Building social impact companies: How CEOs approach the challenge
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
This panel of Bay Area CEOs will share their successes and challenges in building their social impact companies. Participating organizations span a variety of verticals and are at different stages of development. The CEOs will share their stories to provide the audience with an understanding of the challenges and advantages specific to social impact startups, the necessary components for success and the funding opportunities available from traditional capital sources as well as impact investors.
Meet the Panel:
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Nicki
Boyd co-founded Versame
with a mission to leverage technology for large scale impact to
improve early childhood education and language development. Nicki’s
role as an Investment Director at Inflexion is complemented by her
experience as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University. Hear her story.
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Christine Su
is the CEO and founder of
PastureMap, a
StartX F14 startup helping cattle producers raise cattle on a
healthy base of grasslands. Her prior experience at McKinsey and KKR
includes running manufacturing operations for an Apple supplier in
Southeast Asia, managing a sales force across 40 cities for a $2bn
startup in China, and building a performance management system for
the largest hazelnut nursery operation in the world. Hear her story.
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Lynzi
Ziegenhagen is the CEO of
Schoolzilla which provides timely and holistic data to teachers
and principals, so they can spend their precious time using the data
instead of wrestling with the data. Schoolzilla also empowers data
analysts in districts to dig deeper to support their stakeholders
with the data they need to run great schools for kids. It is based
on the tools that they developed over five years as an internal
collaboration with educators at Aspire Public Schools. Hear her
story.
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Philipp
Stauffer is Co-Founder and General Partner at FYRFLY Venture Partners, an early stage technology fund. Philipp also co-founded Onor, a digital marketing platform start-up for large brands to drive customer acquisition, retention and engagement by "doing well while doing good". Philipp has a passion for innovation and winning through simplicity and is a proven and recognized leader in innovation and growth. Hear his story as an investor, entrepreneur and culture builder.
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Scott
Saslow is the founder of
The Palo Alto Impact
Center, which provides professional development to
entrepreneurs, investors and corporate leaders focused on social
impact solutions. As the founder and CEO for The Institute of
Executive Development (IED), Scott is an entrepreneurial leader with
recognized success developing new businesses and products at IED,
Microsoft Corporation and Siebel Systems, among others. |
Register Online
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Cooley, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto , CA 94304
Cost: $20 for WCNC members. Non-member alumni and other guests: $20 per person.
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Palo Alto Impact Center
Organizer of Building social impact companies: How CEOs approach
the challenge
The Palo Alto
Impact Center provides professional development for social impact investors,
entrepreneurs, and corporate professionals. Our mission is enabling the
launch of new social impact organizations that improve the lives of
individuals in the Bay Area. We achieve this by growing and connecting the
ecosystem of social impact professionals, providing educational programs to
the community, and ultimately providing additional resources such as
co-working space and direct access to capital.:
