MODERATOR
Erin Worsham, Executive Director of the award-winning Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
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CASE is a leader in the field of social innovation, serving as a hub for research, teaching and practitioner engagement. CASE’s work includes premier educational programming, the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing, and the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), an accelerator focused on scaling global health ventures in India and East Africa. In her role at CASE, Erin leads the development and execution of center strategy, establishes relationships with key constituents, oversees operations and programs and contributes to thought leadership on social entrepreneurship. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Huffington Post, Next Billion, DevEx and Social Impact Exchange and she most recently served as the lead author of CASE’s Scaling Pathways series in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, USAID’s Global Development Lab and Mercy Corps. Erin has been at Fuqua since 2009, having held a variety of roles within CASE as well as developed the strategy for and launched a new position within the Fuqua Career Management Center focused on social impact careers. Prior to Fuqua, Erin worked in the nonprofit, public and private sectors including consulting with government and nonprofit clients at Booz Allen Hamilton, helping to develop public-private partnerships at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), working on private sector development issues at the World Bank and working for a nonprofit think tank in Washington D.C. She earned her BA from Duke University and her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Erin was recognized as a “40 under 40” awardee by the Triangle Business Journal in 2014.
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FEATURED DISCUSSION: INSTITUTIONAL VS. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
Rohit Kumar, Product Development Lead at Package Free Shop & Founder of Brush with Bamboo
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Rohit is Product Development Lead at Package Free Shop and Founder of Brush with Bamboo, both renowned brands in the field of sustainable consumer-packaged goods. As a product developer and entrepreneur, he has developed natural and sustainable consumer goods in the home, beauty and personal care categories. His clients have included Williams-Sonoma, Nordstrom and Marriott Hotels.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mette Morsing, Ph.D. '94, Head of Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) for the UN Global Compact
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Before May 2020, Mette was the Mistra Chair of Sustainable Markets and Executive Director of Misum: Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets at Stockholm School of Economics since 2017. She was also Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) since 2007. She was the Founding Director of CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility in 2002, and she was the Academic Director of CBS Sustainability Platform from 2011-2016 with the ambition to integrate sustainability across fifteen academic departments. In 2003, she was the co-founder of Academy of Business in Society (Belgium) where she served as a Member of the Board of Directors for 10 years. Mette was appointed in 2010 as a Member of the Executive Board of Directors at the LEGO Foundation and Melting Pot, and in 2016 she was elected by her colleagues to serve on the CBS Board. Mette has held a large number of advisory and honorary positions in corporate and policy committees on issues related to sustainability. Mette has been a part of PRME’s journey from participating in the launch of PRME in New York in 2007, to being behind CBS’s decision in 2009 to become an early signatory to PRME in her then capacity as Director of the CBS Centre of Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2013, CBS spearheaded the establishment of a PRME Nordic Chapter, and in 2018 Morsing was the Nordic Chapter Chair. In 2019, she was invited to produce the 2019 PRME Strategic Review in her capacity as Senior Strategy Advisor for UN Global Compact for PRME. Mette's research interests concern how organizations are governed in the context of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. With a PhD in Organization Theory, she is particularly interested in identity, communication and cross-sector partnerships. Mette has published extensively in international books and academic journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Business Ethics Quarterly, Organization Studies, Organization, Journal of Business Research and other outlets and has won several prizes for her research. She is also the co-editor of textbook "Corporate Social Responsibility" published by Cambridge University Press (Rasche, Morsing and Moon, 2017).
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THE FUTURE OF CLEAN ENERGY
Simon Seaton is the CEO of Sodexo's Energy & Resources Worldwide segment. |
Simon Seaton is the CEO of Sodexo’s Energy & Resources Worldwide segment, dedicated to delivering Quality of Life services to energy and mining clients and consumers across the globe. Operating in over 60 countries, Sodexo serves 75 million consumers each day through its unique combination of On-site Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services. Prior to his current role, Simon was CEO of Onshore Energy Worldwide & Head of Middle East (2016 – 2019). He joined Sodexo in 2012 as COO for the Remote Sites Western Region, running operations in U.S. shale markets, Alaska, California, the Gulf of Mexico and four North Sea countries. His track record includes driving profitable growth and exemplary Health & Safety standards / performance, achieving gender-balanced leadership teams and championing First Nations / Indigenous People relationships.
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TECH FOR GOOD
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MORE THAN CAPITAL
Thomas Van Dyck, Managing Director–Financial Advisor of the SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Wealth Management
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Tom has been a leader in the field of socially-responsible investing for over 30 years. As Managing Director–Financial Advisor of the SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Wealth Management, Tom consults on $1.5 billion of ESG-screened assets. Tom is also the founder of As You Sow, a shareholder advocacy organization, which engages corporations on environmental, human/labor rights and corporate social responsibility initiatives. In 2014, Tom was a featured guest on Bill Moyers and Company. In 2013, Tom was named one of the Financial Times Top 400 Financial Advisors. Tom was also a featured speaker at the TedX Wall Street conference in 2012 and provided his expertise on SRI investing for long-term safety and returns. Tom graduated from Duke University in 1980 with a B.A. in Political Science. He is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and holds his Series 7 and Series 66 FINRA licenses.
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Beth Bafford, VP Syndications and Strategy at Calvert Impact Capital
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Beth leads Calvert Impact Capital's strategy and new business development efforts to build new products and services that accelerate private capital for the benefit of communities in the US and around the world. She also oversees the organization's communications and impact management and measurement functions. Beth serves on the Advisory Board for the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing (CASEi3) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, the Investment Committee for the Aaron and Lillie Straus Foundation, the Advisory Board of Higher Ground Labs, and the Board of Founder’s First Capital Partners. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and four young children. Prior to Calvert, Beth has enjoyed experiences across the public, private, and social sectors. Immediately prior to Calvert, she was a consultant in McKinsey & Company's D.C. office where she focused on U.S. Health Reform strategy. She has also worked as a Special Assistant at the White House Office of Management and Budget during the drafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act, as a Regional Field Director and Community Organizer on the 2008 Obama for America campaign and as a Senior Associate at UBS Financial Services. Beth received both her B.A. in Public Policy and MBA in Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University.
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Daryn Dodson, Managing Director & Founder of Illumen Capital
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Daryn is a passionate advocate of social and economic justice, especially for disadvantaged and marginalized groups. His work with impact investors, private equity funds, Fortune 100 companies, universities and foundations has been viewed through the lens of addressing the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. Daryn previously led the Special Equities Program as a consultant to the Board of the Calvert Funds, a $12 billion pioneer of the impact investing field. Through this vehicle, Calvert maintains a portfolio of more than 40 funds on five continents, representing over 350 underlying portfolio companies. Prior to serving as a consultant to Calvert, Daryn served as Director of University and Corporate Partnership for The Idea Village, where he created a platform engaging leading private equity firms, business schools and Fortune 500 companies to invest over 100,000 hours and $2 million into more than 1,000 New Orleans entrepreneurs post-Hurricane Katrina. Daryn currently serves on the Board of Directors for Ben and Jerry’s. He earned his MBA from Stanford, where he serves on the Dean’s Management Board, and his A.B. from Duke University.
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Anne Park, Global Director of Impact & Deputy Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development (CEED) at Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)
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SEAF is an impact investing firm which invests in small and growing businesses (SGBs) in emerging and frontier markets and CEED is a business unit within SEAF which supports entrepreneurs in their growth through know-how and networks. Anne has developed the impact measurement strategy at SEAF and works closely with her team to integrate these practices into the organizations investment processes. Prior to joining SEAF, Anne was an Investment Officer with USAID’s, Private Capital Group for Africa and a Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of State’s Global Entrepreneurship Program. During pandemic times, Anne has rediscovered her love for playing the piano, hiking with her two kids and she has learned the lyrics to almost every Pixar and Disney song from the last 10 years.
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Megan Walsh Thompson, Missions Investments Officer at the Ford Foundation
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Megan Walsh Thompson is a member of the Ford Foundation’s Mission Investments team. As Mission Investments Officer, Megan is responsible for underwriting and managing investments for the Foundation’s Program Related Investment and Mission Related Investment portfolios. In recent years, Megan supported the development, approval and launch of the Foundation’s first ever $1 billion MRI allocation. She also contributed to strategic planning efforts for the impact investing grant and PRI portfolios. Megan’s work primarily focuses on themes including Affordable Housing, Financial Inclusion, Quality Jobs and Diverse Managers. Megan’s current work in impact investing builds on her background in traditional and social finance. Before joining Ford, she worked for several years at Citigroup in fixed-income capital markets and interned with several social finance organizations. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from The College of the Holy Cross, and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
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MANAGING THE FUTURE OF WORK
Ronda Harris Thompson, Chief Diversity, Equity Inclusion & Belonging Officer at Year Up
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Maurice Jones, CEO of OneTen
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As the CEO of OneTen, Maurice draws on his deep leadership experience in the public and private sectors to spearhead the coalition’s mission to create 1 million family-sustaining jobs for Black talent in America over the next 10 years. In his role as OneTen’s first CEO, Maurice leads the efforts to establish the coalition’s capabilities and elevate its reach and impact while reimagining how business leaders come together to effect positive social change and create a more equitable society. Before joining OneTen, Maurice served as President & CEO of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), one of the country's largest organizations supporting projects to revitalize communities and catalyze economic opportunity for residents. Prior to joining LISC in 2016, Maurice 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 has served as Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), overseeing operations for the agency and its 8,900 staff members, and was Commissioner of Virginia’s Department of Social Services and Deputy Chief of Staff to former Virginia Governor Mark Warner. Trained as an attorney, Maurice worked under the Clinton Administration on legal, policy and program issues at the Treasury Department, where he also helped manage a then-new initiative called the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) fund—a federal program that has grown to be a critical supporter of nonprofits that leverage capital to bolster their communities. In the private sector, Maurice was the general manager of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk and went on to become president and publisher of its parent company. He also worked for a Richmond law firm and a private philanthropy investing in community-based efforts to benefit children in Washington, D.C. Raised by his grandparents in a rural southern Virginia community where his family had a tobacco and corn farm, Jones was awarded a full merit scholarship to Hampden-Sydney College, a small liberal arts school. In 1986, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was selected as a Rhodes scholar. At Oxford University, he earned a master’s degree in international relations. In 1992, he graduated from the University of Virginia Law School.
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