Social Impact
About This Track
Track Agenda
- 05/08/2021 | 9:00 am – 9:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall DSpeakers
Maya Chorengel is Co-Managing Partner of The Rise Fund and the fund’s Sector Lead for Financial Services. She has been with TPG since 2017 and is based in San Francisco. Maya has over two decades of impact investing and private equity experience, and is a co-Founder of Elevar Equity, a leading impact venture firm, and earlier was with Warburg Pincus in Hong Kong, Menlo Park, and New York. Maya has a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is on the boards of EverFi, Globokasnet, Kiva, Nithio, and Varo Money, and is an advisor to several impact investing initiatives and organizations. Head, Philanthropy Management and President, Global Impact Funding TrustMorgan Stanley Melanie Schnoll-BegunHead, Philanthropy Management and President, Global Impact Funding Trust
Morgan StanleyMelanie Schnoll Begun is Managing Director and Head of Wealth Management’s Philanthropy Management group. She works with the firm’s most influential clients to focus, support, and scale their philanthropic endeavors. In addition to spearheading Philanthropic Consulting Services, Melanie launched and oversees the Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust (GIFT), the firm’s global Donor-Advised Fund, and Foundation Management Services, a platform for family and corporate foundations. Melanie exemplifies her professional work by living a life of committed action: She is the Nominating Chair and a former board president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation New York City chapter, President of Morgan Stanley GIFT, and Co-Chair of Inwood Charities, among other roles. She holds a BA from Binghamton University and a JD from Quinnipiac University School of Law.
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- 05/08/2021 | 9:30 am – 10:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall DSpeakers
Arvind has been associated with C4D Partners since 2014. Over the last 7 years, he has grown the business significantly in India through 13 portfolio investments made so far along with follow on investments in select companies and an exit.
Arvind comes with 15+ years’ extensive experience in Private Equity, Private Equity Fund of Funds, Hedge Fund of Funds valuation and due diligence for global PE/HF managers and has international experience of working with teams across Europe, US, Middle East and Asia (offshore as well as onshore). In the past, Arvind has worked with companies like Abu Dhabi Capital Management (Abu Dhabi), Goldman Sachs (India/New York) and Evalueserve India Pvt Ltd. (India), with global deals of up to USD 1 billion. He has rich experience in Alternative Assets Management, Portfolio Analytics and Reporting and Product & Business Development. He has played an instrumental role in setting up the Alternative Investment and Manager Selection business in India for Goldman Sachs and Private Equity Secondary business (managed a fund of USD 50 million) for Abu Dhabi Capital Management.
Arvind holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing and has received bachelor’s degree in commerce from Kolkata University.
Kumar Ganapathy is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and founder of Enterprise Labs, a startup "foundry" focused on the Enterprise Cloud infrastructure in Silicon Valley. As part of Enterprise Labs, he is currently the CEO of Akridata (Edge Data platform), and on the boards of PrimaryIO, Ampool, and Deepvision. Kumar is an active angel investor especially for impact startups working to drive societal change through entrepreneurship. He is currently a Director and founder of 3iPartners, an early stage impact fund that invests in promising social entrepreneurs in India in areas of Agriculture, Livelihood, Education and Healthcare. Kumar has founded two successful start-ups over the past 20 years across Telecom and Enterprise IT infrastructure : (a) VxTel (acquired by Intel for $550M), and (b) Virident (acquired by Western Digital for $685M). Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Kumar was Principal Engineer and Fellow of Conexant and Rockwell Semiconductor. Kumar has received his Ph.D from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), MS from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, Fellow of Conexant/Rockwell, and Siemens Gold medal winner at IIT. Kumar has over 75 patents and 12 technical publications. Mahesh Kanumury has over 20 plus years of experience in venture capital, management consulting and operating experience. He is the Managing Director & Founder of Arivali Partners where he provides investment and advisory services to social enterprises. He was the General Partner at a $260M early stage venture capital fund based out of the Silicon Valley where he invested and successfully nurtured the growth and successful exit of several technology companies. He also worked at McKinsey in the US and India where he led a number of high-impact initiatives at the CXO level.
Prior to McKinsey, he worked at Schlumberger Technologies and Research where he led large scale software development efforts. He is Independent Director on the Board of Caspian Impact Investments Private Limited and also Director on the Board of Basix Sub-K Itransactions Limited. He holds MBA Degree from Harvard Business School, an MS in Engineering from Purdue University and BS in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Abhijit has over 28 years of diverse experience in development finance, commercial banking and microfinance. At Unitus Capital, Abhijit played a key role in developing and building the firm's business, particularly in the financial inclusion sector Previously, Abhijit was an AGM with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), where he led SIDBI's transformational role in the Indian Microfinance space. Abhijit started his career with the State Bank of India (SBI), where he worked in a variety of business areas in six different locations within India. Abhijit has co-authored articles on microfinance and impact investing in international journals and is regularly quoted in leading national dailies in India. Abhijit has a Bachelors degree in Economics from Kolkata University and is a Certified Associate of IIBF, Mumbai. He has also attended the School of Applied Microfinance Program in Kenya and the Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance at the Harvard Business School. Abhijit has a passion for sports and loves to play whenever the gets time. His favorite sports are Cricket, football, badminton and table tennis.
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- 05/08/2021 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall DSpeakers Madan is a social entrepreneur working at the intersection of transforming youth, enabling entrepreneurial journeys & empowering social changemakers. Madan founded 1Bridge in 2014 with a vision of transforming rural youth to be entrepreneurs. Today, 1Bridge is present in 70+ districts across South & East India and has over 6000+ rural entrepreneurs engaged in delivering services to rural consumers. Before 1Bridge, Madan co-founded MeritTrac, India's first skill assessment company. Madan has co-founded Head Held High Foundation, a non-profit that stands for human dignity, as well as Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), a network that aims to catalyse large-scale job creation. He is the co-founder of Sylvant Advisors, an ed-tech investor. He also serves as Strategy Advisor to UNICEF India for a youth empowerment initiative- YuWaah. He is the President of TiE Bangalore. As a part of the Governing Council of #CovidActionCollab, he plays an active role in driving the economic resilience impact canvas for the Collaborative. He is an Advisory Board Member of Youth for Seva . Madan is a sought-after speaker at various conferences around the world and has shared his innovative ideas & thoughts at prestigious forums like TEDxIIM Bangalore, TEDxGateway, INK Conference, etc. In January 2021, he was conferred the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award by India CSR Network. He was also invited by Prime Minister Modi to share his ideas at the Champions of Change Conclave in 2017. Mickey is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PeopleShores, which is a Public Benefits Corporation (PBC) focused on Impact Sourcing. He has over 35 years of global experience in helping companies achieve improved performance in IT and business process areas by focusing on business strategy, operating model transformation, service integration and continuous improvement. Mickey started his career working for the pioneer in outsourcing services, Electronic Data Systems, which was founded by Ross Perot. Mickey's international profile is highlighted by living and working throughout Asia Pacific for 13 years. He moved to Hong Kong in 1996 where he was responsible for EDS's Asia Pacific financial industry practice for IT services outsourcing. He also served as the primary leader for EDS Country Managers in eleven different countries to help them establish and build their business and deliver to their clients. Mickey left EDS to join Ernst & Young (EY) as a US Partner, still based in Asia Pacific, as the leader of their Asia Pacific business process services practice. Before leaving Asia Pacific, Mickey worked for Accenture leading IT application outsourcing and then co-founded and established a business process outsourcing company based in Hong Kong. Since returning to the U.S., Mickey has worked for PWC (outsourcing consulting), Travelport (IT offshore large-scale transition) and had returned to EY before joining PeopleShores last year. Mickey received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Stephen F. Austin University in Texas. Wes has 20+ years experience building and growing successful technology companies. Prior to co-founding DreamStart Labs, he served as a senior executive and board member at several large public tech companies and fast-growing startups. Wes is a frequent industry speaker and was voted & Top Executive Leader in Silicon Valley by the San Francisco Bay Area News Group in 2010. He also lead an award-winning micro-finance institution in West Africa, where he helped hundreds of entrepreneurs access affordable loans to start small businesses. Gayathri Vasudevan cofounded LabourNet in 2006 with a vision to improve the real income of individuals in the informal sector through sustainable intervention with education, employability and entrepreneurship. Vasudevan has a doctorate in development studies and more than two decades of experience in both national and international organizations. She has been extensively involved in policy issues and community mobilizations relating to livelihoods. She's published in the areas of labor and employment and gender issues. Between 1999 and 2007, Vasudevan worked for the International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency. She was cited as one of the top 50 women in business by Business Today and "Entrepreneur of the Year in Social Business Category" by Forbes India in 2018. Sahej is an investor at The Rise Fund, the world’s largest impact investing firm managed by TPG. He invests across education, financial services, healthcare, food & agriculture and energy/climate. He is a board observer of InStride, RefleXion and Nithio. Prior to TPG, Sahej was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan. Sahej earned a B.S. from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
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- 05/08/2021 | 10:30 am – 11:15 am PDT
- 45 mins Hall DSpeakers Wes has 20+ years experience building and growing successful technology companies. Prior to co-founding DreamStart Labs, he served as a senior executive and board member at several large public tech companies and fast-growing startups. Wes is a frequent industry speaker and was voted Top Executive Leader in Silicon Valley by the San Francisco Bay Area News Group in 2010. He also lead an award-winning micro-finance institution in West Africa, where he helped hundreds of entrepreneurs access affordable loans to start small businesses. At Microsoft, Anand is the General Manager, Cloud Supply Chain Sustainability. His group focuses on innovations across the supply chain in support of Microsoft’s commitment to a sustainable, carbon negative future. Previously he was the Managing Director, Asset Recovery at Sims Recycling Solutions. Offering an unparalleled range of services globally, Sims Recycling Solutions is the world's leading electric and electronic asset disposition and recycling company. Anand is also co-founder of Voxiva, Inc., a leading provider of mobile health services, and served on its Board of Directors. Voxiva was recognized by Fast Company as one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world. Anand was also the founding Chief Technology Officer of j2 Global Communications, a leading global cloud services provider (Nasdaq: JCOM), serving several million customers through a network across 50 countries. Prior to j2, he worked with IBM, at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York on various innovations in information and communication systems. Anand has numerous patents, publications and innovations in various applications of Information technology, Communications, Healthcare services, Business and Consumer cloud services, and has advised many global organizations on various aspects of technology, markets, strategy and sustainability. Anand has served on various non-profit boards and advisories, including the Grameen Foundation, and the Simha Foundation, focusing on issues related to poverty alleviation, education, health and environmental issues in underserved communities Anne is a social impact leader with global experience spanning corporate responsibility, corporate philanthropy, employee giving programs, employee communications, marketing, Foundation management and STEM advocacy.
A skilled strategist, Hannah has 22 years of experience that includes leading corporate social responsibility for global companies. As co-founder and Chief Optimist for social impact consulting firm, Magnify Impact, she collaborates with business leaders to create positive impact that drives profitability. Hannah led the creation of an impact collaborative of 80+ corporations in Austin, Texas, and serves as an advisor to several nonprofit organizations. Hannah speaks regularly to corporate audiences and is co-author of Magnify Your Impact: Powering Profit with Purpose, ForbesBooks, Summer 2021.
Anna Walker is the vice president, public affairs at Levi Strauss & Co., supporting LS&Co's business strategy and strengthening the company's reputation by anticipating and shaping external public policy and stakeholder initiatives. Anna also leads LS&Co's community affairs program, developing strategy for community grants and employee giving and volunteerism programs globally. Anna is the vice chair of board of the U.S. Fashion Industry Association and is a member of the Levi Strauss Foundation Board. She has a masters from Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and bachelors of arts degrees from the University of California, Davis. Sundar Kamath is senior VP and CTO of Sanmina Corporation, a Silicon Valley company specializing in integrated systems design & manufacturing solutions, with presence in 22 countries. Dr. Kamath previously held technology development and product management positions at IBM Microelectronics in New York. He received his PhD in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
For the past 6 years, he has been working on the Ideal Village project, which promotes collaboration among NGOs, corporates, academic institutions and social impact programs, with an emphasis on holistic solutions for rural communities to address basic needs in clean water, healthcare, education, energy, sanitation and livelihoods. He is a co-organizer with Dr. KJS Anand of the global Ideal Village conference held annually at Stanford University since 2016. This conference serves as a collaboration forum with a focused theme each year, including Collaboration (2016), Innovation (2017), Women Empowerment (2018), Corporate Social Responsibility (2019), and Sustainability during the Pandemic (2020).
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- 05/08/2021 | 11:15 am – 11:45 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall DSpeakers
Tae Yoo leads Cisco's social investments and stewards CSR and sustainability across the business. Ms. Yoo drives a strategy that engages public-private partnerships and leverages Cisco's business, technical, and financial assets for inclusive growth and social impact in communities around the world. Corporate Affairs has committed to positively impact 1 billon people by 2025. Under Ms. Yoo's leadership, Cisco has already impacted 527 million, primarily through its strategic social investments and efforts to catalyze an entrepreneurial ecosystem that supports progress and inclusive growth. Corporate Affairs also invests in developing digital skills and creating positive change in education and workforce development.
Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande is President and Chairman, Sparta Group LLC Dr. Deshpande founded Cascade Communications and Sycamore Networks and has chaired and funded several other companies. Deshpande is a life-member of the MIT Corporation. The Deshpande Foundation supports Social entrepreneurship and provided the founding grant for NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) and Deshpande Center at MIT. Deshpande holds a B. Tech. from Indian IIIT-Madras, M.E. from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and Ph.D. from Queens University, Canada. Deshpande co-chaired the National Council to support President Obama's innovation and entrepreneurship strategy from 2010 to 2015.
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