The Richard King Mellon Foundation is excited to announce that fifty-five local and national leaders with expertise in business, entrepreneurship, conservation, economic development, economic mobility, health and well-being and philanthropy have agreed to help judge the Richard King Mellon Foundation’s first-ever social-impact pitch competition.
Social-Impact Investment Pitch Competition Judges
Michael Annichine
Chief Executive Officer, Magee Women’s Research Institute & Foundation
Vincent Balsamo
Chief Commercial Officer, Sequoia Capital Backed Stealth AI Company
Nehal J. Bhojak
General Manager, OneValley Pittsburgh
Jim Bildner
Chief Executive Officer, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Kenya Boswell
Senior Vice President, Community Affairs, Highmark Health
Eric Boughner
Managing Director, BNY Mellon Pennsylvania; Global Head, Treasury Services Business Development, BNY Mellon Pennsylvania; Chairman, BNY Mellon Pennsylvania
Todd Collins
Venture Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation; Managing Director, Tregaron Capital
Michelle De La Isla
Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation; Mayor, City of Topeka, Kansas
Kate R. Dewey
Senior Advisor, Dentons, Cohen & Grigsby
Rebecca W. Doerge
Dean, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Matt Flanagan
Founding Partner, fama PR; General Partner, fama Ventures
Nicholas Franco
Chief Operations Officer, HMC Capital US
Bruce Gebhardt
Partner, Pathfinder Capital Advisors LLC
Jim Gibbs
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Meter Feeder, Inc.
Sunwoo Hwang
Founder, CEO & Chairman, SIXUP
Gerardo Interiano
Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs, Aurora
Jennifer Katz
Director, Impact Investments, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Anne Keenan
Senior Director of Digital Strategy & Communication, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Stephanie Khurana
Managing Partner & COO, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Lee Kimball
Investment Director, Pittsburgh, Arctaris Impact Investors
Kim Kolt
Founder & President, For Good Ventures
Sachal Lakhavani
Product Management, Facebook
Dr. Adrian Lee
Director, Institute for Precision Medicine; Chair, Pittsburgh Foundation
Mark S. Lewis
President & Chief Executive Officer, POISE Foundation
Felix Brandon Lloyd
Co-Founder & CEO, Zoobean
Marc Malandro
Vice President of Operations for Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Dave Mawhinney
Executive Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University; Executive Director, Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University; Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick McKenna
Partner, Comeback Capital; Founder, HighRidge Venture Partners; Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Facet Wealth; Founder, One America Works
Matt Michelsen
Operating Partner, DCVC; Founder, Gothams
Edward J. Morgan, CFA
Senior Investment Officer, Richard King Mellon Foundation & Richard K. Mellon & Sons
Nadyli Nuñez
Executive Director, Ascender
Grant Oliphant
President, The Heinz Endowments
Evon Onusic
Founder & CEO, DeltaSift
Joshua Pollard
President & Chief Executive Officer, Omicelo
Nancy Poon Lue
Co-Founder and Former COO, Advanced Education Research & Development Fund
Ian Rosenberger
Chief Executive Officer, First Mile & Day Owl; Founder & Board Chair, WORK
Juan Scarlett
Co-Founder & Managing Director, OneValley Ventures
Ayla Schlosser
Director, Portfolio Support Strategies, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Larry Selzer
President & Chief Executive Officer, The Conservation Fund
Dr. Anantha Shekhar
Senior Vice Chancellor, Schools of the Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; John & Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Jada Shirriel
Chief Executive Officer, Healthy Start, Inc.
Russell Siegelman
Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Chair, Global Innovation Fund
Nikhil Sinha
Chief Executive Officer, OneValley
Doug Sisson, CFA
Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, Richard K. Mellon & Sons; Trustee, Vice President & Treasurer, Richard King Mellon Foundation & R.K. Mellon Family Foundation
Jeffrey Solomon
Chief Executive Officer & Chair, Cowen Inc.
Alice Vilma
Managing Director & Co-Head, Multicultural Innovation Lab, Morgan Stanley
Dr. Diamonte Walker
Deputy Executive Director, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
John M. Wallace, Jr.
Vice Provost, Faculty Diversity and Development, University of Pittsburgh; David E. Epperson Endowed Chair
Bobby Zappala
Managing Partner, Localize Capital Management
Lu Zhang
Founder & Managing Partner, Fusion Fund
Matt Zieger
Chief Program Officer, Americas at Village Capital
Social-Impact Investment Pitch Competition
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