Jon Carson
BiddingForGood
CEO

Jon is a nationally recognized entrepreneur with a passion for social entrepreneurship. He has funded and endowed social entrepreneurship lectures at both Yale and Babson College. He is a serial entrepreneur who, other than brief stints at Boeing and McKinsey & Company, has always worked on new ventures. He has started and profitably sold three companies, the most recent being FamilyEducation Network (Fen.com) which used a unique public/private partnership model to become the largest education portal on the Internet before being acquired by Pearson plc in 2000. He is currently on the board of Taunton Press (mid sized specialty publisher of magazines and books), and Net-Impact, a national organization of 240 college and MBA chapters promoting social entrepreneurship. He has previously served on the boards of the National PTA, National School Boards Foundation, and the Small Business Association of New England (SBANE). In 2008 Jon was inducted into the Babson College Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Jon lives in Boston with his wife and has recently discovered the wonders of fatherhood.

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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.