ABBY DISNEY
Co-Founder & Co-President
DAPHNE FOUNDATION
Former Chair
NY Women's Foundation

Abigail Disney is a filmmaker and philanthropist. Her first film, a feature-length documentary called Pray the Devil Back to Hell tells the inspirational story of the women of Liberia and their efforts to bring peace to their broken nation after decades of destructive civil war.It won the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Award and is currently playing in theaters.She is also involved in producing a number of other documentaries with social themes, and is developing a four-hour project for WNET/Wide Angle called Women, War & Peace.

Along with her husband, Pierre Hauser, Abigail is also co-Founder and co-President of the Daphne Foundation, a progressive, social change foundation that makes grants to grassroots, community-based organizations working with low-income communities in New York City. Since 1991, the Daphne Foundation has made millions of dollars in grants in areas ranging from women’s rights to AIDS advocacy, children’s health, labor conditions, incarceration and community organizing.

Over the years Abigail has played a critical role in a number of different social and political organizations. She currently serves on the boards of the Roy Disney Family Foundation, the White House Project, the Global Fund for Women, and the Fund for the City of New York, as well as the advisory boards of a broad range of organizations working in the areas of poverty, women’s issues, education and environment. She recently retired as Chair of The New York Women's Foundation, of which she was a board member for over 14 years. This organization has raised and dispersed millions of dollars for community organizations devoted to economic empowerment for women and girls in New York City.

Abigail received her Bachelors degree from Yale University, her Masters degree from Stanford University, and her Doctorate from Columbia University.She lives in New York City with her husband and their four children.

ANNA MOK
Partner, Regions Leader
DELOITTE


Anna Mok has served some of the largest and most prestigious client relationships of Deloitte.

She works with clients in financial services and high technology and also has significant life sciences, health care, and consumer business experience. She is the overall national leader for regions and the Northern Pacific regional leader for Deloitte’s risk advisory consulting organization, which includes accounting advisory, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, security and privacy, governance, regulatory and risk services.During her 20-year career at Deloitte, she has provided consulting, advisory, and assurance services in a variety of business areas. She has advised clients in their initial public offerings, globalization strategies, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and growth strategies, business operation improvement, corporate governance, enterprise transformation, and other corporate initiatives. In addition, she has deep Asian business expertise and leads the US-Southeast Asia Program.

Anna was the first Chinese American woman admitted to partnership at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Recognized as a leadership partner, she leads and serves on various global and national initiatives. She has been instrumental in spearheading various marketplace, diversity, leadership development, and talent initiatives at Deloitte. She is a member of Deloitte’s Board Council and CEO Advisory Partner Council.Anna is also a National Diversity & Inclusion business leader.

Anna’s influence extends beyond Deloitte and she is recognized as a community leader. She is the president of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association and Ascend (Northern California); executive committee and board of director of the Commonwealth Club of California (the nation’s oldest public affairs forum), the Hillsborough School Foundation, Ascend (National), and the National U.S. Hong Kong Business Association; and is the immediate past president for the Hong Kong Association of Northern California. She previously held board of directors or leadership positions with various other community and business organizations including the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Self-Help for the Elderly.

Anna has recently been bestowed numerous recognitions, including the San Francisco Business Times, Most Influential Women, and the Society of Asian Women Leaders Award for Community Service. She is a past recipient of the Jefferson Award for Public Service and Deloitte’s Community Involvement Leadership Partner Award. She is also frequently quoted and speaks on global business, leadership, diversity, and Asia matters. She started her business career as a certified public accountant and is a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.

KIMBERLY SLICKLEIN
Founder and CEO Enclave Rising® LLC
Founder and President Enclave Rising Foundation® and the Ethosphere Institute
Founder and CEO Ethos® Resorts and Spas

With more than a decade of directing development, project management, and brand strategy for international brands, and her lifelong commitment to environmental and social issues, social entrepreneur Kimberly Slicklein founded Enclave Rising LLC in 2005. Enclave Rising is an international portfolio of companies rooted in environmental and social consciousness, each dedicated to developing and pioneering best practices in net zero carbon development, alternative energy, conservation, and genuine sustainability.

Committed to environmental and cultural sustainability and responsible construction and resort management, Enclave Rising is redefining eco-conscious (or “green”) hospitality and real estate development. Enclave Rising’s ultimate mission is to bridge the gap between ultra-luxury and ultra-green. Through unique building principles that emphasize genuine collaboration with local communities and governments as well as resource efficiency and clean energy, Enclave Rising is introducing an innovative development model to work synergistically with select regions around the world that are particularly poised to benefit from the economic returns of tourism.
Enclave Rising’s flagship venture, Ethos Resorts & Spas, combines the highest tenets of sustainability with five star luxury to establish a new standard of thoughtful consumption that will, in turn, have profound social and economic impacts across the world.

For the past four years, Slicklein has identified and assembled a portfolio of diversified international development projects to be marketed under the company’s five star Ethos brand. Breaking ground in 2010, Ethos dos Reis, Brazil, will be the World’s First Net Zero Carbon Five Star Resort™ brand.

Slicklein is also pioneering corporate social responsibility through the Enclave Rising Foundation, a private operating foundation with 501(c)3 status. Slicklein donates 10% of net profits from Enclave Rising developments to the Enclave Rising Foundation to carry out programs within the local communities in which it builds. The Foundation runs tailor-made programs focused on area-specific education, conservation, alternative energy, public-private partnerships, and genuine sustainability initiatives.

Led and directed by Slicklein, along with some of the world’s leading experts in sustainable tourism and economic development, the mission of the foundation is to be a catalyst for positive social and environmental change in the communities where Enclave Rising builds.
In 2007, Slicklein created an educational component of the Foundation, The Ethosphere Institute™, which is an LLC organized and operated exclusively to carry out charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes, for the Enclave Rising Foundation. The Ethosphere Institute was created to perform research in the field of sustainable development and design, and to implement educational and environmental programs for economically underprivileged communities.

Slicklein first entered into the real estate world in 1999, when she created a women’s real estate investment portfolio called The Stiletto Group. The Stiletto Group gained tremendous momentum and eventually evolved into an international development company, which marked the beginnings of Enclave Rising.

Prior to Enclave Rising, and during her tenure as a senior level marketing and brand consultant, Slicklein partnered with CEO’s and senior corporate management to help redirect companies, brands and products in distress. Her experience included work with some of the world’s most recognizable global brands:
• Apple Computer (launched iMac and iPod)
• Evian (global relaunch)
• Coca-Cola
• Reebok (launched RBK)
• Davidoff
• Pepsi-Cola
• Daimler Chrysler
• Infiniti / Nissan
• Isuzu
• M&M Mars
• Hershey Chocolate US

JING SU
US-China Program Director

American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE)


Jing Su, the US-China Program Director at ACORE, promotes the advancement of renewable energy in China and India.She is also the primary administrator of ACORE’s International Committee, where she is developing data on foreign renewable energy markets and facilitating its broad dissemination to global policy leaders in renewable energy development.

Jing Su joined ACORE in 2008 after finishing her master’s degree in environmental management at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. During her graduate studies, she worked with the Environmental Defense and
United Nations, building her expertise in renewable energy and climate related issues.

Jing Su received her Master of Environmental Management degree with a concentration in energy and climate change policy from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2008.She earned her M.S. in Environmental Science and B.S. in Resource and Environment from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2006 and 2004, respectively.She is a native speaker of Chinese.

SARAH BEATTY
CEO & Founder
GREEN DEPOT

Sarah Beatty is the Founder and President of Green Depot.

Prior to Green Depot, Sarah worked in media and marketing. She spent ten years at MTV: Music Television, where she was Vice President of Trade Marketing and Global Branding. In 2001, Sarah joined USA Cable as Senior Vice President of the Marketing and Creative divisions. In her four year tenure at USAN, the channel experienced a successful turn-around and “comeback” – to once again become the #1 most highly rated network in basic cable television. Some of Sarah’s favorite work experiences include being a part of the first MTV Choose or Lose voter registration campaign and working with producer Mark Burnett annual “Eco-Challenge” race. Sarah has a B.A. from Harvard College. She is the mother of two children, Elizabeth and Jacob.

MONICA MANDELLI
Managing Director
GOLDMAN SACHS

Monica is a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs in New York. She is currently Co-Head of the Publishing and Information Services sector and Head of the Theatrical Exhibition sector within the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Group in Investment Banking. She is responsible for the firm's relationship with several important media clients. She is also involved with and has served in leadership roles in the firm's recruiting, training and mentoring programs. Monica joined Goldman Sachs in 1998.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Monica worked at Merrill Lynch International in London in the Mergers and Acquisitions group, focusing on European transactions, and at McKinsey & Company in New York.

Monica serves on the Board of Directors of Good Shepherd Services, a nonprofit organization providing education and services to over 20,000 children in New York City each year.

Monica earned a BS and an MS, summa cum laude, in Economics and Social Studies from Università Bocconi, Milan, and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.
She and her husband, Marco Valla, have one son and live in New York City.

SONIA MEDINA
U.S. Country Director
ECOSECURITIES

Sonia Medina joined EcoSecurities in 2003, a company which specialises in sourcing, developing and trading carbon credits worldwide. Sonia is currently U.S. Country Director. She was previously Head of Origination at EcoSecurities, since December 2005, when the company floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.

As Head of Origination, Sonia was responsible for coordinating the Group’s global project origination efforts, which involves supporting over 20 local teams on five continents in identifying, assessing and contracting greenhouse gas emission reduction projects.

Sonia has considerable experience in the greenhouse gas mitigation market, particularly in relation to carbon project development, capacity building, and carbon transactions. Sonia has successfully managed the rapid growth of EcoSecurities’ origination team from 20 people in 10 countries to 70 in 20+ countries, while successfully leading the team to acquire approximately 82 million credits worth +USD 400 million in NTM during 2007, which more than doubled the portfolio size of the previous year.

Previous roles at EcoSecurities included Senior Carbon Advisor from October 2003 to December 2005, when she participated in various studies; including asset evaluation and PDD development for CDM projects in Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Tanzania and Fiji. As part of her role as Senior Carbon Advisor, she advised private and public organisations about the potential opportunities and liabilities related to climate change regulation.

VICTORIA GARCHITORENA
President
AYALA FOUNDATION USA
and AYALA FOUNDATION Philippines


Victoria P. Garchitorena is considered as one of the pillars of Philippine non-government organization sector. She was founding Chair of the League of Corporate Foundations, Philippine Council for NGO Certification, Philippine Association for Volunteer Efforts, Metro South Cooperative Bank, and the Makati NGO Network.

She is/has been Chair or Trustee of the following: Pinoy ME, Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation, EDSA People Power Commission, AIM Alumni Association, Mendiola Consortium, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, College of the Holy Spirit, Corporate Network for Disaster Response, Spirit of EDSA Foundation, Alliance of Women for Action Towards Reform, among others.

She is also a Board Member of the United States-based Council on Foundations and is a Senior Adviser of the World Bank’s Asia-Pacific Advisory Council Against Corruption.

Vicky also served as the Senior Consultant of the Office of the President of the Philippines, the Head of the Presidential Management Staff, Secretary to the Cabinet, and a Director of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.She is also the Managing Director of Ayala Corporation’s Stakeholder Relations and President of Ayala Foundation, Inc.

The Ayala Foundation is a nonstock, nonprofit organization that serves as the socio-cultural development arm of the Ayala Group of Companies (AGC). Through various social development and cultural programs, the Foundation works to fulfill the needs of the whole person, firmly believing in the human being as less of an object of charity than a cause for celebration. Today, the Ayala Foundation is also working to extend the benefits of recent technological developments to a greater number of men, women and children. Through these new technologies, the Foundation continues to work for the cultivation of Filipino ingenuity and talent, as well as the preservation of the Philippines’ rich culture, history and traditions.

Ayala Foundation USA creates opportunities for Filipinos in the U.S. to help the Philippines by facilitating meaningful contributions to social development initiatives. With over 100 projects supported in partnership with Philippine non-profits, AF-USA is able to address the country’s greatest needs. AF-USA assists Filipinos committed to helping the homeland in supporting projects closest to their hearts.

DIANE BURSTEIN
Director of Operations
ALL FOR AFRICA

Diane Burstein joined All for Africa in June of 2008 and coordinated All for Africa’s inaugural launch event “Knock Out Poverty.” Prior to joining All for Africa Ms. Burstein spent the last four years as consultant to not for profit organizations specializing in special events and program development.

Diane spent eight months in the position of Acting Director for Iron Chef Cat Cora’s organization Chefs for Humanity. During that time,she created a series of special events for fundraising; partnered with the World Food Program on a tour of Honduras and Nicaragua; and developed a national nutrition program in partnership with NIH.

While at Action Against Hunger, an international Hunger Relief organization, she developed and implemented a national restaurant campaign and celebrity launch event featuring celebrities from both the culinary and fashion industry. Theses events were designedto raise the awareness of young professionals regarding the broad and devastating effects of hunger particularly on women and children throughout the world.

Ms. Burstein was the Founder and Director of two educationally focused not-for-profit organizations; The Telamon Community Center, an After School and Arts Programs for Children and Teens, and the Yoga Learning Connection a yoga-based educational program for school children and children with special needs. Her passion for children, nutrition, and learning lead her to develop Sensory YogaPlay: a Therapeutic Practice for Children with Special Need a workshop for educators and health professionals.

Ms. Burstein was the successful owner and operator of a full service event planning and production company and temporary staffing agency known as Artful Events Ltd. Clients included Big Brother of Boston, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Verizon, Beacon Consulting, Sun Microsystems, and The Boston Ballet.

ELMIRA BAYRASLI
Director of Policy & Outreach
ENDEAVOR

Before joining Endeavor, Elmira Bayrasli was the Chief Spokesperson and Director of Press and Public Information at the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. She started her international relations career at the Council on Foreign Relations and then U.S. Mission to the United Nations, working for Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright.

From 1997-2001, she was a Presidential Appointee at the Department of State, in the Secretary of State's office. She also served on the negotiating team in the Office of the Special Cyprus Coordinator.

She received her MA from Columbia University in Middle Eastern Studies in 1996.She is the author of several op-eds and book reviews.