Dr. Pamela Hartigan is the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship’s first managing director. She also is an adjunct professor in social entrepreneurship at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, and has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University. Throughout her career, Hartigan has held varied leadership positions in multilateral health organizations and educational institutions, as well as entrepreneurial non-profits. She has been responsible for conceptualizing and creating new organizations, departments, or programs across a variety institutional arrangements and multi-stakeholder platforms. She holds masters' degrees in economics and public health, and a doctorate in cognitive psychology.

Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund. Prior to starting Acumen, she worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she created and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership program. Novogratz has also worked at the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and has served as a consultant to UNICEF and the World Bank in various African countries. She helped found a micro-finance institution for women in Rwanda and began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank. Novogratz holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Bruce McNamer is president and CEO of TechnoServe. Before joining TechnoServe in 2004, McNamer's career spanned the public and private sectors. He was COO of Verified Identity Pass, Inc., CFO of Appfluent Technology, and VP of business development at Varsity Group. He has also worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. McNamer was a White House Fellow, a director at the National Economic Council from 1998-1999, and a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay. He has an AB from Harvard and a JD/MBA from Stanford.