Former U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Director of OMB
George Shultz is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1970 to 1972, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades, he has served in a series of senior policy positions in Washington, D.C., including the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama and Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Co-Founder and CEO of Usermind
Michel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Usermind, responsible for company vision, strategic direction, planning and execution. Michel’s enterprise software career spans almost 20 years with roles in sales, products, strategic marketing and general management. Before founding Usermind, Michel was VP of Products at Apptio, where she drove product strategy, defined the category and discipline of Technology Business Management and helped grow the company from 30 to almost 400 employees.

Former US. Senator and Congressman
Byron L. Dorgan is a former U.S. Congressman and Senator and Senator from North Dakota. He served in the Senate Leadership for fourteen years as Assistant Democratic Floor leader and Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. He is now a Senior Policy Advisor at Arent Fox LLP engaged in business consulting. He is also an Adjunct Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at a Washington DC Think Tank. A New York Times Bestselling Author of four books, he also serves on several Advisory Boards and Boards of Directors in energy and technology areas.

Advisor, Investor
Pierre Lamond is a pioneer of the semiconductor industry. He started his career in 1957 as an engineer at Transitron Electronics before joining Dr. Gordon E. Moore’s R&D team at Fairchild Semiconductor.

In 1981, Pierre joined Sequoia Capital as a general partner, serving as chairman of the board at Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Microchip Semiconductor, Vitesse Semiconductor, Open-Silicon Inc., Redback Networks, Verisity, and Plumtree. Pierre spent three years as a general partner at Khosla Ventures serving on the boards of Skybox Imaging (Google), Cogenra, SEEO, Avogy, SeaMicro (AMD) and HeartVista.

In addition to making angel investments, Pierre is an advisor to Formation 8.

Former Mayor of Indianapolis & Deputy Mayor of New York
Stephen Goldsmith is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and the Director of the Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard‘s Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as Deputy Mayor of New York and Mayor of Indianapolis, where he earned a reputation as one of the country‘s leaders in public-private partnerships, competition and privatization. He currently directs Data-Smart City Solutions, a project to highlight local government efforts to use new technologies that connect breakthroughs in the use of big data analytics with community input to reshape the relationship between government and citizen. Stephen recently co-authored The Responsive City, and has written The Power of Social Innovation; Governing by Network: the New Shape of the Public Sector; Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work through Grassroots Citizenship and The Twenty–First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America.