Reginald Canal

HSBC

Reggie Canal is a Senior Vice President at HSBC for the Employee Financial Services banking segment (EFS). He has excelled in a variety of roles at HSBC over the last 15 years including managing the bank's NYC Premier Affluent Center and starting the Affluent African American Segment targeting High Net Worth Individuals and Commercial Clients. He is the 2006 HSBC recipient of the National Eagle Leadership Institute Award and was named one of the Network Journal Magazine's 40 Under Forty Black Achievers. He has also received the Community Service Award from the Greater New York Chapter of the Links Inc. Organization. Reggie is a Board Member of Ronald K. Brown's Dance Company, Evidence, and a lifetime member of the National Black MBA Association.

Will Decaneas

Beth Israel Deaconess

Will Decaneas graduated from Boston University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Italian Literature. Will currently works in the Research Operations Department for the Transplant Research Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard University teaching institute in Boston, MA. He has over 5 years of experience in non-profit finance and administration with an emphasis in sponsored programs. He has a strong passion for leaving the world a better place and strongly supports AIDG’s mission. Will is currently matriculating into the 2010 Masters of Management program at the Harvard Extension School.

Peter Haas

AIDG

Adam Hyde

Blue Tree Strategies

Adam is a founding board member of AIDG. He brings with him a decade of experience engaging with corporations, start-ups and entrepreneurial non-profits to show that doing the right thing for people and planet can be a deep source of competitive advantage and profitability. Adam was a senior consultant for Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting and worked on operational ecoefficiency, sourcing transparency and supply chain innovation for the world’s largest retailer. He currently is a senior consultant at Blue Tree Strategies. He earned an MSc from Schumacher College and a BS from University of Vermont. He lives with his wife Kaye and son Rye on a small farm in the Columbia River Gorge where they raise pastured pork, chicken and eggs for local direct markets.

Cat Lainé

Catherine Lainé was Deputy Director of AIDG from 2007-2010. A social entrepreneur, who transitioned into international development from academic pursuits in infectious disease epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and Oxford University, Catherine is passionate about finding sustainable business solutions to the problems facing the world's poor. Prior to her work at AIDG, she ran a private media consultancy for non-profits and small businesses on how to leverage open source technology for more effective communications. She is an avid blogger and speaker on technology in the non-profit sector for the NTEN conferences. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College in Biology and is fluent in French and proficient in Haitian Creole and Spanish.

Seth Murray

Maine Green Energy Alliance

William Foote

Root Capital

William Foote is the founder and CEO of Root Capital. He began his career as a financial analyst in the Latin American Corporate Finance group at Lehman Brothers, and as a journalist in Mexico and Argentina. He was named an Ashoka Global Fellow in 2007, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008, and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) in 2009. Mr. Foote is on the executive committee of the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a founding board member of the Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) and currently serves on the boards of the Open Learning Exchange (OLE) and E&Co. Mr. Foote holds a B.A. from Yale University and a M.Sc. in development economics and economic history from the London School of Economics.

Emeka Okafor

Timbuktu Chronicles

Emeka Okafor is an entrepreneur and founder of the publicly acclaimed blog, Timbuktu Chronicles and Africa Unchained. He served as Director of the TED Global Conference in 2007, titled Africa: The Next Chapter. Emeka sits on the global advisory board for Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE), an organization that seeks to advance youth entrepreneurship and community service around the world. He also serves as Director of Research for the Direct Expatriate Nationals Investment initiative. He is a founding member of the IPEGroup, a volunteer initiative established to promote the role of private enterprise and capital markets in emerging markets and a partner in Caranda Fine Foods. Born in the Stoke-on-Trent, U.K., Emeka grew up in Canada and Nigeria. In 1987, he earned a degree in Architecture from the University of Nigeria. He lives and works in New York City.

Amy Smith

MIT D-Lab