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Feather Houstoun is senior adviser to the Wyncote Foundation. Before joining the Wyncote Foundation, she was president of the William Penn Foundation. Perhaps best known for her distinguished career in the public sector, she has worked at every level of government, serving as Pennsylvania's Secretary of Public Welfare, Treasurer of the State of New Jersey, and chief financial officer of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Houstoun is a regular columnist for Management Insights, a joint publication of Governing Magazine and the Ash Institute of Democratic Governance at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to joining the Foundation, Houstoun was an executive with AmeriChoice and was a senior visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
Vice Chair
Clara Miller is president of The F. B. Heron Foundation in New York City, a private foundation dedicated to helping low-income people and communities help themselves. Before joining the Foundation, she founded and spent 27 years as president and CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. In addition to serving on the Foundation's board, Ms. Miller serves on the boards of GuideStar, PopTech, and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and is a member of the Social Investment Practice Committee of The Kresge Foundation, The Bank of America's National Community Advisory Council, and the Aspen Philanthropy Group. In 2010 Miller became a member of the first Nonprofit Advisory Committee of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Secretary
Charles Best leads DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization that provides a simple, personal, and accountable way for people to address educational inequity. At DonorsChoose.org, public school teachers post classroom project requests, and donors can pick the projects they want to support. Every donor then gets photographs and thank-you letters from the classroom he or she chose to help. Recognition of DonorsChoose.org includes the Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award, selection by Ashoka, and election by the TechCrunch community as the Web site "most likely to make the world a better place." Fortune Magazine has twice featured Mr. Best in the "40 under 40" list of "business’s hottest rising stars." In 2010, Oprah Winfrey announced DonorsChoose.org as one of her "Ultimate Favorite Things." In 2011, Fast Company listed DonorsChoose.org as one of the "50 Most Innovative Companies in the World," the first time a charity has received this recognition.
Treasurer
Tom Tinsley is an advisory director at General Atlantic LLC, a global private equity firm, where he has worked since 1999. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Tinsley served in executive positions with Baan Company, NV. Prior to joining Baan, Mr. Tinsley was a director at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Tinsley currently serves on the advisory board of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and on the boards of BMC Software; GuideStar USA, Inc.; Intermedia; LifeFlight of Maine; Teach for America; and Net One in South Africa.
Sophie Bromberg is director—global online help at Google, Inc. Before joining Google, she was investments director at the Omidyar Foundation, the social venture firm funded by eBay's founder; senior director, global trust and safety, at eBay; a manager at the Boston Consulting Group; and a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. She received a B.A. in economics from Wellesley and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Alix Guerrier is a co-founder of a new educational Web company, LearnZillion. Prior to founding LearnZillion, he was a consultant in McKinsey & Company's Education Practice, where he advised school systems and foundations on strategic matters. His previous work experience includes: teaching in and directing an after-school program in one of Boston's public housing projects; working as a member of the housing group in the public finance department of an investment bank in New York; and teaching full-time for several years, including in an international school in Brazil. He most recently taught math at a public charter high school in San Francisco, and subsequently served on the Board of Trustees for the school. He is a newly elected member of the board of Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Alix has an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a Master's in Education from the Stanford University School of Education. He graduated from Harvard University with an AB in physics. He lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, D.C.
Jacob Harold had led grantmaking for the Hewlett Foundation's Philanthropy Program since 2006. In that time, he has overseen more than $25 million in grants which, together, aim to build a 21st-century infrastructure for smart giving. Mr. Harold joined the Foundation from The Bridgespan Group, where he served as a strategy advisor to nonprofits and foundations. Before that, he worked as a climate change strategist in New Delhi, India, for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and in the United States for Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA. At the start of his career, he was the organizing director for Citizen Works and spent a year as a grassroots organizer with Green Corps. He has written extensively on climate change and philanthropic strategy. Mr. Harold earned an AB summa cum laude from Duke University, received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and studied complex systems science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He grew up in Winston-Salem, N.C., where his parents lead small, community-based human service nonprofits.
Mari co-founded GlobalGiving with Dennis Whittle and currently leads the organization. In 2011, Mari was named one of Foreign Policy's top 100 Global Thinkers for "crowdsourcing worldsaving." Before GlobalGiving, she worked at the World Bank, where she managed and created some of the Bank's most innovative projects, including the first-ever Innovation and Development Marketplaces and the first series of strategic forums with the World Bank's president and senior management. Mari also designed a range of investment projects in the Russia reform program, including a residential energy efficiency project, structural adjustment loans, and legal reform project. She currently serves as chair of the board of the Global Business School Network and on the board of GuideStar USA. In addition to her native Japanese, Mari also speaks Russian, Italian, and French. She has an undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and did graduate work in Russian and Japanese history and politics at Harvard and Georgetown Universities. Mari also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
William F. Meehan III is a lecturer in Strategic Management and the Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, director of Juniper Networks, and a director emeritus of McKinsey & Company. He is also a faculty affiliate of Stanford's Center for Social Innovation; member of the board of advisors of the Stanford Social Innovation Review; and a founding member of the advisory council of the Center for Philanthropy and the Civil Society. Mr. Meehan is a long-time board member of GuideStar and the San Francisco Symphony, a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Endowment Board, and a member of the National Academies Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP).
Robert G. Ottenhoff was elected president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of GuideStar in September 2002. Mr. Ottenhoff joined GuideStar in 2002, after several years of managing high-tech companies and an international consulting practice. He serves on the boards of VisionTV, Grameen Foundation USA, AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy, and ePhilanthropy Foundation. In addition, Mr. Ottenhoff serves on Independent Sector's Ethics and Accountability Task Force. He recently served on the Transparency and Financial Accountability Work Group of the national Panel on the Nonprofit Sector.
Katherina M. Rosqueta is the founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. Before accepting her appointment to launch the Center, Kat was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she served clients in the areas of strategy development, capability-building, and post-merger management. Prior to joining McKinsey, Kat worked in community development, nonprofit management, and venture philanthropy. She has held numerous volunteer and civic leadership positions, including board president of La Casa de las Madres (San Francisco's oldest and largest shelter for battered women and their children), chair of the United Way's Bay Area Week of Caring, and co-founder and executive committee member of the Women's MBA Network. She currently serves on the University of Pennsylvania's Social Responsibility Advisory Committee to the trustees and the board of Asian Mosaic Fund. Kat received her B.A. cum laude from Yale University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and was a 2011 recipient of the Brava! Women in Business Achievement Award. She and her husband, Michael Idinopulos, live in Philadelphia with their three children.
Patrick Spain is a cofounder and the chairman and CEO of Newser, LLC, an online news aggregation site. He was formerly CEO of HighBeam Research, a rapidly growing online research company based in Chicago, which he founded in 2002 and sold to Cengage Learning in December 2009. Spain was the cofounder and long-time chairman and CEO of Hoover's, Inc., leading it from a small book publisher when he became CEO in 1992 to a profitable publicly traded company with $31 million in 2001. He remained on the board until Hoover's was sold to D&B in 2003. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Spain worked as a consultant, a lawyer, an executive in the telecommunications industry, and a real estate developer. He has a B.A. in ancient history from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Boston University. He sits on the boards of several public, private, and not-for-profit organizations.