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Evan Marwell is Founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, the leading non-profit focused on closing the digital divide in America’s most unconnected communities. In eight years, EducationSuperHighway closed the digital divide in America’s K-12 schools – connecting nearly 47 million students in 99.7% of America’s classrooms to high-speed broadband. To accomplish this, Evan secured commitments from 85 governors from all 50 states to upgrade their schools for the 21st century and $2.5 billion per year of federal funding to make these commitments a reality. A recipient of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Visionary of the Year award and a serial entrepreneur, Evan launched companies over the last 25 years in the telecom, software, and hedge fund industries. Evan is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, board chair of Recidiviz, a board member of myAgro, and a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Ignite! Reading, a virtual K-8 foundational reading skills tutoring company.

Elliot Schrage’s career spans over 30 years working at the intersection of business and public policy, including senior roles at Facebook, Google, and Gap. Previously, he served as Senior Fellow at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations and taught at Columbia University Business and Law Schools. He began his career as an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Paris. In addition to ESH, Elliot has served on the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial, San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, Social Finance, Inc., and as a Policy Fellow at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He is Founder and Chair of the Flywheel Fund for Career Choice. an innovative non-profit offering Income Share loans to encourage professional school graduates to pursue public interest careers.

Todd Carter is a Managing Director and Chairman of Global Technology at Houlihan Lokey. For more than three decades, he has advised on over 1,000 mergers and acquisitions, financings, takeover defenses, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, leveraged recapitalizations, joint ventures, stock buybacks, and restructurings.

Previously, Mr. Carter was Co-CEO and Co-Founder of GCA Advisors, which was acquired by Houlihan Lokey in 2021. Additionally, he served as a board member and a member of executive management at GCA. Mr. Carter was also Chairman, President, and CEO of both Savvian and Perseus Group, predecessors of GCA. Before that, he was President of Robertson Stephens, a global investment banking and asset management firm, and served on the board of directors. Prior to his role as President, Mr. Carter held several positions at Robertson Stephens, including Head of Global Corporate and Investment Banking, a division that generated more than $1 billion in annual revenue during his tenure. He also served as Head of Global Technology Investment Banking and Head of Global Mergers & Acquisitions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Carter was employed by McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Carter’s clients have included Amdocs, Apple, Applied Materials, AT&T, Autodesk, CA, Citrix, Cognizant, Dell, eBay, Equifax, E-Trade, Gartner, Genentech, Gilead, HCA, Infosys, Intuit, Juniper, McAfee, Micron, Microsoft, Netscape, News Corp, Northrop Grumman, NVIDIA, PayPal, Pixar, Priceline, Siemens, Simon Property, SoftBank, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, TIBCO, Wipro, and Yahoo.

Over the past two decades, Mr. Carter has been actively involved as an early-stage and growth investor, primarily focused on the technology industry. He has invested in more than 100 companies, several of which he co-founded. Mr. Carter has also served on a number of public and private company boards as well as advisory and nonprofit boards. In the nonprofit area, he currently serves on UCSF’s Board of Overseers and the boards of EducationSuperHighway and The Conservation Fund. Other selected involvement includes serving as Chairman of OneD Material, a nanowire-material, high-performance battery company, and on advisory boards such as Foresite Capital and Victory Park Capital.

Mr. Carter graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from the University of Texas and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jeff currently serves as the Founder & Chairman of Millennium.org, a non-profit organization providing research, training & certification services to schools and education leaders across the US. Millennium also operates a laboratory middle school in San Francisco, designing next-generation methods of whole-self education. Jeff has served on the boards of Greenhouse E3, the largest leadership training institute for Charter School Management Organizations, as well as Mindful Schools, Challenge Success, Education Superhighway, and Marin Montessori School. Jeff is also an active investor in innovative education technology companies, including Ignite! Reading, WayFinder, Circl.es, Perceptx, and LifeGuides. Previously, Jeff spent 20 years in HR Technology and corporate leadership development, serving as the Founder & CEO of Ninth House and Co-Founder of PDI Ninth House, now Korn Ferry Organizational Consulting.