOOD, Devo discovered and signed EGOT winner John Legend and won a Grammy for Best Rap Song while producing and writing for artists from Britney Spears and Aretha Franklin to Jay-Z and more. Devo started his career in business strategy at PwC and is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School.
Dennis Cail | Zirtue
Dennis Cail is the founder and CEO of Zirtue, a fintech company pioneering in the $200 billion relationship-based lending market segment by automating the loan process between family and friends with payments going directly to designated creditors. The service is provided free for borrowers and lenders on a patent-pending online app platform in collaboration with a network of creditor partners keen to reduce bad-debt losses. During 2021, Zirtue will also introduce a complementary debit card service targeted at the 25% of American households that are unbanked or underbanked.
Dennis began working with technology while serving in the Navy, then earned a computer science degree and MBA from Southern Methodist University. Before founding Zirtue, he served as Senior Director of Corporate Services at IBM Global Services, Managing Director at Uptown Financial Group and at PwC, and Managing Partner at Convince Capital Partners. Dennis founded Zirtue as a response to his own difficulty lending to family and friends. His mission became to provide a fair, transparent lending solution that empowers underserved individuals to change the way they lend, borrow and bank with friends and family.
Reinventure participated in the company’s first institutional capital round of investors.
Isabel Rafferty Zavala | Canela Media
Isabel Rafferty Zavala is the Founder and CEO of Canela Media, a leading digital media tech company that effectively connects brands with multicultural audiences through various touchpoints including its newly launched free-to-stream platform, Canela.TV, influencer marketing, branded content, and more than 180 exclusive Spanish-language sites. In its first year of operation, 2019-2020, the majority-female and majority-Hispanic/Latinx Canela team went from launch to #4 in Hispanic audience reach according to Comscore. The company further validated its distinctive value proposition by growing and gaining traction during a turbulent industry interval marked by intense competition for shifting, shrinking, or frozen advertising budgets.
Isabel is recognized in the industry for her avant-garde approach and success launching digital marketing companies and is regarded as one of the most accomplished Hispanic business leaders in advertising. Isabel previously founded Mobvious Media in 2016, to reach U.S. Hispanic and African American audiences through mobile advertising. Under her leadership, Mobvious became the second largest Hispanic-focused ad network according to Comscore and was acquired by PRISA Group in 2017. From 2012-2016, she was Vice President at Adsmovil, leading the company’s expansion in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, driving annual sales from zero to ten million dollars. Isabel was Culture Marketing Council’s 2019 Rising Star Award recipient.
Reinventure led the company’s first institutional capital round, with co-lead BBG Ventures and a closely aligned syndicate: Angeles Investors, Portfolia Rising America Fund, Mighty Capital, and Alumni Ventures Group.
Dexter Turner | OpConnect
Dexter Turner is the founder and CEO of OpConnect, Inc., a provider of turnkey electric vehicle fueling solutions. Its comprehensive solution includes: 1) smart charging ports, 2) a bluetooth interface with its mobile app enabled software platform for payment processing and energy management, 3) high quality customer services and 4) product white-labeling options. The OpConnect solution enables it to scale its customer base on lean operations while offering among the best “high value for price” to its customers. It specializes in providing these solutions for EV fleet managers and multi-unit property owners throughout the nation and several international locations.
Dexter began his professional career as an aerospace engineer at Boeing followed by a tenure at Honeywell Aerospace. After 17 years of servicing corporate America, Dexter used his acquired expertise to launch his entrepreneurial career by first founding Optimization Technologies, Inc., a software company producing cockpit displays and software targeted at private aircraft. Optimization Technologies experienced a successful exit when it was sold in 2007 to Aerosonic Corp. Dexter subsequently founded OpConnect in 2012. In the process of developing the software platform for OpConnect, Dexter was awarded nine patents.
Reinventure led the company’s first institutional capital round of syndicate investors.
Justin Turk and André Davis | Livegistics
Co-Founders Justin Turk and André Davis are respectively CEO and CFO of Livegistics, a real-time software platform transforming the archaic paper-based construction industry into a 21st century digital sector. Using the Livegistics platform, construction and demolition, trucking / hauling, landfill, recycling and quarry companies alike save time and money and eliminate fraud and litigation risks arising from incomplete, lost, or damaged paperwork. Livegistics customers further save vehicle emissions and fuel costs associated with idling and repeat trips, enabling people, vehicles, and facilities to be safer and more productive.
Justin is a third-generation professional in construction, with a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Lawrence Technical University and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science Specialization in Business Systems Operations from Bowling Green State University. André is a CPA and experienced financial officer and business owner, with a Master’s in Accounting and Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Accounting, both from Bowling Green State University. They both played Division I football for BGSU. Together, Justin and André won Pharrell Williams’ $1 million Black Ambition grand prize in 2021.
Livegistics is a Certified MBE.
Julie Messervy and Amir Hasson | Home Outside
Home Outside is on a mission to combat climate change one beautiful landscape at a time.
Home Outside’s 3D digital configurator platform enables homeowners and DIY landscapers to envision, plan, and create beautiful, sustainable, enjoyable yards and projects that increase property value and decrease carbon footprint. The Home Outside 3D configurator will provide expert site-specific landscape design guidance; plant and other product selection; placement, planting, and maintenance support; and click-to-buy functionality that gives DIY homeowners the convenience, personalization, and confidence they seek — all while providing retailers with a sales lift of up to 30%. At scale, Home Outside aims to transform 50M US yards into thriving outdoor spaces that conserve over 50B lbs of carbon each year.
CEO Julie Moir Messervy is a world-renowned landscape designer, author, and pioneer in online/digital landscape design. COO Amir Alexander Hasson is a serial entrepreneur with three prior exits in digital transformation enterprises. Julie, Amir, and team are drawn together by the ambition to create meaningful climate impact by transforming residential landscapes at scale.
Ruben Arias and Luis Gringas | BeeReaders
Co-founders Ruben Arias and Luis Gringas are, respectively CEO and COO of BeeReaders, a Spanish literacy digital program platform aiming to build literacy solutions to strengthen the cornerstones of learning for the ~100 million K-12 Spanish-speaking students worldwide, including the faster growing student cohort in the US. BeeReaders’ solution combines an integrated assessment, authentic Spanish content with monitoring capabilities and personalized learning solutions for students in a fun, easy-to-use, adaptive, game-like environment.
Both from Chile, Ruben and Luis are seasoned Edtech entrepreneurs with more than 12 years of experience having founded and led previous Edtech start-ups. Ruben comes from a humble background, a low-income household and is the first in his family to pursue a college education. Through sheer perseverance and a series of scholarships, Ruben earned his university degree in engineering in Chile. He started his entrepreneurial journey with a strong commitment to empowering students facing struggles similar to his own, and, together with Luis, developed various innovative products to enhance the learning experience of K-12 Spanish-speaking students in Latin America and the United States. To date, their Edtech solutions reach over half a million students.
Martha Montoya | Agtools
Led by founder and CEO Martha Montoya, Agtools is a game changing, dynamic, analytic data service that delivers business-critical access to accurate, real-time, market intelligence for over 500 specialty crops and growing. Its SaaS platform provides such indicators as: crop volumes, weather, pricing, exchange rates, logistical costs, market disruptors and macroeconomic factors to optimize decision-making processes for producers and buyers. Agtools analytics are based on three decades of historical statistics, 6.1+ billion data points, and over 50 years of global weather patterns. All uploading at one billion transactions per second through its patented machine learning processes.
Josh Itano | CareCar
Led by co-founder Josh Itano, CEO, CareCar is a groundbreaking tech-enabled supplemental benefit manager and market network platform for home care and medical transport. It partners with health plans to support seniors living independently by connecting them with a reliable network of committed caregivers and currently specializes in providing high quality non-emergency medical transportation services.
A seasoned professional and empathetic entrepreneur, Josh has used his diverse experience to shape his mission: to have a positive impact on the lives of others. Before co-founding CareCar and delving into the healthcare industry, Josh began his career in the world of US Defense contracts. During his tenure there, he gained invaluable expertise and skills, working on critical projects that demanded precision, dedication, and a strong sense of responsibility. This early experience instilled in him a profound appreciation for service and a keen understanding of the importance of finding innovative solutions to complex challenges.
Driven by a desire to address pressing issues in healthcare, Josh transitioned to the healthcare sector, where he took on a pivotal role as an early hire at Alignment Healthcare, a tech-enabled managed care organization with an innovative and proactive clinical model. It was during his tenure there that Josh witnessed firsthand the barriers to care faced by the senior population. This eye-opening experience became a catalyst for his entrepreneurial journey and led to the cofounding of CareCar.
Rodrigo Tamellini and Maria Oliveira | GamerSafer
Led by co-founders Rodrigo Tamellini and Maria Oliveira, GamerSafer is a leading-edge technology that helps game publishers and developers prevent the crime, fraud, and toxicity to which their gaming communities are too often subjected on their platforms. GamerSafer does so by providing an end-to-end solution that protects players on every step of their gaming experience — from pre-game biometric verification, to in-game use of gamer insights to moderate behavior, to post-game reinforcement of player accountability. It also provides services that particularly prevent the exploitation and abuse of children and facilitates parental engagement.
Rodrigo, CEO of GamerSafer, has 20 years of experience leading product, marketing and business strategy teams with global technology companies designing and launching over 100 products worldwide and driving billions in revenue. He started his career as a product engineer in Brazil but his ability to successfully drive business and consumer products led him to climb the corporate ladder and land an executive position in Silicon Valley as Product Director of Virtual Reality, Gaming and Esports at Intel. Rodrigo was also a General Manager at LG Electronics and started up ASUS operations in Latin America. He holds an engineering degree, an MBA in strategic business management, and received the prestigious Honorable Mention Award from the Brazilian Army.
Maria, COO of GamerSafer, is an award-winning impact entrepreneur who has been recognized by AWS as an Impact Fellow, and Headstream Innovation for enhancing digital spaces for youth. She excels at advising organizations driving positive change in online spaces, such as Common Sense Media and TheGameHers. She has also collaborated with research and other impact initiatives from the Anti-Defamation League, Take This, Stanford Reach Lab, WeProtect Global Alliance, and the Fair Play Alliance. Maria was born and raised in Brazil, is an alumna of Stanford LBAN and UC Berkeley Skydeck, and persistently advocates for women, Latinas, and other underrepresented groups in tech and games.
Our team
By design, our team looks like the founders we work with. We are diverse across multiple identity characteristics, including age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, education, professional background, and definitely personality. We know from an abundance of organizational literature and from our individual and collective experience that our differences make us better at reinventing investing.
Edward Dugger III | President
As a founding partner and President of Reinventure Capital, Ed’s professional career has come full circle. An early pioneer in impact investing, he also has had careers as a real estate developer, business strategy consultant, interim CFO and now has re-entered the profession of venture capital with over 30 years of deep business development and venture capital experience and a track record of notable achievements.
Ed’s VC career began at age 25 and accelerated at age 27 when he became CEO of one of the larger venture capital firms in the nation, backed and mentored by such board directors as the CEO of Morgan Stanley and the Chairman of the Executive Committee of JP Morgan. As head of one of the earliest impact VC funds, he invested in growth industries to consciously expand business opportunities for entrepreneurs of color, achieving an IRR of 32% during its last decade.
In addition to generating a top quartile return, Ed also helped launch some of the nation’s most successful African American controlled companies, both private and public, and assisted them in attracting over $2 billion in conventional capital, while achieving 30% diversity among managers and employees and generating over 7,000 family supporting jobs.
Although his investment practice was national, Ed leveraged his successes as a VC to build bridges among disparate local business communities as an early advocate for and practitioner of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). As a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, he co-convened with the Bank several business leadership forums advocating more inclusive business practices. Expanding the effort after harvesting the venture funds, Ed partnered with the CEO of State Street Corporation to form The Business Collaborative (TBC), a unique business community initiative that dramatically increased the B2B sales volume among major corporations and businesses of color in Massachusetts.
Most recently Ed has responded to our nation’s current challenges, stemming from persistent racial, social and economic inequities, by forming Reinventure Capital. Once again he is targeting the vast, untapped reservoir of innovative, entrepreneurial talent, comprised of those of color and women consistently overlooked by the mainstream investment community. In so doing, Ed is implementing a proven contrarian investment playbook, as before, ensuring an impact rich return on capital AND inclusion. For more on Ed’s journey as a pioneering VC and lifelong advocate for racial equity, see his Ed Talks, first person accounts of his experience as a Black man in America.
Based in Boston, Ed is a graduate of Harvard College and Princeton University (MPA-UP, School of Public and International Affairs).
“I’m a proud papa of three children, all of whom have been bitten by one of the “bugs” that has smitten me. My son, Cyrus (Brown Univ., NYU Law), has the social justice bug and is a labor lawyer in New York City. My son, Langston (Brown Univ., Dartmouth MBA), has the entrepreneurial bug, and is pursuing it as Director of Operations for a scaling shared mobility business. My daughter, Chloe (Brown Univ., Oxford Univ., UK, MA Development Studies, Africa & Asia), has the economic justice bug and is pursuing it in Johannesburg, South Africa as VP of Commercial Strategy for a pioneering shared-value health insurance business. When I am not bragging about my children, I spend my time as a serious fitness buff, photographer, family genealogist and practitioner of Buddhism.”
Shijiro Ochirbat | Principal
Shijiro has always had one career goal: finding a way to effectively combat economic, financial, and social injustice.
She began her career providing financial analysis to the Prime Minister of Mongolia addressing income inequality challenges. Her journey led her to economic analyst roles with the UNDP and WTO, a senior business analyst role with one of Australia’s largest corporations, and a consultancy role with an Indonesian startup helping smallholder farmers.
Shijiro received her MBA from the University of Sydney and her MPA degree from the Harvard Kennedy School with an emphasis on impact investment, which included social finance coursework from Harvard Business School. Her education also focused on how certain social, policy, and political environments concentrate wealth-building capital in the hands of the few as well as the solutions required to overcome the challenge.
“Having worked to address social inequity in both the public and private sectors that helped me connect the dots, I believe I can most effectively take on economic injustice through impact investment. At Reinventure, our team consists of people who genuinely care about and are the best at what they do. Injustice is multifaceted and borderless in how it damages people’s lives and livelihoods. The best way to fight it is by experiencing the complexity of the challenge and finding the role and the team that allows you to contribute the most.”
Itzel Moncada | Associate
Itzel Moncada is an investment professional, startup advisor, and applied industry researcher with experience in global investments, M&A, private equity, and venture capital. Her expertise lies in the technology and life sciences sectors, global capital markets, and emerging economies.
Before joining Reinventure Capital, Itzel worked with Cebron Group, where she led M&A and later-stage buyout activities for the firm, focusing on life sciences, fintech, and emerging technologies. She began her career working with startups in Southern California, where she discovered her passion for the startup community.
Itzel holds a BA from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a MBA from the University of San Diego (USD) with an emphasis on finance. Her education focused on global investments through a D&I lens that she continues to apply as a venture capitalist.
“Having spent most of my career within the startup ecosystem helped me connect the dots; I believe I can most effectively positively impact economic injustice by promoting diversity within venture capital. At Reinventure, our team values and prioritizes diversity because we believe it brings new perspectives and ideas to the table. We understand that systematic injustice affects individuals from all backgrounds, and having a team that reflects the diversity of the investment thesis we embody is essential. At Reinventure, we recognize that everyone has a unique role and strive to create an environment where everyone can contribute their best.”
Yuritzi Acosta | Operations Manager
For over 10 years Yuri has been on a journey to find what makes communities prosper. Her path has led her to work with the immigrant community in Florida; entrepreneurship ecosystem development in Africa, Asia and the Middle east; technology development; and she even led six digital political campaigns. That journey has led to the realization that access to a great education and access to capital regardless of gender, race or geography is part of the secret sauce towards economic mobility, more equitable society and more innovation.
Today Yuri continues to further diversity, equity and inclusion with Reinventure Capital and Teach For America Las Vegas.
Maryam Mitchell | Chief of Staff
Maryam combines broad experience in behavioral health, finance, and most recently, retail with specific experience in both public and private finance sectors, and has played an integral role in an IPO and mergers and acquisitions. Perhaps more importantly, Maryam applies an unfailingly positive, curious spirit with a deliberative focus on team and the bottom line, and draws on both logic and her “no job too big or too small” attitude to make our team and the world better. She leverages her can-do attitude with wit, humor, and a genuine appreciation for people.
Maryam believes life, so far, has been the best hands-on experience to prepare her for what’s yet to come both personally and professionally.
Our partners and advisors
We are joined by titans. An extraordinary group of executives in multiple fields of technology, banking, asset management, sustainability, community development, social justice and impact investing. They include:
Richard DeVaughn | CEO, The Arcadia Group International and Jaro Media Services
Richard is a seasoned executive who has led global technology, operations, and product development in the consumer, industrial and commercial product sectors. Prior to founding The Arcadia Group International, Richard was corporate vice president for Ingersoll Rand Company where he provided strategic and operational leadership and was responsible for global engineering, technology-driven innovation and emerging market product development. He also held senior leadership positions in engineering, R&D, manufacturing operations, strategic planning and business development with Ford Motor Company, Textron and The Stanley Works.
A recognized thought leader, Richard has been a proactive member of the Engineering, Research and Development Council of the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) and a member of the Corporate Executive Board’s Research, Technology and Engineering Council.
Since 2016, Richard has also been the founder and CEO of Jaro Media Services, a media and technology company provideing a premier online destination for African Americans who love and appreciate the best film, visual art, books, and music produced by the African diaspora.
Richard is a graduate of Kettering University (BSME, Mechanical Engineering) and MIT (MBA, Sloan Fellow).
Marsh Carter | Former CEO, State Street Corporation; Former Chair, NYSE
From service in Vietnam to the New York Stock Exchange, Marsh has had an extensive military, business and civic career. He has worked for some of the most powerful companies in banking, and, completing his banking career, Marsh served as the chairman and CEO of State Street Bank and Trust Company, Boston, and of its holding company, State Street Corporation. During his nine years as CEO, the company grew more than six fold. In 1998, Marsh and the bank were awarded the Gartner Groups Excellence in Technology Award for application of technology for business value and business return.
After retiring from State Street, Marsh served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange from 2003 to 2013. He also regularly lectures on leadership and management to graduate students at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, Babson College, and the Naval War College and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Marsh is a graduate of West Point and Naval Postgraduate School (MS, Operations Research)
Elyse Cherry | CEO, BlueHub Capital
Elyse is an executive with extensive experience in finance, law, community development and investing in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Her work stands at the intersection of downtown and community — aligning capital with justice, bridging gaps between Wall Street and Main Street, and developing pioneering financial structures to promote equality and economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities.
Under her leadership, BlueHub Capital (formerly Boston Community Capital) has been transformed from a locally-focused non-profit lender into a national model for community investment investing over $1.3 billion in affordable housing units, schools, health care centers, grocery stores, and other vital services.
Elyse is an active civic leader and public speaker. She has served on more than a dozen Boards of Directors or Trustees of for-profit, non-profit and governmental organizations including Eastern Bank, Pilgrim Insurance Company, Zipcar, the Forsyth Institute, and the Institute for Global Leadership.
Elyse is a graduate of Wellesley College and Northeastern University School of Law.
Jim Casselberry | CEO, Known Holdings, LLC
Jim is CEO and Co-Founder of Known Holdings, LLC. Over more than 30 years as a leading investment professional, Jim has designed, managed, consulted and implemented scores of investment policies, programs and strategies. He most recently served as Chief Investment Officer at 4S Bay Partners, LLC, a single family asset management firm, with primary focus on market, impact and mission related investing. Jim also serves on several boards, including Impact Engine, the Julian Grace Foundation (and serves on its investment committee) and the Arc Chicago, LLC, the appointed board of Benefit Chicago, a collaboration between The Chicago Community Trust, the John D, and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Calvert Foundation. Jim is also the board chair of Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI). He sits on several philanthropic boards as well, including Mosaic Genius, American Friends of Hebrew University, Morehouse College (Trustee) and the National Urban League (Trustee).
During his career, Jim has held leadership positions with Trias Capital Management, LLC, Wedgewood Capital Management, Inc. and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He began his career at First Chicago Corporation and Arthur D. Little Valuation, Inc. He has been an adjunct Professor at Valparaiso University teaching in the College of Business MBA program and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
Jim has written several insightful white papers, most recently “Why Not the Best? Capturing Alpha from a Long-Neglected Market.” He received a BS degree in economics from the University of Illinois and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
Len Sheynblat | Vice President Engineering, Qualcomm; Inventor
Len is a senior engineering executive with 15+ years of technical leadership experience at Fortune 500 companies. In his current executive position at Qualcomm, he is leading efforts to integrate a variety of sensors into wireless devices that will enhance the user experience of these products and other mobile applications. His earlier responsibilities include: VP Engineering for Emerging Businesses and VP Technology where he was Engineering Lead for Sensors, Wearables, and Radio-location Solutions.
Len is also an extraordinary inventor. He holds more than 700 granted patents worldwide.
Len is a graduate of Boston University (MS, Systems Engineering) and the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Center for Executive Development.
Nicola Peill-Moelter, Ph.D. | Director of Sustainability Innovation, VMware
Since 2018 Nicola has been Director of Sustainability Innovation at VMware’s Office of the CTO using sustainability as an inspiration for product innovation.
Prior to VMare Nicola led Akamai’s global sustainability program. Her purview spans the gamut of: energy and greenhouse gas management and reporting; renewable energy and energy efficiency; electronic-waste management; employee engagement and stakeholder-awareness. Her goal is to reduce carbon emissions of Akamai’s global Intelligent Cloud Platform, which represents 90 percent of Akamai’s environmental impact.
Prior to heading up Akamai’s sustainability initiatives, Nicola held positions there as senior product manager and principal solutions engineer.
Nicole is a graduate of Manhattan College (BE, Chemical Engineering) and Caltech (PhD, Environmental Engineering Science).
Henry McGee | Former President, HBO Home Entertainment; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
Henry started is professional media career at HBO and held posts in a wide range of areas including family programming, film acquisition and international coproduction. Named president of HBO Home Entertainment in 1995, McGee received numerous industry awards for his pioneering use of Internet-based marketing and early adoption of the high definition format for the company’s DVD releases. Named one of the 50 most powerful African Americans in the entertainment business by Black Enterprise magazine, McGee oversaw the digital and DVD release of numerous blockbusters including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and Game of Thrones.
Henry joined Harvard Business School as a Senior Lecture in 2013. He is a co-author of numerous media industry case studies and is a member of the school’s Digital Initiative. He is also a director of the Pew Research Center and TEGNA.
Henry is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Tim Freundlich | President and Co-Founder, Impact Assets
Tim is a long-time innovator in new financial instruments in the social enterprise sector, which he now applies as the Head of ImpactAssets, the $350mm boutique donor advised fund and investment note offerer for impact investments. While previously at Calvert Foundation for 12 years, he conceived of and launched its donor advised fund. He was also instrumental in building the $250mm Community Investment Note with more than $1 billion invested into 300-plus nonprofits and for profits globally.
Tim co-founded and serves as Managing Partner for Good Capital that, in addition to its flagship Social Enterprise Expansion Fund LP, founded the 2,500-person annual Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference in San Francisco as well as four Impact Hubs in the US providing co-working, meeting and community space serving approximately 2,000 social innovators.
Tim is a graduate of Wesleyan University and University of San Francisco (MBA)
Dr. Ronald E. Goldsberry | Deloitte Consulting, formerly Ford Motor Company
Ron is currently an Automotive Consultant and served as an Independent Contractor of Deloitte Consulting. He was also Global Vice President and General Manager of Global Customer Service Operations at Ford Motor Company.
Ron began his association with Ford when the automotive company purchased Parker Chemical Company from the Parker Division of Occidental Chemical Corporation. He was Vice President and General Manager of the Parker Division at the time of the purchase. He was later named President and Chief Operating Officer of Parker Chemical.
Ron has 30 years of business experience with companies such as Gulf Oil Corporation, Boston Consulting Group, Hewlett Packard, and NASA/AMES Research Center. He served as Chairman of the Board of OnStation Corporation and its Chief Executive Officer. He was also on the Board of Directors for Case Construction Equipment, Inc., Primerica Corporation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Ron was also Chairman of UNC Venture, Inc., Detroit Public Television, and United Way for Southeastern Michigan. He is also the recipient of numerous academic, industry and civic awards and was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Currently, Ron serves as Chairman of the Board of MBI, a subsidiary of the Michigan State University Foundation. He is also on the Board of Directors for Unum Corporation and Canadian Tire Corporation.
Ron graduated summa cum laude from Central State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Michigan State University and an MBA in finance and marketing from Stanford University. Goldsberry was also presented with an Honorary Doctorate from both Central State University and Adrian College.
Jim Davidson | President, PeakChange
Jim is an early-stage investor and advisor with over 20 years of internet technology experience. Previously, he was a senior leader at Aol where he served as CTO of DigitalCity, the internet’s first hyper-local portal, and later as VP of Web Services and Publishing, where he led teams responsible for some of the most innovative and high-scale sites including Aol.com and MapQuest. Jim has also been a leader at early-stage companies including: CTO of ShareThis.com, President of Examiner.com, and co-founder and CEO of Laborfair.com, an online marketplace for disadvantaged service providers.
Jim is now focused on early-stage impact-investing, providing capital and advice for companies which leverage technology to further their social-benefit and sustainability missions. He is a General Partner of the Dev Equity investment fund and serves on the board of CauseLabs, Think Impact, Girls for a Change, and Investors’ Circle. He also serves on the board of MCE Social Capital where he is a member of the loan committee.
Jim is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara (BS, Physics, High Honors).
Carlotta Walls LaNier | Civil Rights Activist, Author; Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame
Carlotta was the youngest of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was the first black female to graduate from Central High School. In 1999, Carlotta and the rest of the Little Rock Nine were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Bill Clinton. They have received other awards and recognition, including the prestigious Spingarn Medal from the NAACP, the Pierre Marquette Award and the Lincoln Leadership Prize from the Abraham Lincoln Library Foundation.
Carlotta has been a member of the Urban League and the NAACP, and is currently president of the Little Rock Nine Foundation, a scholarship organization dedicated to ensuring equal access to education for African Americans. She has served as a trustee for the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, and of the University of Northern Colorado.
Carlotta was named a “Woman of Distinction” by the Girl Scouts in 2000, and was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2004 and into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in October 2015. She received the National Shining Star Award from NOBEL/Women (National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women).
Jim Joseph | Professor Emeritus, Duke University; Former CEO, Council on Foundations
Ambassador James A. Joseph is professor emeritus of the practice of public policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is also leader in residence for the Hart Leadership Program and founder of the United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke and the University of Cape Town.
Prior to assuming his responsibilities at Duke, Jim was CEO of the Council on Foundations , vice President of Cummins Engine Company and President of Cummins Engine Foundation.
Jim has served in senior executive or advisory positions for four U.S. Presidents, including appointments by President Jimmy Carter as Under Secretary of the Interior and President William Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. In 1999, the Republic of South Africa awarded Ambassador Joseph the Order of Good Hope, the highest honor bestowed on a citizen of another country.
He is the recipient of nineteen honorary degrees and his undergraduate alma mater, Southern University, has named an endowed chair in his honor.
Jim is a graduate of Southern University and Yale University (Theology)