Speakers

Below please find biographies on our distinguished line up of speakers. Please continue to monitor this page for the latest updates as we will continually be adding speakers as we prepare for Conference.

Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President, Children's Defense Fund (CDF)

Marian Wright Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. The Children's Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

David Hessekiel

Founder and President, Cause Marketing Forum

Since 2002, The Cause Marketing Forum (www.causemarketingforum.com) has empowered thousands of executives to achieve greater cause marketing success through its conferences, webinars and online offerings. CMF provides cause marketers with practical knowledge, valuable connections and recognition for outstanding accomplishments.

Stanley S. Litow

President of the IBM Foundation and Vice President for Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM

Under his leadership, IBM has developed new innovative technologies to help children and adults learn to read, helped people with disabilities access the internet and created a humanitarian grid to power research on Alzheimers, Cancer and AIDS. IBM contributes about $180 million across 170 countries globally. IBM's efforts in education through its Reinventing Education program have raised student achievement and won the company the Ron Brown Award presented by the President of the United States. Three times, in '96, '99, and '01 he helped lead National Education Summits for the President, the nation's Governor's and business leaders, all of which took place at IBM. He also helped create IBM's Corporate Service Corps, a corporate version of the Peace Corps which deploys 500 of IBM's top emerging leaders in community assignments in the developing world.

Kellie A. McElhaney

Faculty Director of the Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley

Kellie launched the Center for Responsible Business in 2003, which has helped place corporate responsibility squarely as one of the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Haas School. The Center has received global critical acclaim with The Financial Times rating Haas #1 in the world in 2008. Professor McElhaney teaches across all MBA, executive Berkeley-Columbia MBA, and Executive Education programs at the Haas School.

Dan Pallotta

President and Chief Humanity Officer, Advertising for Humanity

Dan is the inventor of the multi-day charitable event industry. He created the AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days which raised over half a billion dollars in nine years and were the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. These concepts and methods are employed today by dozens of charities on a variety of events throughout the world, which raise approximately one hundred million dollars annually for AIDS, breast cancer, leukemia, and multiple sclerosis research, as well as suicide prevention.

Tim Stiles

Partner-In-Charge, Global Grants Program, KPMG

As Partner-In-Charge of KPMG’s Global Grants Program (GGP) Stiles is responsible for the day-to-day management, oversight, operations and coordination between grantees, clients, foreign offices and the GGP staff. The GGP engages approximately 350 full- and part-time people in more than 135 countries on six continents. Tim has worked in the not-for-profit sector for over 20 years. His experience includes assisting private, family, and corporate foundations as well as public charities and other funding organizations with their domestic and international granting needs.

H. Art Taylor

President and Chief Executive Officer, BBB Wise Giving Alliance

Art oversees all aspects of BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s work, which includes setting standards for soliciting organizations, evaluating individual national charities in relation to these standards, promoting charity accountability and providing a variety of materials on informed giving to individual, institutional and business donors.

Pat Williams

Senior Vice President, Orlando Magic

Pat became a pro sports general manager at age 24—one of the youngest in history—and he has spent over 48 years as a player and executive in professional baseball and basketball. Since 1968, Pat has been the general manager with teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Orlando. Pat Williams is one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, Pat has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies. Pat is also the author of over 65 books, his most recent title being Coach Wooden: The 7 Principles that Shaped His Life and Will Change Yours. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history.

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