Amit Mehra, Managing Director, Reuters Market Light, Thomson Reuters

Amit Mehra joined Reuters in Nov 2001 in the London office. Since then, Amit has led and managed a range of business development, new venture development, growth strategy and operational effectiveness initiatives. This included offshoring of content operations, a global content quality transformation program, and setting up a television JV. Amit started building Reuters Market Light in January 2006 and has been running it from London and Mumbai. Prior to Reuters, Amit worked with a German government program in New Delhi, and helped develop Indian businesses in Germany, Malaysia, and South Africa in industries ranging from handicrafts to engineering goods. Amit sits on Reuters Advisory Board for Corporate Responsibility, is a founding member of Pratham, Germany, and a member of the London Cartoon Art Trust. He has lectured in business schools on corporate finance, international business and strategic innovation. He studied commerce and international marketing at Shri Ram College of Commerce and Delhi School of Economics respectively, and holds an MBA from London Business School.

Ben Rattay, Founder and CEO, Change.org

Ben is the founder and CEO of Change.org, a social network for nonprofits, political campaigns, and engaged citizens around the world. Ben was previously a government affairs consultant and co-founder of GFS, a social entrepreneurship venture to help nonprofits and municipalities navigate the federal grant process, which won the top software award at Stanford University's annual business competition. Ben is a frequent speaker about how organizations and activists can use the social web to advance social change and is a graduate of Stanford and the London School of Economics.

Bob Pearson, President, the Blog Council

Bob has a unique combination of social media, marketing and communications skills acquired during nearly 25 years at three Fortune 500 companies and a major consultancy.  He was most recently vice president of Communities and Conversations at Dell Inc, where he was responsible for developing an industry-leading approach to the use of social media, as highlighted in GroundSwell.   His team built and maintained 25 blogs, forums and wikis in 7 languages worldwide with 200 million page views of annual interaction and coordinated the company’s approach in Twitter, Facebook and other key sites.Before joining Dell, Bob worked for Novartis Pharmaceuticals as Head of Global Corporate Communications and as Head of Global Pharma Communications, where he served on the Pharma Executive Committee.  Prior to Novartis, Bob was President of The Americas for GCI and was responsible for creating and building the firm’s global healthcare practice.  He was previously Vice President of Global Public Affairs & Media Relations at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (now Sanofi Aventis) and worked at CIBA-Geigy in both communications and field sales.  He has more than 20 years experience in executive corporate communications and public relations. Bob is a frequent speaker on social media, ranging from the Inc. 500 to Saleforce.com’s DreamForce to Microsoft’s Software Architects Forum.  His team has been featured in numerous books and case studies related to their rapid adoption of social media techniques to improve how a company operates internally and externally. Bob serves as President of The Blog Council, the leading forum for social media efforts at the largest corporations in the world and as Senior Vice President, Communities for GasPedal.  He is also a founding partner of Common Sense Media Group.  He has served on a variety of Boards, including CancerCare, The Huntington’s Disease Society of America and the Dell Foundation.   He currently serves on the board of the Association for Multiple Impaired and Blind, the Digital Advisory Board for P&G and he is Vice Chair of the The Emerging Technology Committee for the State of Texas.

Chad Boettcher, SVP Social Innovation, Weber Shandwick

Danny Kennedy, Founder and President, Sungevity

Dave Rapaport, Senior Director, Corporate Consciousness, Seventh Generation

Dwayne Spradlin, President and CEO, Innocentive

Dwayne Spradlin is President and Chief Executive Officer of InnoCentive, Inc. Previously, he served as President at business information company Hoover's Inc. and before that he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Starcite, Inc., an online meeting and events planning business. Spradlin served as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Verticalnet Inc., the world's largest portfolio of online industry marketplaces. Earlier, Spradlin was a Director in the E-Business and Emerging Technology practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He resides in Southlake, TX with his wife and three sons.

Graham Hill, Founder, Treehugger.com

Graham hails from the small town of Sutton, Quebec, Canada. He has a Bachelor of Architecture with distinction from Carleton University in Ottawa and did advanced studies in Industrial Design at E.C.I.A.D, Vancouver. Past businesses include forays into fashion, web-development, viral email and plant-based air filters. In 1995, with his cousin, he started and grew the web-developer, Sitewerks, to 60 people doing work for large companies such as Microsoft.Scryve Corporate Social Responsibility Rating He currently focuses on building TreeHugger, managing his ceramic greek cup business and developing sustainable prototypes. Graham loves to travel and is working on his 40th country this year. He speaks English, French, German and Spanish. He loves squash, swimming, snowboarding, mountain-biking and most other sports. His goal is to help push sustainability into the mainstream. Graham can be reached at graham at treehugger dot com

Henk Campher, Vice President, CSR and Sustainability, Edelman

Jeffrey Hollender, CEO, Seventh Generation

President and Chief Inspired Protagonist of Seventh Generation, Jeffrey is a well-respected leader in the socially and environmentally responsible communities. An entrepreneur at heart, his first business ventures were rooted in adult education. He began the not-for-profit organizations Skills Exchange of Toronto, a learning exchange that offered practical and professional development classes, and Network for Learning, New York City, an adult education and audio-publishing company; both were social and financial successes. After his tenure as president of Warner Audio Publishing, New York City, Jeffrey acquired a small mail order catalog of energy conservation products, Renew America, which eventually blossomed into Seventh Generation.
Jeffrey has led Seventh Generation from its humble beginnings to its current position as the leading and fastest-growing brand of natural products for the home, and the leading authority on issues related to making a positive difference in the health of the planet and its inhabitants through our everyday choices. Jeffrey is the author of several books, including What Matters Most and Naturally Clean. He is a member and former Director of the Social Venture Network, a group of socially-conscious business executives. He co-founded and was a Director of Community Capital Bank, a New York financial institution that invests in affordable housing and community development. He was also an Advisor to The Council on Economic Priorities' best-selling guide book, Shopping for a Better World. Hollender served as President of The Rainforest Foundation USA from 1992 to 1996, an organization created to protect the rainforest and the human rights of its indigenous peoples. He also served as a Board member and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. Currently Hollender serves on the Board of Directors of Greenpeace USA, Verité, Healthy Child Healthy World (formerly Children’s Health Environmental Coalition), Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, and Alloy Inc., a publicly traded company. Jeffrey Hollender and his wife, Sheila, have three children: Meika, Alexander, and Chiara.

Kevin Long, Co-Founder, Justmeans, Ashoka Fellow

Martin Smith, CEO and Founder, Justmeans

Martin Smith is the CEO and Founder of JustMeans, where you talk about your good work with companies and people who matter. Prior to JustMeans, Mr. Smith founded and grew StartingBloc to an international social enterprise, establishing partnerships with Goldman Sachs, General Electric, Starbucks, the World Bank and most of the top business schools in the world. Mr. Smith was also the youngest person in North America to be invested in by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. Prior to StartingBloc, Mr. Smith worked in the Neuroscience department of the University of Chicago Hospitals. He is a member of the selection committee for the Reynolds Graduate Fellowship in Social Enterprise at NYU Wagner and an advisory board member of the International Youth Foundation. Martin Smith holds a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Michael Dupee, Vice President, CSR, Green Mountain Coffee

Michael Dupee serves as the Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Michael leads the company's overall Corporate Social Responsibility efforts, including providing strategic direction and reporting publicly on the company's social responsibility initiatives and programs; managing the company's allocation of 5% pre-tax earnings into socially responsible projects; and generating increased understanding of and recognition for the company's SR activities, both internally and externally. Michael was a 2005 Fellow, and now volunteers as a coach, in the Sustainability Institute’s Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program, a program designed to accelerate the shift to global sustainability by increasing the effectiveness of well-positioned sustainability leaders with a curriculum focused on instruction, practice, and collaboration using systems thinking tools, reflective conversation, and visioning.

Prior to joining Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Michael was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York, NY, making and managing opportunistic investments in distressed financial assets from 2000 to 2004.  Michael earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, and Master in Business Administration degrees at Georgetown University and his B.A. in history, magna cum laude from Boston College.

Raphael Bemporad, CEO and FOunder, BBMG

As a founding partner and principal at BBMG, Raphael Bemporad is a passionate champion for a new approach to branding that puts values at the center of every marketing initiative and image campaign.“Our philosophy is simple: who you are is what you do,” he says. “And our process is designed to align our clients’ values with their actions to create deeper, more meaningful relationships with their customers. When you do that, you get results and move people to do great things.”An expert in brand strategy, cause marketing, youth marketing and public affairs, Raphael has launched national media campaigns, drafted public policy, created consumer and nonprofit brands and managed communications for local, state and federal elected officials.

Fluent in Italian, his experience is international in scope and diverse in terms of issues and industries. He has directed recent programs for clients such as UNICEF, Ocean Conservancy, Case Foundation, Public Citizen, Social Venture Network and the Center for a New American Dream. Raphael also oversees the firm’s unique pro bono initiative – the BBMG It’s How We Live Grant – which is currently developing a campaign for LUNA and the Breast Cancer Fund to raise awareness for the environmental causes of breast cancer. Prior to co-founding BBMG, Raphael served as communications director at Do Something, where he oversaw marketing, corporate partnerships and media relations. He played a critical role in promoting the Do Something BRICK Awards. And in January 2001 he launched a national publicity campaign for the Do Something Kindness & Justice Challenge, an education program that inspires students in grades K-12 to perform acts of kindness and justice in honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. Working with Martin Luther King III as the program’s spokesperson, the campaign scored more than 150 million impressions from print, radio and television broadcast coverage. Raphael also has an extensive background in political communications, getting his start as a press aide to Texas Governor Ann W. Richards. He also served as communications director for the Texas Democratic Party, as communications director for Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis (D-Houston), and as press secretary for U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).He received his BA in Philosophy with honors from the University of Texas at Austin. For more information on Raphael, please visit www.bbmg.com

Ron Gonen, Co-Founder and CEO, RecycleBank

Ron Gonen is the Co-Founder and CEO of RecycleBank. Prior to RecycleBank, Ron was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting. Ron focused on developing CRM and strategic account management programs for clients. His clients have included Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, Bank One, GE, and DIRECTV. Ron was a co-recipient of Deloitte Consulting's National Impact Award in 2002 for his development and management of a consulting unit that provides pro bono consulting services to non-profit and charitable organizations. In addition, Ron was a founding member of the National Conference for High School Students Against Hunger and Homelessness. Ron received an MBA from Columbia Business School where he was a Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship award winner and received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics from the University of Massachusetts where he graduated cum laude and was awarded Massachusetts Commonwealth Scholar honors.

Ryan Mickle, Co-Founder, Triple Pundit

yan Mickle founded Companiesandme in 2006 to help companies connect with consumers, employees and other stakeholders through social web technology. In 2007 the company launched dotherightthing.com to a fanfare of press, including features in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, as well as hundreds of blogs around the world. He now works with major consumer brands to turn stories trapped in CSR reports and press releases into meaningful conversations with consumers, employees and other stakeholders online.

Ryan also writes for and contributes to managing Triplepundit.com, one of the world's most well-read and fastest growing websites featuring news and information on business and technology that leaves the world better off.

Ryan holds a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and traveled to both the Wharton School and Cambridge University to study leadership and international economics, respectively. He enjoys traveling, running marathons, yoga, and working hard to make a positive impact on people.

Sean Donahue, Senior Vice President, the Herald Group

Sean Donahue brings more than a decade of communications, marketing, new media and journalism experience.  Prior to joining the The Herald Group, Donahue was global head of environmental marketing and communications at Dell, where he also served as primary spokesman on energy efficiency, green design, climate protection and recycling initiatives. Donahue played a key role in the development of Dell's ReGeneration campaign, including the launch of ReGeneration.org - an online meeting place for people committed to sustaining the world's natural environment. As director of public affairs at The Glover Park Group and director of the Technology & Communications Practice at Dittus Communications, Donahue oversaw several national media campaigns on behalf of technology and corporate clients, including Dell, Foley & Lardner and the Business Software Alliance. During the 2004 presidential election, he served as a national press advance lead for the Kerry/Edwards campaign. Donahue began his career in media, public policy and environmental affairs at a young age; he was the youngest visiting member of the White House Press Corps as Senior White House correspondent for WBZ-Radio's "Kid Company." In this role, Donahue conducted interviews with President and Mrs. Clinton, former First Lady Bush and Senators Edward Kennedy and Bob Dole. He was an on-air analyst for CNN's Financial Network during the 1996 presidential primaries and served as a member of the White House Advance Staff while in college. He planned and executed media activities for foreign and domestic presidential trips, including the 2000 G-8 Summit in Okinawa and the Syrian/Israeli peace talks in Shepherdstown, W.V. Donahue holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from the University of Virginia.