Antony Bugg-Levine is a Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York where his responsibilities include leading the Impact Investing and Innovation for Development Initiatives. A native of South Africa, he previously ran the Kenya-office of the NGO TechnoServe and worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. He is also currently an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School where he teaches on business and international development. Bugg-Levine is a graduate of Yale College and earned an MPA focused on Economic Development from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, Mr. Wills has 12 years of experience working on water purification. He is the founder and CEO of D&W Tech S.A. and Aquawills S.A., both dedicated to the design, manufacture, operation and maintenance of plants for water treatment and purification. Mr. Wills has been a member of the Water Quality Association, and has attended many of its fairs and conferences. In Colombia, he is the country representative of Atlantic Filter Corporation y Aquatic Eco Systems. He received a degree in Agronomic Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo - USP - in Brazil.

Catherine Clark is a leading authority in the field of social entrepreneurship, social investing and social impact assessment and an experienced social investor, consultant and educator.  She has performed pioneering research into the field of double bottom line investing and for-profit social enterprise and regularly consults to entrepreneurial organizations, foundations and investment firms that aim to achieve significant impact on deep social problems.   She currently holds two academic posts. She is founder and director of  Columbia’ Business School’s Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) (www.riseproject.org) and is also an adjunct professor at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business (www.caseatduke.org). At Fuqua, she and Greg Dees are currently co-directing a project exploring business model choices for social entrepreneurs. Before joining the faculty at Columbia in 2001, she was Founder and Managing Director of the Flatiron Future Fund, a social venture capital fund, and Founder and President of the Flatiron Foundation, both incubated by Flatiron Partners, a JP Morgan Partners affiliate.  Before that, she was Vice President at the Markle Foundation, where for over seven years she helped manage the foundation’s portfolio of grants and program-related investments. Cathy is a founding member of the Standards Advisory Council of B Lab, serves on the advisory boards of two social venture funds: SJF Ventures and Commons Capital, and has chaired the board of  Investors’ Circle, a national membership organization of angel and institutional social investors.  Cathy holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She lives outside of Charlottesville, VA with her husband and two children.

Virginia joined the New Ventures team in 1999 and since then has been working with sustainable enterprise development in India, Latin America, China, Brazil and Indonesia. Prior to joining WRI, Virginia worked with the Center for US-Mexican Studies and the Institute of the Americas in La Jolla, CA. She holds a M.A. in Latin American Studies from George Washington University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California in San Diego.

Tracey is a well known social entrepreneur committed to finding market-based solutions to global poverty. She is a seasoned business executive who has been involved in international development, social investing and philanthropy for more than 15 years. Prior to founding MicroPlace, Tracey was CFO of KickStart, an organization that designs and sells products focused on poverty alleviation. In 1998, she started her first company, 4charity, a web-based marketplace for charitable giving, and served as its CEO. Earlier in her career, Tracey held a variety of positions with socially responsible firms including the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Calvert Ventures and the World Bank.

Tracey’s numerous leadership awards include 2000 Top 25 Women of the Web Award, San Francisco Business Times Leadership Award and a Working Woman Magazine Entrepreneurship Award. Tracey holds a degree in engineering and economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford Business School. Outside MicroPlace, Tracey plays left wing on her soccer team, trains for Ironman triathlons and snowshoes in Lake Tahoe with her husband.