Photos from PBLN's 3rd Annual Washington, DC CEO Summit - May 11th, 2010

Thomas Murray, President & CEO of the Hastings Center, Joshua Boger, Founder & former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Congressman Paul Hodes (D-NH), chat at the start of the Summit.	Paul Sagan, President & CEO of Akamai Technologies, Tim Rowe, President & CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center, Bill Stone, Managing Member of Outside GC, and Nicolas Boillot, Managing Partner of Hart-Boillot take a coffee break.
Tom Dretler, President & CEO of Eduventures, Inc., and President of PBLN, delivers opening remarks.	Mitch Tyson, CEO of Advanced Electron Beams, Inc. and Chair of PBLN’s Energy/Environment Working Group, sets the tone for morning’s energy session.
Jon Karlen, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners talks with Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA).	Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), David Belluck, Managing Partner at Riverside Partners, and Congressman Markey.
Roger Freeman, Managing Principal at Solventerra and Coordinator of PBLN’s Energy/Environment Working Group, poses a question.	Brenda Reny, Principal and Managing Director at Daintree Advisors, and Howard Brick, COO at MedPanel, Inc.
Maria Ghazal, Director of Public Policy and Counsel at Business Roundtable and Valerie Fleishman, Executive Director at the New England Healthcare Institute and co-Coordinator of PBLN’s Healthcare/Life Sciences Working Group.	Joshua Boger, Founder and former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and PBLN co-Chair, introduces the healthcare panel session.
Neera Tanden, COO at the Center for American Progress, speaks during the healthcare panel session.	Shailagh Murray, Congressional Correspondent at the Washington Post and Moderator for the Healthcare panel session, speaks with Thomas Murray, President & CEO of the Hastings Center, and Jim Roosevelt, Jr., President & CEO of Tufts Health Plan and PBLN Honorary co-Chair.
Diane Hessan, CEO of Communispace, Andy Tarsy, PBLN Executive Director, and Peter Cunningham, US Assistant Secretary of Education.	Thomas Murray, President & CEO of the Hastings Center, Chris Pinney, Director of Research and Policy at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Aaron Abend, Managing Director at Recombinant Data, Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), and Andy Tarsy, PBLN Executive Director at the reception.
Peter Cunningham, US Assistant Secretary of Education, Paul Sagan, President & CEO at Akamai Technologies, and Gloria Larson, President of Bentley University during the Education panel discussion.	Devereaux McClatchey, President & CEO of Carney, Sandoe & Associates, raises a question for the Education panel.
Diane Hessan, CEO of Communispace, moderates   a special session on finance regulation reform with Congressmen Barney Frank (D-MA), and Mike Capuano (D-MA)	Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and PBLN co-Chair, poses a question with Paul Egerman, co-Founder and former CEO of eScription, looking on.
Congressman Barney Frank, Chair, House Financial Services Committee (D-MA), and Congressman Mike Capuano (D-MA).	Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) chats with Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden.
Tim Rowe, President & CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center and Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA).	Congressman Mike Capuano (D-MA), chats with Greg Torres, President of MassInc., Matt Henshon, Partner at Henshon-Parker, LLC., and Norm Gorin.
Jim Matheson, General Partner at Flagship Ventures, moderates the briefing with Jared Bernstein and Terrell McSweeny, Vice President Joseph Biden’s economic and domestic advisors.	Terrell McSweeny and Jared Bernstein from Vice President Joseph Biden’s executive office.
Jim Boyle, President of Sustainability Roundtable and co-Founder of PBLN, raises a question.	Devereaux McClatchey, President & CEO of Carney, Sandoe & Associates and Nikki Korn, Principal at Cause Consulting.
Peter Miller, Principal at the Castle Group and Beverly Armstrong, CCO and General Counsel at Paratek Pharmaceuticals, and PBLN Vice President, chat during the reception.	Congressman Paul Hodes (D-NH) speaks with Andy Tarsy, PBLN Executive Director, Chris Pinney, Director of Research and Policy at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, and Will Febbo, CEO of MedPanel.
Diane Hessan, CEO of Communispace, Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), and Jim Roosevelt, Jr., President & CEO of Tufts Health Plan.

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Diane Hessan, President & CEO - Communispace
According to Advertising Age Communispace is one of the fastest growing marketing and technology companies in the country, with a Blue Chip client list that would make a Madison Avenue giant jealous. A pioneer in creating online communities to help marketers deeply engage customers, Diane helped found Communispace in 1999 and hasn't looked back.