President Nelson Mandela is the former president of South Africa.  Nelson Mandela is recognized as one of the world’s most significant and inspiring leaders. After his presidency, he continues to champion causes related to health, democracy and education through the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. President Mandela serves as an Honorary Board Member for VillageReach.

Graça Machel is widely recognized for her dedication to education and leadership in organizations devoted to children. Mrs. Machel currently serves as Chairperson of the Commonwealth Foundation, President of the Foundation for Community Development (FDC) and as Chair of The Vaccine Fund, an organization established in 1999 to address the need for Vaccines and immunizations in the world’s poorest countries. Mrs. Machel is also the former First Lady and Minister of Education for Mozambique. She serves as an Honorary Board Member for VillageReach.

Alexandra Brookshire Esq. attended the University of Texas and Stanford University’s law schools, graduating with honors from the University of Texas in 1981. She began her professional career in New York City at the firm of Dewey Ballentine. After New York, she moved to Seattle and was a partner at Seattle’s largest corporate and securities law firm, Perkins Coie. There, she specialized for 10 years in corporate finance, mergers and acquisition, and intellectual property for technology companies. In 1995, she became Vice President and General Counsel for Wall Data Incorporated, a public company specializing in enterprise network connectivity software. She is now serving on various for-profit and not-for profit boards and is a consultant to several medical device and technology companies.

Michael Free, PhD has served as vice president and senior advisor for technologies at Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) for two decades. Dr. Free is the strategic program leader for Technology Solutions, the leadership role in PATH health technology programs, which includes assessment of need, technology development and transfer, global introduction, development of international standards, program planning and management, and policy development. His major program areas are technology design and development, local production of health and family planning products, introduction strategies, and quality assurance of products in the field. He is the project leader of the Technologies for Health (HealthTech) project, an 18-year-old, USAID-funded, multi-million dollar program to develop appropriate technologies to improve maternal and child health. Dr. Free brings 30 years of experience in design and development of health technologies for underserved populations. He holds four patents, and extensive publications in research, technology and health issues. He holds a doctorate in physiology. Dr. Free is a British citizen with permanent resident status in the United States.

Karen E. Glover (Kari) practiced law for over 30 years as a corporate and health care regulatory lawyer, and was Firm Managing Partner of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, a Seattle-based firm of 430 lawyers with eleven offices in Washington, D.C., the West Coast and Greater China. As such, she presided over its merger with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, an East Coast firm, effective January 1, 2007, to form K&L Gates, an international law firm comprising about 1,700 lawyers on three continents, including Europe and the United Kingdom. Ms. Glover served as Global Integration Partner of K&L Gates, traveling constantly until she withdrew from the partnership and the active practice of law in 2008. Ms. Glover has long experience in civic leadership, including as Chair of United Way of King County; President of the King County Library System; and Chair of the Board of Whitman College. Ms. Glover holds degrees with honors from Whitman College (A.B., Philosophy, 1972) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1975). She is married and has two daughters.

Laura is a Managing Director and head of the Global Health practice at FSG Social Impact Advisors. She has over twelve years of strategy consulting experience and has advised international NGOs, private foundations, and corporations on strategic planning, program design, evaluation, market analyses, and stakeholder engagement. For these clients and others she has provided in-country research throughout Africa, South Asia and Latin America to evaluate in-country operations of partners, assess impact and develop relationships for long-term strategic initiatives.

Laura started her career at Deloitte Consulting, focused on large-scale organizational change initiatives. She holds an M.B.A. with a certificate in Public Management from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She also holds an M.A. in International Policy from Stanford University and a B.B.A. in International Business from the University of Michigan.

Paul Kleindorfer, PhD is a Professor of Management Science, Economics and Public Policy at The Wharton School. The author of several publications, Dr. Kleindorfer’s current interests include risk management for the energy sector; the economics of postal and delivery services; environmental strategy; and natural hazards insurance and mitigation. He has served as a consultant in the areas of economics, strategy, and public policy of regulated industries for federal and state agencies in the U.S. and abroad, including National Grid Company, NYNEX, the U.S. Departments of Energy and State, AT&T, and various Postal Administrations.

Blaise Judja-Sato is the Founder of VillageReach. Blaise is passionate about providing economic opportunities and improving access to essential services for people throughout the world. In 2000, deeply affected by his participation in relief efforts for flood victims in Mozambique, Blaise founded VillageReach. Blaise worked as a senior consultant at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) advising companies and governments on strategic, organizational and information technologies issues. Shortly after graduating from the Wharton School, Blaise joined AT&T International where he developed and implemented telecommunications solutions to bring broadband services to Africa. Through this experience, he became keenly aware of how technology and entrepreneurship can empower people to transform their lives and communities. In 1996, Blaise joined a Craig McCaw and Bill Gates venture to develop satellite-based broadband communications services. Blaise and his colleagues challenged traditional satellite operators by enlisting broad international support and securing worldwide spectrum allocation and licenses. In addition to his leadership role at VillageReach, Blaise is active in a variety of charitable efforts to address global inequities. He serves as president of the Nelson Mandela Foundation USA, an organization that supports Mr. Mandela’s work to combat AIDS, improve rural development, increase access to education, and promote reconciliation and peace-building. Blaise received an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s degree in telecommunications engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, and a Master’s degree in applied mathematics from the Université des Sciences de Montpellier in France. He is fluent in French and English and conversant in Portuguese and several African languages. Blaise is a native of Cameroon where most of his family still lives.

Paul Suzman is the founder of OfficeLease a six person real estate firm that has specialized, since 1981, in commercial building tenant and buyer representation. OfficeLease advises and represents numerous Seattle area companies in their strategic real estate planning, alternative facility evaluations, lease vs. purchase decisions and all negotiations.

Mr. Suzman attended Hilton College and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and immigrated to Seattle in 1979. He has served on the boards of several local companies such as The Learning Garden (Bright Horizons) and Torrefazione Italia Coffee, and non-profit organizations including, Pacific Science Center, University of Washington Presidents Club, UW Autism, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Henry Art Gallery. He was a founding board member of the Washington Technology Industry Alliance, serves as chair of Seattle’s Community Development Roundtable and is active in Seattle Rotary Club. Mr. Suzman is also a member of the Washington Athletic and Seattle Tennis Clubs, is an avid cyclist and has served as faculty for numerous real estate seminars. He has also authored numerous papers and articles on the subject of real estate negotiation.

Seth Berkley, MD is President and Chief Executive Officer pf the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). Dr. Berkley is a medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international health. A member of several international steering committees and boards, Dr. Berkley has consulted or worked in over 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He is the author of 85 publications and has written extensively on infectious disease, participating as a core team member in writing the World Bank’s 1993 World Development Report on Health. Prior to founding IAVI, Dr. Berkley was Associate Director of the Health Sciences Division at the Rockefeller Foundation. He has also worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Carter Center. Dr. Berkley served on the VillageReach board from 2003 to 2010.

Jeff Dossett is the Chief Executive Officer of AdventureLink Inc. where he oversees corporate strategy, sales, marketing, technology, product development, operations, customer care, financial management, human resources, and investor relations. He was formerly Senior Vice President for U.S. Audience at Yahoo! and was also the executive producer and general manager for the MSN media network in the United States. Jeff joined Microsoft in 1991 and had served in a variety of senior sales and marketing roles including general manager of Microsoft’s Canadian subsidiary and as Chairman & CEO of MSN Carpoint (now MSN Autos), DealerPoint and general manager of MSN HomeAdvisor (now MSN Real Estate & MSN Lifestyle). In 2002, Jeff took two years away from his career at Microsoft to pursue his passion for adventure with a goal to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents, known as the “Seven Summits”. Reaching the summit of Mount Everest on May 24, 2004, Jeff became the third Canadian in history to successfully complete the Seven Summits. Jeff holds a degree in business administration with honors from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is married and has three children.

Rick Fant is Head of Internet Discovery at Vodafone Group, where he leads development and deployment of consumer internet access services for Vodafone customers across the company. Prior to Vodafone, Rick had a long career at Microsoft in a variety of roles from marketing to professional services management.

Juliette Gimon is a Family Council Member of the Flora Family Foundation. In 2000, as one of the first fellows of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, she co-founded the Global Philanthropy Forum, which is now a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. While working with the Forum, Ms. Gimon served as its Outreach and Development Coordinator. After leaving the Global Philanthropy Forum, Ms. Gimon worked at JP Morgan Private Bank as Vice President of Global Philanthropic Services until August of 2005. Ms. Gimon earned her BA in Anthropology from Columbia University. She currently serves on the board of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Synergos Institute, and The Global Fund for Children. She also serves on the Advisory Committee of Youth Philanthropy Worldwide, and the Global Philanthropy Forum.

Mark Kane, MD is currently retired and acts as a consultant on Immunization Policy. He is the former Director of the Children’s Vaccine Program at PATH. Previous to his experience at PATH, Dr. Kane had a 20 year career with the US Centers for Disease Control. For the last 10 years of this career he was assigned to the Expanded Programme on Immunization at The World Health Organization in Geneva where he was responsible for the introduction of Hepatitis B and other new vaccines. Dr. Kane was on the founding Board of GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) and was the founding President of the Global Fund for Children’s Vaccines (now called the GAVI Fund). Dr. Kane completed VillageReach’s recent program evaluation by conducting an independent review of survey data and a five-year project report.

John Lloyd is the Technical Adviser of Immunization Solutions at PATH Children’s Vaccine Program (PATH/CVP) in France. He is responsible for having initiated the ‘Share’ reward system for Immunization Services, the ‘Data Quality Audit’ for verification of reported immunizations, and the ‘Access’ approach to raise immunization coverage. Mr. Lloyd has over 30 years of experience designing and evaluating appropriate health technology, primarily in the developing world. Prior to working at PATH/CVP, he served over 20 years as a technical officer for the Expanded Program for Immunizations at the World Health Organization (WHO/EPI) where he was responsible for Cold Chain and Logistic support. He received diplomas in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Architectural Association, London in 1970, and in 1976 completed a fellowship at the Center for Environmental Studies, London. Mr. Lloyd is the author of over 13 publications on immunizations and injection safety in developing nations.

Tricia McKay oversees all activities of the Medina Foundation. Medina is a family foundation whose giving areas include homelessness, hunger, at-risk youth and families and educational assistance to kids at-risk of academic failure. Tricia formerly was the director of the Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation. In this capacity, she also started and managed Team Read, a program in which high school students tutor at-risk second and third graders. Tricia spent two years teaching first-year journalism students history and political science in a small college in Tanzania in East Africa, where she was a volunteer with Jesuit Volunteers International. Prior to that, she was Director of Government Affairs for Washington Natural Gas, following a stint as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel J. Evans in Washington, D.C.

Tom McKown is an Executive Officer and Corporate Vice Present of NN, Inc. (a leading bearing components manufacturer). Mr. McKown is responsible for all business activities within the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining NN, Mr. McKown held various management positions within firms operating in Hong Kong, Malaysia, PR China, and Taiwan as well as being involved in various development projects in Africa, Latin America, and Central Asia.

Peggy Morrow has over 35 years experience in international public health, with particular emphasis on improving the health of women and children. Before retiring in 2005, she was Vice President for Resource Mobilization and External Relations for PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health). At PATH, she contributed to strategic program planning and development of fundraising partnerships as well as oversight of external relations, communications, protection of human subjects, and The Fund for Technology Transfer. She has also implemented projects and served as consultant in countries in Asia and Africa. She has served on various nonprofit boards including Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and the Washington Council on International Trade.

Geoffrey Pasvol, MD, D Phil obtained his Medical Degree from the University of Cape Town in 1972. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at The University of Oxford England and obtained his D Phil on the hemoglobinopathies and malaria. In 1983 he was a Research Associate at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, USA. He was appointed a Wellcome Senior Fellow at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford in 1984 and in 1989 became Director of the Wellcome Research Unit on the Kenyan coast in Kilifi. He was appointed Professor in Infection & Tropical Medicine, at Imperial College London in 1990 where he has been since. He is a practising clinician in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. His main research interests are in the pathogenesis of severe malaria as well as the immunology, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. He is currently Director of the Imperial College, Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine which carries out research mainly on tuberculosis and HIV infection in Lima Peru, Mumbai India and Cape Town South Africa.

David Patterson received a BA in Mathematics from Hendrix College in 1966, a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1967 and a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He has managed the design, development and deployment of several systems involving leading-edge technology in computing, software, voice and data communications and satellite systems and networks. Mr. Patterson was responsible for the design concept of the global broadband satellite network at Teledesic, where he served as Tele Vice President of Engineering and Chief Architect. Mr. Patterson is currently Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Populex Corp., where he is responsible for the development of their voting and election management systems. In addition he is a private consultant for high technology companies.

Dave Richards is the Principal of Bodega Ventures and Co-Founder of HelpHive, Inc. Dave has a passion for discovering scalable and sustainable approaches to breaking the scourge of extreme poverty which he writes about on his blog, DefeatPoverty.com. Currently Dave serves as an active board member and advisor to Unitus, and is a partner with Social Venture Partners. Dave is an experienced entrepreneur and executive in high-growth software, digital media and Internet services sectors. He has led businesses at RealNetworks, Sybase and Symantec from startup to multiple hundred million dollar global enterprises. He recently co-founded Bodega Ventures, an Internet technology business incubator which has just launched its first operating company, HelpHive, Inc. Dave also co-founded Busy Investor, a social business which matches investors with credit-challenged home buyers to provide bridge financing for home ownership. Dave has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia with a major in finance and minor in computer science. Dave and his wife Sharon are the proud parents of three children and reside in Seattle.

John Wolf received his BSEE, MSEE, and Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla. From 1963 to 1997, he held several senior level positions with the McDonnell Douglas Corporations, including Executive Vice President of the McDonnell Aircraft Company, and Senior Vice President of the Douglas Aircraft Company. In 1997, Mr. Wolf joined Teledesic, LLC in Seattle, WA as Chief Operating Officer. He returned to Aeronautics in 1998 as Chief Operating Officer of the Fairchild Dornier Corporation, Germany, where he was responsible for the development, launch and manufacturing of various commercial aircraft. Mr. Wolf is currently retired and living in Seattle, WA.