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Gerald Chertavian is dedicated to closing the Opportunity Divide that exists in our nation. Determined to make his vision a reality, Gerald combined his entrepreneurial skills and his passion for working with urban young adults to found Year Up in 2000.Gerald's commitment to working with urban youth spans more than 25 years. He has actively participated in the Big Brother mentoring program since 1985 and was recognized as one of New York's outstanding Big Brothers in 1989. He is the recipient of the 2003 Social Entrepreneurship Award by the Manhattan Institute and the 2005 Freedom House Archie R. Williams, Jr. Technology Award. In 2006, Gerald was elected as a Fellow with the Ashoka Global Fellowship of social entrepreneurs, and in 2008, he was appointed by Massachusetts' Governor Deval Patrick to serve on the MA State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. In 2013, he was appointed by Governor Patrick to serve as Chairman of the Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees.Gerald began his career on Wall Street as an officer of the Chemical Banking Corporation. Following graduate school he co-founded Conduit Communications and fostered its growth to more than $18M in annual revenues and more than 130 employees in London, Amsterdam, New York and Boston. Following the sale of Conduit to i-Cube in 1999, Gerald turned his full attention to opportunities for others.Gerald earned a B.A. in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College and an M.B.A., with honors, from Harvard Business School. He has received honorary doctorates from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Mount Ida College. He is on the Board of Advisors for the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and a member of the World Economic Forum's Youth Unemployment Council. Gerald is a former Board member of The Boston Foundation and an Emeritus Trustee of Bowdoin College. His 2012 book, A Year Up, is a New York Times best seller.

Diane Regas is Senior Vice President for Programs at Environmental Defense Fund, where she is responsible for providing overall vision, strategy and leadership for current and new program development.Prior to joining EDF in 2006, Diane spent 20 years developing and supporting scientifically sound responses to environmental challenges at Environmental Protection Agency. Today, her extensive management and policy experience is driving success throughout all of EDF’s programmatic efforts in the United States and beyond. The solutions EDF seeks require a commitment to strong science and bi-partisan solutions, both of which Diane has demonstrated time and again throughout her career. As a senior policy analyst for President Clinton, she advised the president, through the Domestic Policy Advisor on environmental and natural resource issues. Award-winning work protecting and strengthening our rivers, lakes, bays and oceans defined her tenure at EPA, and she also chaired President George W. Bush’s interagency task force on Oceans. She’s been equally productive at EDF. Among numerous accomplishments, thanks to Diane’s teams and their partners, protecting one of the largest ocean areas in history—more than 195,000 square miles—bigger than the state of California; and one out of two fish caught in U.S. waters is from a catch share-style fishery.With the unmatched expertise EDF staff bring to all of our program areas, she’s confident that even greater successes are yet to come. Prior to joining EDF, Diane spent 20 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where she served during four presidential administrations in some of the agency's highest positions, including Deputy Assistant Administrator.Her EPA accomplishments included: receiving the Presidential Rank Award for ''exceptional long-term accomplishments,'' and leading a path-breaking monitoring strategy, establishing the first-ever scientifically valid national report card on fresh water quality. Diane is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and California Bar.Diane received her BA in history, her MS in environmental science and her JD at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including one of the most prestigious, the Presidential Rank Award.

ALAN SMITHSON is a CEO at Smithsonian Institution.

Mary Humphrey works at Jane Goodall Institute/The and a Chief Executive Officer at Jane Goodall Institute/The and is based in Reston, Virginia.

Works at City of Philadelphia as Psychologist. Worked at State of Connecticut. Lives in Philadlephia, PA.

An Egyptian-American, Maryana Iskander immigrated to the United States when she was young. She is currently CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, which based in South Africa. She has a track record of scaling organizations through partnership models, data-driven delivery, talent management, and technology innovation. Prior to joining Harambe in 2012, she was Chief Operating Officer for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a US $1 billion organization that is the nation’s largest provider of women’s reproductive healthcare. Maryana has been an associate at global business consulting firm McKinsey & Company, a strategy consultant for W.L. Gore & Associates, and a law clerk at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, and Vinson & Elkins in Houston. She received her bachelor’s degree from Rice University and earned a Master of Science from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She also holds a Juris Doctorate from Yale University.

Kelly Parsons is a Chief Executive Officer at WaterAid America and is based in Bethesda, Maryland. She has worked as Senior Director, Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy at Maverick Collective by PSI; Economist at Telecommunications Management Group; and Volunteer at Peace Corps. Kelly attended Vanderbilt University between 1988 and 1992, The Wharton School between 2002 and 2003, and Fountain Valley School of Colorado between 1987 and 1988.

Alex is best known for creating award-winning integrated marketing campaigns, experiential programmes and events that inspire positive action and change, whilst ensuring clients achieve their organisational goals and vision. She is an entrepreneur and published business author. Her background spans non-profit, private and public sectors and she has a particular interest in using business as a force for good. Alex is very happy to connect with businesses, non-profits or government departments interested in her work or who are seeking a new NED. - Author of 'Starting a business in 7 Simple Steps', published by Harper Collins, May 2014. - Alex has founded two companies The ARC Agency, a strategic business, marketing & events agency and Venn Street, a business consultancy. - She was a board member of MassChallenge UK, London's largest and most diverse startup accelerator and advisory board member for Astia, a global organisation for high-growth women-led businesses and Finca International, a global micro-finance institute supporting the worlds poorest entrepreneurs, predominantly women.