Laurent, a native of Belgium, has spent most of his professional life in North America. Most recently, he was the fearless leader, President and CEI of Brewery Omemegang, a brewery specialized in Belgian-style ales and Duvel Moortgat USA, a high-end beer importer. Over a seven-year period, he led his team and turned Omegang from a micro to a regional brewery, expanding production five-fold, redeveloped the domestic and import brand portfolios, and grew distribution into a US-wide network. Prior to that, Laurent was one of the first employees at Ofoto, a pioneer of online photofinishing and later became the Director of Strategic and International Alliances prior to the acquisition by Kodak. Earlier, he had been a Managing Partner at Global Investment Partners, a boutique and investor; the Director of Marketing at Somnus Medical Technologies, a medical device technology start-up focused on the ENT market, an associate witht the Banque Paribas groupin Brussels and Toronto. 

Laurent holds a degree in Ingénieur Commercial Solvay  and Masters in International Relations both attained from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He also holds  an MBA from Stanford University. He wrote his Master thesis on transport issues in Southern Africa. When he is not travelling around East Africa, he lives in Barcelona with his wife Maia and two children.

Bruce is an attorney whose practice has primarily involved advising and assisting businesses and entrepreneurs. He has focused on matters such as developing and structuring new ventures, obtaining financing, raising capital through private placements and public offerings, complying with securities laws, carrying out acquisitions and joint ventures, establishing and maintaining governance mechanisms and dealing with governmental regulatory issues. He also has a long track record of advising not-for-profit organizations on organizational, governance and operational matters, and is active in the entertainment industry both as a lawyer and an advisor. He has served on the Boards of many for profit and not-for-profit organizations. His public service includes serving as White House Staff Assistant to President Richard Nixon. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute and the New York City Bar Association where he has sat on numerous committees including the Committee on International Law, which he chaired.

Bruce holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School.

Kari Stoever is the President and Founder of Meliora Global, LLC, a newly established firm focused on growth strategies both for profit and not for profit social ventures. She is a global health and development expert with more than 15 years of experience leading all aspects of nonprofit and research initiatives. In her previous role at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, she helped establish and was the Managing Director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD). She was the Principal Investigator on a $34 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish regional financing mechanisms and to increase international investments for the scale-up of NTD control and elimination strategies globally. Under her leadership, the Global Network secured more than US $100 million in grants and financial commitments. She has been active in the Clinton Global Initiative since its inception and has made key contacts with policy makers and opinion leaders in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Prior to her work at Sabin, she spent several years managing clinical research studies in cancer and infectious diseases. She spent a year working for the Department of Defense at the United States Army Medical Research Institute for infectious diseases (USAMRIID) managing anthrax and other biodefense studies. 

She has served on the Women’s Leadership Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and is a current board member of Rwanda Works. She holds a B.Sc. from George Washington University, a degree in nursing, and an Executive Masters in Leadership from the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. In 2009 she participated in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit.

Kelly Wachowicz serves as the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer in the AllianceBernstein Real Estate Group, which manages a private equity fund investing in distressed real estate. Previously, she was Senior Vice President of New Business Initiatives at iStar Financial, a leading publicly traded finance company focused on the commercial real estate industry, where she oversaw the launch, growth, and sale of a multi-billion dollar timberland business. Kelly was formerly the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Policy for the New York City Economic Development Corporation where she was responsible for developing policy recommendations on a wide variety of economic development issues including transportation infrastructure, Lower Manhattan redevelopment, industry growth incentives, land use policy, and long term capital planning. Prior to joining the EDC, she worked in London and New York for Goldman Sachs in real estate finance, Investment Banking, and corporate strategy. Kelly also serves as Board Member and Treasurer for Civic Builders, a non-profit organization that builds charter school facilities in New York City, and as Trustee and Chair of the Board for the Achievement First Brownsville Charter School in central Brooklyn, NY.