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Russell is a financial services executive with experience in innovation and business development. He currently works in the Innovation Group at Wells Fargo & Co, and was formerly at Visa Inc. and American Express. He has an MBA with a Public Management Program certificate from Stanford University and a Master's from UC Berkeley in Environmental Engineering. He was an environmental engineering consultant for his early career and has led pro bono strategy consulting projects for SF Bay Area nonprofits in recent years. Russell lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons.

A New York City native, Bill graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in finance and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University (MBA) and Hunter College (M.Ed). Bill began his career in investment banking and capital markets (Citi, Collins Stewart, Bank Otrikitie in Moscow), ultimately came to the realization that his interests better aligned with education and policy, and became a dean and teacher at a high school in mathematics and economics, in addition to pursuing a special education research focus at Hunter. The transition has spurred a new outlook on life for Bill, and he has developed a passion for improving education and addressing inequality.

John leads Public Equity Group (PEG), a “social impact” strategy and management consulting firm. Prior to founding PEG, John served on the executive and management teams of several organizations, including the Global Business Coalition on Health (Vice President), the Oakland Public Schools (Executive Officer/chief of staff role) and the Bridgespan Group. John also served as Press Secretary and legislative aide to US Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) during her first term in office; led specialty/minority media operations at the 2000 and 2004 Democratic National Conventions; and served on the board of directors of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club (2004-2010). John has worked on electoral campaigns since 1994. John holds a Spanish fluency certification, a BA, an MA, and an MBA, from Stanford University, and is a 1990 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

Linda Goldman has more than twenty years of experience handling the full panoply of employment-related legal matters. She returned to Ogletree Deakins in June 2018 after working in Title IX for her law school alma matter, UCLA. As part of expanding her insight into legal matters from a range of perspectives, Ms. Goldman also served as a law clerk to a federal trial judge and taught employment law as an adjunct law professor at Loyola Law School.

Ben Mahnke is a founding Partner of the Room40 Group. At Room40 Group, Ben has worked with foundations, social purpose for-profit, and nonprofit organizations in a variety of fields. Ben is on the faculty of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice, where he teaches Nonprofit Strategy and Strategic Financial Management.

Prior to co-founding Room40, Ben served as Executive Director and Operations and Finance officer for several large nonprofits, including Facing History and Ourselves and Jumpstart for Young Children. In addition to his senior management experience, Ben provided strategic and management consulting services to dozens of nonprofit and foundation clients at Bridgespan Group, a consultancy associated with Bain and Company. Ben holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He and his family live in Boston where he has served on the boards of several organizations.