Category Archives: Entrepreneur Profiles

My profile of Sandra McBrayer, transformer of California education, for the San Diego Social Entrepreneurship Forum. —————————————– Sandra McBrayer, CEO, The Children’s Initiative California is the only state in the country to provide $550 million in after-school care for children, a … Continue reading →

My profile of Philip Low, who is figuring out how you can download your brainwaves, for the San Diego Social Entrepreneurship Forum. ——————— Philip Low, Founder, Chairman & CEO, NeuroVigil Philip Low believes that sleep is the gateway to the brain, just … Continue reading →

My profile of Teddy Cruz, architect extraordinaire, for the San Diego Social Entrepreneurship Forum. —————————————- Teddy Cruz, Principle, estudio teddy cruz A distinctive characteristic of the social entrepreneur is the ability to see, amid a thicket of complex problems, the germ of … Continue reading →

My profile of Marty Cooper, maker of the first ever cell-phone call, for the San Diego Social Entrepreneurship Forum. —————————————— Marty Cooper, Co-founder, Dyna LLC On April 3, 1973, standing on Sixth Avenue in New York City, Marty Cooper held … Continue reading →

Click here to read my profile on Ashoka Senior Fellow Jerry White, founder of Survivor Corps and Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.  

Click here to read my profile on Ashoka Senior Fellow Gary Slutkin, founder of Ceasefire, one of the most successful violence prevention initiatives in the world.  

Click here to read my profile on Ashoka Senior Fellow Bill Pace, the driving force behind the creation of the International Criminal Court.  

Click here to read my profile on Ashoka Senior Fellow Devi Shetty, world-famous heart surgeon, Mother Teresa’s personal physician, and driving force behind Narayana Hrudayalaya, the world’s largest heart hospital.  

Click here to read my profile on Ashoka Senior Fellow John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest peacebuilding NGO.