INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE - Key Persons
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, Intuit
Brad Smith was named Intuit's president and chief executive officer in January 2008, culminating a five-year rise through the company where he successfully led several of its major businesses. Intuit's mission is to improve its customers' financial lives so profoundly, they couldn't imagine going back to the old way. Its products and services simplify the business of life for more than 45 million consumers, small businesses and accounting professionals around the world.
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- Senior Fellow With the Kresge Foundation 's American Cities Practice
- Senior Fellow, American Cities Practice, the Kresge Foundation
Carol Coletta is a senior fellow with The Kresge Foundation's American Cities Practice. She is leading a proposed $40 million collaboration of foundations, nonprofits, and governments to demonstrate the ways in which a connected set of civic assets-a civic commons-can yield increased and more widely share prosperity for cities and neighborhoods. She was formerly vice president of Community and National Initiatives for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and is an expert on the development of cities.
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- Trustee, the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
Chris has spent his career using emerging technologies to transform industries and how we communicate and share. A co-founder of Facebook, Chris was responsible for communications, user experience, and product development. In 2007 he became Director of Online Organizing for Obama for America, empowering supporters to create tens of thousands of grassroots groups and events and to give over $500 million online. Today Chris is the owner and publisher of the New Republic, a 100-year-old magazine about politics and culture that is growing into a multi-platform digital media company.
Devin's current focus is Future of Work, Enterprise and Organizations. Bringing together diverse experts to study and advise on emerging issues and technologies at Rethinkery.com
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- Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Cisco
- SVP & Chief People Officer, Cisco
Francine Katsoudas is Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Cisco. She plays a major role in the company's overall performance, leading organizational strategy, promoting operational effectiveness, and elevating team performance through innovative leadership. She is evolving Cisco's approach to strategic workforce planning with programs highlighting the skills and capabilities that employees need to be innovative in today's technology driven environment.
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- Lieutenant Governor, State of California
Gavin Newsom has championed innovative public policies since entering office in 1997. As a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, then as mayor of San Francisco, and now as Lieutenant Governor of California, Newsom has been a political visionary on issues of equality, the environment, homelessness and healthcare. Policies he has initiated and implemented have been duplicated in cities across the nation.
Laszlo Bock leads Google's people function which is responsible for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers." He believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy. During Bock's tenure, Google has been named the Best Company to Work For more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice.
Marina is a futurist and social scientist who serves as executive director to the Institute for the Future. In her 17 years with IFTF, Marina has brought a futures perspective to hundreds of organizations in business, education, government, and philanthropy to improve innovation capacity, develop strategies, and design new products and services. Marina's current research focuses on how social production and technology are changing the face of major industries, a topic explored in detail in her book, The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World.
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- CEO and Co - Founder of TechShop
Mark Hatch is CEO and co-founder of TechShop and a recognized leader in the global maker movement. Under his leadership, TechShop revenue grew 20-fold in five years and multiple new locations have opened across the United States. Mark has held executive positions at firms including Kinko's, Avery Dennison, and Health Net. In 2013, his book The Maker Movement Manifesto was released by McGraw-Hill Education.
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- International President of the Service Employees International Union
- President, Service Employees International Union ( SEIU )
Mary Kay Henry serves as International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which unites 2 million workers in healthcare, public, and property services. She has devoted her life to helping North America's workers form unions and strengthen their voice at work about the quality of the goods and services they provide, and the quality of care they are able to deliver.
Mary Tilley joined Gore in 1982. She leads the company's global human resources team and is a member of the Enterprise Leadership Team, which guides Gore's strategic direction and is responsible for the overall health and growth of the company. She earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and her MBA from the University of Delaware.
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- Leader
- President, Arizona State University
Michael Crow is an academic leader and educator, designer of knowledge enterprises, and science and technology policy scholar. He has been the sixteenth president of Arizona State University since July 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation's leading public metropolitan research universities, an institution combining academic excellence, inclusiveness, and societal impact-a model he terms the "New American University."
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- Fellow Peers Co - Founder
Natalie has spent the last 15 years at the crossroads of social movements and technology. She's transformed and run some of the largest digital teams in the country, including President Obama's successful effort to pass health reform, and built two organizations from scratch. Natalie co-founded and launched Peers.org to support people who are working in the sharing economy. Prior to Peers, she was CEO and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, a platform for people-driven economic change. Natalie also served as digital director for President Obama's Organizing for America (OFA) and the DNC, as well as deputy organizing director for MoveOn.org.
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- Founder, Chairwoman & CEO, Care.Com
Inspired by challenges finding care for her children and ailing parents, Sheila founded Care.com in 2006. Today, the public company is the world's largest online care destination with 20.7 million members in 18 countries. For her advocacy and work on behalf of families and women, Sheila has been named a "Top 10 Women Entrepreneur" by Fortune, received the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, was bestowed the Filipino Heritage Award from President Aquino, and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Mount Holyoke.
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- CEO, Upwork
- Tech Executive
As CEO of Upwork, the largest online freelancing marketplace, Stephane Kasriel is a leading tech executive helping to shape the future of work and expert on innovative workforce approaches-especially building globally distributed teams. Previously, Stephane was Global Head of PayPal Consumer Products, Global Head of Mobile Business Development and Managing Director of PayPal France, held leadership roles at pioneering companies including Fireclick, Work4, and Zong, and was a founder of Fireclick and iFeelGoods.
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- Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Talent Solutions for Kelly Services, Inc
Teresa Carroll is senior vice president and general manager of Global Talent Solutions for Kelly Services, Inc., a leader in workforce solutions. She oversees product and solution strategy, the professional, technical, and outsourcing and consulting practices globally, in addition to overseeing the global sales function and centralized delivery team.
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- President & CEO, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc
- President and CEO of W.L. Gore & Associates
Terri Kelly is President and CEO of W.L. Gore & Associates, a multi-billion dollar enterprise that employs more than 10,000 associates in 45 plants around the world. Gore specializes in fluoropolymer-based materials that are utilized in a wide array of high-value products, including GORE-TEX® fabric, medical devices, filtration, and venting products and many other advanced technology solutions. Gore is well known for its unique management philosophy and culture.