Dr. Lucy Bernholz is the Founder and President of Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., a strategy consulting firm specializing in program research and design for philanthropic foundations. She is a noted analyst of the philanthropic industry and published numerous articles in the trade and general press, edited collections and scholarly journals. Her most recent book, Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2004. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. She is also on the advisory boards of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equality, YouthGive, Social Venture Partners Bay Area, the National Philanthropic Trust and the Grant making School.

Geoff Yang is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to help build companies that define industries and shape the future. Geoff emphasizes investments in consumer media and infrastructure. His media and advertising investments include Ask Jeeves, MySpace and TiVo. Geoff is currently on the advisory council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business and previously served on the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee. He is also a Director of the National Venture Capital Association and President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.

Josh Becker is the co-Founder of New Cycle Capital. New Cycle Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in capital-efficient businesses within the extended green economy and domestic emerging markets - sectors of the economy that are ripe for entrepreneurial innovation but lack access to sophisticated early-stage venture capital. He started his first internet company in 1994, when he co-founded IntraACTIVE, a pioneering groupware company. He was also one of the first employees of Earthweb, Inc. and—which went public in 1998. After joint degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, Josh joined Brentwood Venture Capital and then joined Brentwood’s Technology partners in 1999 in founding Redpoint Ventures. Josh is an advisor to Energy Unlimited, a pioneering wind energy company. He is co-founder of the Freedom Prize Foundation and the founder and chairman of Full Circle Fund. He is on the board of trustees for the newest campus of the University of California System, the University of California at Merced. Josh was recently named as one of the top people-under forty-to watch in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal. He was also selected to be part of the SV 100, a group of the hundred most influential people in Silicon Valley.