Victor d'Allant

Executive Director, Social Edge

As Executive Director of Social Edge, an initiative of the Skoll Foundation, Victor d¹Allant is responsible for building a global online community where social entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals and other practitioners of the

social sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.

Victor is a global media executive and cultural anthropologist who has

worked for or consulted with large corporations (Newsweek, Bloomberg,

Reader's Digest), international organizations (the World Bank and the World Health Organization) and entrepreneurial startups (he was Chief Executive Officer of Ascribe Newswire).

He started his career as a Paris-based photojournalist reporting on economic and social issues from Brazil, India, Turkey, Yemen, Burkina Faso and Bangladesh. He received the Air France Award for Photojournalism and his work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Paris. Victor served for four years on the Advisory Board of the Women¹s Technology Cluster in San Francisco. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the French American International School in San Francisco.

He has a B.A. and an M.A. in social anthropology from the Sorbonne in Paris and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Joe Baker

Executive Director, N-Ten

Joe Baker joined N-TEN as Executive Director in February 2005. Joe was most recently the Director of Internet Communications for Amnesty International USA and previously served Amnesty as Grassroots Advocacy Director and Deputy Director, Western Region. In addition to his extensive nonprofit management experience, Joe spent seven years performing and managing telecommunications and wireless systems research and has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Master's in Telecommunications Engineering from UCLA.

James M. Brady

Executive Editor, washingtonpost.com

Jim Brady was named executive editor of washingtonpost.com in November 2004. Prior to his appointment, Brady served as a consultant for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, focusing primarily on product development and strategy.

This is Brady's second stint at washingtonpost.com. He served as sports editor and assistant managing editor for news from 1995 to 1999. Brady was on staff for the site's Web launch in June 1996, and helped coordinate the site's coverage of the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

After leaving washingtonpost.com in 1999, Brady spent more than four years at America Online, serving as Group Programming Director, News & Sports; Executive Director, Editorial Operations; and Vice President, Production & Operations. During his time at AOL, Brady was in charge of the service's coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election.

Prior to his first stint at washingtonpost.com, Brady was as a sportswriter at The Washington Post from 1987 to 1995. During his career, Brady has also served as the Washington sports correspondent for UPI, interned as a sportswriter at Newsday and worked as a researcher for NBC during the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.

Brady earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism from The American University in 1989.

Born in Queens, N.Y. and raised in Huntington, N.Y., Brady now lives with his wife, Joan, in Great Falls, Va.

Michael Carberry

President, CARMA International

After receiving an MBA from Columbia University, Mr. Carberry began his career in New York as an advertising account executive at SSC&B/Lintas and, later, Wells Rich Greene. He moved to Washington as advertising manager of the U.S. Postal Service. He was a partner at Porter, Novelli & Associates; CEO of Shandwick's Henry J. Kaufman & Associates; general manager of the Washington office of Earle Palmer Brown; and senior vice president of Direct Impact, Burson-Marsteller's grassroots communications subsidiary. Currently, Mike is President of CARMA International, a global media analysis firm.

Mr. Carberry is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and American University and a retired Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.

Thomas Kriese

Executive Producer, Omidyar Network

Thomas Kriese is executive producer at Omidyar Network, a mission-based investment group committed to fostering individual self-empowerment on a global scale. Thomas manages omidyar.net, Omidyar Network's online community, which allows members to share information, discuss different ideas and viewpoints, and collaborate on projects to make the world a better place. Thomas also serves as liaison between community members and Omidyar Network’s development team to enhance the collaborative tools used by the community.

Prior to Omidyar Network, Thomas worked for seven years at America Online and AOL Time Warner. At AOL, he created content programming models for short-duration network programming and then went on to launch AOL Hometown, the home pages community where members publish their own web page content. Several years later, Thomas joined the AOL Time Warner Foundation, where he worked with nonprofits like MENTOR and PowerUP to provide easy and innovative access to their content for online audiences.

Thomas received a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of California at San Diego, achieving fluency in Spanish and French. Born in North Carolina, he was raised in New Mexico and now lives in Campbell, CA with his wife and two daughters.

Mari Kuraishi

President, Global Giving

Mari Kuraishi co-founded Global Giving in 2003. She is the President/COO of Global Giving, a web-based service that allows donors to discover, support, and follow small scale community projects carried out by social entrepreneurs all over the world.

She joined the World Bank in 1991 where she managed and created some of the Bank's most innovative projects. Mari designed and organized the first series of strategic forums with the World Bank's president and senior management as one of the managers of the newly created Corporate Strategy Group, and the first ever Innovation and Development Marketplaces. The Development Marketplace has been recognized as a leading example of public sector innovation in an article in the Harvard Business Review by Robert Chapman and Gary Hamel (November 2002). Over the course of her career at the World Bank Mari developed a capacity for delivering high risk, high return projects in green field areas. She joined the World Bank’s Russia program at its earliest inception, and forged extremely successful relationships with counterparts of a client not only brand-new to the World Bank, but a significantly different profile and interests from most World Bank clients.

During the course of her assignment on Russia, Mari designed a range of innovative investment projects in the Russia reform program, including a large-scale residential energy efficiency project, structural adjustment loans, and the World Bank's first legal reform project.

Jonathan Peizer

Founder and President, Internaut Consulting

Jonathan Peizer has over two decades of extensive experience in strategic planning, development, management, and successful execution of projects employing a broad variety of technologies. He developed the 40+ country Soros Foundation Network’s operational IT strategy and directed its global Internet program which implemented ISP’s throughout Central & Eastern Europe and developed innovative ways to apply the Internet to issues of human rights and independent media. He has significant experience working in international, cross-cultural environments in over 75 countries. He has worked for Citicorp, AFS, Cheyenne Software and the Soros Foundations and is the author of the recently published book, The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change. He currently manages his own consulting firm, (Internautconsulting), a socially responsible eCommerce Enterprise (Greentealovers), and an online nonprofit peer-reviewed capacity resource, Capaciteria. He is the founder and Board chair of the NGO Aspiration which develops new methodologies to create and maintain mission critical software in the nonprofit environment

Bill Strathmann

Chief Executive Officer, Network for Good

Bill Strathmann is Network for Good's CEO and is a member of its Board of Directors. He is a social entrepreneur, who throughout his career has traversed sectors, bringing good business practices to corporations and nonprofits alike. Bill came to Network for Good from Bearing Point, where he provided strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions consulting to corporations and nonprofit organizations across the nation. With Andersen Business Consulting, he developed and led a consulting practice serving large nonprofits including the Nature Conservancy, National Geographic Society, National Association of Home Builders, and the United Way.

Throughout his career, Bill has spoken and written on topics including philanthropy, strategic planning, performance management, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate social responsibility. Bill has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Haverford College and a master's degree in business administration from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. In addition to Network for Good, he serves on the board of The ePhilanthropy Foundation, The Anacostia Watershed Society, and The Shohola Scholarship Fund.