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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 from 6:15 PM - 9:00 PM (PT)
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Who are our judges?
Premal Shah - President, Kiva.org
Premal Shah is President of Kiva.org – a website that lets you make $25 micro-loans to low-income entrepreneurs around the world. Kiva raises $1 million every 10 days for the working poor and was named as a Top 50 website by TIME magazine in 2008. Prior to Kiva, Premal spent 6 years at PayPal, an eBay company where he began to develop his thinking on how the internet could expand microfinance. Premal started his career as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman in New York. He was an invited speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative and was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos. His most surreal experience was carrying the Olympic Torch for the 2008 Summer Games. Premal graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University.
Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Impact domain lead, IDEO
Jocelyn Wyatt leads IDEO’s Social Impact domain, which she has grown during the past year and a half. Jocelyn’s career has focused on building social enterprises and advising businesses in the developing world, using the market to create social change.
At IDEO, Jocelyn has brought a business perspective to a variety of social impact projects with clients including Rockefeller Foundation, Kickstart, Acumen Fund, and Gates Foundation. Jocelyn also teaches social enterprise at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Prior to joining IDEO in October 2007, Jocelyn worked in Kenya as an Acumen Fund fellow with an agro-pharmaceutical company. Jocelyn served as VisionSpring’s Interim Country Director in India. Additionally, Jocelyn worked in international training, project management, and business development at Chemonics International, a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Jocelyn received an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College.
Mark O'Leary- Regional Vice President of Comcast Business Class
Over the last 24 years, Mark has held various executive positions in the telecommunications, cable, software and networking industries. Mark’s career includes VP/GM roles in Fortune 500 companies and as CEO of venture-backed start-ups in the technology sector. In these roles, he has had a track record of successfully scaling companies and business units in high growth environments.
Mark is currently the Regional Vice President for Business Services for Comcast in Central California. In this capacity, Mark is responsible for building a B2B organization that will provide data, telecommunications and video products to the commercial market.
Prior to joining Comcast, Mark was Founder of Phi Performance Systems, a consulting firm that worked with technology companies in aligning overall execution with corporate strategy. Mark was also CEO of HCORP, a health care applications company that provided in-hospital patient and clinical applications via a broadband content network. After establishing early market leadership in their segment, Mark sold HCORP in 2002.
Prior to HCORP, Mark served as CEO of Euclid Inc. where he and his team in the US and India brought to market a suite of IT Operational Support System (OSS) software and services to provide large commercial IT departments visibility into their service delivery quality and true cost of IT resources by product, LOB or customer.
Mark also served as the Executive Vice President of Broadband Services at Excite@Home responsible for the $450 Million @Home and @Work business units. Mark’s responsibilities included, P&L, Operations, Sales and Marketing, Product Development and overall Service Delivery of consumer and commercial Internet products. In this capacity, Mark and his team scaled the Excite@Home’s consumer broadband Internet base from 1.8 to 3.6 Million subscribers, resulting in the largest broadband Internet network in existence.
Mark spent 19 years with AT&T in various executive and management positions including Vice President of Managed Network Services, Director of Global Technical Marketing and GM of National Accounts. In these capacities Mark was one of the principals of the transformational management of AT&T Business Services that led to it’s market leadership in the data services industry.
MC: Edith Yeung, Founder of BizTechDay
Edith Yeung is the creator and producer of BizTechDay – one of the largest business-technology conferences serving the small business community held annually in San Francisco. Edith is passionate about connecting and bringing business owners together and helping them succeed.
Edith has appeared and been quoted on CBS, CNN, Comcast and SethGodin.com. She is the organizer for two San Francisco Entrepreneur Meetups with over 2100 members. She serves on the board for San Francisco Small Business Week 2009 and for Pathways for Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching entrepreneurship skills to underprivileged youths. Edith is also cofounder and CEO of Clue Market, a marketing and education firm. Prior, she consulted with numerous Fortune 500 companies including AT&T Wireless, Oracle, Siebel, Autodesk, Cisco Systems, Symantec, American Management Systems (AMS), Telstra Australia, Matav Hungary Telecom and Taiwan Semi-Conductor.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Edith moved to the United Stated by herself at the age of 16. She survived the culture shock with minimum English and earned her B.S. at Purdue University in Industrial Management with a focus on Information Systems and Marketing. Edith has led many lives: pianist, square dancer, software engineer, corporate slave, road warrior, consultant and entrepreneur. Early 2007, she left Corporate America to pursue something really meaningful to her – her entrepreneurial dream of empowering the small business community.
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