Livestream
2025 Agenda:
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9:15-9:30 A.M. // Welcome
9:30-10:00 A.M. // ReLive
10:00-10:30 A.M. // Exactics
10:30-10:45 A.M. // Break
10:45-11:15 A.M. // Emerging Donor Alliance (EDA)
11:15-11:45 A.M. // Vidyasha
11:45-1:00 P.M. // Lunch Break
1:00-1:30 P.M. // Rise Reforming Inc.
1:30-2:00 P.M. //Papaya Privacy Co.
2:00-2:30 P.M. // Abel
2:30-4:45 P.M. // John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge Reception and Awards Announcement (Room 104)
Team Descriptions:
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- Abel is a 15-minute-a-day partner for small businesses in India that helps them make smarter decisions to grow their cash. It uses data from existing informal systems, and delivers powerful insights and simple, actionable, tailored next steps to help small-business owners optimize cash flows, increase revenues, and cut costs.
- Emerging Donor Alliance (EDA) is a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate proactive charitable giving among young professionals. EDA will partner with employers to provide regular experiential learning opportunities for Gen Z employees to hone in on the causes they’re passionate about, build meaningful connections with local nonprofits, and develop positive philanthropic habits for years to come.
- Exactics develops rapid diagnostic tools for underrepresented infectious diseases to expedite at-home and clinical diagnoses, improving treatment plans and outcomes. Exactics has developed QuickLyme®, a patented 15-minute at-home test for Lyme disease and is currently adapting its patented platform to create a multiplex assay for malaria and similarly presenting diseases.
- ReLive connects retirees with purpose-driven, flexible work opportunities and a social network that fosters community. Through skill-based employment and meaningful connections, retirees stay active, engaged, and valued while employers benefit from experienced talent. Launching first in Singapore, ReLive redefines retirement as a phase of connection, growth, and impact.
- Rise Reforming seeks to turn the tide on the plastic disaster. They use a modular, patent-pending technology to produce cheap and climate-positive chemicals from plastic waste. Their products will help decarbonize the chemical manufacturing industry and its users while combating plastic pollution.
- Papaya Privacy Co. empowers web users to take control of their online privacy with a browser-based AI agent that automatically clicks cookie banners, blocks trackers, and facilitates ethical data monetization. By seamlessly automating consent decisions and offering a transparent data marketplace, Papaya ensures that users can protect their privacy while benefiting financially from their data.
- Vidyasha is combining “education” (Vidya) and “hope” (Asha) to empower out-of-school and out-of-job women in India with market-relevant skills in early childhood education. Vidyasha fosters financial independence, builds resilience, and reduces gender-based violence. It aims to create a trickle-down effect, generate sustainable livelihoods, and help mothers rejoin the workforce.
Distinguished Judges
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- John Balbach, Director, Impact Investments at MacArthur Foundation
- Bruce A. Brege , MBA ’82, Division Head of Mathematics, Mathematics & Economics Instructor, Stanford Online High School
- Jim Casselberry, MBA ’01, Co-Founder and CEO, Known Holdings
- Duncan Davis, Founder and Managing Director, Breakout Capital
- John Edwardson, MBA ’72, Co-Chair, Advance Illinois
- Ghian Foreman, MBA ’01, President and CEO, Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative
- Carlos Ganoza, MBA ’10, Founder and CEO, Quantum Talent
- Emily Green, COO and General Counsel, 4S Bay Partners LLC
- Bob Greenlee, JD. ’99, Chief Operating Officer, Tusk Holdings and President, Tusk Philanthropies
- Gabe Hakim, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Promise Venture Studio
- Rich Hoops, MBA ’00, Executive Director, Impact Charitable
- Lloyd Lewis, MBA ’88, CEO, Arc Thrift Stores of Colorado
- Sheila Mikhail, Adviser/Co-Founder, Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc
- Chris Noon, MBA ‘72, Principal, Capstone Quadrangle
- Andrea Sáenz, CEO, The Chicago Community Trust
- Mauricio Servitje, Co-CEO, Grupo Altex
- Roberto Servitje, MBA ’13, C0-CEO, Grupo Altex
- Unmi Song, AB ’82, MBA ’86, President, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
- Ron Tarrson, MBA ’72 (XP-31), Managing Partner and Director, Santa Fe Aero Services
- Nasrin Thierer, Founder and Managing Partner, Assetblue Investment Group
- David Wells, MBA ‘98, MPP ‘98, Board Member
- Tony Wilkins, CFA, MBA ’86, Private Investor and Executive Coach
Sponsors
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TITLE:
- John Edwardson, MBA ’72
PLATINUM:
- Camille Canzone and Ronald Tarrson, MBA ’72 (XP-31)
- David Wells, MPP ’98, MBA ’98, and Sonya Moore-Wells
GOLD:
- David F. Good, MBA ’67, and Rosemary Good
- Roberto M. Servitje Labarrere, MBA ’13
- 4S Bay Partners LLC
- The Thierer Family Foundation
- Thomas W. Wells, MBA ’94, and Blaine Wells
SILVER:
- Lloyd Lewis, MBA ’88
- Arc Thrift Stores
- Christopher S. Noon, MBA ’72, and Barbara Noon
- Janet Linden Cooper, MBA ’82 and David K. Cooper
BRONZE:
- Bruce Brege, MBA ’82 and Laura Brege, MBA ’82
- Troutman Pepper Locke
LEGAL SPONSORS:
- Troutman Pepper Locke
- Dentons
- Barnes & Thornburg
IN-KIND SPONSORS:
