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Stanley S. Litow is IBM’s Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President of IBM’s Foundation. Under his leadership, IBM has been widely regarded as the global leader in Corporate Citizenship, and praised for societal and environmental leadership,... more
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Managing Editor, Citizen IBM
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Citizen IBM is the official blog of IBM’s Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs department. Through this platform, we provide an authentic forum for discussion of a... more
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Robin Willner is Vice President for Funder Engagement at Social Impact Exchange @Growth Philanthropy Network. Social Impact Exchange is a growing and innovative membership network focusing on identifying and nurturing effective solutions for disadvantaged communities and bringing them to significant... more
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Research Associate, Scripps Research Institute...
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Ann Cramer is Americas Director, IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs...
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IBM Senior Technical Staff Member
Chester Karwatowski is the CTO and Business Architect for Supplier Connection, an IBM Foundation-led initiative designed to spur job growth in the U.S.
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Ms. Melley is currently Vice President, Global Citizenship Initiatives in IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs. Ms. Melley has leadership responsibility over the IBM services grant portfolio globally, which includes offerings for not-for-profits, schools and government organizations. Ms. Melley led... more
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Doris González is Senior Program Manager, IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and leads
KidSmart and
Reading Companion – two of IBM’s global early learning and literacy initiatives....
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Elliott Davis is a consultant in the Industrial Sector, Strategy and Transformation practice of IBM Global Business Services. He is on a mission to help organizations step out of their comfort zones, embrace the power of social business, and form...
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Gina Cardosi is a Certified Senior Project Manager with IBM....
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Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Senior Program Manager, K-12 Education...
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Jamillah Seifullah is a former software engineer, landscape architect and mother who teaches at New York’s Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH)....
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Jen Crozier is Vice President, IBM Global Citizenship Initiatives....
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Juan Hindo is a program manager with IBM's Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs group....
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Lamar Smith represents the 21st Congressional District of Texas. He serves as Chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, which has jurisdiction over programs at NASA, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the... more
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IBM External Communications
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Manager, IBM Corporate Communications
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Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager, IBM UK...
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Maura Banta is Director of Citizenship Initiatives in Education at IBM....
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Michelle Nunn is CEO of Points of Light, the largest organization in the world dedicated to volunteer service. Through affiliates in 250 cities and partnerships with thousands of nonprofits and corporations, Points of Light engages more than four million volunteers...
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Rashid Ferrod Davis is the founding principal of the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn, New York....
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Sidney E. Goodfriend is Founder and Chairman of American Corporate Partners (ACP). Founded in 2008, ACP offers a nationwide mentoring program dedicated to assisting veterans' transition from the armed services to private enterprise through career counseling and networking with professionals from... more
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Aba Maison is Head of Technology Services at Lasa....
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Adamo Ruggiero is an openly gay actor and activist who played gay teen Marco Del Rossi for seven years on
Degrassi: The Next Generation. Adamo has worked with
The Trevor Project/GLAAD/Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and...
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Alcely Strutz Barroso is a Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager with IBM Brazil....
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Alejandro Toscano has worked in NGO’s such as SES Fundación, Huésped Fundation and the Fundación de Organización Comunitaria (FOC). Between September 2004 and January 2006 he worked in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility of Petrobras Energía. He currently serves...
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On May 17, 2011 Jacksonville voters chose Alvin Brown to lead the city. He assumed office July 1, 2011. Brown ran on his vision of “taking Jacksonville to the next level” through job creation, Downtown revitalization, and making education and... more
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Amit Sharma is Chief Operations Officer, IBM India South Asia....
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Andrea Meyer serves on the Steering Committee for Chicago's Early College STEM Schools (ECSS) initiative on behalf of Verizon Wireless....
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Anna Lee is Chairperson of
Volunteer Ireland, the national volunteer development agency and a representative body for 22 Volunteer Centres in Ireland....
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Anne Altman is IBM’s General Manager for U.S. Federal and Government Industries....
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The Honorable Annise Parker is Houston’s 61
st mayor and one of only two women to hold the City’s highest elected office. As the City’s chief executive officer, Mayor Parker is responsible for all aspects of the general management of the City...
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Public Affairs Manager, IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs...
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Ariel Zwang is Chief Executive Officer of Safe Horizon, the nation’s leading provider of services to victims of crime and abuse....
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Former IBMer Barry Mittelman is the managing partner and publisher of
Latin Business Today....
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Executive Project Manager, Application Services Delivery Excellence, IBM Global Business Services...
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Bret Liberatore served as an Intelligence Analyst with the United States Army in the 704
th Military Intelligence Brigade, and holds an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland....
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General Manager, IBM North America
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IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager....
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Cezar Busatto is Secretary of Local Governance in Porto Alegre, Brazil....
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Cheol-wan Park is Director of the Traffic Administration Division for the City of Cheongju, Korea....
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Chris Pinney is project lead for the Corporate Philanthropy 2012 project and author of Increasing Impact, Enhancing Value. Mr. Pinney is a Senior Fellow at the
Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and Senior Vice President of the
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Manager, External Communications, IBM
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Vice President, Operations at National Alliance for Public Charter Schools...
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Curtis Clark is Director of Global Government with IBM Sales & Distribution, Public Sector....
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Dan Hebrank is IBM's Senior State Executive for Missouri and Senior Location Executive for Saint Louis. In this role, he advocates for IBM in the community. He is active with the charity, Autism Speaks, and is a member of the...
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General Manager, IBM Public Sector
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Dana Rickman, Ph.D. is the Director of Policy and Research at the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education – an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition of business, education, community and government leaders who share a vision of improving education in the...
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Daryl Brewster is the CEO of the CECP.
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CEO, CDC Development Solutions
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Don Dejewski is the Client Technical Advisor for New York State and New York City, and is an IBM Executive Software Architect and Distinguished Chief/Lead IT Architect (The Open Group)....
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Director, Academic Center for Sustainable Practices (CSP), Vermont Technical College....
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IBM Enterprise Content Management Brand Specialist...
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A 1996
MacArthur “genius grant” Fellow, Dorothy Stoneman is the founder and CEO of
YouthBuild USA – a national nonprofit support center for programs that provide construction skills, education, and leadership training for unemployed and undereducated youth, while producing affordable housing...
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Dr. Douglas Scarboro serves as the Chief Learning Officer for the City of Memphis, Tennessee -- heading the Office of Talent Development, which has the responsibility of assessing, developing and implementing all quality improvement and training initiatives for City of...
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Doyin Oluwole, M.D., MRCP, FRCP, FWACP, is Founding Executive Director of the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative of the George W. Bush Institute. Dr. Oluwole is a native of Nigeria....
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President, ShelterBox USA
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Emma Grove is an IBM Community Programmes Specialist in Hursley Park, UK....
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Eric Estey is a Strategy & Change Internal Practice consultant with IBM Global Business Services....
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Global Digital and Social Strategy, IBM Communications...
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Francisco De La Torre Prados is Mayor of Malaga, Spain....
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Frank Baldino is an IBM Sales & Distribution Client Executive for the Health Care and Life Sciences Industry....
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Frank Hsu is the Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science and a professor of computer and information science at Fordham University in New York. He was Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Interconnection Networks ( World Scientific Publishing) and is Vice Chair of the New York...
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Gayle Manchin is Chair of the Reconnecting McDowell Board of Directors and Vice President of the West Virginia State Board of Education. She is one of the founding partners of the Reconnecting McDowell Initiative, a multi-year effort to create a...
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Gerard P. Learmonth, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia....
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Gina Harman is CEO of Accion’s U.S. Network, the only nationwide microfinance and small-business lending network in the United States. A longtime proponent of social justice, she believes passionately in helping hard-working, determined people take control of their economic future...
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IBM Corporate Communications
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Grant Thomas is Vice President for Strategic Development at the Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) in Ottawa, Canada....
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Greg Fischer was born in Louisville on January 14, 1958. He is an entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist and was elected Louisville’s 50th Mayor on November 2, 2010.
He graduated from Trinity High School and majored in Economics at Vanderbilt University. To... more
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Gregory Richards, MA, MBA, Ph.D., FCMC, is currently Professor of Performance Management at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, where he teaches courses on Managing Organizational Performance and Business Analytics. He is Director of the IBM Centre for...
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Jacqueline Spuehler is Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager for IBM Switzerland....
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Thomas Lord Professor and Department Head,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Carnegie Mellon University, and Faculty Co-Director of the
Pennsylvania Smarter Infrastructure Incubator. Dr. Garrett also consults with government agencies and private sector companies on how to use...
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Senior External Relations Officer, Action Against Hunger...
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Jean Chu is Channel Technical Manager with IBM Tivoli Software Group....
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In May 2011, Jeanette Horan was appointed Chief Information Officer of IBM. Ms. Horan’s organization supports operational excellence and drives IBM’s transformation agenda – focusing on business transformation, workforce transformation, and IT transformation. Her organization is responsible for equipping IBMers... more
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IBM Solution Architect, Government Industry...
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As New York State Education Commissioner, Dr. John B. King, Jr. oversees more than 7,000 public and independent elementary and secondary schools (serving 3.1 million students), and hundreds of other educational institutions across New York State including higher education, libraries,...
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John Lamb is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Senior Certified IT Architect for IBM. Dr. Lamb is the author of
The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment (2009)....
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John Thöle is a founding member of Edunova in the UK and in South Africa. He is a qualified teacher and was Head of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) at schools in South Africa and in the UK. John’s...
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John Turchek is a professor of computer and information systems at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh....
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Jonathan Fanton is the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visiting Fellow at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York City....
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The Honorable Jonathan Rothschild is the Mayor of Tucson, Arizona....
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Joshua Jacobs currently attends the University of Southern California, where he is both a student and the President of the USC Veterans Association. He is a senior in USC’s Marshall School of Business and will begin the Master of Accounting...
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Julie Arthofer is an IBM Global Business Services Strategy and Information Consultant....
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Director, Skills for America's Future
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Karen Mills leads a team of 3,000 employees whose mission is to help entrepreneurs and small business owners grow and create jobs by providing greater access to capital, counseling, federal contracting opportunities, disaster assistance and more. Among its priorities, the... more
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Karen Thompson is a Project Manager with IBM's Client Management and Resource Optimization team....
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Kathy Pham is a Business Analytics and Optimization Senior Consultant with IBM Global Business Services....
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Kayode Fayemi, Ph.D., is Governor of Ekiti State, Nigeria. Prior to becoming Governor of Ekiti State in October 2010, Dr. Fayemi was the founding director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, a think tank dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on... more
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Kiambu Gall is a ninth grade student at the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn, New York....
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Kirsten Schroeder is a Partner in the K-12 National Practice component of IBM's Global Services division. Ms. Schroeder specializes in the development and implementation of business systems as well as business process redesign for public sector clients....
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Kok Chin (K.C.) Tay is a Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager with IBM Singapore, and a member of the Singapore Green Building Council....
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Laura Keenan is originally from Matawan, New Jersey. She served with the 1
st Squadron, 6
th Cavalry (1
st Infantry Division) as a Captain for 15 months during 2008/2009. Captain Keenan graduated from the
United States Military Academy at West Point,...
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Leonard J. Shustek is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum....
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Linda Harrill is President and CEO of Communities In Schools of North Carolina....
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Liz Hampton is Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager, IBM New Zealand....
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Louise Davis is Director of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs with IBM Australia....
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Dr. Margaret Honey, president and CEO, joined the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in November of 2008. She is widely recognized for her work using digital technologies to support children’s learning across the disciplines of science, mathematics, engineering... more
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Marie Kenerson is Chief Collaboration and Learning Officer of
Colleagues In Care, a global health network of doctors, nurses, medical personnel and other partners working together to provide quality health care services, telemedicine, knowledge and training to aid the...
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Mark Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2008, and serves on the Senate Banking, Budget, Commerce and Intelligence committees. A co-founder of the company that became Nextel, Senator Warner is a leader in Congress in efforts to...
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Martha C. Rodriguez is a counselor at the Isaac E. Young Middle School in New Rochelle, New York. Isaac E. Young is a public school that serves an ethnically and financially diverse student body of 1,150 sixth, seventh, and eighth...
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Marva Bailer is the IBM Business Unit Executive for North America Smarter Planet Industry Solutions....
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Matsuo Marti is the founding principal of Chicago’s Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy....
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Matt Blakely is Director of the Motorola Solutions Foundation....
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Honorable Michael A. Nutter, the 98th mayor of Philadelphia, has set a course for America’s sixth largest city aimed at growing the regional economy in a sustainable manner, dramatically improving public safety and investing in education and workforce development.
With a pledge to make... more
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Michael Allen is President and Chief Executive Officer, United Way Ottawa....
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Molly Shaw is executive director of Communities In schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc., an affiliate of the national
Communities In Schools (CIS) network....
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Director of Global Source to Pay and Supplier Management at Facebook...
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Nancy Wackstein has been Executive Director of United Neighborhood Houses of New York (UNH) since 2002. UNH is the federation of the City’s 38 settlement houses and community centers. Prior to her UNH appointment, she was the Executive Director of Lenox... more
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Nandie Little teaches high school biology in Orlando, Florida....
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Nicole Catapano, Ph.D., is the Data Analysis Coordinator for the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex Board of Cooperative Educational Services (WSWHE BOCES) in upstate New York....
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Pete Joodi, Ph.D., is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Senior Location Executive for Columbus/Dublin,Ohio. Dr. Joodi is a recognized expert in designing, developing and deploying complex solutions for the automotive and energy/utility industries. He leads the academic initiative for...
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Peter Welch represents the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives. He can be reached at
http://welch.house.gov....
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Explorer, social entrepreneur and environmental advocate, Philippe Cousteau is the son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr., and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. In addition to his work in environmental education and media, Philippe is co-founder of more
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Praphan Phanuphak, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University and Director of The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre in Bangkok....
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Rahm Emanuel was elected the 55th mayor of Chicago on February 22nd, 2011 and was sworn in on May 16th, 2011.
A native of Chicago with three terms representing his North Side district in Congress, Rahm Emanuel is deeply rooted in... more
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Senior Vice President, Human Resources, IBM...
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Remi Abere leads IBM’s Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs efforts in West Africa....
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Richard D. Parsons is Chairman of the
New NY Education Reform Commission. Mr. Parsons is a former Chairman of Citigroup and the former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner....
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Rick Koubek is Dean of the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University....
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Robin Selber is a Director of Integrated Technology Services focused on Public Sector, Communications Sector and General Business Clients with IBM Global Technology Services....
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Robin Webster is CEO of Age Action Ireland, a nonprofit dedicated to achieving fundamental change in the lives of all older people by empowering them to live full lives as actively engaged citizens. Age Action Ireland was awarded an IBM...
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Senior Vice President, IBM Systems & Technology Group...
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Director, Market Insights, IBM Global Market Analysis...
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Rosangela Hickson, Ph.D., is the principal investigator of Brazil’s “Say No to Schistosoma” Project, powered by World Community Grid....
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Sandra Kelish, M.Ed., NBCT, teaches second grade at
Rocky Run Elementary School in Fredericksburg, Virginia....
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Sarah Knoop is a Healthcare Systems Research Manager with IBM Research....
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CEO of Australian Business Volunteers
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Seth Reichelson is an AP Computer Science teacher at lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Mr. Reichelson is the 2012 Central Florida Air force Teacher of the Year and recipient of the 2011 National Center for Women &...
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Vice President, Government Industry Strategy & Solutions, IBM...
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Shilpa Menezes is a Release Manager / Project Manager with the Project Management Operations team of IBM’s Business-to-Business & Commerce group. She also has a background as an Advisory Learning Specialist and Senior Learning & Organization Development Manager....
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Serving Alberta’s Capital City for a third term, Mayor Stephen Mandel has led the City of Edmonton since October 2004.
Mayor Mandel is a strong advocate for Alberta municipalities, ensuring they receive a fair share of funding to pay for vital... more
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Steve Hamm is a communications strategist, writer and videographer at IBM. He was previously a journalist for 30 years, the last 12 as a senior technology writer at
BusinessWeek. He is the author of
Bangalore Tiger, about the rise of...
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Sujatha Sebastian is the Director of BOC’s Women’s Business Center. Having grown up in a small family business in NYC she firmly believes that microenterprises can help transform and empower communities....
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Tina Kelley, a former New York Times reporter who shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of 9/11, is a staff writer at Covenant House, which operates shelters in 17 cities throughout the United States and Canada....
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Tina Roche is CEO of Business in the Community Ireland....
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An executive and engineer with a focus on sustainability, infrastructure, planning and communities, Tony Brun serves as Chief Executive Officer of the City of Geraldton, Australia....
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Country General Manager, IBM East Africa
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Tyler Sparks-Austin is the IBM Client Executive for the Ontario, Canada School Districts....
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Ulay Karakoc is President of ZICEV, Turkey's Foundation for the Training and Protection of Mentally Handicapped Children....
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Ullrich Sierau is the mayor of Dortmund, Germany....
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Vern spent many years campaigning for sustainable land and waterways management in North Queensland. A committed environmentalist, Vern completed a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Biology in 2005 and has worked prior to his Council appointment as a Wetlands... more
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Victoria Voronova is a Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs specialist with IBM Russia....
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Virginia Romanutti is Project Coordinator in Argentina of the Latin America Network of Fair, Democratic and Sustainable Cities, and member of El Agora....
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Warner Dijkhuizen is the Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager for IBM in the Netherlands....
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Wayne Balta is IBM's Vice President for Environmental Affairs and Product Safety....
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William T. Newlin is Executive Director of the Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement House – a member of United Neighborhood Houses of New York, and a community based non-profit organization that offers comprehensive services to the youth, adults, seniors and families...
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The Honorable William V. “Bill” Bell was elected Mayor of Durham, North Carolina in 2001. Prior to serving as Mayor, Mr. Bell served as an elected Durham County Commissioner for 26 years, and as Chairman of the Durham Board of...
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Xin Wen (Vivian) Qi is a User Experience Manager and Certified Usability Analyst with IBM Shanghai....
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Muhammad Yawar Muzammil is Assistant Manager for External Engagement at The Hunar Foundation. In addition to his professional work, Yawar also volunteers time to other charity works and has helped survivors of recent earthquakes and floods in Pakistan. Prior to...
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