An innovator and entrepreneur, Nathaniel Harding's company in 2018 helped discover one of the largest new natural gas resources in the United States, pioneered waterless completions, and is a founding investor in an Environmental Protection Agency approved fluid with application in medicine and energy. Viewing education and jobs as critical to fighting poverty, he is a recognized leader for both. The Governor of Oklahoma previously named him chairman of the Council for Workforce and Economic Development, and to the White House STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) Summit to develop the five-year federal STEM education strategy.

John Harthorne is Founder and Managing Director of Two Lanterns Venture Capital, a seed fund investing in software startups in the US and Israel.

Prior to launching Two Lanterns, John was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MassChallenge, the largest-ever start-up accelerator and the first to support high-impact start-ups with no strings attached. MassChallenge is the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. No equity and not-for-profit, we are obsessed with helping entrepreneurs across any industry.

We also reward the highest-impact startups through a competition to win a portion of several million dollars in equity-free cash awards. Through our global network of 9 accelerators in 7 cities and 4 countries, and unrivaled access to our corporate partners, we are creating a massive impact - driving growth and creating value the world over.

As of early 2021, MassChallenge's 2,900+ startups have raised $8.5B+ in funding, generated 3.5B+ in revenue and created over 185,000 jobs.

The Boston Business Journal has identified Harthorne as one of Boston's 50 Most Influential Business Leaders. Harthorne received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2007. While at school, he won the Grand Prize in the 2007 MIT $100K Business Plan Competition and the 2007 Patrick J. McGovern Award for impact on quality and visibility of entrepreneurship at MIT.

Studies, Harvard University and University of Sydney. Began career with McKinsey and Co. 2004, Co-Founder, an advocacy group in US presidential elections that ran a highly publicized online and media campaign. 2005, Co-Founder, GetUp.org, an Australian political movement and internationally recognized social movement. 2007, Co-Founder, Avaaz.org, the world's largest online citizens' movement. Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Purpose.com. Chair, Global Agenda Countil on Civic Participation and Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum. Work recognized in several publications. Recipient, 75th Anniversary Visionary Award, Ford Foundation.

Roberto Herrera has over 24 years of power project development, construction and operations. He is the Country Manager for the Dominican Republic of Interenergy Group and a member of its board, Chief Executive Officer of La Compañía de Electricidad de San Pedro de Macorís and Vice-President of the Board and Executive Director of Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana Macao (CEPM) and GEDOM. Previously, he worked at the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic and at a local private bank. Current President of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Dominican Republic. Former President of the Red Nacional de Apoyo Empresarial para la Protección Ambiental (ECORED), a private sector association that promotes the implementation of environmental protection programmes at various levels in the Dominican Republic. Roberto is also a member of the executive committees of several private sector associations in the DR. Herrera has a BA in Economics and an MBA from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo. In 1997, he was awarded a British Chevening Scholarship to earn a Master's in Business Economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

Perry Hollowell has over 15 years in the financial services industry and a passion for investing for profit and purpose. As the Head of Equities and Sustainable Investing at CFI Partners, he oversees public and private equity impact strategies aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the integration of ESG best practices across the firm’s fixed income and equity portfolios.

In his prior role as a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, Perry managed over $750 million in equity derivative strategies. While at Guggenheim, Perry was instrumental in establishing the firm’s Social Justice Initiatives Operating Committee, which seeks to invest in and support minority-owned businesses. Before Guggenheim, Perry was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the firm’s internal hedge fund, Principal Strategies. As a portfolio manager specializing in global macro investment strategies, he invested across asset classes and the capital structure of companies.

Perry has a Bachelor of Science in accounting and finance from Georgetown University and a Master of Business Administration with concentrations in econometrics and statistics from The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. He is a charterholder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Market Technician (CMT), Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst (CAIA), and EFFAS Certified ESG Analyst (CESGA) designations. Perry has also completed the CFA Institute’s Certification in ESG Investing, the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) certification, and is an IFRS Fundamentals of Sustainable Accounting (FSA) credential holder.

The World Economic Forum has recognized Perry as a Young Global Leader in 2022. He is an alumnus of the Robert Toigo Foundation Fellowship and a 40 Under 40 honoree.

Perry currently serves on the boards of the Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic Chapter, the Smithsonian’s D.C. Regional Council, and the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum. He is an advisor to Silver Lining Finance, which believes there is no better risk than small businesses and Beyond the Billion (launched as the Billion Dollar Fund for Women). In his spare time, Perry enjoys struggling through boxing workouts, staying on his wife’s good side, and teaching his son how to be a kind human being.

Ken Howery is Co-Founder and Partner of Founders Fund, the first founder-focused venture capital firm with over US$ 1 billion under management and investments in over 50 companies. Howery has led or co-led investments in a number of companies at Founders Fund including Facebook, Quantcast, Geni and ZocDoc. Prior to Founders Fund, he co-founded PayPal and served as the company's first Chief Financial Officer. At PayPal, he developed a product that accelerated much of the viral growth on eBay, helped raise over US$ 200 million in private financing, worked on the company's public offerings and assisted in the company's US$ 1.5 billion sale to eBay. He was also a partner with Peter Thiel in his private venture investing, helping in diligence deals, including the Series A investment in Facebook. Howery was chosen as a keynote speaker at the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference and was selected as one of the Top 10 VCs under 36 by Venture Capital Journal. He graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University.

Graduate, Wharton School of Business. Currently CEO of Catalyte, a workforce transformation and upskilling technology company in the United States : Former CEO of Symbio, a global IT services company. Former: CEO, Epitome Software, an IT services company focused on financial services. Investment Banker focused on mergers and acquisitions, Fox-Pitt, Kelton; Chief Executive Officer, Trilogica Technologies, a data aggregation software company. Named by Chief Executive Magazine as one of the world's Top 12 Young Global Leaders of Tomorrow (2008).

Mei Mei is the CEO of Vaxxinity and a member of the executive committee of United Biomedical, Inc. She oversaw the launch of one of the first endobody vaccines in the world and the successful spin-out of three companies. Mei Mei was formerly a consultant at McKinsey & Company where she advised pharmaceutical companies on strategic, operational and organizational issues. Prior to that, Mei Mei was in the Securities group at Cravath, Swaine and Moore. Mei Mei is also co-founder of an investment and advisory group with active investments in real estate, energy and life sciences. She was named to Time 100 Next list, Fortune 40 under 40, and Young Global Leaders of World Economic Forum. She holds a B.A. from University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Lydie B. Hudson is a seasoned finance professional, having spent nearly twenty years in various global roles across investment banking, asset management, and wealth management. She is the Co-founder and President & Chief Operating Officer of Citation and a member of the Investment Committee.

Previously, Lydie was the CEO of Sustainability, Research & Investment Solutions and a member of the 12-person Executive Board of Credit Suisse. In that role, Lydie managed the firm’s product and research offering, including $235bn AuM of investment solutions (private equity, discretionary mandates, etc.). She was also responsible for leading the firm’s Sustainability strategy including the integration of ESG considerations into the product offering and the establishment of a comprehensive firmwide DEI strategy, including founding the CS Women’s Financial Forum, annually bringing together experts across the financial services industry. Over her tenure at CS, Lydie held a number of other senior global management roles, including Group Chief Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets, an ~$8bn P&L. Managing multi-billion dollar P&Ls for over a decade, Lydie built a track record of running highly effective and efficient client franchises and is widely recognized as a strategic thinker and leader of talent.

Prior to Credit Suisse, Lydie worked at Lehman Brothers and The Boston Consulting Group. She holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School where she was recognized for leadership and a B.A. from Middlebury College where she graduated cum laude and with honors in International Politics & Economics.

Lydie was named a Finance Leadership Fellow by the Aspen Institute in 2021 and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017. She is also a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She was twice named one of the most influential women in European Finance. In addition, Lydie sits on the board of Room to Read, a global not for profit focused on literacy and gender equality.

A Midwest native, relocated back to the US from Switzerland and lives in Connecticut with her family.

Chad Hurley is the Founder, AVOS Systems, USA. Formerly, he was the Chief Executive Officer of YouTube, the world's largest video sharing website. Co-founded in 2005 with Steve Chen, its strategy is to keep the process of watching and sharing video effortless. Hurley's responsibilities include oversight of business development, marketing and operations. He created the clean, simple interface that lets the community interact and share videos. YouTube serves hundreds of millions of videos daily and created a new market for discovering, sharing and distributing videos around the globe. YouTube was awarded Best Invention of the Year by Time, and the first website named Entertainer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly. Hurley and Chen have received many honours, including 2007 Webby Person of the Year, Time's Most Influential People of 2007, Business 2.0's 50 Most Influential People, GQ's Men of the Year and Fortune's Most Powerful People in Business. Earlier, Hurley was the first user-interface designer at PayPal, with a fundamental role in early development of the service. Following its acquisition by eBay, Hurley consulted for several technology companies. He has a BA in Fine Art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Forsan Hussein is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner F8 Capital, a special situations investment fund focused on frontier markets and investing in technology companies serving Africa, the Arab World, and Israel. Forsan currently chairs Hasoub Angels, an angel investment club supporting Palestinian tech entrepreneurs. Forsan founded and managed Zaitoun Ventures--a values-driven startup factory with a diversified portfolio of technology companies in USA, Shanghai, Israel and Palestine. Forsan previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Jerusalem International Y and the Three Arches Company. After business school, he worked as an investment consultant for Capital Group Companies in Los Angeles. As a business and social entrepreneur, Forsan has created several international organizations and initiatives that promote Middle East peace and foster regional cooperation. Forsan is a Kauffman Fellow (class 19), a Member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network of the Aspen Institute, and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Forsan holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Prior to co-founding Rivet Ventures, co-founded YouNoodle, Cleantech Open, and Startup Malaysia. Educated at MIT and Stanford and has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and as one of the top 35 under 35 Global Innovators by MIT Tech Review. Serves on the Global Board of Kauffman's GEW and lectures on technology entrepreneurship at Stanford University. Has worked closely with several countries on their national start-up programmes, including Malaysia, South Korea, Spain, Iceland, Chile and Mexico. Member of the Board of Advisers of the Mexico-U.S. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council. Recently listed by Forbes as one of their 20 inspiring young women founders to follow on Twitter; frequent speaker at global conferences on entrepreneurship.