In alphabetical order

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Carrie Birth, Assistant Brand Manager for NA Pampers, P & G

Carrie Birth is currently the assistant brand manager for NA Pampers at Procter and Gamble, based in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Carrie is originally from Chicago and graduated from Miami University in Ohio in 2004.  She has been with P&G for 5 years, starting in Baby Care, then moving to Minneapolis to work on the brand for the Target customer team, and now to her current role back in Baby Care. 

While not improving the lives for millions of moms and babies, Carrie is an AVID runner (ran Boston this past year) and golfer.

Katie Bisbee, VP East Region & Mobilization Marketing, Donorschoose.org

Katie Bisbee and her team are responsible for building a strong donor community for K-12 students from Maine to South Carolina.  Katie also manages DonorsChoose.org’s mobilization campaigns, including Blogger Challenge, Mustaches for Kids, and Donate Your Birthday.  Katie comes to DonorsChoose.org with experience in both social and entrepreneurial settings, from working at the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, to conducting public opinion research studies for commercial, non-profit and political clients. Most recently, she launched a direct marketing venture in Charlotte, NC for an entrepreneurial marketing firm. Katie earned her Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Darden School of the University of Virginia.

Paul Bloom, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship & Marketing at The Fuqua School of Business

Colin Brady, Director of Business Development, (RED)

Stacie Bright, Senior Communications Marketing Manager, Unilever

As the senior communications marketing manager for Unilever, Stacie Bright oversees the creation, management, strategic development and implementation of marketing communication efforts for more than ten of the top consumer, beauty and lifestyle brands. Some of her brands include Dove®, Vaseline®, Ponds®, Caress®, Q-tips®, Wisk®, All® and Snuggle®.  Stacie has received several company recognitions such as the prestigious President’s Award from Unilever.  She  has also received multiple industry awards, including the PRSA “Best of Show” Silver Anvil, PRWeek Award for the Consumer Launch Campaign of the Year, the Holmes Report Sabre Award for the Marketing to Women Category and the PRSA Big Apple Award for Marketing to Special Audiences, among others for her  work on the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.

Stacie started her career at the special events group at McCall's Magazine and has written for the Washington Post. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Hofstra University in Communications and Political Science. She continues to serve the PR industry, chairing, judging and serving as a mentor on several organizations and committees. She is a member of Cosmetic Executive Women and PRSA.

Dan Bross, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft

Dan Bross, Microsoft’s Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, has over twenty-five years of experience in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.  With a background in public policy, government and public affairs and corporate reputation management, Dan has led government affairs and policy teams at both the federal and state levels for two Fortune 100 companies.  His corporate experience includes strategic planning; policy development and advocacy; grassroots program development and management; strategic relationship identification and engagement; and investor relations. 

Five years after joining Microsoft, in 2003 Dan was appointed to the newly created position of Director of Corporate Citizenship and played a key role in managing a cross-company strategic planning process to develop Microsoft’s Corporate Citizenship Initiative. The initiative, one of the company’s key global business strategies, is designed to ensure that Microsoft provides products, advances policies and delivers programs that create opportunity, improve quality of life and contribute to sustainable economic and social development.   In addition to his corporate experience, Dan has significant management and program development experience in the nonprofit sector. During his tenure as Executive Director AIDS Council, the nation’s leading AIDS advocacy organization, he chaired a broad national coalition of health and human service organizations and non-governmental organizations and served as an advisor to President Clinton’s Domestic Policy Advisor on the structuring and staffing of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. 

He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Catawba College in Salisbury, NC and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dan currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Catawba College; the Steering Committee of the World Economic Forum’s Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative; and the Board of Advisors of the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College. 

Ronnie Chatterji, Professor of Strategy at The Fuqua School of Business

J. Gregory Dees, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at The Fuqua School of Business

J. Gregory Dees is Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He has published extensively, including two books with Jed Emerson and Peter Economy, Enterprising Nonprofits and Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs. The Aspen Institute and Ashoka recently recognized his pioneering work with their first Lifetime Achievement award in Social Entrepreneurship Education. Professor Dees previously worked at McKinsey & Company, and taught at the Yale School of Management, at Harvard Business School, where he helped launch the Initiative on Social Enterprise and received the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching, and at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he served as the Haas Centennial Professor and as founding Co-Director of the Center for Social Innovation. While at Harvard, he interrupted his academic career with a leave of absence to work on strategies for promoting entrepreneurship in Appalachia. He serves on the board of the Bridgespan Group and on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Social Entrepreneurship. He is on numerous advisory boards including Volans, REDF, Aflatoun, Business Leadership for Tomorrow, the Limmat Foundation, and the Social Enterprise Journal.

Erica Estrada, D.Light

Erica Estrada, co-founder of d.light design, has her B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and previously led the product design and customer research operations at d.light. At d.light, she was in charge of developing product concepts, prototyping ideas, field testing concepts and user interaction design. One of her primary roles was building customer empathy through the 'needfinding' process, thus allowing her to spend much time in rural villages and settings. Erica is now a close advisor to d.light, and is currently a Design Hellow at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the d.school) where she is co-teaching the Design for Extreme Affordability course in which d.light first began.

Gavan Fitzsimons, Professor of Marketing at The Fuqua School of Business

Gavan is a professor of marketing and psychology at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He has specific interest in new ventures and entrepreneurial marketing activity within larger organizations, and also deals frequently with issues of customer value management. His research focuses on understanding how consumers may be influenced without their conscious knowledge or awareness by marketers and marketing researchers, often without any intent on the part of the marketer.

Prior to joining Duke, he was a faculty member at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and prior to that, at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He was the winner of six teaching awards during his time at Wharton and has twice been awarded the Daimler Chrysler Core Teaching Award at Duke. Professor Fitzsimons received a BSc and MBA from the University of Western Ontario and an MPhil and PhD from Columbia University.

Heather Fleming, Catapult Design

Heather Fleming is a co-founder and CEO of Catapult Design, a product and technology design consultancy serving developing world markets. Catapult Design's clients are organizations working in impoverished communities with technology needs – including rural electrification, water purification and transport, food security, and health. Three years prior to Catapult, Heather helped found and then led a volunteer group of engineers and designers focused on humanitarian design projects via Engineers Without Borders (EWB). In July 2008 Heather was named a 2008 Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow, a program aimed at high-potential young leaders with new approaches for transformational impact, for her work with both EWB and Catapult Design.  She previously worked in the Silicon Valley product development consulting world and has six years experience working with multi-disciplinary teams to design, develop, and deliver product solutions for a diverse range of companies. Heather has a BS in Product Design from Stanford University.

Christopher Gergen, Author of Life Entrepreneurs

Christopher Gergen is a founding partner of New Mountain Ventures, an entrepreneurial leadership development company, and co-author of Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives. Additionally, Christopher is a visiting lecturer and Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at Duke University within the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy's Hart Leadership Program.

Christopher is the co-founder and chairman of SMARTHINKING, the leading online tutoring provider in the United States—serving over 200,000 students from more than 1,000 universities, colleges, and high schools. Other entrepreneurial ventures include starting a coffeehouse/bar dedicated to promoting the arts and music in Santiago, Chile and helping to launch the "Entrepreneur Corps"—a national service initiative sponsored by AmeriCorps*VISTA that placed 400 full-time business volunteers for a year of service in over 90 non-profit organizations across the country. Previously, Christopher started LEAD!, a non-profit leadership, entrepreneurship, and service program for Gonzaga College high school students in Washington, D.C. and is a founding board member of the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School also in D.C.

Further professional experience includes serving as Vice President of New Market Development for K12 Inc. and Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for New American Schools. Christopher received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Duke University, a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the George Washington University, and his M.B.A. from Georgetown University. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington, D.C.

Julie Greene, Hannaford Foods

Julie Greene is the Director of Healthy Living for Hannaford Supermarkets, based in Scarborough, Maine. In conjunction with a panel of nutrition scientists, her team developed Guiding Stars the worlds first nutrition navigation system, launched in 2006. Since that time, Guiding Stars has been implemented in 1,500 supermarkets from Maine to Florida as well as food service providers and on packaged food products and has had a meaningful, measurable impact on consumer behavior. Prior to working at Hannaford, Julie worked for The Boston Beer Company and Pierece Promotions & Event Management, Inc., where she promoted products ranging from Samuel Adams beers to Dove Soap and Gillette razors. Julie has recently been named a Woman of Influence in the Food Industry by The Griffin Report.

Michael Havard, Vice President Marketing, Newman's Own

Michael began his career in corporate banking with Bank of Boston.  While in business school, a seminar at Proctor & Gamble sparked his interest in brand management and he joined Kraft General Foods as an Assistant Brand Manager in 1990.   Michael spent nine years in a series of leadership positions in brand management at Kraft.  He led cross-functional business teams on a wide array of brands, categories and business situations - in 1998 he was a Category Business Director, with responsibility for a portfolio of businesses with $375 MM in annual revenues.  Michael was also a leader in Kraft’s community initiatives including serving as the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of New Covenant House of Hospitality (a hunger-relief program) in Stamford, CT.  Michael’s dual interests in business and philanthropy led him to join Newman’s Own as Vice President, Marketing in 1999. At Newman’s Own, Michael has played a key leadership role in growing the business and positioning the Company for long-term success - he was promoted to a Corporate Officer in 2006. The Newman’s Own Foundation is continuing Paul Newman’s commitment to donate all profits from Newman’s Own to charity - over $260 MM has been given to thousands of charities since 1982.  Michael is a founder of Team Hole in the Wall, a marathon team fundraising initiative for Hole in the Wall Camps, a non-profit organization, founded by Paul Newman, which is the world’s largest family of camps for children with life-threatening illnesses. He ran the 2004 - 2007 NYC Marathons with the Team and serves on the Development and Team Hole in the Wall Committees for the Camp.  He has a BA in Economics from Trinity College and an MBA with Honors from Georgetown University. He serves as the national Chairman of the MBA Alumni Board of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown. Michael and his wife Judy live in Connecticut with their three sons.

Amber Kuchar, Jr. Investment Officer, Calvert Foundation

Matt Mahan, Director of Nonprofit Relations & Business Development, Facebook Causes

Matthew Mahan is a native of Watsonville, California, which is a farming community on the Central Coast.  He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where he served as student body president and wrote a thesis on the state of liberal arts education in America. Since graduating, he has lived and worked with farmers in Bolivia and taught middle school for two years through Teach for America.  Matt currently directs nonprofit and corporate partnerships at Causes on Facebook, which has grown from zero to over 35 million users, 175,000 user-created causes, and 6,000 official nonprofit partners in less than two years.

Marc Mathieu, former head of Global Brand Marketing, Coca-Cola

Marc Mathieu, the former head of Global Brand Marketing at Coca-Cola, is leading the development of a new enterprise at the intersection of human and business interest.

Seeing the growing urgency for scale within the socio-environmental movement, Marc decided to apply his vision, expertise and relationships to the creation of a branded social elevation platform directed at accelerating behavioral change around social and environmental challenges.

Marc was with the Coca-Cola Company from 1996 to 2008, most recently in Coca-Cola's World Headquarters as Senior Vice President of Global Brand Marketing. Acknowledging the intersection between human and business needs, Marc showed businesses across Coca-Cola how to incorporate social and cultural importance into brands and everyday business practices.

Marc holds a degree from École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. He currently resides in Atlanta with his wife and daughter and has two children in college.

Elizabeth Merritt, Cherokee

Blair Miller, Manager of Business Development, Acumen Fund

Blair Miller joined Acumen as the manager of business development. Blair's experience in pro-poor market-based solutions is drawn from both business and policy. She has helped develop a social impact assessment framework for base of the pyramid (BOP) business ventures like Scojo Foundation and Hindustan Lever's project Shakti, spearheaded youth-centered policies and education programs at the United Nations, and worked on a micro health insurance project with Ashoka's Full Economic Citizenship Initiative in India. Most recently, Blair worked with CARE in El Salvador to develop the business plan for an investment vehicle aimed at scaling small and medium-sized BOP enterprises. Blair holds an MBA from the University of MIchigan and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Bonny Moellenbrock, Executive Director, SJF Advisory Services

Bonny Moellenbrock is Executive Director of SJF Advisory Services and brings extensive entrepreneurial, venture capital, sustainable business, and nonprofit management experience to her role.  She provides strategic leadership; plans and manages SJFAS’ technical assistance programs, services, and events; and develops the organization’s resources and partnerships.  Moellenbrock has been with SJF since 2001, first serving in administrative and investment roles.  She was instrumental in developing both SJF Ventures’ and SJF Advisory Services’ tracking and reporting systems and creating the appropriate legal structures to manage the innovative hybrid entity.  She has managed SJF Advisory Services’ Sustainable Business Advantage Initiative resulting in SJF’s annual Cleantech CEO Panels; made numerous presentations on preparing for equity investment, financial reporting, and socially responsible venture capital; served as a venture competition and venture fair judge; and assisted numerous companies in the natural product sector.  As SJF Ventures Managing Director, she served on the Investment Committee, generated deal flow in the natural consumer products sector, conducted due diligence on prospect companies, and monitored portfolio companies.
 
Prior to joining SJF, Moellenbrock was COO and CFO of Preservation North Carolina, a premier statewide nonprofit that promotes historic preservation and protects properties through its award-winning endangered properties acquisition and redevelopment program, and also served as VP of Administration for Orange Recycling Services, an entrepreneurial commercial recycling company.  Moellenbrock holds an MBA, a Master of Regional Planning, and a BA in Environmental Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute. She enjoys gardening and making music with her husband and two daughters at their historic bungalow in Durham.

Tam Robert Nguyen, Senior Advisor - Corporate Responsibility, Global Issues, & Policy, Chevron

Mr. Nguyen has fifteen years of progressive, diversified experience in corporate policy and strategy, international development, and public affairs. Prior to joining Chevron Corporation, he worked for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the Philippines, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. He served as a consultant to The World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), public-private initiatives of the US Agency for International Development (USAID); and was a political strategist for a US-Japan consulting firm contracted by the Government of Japan. He started his career working for a major US-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to educating US citizens about international development issues. Mr. Nguyen orchestrated, and later managed, the first inter-agency partnership agreement between two of the world’s largest multilateral finance institutions. 

Mr. Nguyen is a frequent speaker on global issues and corporate responsibility, and was recognized as a “Future Leader for Asia” by The Asia Society and served as a delegate to the 2006 Summit in Seoul, Korea.  He twice served as an external advisory member to the ADB Long-Term Strategic Framework process, as well as the Global Public Goods Task Force. He served on the board of directors for the Society for International Development in Washington, DC and is a member of the Academy of Management. Educated in the United States, Europe, and Asia, he is a graduate of George Washington University, and holds two masters degrees in international business and international development. He is currently completing a doctorate in business administration. 

Nadia Orawski, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Nadia is a member of Deloitte’s Strategy & Operations Consulting Practice, advising Fortune 500 clients in multiple areas of strategy and operations improvement initiatives. She actively seeks ways to create competitive advantage through application of environmentally sustainable business practices, process improvement, performance management, organizational change, and information technology to transform organizational capabilities. Nadia has led teams to assist corporations and public agencies to align business and asset management strategies with their corporate objectives and operations.

Nadia has over eight years of experience in sustainability consulting, operational assessments, organizational structure, workplace strategy and corporate real estate consulting. She has conducted organizational assessments and process design, and has extensive experience with benchmarking, cost benefit studies, sustainability strategy, and environmental program development and implementation. Nadia's educational background includes an MBA with a specialization in business and sustainability and she is an experienced LEED accredited professional.

Deb Parsons, Investors' Circle

Deb joins IC after spending the last five years working in the social venture capital sector.  For the past two years she was Vice President at Good Capital, managing the fund's operational aspects, investor relations and deployment of capital. Deb was an associate at SJF Ventures during business school, a community development venture fund focusing on cleantech and the LOHAS sector. Prior to school, she spent six years in business development, marketing, and partner management at WGBH, Intuit and The North Face. Deb received her MBA from Kenan Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill, where she was a Carolina Venture Fellow with a focus on sustainable enterprise and entrepreneurship. As the Net Impact chapter leader, Deb launched the Sustainable Venture Capital Investment Competition (SVCIC), an event that puts MBA student teams in the role of VCs evaluating real business opportunities of socially responsible businesses actively seeking capital. Raised in St. Louis, MO, she now calls San Francisco, CA home.

Suzanna Pinter, Sr. Manager Commercial, Mars Snackfood USA

Sue is the Senior Commercial Manager for Responsible & Sustainable Supply at Mars Snackfood US.  Part of Sue’s role is to coordinate efforts with buyers to understand and influence the impact of our suppliers on the supply chain.  She has over 20 years experience with Mars, across snackfood, pet food and in regional roles.  The majority of her career has been in Commercial (procurement), leading various buying teams, but she started her career in R&D within product development.  Sue has an M.S from University of Illinois and a B.S from Purdue.  In her spare time, she and her family are avid hikers on the Appalachian Trail.

Charles W. (Chip) Ransler, IV, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Husk Power Systems

Chip is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Husk Power Systems. Husk Power Systems is a provider of distributed rural electricity systems in India. Chip was most recently co-founder and CEO of Topik Solutions, Inc. a digital publishing firm. He is also the co-founder of The Second Road.org, a non-profit working to help the millions of Americans with addictions recover together online. He was the recipient of the Batten Foundation Entrepreneurial Scholarship for the Darden School of Business and will graduate in May, 2009. He, along with his partner Manoj Sinha, was named a 2008 Pop!Tech Fellow and a "2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year" by FastCompany magazine.

Christine Riley, Cone, Inc.

Christine Riley brings more than 14 years of personal and professional experience in the public, nonprofit and academic sector.  As Director, Riley works with clients to develop integrated marketing campaigns that benefit businesses, nonprofits and communities. She has advised a variety of clients on Cause Branding, strategic philanthropy, community relations, fundraising and corporate responsibility. Her client roster includes some of the world’s best-known brands:  T-Mobile, Maybelline, Starbucks, Sodexho and Nestlé Waters North America. Riley also has experience working with nonprofit clients to build brand awareness and generate funds. Most recently, she helped the American Heart Association create campaigns to increase consumer relevance and attract corporate sponsorship.

Prior to joining Cone, Christine worked at the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, JFK School of Government, Harvard University as a Program Manager.  In addition, Christine has worked with Jumpstart for Young Children, most recently holding the role of Director of Corporate Relations. During her tenure, she worked with corporate partners such as Starbucks, American Eagle Outfitters and Pearson.  Christine began her career as a member of the AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program, working with survivors of domestic and sexual assault.  She was then selected to participate in AmeriCorps Leaders Program in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, an exclusive, national leadership training program.  Christine received her B.S. at Brigham Young University where she studied Sociology and Women's Studies and was involved in several cause-related student organizations. She holds a graduate-level certificate from the Leadership for Change program at Boston College. 

David Robinson, Professor of Finance at The Fuqua School of Business

Will Robinson, Community Manager, ideablob.com

Will Robinson is the community manager at ideablob.com where he spends his days focused on supporting entrepreneurs. Before joining ideablob, Will wound his way through a major law firm, clerked for a Federal Judge, served as Director of Legislation for a Philadelphia City Councilman and advised startups through an SBA Small Business Development Center. As a freshman in high school, he met a beautiful varsity soccer player and married her 11 years later. Their son has extremely chubby legs, a heart-melting smile and recently made "dog" his first word. Will has a BA in English and Peace Studies from Colgate University, and a JD/MBA from Temple University. Between degrees, Will taught middle school special education in rural Louisiana for three years through Teach For America. He plans to spend the rest of his life working at the intersection of doing well and doing good.

Fred Stang, Director of Development, Triangle Community Foundation

Fred has been with Triangle Community Foundation since 1994 and has seen the Foundation grow from 10 million in assets to 140 million in that time. In his development role, Fred works closely with professional advisors to help create effective charitable plans that meet clients’ charitable, family, tax and estate goals. He is the president-elect for the Durham/Orange Estate Planning Council and a past board member of the North Carolina Planned Giving Council.

Fred received a B.A. and a M.S.W. in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1990, he became one of the first recipients of the Z. Smith Reynolds Sabbatical Award for his work with batterers at the Coalition for Battered Women. In 1992 he was selected for the inaugural class of Leadership Triangle and served as the organization’s board chair in 1996.

Suzanne Steffens, Senior Consultant, Community Wealth Ventures

In her role as a Senior Consultant for Community Wealth Ventures, Suzanne Steffens works alongside non-profits to achieve break-through results. She is currently co-leading the Community Wealth Collaborative in Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky.

Before joining CWV, Suzanne spent twelve years in various roles in the social sector. She recently worked with Common Good Ventures, a venture philanthropy, on a growth strategy for the Alzheimer's Association. She also recently worked with the authors of Forces for Good and Duke Corporate Education to develop a training series for the book. Before those roles, she served as Director of Obesity Initiatives at the National Center of the American Heart Association. In that role, she provided strategic direction for the Association's obesity initiatives, including alliances with the William J. Clinton Foundation and the National Football League. Prior to that position, she served AHA as an advocacy consultant and guided state advocacy staff across the country on legislative efforts. Prior to joining AHA, she served as Director of Planning for Phoenix House, the nation's premier substance abuse non-profit, in Texas. She has also lobbied for a number of for-profit and non-profit clients for Government Relations Resources and worked for Texas Municipal League and the City of Garland.

She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a government degree and holds an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business where she was the recipient of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship Social Sector Scholarship and the Dean's Recognition Award. Suzanne will be joining on the Social Entrepreneurship panel discussion with Greg Dees.

Bill Stevenson, Director of Social Investments, Lenovo

Bill Stevenson manages Corporate Social Investments for Lenovo, which is a 21st century way of saying he directs philanthropy programs. Bill’s job is to help create a culture of giving in Lenovo that not only has an impact on society, but also aligns with Lenovo’s corporate strategy.  Bill has been working in marketing for Lenovo and IBM’s Personal Computing Division for a total of six years, with a few years off chasing his dotcom dream in the early 2000’s. He has also served on several nonprofit boards and is the creator of the Carolina Hope Festival, a music and arts celebration that benefits women and children in Africa affected by HIV / AIDS.

Bill has a bachelor’s degree in theology from Grove City College, an MBA from Duke University, and a certificate in International Business Management from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Kevin Trapani, President and CEO, The Redwoods Group

Dan Vermeer, Executive Director of Corporate Sustainability Initiative, Duke University

Ferol Vernon, Candidate for MBA at The Fuqua School of Business

Ferol is currently the director of product development at ReverbNation, a venture-backed start up that provides marketing and distribution services for musicians. Ferol has always had an unhealthy passion for technology and the web in particular. He has a wide array of experience in the field from acting as a multimedia developer on Internet-based disaster simulations, to running his own web development company, to working at Ignite Social Media, an advertising agency focused entirely on web 2.0/social media tactics. Ferol graduated from Boston University in December 2002, and will be receiving his MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in May 2009.

Ricci Wolman, The Body Shop

Stacy Wood, Professor of Marketing at The Fuqua School of Business

Stacy Wood is a visiting Associate Professor of Marketing at Fuqua. She is also the Moore Research Fellow and associate professor of marketing at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Professor Wood's research focuses on consumer response to change and innovation. Recent projects have investigated how to improve consumer learning of new product information, how motional reactions to new innovations color adoption, how consumers in flux embrace change, and how consumers deal with complex medical/pharmaceutical innovations. Her work has appeared in Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of Retailing. She was a co-recipient of the 1997 H. Paul Root Award for the article published in Journal of Marketing that "made the most significant contribution to the advancement of marketing practice" and, and in 2001, won the Moore School's Alfred G. Smith award, the school's top teaching award. Dr. Wood was the 2007 winner of the Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, the university's top undergraduate teaching honor.

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