Greg is as much at home in a village in East Africa as he is in the mountains of Park City, Utah where he grew up. At age 23, he stepped off the airplane in Nairobi as an under-qualified but eager co-founder of The Paradigm Project, a last-mile clean energy distribution business. After 10 years of launching and operating social enterprises across East Africa and earning a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, seeing opportunity in emerging and new markets has become his norm. Building diverse teams to deliver social, environmental, and economic impact has been the avenue to achieve Greg’s long-standing desire to reach underserved communities. Greg met his wife of 7 years, Elizabeth, in East Africa while she was working for the President of Malawi. They live in North Carolina with their two children and a vizsla.

More than 20 years ago, Greg pioneered carbon finance by co-founding Bluesource. Bluesource became one of the largest environmental asset developers in North America, and was an architect of many of the carbon offset protocols in use today. Bluesource merged with Element Markets in 2022, forming Anew Climate, a global decarbonization platform backed by TPG Rise Fund. Greg was also the co-founder and Chairman of The Paradigm Project, a last-mile, consumer finance and distribution business in East Africa. The Paradigm Project improved the livelihood and health of more than 1 million people, saving families more than $2 of income, 3 hours of time and 200 pounds of greenhouse gas for every dollar invested. Greg started his career at American Stores focused on corporate M&A, law, and capital markets. Greg loves skiing the abundant fresh powder and taking walks with his wife Laurel, and their dog, Henry, along the mountain streams in his hometown of Park City, Utah.

Erik has 35+ years of experience investing, managing, and advising public and private companies, including 17 years at The Blackstone Group as a Senior Managing Director.  Erik is the Co-Founder and COO of Wrinkl, Inc., a team communication platform that brings clarity and productivity to collaboration.  Prior, Erik was CEO and CDO of Bluesource, a leading environmental asset developer, as well as a Founding Board Member and investor in The Paradigm Project, a last-mile, consumer finance and distribution business in East Africa.

Matheus is specialized in developing, managing, and implementing blended finance solutions and policy mechanisms that catalyze sustainable investment across mitigation and adaptation sectors. As the Director of Impact Practice at the Common Good Marketplace, he guides the implementation of CGM’s Technical Framework while working closely with the team to help screen, onboard, and support high-impact organizations onto the marketplace itself.

Matheus holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from PUC-Rio and a Master’s in Public Policies, Strategy, and Development from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He also has several papers published on topics related to Economics, Sustainability, and Public Policies.

Johanna has spent more than 10 years working in international development, quantifying social impacts and outlining best practices in the clean energy and environmental sectors. She served as Chief Impact Officer of The Paradigm Project, where she led their carbon asset portfolio and spearheaded social impact audits of their projects. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. Johanna lives near Austin, TX with her husband, two boys and a growing flock of chickens.

David is a software engineering leader at Accenture. In his role, he advises enterprise executives on applications of emergent technologies and drives the development of digital products. As Technology Advisor to the Common Good Marketplace, David helps the team understand a complex technical landscape and navigate product decisions for the platform.

Meeghan is passionate about using data to better allocate resources for social impact. Her aspirations to change the world started at the age of six while working on whale conservation in Hawai'i. She has spent the last decade in Asia and East Africa, working with funders and social impact organizations of all sizes. She’s as comfortable explaining predictive data models in corporate boardrooms as she is working alongside field staff to collect data on the ground.

Meeghan has an MA in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University and a BA in International Relations from Brown University. She is an avid traveler, runner, reader, and scribbler.

Ellen has been working at the intersection of business and social and environmental impacts for more than 15 years. She has on-the-ground experience working with businesses and investors on social and environmental issues throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ellen is currently an independent consultant specializing in social and environmental impact measurement and management.
 
In this capacity, she has worked with a variety of clients ranging from venture capital funds to institutional investors to establish impact frameworks and processes to measure and manage the social and environmental impacts of their investments. She has also worked on the development of a number of industry initiatives including IFC’s Operating Principles for Impact Management and UNDP’s SDG Impact Standards.
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Prior to starting her own business, she worked for the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and led the development of IRIS, the impact measurement standard for the impact investment industry. Ellen also has more than ten years of experience as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers focusing on corporate sustainability and private sector development.

Ellen holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math and Economics and a master’s degree in Economics, both with honors, from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Karima Ladhani is an innovation & strategy consultant, social entrepreneur, investor, and ecosystem builder.
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An entrepreneur in residence at Georgetown University and a visiting scientist at Harvard University, Dr. Ladhani’s work impacts policy making across 30 countries. She also mentors entrepreneurs from across the African continent, India, and the USA through her work at Next Health Accelerator, Aspen Digital Equity Accelerator, and Builders + Backers.
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Dr. Ladhani is the Founder & CEO of Barakat Bundle, a non-profit that creates life-saving bundles for mothers and newborns in South Asia and Giving Cradle, a social enterprise that creates safe, sustainable maternal & newborn products that give back.
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Dr. Ladhani is a graduate of Harvard University (PhD, MPH), as well as University of Waterloo (BMath) and Wilfrid Laurier University (BBA) in Canada. She has received numerous accolades including:
- Top 50 South Asian Founders to Watch
- 40 under 40 Public Health Catalyst Award
- Aspen Ideas Festival Global Voices Scholar
- Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business Award
- Harvard Business School New Venture Award
- LinkedIn For Good Award
- WeWork Creator Award

Dr. Gisela is a committed social entrepreneur dedicated to fighting poverty in all forms, with extensive experience designing, implementing, and evaluating social interventions, particularly in extreme poverty. She is co-founder and former CEO of CREN, a non-profit organization that treats malnourished children in day hospitals and outpatient clinics in Brazil. She is an awarded Social Entrepreneur by Ashoka, E&Y and Schwab Foundation and co-founder of several organizations and initiatives, the latest being Catalyst 2030 Global and Catalyst 2030 Brasil, where she is co-chair. Gisela is a Psychologist with Masters in Psychology and Human Development from the Institute of Psychology of Universidade de São Paulo and a PhD in Social Psychiatry from Universidade Federal de São Paulo, with an extensive list of publications in poverty, psychology and malnutrition. She was also Visiting Melchor Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame.

Multi-startup founder, entrepreneur, IDEO alum, and design leader, now helping select teams achieve design velocity through designlens.co

Rick is globally recognized as a leading climate change lawyer, and for two decades has advised governments, multinational companies, financial institutions, funds and project sponsors on the economic transition to a low carbon economy, including being a thought leader on carbon and environmental market transactions.

He is officially recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global as a leading climate change lawyer, an accolade he has held for 10 years. He is a former Partner and head of Baker McKenzie’s North American Climate Change Practice; and former Chair, International Emissions Trading Association.

Rick also serves on the Board of Advisors to the USC Schwarzenegger Institute and was Awarded Chevalier of the National Order of Merit by the President of the Republic of France for his significant contribution to the preparation of the Paris Climate Summit, and the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Neil is an entrepreneur, adventurer, father, avid reader, and Design Thinking Strategist. He has deep expertise in applying Human Centered Design principles to help business leaders create and implement sustainable strategies that create more value for more people by doing less harm and more good. 

Over the years, he’s led companies, managed teams, launched start-ups, and advised a wide array of clients on how to advance their business objectives in ways that enhance long-term value and performance, while simultaneously improving the health and well-being of people and planet.

Neil spent the early part of his career as a Design & Innovation Strategist working with a wide range of Fortune 500 clients to help them develop and launch new products and brands. He then went on to launch a clean energy social enterprise that links clean energy distribution and sales networks in emerging markets with carbon offset revenue to accelerate growth.

That unique and widely varied career combining corporate leadership, brand strategy, innovation, environmental assets, and social enterprise design ultimately led to a partnership in BILD, a strategic consultancy focused on integrating social and environmental sustainability into core business activities, whose goal is to bridge the gap between profits and purpose to help mid-market companies accelerate performance and create new value.

Serving as the Managing Director of Envoy’s Strategy & Innovation Group, Shawn guides and supports an incredibly talented team and helps leaders unleash the power of brand to transform companies. He is focused on making a positive impact in the world by helping others unlock their full potential.

Bringing twenty-plus years of practical brand, innovation experience and business-building experience, helping leaders of Fortune 500s and purpose-driven startups. Shawn believes in an “Uncommon Sense” approach whereby the most significant challenges can be solved, and the biggest opportunities realized by focusing people with shared values, clear purpose, simplicity and common sense together.

He is privileged to work with executive teams at large, multinational companies and passionate entrepreneurs to launch new products, brands and companies. He’s had the pleasure of working with leaders at Adidas, Bolthouse, Campbell’s, Diageo, Hilton, IDEO, Mattel, Nike, PIRCH, Petco, Starbucks, Samsung, Taco Bell, WD-40, Westfield and World Vision among many others.

Following a life-changing trip to Malawi in March, 2004, Shawn pursued creative and sustainable ways to make a measurable difference. Serving as co-founder of YouSchool and on advisory boards for The Honest Kitchen, Trustworthy, FEED and Common Good Marketplace. He writes and speaks on a variety of purpose, culture and innovation related subjects.

Olivia is a senior consultant to the World Bank, UNDP Investment Committee member, and expert in results-based financing. Ms. Byanyima is a Senior Transaction Advisor at Manufacturing Africa (BDO), a Senior Consultant, Energy & Extractives Group at World Bank Group in the Greater New York City Area.She is also a member, Investment Committee at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).

Byanyima holds a Bachelor of Science, Quantitative Economics from Makerere University, Masters in Business Administration from Columbia Business School and also a Master of Arts in Quantitative Methods from Columbia University in the City of New York

Matt is Head of Startup Ecosystem, US at Google. In this role, Matt runs accelerators for early stage companies using AI/ML, Cloud and other technologies. Prior to this role, Matt worked in Google Hardware UX on Wearable devices (Google Pixel Watch) and AR.

Prior to Google, Matt led accelerators and innovation programs at IDEO, supporting early stage organizations across the world focused on education, health, climate change, food systems and more, with clients like the UN and The Rockefeller Foundation. Matt is a former architect and designer and holds his MBA from California College of the Arts and his Bachelors from Cal Poly SLO.

Fisher graduated from the University of Memphis in 1995 with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Upon graduation, he founded a company specializing in Internet software development for enterprises using a new programming language released that year called Java. In 1997, Fisher designed the web-based event management solution that became the core of EventU, now in use by thousands of non-profit organizations and Fortune 500 companies. In 1998 after a trip to Romania, he sold his business (dba ServiceU) and moved to Romania to start Cornerstone Technologies, an outsourcing software development firm. While living in Bucharest, Fisher helped build churches, organize Bible studies in government and organize Romania’s annual National Prayer Dinner in Parliament. During the era of the dot-com bubble, Cornerstone Technologies was blessed to do highly specialized software development for a number of Fortune 500 companies. In 2002, Fisher acquired the intellectual property for an application he developed for Regions Bank and co-founded Asentinel.

Fisher is the principal architect and patent inventor for Asentinel’s telecom expense management (TEM) solutions. In 2003, Gartner began tracking the TEM industry which grew to over $2B by 2015. In 2008, Fisher received the first of his patents and successfully licensed his patents with several publicly traded competitors. In 2013, he left Asentinel to again be the CEO of Cornerstone Technologies. In 2014, he finished his Master of Divinity at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary and co-founded Highland Harvesters, the largest apple orchard in Ethiopia located among thirty-two unreached, unengaged people groups. Currently, he is overseeing over a dozen kingdom businesses on five continents and pursuing his doctorate at Gordon Conwell.

Introducing Ian Wilding: more than a strategist, he's a visionary. For over two decades, his insights have driven groundbreaking digital innovations. His mission? To elevate brands by crafting narratives that resonate deeply, delivering tangible, impactful value. While Hangar 75 stands as his latest masterpiece, the journey began with Radical Company, recognized globally by eConsultancy as a Top 5 innovation powerhouse. This was followed by Join Sam, pioneering as the world’s first bank for children. And preceding these was System Minds, a digital innovation firm that became a benchmark in digital proposition design.

Ian's insights have graced the pages of Forbes and Newsweek and resonated on global stages. Serving as an Alumni Advisory Board Member for Loughborough University and holding advisory roles for startups and industry titans alike—including a notable advisory stint for the UK government on financial inclusion for underserved youth—Ian's influence is both profound and transformative.