Geoffrey T. Boisi
Geoff is chairman and co-founder of MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership. MENTOR,
ranked as one of the top 100 charities in the U.S., is leading the movement to expand
quality mentoring for young people.
Until May 2002, Geoff was vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase and co-CEO of the firm's
investment bank, JPMorgan. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Geoff was founding chairman
and senior partner of The Beacon Group, a premier merger and acquisition advisory
and private investment firm, which was acquired by Chase. Prior to the formation
of The Beacon Group, Geoff was a senior general partner of Goldman, Sachs &
Co. and head of the investment banking business.
Geoff is on the Board of Directors of Freddie Mac. He is a trustee of the Carnegie
Corporation of New York; trustee of the Papal Foundation; trustee of Joseph P. Kennedy
Enterprises; advisory director of Oxford Analytica; director of FADICA; and a Knight
of Malta, and a co-founder of the Catholic Church in America Leadership Roundtable.
Geoff is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.)
and Boston College (B.A.), and remains very active in strategic and development
initiatives at both institutions.
Howard Stevenson
Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurship
at Harvard Business School, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair
of the Harvard Business School Publishing Company board.
Howard has served as the Vice Provost for Harvard University Resources and Planning
and Senior Associate Provost. At Harvard Business School, Howard has held numerous
roles including Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations as well
as Director of Financial and Information Systems. He has been chairperson of the
Owner/President Manager Program in Executive Education and of the Publications Review
Board for the Harvard Business School Press of Harvard Business School Publishing
Company.
Howard has authored, edited or co-authored eleven books and forty-two articles.
He is currently a director of Camp Dresser & McKee Inc., Landmark Communications,
Inc. and the Harvard Business School Publishing Company, as well as a trustee for
several private trusts and foundations. He is a life trustee of the Boston Ballet
and has been a director of Sudbury Valley Trustees. He is chairman of National Public
Radio Board of Directors and a trustee of Mount Auburn Hospital. He is a member
of the Advisory Board of the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia.
Howard received his B.S. in mathematics from Stanford and his M.B.A. and D.B.A.
degrees from Harvard University.
Ellen Levy
Ellen is currently Vice President Corporate Development & Strategy at LinkedIn.
Previously she was the founding Managing Director at Silicon Valley Connect, where
she worked with large corporations, startups, and entrepreneurs on technology trends
and opportunities for innovation. She is also the Network Advisor to venture firm
Draper Fisher Jurvetson; and is an Industry Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship
and Technology in the School of Engineering.
Most recently, Ellen spent the past two years as the Director of Industry Collaboration
and Research for Stanford University's Media X program, facilitating collaboration
between industry partners and the University research community by championing questions
having to do with people, technology & innovation.
Prior to Stanford, Ellen spent five years in venture capital, investing in early
state technology companies: first at Softbank Venture Capital (now Mobius Venture
Capital), then as Managing Director at NeoCarta Ventures. Operationally, Ellen has
held several executive level positions at early stage technology centric start-ups
in the role of Vice President of Corporate Development at both SoftBook Press (sold
to Gemstar/TVGuide) and WhoWhere? (sold to Lycos). Earlier in her career, Ellen
worked at Apple Computer in the Office of the CEO, at Paul Allen's Interval Research,
at Harvard University's School of Public Health, and at Price Waterhouse in the
Technology Core Consulting Practice. Additionally, Ellen was a co-founder of the
parenting media firm The Dr. Spock Company.
She received her B.S from the University of Michigan, and completed both her M.A.
and Ph.D. at Stanford University in Cognitive Psychology.