Terra Weikel has a background in education, media production and community outreach: she taught at a rural high school in South Africa, worked as an editor and producer for video productions and live television, and ran a 2-year educational campaign for the award-winning film Lost Boys of Sudan, that raised awareness about the Darfur crisis and refugees in the US, as well as $1 million for refugee agencies.  

Rahama Wright is a social entrepreneur working to innovate the shea butter supply chain in West Africa. Her social enterprise Shea Yeleen markets and distributes high quality skincare products, while providing living wages to cooperative members in Northern Ghana. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through 100+ Whole Foods Markets, Amazon.com, and SheaYeleen.com. 

Mark Walsh is the Office of Investment and Innovation’s new Associate Administrator. Mark has over 30+ years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, manager and investor. Prior to SBA, Mark was executive chairman of Homesnap.com, a “prosumer” platform/app for residential real-estate backed by Revolution Ventures and CEO and Co-founder of GeniusRocket, a leading provider of crowd-sourced marketing for major brands and global non-profits.

Monique Woodard is a Venture Partner at 500 Startups where she invests in early stage startups. She believes that the current $2.5 trillion in combined black and Latino purchasing power is creating the next big emerging market – right here in the United States. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Black Founders whose mission is to increase the number of successful black entrepreneurs in tech. Previously, Monique served as an Innovation Fellow for the City of San Francisco where she worked on government innovation, including open data and municipal broadband access.

Erik Wallsten is a Managing Partner at New Ventures, Mexico’s leading social and environmental acceleration and investment platform. He is also a Co-Founder of Adobe Capital, Mexico’s first triple bottom line impact investment fund. Through these and other related efforts he has helped catalyze the growth of impact investing within Mexico and Latin America. 

Kira joined Lyft as CMO in December 2014, and brings more than 20 years of marketing and product leadership, building great consumer experiences and accelerating business growth across a wide variety of industries. Prior to Lyft, Kira was CMO at real-estate marketplace Trulia, where she launched the company’s first-ever national marketing campaign...

Jim is now CEO and Managing Director of Presidio Partners and has been involved in investments in over 60 companies.  He has worked with institutional investors such as large pension funds, foundations, endowments and family offices to form a relationship of trust and transparency in managing their money.

Susan Wojcicki is CEO of YouTube, the world’s most popular digital video platform used by over a billion people across the globe to access information, share video, and shape culture. An early champion of online video who was instrumental in Google's 2006 acquisition of YouTube, Susan now oversees YouTube's content and business operations, engineering, and product development. 

Jeff Wong began his career with the Boston Consulting Group and worked at JAFCO America Ventures, in addition to J.P. Morgan Partners. From 2005-2015, Jeff was with eBay and held a number of roles including serving as the founder and senior director of eBay's Business Incubation Group, which was responsible for building new startups for eBay Marketplaces. From 2015 Jeff has been EY’s Global Chief Innovation Officer.