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| Christopher Gergen |
Christopher Gergen is a Founding Partner of New Mountain Ventures, a national consulting and education company that helps organizations and aspiring leaders achieve excellence and results through a mastery of entrepreneurship. Chris is a lifelong entrepreneur with a passion for creating new learning environments.
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He is the co-founder and current Chairman of SMARTHINKING (www.smarthinking.com), the leading online tutoring provider in the United States-serving over 70,000 students from more than 300 universities, colleges, and high schools. Other entrepreneurial ventures include starting a coffeehouse/bar dedicated to promoting the arts and music in Santiago, Chile and helping to launch the "Entrepreneur Corps"-a national service initiative sponsored by AmeriCorps*VISTA that placed 400 full-time business volunteers for a year of service in over 90 non-profit organisations across the country. Christopher is also on the founding board of E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. and is the founder and recent director of LEAD!, a non-profit leadership and entrepreneurship program for local high school students. Now entering its tenth year, LEAD! aspires to teach personal leadership through entrepreneurship. To date, the program has contributed over $20,000 and hundreds of hours of direct service to area nonprofits. Christopher regularly speaks to students and groups of business leaders about starting new enterprises and applying an entrepreneurial framework to life.
Other experiences include his role as Vice President of New Market Development for K12 Inc., where he led efforts to introduce K12's multi-media curriculum and online learning platform into public schools. Prior to joining K12, Christopher was the Chief Operating Officer and VP of Business Development and Strategy for New American Schools, a non-profit education consulting and investment firm based in Alexandria, VA. Gergen received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Duke University, a Master's Degree in Public Policy with a focus in education from the George Washington University and his MBA from Georgetown University. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, Washington. |
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| Samir Sood |
Samir Sood is a Principal in the Corporate Development Group at Google, Inc. There, Samir heads up all of Google's Corporate Development for South Asia. Samir's position in Google's Acquisition and Merger Division is the latest in a string of rich experiences at some of the technology industry's most influential companies.
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Samir Sood has close to 11 years of experience in the field of technology. His previous jobs include Product Marketing in Microsoft, multiple acquisition and venture investments in the Wifi/Cellular domain in Cisco, and Investment Banking. He also had his own business in manufactured automotive parts in India.
The division that he currently heads has 11 people with 3 based internationally in India, Korea, and China, and has expansion plans in Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. While the Hyderabad centre is concerned with Operations, the Delhi and Mumbai offices are mainly Sales offices. Their focus is to support growth by facilitating acquisition and investment in technology
Google's mission is to "Organize the world's information, and make it universally accessible and useful." As a native of India, Samir also sees promise in nonprofits' efforts to bridge the digital divide and in technology firms providing universal access to the internet and encouraging effective and responsible social entrepreneurship. |
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| Benjamin Levy |
Benjamin Levy is the Founder and Executive Director of the Music Inspires Health Initiative, Inc., a new national health education program teaming up musicians with physicians, medical students, and public health experts. Their multimedia projects and concerts teach adolescents, college students, and young adults about a variety of health issues ranging from HIV/STD prevention, smoking prevention and cessation, obesity, alcohol abuse, depression, and eating disorders. Mr. Levy is also a medical student at Emory University School of Medicine.
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Mr. Levy graduated from the University of Virginia as a music major and biology minor. During college, he founded 2 concert series and organized the Music Suppressed by the Third Reich International Conference in March 2001 featuring performances by the Hawthorne String Quartet (musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra), lectures by leading Holocaust music scholars, Terezin concentration camp survivor Ela Weissberger, and a Kurt Weill violin concerto performance on Alma Rose's violin (who led the women's orchestra in Auschwitz). After college, Mr. Levy received a Fulbright Fellowship to continue researching music during World War II in Paris, France with professors at the Sorbonne, the Orchestre de Paris, the Paris Opera, and the Bibliothque nationale de France.
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| Sean W. Glynn |
Sean Glynn is an attorney at the international law firm of Arent Fox. At Arent Fox, Sean specializes in public finance, and has significant expertise in complex financings, including the securities, corporate, tax and real estate issues that arise in such transactions. His experience includes representation of lenders and credit enhancers, nonprofit borrowers and developers, underwriters and trustees. Sean is an active member of the firm's non-profit finance practice, which includes representation in approximately 80% of such transactions done in the District of Columbia. Sean has Bar and Court Admissions to both the District of Columbia and Maryland Bar Associations.
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Sean's transactions have been in the areas of health care, housing, non-profit, educational and energy facilities, as well as conventional commercial financings. His lender representation involves the negotiation and drafting of loan agreements, reimbursement agreements, letters of credit, stand-by commitments, participations, confirmations, mortgage and security documents. Sean has developed loan programs oriented to the non-profit sector for a number of Lenders. Sean also serves as chair of the Finance Committee of the Archdiocese of Washington Board of Education and as a board member of Connelly School of the Holy Child.
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| Sean received the 1994 People's Pro Bono Award from the Maryland State Bar Association. He is a regular lecturer for the Government Development Finance Association and panelist on ethics for the National Association of Bond Lawyers. |
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