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_Robert Haverback most recently was the Vice President of Brand Management, Advertising and Emarketing for the TD Ameritrade company.  Here he helped lead and build the TD Ameritrade franchise into the fastest growing brokerage in the United States based upon assets. During his tenure there he relaunched the merged TD Waterhouse and Ameritrade brands into what is now TD Ameritrade and led the rebuilding of the acquisition marketing efforts including the creation of a new Emarketing team.  This team utilizes the latest digital marketing tactics and strategies in an ROI focused means to drive the most efficient new client and asset acquisition.  Prior to Joining TD Ameritrade he was an Executive Director with Morgan Stanley.  While at Morgan Stanley he worked in both Firmwide Marketing and the mass affluent brokerage business segment where he led efforts to grow both businesses. He began his career at the Leo Burnett company where he helped build some of the worlds top brands and advisied senior clients.  These brands include Kellogg’s, Sony and Nintendo. Robert earned a B.S. in business from Miami University in Ohio.  He is a member of the Financial Communitcation Society of New York.

_Karen Paterson is the managing partner of Good, Better, Best, LLC, a commercial real estate investment company in San Diego, CA .  Prior to that she was a principal and CEO of The Sutherland Agency in San Diego and opened the US office of this UK-based global graphics design company in 1996.  As a versatile and seasoned communications expert, Karen has been a senior executive in technology start-ups (Space Breeze, LLC) and retail companies (Jordan Marsh Company and Bradlees Department Stores).  An advocate for social change for 40 years, she received a BA in Community Organizing and Economics from Antioch College/West in 1975.  Karen is a Board Member of the Moxie Foundation in San Diego.

Alison is a founding Board Member of One Village Planet-Women's Development Initiative and an adjunct professor at Hunter College, where she teaches English and Creative Writing. She received her MFA in Poetry at Hunter in 2007 and her BA from NYU in 2004. Originally from Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, she now lives on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. Her expertise in customer purchasing behavior has contributed to the development of the Just Shea brand.

_Danielle is the Founder and Executive Director of One Village Planet-Women's Development Initiative, and the Director of Women's Initiatives our sister NGO's One Village Planet (US)  and Village Planete (Haiti). She was formerly the Director of Operations at The OpEd Project--an initiative to expand the quality and diversity of our national conversation--whose advisory board she continues to serve on. Danielle received her Masters degree from Hunter College, in New York City, where she also taught creative writing and composition and rhetoric. Her work has been published in various outlets, including Reuters. A member of the Clinton Global Initiative, she is a semi-finalist for the 2011 Echoing Green Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs and the 2011 Sustainable Brands Innovation Open, and received the 2010 Sustainable Development Award from Sister Cities International for the HER Cooperative Farming project.

_ Sarah Whitlock is an associate in the Financial Services and Products group of Alston & Bird LLP, where she assists clients with matters relating to various investment vehicles, including hedge funds, commodity pools, private equity funds, and mutual funds. Additionally, Sarah regularly advises clients on compliance with SEC reporting and disclosure requirements, corporate governance issues and other corporate and securities matters. Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Sarah was a Legislative Assistant in the Office of Congressman Vic Snyder, where she focused on housing and education policy. Sarah received her J.D. in 2008 from the University of Virginia School of Law, and her B.A. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 2003.

Kosi A. Yankey is the founder and Executive Director of KeyCredit Microfinance, Ghana. Over the last four years, KeyCredit has provided financial services and training programs to Ghanaian micro- and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs. Under her leadership, KeyCredit has rapidly expanded to across the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions, and focused on providing innovative business-specific financial solutions to entrepreneurs who do not have access to the traditional tailored financial services and credit they need to transform their lives. With an eye on sustainability and a better understanding of agriculture, she launched a sister company that focuses on agricultural financing and logistics. Also, KeyCredit launched a partnership with Columbia University's Microlumbia Project to develop an even more scalable lending model. Kosi has spoken on microfinance at the Harvard Business School-African Business Conference in 2009 and has participated in many conferences and programs focusing on microfinance.  In 2010, she assisted in organizing one of the successful African Microfinance Conferences held in Accra.  Prior to founding KeyCredit Microfinance, Ms. Yankey, a Ghanaian national, was at First Atlantic Merchant Bank (a Ghanaian financial institution), and had worked at Deutsche Bank, NY (Securitized Products Group) where she assisted in setting up their first microfinance fund, UBS (Investment Banking Group), Merrill Lynch (Private Wealth Management) and Citigroup (Sales & Trading). She holds a BA in Government, from Wesleyan University, CT.