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. 

Seth Murray

Maine Green Energy Alliance

Seth Murray is a high tech entrepreneur who co-founded the audio/video search software company Streamsage that pioneered new methods for spoken language and visual image analysis in 2000. In 2005, he brokered an acquisition deal and successfully sold the company to Comcast making Streamsage the engine behind the cable giant's On-demand service. After leaving Comcast in 2009, Seth went on to found Healthy Homes Maine, an energy auditing and general contracting firm that helps homeowners live in healthier, more energy efficient homes. He is currently the Executive Director of the Maine Green Energy Alliance, a non-profit seeking to help Maine residents improve their energy efficiency and sustainability. He received him BA in Economics from Swarthmore College in 1998.

William C. Vocke Jr.

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

William C. Vocke Jr. is a Senior Fellow and Senior Program Director at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He served as Executive Director of the Worlds Affairs Council in Milwaukee and is a former National President of the World Affairs Councils of America. He has taught at SUNY Geneseo, Juniata College, and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee where he was the Director of their Institute of World Affairs. Most recently, he was a visiting Professor at Taiwan's National Cheng Chi University; taught at National Taiwan University and at the Foreign Service Institute of the Foreign Ministry; as well as consulted at the Ministry of Justice and International Investigations Bureau. William earned a doctorate in Government and International Relations at the University of South Carolina.

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

Pete Zink

Idaho National Labs