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Mitch Albom is a best-selling author, nationally-syndicated columnist, radio host, network television commentator, playwright, and screenwriter. He is the founder of S.A.Y Detroit, the home of nine charities, and the Director of Have Faith Haiti Mission, an orphanage in Port-au-Prince.
John Boynton is an entrepreneur and investor who has co-founded several companies and invested in a number of others. His career was shaped by a trip to the Soviet Union during his junior year in high school. He was studying Russian language at the time, and that 1983 trip inspired him to direct his entrepreneurial energy toward Russia after graduating from Harvard in 1988.
Kathryn Busby serves as Executive Vice President/Head of TriStar Television, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. She is responsible for refining the studio’s content strategy and developing prestige programming. Busby is also the Chair of BAFTA Los Angeles and serves on BAFTA’s Steering Group, whose initiatives resulted in the most diverse BAFTA nominations and wins in its history.
Pat Croce is a New York Times best-selling author, a pioneer in sports medicine, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and the first person to ascend from the training room to the boardroom of a professional sports team.
Peter Goldmark is an independent consultant in the areas of philanthropy, environmental policy, international affairs and development, and organizational development in the social change field. He previously directed the Climate and Air program for Environmental Defense and was president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Hill Harper is an award-winning actor, best-selling author and philanthropist. Harper has earned seven NAACP Image Awards for his writing and acting and is a 4-time New York Times best-selling author. Harper founded The Manifest Your Destiny Foundation and was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President's Cancer Panel.
Jim Lim is a Managing Partner at Greenspring Associates, a venture capital firm based in Owings Mills, Maryland and Palo Alto California. Currently, Greenspring Associates manages over $5 billion for investors such as college endowments and not-for-profit foundations, corporate pension funds and high-net-worth individuals and family offices.
Frank Marshall is an American film producer and director, often working in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen Kennedy. In addition to Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he was one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment. In 1991, he and Kennedy co-founded The Kennedy/Marshall Company.
Erik Moore is the founder and Managing Director of Base Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund. Prior to Base Ventures, Erik spent 15 years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. Erik currently serves as a board member for the East Bay College Fund, and was a board member for Oakland's OK (Our Kids) program.
David “Doc” O’Connor is the former President and CEO of MSG Co. O’Connor began working with Madison Square Garden after the 2006 launch of CAA Sports, which represents the world’s top athletes, coaches, broadcasters and brands.
Lisa Parks is a partner at Base Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Berkeley, CA. Prior to her work in venture capital, Lisa worked in development at Right To Play, a sport- and play-based global NGO. Lisa serves as a mentor with the Berkeley Community Fund.
David Rawle is the retired chairman of Rawle Murdy, a Charleston, SC-based marketing, advertising and public relations firm he founded 42 years ago. He has been the man behind the scenes of Charleston's most important happenings since 1975.
Marva Smalls is the Global Head of Inclusion at ViacomCBS and Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Kids & Family Entertainment Brands at ViacomCBS Media Networks. As Global Head of Inclusion, she implements strategic initiatives and fosters partnerships that promote and advance diversity, inclusion and belonging for ViacomCBS enterprise-wide. Smalls also oversees all corporate responsibility initiatives and relationships with external advocates and regulators for Nickelodeon.
Mike Tollin is a filmmaker and the co-chairman of Mandalay Sports Media. He has directed and produced more than a dozen feature films, documentaries and long-running television series. He is also a founding board member of Common Sense Media, Children Now and The Hank Aaron Chasing The Dream Foundation.
Erika Carley has been with PACE since the very beginning. She is very passionate about finding the most impactful non-profit organizations in the areas of children's and family issues, and building meaningful, strategic partnerships with these organizations to better communities around the country.