Audrey Choi

Head of Environment, Social Finance, and Community Reinvestment Group, Morgan Stanley

Audrey Choi is the Head of Morgan Stanley's Environment, Social Finance, and Community Reinvestment Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Audrey held a variety of positions in the public and private sectors. She served in the Clinton-Gore Administration in senior policy positions at the Federal Communications Commission, the Commerce Department,…

Martin Cox

Group Executive, Community Development Banking, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Martin S. Cox is a Group Executive of JPMorgan Chase and is the Head of Community Development Banking (CDB). Mr. Cox is responsible for JPMorgan Chase’s community development lending and investing businesses, which originate over $1 billion annually in new commitments for affordable housing construction, intermediaries lending, and other lending…

Paula Ellis

Vice President/Strategic Initiatives, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Ms. Ellis joined Knight Foundation in September 2006. She is a member of the Executive Committee and oversees the foundation’s national programs, new initiatives, the Transformation Fund and evaluation work. Ms. Ellis earned a bachelor's degree in government and politics at the University of Maryland, where she was editor of the student daily. She…

Pablo Farias

(Chairman) Vice President, Economic Opportunity and Assets, Ford Foundation

Dr. Farias was the Ford Foundation’s representative for Mexico and Central America before being appointed to his current position. He has also served as director general of the College of the Southern Border (ECOSUR), a research and postgraduate training institution in southern Mexico. He has degrees in medicine from the University of Monterrey, in…

Pamela P. Flaherty

President & CEO, Citi Foundation; Director, Corporate Citizenship, Citi

Pamela P. Flaherty is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Citi Foundation. She is also Director of Corporate Citizenship for the company and a member of Citi’s Senior Leadership Committee. Previously, she managed Citibank’s New York branch banking business and served as Citicorp’s Senior Human Resources Officer. She began her career at the…

Shane Harris

Vice-President, The Prudential Foundation

Gary S. Hattem

President, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation; Managing Director, Deutsche Bank

Before joining Deutsche Bank in 1990, Mr. Hattem served as the first executive director of the St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation, a nonprofit community development organization in Brooklyn. Among his many leadership positions, he serves as chairman of the Pratt Center for Community Development Advisory Committee. Mr. Hattem earned…

Ben Hecht

President & CEO, Living Cities

Mr. Hecht is an experienced nonprofit executive, author and social entrepreneur. In July 2007, he joined Living Cities as its President and CEO. Previously, he founded One Economy Corporation in 2000, a nonprofit organization which brings the power of the Internet and the economic mainstream to low-income families living in affordable housing…

Phillip Henderson

President, Surdna Foundation

Phillip Henderson is president of the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation with assets of $950 million engaged in grantmaking in the United States through five program areas: arts, community revitalization, environment, effective citizenry, and the non-profit sector. Mr. Henderson has been with Surdna since May 2007. Prior to his appointment at…

Craig Howard

Director of Community and Economic Development, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Mr. Howard has more than 25 years of nonprofit experience, most of it working in workforce and community economic development, designing and implementing replicable programs that create jobs and opportunities for disadvantaged people here and abroad. Throughout his career, he has had a commitment to measuring the results of programs and continuing…

Jo Ann Jenkins

President, AARP Foundation

As President of the AARP Foundation, Jo Ann Jenkins provides leadership across the Foundation areas of development, litigation, and programs. AARP Foundation, AARP’s charitable arm, is dedicated to helping struggling, low-income older Americans meet their basic needs for food, shelter and medical care so they, too, may age with dignity. AARP…

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

President & CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey–still a practicing physician–served as the foundation’s vice president and director of its Health Care Group. She was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems at the University of Pennsylvania, and the director of Penn’s Institute on Aging. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey earned her undergraduate degree at the State…

Patrick McCarthy

President & CEO, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Patrick McCarthy is the President/CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. Prior to his becoming President/CEO, McCarthy was the Foundation’s senior vice president. In that capacity, he oversaw the Casey’s work in the areas of health,…

Hilary Pennington

Director of Education,Postsecondary Success, and Special Initiatives, U.S. Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Ms. Pennington will lead the new effort focused on one-time opportunities for the foundation to respond to unique challenges and unanticipated events in the United States. Ms. Pennington is a graduate of the Yale School of Management and Yale College. She holds a graduate degree in Social Anthropology from Oxford University and was a Fellow at the…

Andrew Plepler

Global Corporate Social Responsibility and Consumer Policy Executive, Bank of America

Prior to joining Bank of America, Mr. Plepler served as senior vice president of Housing and Community Initiatives at the Fannie Mae Foundation, in addition to supervising that foundation’s Outreach and Education department. He has also served on Capitol Hill as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Plepler earned his BA at…

Rip Rapson

President & CEO, The Kresge Foundation

In July 2006, Rip Rapson joined The Kresge Foundation as its President and CEO. Previously, as President of The McKnight Foundation, Mr. Rapson was instrumental in promoting early childhood development, launching an innovative and pioneering approach to regional growth issues, contributing to key inner city revitalization efforts, and helping…

Rosemarie Shomstein

Deputy Chief Investment Officer, AXA Community Investment Program, AXA Equitable

Ms. Shomstein has more than twenty years of investment experience in areas including management of commercial and agricultural mortgage loans, asset allocation, and regulatory reporting. Before joining AXA Financial, she worked at the American Council of Life Insurance, conducting economic and investment research and analysis. She earned her BA…

Sterling Speirn

President and CEO, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Nicholas Turner

Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation

Nicholas Turner joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007. As a Managing Director, Mr. Turner provides leadership and strategic direction for select Foundation initiatives, currently leading the Foundation’s work on Transportation reform in the Unites States and New Orleans redevelopment initiative.Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr.…

A. Dennis White

(Vice-Chairman) President & CEO, MetLife Foundation

Dennis is President and CEO of the MetLife Foundation. He is responsible for managing Foundation and corporate contributions, company volunteer activities and directing the social and community investment programs of MetLife and MetLife Foundation. Dennis joined MetLife in 1990 to manage the Foundation’s Program-Related Investments portfolio. From…

Kate Wolford

President, The McKnight Foundation

Ms. Wolford became president of The McKnight Foundation in December 2006. Prior to joining McKnight she spent 13 years as president of a Maryland-based nonprofit relief agency. Ms. Wolford is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Gettysburg College, where she received a B.A. in history, with departmental honors. She earned her M.A. in public policy from the…

Carol A. Goss

President & CEO, The Skillman Foundation

Carol A. Goss is President & CEO of The Skillman Foundation, a private independent foundation whose mission is to improve the lives of children in Metropolitan Detroit by strengthening their schools and neighborhoods. Involved in philanthropy for the past 20 years, Ms. Goss joined The Skillman Foundation in March 1998 as a senior program officer.…

Ronald Richard

President & CEO, The Cleveland Foundation

Before becoming president of the Cleveland Foundation, Mr. Richard was chief operating officer and managing partner of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital fund. He has also served as president of Panasonic Home & Commercial Products Company, a major sales and marketing division of Panasonic USA. Mr. Richard holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington…