Amy Pearl founded Springboard in 2004 to enable citizens to create new kinds of enterprises that transform how we build a livable future. Over her career she has developed many innovative programs to help address our shared challenges by activating a new kind of community leader. She draws on her extensive experience in the education, corporate, and social sectors to help break down silos. Her own career has taken her from the classroom and school district to the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, to managing Intel's online international education initiatives.

http://www.springboardinnovation.org

Mike Van Patten is the founder and CEO of Mission Markets. He has over twenty years of experience on Wall Street and has been integrally involved in the design and implementation of private placement and illiquid security transactions platforms for several companies including co-founding the highly successful NYPPEX. Mike is involved in regional and national working groups that are developing standard metrics to measure biodiversity and habitat function and apply them to financial transactions. Mike possesses FINRA registrations 7, 63, 55, 24, 3.

http://missionmarkets.com/

Jenny Kassan is a partner at Katovich and Kassan, and the founder/CEO of Cutting Edge Capital. She has over seventeen years of experience as an attorney for social enterprises. She is an advocate for raising community capital. She has extensive experience with helping community businesses raise capital through direct public offerings, and is considered the national expert. She has worked on nonprofit/for--profit joint ventures and cooperatives. She has a law degree from Yale and a masters in city planning from U.C. Berkeley.

http://cuttingedgecapital.com/

John Katovich was General Counsel at the Pacific Stock Exchange for eleven years, and has experience in public and private financing. He recently lead the training of the State of California employees on market regulation for the Carbon Cap and Trade program, and was instrumental in the development of the iShares product at Barclays Bank. He has over thirty years of experience as a securities lawyer and entrepreneur. He is most interested in helping create local stock exchanges in communities across the country.

http://k2-legal.com/

Combining visual arts and high tech expertise, Katrina and Michael Scotto di Carlo created Supportland, a thriving buy-­‐local enterprise in Portland, OR that provides unique incentive strategies to local consumers. The Supportland point system is increasing new customers for small, locally owned companies by twenty-­‐two a month, on average. Supportland’s mission is to use big-box technology for customer allegiance to help the little guys who help grow local economies.

http://supportland.com/

Amy Cortese is an award-winning journalist who covers topics spanning business, finance, and environmental issues. Her new book, “Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It” explores how a small shift in investment towards locally-­‐ owned enterprises can reap enormous economic and social benefits for individuals, their communities, and the country. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Business Week, and Wired, among others.

http://www.amycortese.com/Amy_Cortese_homepage.html

James Frazier helped launch the first Local Investment Opportunities Network (LION) in Port Townsend, WA. He is the founder of the Local Investment Resource Center (LIRC). He has seventeen years of experience in the investment industry, including on the floor of the American Stock Exchange, and eight years as co-­‐founder and general manager of Forza Capital Management. He currently works as a financial advisor for Natural Investments, a firm specializing in socially responsible investing.

http://naturalinvesting.com/

John Haines joined Mercy Corps Northwest in Dec 2002 as executive director. From 1997-2002, he was vice president of ShoreBank Pacific, a start-up sustainable development bank in Portland, Oregon. From 1996-97, he was senior finance advisor to the Czech National Environmental Fund in Prague, working for Chemonics International, Inc. under assistance provided by USAID to improve environmental health conditions in the Czech transition to a market economy.

http://www.mercycorpsnw.org/