Bornstein received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters of Arts from New York University. In addition to writing, he has worked as a computer programmer and systems analyst. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.

Pamela Hartigan -- Managing Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
[Keynote] Dr. Hartigan joined the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship as its first Managing Director in October 2000. Of Ecuadorian origin, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the Institut d'Etudes Europeenes in Brussels. She also has a Masters degree in Education and a PhD in Human Developmental Psychology from American University and Catholic University, respectively, both located in Washington, D.C. Pamela is bilingual in Spanish and English and speaks French.

Her career has included over a decade working with youth; supporting the spawning and consolidation of community-based organizations serving the Latino community in Washington, D.C.; and twelve years at the World Health Organization, beginning at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), WHO's regional office for the Americas. There, she spearheaded initiatives to build collaborative work between governments and Latin American non-governmental organizations working in health and development. Subsequently, she became Chief of the Women, Health and Development Program where, among other initiatives, she launched region-wide mobilization to address violence against women. In 1997, she was selected as Program Manager for the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) where she also coordinated efforts in Applied Field Research in tropical diseases. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, as Director-General of WHO, appointed her to head the Department of Health Promotion at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, and later as Director of the newly formed Department for Violence and Injury Prevention.

Chip Conley -- Founder and CEO Joie de Vivre Hospitality [Keynote: Openning Night Reception]
When USA Today profiled Chip Conley as one of the "14 People to Watch" in 2001 (along with Julia Roberts and Disney's Michael Eisner), the writer suggested that Chip had "created what may be the most delightfully schizophrenic collection of hotels in America." The writer went on to suggest that mainstream hoteliers "look at Joie de Vivre as the mad scientist who's trying different formulas that the rest of the industry can buy into if the formula proves successful." Joie de Vivre celebrates its 18th year in 2005, having come a long way from its humble roots in San Francisco's Tenderloin. Starting at the age of 26 with The Phoenix, which has become a legendary rock 'n roll hotel, Chip has always been on the cutting edge of what's new in hospitality. Chip and his unique in-house Creative Services team have created sexy urban boutique hotels, more than a half-dozen suburban boutique hotels, fun boutique motels, and even a boutique campground.

Chip has won numerous awards including Guerrilla Marketer of the Year from the American Travel Marketing Executives, Emerging Growth Company of the Year from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, National Humanitarian Hospitality Company of the Year, Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young, and the Experience Stager of the Year at a conference in Las Vegas in which Joie de Vivre beat out competition that included Disney, Cirque de Soleil, and Ian Schrager Hotels. Chip was also recently featured as one of Lodging magazine's 75 Most Influential Leaders in the Travel Industry. Chip's book, The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2001. He has a B.A. and MBA from Stanford University . Chip's philanthropic interests center around teens-at-risk - he was the creator of San Francisco's annual Celebrity Pool Toss that raises $350,000 annually for the Tenderloin After-School Program, and became he foster parent for a 15-year old Tenderloin teen who now is 28.

Clara Miller -- President, Nonprofit Finance Fund: Supporting the Recovery of Nonprofits
Bio Coming Soon!

Greg Steltenpohl -- Founder of Odwalla Juice
Bio Coming Soon!

David Green -- Founder, The Hearing Company [Case-Study]
David Green is a pioneer in the manufacture and distribution of advanced health care products for patients in the developing world who could not otherwise afford them. He organizes engineers, technical experts, distribution partners, and financiers to create production facilities capable of making high-quality products at very low cost. In India, Green established Aurolab to manufacture intraocular lenses (IOLs) - plastic implants used to restore sight to patients suffering from cataracts and other eye diseases. On a self-sustaining basis, Aurolab produces hundreds of thousands of lenses annually at a fraction of the costs in developed countries and distributes them in more than 85 countries. The company is now one of the largest manufacturers of IOLs in the world. By expanding Aurolab's manufacturing capacity to include low-cost needles and sutures, Green has opened opportunities to restore vision and treat other diseases for millions of people. Green is now developing digitally programmable, inexpensive hearing aids designed to become nonfunctional if any effort is made to resell them in markets other than the intended ones (i.e., those where widespread poverty makes such devices otherwise unobtainable). By applying traditional business strategies in untraditional markets, Green has addressed important public health challenges and improved the lives of populations around the world.

David Green received a B.A. (1978) and an M.P.H. (1982) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1983, Green began working with the Seva Foundation's Sight Program at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, and participated in the establishment of Aurolab in 1992. In 2000, he founded Project Impact, Inc., a nonprofit organization that works to develop, manufacture, and distribute affordable medical technologies to communities in India, Nepal, Tanzania, Egypt, Malawi, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

Amber Nystrom -- Executive Director, Social Fusion
Ms. Nystrom is the founder and Executive Director of Social Fusion, a business incubator that builds the resources and knowledge to launch and grow highly innovative nonprofit and for-profit social ventures in the U.S. and internationally. Social Fusion's philosophy rests on the premise that sustainable innovation requires an ecosystem of support that bridges business expertise, proactive investment, and a community of social entrepreneurs advancing new solutions for systemic social change.

Her background includes ten years of senior level nonprofit and public policy experience in women's health and microfinance; and several years private business consulting. As an independent business consultant, Ms. Nystrom concentrated on technology valuation, and small and medium business enterprise growth in the U.S. and Latin America. Prior to consulting, she built and directed several multi-national projects focused on human and business infrastructure for economic development and women's rights initiatives, and co-founded two successful social enterprises dedicated to women's health priorities. Ms. Nystrom has worked in the U.S., Latin America, Africa and Europe, specializing in multi-sector initiative building, public-private alliances, and social enterprise / SME capacity development. She is a PI International Population Studies Fellow, a Fritz Fellow, and has spoken and led workshops on social enterprise capacity and capital development at the Commonwealth Club, The World Affairs Council, Stanford, Berkeley Haas, Yale and other national and international venues. In addition to directing Social Fusion, Ms. Nystrom consults to the World Bank and Ashoka on social enterprise capital growth.

R. Paul Herman -- Chief Development Officer, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public [Respondent]
Paul joined Ashoka in 2002, bringing his entrepreneurial and business experience to the social sector. Born and raised in Chicago, Paul has become a "citizen of the world" by living and working in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Paul is a seasoned entrepreneur and has led, managed and grown innovative organizations from scratch. Paul co-founded and sold a financial-services company, which created new opportunities and products for under-served customers while also teaching financial literacy and advocating privacy protection.

Paul also has helped Fortune 500 companies world-wide while with McKinsey & Company and CSC Index; founded the New York Chapter of Coalition for Quality Children's Media (CQCM) which teaches youth media literacy; and has served on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Marin County. Paul graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and now lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Gayle.

Pamela Chaloult -- Co-Executive Director, Social Venture Network (SVN)
As the Co-Executive Director, Pamela is one of the lead communicator for SVN's national membership base. She possesses over fifteen years of marketing, advertising and public relations experience in both for profit and nonprofit business applications. Prior to her tenure at SVN, Pamela held the position of Communications and Marketing Director for the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), while simultaneously acting as a communications consultant to numerous nonprofits in the Bay Area. She also served as the Communications Director for Planned Parenthood in 13 counties throughout Northern California, where Pamela acted as the agency's media spokesperson and lobbied elected representatives on both the national and local level. Before joining the nonprofit world, Pamela worked as the Marketing and Advertising Director for the San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX TV & Radio and for a variety of film and entertainment groups in Los Angeles. An enthusiastic advocate of health and wellness, social and environmental consciousness and the creative arts, this East Coast native currently resides in Mill Valley, California. Pamela is on the board of Hollyhock, Canada's leading education and retreat center.

Paul Rice -- President and CEO, TransFair USA [Keynote]
Paul opened TransFair's first "national headquarters" - a one-room office in a converted warehouse in downtown Oakland - in late 1998. Paul came to Fair Trade by way of the mountainous Segovias region of Nicaragua, where he worked for 11 years as a rural development specialist. While in Nicaragua, Paul founded and led a highly successful organic coffee export cooperative called PRODECOOP, introducing him to the transformational power of Fair Trade. Subsequently, Paul served as strategy consultant and development advisor to 22 cooperative enterprises throughout Latin America and Asia, helping them become more competitive, democratic and self-reliant. His first-hand experience over the last 20 years in the development of cooperative coffee export ventures around the world is unparalleled in the U.S. coffee industry. Paul has become a leading advocate of market linkage and enterprise development as core strategies for farmer empowerment and sustainable development.

Paul holds an Economics and Political Science degree from Yale University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. In 2000 he received the prestigious international Ashoka Fellowship (www.ashoka.org) for his pioneering work as a social entrepreneur in the Fair Trade movement. In 2001 Paul was recognized by the AVINA Foundation for his "leadership for change." Paul was also honored by the Klaus Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (www.schwabfound.org) as one of the world's top 40 Social Entrepreneurs in 2002. Paul has authored several publications, including Sustainable Coffee at the Crossroads (Consumer Choice Council, 1999), which analyzes the market potential for sustainable coffee in the United States. More recently, Paul spoke on Fair Trade at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2004.

Deb Nelson -- Co-Executive Director, Social Venture Network
Deborah oversees the management of SVN with primary responsibility for member initiatives, recruitment, spring conference planning, and Social Venture Institutes. Before joining the staff of SVN, Deborah spent three years as marketing director at Working Assets, where she managed their partnership development, acquisition marketing and public relations programs. From 1994 to 1998, Deborah worked for American Express, where she directed their partnership marketing campaigns, including Charge Against Hunger, the national marketing partnership with Share Our Strength.

From 1987 to 1989 Deborah served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, where she trained local development workers and managed construction projects. Deborah has a B.A. in English from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in marketing and management strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

John Sage -- President & Co-Founder, Pura Vida [Case Study]
John spent more than 10 years managing marketing teams and new product initiatives for such leading companies as Microsoft, Disney and Starbucks. He is a popular public speaker and recognized leader in the growing field of social enterprise. John co-founded Pura Vida Coffee in 1998, with the goal of building a for-profit "funding engine" that would sustain a wide range of charitable programs. He holds a BA from Stanford and a MBA from Harvard. Berkeley Haas, Yale and other national and international venues.

Martha Jiménez -- Vice President for Policy and Development, TransFair USA [Keynote]
Martha Jiménez comes to TransFair USA from The California Endowment, where she served as a Senior Program Officer and Project Manager of California Works for Better Health, a $35M project jointly funded with the Rockefeller Foundation that seeks to improve the health of low-income communities in California by increasing resident access to employment. Prior to joining TCE, she was an Associate Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Executive Director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, and a Regional Counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She has received awards including the League of Women Voters of San Francisco's "Women Who Could Be President" award, the San Francisco Bar Association's "Award of Merit," and California NOW's "Fabulous Feminist" award. Martha is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the University of California's Boalt Hall School of Law, and California State University at Hayward's Transnational Executive MBA Program.

Rev. Nic Francis, MBE -- CEO, easy being green (ebg) [Keynote]
Nic Francis is a world renowned Social Entrepreneur recognized for his passionate leadership in showing that Social Enterprise can lead the new global market agenda. Nic is the Founder and CEO of easy being green (ebg), an Australian company launched in early 2004 aimed at becoming the first multi-national social enterprise that operates profitably with a core environmental and social purpose. Easybeinggreen will enable 70 percent of Australian households to reduce their energy and water consumption by 30 percent in the next 10 years. It will then take its environmental service model global. Originally from the UK, Nic left a successful career in hospitality and stockbroking to found two UK based social businesses - Furniture Resource Centre (FRC) and CREATE. Under Nic's leadership, FRC grew from a public charity focused on low-income furniture distribution into one of the top profit-generating social enterprises in the country. The FRC is considered a blueprint for the "Mutual State" model proposed by the New Economics Foundation, a leading think-tank in the UK.

From 1999-2003 Nic served as the ED for the 40M+ Brotherhood of St. Lawrence (BSL), Australia largest social welfare organization. Nic led BSL's progress in building an Australia free of poverty by focusing on economic sustainability and partnerships between policy makers, business and philanthropy that support innovation and community regeneration though social enterprise. During Nic's tenure, BSL made dramatic improvements for Australia's long-term unemployed, built access to microcredit, employment and education opportunities for youth refugees; and launched Australia's first "No Sweat Shop" clothing label.

Nic is recognized by the Schwab Foundation as one of the world's top Social Entrepreneurs, and is a frequent international speaker on the convergence of business, personal ethics and social innovation. He is a visiting Fellow at the Institute of Social Research at Swinborne University, and a founding member of the Social Entrepreneur's Network for Australia and New Zealand. At 37, he was one of the youngest to have received the British Government's Member of the British Empire (MBE) honor for services to charity, and in 2003 he was awarded a Centenery medal for service to Australian society. Nic has two children, Charlie age 8 and Holly age 3. He is currently building by hand a house in the Victorian Alps. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1996.

Stacey Lawson -- Technology Executive, Entrepreneur and Investor [Respondent]
Ms. Lawson, a successful entrepreneur, is Adjunct Professor of entrepreneurship at the University of California at Berkeley. She is a board member and faculty advisor to Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, and a member of the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee on Entrepreneurship. Ms. Lawson is also instrumental in advising the strategic direction of several high-tech companies and social ventures. She serves as Executive Chairman for Chelsey.Henry, Inc., and sits on the Board of Advisors for CRG Research Group, Claremont Creek Ventures, and start-up company ZLive. She formerly advised SupplierMarket.com (acquired by Ariba in 2001) and Digital Paper (acquired by ePlus in 2002).

Previously, Ms. Lawson was Vice President and Division General Manager for Siebel Systems. As head of Siebel's Employee Relationship Management (ERM) business unit, Ms. Lawson was responsible for executing startup operations as well as all elements of the ERM business strategy, product development, marketing, sales and support activities, growing revenue from $5M to over $100M within 24 months. Prior to Siebel, Ms. Lawson held the role of Senior Vice President for Parametric Technology Corporation. Lawson was responsible for growing PTC's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications business from inception to over $280M in annual revenue and 1200 employees. During her tenure at PTC, Lawson was also head of marketing with responsibility for corporate strategy, corporate and product marketing, and e-commerce strategies.

Prior to joining PTC, Ms. Lawson founded and was President of InPart, a venture-backed start-up delivering strategic sourcing solutions for the industrial marketplace. InPart was acquired by PTC in 1998. Before founding InPart, Ms. Lawson worked as a management consultant for Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group. Ms. Lawson has also held technical, marketing and program management positions with IBM Corporation. Ms. Lawson has been profiled in publications such as Forbes, BusinessWeek, InformationWeek, Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times and Selling Power Magazine, and was selected as one of Working Women Magazine's "Top 20 Women Under 30" in 1999. Ms. Lawson earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Washington and a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School.

Jan Piercy -- Advisor, Shorebank Corporation [Respondent]
Jan Piercy is Advisor to ShoreBank Corporation, a Chicago-based bank holding company focused on community economic development in the U.S. and internationally. She rejoined ShoreBank in 2002, where she was previously Senior Vice President, after concluding a seven year term representing the U.S. on the Board of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation. At the World Bank, Jan chaired the Board Committee on Development Effectiveness and served on the Board Audit Committee. She took particular interest in financial sector reforms and expanding access to credit, and contributed to establishing the microfinance consortium C-Gap. She received the U.S. Treasury Medal of Honor in 2001 for her service at the World Bank.

Jan is currently raising capital and recruited the management team for a new company, ShoreCap International. Launched in late 2003, ShoreCap invests in financial institutions lending to small borrowers in developing and transition economies in Africa, Asia and parts of Eastern Europe. ShoreCap's capitalization will close in December, 2004 in excess of its $25 million goal, and ShoreCap has already made several investments. Previously, Jan served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Presidential Appointments; directed the Public Management programs at Cornell and Stanford University's graduate business schools; and was a Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Research staff to the House Judiciary Committee. She was a founder of the National Women's Education Fund, which in the late 1970's and early '80s successfully sought to increase the participation and influence of women in American elective politics at the local, state and national levels.

Jan founded "Proyecto Amistad", a service project engaging college students in community service in Peru. Other international experience includes positions as Associate Regional Director of Family Planning International, for which she was based in Bangladesh and Thailand during the 1980s; and, currently, as a Board member of Vital Voices, an organization supporting women's participation in public and political life in post-conflict and developing economies, and of the Global Health Council. She is a member of the National Commission on Post Conflict Reconstruction, the U.S. European Union Commission, the Episcopal Task Force on Southern Africa, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is on the advisory council of the Acumen Fund, IndiCorps and the board of the Lew Preston Foundation for the education of girls. Jan has spoken extensively on international economic development issues, the role of the U.S. in development assistance, the importance of gender focus in development and on career planning and discerning vocations. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, completed Stanford Business School's Senior Executive Program and studied at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.