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Keynote Speakers
Friday, November 13, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
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Driving Innovation & Economic Renewal In a Global Context
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE in conversation with David Skorton, President of Cornell University
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Saturday, November 14, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
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Leading Clean Technology at the Base of the Pyramid
Kevin McGovern, Chairman of The Water Initiative, in conversation with Dr. Stuart Hart, Professor at Cornell University
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Thinking Big: Solving Global Problems Through Social Entrepreneurship
Alex Counts, Founder of the Grameen Foundation and Rebecca Onie, Founder & CEO, Project Health in conversation with Cleveland Justis, Director at Institute at the Golden Gate
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Saturday, November 14, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Selling Up or Selling Out: Maintaining a Social Mission While Growing to Scale
Jeff Furman of Ben & Jerry's Board of Directors and the Ben and Jerry's Foundation Board of Directors, Seth Goldman, President & TeaEO of Honest Tea, Lisa Lorimer, Founder of Vermont Bread Company, in conversation with Joe Sibilia, CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital and CSRWire.com
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Jeffrey Immelt, CEO, GE
Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. In 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer. Mr. Immelt has been named one of the "World's Best CEOs" three times by Barron's, and since he began serving as chief executive officer, GE has been named "America's Most Admired Company" in a poll conducted by Fortune magazine and one of "The World's Most Respected Companies" in polls by Barron's and the Financial Times. Mr. Immelt is also a member of The Business Council, and he is on the board of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Mr. Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife Andrea have one daughter.
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Dr. Stuart Hart, Professor, Cornell University
Professor Hart is one of the world's top authorities on the implications of sustainable development and environmentalism for business strategy. Before coming to the Johnson School, he taught strategic management and founded both the Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE) at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the Corporate Environmental Management Program (CEMP) at the University of Michigan. He has consulted or served as management educator for many corporations and organizations throughout the world.
Hart has published over 50 papers and authored or edited five books. He wrote the seminal article "Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World," which won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 1997, and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, Hart also wrote the pathbreaking 2002 article "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," which provided the first articulation of how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world.
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Kevin McGovern, Chairman, The Water Initiative
The founder of over fifteen companies, six of which have become world/category leaders, McGovern has also been lead negotiator/principal in over twenty-five (25) global join ventures; As chairman of McGovern Capital, a global investment, strategy and licensing provider to business, he is also affiliated with McGovern & Associates, a corporate law firm specializing in both technology and intellectual property. Since its inception in 1989, McGovern Capital has also been one of three owners of KX Industries, L.P., the largest manufacturer and worldwide source of carbon air and water purification filters. KXI holds over 60 issued patents and has created and supplied the initial "end of the tap" filters ($US 500 million market) for both Procter and Gamble under the "PUR" brand and Clorox under the "Brita" brand. In 1996, KX Industries invented and supplied the first refrigerator water filters - currently a $US 300 million market.
McGovern is also renowned for his nanotechnology involvement, serving as co-chairman of Angstrom Publishing LLC. Angstrom Publishing LLC and Forbes Magazine co-publish a global monthly Nanotechnology newsletter, entitled The Forbes/Wolfe NanoTech Report.
For the last 12 years, McGovern, has helped spearhead the development, launch, distribution and licensing for Tristrata, the world's leading supplier of skin care products marketed to/through dermatologists and plastic surgeons. NeoStrata is sold in 70 countries and has attracted (43) licensors/partners - including Avon, L'Oreal, Beiersdorf and Estee Lauder; many consider Tristrata's licensing success within its categories to have been the most successful licensing program of a consumer technology.
In addition, McGovern is also one of the three founders of SoBe Beverages, a nutraceutical beverage that grew to $250mm in three years - and sold to Pepsico in 2001 for $US 370 mm.
McGovern is a Cornell University Trustee and the current Co-Chair of its Intellectual Property Tech Transfer Management Committee. He also Chairs Entrepreneurship@Cornell and teaches Global Innovation and Commercialization at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Business. McGovern graduated form Cornell in 1970 and in 1975 graduated from St. John's University School of Law.
McGovern is a member and board member of Cornell's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and its Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab. In 2007, Cornell University honored McGovern as its worldwide Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation
Alex Counts became Grameen Foundation’s first chief executive in 1997, after ten years of working in microfinance. A 1988 Cornell graduate, Counts’ commitment to poverty eradication deepened as a Fulbright scholar in Bangladesh. Counts promotes Grameen Foundation’s approach through his writings. His latest work, Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are Changing the World, was published in 2008. Counts is a recipient of the Horace Mann Alumni Association’s Award for Distinguished Achievement.
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Cleveland Justis, Director, Institute at the Golden Gate
An accomplished leader and entrepreneur for the past twenty years, Cleveland Justis is the founder and director of Institute at the Golden Gate. Previously, Cleve was the Executive Director of the award-winning Headlands Institute in California. An expert on social entrepreneurship, Cleve has worked and consulted with a wide range of medium-sized companies. Cleve is currently an adjunct professor at the UC Davis MBA program, where he teaches a popular course on Social Entrepreneurship.
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Rebecca Onie, Founder & CEO, Project HEALTH
In 1996, during her sophomore year at Harvard College, Rebecca Onie founded Project HEALTH with Dr. Barry Zuckerman, Chair of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Rebecca oversaw the organization’s growth to Providence and New York City prior to attending Harvard Law School, and returned to Project HEALTH as CEO in February 2006. In 2009, she was honored to receive a MacArthur Fellowship for “individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” She is a U.S. Ashoka Fellow, which recognizes leading social entrepreneurs across the globe who have innovative solutions and the potential to change patterns across society. Rebecca has also received the Jane Rainie Opel ’50 Young Alumna Award in 2008 for outstanding contribution to the advancement of women or her profession, and the Do Something Brick Award for Community Leadership in 1999, for dynamic young people under the age of 30, with the passion and drive to improve their communities by developing innovation strategies to create sustainable, positive change.
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Jeff Furman, Board of Directors, Ben & Jerry's and Ben & Jerry's Foundation
Jeff Furman has been with Ben & Jerry's since it began. He helped write the first business plan, served as legal counsel and on their Board of Directors for more than twenty years. He continues as a Foundation Trustee and on the Ben & Jerry’s Board established after the Unilever acquisition. In Ithaca he co-founded a Dispute Resolution Center and a Micro-Enterprise Project. He hopes to bring 5,000 people to Detroit for the 2010 U.S. Social Forum.
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Seth Goldman, President & TeaEO, Honest Tea
Seth Goldman is President and TeaEO of Honest Tea, the company he co-founded out of his home in 1998 with Professor Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management. Honest Tea is the nation’s best-selling organic bottled tea company, with products distributed through more than 30,000 outlets in every state, as well as overseas. Over the past eleven years the company has thrived with a 66% annual compound growth rate, as consumers have shifted toward healthier and more sustainable diets. In 2008, The Coca-Cola Company purchased a minority interest in Honest Tea, fueling further growth as Honest became the first organic and Fair Trade brand to move into the world’s largest beverage distribution system. The company has initiated community-based partnerships with suppliers in India, South Africa and Argentina. The company has also created marketing partnerships with City Year, TerraCycle, the GM Saturn VUE Hybrid and Jamis Bikes. Honest Tea was recently added to The Better World Shopping Guide’s 10 Best List, calling it one of the “best companies on the planet based on their overall social & environmental record.” In 2008 Seth co-founded Bethesda Green, a local sustainability initiative in Honest Tea’s hometown, and has worked to install dozens of recycling bins and helped area restaurants convert their grease waste into biodiesel. He has been awarded a Crown Fellowship from the Aspen Institute and Ernst & Young's 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Mid-Atlantic region.
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Lisa Lorimer, Founder, Vermont Bread Company
Lisa Lorimer is the former President and majority owner of Vermont Bread Company in Brattleboro, VT (sold in 2005). Her company is an all-natural and certified organic wholesale bakery serving supermarkets and natural product stores in the northeastern US. She is a graduate of the Owner President Management Program at Harvard Business School and currently serves on the boards of Union Institute and University/Vermont College, the Vermont Community Foundation and the Snelling Center for Government.
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Joe Sibilia, CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital and CSRWire.com
As a visionary of the socially responsible business movement, Joe Sibilia is founder and CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC), described by the Wall Street Journal as a "socially responsible investment bank" specializing in turning values into valuation. He is also the president of CSRwire.com, the social responsibility newswire service that distributes corporate social responsibility news to journalists, analysts, investors, activists and thought leaders.
Throughout his career, Joe has purchased and sold nineteen of his own companies. His most recent initiative is the PathMakers Partnership, a joint effort of the Zen Peacemakers, Gasoline Alley Foundation and the Hampden County Sheriffs Office to provide housing, jobs and life support services to the poor, homeless, formerly incarcerated, and all suffering and disadvantaged people in the Greater Springfield Area through the provision of socially responsible, sustainable, and environmentally appropriate community economic development.
Joe also founded the Gasoline Alley Foundation, a 501(c)3 corporation that has incubated forty-three small businesses since 1985 and "teaches inner-city and/or underprivileged persons to be successful entrepreneurs using socially responsible/sustainable business practices while revitalizing inner city neighborhoods."
Joe is the husband of Claire Sullivan and father of three daughters: Kristen, Kendra and Kayla. The Sibilia family lives in Western Massachusetts with their dog, Finally.
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