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Known as “Ms. Marketing” by her colleagues and clients, Alyssa Dver, is the founder and chief executive of the world-wide consulting company, Mint Green Marketing. She provides affordable, expert marketing help to multinational companies and small businesses around the world. She has been profiled by Business Week and American Express OPEN for her business success.

Endorsed by the American Marketing Association and others, Dver’s marketing books, No Time Marketing and Software Product Management Essentials, are considered industry standards. Dver writes for publications such as Entrepreneur, Business Week, Forbes, and Software Magazine. She has been interviewed by The Boston Globe, NPR and Newsday and is a media go-to person for marketing

An acclaimed keynote speaker, Dver has spoken to prestigious organizations including the World Diversity Summit at the United Nations, The Women's Congress, New England Business EXPO, and The Commonwealth Institute. Considered among the best corporate trainers, she teaches worldwide at public and private companies.

Dver is a graduate of the Wharton School and AIPMM certified product manager.

Jason founded Nonprofit Solutions Network in 1998 to help nonprofits boost productivity, lower costs, and improve their overall operation through the use of technology. Other IT firms that provide affordable services do this by providing a “one size fits all” approach. Nonprofit Solutions and its sister company that serves small businesses provide technology solutions customized to meet the unique needs and financials challenges of nonprofits and small business. 

Laura Jacob is the President of Pro Way Development based in Stamford, CT. Pro Way helps businesses develop human resource strategies, a plan to hire, manage, and motivate employees. Organizations can maximize their human capital by establishing sound human resource practices that include recruiting, on-boarding, employee relations and retention, and employee development.

Laura has worked in the U.S. and Canada as well as virtually across the globe. She serves as adjunct faculty at local colleges and teaches communication and management skills courses at the American Management Association.

In May 2009 she was named as one of Fairfield County's Top 40 executives under 40 for her work as the President of Pro Way Development.

International speaker Shel Horowitz's eighth book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson, published in 2010 by Wiley) was on Amazon's environmental bestseller list for 18 months. The book documents how businesses can be green, ethical AND profitable. Using examples from Fortune 100 companies to solo-preneurs, the book lays out how ethics and green principles are not just about doing the right thing but also about profitability. Surprising principles are demonstrated that show why most businesses shouldn't even worry about market share. The book shows business owners how to form powerful partnerships, even with competitors; how to get your green message out without green-washing; and how to become a much deeper shade of green. Shel also writes the internationally syndicated monthly column, Green And Profitable.

Antony Bugg-Levine is the CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Prior to taking up this position in October, 2011, he was a Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he designed and led the Rockefeller Foundation's Impact Investing initiative. He convened the 2007 meeting that coined the phrase "impact investing" and is the Board chair of the Global Impact Investing Network. A former consultant with McKinsey & Co., he also teaches at Columbia Business School. A native of South Africa, he served in the late 1990s as the acting communications director at the South African Human Rights Commission.

Jed Emerson is executive vice-president for Strategic Development with ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services firm that provides information about impact investing to interested asset owners and creates impact investing products to the asset owner/impact fund market.

He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Social Investing at Heidelberg University (Germany) and Senior Advisor to The Sterling Group (a multi-family office based in Hong Kong, which pursues a sustainable/impact investing strategy for its clients). He was a founding board member of Pacific Community Ventures, founding director of REDF and has been affiliated with various leading investment firms, such as Generation Investment Management (London).

Jed is also an adjunct professor with NYU-Abu Dhabi, in addition to having held faculty appointments at the Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford business schools. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader, having originated the concept of Blended Value and produced numerous articles on investing capital and managing firms for multiple returns. Jed has presented his work at the World Economic Forum, CGI and other events around the world. His various papers/research may be found at www.blendedvalue.org.

Pamela has been leading communication workshops throughout Canada, Australia, and the United States since 1996. Having overcome her own fear of public speaking, she has compassion for those she works with and a passion for her topic. Much more than a communication expert, Pamela guides her clients to connect their 
inner passion with their outer cause. She helps them articulate their message in a way that’s simple, memorable and powerful. 


A "graduate" of the corporate world, Geri is also a mentor and teacher, who is up to date on the latest and best marketing practices, including technology and social media. 

At Ventureneer, Geri uses Web 2.0 technology to make networking and learning affordable, convenient, and effective, and to market Ventureneer's services. Yes, she tweets, blogs, networks on LinkedIn and Facebook, and tracks the results of each. 

A "graduate" of the corporate world, Geri is also a mentor and teacher, who is up to date on the latest and best marketing practices, including technology and social media. 

At Ventureneer, Geri uses Web 2.0 technology to make networking and learning affordable, convenient, and effective, and to market Ventureneer's services. Yes, she tweets, blogs, networks on LinkedIn and Facebook, and tracks the results of each. 

Alan Siege, CEO/Owner of Small Business Management Consulting, which focuses on small firms. SBMC helps companies increase profits by improving the way they tell their business story. He has been featured in NY Newsday, CrainsNewYork, American Express OPEN, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, and Good Housekeeping. He is an instructor for the NYC Department of Small Business Services Entrepreneur Boot Camp, a Kaufman Foundation Certified Facilitator for its FastTrac programs offered by NYC, as well as an adjunct Professor at the Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University.