Shahin Enayati and Cari Enayati brought some incredibly insightful knowledge this episode. This power couple has a wealth of entrepreneurial experience and are dedicated impact investors that are helping forge a better tomorrow. Shahin currently serves as the Managing Director for both Made Noble Companies and Sustain Equity, which work to advance the value of impact-oriented and purpose-driven solutions for people and planet. Cari serves as CEO for Made Noble Companies and as Director at...

Sedale Turbovsky is an entrepreneur, accomplished leader, and owner of a small portfolio of growing companies. He currently serves as the CEO & Co-Founder of opengrants.io, which is unlocking non-dilutive U.S. funding for organizations around the world. Prior to his current position he served as Managing Partner for Guerilla Digital and served as the CEO for carbonBLU.

Dr. Price is an experienced biotech executive and entrepreneur with a depth of expertise across clinical asset investment strategy, evaluation, financing and execution. He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for Cohort Intelligence and prior to this role, he served as the Chief Medical Officer for ProPharma Group’s Pharmacovigilance team. Before joining ProPharma Group, Dr. Price served as CEO of Drug Safety Solutions for over 20 years, until it was successfully acquired by ProPharma...

Joe founded The Campaign Workshop, an advocacy and Democratic political consulting firm based in Washington DC, in 2009 after having been a partner at MSHC Partners. Joe is known for his creativity and commitment to the causes and campaigns he works on. He has produced award winning strategies for a long list of clients, including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and DC VOTE. Prior to starting The Campaign Workshop, Joe served as the Northeast Political Director at the...

Sheldon Himelfarb is the President and CEO of PeaceTech Lab, an independent non-profit organization that works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. Prior to his work at PeaceTech Lab, he was the founding director of the Centers of Innovation for Media and Technology at the United States Institute of Peace, developed and managed peacebuilding programs across the world, and received the Capitol Area Peace Maker Award from...

Brian began his career working in the newly independent state of Ukraine to create marketing cooperatives in the 1990s and re-ignited his passion for politics. He has deep experience serving as an executive and public/government affairs advisor, including work with local, state, federal, and international leaders. Brian has formerly served as the Director of the Washington State Department of Commerce, Chief of Staff for Congressman Inslee, and Legislative Director for the U.S. Congress and...

Tien is the CEO of Opus8, Inc. which invests in remarkable and resilient founders who are improving the human condition via disruptive technologies that are deployed in massive markets. Additionally, he is a Managing General Partner at another venture capital firm, the Phoenix Fund focused on disruptive tech, with an emphasis on using 50% of their fund for tenacious, yet underserved entrepreneurs such as female, minority, and immigrant founders and teams. Finally, he is also the founder and...

Nicholas M. Donofrio (chair) is a 44-year IBM veteran who held the coveted position of Executive Vice President Innovation and Technology and was also selected as an IBM Fellow, the company’s highest technical honor. Mr. Donofrio holds seven technology patents, is a member of numerous technical and science honor societies, and holds several board positions. Mr. Donofrio is focused sharply on advancing education, employment, and career opportunities for underrepresented minorities and women...

With deep experience in both the public and private sectors, Maurice Jones took the helm as LISC's fourth president & CEO in September 2016. Immediately prior to joining LISC, he served as the secretary of commerce for the Commonwealth of Virginia, where he managed 13 state agencies focused on the economic needs in his native state. He previously served as deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) overseeing operations for the agency and it's 8,900...

Kolaleh Eskandanian is the Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Children’s National Health System. She is also the principal investigator of the FDA-funded National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation, focused on accelerating the path to market for pediatric devices. Kolaleh works with a large network of small and large businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies---to address the unmet needs of children. She is the producer of two annual innovation competitions...

Neil St. Clair is the Chief Operating Officer of Humanified, a social impact mobile app utilizing user-generated content to increase the volume and velocity of charitable donations and impactful global action. Neil has also served as the President & Founder of NES Impact, a management consultancy. He worked with select single-family offices and founder-led businesses to help them develop and scale with social impact goals in mind. Neil served as President & COO of the Child Safety...

Amir Bozorgzadeh is a market researcher, games publisher, and tech writer, currently working at the intersection of spatial computing, emerging tech, and social impact. He is the founder at Virtuleap, a sandbox for creative developers to showcase their VR concepts to the world, which is currently running the world’s biggest WebVR Hackathon. Through Virtuleap and Enhance VR, Amir is leveraging the power of Virtual Reality to improve cognitive functioning via daily workouts that are both fun...

Bjorn is a Managing Partner at Venture Noire, a venture catalyst, and a champion for inclusive innovation. Bjorn helps take businesses to the next level by giving them access to technology, corporate partners and capital. He is also the co-founder of venture-backed startup Wyzerr and Community Catalyst of StartupCincy. His personal mission is to eliminate innovation desserts around the world by building inclusive ecosystems for ALL entrepreneurs to thrive and generate wealth. BK's background...

For almost twenty years, Joey has helped organizations retain their best customers and turn them into raving fans via his entertaining and actionable keynotes, workshops, and consulting projects. He has a long history of energizing and motivating audiences to enhance their customers’ experiences. He is an award-winning speaker (yes – they do have speaking contests) at both national and international conferences – competing against New York Times bestselling authors, business leaders, and...

Jordan Carlisle is a founder and angel investor in the Northwest Arkansas area. He learned everything he could about lean startups, design thinking, and entrepreneurship through hosting events called Startup Weekends, where people build software projects with mentors and pitch them to investors over the course of a weekend. He also hosted hundreds of coffee meetups called 1 Million Cups, where entrepreneurs explain what their businesses are all about and get feedback from other entrepreneurs....

Amber Freed is the mother of adorable twins, Riley and Maxwell. Maxwell was 18 months old when the Freed family received his devastating diagnosis of SLC6A1. Ms. Freed left her career in equity analysis the day Maxwell was diagnosed and dedicated her life to finding a cure. In 18 months, Amber has single-handedly driven multiple translational treatments forward and become a leader within the rare disease community. Ms. Freed serves as the Founder and CEO of SLC6A1 Connect. SLC6A1...

Louis Efron is a globally recognized thought leader, speaker, writer, theatrical director, award-winning Fortune 200 people executive, and founder of the World Child Cancer USA charity. Also known as the “voice of purpose”, Louis has worked around the world as VP of Teammate Experience for Fortune 200 medical company DaVita, Head of Global Employee Engagement for Tesla, International VP of HR for JDA Software, and VP of HR for Stryker. He also serves on the Advisory Board for Go-Station,...

As a globally recognized entrepreneur, author, and family office investor. Arthur Bavelas is a pioneer in developing one of the first private opportunity review networks, Family Office Insights, for investors within the family office community. Fostering a collaborative method of evaluation and delivering a more efficient potential investment pipeline, Family Office Insights initiates timely peer-to-peer review of limited access investment opportunities. Driven by dissatisfaction at lack of...

Lara Stein is the Co-Founder and CEO of Boma Global. Prior to Founding Boma, Lara was the Executive Director of Women’s March Global, where she built the Women's March Global platform and oversaw all Women's March initiatives outside of the US. Lara was the founder and director of the TEDx program at the TED Conferences. In 2007, she created and lead the effort to bring TED to the world by developing a program that granted free licenses to third parties to organize independent TED-like...

Susan and Robert Gold are co-founders of the Feynman School, a school for gifted children that teaches through experiential learning, STEM- and project-based curriculum, and promoting inquisitive and creative thinking. Susan Gold, the Head of School, was previously a third-grade teacher and was a coordinator for a three-year exchange program between the University of Maryland – College Park and the University of Tokyo. Susan is also a member of the National Association for Gifted...

Charles Andres is senior counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He focuses on patent prosecution, strategic patent counseling, IP due diligence, drug and medical device FDA regulatory counseling, invalidity and non-infringement opinions, life-cycle management, Supreme Court and Federal Circuit amicus briefs, and related business matters. Charlie has significant experience drafting patent applications, prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and...

Gregory Charlop is a physician, speaker, author, TV personality, and social entrepreneur. Greg is an athletic performance and anti-aging expert, and his telemedicine clinic teaches viewers how to sleep better, improve their diet, and ward off depression. His book, “Why Doctors Skip Breakfast”, includes advice for elite performers or anyone looking to stay young, energetic, happy, and healthy. Greg founded Dignified Housing to help real estate professionals better serve the needs of the...

Katherine Hill Ritchie has over 20 years of Financial Services business operational experience and 13 years of investment experience with family offices, private equity, hedge fund due diligence, and more. She is currently the Director for the Nottingham Spirk Family Officer where she focuses on consumer products and medical device incubation, LBOs, and product design innovation.

Ross DeVol is a Walton Fellow, focusing on research on policies related to economic vitality of Northwest Arkansas and the American heartland. Ross is the former chief research officer at the Milken Institute, where he was responsible for overseeing research on international, national and subnational growth performance; access to capital and its role in economic growth and job creation; and health-related topics. While at the Institute, he put his group in the national limelight with...