Team:
Berit Anderson, Programs Director, FiRe Events
Evan Anderson, CEO, INVNT/IP
Mark Anderson, Founder and CEO, Strategic News Service; Founding Member, Coventry Computer; and Chair, Future in Review Conference Corp.
Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Sr. Programs Director and CEO, FiReFilms
Sally Anderson, Editor-in-Chief and Production Manager for Strategic News Service, FiRe Events, and FiReFilms, and FiReBooks
Meg Felso, Executive Assistant to CEO Mark Anderson, Strategic News Service
Scott Schramke, CTO, Strategic News Service
Advisory Board:
Sharon Anderson Morris, CEO, FiReFilms
Brenda Cooper, Science Fiction Author
Russell Daggatt, Founding General Partner, Denny Hill Capital
Kim Dozier, Visiting Fellow, Observer Research Foundation America; Global Affairs Analyst, CNN; Contributor, TIME Magazine
Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville
Cynthia Figge, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, CSRHUB and EKOS International
Amory Lovins, Co-founder & Chairman Emeritus, Rocky Mountain Institute
Gary Marcus, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Robust.ai
Richard Marshall, Chairman of the Board, Cinturion Group
Bill McAleer, Partner, Voyager Capital
Gregory Ness, Fractional Chief Marketing Officer, MedSec
John Petote, Founder, Santa Barbara Angel Alliance
Michael Pfeffer, CEO, Gabriel USA Inc.
Gary Roshak, Chief Executive Officer, V-Satcast
Ricky Solomon, Founder, Wilmot Advisors
John Wells, Science Producer & Host, NPR Affiliate KPCW
Jean Wooldridge, Founder, St. Cloud Communications
Ambassadors:
Ambassador for Asia Research – Scott Foster, Partner, TAP Japan; Author, Stealth Japan; and SNS Asia Editor
Ambassador for Communications – Simon Hackett, Chairman, RedFlow, and former Managing Director, Internode
Ambassador for Economics – William H. Janeway, Managing Director and Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus (London & New York)
Ambassador for Education – David Engle, Director of US Operations, SNS Project Inkwell; and (fmr.) Superintendent, Port Townsend Public School District
Ambassador for Ocean Health – Roger Payne, Founder and President, Ocean Alliance (Vermont and New Zealand)
Ambassador for Science Fiction – David Brin, Physicist and Author
Ambassador for Wireless Research – Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting
Ambassador for Documentary Films – Geralyn Dreyfous, Co-Founder/Director-at-Large, Impact Partners; and Founder, Utah Film Center
Ambassador for Cloud Computing – Gregory Ness, VP Marketing, Vidder
Ambassador for Angel Investing – John Petote, Founder, Santa Barbara Angel Alliance
Ambassador for Pure Science – Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UCSD / UCI partnership)
ACHIEVEMENT Awards:
2016 Interpreting the Indecipherable – Ed Butler, Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
2016 Company of the Year – Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
2016 Seeing IT – Chris Johnson, Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute; and Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah
2016 Freedom Fighter – Andrew Wallis OBE, CEO, Unseen (UK)
2016 Securing Our Future – Richard Marshall, CEO, X-SES Consultants LLC
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2015 Global Instigator for Good – Kamran Elahian, Global VC, Entrepreneur Without Borders, and World Philanthropist; and Chairman, Global Catalyst Partners
2015 Director, Best Documentary – Louie Psihoyos, Racing Extinction
2015 Entrepreneur of the Year – Nancy Stagliano, CEO, True North Therapeutics Inc.
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2014 World-Changing Documentary – Michael Rossato-Bennett, Director, Alive Inside
2014 Above and Beyond – Hugh-Bradlow, Chief Scientist, Telstra Corp.
2014 Pioneer in Global Change – Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2, UC San Diego/UC Irvine and the Qualcomm Institute
2014 Creating New International Innovators – Guy Groff, (fmr.) Associate VP, Professional Management and Career Development, Thunderbird School of Global Management
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2013 Company of the Year – Graphene Technologies (CEO, Jon Myers)
2013 CEO of the Year – a title=”About Leroy Hood” href=”/topics/leaders/Leroy-Hood”>Leroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems Biology
2013 Entrepreneur of the Year – Kevin Montgomery, CEO, Collaborate.org
2013 Philanthropist of the Year – Paul Shoemaker, (fmr.) Executive Director, Social Venture Partners
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2012 Company of the Year – Nuance Communications
2012 CEO of the Year – Paul-Jacobs, (fmr.) Qualcomm
2012 Entrepreneur of the Year – Colin Angle, CEO, iRobot
2012 Philanthropist of the Year – Don Budinger, Founding Director, The Rodel Foundations
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2011 Entrepreneur of the Year – Simon Hackett, Director, RedFlow; and former Managing Director, Internode
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2009 Entrepreneur of the Year – Elon Musk, CEO and CTO, SpaceX; CEO and Product Architect, Tesla Motors; and Chair, SolarCity