Gina is a yoga instructor, educational advocate, artist, and founder of Lotus Light Arts, a non-profit outreach program for at-risk young women in Los Angeles that provides tools to build self-awareness, confidence and accountability through health education, character development, problem solving, yoga, meditation and the creative arts. She credits yoga…
Ryan Cruse is an avid outdoorsman and environmentalist who is constantly trying to blur the lines between fun, work and doing good. He is the co-founder and director of outreach and education for Warm Current, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote fun, learning and sense of place by distributing…
Dave Girgenti is the founder of Wish Upon A Hero, the world’s largest social helping website. Dave also serves as the executive director of Wish Upon A Hero Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to grant wishes. Each year, Dave bears the title of executive producer for the Hero Awards Gala,…
Kaye Popofsky Kramer founded Step Up Women’s Network and currently sits on the national board of directors of the nonprofit membership organization, which connects and advances professional women and teen girls. Step Up Women’s Network, which began in Kaye’s living room in 1998, is now one of the most sought-after women’s groups in the…
Meet Kaye Popofsky Kramer – Founder of Step Up Women’s Network
Aaron Presley founded EasiestGive, a website that allows its customers to donate needed products to homeless shelters in their area without leaving the computer. He is a self-proclaimed nomadic Web developer who works from coffee shops and dreams of living out of his car one day. When he’s not working…
Kendra Stitt Robins is the founder and executive director of Project Night Night, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing care packages for homeless and transient children living in shelters across the country. Founded in 2005, Project Night Night donates more than 25,000 Night Night Packages each year, free of charge, to homeless…
Jim Moriarty is the CEO of the Surfrider Foundation and an innovative leader in the environmental and action sports communities. From a skateboarding punk-rock kid to an architect of the early days of e-commerce, Moriarty is obsessed with building companies and organizations around notable and world-altering ideas. Jim’s job as…
Sahil Lavingia is an 18-year-old USC student soon to be living in San Francisco. He enjoys making useful stuff for fun and profit, but mostly for fun. He’s behind Dayta and Color Stream for iPhone, and his latest project is Let’s Crate. He also built Rmmbr to learn Python. What are you working…
Jake Finkelstein is the founder and president of Method Savvy, a brand marketing and business development consultancy located near Raleigh, North Carolina. Jake began his career in the music industry; most notably for Sony Music Entertainment, where had the pleasure of working with such well-known artists as Johnny Cash, Incubus, Modest…
Meet Jake Finkelstein – Founder and President of Method Savvy
Bill Staby is the founder and chief executive officer of Boston-based Resolute Marine Energy, Inc. (“RME”) — a developer of technologies for harvesting energy from ocean waves. Bill is an experienced manager of early-stage technology companies. His entrepreneurial career started in 1997, when he was co-founder of an Internet floral delivery…