Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow and co-founder of the global climate NGO Our Kids´Climate.

Previously with the Times Newspaper London, the U.N. Environment, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nick was the Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Paris Agreement of 2015. More recently, he has served as the Director of Communications for the Global Climate Action Summit that took place in San Francisco in September 2018.

Helen Mountford is Vice President for Climate and Economics at the World Resources Institute (WRI). The Climate team helps policymakers, businesses and civil society globally to identify and advance the deep structural shifts needed to address climate change. The Economics team uses an economics approach to strengthen the analysis and impact of WRI’s work. Helen is also Program Director for the New Climate Economy project, providing independent and authoritative evidence on approaches which both strengthen economic performance and reduce the risks of climate change. Helen previously worked as Deputy Director of Environment for the OECD advising governments on green fiscal policy reforms, climate change finance and economics, green growth, water pricing, biodiversity incentives, and environmental outlooks and modelling. Prior to this, she managed a recycling company in the UK and worked for an environmental NGO in Australia. She has a Masters degree in Environmental Economics from University College London and in Masters in Environmental Management from University of Melbourne.

For Ecosia, Danijel is investing in the climate tech startups that promise the highest financial and climate returns. Previously he worked for Project A, one of Europeans most successful venture capitalists. And before that, he was responsible for the audio-visual appearance of the German Chancellor. Having worked the most time of his life as a journalist focussing on Venture Capital and Climate, Danijel has a broad network of influencers and a deep knowledge of climate technologies.

Wessel van Eeden is a purpose communication specialist. Started his career as marketing director for ID&T and their Sensation events. Since 2003 he was involved in the start of Dance4life(.com) where Wessel headed global communications and marketing until 2010. Since 2013 Wessel is purpose marketeer at Justdiggit and heads up global communications and marketing and is a member of the executive board.

A social entrepreneur that has compassionately led empowerment of over 1.5 million Uganda coffee farmers organized in 200 associations and cooperatives in NUCAFE. Joseph has facilitated investment in climate change mitigation and adaptation measures including Uganda’s first industrial solar power plant that processes carbon neutral coffee and avoids over 240 metric tons of carbon emissions. He has contributed to increase in smallholder income by at least 250%. He holds a BSc in Agriculture and MBA.

Isabella is most passionate about the intersection of business, finance and the environment, believing that the business and finance sectors can actually work to improve, not destroy, the environment. She weaves this into her role as Co-Founder and Relationship Director at the Climate Crisis Hub. As well as the Hub, Isabella works in the Sustainability Reporting and Impact Management space, with previous roles in impact investing. She holds a Master of Development Practice from the University of California Berkeley where she conducted research focused on Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact Investing.

Johan Falk is a leader and entrepreneur in exponential strategies for climate and business. Falk is the CEO and Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative, with the mission to accelerate exponential climate action. Falk is the co-lead author of Exponential Roadmap and 1.5°C Business Playbook. Falk is a former Senior Innovation Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. Falk was one of the initiators of the Global Carbon Law idea, together with Owen Gaffney and Johan Rockström, inspired by Moore's Law. Further, Falk was part of Intel Corporation 2006-2018, responsible for Intel IoT Ignition Lab and heading up the Intel Edge Cloud Game Changer program for 5G networks. Falk received the Intel Global Design Win of the Year 2010 for accelerating the telecom business exponentially to a multi-billion dollar business.

Sharan Burrow is the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, representing 200 million workers in 163 countries and territories with 332 national affiliates. Previously President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) from 2000 – 2010, Sharan is a passionate advocate and campaigner for social justice, women’s rights, the environment and labour law reforms, and has led union negotiations on major economic reforms and labour rights campaigns in her home country of Australia and globally.

Alejandro Litovsky is the Founder & CEO of Earth Security, which links global finance to nature's capital, helping the finance sector to recognise the value of nature and developing innovative programmes to embed this value across asset classes and portfolios. Over the past 20 years, he has worked as a strategic advisor to global banks, companies and governments, shaping the creation of resilient investments and programmes. Prior to founding Earth Security, between 2005-2010 he held senior positions at London-based sustainability consultancies, AccountAbility and Volans, working with multilateral banks, impact investors and companies in emerging markets. Since 2004, he has played an active role linking investment and corporate scenarios with planetary resilience trends, as a Senior Advisor to Tällberg Foundation in Stockholm and at Shell International’s Future Scenarios team in London. From 1999-2003, he was an investment manager with the Swiss-based AVINA Foundation in Buenos Aires, working across Latin America in support of sustainable business models and business partnerships. In 1998-1999 he worked with FARN, Argentina's leading environmental governance think tank during the collapse of the country's commercial fisheries, facilitating parties to the conflict between fishing companies, local port authorities, and trade unions to support sustainable policies. In 2004, he received the Hobouse Memorial Prize by the London School of Economics (LSE), where he obtained an MSc in Political Sociology. In 2012, he was awarded a Global Leadership Award by the BMW Foundation in Munich.

Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO, working to mobilize global capital for climate action. Projects include a green bond definitions and certification scheme with $34 trillion of assets represented on its Board; working with the Chinese central bank on how to grow green bonds in China; market development programs in Brazil, Mexico, ASEAN and Africa; and market tracking services for the green bonds industry. He is a member of the European Commission's Platform on Sustainable Finance, and was a member of its predecessors, the 2017 EU High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. He is also a member of green finance committees in China, India, Mexico and Kazakhstan. Sean is also a Professor in Practice at SOAS University of London.

Nick Robins is Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute. The focus of his work is on how to mobilise finance for climate action in ways that support a just transition, promoting the role of central banks and regulators in achieving sustainable development and investigating how the financial system can support the restoration of nature. Nick is co-founder of Carbon Tracker and also co-founder of Planet Tracker and previously worked at UNEP, HSBC, Henderson Global Investors, the International Institute for Environment and Development, as well as the European Commission.

Tomas Haglund-Flemström is a pioneer within sustainable business. He has spent 15 years as a business strategy advisor at Accenture where he helped build the global sustainability practice with primary responsibilities in Circular Economy and the Nordic regional market. Tomas has through more than 80 strategy assignments at multinational companies built up a vast experience of how to combine sustainable business with growth and profitability. He has first hand seen some of the finance sector constraints, that management teams face, to make a faster pivot to more sustainable business. He last year joined the investment company Formica Capital to help fund the right impactful solutions with the right active ownership to make a difference and to positively influence the rest of the industry.

Andreas Lehner is a sustainability nerd and co-founder of the investment platform Trine. He committed himself to be part of solving societal and environmental challenges of our day and age, with focus on climate change. Before co-founding Trine, he worked as a Business Developer for Solar PV at Statkraft, Europe’s biggest renewable energy utility in Norway and spent time in rural Kenya getting to know sustainability solutions that fit these emerging markets.

David Lais is a social entrepreneur and the founder of several innovative start-ups in the area of payments. He started his first company at the age of 16 and by pure chance entered the payments industry. In 2015, a life-changing event sparked his decision to act on climate change on a larger socioeconomic scale, by firstly launching the non-for profit Organisation for Sustainable Consumption (OfnK) and by then co-founding Ecolytiq, leveraging publicly available and payments data for sustainable banking. David strongly believes in the urgency of consumer awareness and action on environmental impact. For him, technology is not a means to an end, but an indispensable tool in the fight against climate change.

Climate & Capital Media was founded by Peter and senior financial executive. Before founding Climate & Capital Media, he was a Managing Director at BlackRock where he led global communication campaigns to build strong sustainable brands focused on ESG, impact, sustainability, and climate change. Mr. McKillop spent most of his early career as a correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek Magazine in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong where he covered key economic, financial, social, political, issues.

I was born in the UK to Jamaican parents, but spent my adolescence in Jamaica. I read chemistry followed by research in synthetic organic chemistry at UCL (1989-95). I worked in IT for numerous years before leaving the UK in 2013. Since 2015 I have been advocating for state investment in solar powered schools and renewables, and for this to be a requirement in the Sustainable Development Goals. State investment would help deliver SDG4, Quality Education, and impact numerous others such as climate change.

Claudia Rinke is an award-winning and bestselling author and screenwriter. She holds a doctorate degree in law and has previously worked for international Law Firms and the United Nations. Her documentary NOW about the climate movement (directed by Jim Rakete) will be released in 2021. The film has been selected by international festivals such as Copenhagen, Thessaloniki and Raindance.

Annika Erikson studied Paper Conservation at UAL, Renaissance Art History in Tuscany, and the Classics in Greece, before working in conservation and collection care at St Paul’s Cathedral, the Royal Horticultural Society, and Tate, where she got the idea in 2010 to create a mobile digital tool to streamline and create an industry standard in condition reports and conservation documentation. After opening a new conservation studio for John Jones, she became an entrepreneur and founded Articheck in 2013. Annika is a member of the Art Innovators Alliance, International Council of Museums, Institute of Conservation, and Extinction Rebellion. She is also a proponent of the Bizot Green Protocol, which states museums should review loan requirements, storage and display conditions, and building design and air conditioning systems with a view to reducing carbon footprints. Annika has lectured at Sotheby’s Institute, NYU, UCL, Christie’s Education, Kingston University, UCLA, City and Guilds, and Korean Art Management.

Mats is Head of Sustainability at Ericsson with responsibility for climate action, circular economy, energy performance and triple bottom line impact of products, services and company operations. Taking this role after restructuring the Health & Safety organization in the company. During mats leadership the company has set targets that are accepted to be on a 1.5°C by the Science Based Target initiative. Mats has initiated and participated in various research projects e.g. as a member of the steering group for the Exponential Climate Action Roadmap report as well as the ICT & SDGs Report with Columbia University on how information technology has the potential to accelerate halving of global carbon emissions as well as reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. Before rejoining Ericsson, among several other leading roles e.g. Head of Sustainability at Sony Ericsson launching the Green Heart brand for mobile phones and accessories.

Ingmar is serial entrepreneur within financial communication and nominated for a DI Gasell Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Sweden’s Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year 2020, and Green Warrior 2021. Ingmar Rentzhog has been the chairman of the environmental think tank Global Challenge. He is on the board of Naventus Corporate Finance. He’s a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force and he was in 2022 appointed a European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission.

- Investor in 15 companies, lead investor in 8 of them (scale-ups in clean tech and saas) - Founder of Retain24, Taxisystem, Vendemore, Mine storage, and Megadeals Advisory - Prosales Chief Commercial Officer of the year 2018 - Climeon order intake 3-90 MUSD in two years

Nico Johnson is a solar sales and marketing veteran with over a decade of experience developing solar markets for internationally recognized organizations. Nico's popular podcast, SunCast, is essential listening for anyone interested in better understanding how to grow as a leader and producer in the solar industry.

Lewis is recognised internationally for his skills and experience in reducing carbon on major construction projects. He and his team won the NCE100 Low Carbon Leader award for two consecutive years for their work in reducing carbon and sharing best practice across the infrastructure sector. He wrote and presents the Institution of Civil Engineer’s Carbon Management in Infrastructure course and he works on a variety of nationally significant projects to ensure that the most effective opportunities for carbon and cost reduction are understood and delivered. Lewis is currently seconded into the Scottish Government as a Sustainable Development Manager with a focus on reducing carbon across their £5 billion City Deals infrastructure programme.

Alice Ross is the deputy news editor at the Financial Times. She has been a Financial Times journalist for more than a decade writing on topics from personal investment to corporate activity to market movements. She has held roles as the deputy editor of the weekend Money section, editor of the Wealth Magazine and editor of the newsletter, Trade Secrets, which examines issues affecting globalisation including climate change. Alice has a degree in philosophy from Cambridge University and an MA in European Thought from University College London.

Geoffrey is a Youth Advisor for WeDon'tHaveTime and Climate Activist from low-lying land in Nairobi and has felt firsthand climate impacts in the form of environmental degradation around his neighbourhood. Inspired by his background, Geoffrey advocates for the connection between climate action and poverty. He speaks passionately and urgently about social justice, environmental protection, climate change, indigenous rights, and more, and isn’t afraid to call out corporate leaders and others who have contributed to our environmental crises. Despite the backlash he has received from, politicians, and even strangers, Geoffrey remains determined to continue his activism and bring about meaningful change.

Per Espen Stoknes is a TED Global speaker, a psychologist with PhD in economics, and serves as the director of Centre for Sustainability and Energy at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo. An experienced foresight facilitator and academic, he’s also a serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech company GasPlas. Author of several books, among them Money & Soul (2009) and the award-winning book: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming (2015). His latest books are Tomorrow’s Economy (2021) on MITPress, and Earth For All (2022) with the Club of Rome. Per Espen has served as member of Norwegian Parliament, and on the EU Commission’s mission board on Horizon Europe’s Climate Change and Societal Adaptation. He has been a central contributor to the Club of Rome’s www.Earth4All.life project.

Carl Mellander is the CFO of Ericsson since April 1, 2017. He is the owner of Ericsson’s target to be carbon neutral in its own operations by 2030 as well as responsible for the company’s work to reduce business travel carbon emissions. Mellander has held various positions in finance and business control through his career in Ericsson, including Group Treasurer and Head of Finance in several regions. He also served in CFO roles for Saab and Telecom Management Partner AS in Africa. Early in his career he worked for a Swedish Government international development financing agency funding projects in infrastructure, energy and environmental technologies. In addition to his native Sweden he has lived and worked in the US, Costa Rica, Ghana, Germany and the UK. Mellander is a board member in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Sweden.

Sandrine Dixson-Declève is an international and European climate, energy, sustainable development, sustainable finance, complex systems thought leader. She is currently the Co-President of the Club of Rome and divides her time between lecturing, facilitating change in business and policy models and advisory work. She holds several advisory positions for the European Commission: Chair, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR); Assembly Member, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Mission (DGR&I); TEG Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Platform (DGFISMA); United Nations: Food Summit Action Track 5 Resilience and for companies/organisations/institutes such as BMW, UBM, Climate KIC, UCL-Bartlett School of Enviornment and the IEEP. Sandrine is also a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Senior Associate for E3G, Ambassador, for the Energy Transition Commission (ETC) and WEALL. In 2017 Sandrine co-founded the Women Enablers Change Agent Network (WECAN).

Digital entreprenor. I previously sold 2 companies in which we were created digital medias and big communities on social networks, website and mobile apps. Before Time for the Planet, I also run the Europe for a music social network name's Triller. Today, I my goal as a co-founder of Time for the Planet, is to acquire 1 million associates all over the world.

Lord Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts on the climate change economics, finance and policies. He joined the London School of Economics and Political Science after a stint as Head of the Government Economic Service and Second Permanent Secretary at Her Majesty’s Treasury, during which he led ‘The Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change’, published in October 2006. He has previously been Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank and Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Lord Stern is a past President of the British Academy, the Royal Economic Society, and the European Economic Association. He sits on the crossbenches in the UK House of Lords.

With a background in managing delivery and projects, Jess joined the TEDxGlasgow as Project Manager, coordinating and managing team delivery and progress and working with the rest team to deliver an outstanding guest experience. Passionate about taking action on topics that matter, Jess is managing the campaign on behalf of TEDxGlasgow to empower our audience to take a pledge to Green Your Money.

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Tariq Fancy began his career in Credit Suisse First Boston’s technology-sector investment banking group in Silicon Valley. In late 2003, he joined New York-based private equity firm MHR Fund Management, a $6 billion Icahn Holdings spinoff where he led turnaround, buyout, and distressed securities investments and became the firm's youngest partner in 2006. He later became a principal at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, where he helped create new opportunities for the growing investment platform. In 2018, BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, hired Tariq as Managing Director and first-ever Chief Investment Officer of Sustainable Investing. Most recently, Tariq founded The Rumie Initiative, a non-profit, Google-backed technology startup whose award-winning technology uses micro-learning to make building new skills as fun and engaging as social media, including in remote and offline communities. Rumie is used in over 140 countries, ranging from Syrian refugee camps to the Arctic Circle, and is the subject of an in-depth Harvard Business School case study that is taught in business schools around the world. Tariq has been featured in USA Today, Reuters, The Independent, Bloomberg News, FT, The Guardian, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, among others. In 2017, he was selected as one of Canada’s top 40 under 40.

Staffan Hansén is SPP´s CEO and an expert on everything related to the pension industry. With a background as a bonds trader followed a great financial interest that expresses itself in sharp analyzes and predictions on the development of the market. Staffan has a passion for sustainability, an equal business world and is a recipient of the Speaker of the year award in the finance industry.

Psychiatrist and explorer, Bertrand Piccard made history by accomplishing two aeronautical firsts – flying around the world non-stop in a balloon, and more recently in a solar-powered airplane plane without fuel. Pioneer in his way to consider ecology through the lens of profitability, he began working in the early 2000s to promote renewable energies and clean technologies. His current challenge, as Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation, is to identify and promote 1000 profitable solutions to protect the environment and support clean growth.

Steven Donziger is a lawyer, writer, and environmental advocate known for leading a 27-year legal fight waged by Indigenous groups and farmer communities in Ecuador that resulted in a historic $9.5 billion judgment ordering Chevron to remediate its "Chernobyl" disaster in the rainforest. The judgement, based on court findings that found a deliberate scheme by Chevron to dump cancer-causing waste onto ancestral lands to save money, has been affirmed by the highest courts of Ecuador and Canada. Lauded by BusinessWeek for his "Herculean" tenacity, Steven also has led a variety of international human rights fact-finding and advocacy projects. He served as a public defender in Washington, D.C., and edited a leading text on criminal justice reform published by Harper Perennial. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and son, where he is currently on house arrest for almost two years after challenging a judicial order from a U.S. judge that he turn over his computer and cell phone to Chevron.

Joseph Winters is a graduating senior at Harvard, where he studies Earth and Planetary Sciences. He is originally from rural Washington state. Joseph has been working with Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard since 2019 as a core organizer and social media coordinator — some of his proudest campaign contributions include a mock "oil spill" demonstration, the co-organization of protests at the 2019 Harvard-Yale football game, and a recent legal complaint to the Massachusetts attorney general arguing that Harvard's fossil fuel investments violate state nonprofit law. He has also been involved in environmental journalism over the past several years — most recently as an editorial intern at the environmental news site Grist.

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, who led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.

Nigel Topping is the UN’s High-Level Climate Action Champion, appointed by the UK Prime Minister in January 2020. Nigel works alongside the Chilean High-Level Climate Action Champion, Gonzalo Muñoz. The role of the high-level champions is to strengthen collaboration and drive action from businesses, investors, organisations, cities, and regions on climate change, and coordinate this work with governments and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Nigel was most recently CEO of We Mean Business, a coalition of businesses working to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy. Prior to that he was Executive Director of the Carbon Disclosure Project, following an 18 year career in the private sector, having worked across the world in emerging markets and manufacturing.

During her entire career Annette focused on climate and green finance, developing innovative instruments and programs to harness the expertise of the private sector and mobilizing private capital to foster sustainable development in the global south. Prior to her position at the ISF Annette was Head of Division of the Financial Sector Policy Unit at KfW Development Bank responsible for policy and strategic issues regarding KfW activities in financial system development in developing countries. Since 2014 the support of insurance market development and risk financing approaches has been a focus of her work. Before joining the Financial Sector Policy Unit, Annette managed the acquisition team of KfW Carbon Fund.After her studies at the University of St. Gallen und Stern School of Business, New York University Annette received her PhD in economics at the University of Basel.

Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Kathleen has developed Earth Day Network into a year-round policy and activist organization. Now more than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day in 192 countries. Kathleen has been at the vanguard of developing innovative financial mechanisms to support green buildings and schools. Kathleen also founded Earth Day Network’s groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green program, which has now recorded close to 3 billion individual actions to improve the environment.

Jin is responsible for Apis Partner’s new investments and portfolio management in early growth capital across global growth markets. He has spent 18 years investing in tech, industrial, and healthcare companies globally along with entrepreneurship endeavours. Prior to Apis, Jin directed European tech and industrial growth investments for GIC (Singapore sovereign wealth fund) and invested for T Rowe Price and Wellington Management. Jin started his career with JP Morgan and IFC where he focused on venture and growth equity/debt investments across Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

Patricia Espinosa Cantellano is a Mexican politician and diplomat. In 2016 the United Nations Secretary-General appointed her as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). Prior to that she was Mexican Ambassador to Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Slovakia and served as secretary of foreign affairs in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón. Ms. Espinosa brings to her new appointment more than 30 years of experience at the highest levels in international relations, with specializations in climate change, global governance, sustainable development, gender equality, and protection of human rights. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in international relations from El Colegio de México and earned a diploma in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Marco started his career at Lehman Brothers in 1998, where he became the Head of European Internet Investment Banking based in London with US coverage responsibilities. In 23 years, Marco has been involved in over 90 announced M&A deals and 20 IPOs/Leverage Buyouts with a total transaction value of over $120bn, including Fotolia, Bigpoint, Yad2, Facile, Trovit, Flixbus, Parship, Pipedrive, BrightData (Luminati), Bumble/Badoo, Volocopter and Investing.com. NOAH Advisors is also the organizer and owner of NOAH Conference which is now in its 14th year. NOAH Conference hosted 95% of European’s growth investors and over 60% of European’s unicorns on stage. NOAH’s and Marco”s focus now on protecting environmental ecosystems through natural capital and technology solutions, like JuicyData and the Nature Data Alliance.

Before a stage IV cancer diagnosis in 2009, Quincy was seen and heard on The Carson Daly Show and KCRW’s coveted Morning Becomes Eclectic. Her songs have been featured in Film & TV including Fox Searchlight’s, Waitress and NBC’s, Brothers and Sisters. Quincy was featured on the cover of Music Connection magazine; American Songwriter Magazine noted, “Not only has God graced her with a gorgeous voice, her songs are undeniably catchy.”Shortly after a sold-out benefit concert at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles in September, 2009, in support of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society–Southern California, Quincy was diagnosed with stage IV cancer.Coleman is also serving on the board of the Southern California Committee for a Parliament of the World’s Religions (SCCPWR)

An engineer at heart, Börje is passionate about innovation and continuing Ericsson’s drive to be at the forefront of technology, and to empower people and industries to reach their full potential. Ekholm leads the company of 111,000 professionals with a philosophy of “show, don’t tell,” and prioritizes customers above all. Börje assumed leadership of Ericsson in January 2017. From 2005-2015, he served as CEO of Investor AB, a leading investment company in the Nordics. From 2015 until he became CEO of Ericsson, he served as CEO of Patricia Industries, a division created from Investor AB in 2015 to focus on the portfolio of wholly-owned companies. ndustries, a division within Investor AB (2015-January 15, 2017). Prior to assuming this position in 2015, he was President and CEO of Investor AB between 2005 and 2015. Previous positions also include Head of New Investments and President of Investor Growth Capital Inc. Ekholm has had various positions at Novare Kapital AB and McKinsey & Co Inc. Börje Ekholm holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, as well as a Master of Business Administration, from INSEAD, France. He is a board member of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Alibaba Group and Trimble Inc. Ekholm is also Member of the Board of Trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall and the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce New York. Since 2017, Member of the Stering Committee of the World Economic Forum Digital Communication Governors. Holds Honorary Doctorate at The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.