Elizabeth Lipscomb is the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Discovery Education, a global leader in digital education and a division of Discovery Communications, the #1 nonfiction media company in the world. Elizabeth serves as Discovery Education's chief representative to the private sector, leading the company's involvement with likeminded social issue networks, workforce coalitions and education taskforces committed to building an equitable future for today’s learners. Seeking to extend, activate and amplify the pro-social efforts of Discovery Education and its partners, her team’s work leads to the delivery of free educational resources supporting traditionally under-funded areas such as STEM education, financial literacy, workforce readiness, environmental stewardship, youth safety and more. Elizabeth currently sits on the U.S. Chamber of CommerceFoundation's Advisory Board and the Social Innovation Summit Leadership Council.

George Tsiatis is the President and Co-Founder of The Resolution Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is paving the way to socially-conscious leadership and collaboration for motivated young people across the globe. Through a unique formula of crowd-sourcing, mentorship, and funding, Resolution is building a community which is solving the most pressing issues facing the world today and activating young leaders to create positive and sustainable change throughout the world. George is also the Founder and Managing Director of Group 113, LLC, a brand management business (and certified B Corp) which serves small and mid-size businesses across all industries by providing them with Total Branding services to meet all of their communications and marketing needs. George previously worked at Rubenstein Associates, a public relations firm in New York City. George received his BA from Harvard University in Byzantine Studies and his JD from St. John's University. He is President of the Hellenic University Club of New York and sits on the Board of the Kew-Forest School.

Ita Ekpoudom is the Founder & CEO of Tigress Ventures, an advisory and consulting firm with a mission to engage, educate, and elevate the next generation of successful women business leaders and investors.  She is also the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Plum Alley Investments, where she oversees investment opportunities and pipeline for high growth female founded and gender diverse startups.  Previously, Ita held product management roles at private equity backed TravelClick and American Express. Ita began her career at Goldman Sachs, as an Analyst in Credit Capital Markets and then as an institutional Trader of Preferred Stock.  Ita is a graduate in Psychology, with a certificate in Finance, from Princeton University. She holds an MBA, with concentrations in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management, from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Aakash has a wide range of experience across start-ups, technology, and academics. Prior to joining Riverside in 2016, he worked as a summer analyst at the private equity firm Littlejohn & Co. where he helped build out a performing credit group. Before Littlejohn, he held a variety of roles in technology, entrepreneurship, and academia. As a junior product manager at Hostway, Aakash was involved in the development of a new product line focused around an e-commerce SaaS platform. As a founder of BlurPort LLC, he led the development ofan innovative data security device. On the weekends, you’ll find him a train ride away in Connecticut enjoying the serenity of suburban life.

Lily is a solutions consultant in Google's DoubleClick for Publisher team based in New York. Her day to day nvolves consulting and on-boardin new publishers, up-leveng existing publishers' product knowledg, as well a mprovin oogle' internal help syste to unlock support at scale.

After careers in law, finance, technology, and venture capital, Richard Fishman is currently senior counselor to Ashoka-Innovators for the Public and an active angel investor in early-stage technology companies. Richard began his career as a civil rights and legal services lawyer and created the first housing and economic development law program in the Southern U.S. He subsequently headed the American Bar Association’s National Housing Law Program and its National Advisory Commission on Housing and Urban Growth. Mr. Fishman left the law to become president of Thinking Machines Corporation, which used massively parallel processing to build the world’s fastest supercomputers at the time. Richard has served and currently serves on the boards of numerous publicly traded and privately held companies and national non-profit organizations. He is a member of the President's Council of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Christina Lewis Halpern is the Founder and Executive Director of All Star Code, a leading, nationally-recognized tech inclusion organization based in New York City that fosters entrepreneurial talent among high school boys of color and ensures they have the tools to succeed. She was recognized in 2016 as a “Woman of Power” by the National Action Network, in 2014 as a White House Champion of Change for STEM Access and in 2015 as an Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Finalist. In her leadership of All Star Code Christina has devoted herself to helping to bridge the diversity gap in the tech community and thus the wealth gap in this country. Christina has a BA from Harvard College in History and Literature. She lives in New York City with her husband, two children, and dog, and is passionate about catalyzing change.

Vijay Talwar has served as CEO, CFO and President across multiple industries, including development, retail, e-commerce, consumer products, and management consulting.  Vijay has applied contemporary business expertise in starting an international e-commerce business, leading global enterprises and turning around a multinational foundation in a developing economy. Vijay continues to address complex industry- and market demands in an ever-evolving, global-business climate. In September 2016, Vijay joined Foot Locker, Inc. as President - Digital and currently oversees the portfolio of Footlocker.com and Eastbay digital businesses. Vijay holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a Master of Arts degree in Accounting from Miami University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the University of Findlay.

As Executive Director of Rent the Runway Foundation, Jennifer oversees Project Entrepreneur - a national initiative launched with founding partner UBS to grow the pipeline of women building economically impactful businesses through its educational programs, venture competition, accelerator, and digital hub. Jennifer’s career has spanned the media, arts, and tech industries -- including Shutterstock, EMI Music, The Paley Center for Media, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts -- where she supports creators and their work. Jennifer holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Elizabeth Scherle is the Co-Founder and President of Influenster, the product discovery and reviews platform that enables consumers to find new products and get advice to make informed purchases. With a community of over 2 million members, these digital influencers have written over 7 million reviews on over 1.5 million products, spreading the word all over their social media networks. She established the Influenster Code Like a Girl scholarship program to support outstanding female students studying in the STEM fields. Originally from Henderson, IA, Elizabeth received her B.A. in Marketing from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Perihan is the CEO and founder of MoviePigs, the first video-on-demand platform dedicated to Arab Cinema in the US. She is also the co-founder of XPost Productions, a Dubai-based TV and film production company. Previously she worked with Google Ireland, and founded 3 startups, including Egypt's first online grocery store. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BBA from the American University in Cairo.