Keynotes & Highlights

Daniel Koh, Chief of Staff
Huffington Post

Daniel Arrigg Koh is Chief of Staff to Arianna Huffington at the Huffington Post. Immediately prior, he served as Advisor to Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston. Dan has worked in nonprofit consulting for Booz Allen Hamilton, executive search for Spencer Stuart, Strategy and Business Development for the New England Patriots and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Labor Relations for Major League Baseball. In college, he worked for two summers as an intern for Senator Edward M. Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dan holds a B.A. in Government from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was president of his class, Section E. He grew up in Andover, Massachusetts.

Mark Pinsky, President & CEO
Opportunity Finance Network (OFN)

Mark Pinsky is President & CEO of Opportunity Finance Network (OFN). He is responsible primarily for the organization’s vision and strategy.

OFN is the national network of more than 200 high-performing community development financial institutions (CDFIs) investing in opportunities that benefit low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities across the nation. CDFIs in the OFN Membership manage more than $20 billion dedicated to that purpose.

Widely recognized as the voice of the CDFI industry, Marks speaks nationally about the transformational role CDFIs play in distressed communities. His annual “State of the Industry” speech, delivered every year at OFN’s conference, is highly anticipated for its strategic analysis of and outlook on trends and issues affecting CDFIs, their partners, and their borrowers. He is a primary resource on CDFIs, financial markets, and the economy for the media and also writes about CDFIs for a wide array of publications.

In 2010-11, Mark led OFN to a new industry strategy through 2026 that affirms the organization’s core purpose—aligning capital with social, economic, and political justice. The strategy commits the organization to leading CDFIs and their partners to ensure that low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities have access to affordable, responsible financial products and services. This “coverage” strategy is the focus of OFN’s work.

Mark has a long history of board service. He currently chairs the national boards of CARS™ (carsratingsystem.net) and Net Impact (www.netimpact.org) and sits on the OFN Board of Directors. He is a member of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses Advisory Council and a founding member of Morgan Stanley’s Community Development Advisory Committee. In addition, he serves on the New Markets Tax Credit Advisory Boards of Wells Fargo and Bank.

James Key Lim, CEO
Delivering Happiness at Work

James Key Lim is the CEO of Delivering Happiness at Work and his purpose is to “make happy work” in the world.

In 2002, James became one of the first employees at Zappos.com to develop new strategic revenue streams with CEO Tony Hsieh. In that role, James successfully took ideas to market to create multiple record breaking new brands and generate over $60M in revenue in just 2 years.

In 2009, Zappos was sold to Amazon.com in a deal valued at $1.2 billion on the day of closing, and in 2012, Zappos was #11 on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list.

Throughout the years, James has held positions in strategy and operations at multinational corporations and startups including Andersen's Technology consulting division, Jawbone.com, and Ask.com.

His purpose is to help organizations use happiness as a business model. James has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and Inc. on his work in bringing happiness and success to companies.

Robert Wolfe, Cofounder
CrowdRise

Robert Wolfe co-founded CrowdRise in 2010 with the goal to make raising money for charity fun...or at least not miserable.  Alongside and his partners Edward Norton, Shauna Robertson and his brother Jeffro Wolfe, Robert has grown CrowdRise into a kick-ass and leading crowdfunding platform for thousands of charitable organizations, events, celebrities and normal human people.

CrowdRise topped Mashable's list of "Most Innovative Crowdfunding Platforms" and was named a "Top 25 Best Global Philanthropist" by Barron's. CrowdRise was higher on the list than Oprah…which is quite ridiculous. Brands like Mozilla, the Knot, Patagonia, United Airlines, The Huffington Post, Groupon and Dell have used CrowdRise to exponentially increase the impact of their philanthropic contributions through the site's incentive-driven, user-friendly tools and game theory. The ING New York City Marathon, The Nature Conservancy and Stand Up 2 Cancer are just a few of the organizations that use CrowdRise as their friend-to-friend fundraising platform.

Before CrowdRise, Robert started Moosejaw, one of the world's leading outdoor, multi-channel retailers with over $50 million a year in sales through its retail shops, website, and catalogs.

The New York Times, Forrester Research, IBM, Advertising Age, Internet Retailer, and Entrepreneur Magazine, among others, have recognized Robert as an innovator in social commerce, crowdsourcing, creative marketing, emerging technologies and other nice sounding things.

Perhaps most importantly, Robert is a world-renowned breakdancer and is the only consistent, top-ten finisher who still uses an old school cardboard pad.

Jim Clifton, Chairman & CEO
Gallup

Since 1988, Jim Clifton has served as CEO of Gallup, a leader in organizational consulting and public opinion research. His most recent innovation, the Gallup World Poll, is designed to give the world’s 7 billion citizens a voice in virtually all key global issues. Mr. Clifton has pledged to continue this effort to collect world opinion for 100 years in 150 countries.

Under Mr. Clifton’s leadership, Gallup has achieved a fifteen-fold increase in its billing volume and expanded Gallup from a predominantly U.S.-based company to a worldwide organization with 40 offices in 30 countries and regions.

Mr. Clifton is the creator of The Gallup Path, a metric-based economic model that establishes the linkages among human nature in the workplace, customer engagement, and business outcomes. This model is used in performance management systems in more than 500 companies worldwide. He is also the author of many articles and of the book The Coming Jobs War.

Mr. Clifton serves on several boards and is Chairman of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. He has received honorary degrees from Jackson State, Medgar Evers, and Bellevue Universities.

Jonas Prising, President of the Americas
ManpowerGroup

Jonas Prising is president of ManpowerGroup and oversees all aspects of the company’s $12 billion business in North, Central and South America and Southern Europe. He was named ManpowerGroup president in 2012 and previously held the position of executive vice president and president of the Americas since 2008.

Prising joined ManpowerGroup in 1999 and has served as managing director of Manpower Italy; director of Manpower Global Accounts – Europe, Middle East and Africa; and president of North America.

A recognized expert in labor market trends, diversity and workforce development, Prising is regularly invited to speak at conferences and summits. He is frequently asked to provide commentary on jobs and employment trends on national and international media.

Before joining the company, Prising worked for Electrolux, a Swedish multinational. During his 10-year tenure with Electrolux, he held various international positions within the consumer goods and business-to-business divisions, including regional manager for Asia Pacific, managing director of Sales Companies in France and the United Kingdom, and finally head of Global Sales and Marketing for one of its business-to-business divisions.

Prising is a former chairman of the board of directors of Junior Achievement USA and continues to serve on the boards of both the USA organization and JA of Wisconsin Inc. He also serves as a co-chair of Innovation in Milwaukee, an organization focused on supporting entrepreneurial leadership.

Prising holds an MBA (equivalent) from the Stockholm School of Economics and has participated in executive programs at Stanford, INSEAD and Yale. He speaks five languages: English, French, German, Swedish and Italian. Prising and his family reside in the Milwaukee area.

Richard (Rick) Stephens, Senior Vice President
The Boeing Company

Richard (Rick) Stephens is senior vice president, Human Resources and Administration for The Boeing Company, and member of the Boeing Executive Council.

Stephens, a 31-year Boeing veteran, oversees all leadership development, training, employee relations, compensation, benefits, Global Corporate Citizenship, and diversity initiatives at the Chicago-based aerospace company.

Stephens serves on a number of non-profit and business-focused boards and has been recognized for his long-standing leadership in local and national organizations. Passionate about improving education both inside and outside of the classroom, he works directly with community and education leaders to prepare future workers to meet the challenges necessary to succeed in an ever-changing and competitive business environment.

A former U.S. Marine Corps officer, Stephens currently serves on the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Advisory Committee designed to assist governors in developing comprehensive STEM agendas. He also is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics where he is chair of the Career and Workforce Development Steering Committee, a member of the Business-Higher Education Forum, founding member of the Business and Industry STEM Education Coalition (BISEC), member of the Illinois P-20 Council, chair of the Global Midwest Alliance and chair of the Illinois Business Roundtable. Stephens also is part of the Chairman's CEO Leadership Caucus for the Orange County (Calif.) Business Council. He has served on the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the President's Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and Universities and on the National Science Resource Center Advisory Board.