Nathan has over 40 years of experience in the �elds of interna-tional development and education. He is one of the sta� found-ers of Oxfam America supporting emerging community devel-opment leadership in low-income countries and has been a pioneer in socially positive investment. Nathan started the youth leadership organization Earth Train Foundation in 1991 and, in 2001, led the establishment of its international base in Panama where he co-founded the Mamoní Valley Preserve with Colin Wiel & family, and founded Fundación Earth Train, now Fundación Geoversity. Together with Verne Harnish, he directed the launch of the Geoversity ecosystem with its annual The Nature of Business executive events, as well as Geoversity's “Designing with Nature” and “Life Changer” initiatives. He was a contributing author of Disaster and Development (Fred Cuny) published in 1989 by Oxford University Press and a contributing author of Change Not Charity - Essays on Oxfam America’s First 40 Years, published in 2010.

Verne is the founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 14,000 members worldwide, and chaired for �fteen years EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birth-ing of Giants” held at MIT, a program he still teaches today. Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 150 partners on six conti-nents, Verne has spent the past three decades helping compa-nies scaleup. He’s the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which is translated into 9 languages; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. His latest book Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) has won eight major international book awards including the pres-tigious International Book Award for Best General Business book. Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summit in collabo-ration with Bloomberg and serves on several other boards

Educational background: BA in International Relations from the University of California, San Francisco and completed special studies in literature at the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico; Universidad de Zarago-za, Spain; and Université de Toulouse en Pau, France.

including vice-chair of The Riordan Clinic. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne also enjoys piano, tennis, and magic, being a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Educational background: Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Wichita State University.

Since 2001, Lider has been a full-time environmentalist, �rst as Executive Director of Panama’s National Association for the Conservation of Nature (ANCON), playing a key role in initia-tives such as the creation of Coiba as a National Park by law. Between 2007 and 2010 Lider was the Executive Director of the then-in-construction Biomuseo. Lider became Executive Co-Di-rector of Earth Train, with programs centered at Centro Mamoní and the Mamoní Valley Preserve. Since 2011, he has been Regional Director for Latin America of Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC), a global pioneer in the development of private sector climate change mitigation projects. In September of 2015, Lider was elected to the global Board of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as a delegate for the Meso-american region. Lider is an avid naturalist, scuba diver, and a certi�ed nature guide. Lider’s initial experience was as a manag-

After more than 50 years in energy and environmental matters, Steve retired in 2005 from Lawrence Berkeley National Labora-tory, where he led the Energy and Environmental Technology Division's Energy Analysis Department. He has provided tech-nical assistance in greenhouse gas mitigation to developing countries and served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a Chairman of CLASP, an international non-pro�t corporation that stimulates the use of energy e�ciency stan-dards worldwide, on the Board of the American Council for an Energy E�cient Economy and of the Global Cool Cities Alliance, Mamoní 100, and LEVYdance. Steve was a Public Service Com-missioner and owned an energy and environmental planning �rm in Reno, where he was also an Engineering Professor at the University of Nevada. He began his career in the aerospace industry designing systems for the Apollo mission, satellite

er of industrial maintenance to the Panama Canal. After that, he became a management consultant in both Boston (U.S.) and Panama. Author of the Guatemala Chapter of the “Let’s Go Central America” 1997 travel guide. Currently, he is a board member of the Biomuseo, the Panama Audubon Society, the Harvard Club of Panama, and ANCON.

Educational background: MBA from Harvard Business School.

launches, and reentry vehicles. Since 2014 he has been overseeing his family’s involvement in the Mamoní Valley Preserve and has a signi�cant role in the Mamoní 100 Membership Club. Educational background: BA and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International A�airs.

David is a Sales & Marketing Strategist, entrepreneur, and best-selling author of ten books. No one knows more about using the new Real-Time tools and strategies to spread ideas, in�uence minds and build a sustainable business. He has spoken on all seven continents and in 40 countries to audiences of the most respected �rms and organizations. David is author and co-au-thor of ten books, three being international bestsellers. Best known for The New Rules of Marketing & PR, now in its 6th edition and translated into 29 languages, a modern business classic with over 400,000 copies sold so far. He is a co-author of Marketing the Moon (with Rich Jurek) and Marketing Lessons from The Grateful Dead (with HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan). David is co-founder and partner in Signature Tones, a sonic branding studio, that specializes in creating sonic logos and original music for use by organizations in their branding e�orts. Sonic branding includes original music that people use in videos, podcasts, products, and services, as well as, walk-on music for speaking engagements.

Carolyn is the Brand Campaign Manager of HubSpot, the fast-growing developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing and sales. Before joining the company last year, she co-founded The Good Ones, an organization rede�n-ing social networking, as well as other cutting-edge social networks and brand marketing initiatives. She has dedicated her adult life to fundraising in favor of underprivileged groups like Horizon for Homeless Children, Never Ever Give Up, Sclero-derma Foundation, Boston Gives, Center For Family Connec-tions, and the Harvard University & Harvard Graduate School of Education Alumni run for mental health care. She has served on the board of several of these and has organized several large events like the nonpro�t Venture Capital & Private Equity, and MassChallenge. Being an avid outdoors explorer she joined David Meerman Scott as the guest producer of Geoversity’s historic Trans Continental Expedition in February 2019.

Educational background: BA in economics from Kenyon College.

Educational background: BA in Economics, College of the Holy Cross and Coursework at Harvard Business School: Social Networking Platforms, e-Commerce, International Marketing and Branding.

Besides being a board member, TJ is the new CEO of Fundación Geoversity and a founding sta� member the overall Geoversity ecosystem, as well as, the President and Board Member of Inovateus Solar. Driven by the Inovateus pledge to “Build A Brilliant Tomorrow,” he has been instrumental in developing a world-class solar team that has successfully deployed solar energy projects and products internationally. Under his leader-ship, Inovateus has been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in Indiana” by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce in 2014 and 2016. TJ was recently invited to the White House to participate in a special brie�ng on clean energy and also received the 2016 “Outstanding Young Business Leader” award by the St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce. Among his business and community awards, TJ was honored as a 2013 “Forty Under 40” recipient for northern Indiana and southwest Michigan. Before starting his own career at Inovateus, TJ

For the past decade, David, alongside his colleagues at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University, has taught the next generation of Bill Gateses and Mark Zucker-bergs how to create disruptive innovations. His keynotes share those insights and, through entertaining real world examples, he helps leaders and frontline innovators understand how to develop disruptive innovation in their organizations. His work has been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News as well as ESPN, and Smithsonian Innovation and Popular Science. He has held appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and North Carolina State University. His work has been recog-nized in numerous scienti�c journals and popular science outlets.

Educational background: PhD from Harvard University Harvard

worked for General Growth Properties in Chicago.

Educational background: BA in Business Management from Columbia College, Chicago.

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Shea Welsh is a guitarist, songwriter and producer. His ability to move freely through any genre has made him share the stage with musicians from The Edge, U2, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police, Heatwave, Peaches & Herb, John Taylor, and Duran Duran. Among many productions Shea recorded his �rst Blujazz project “Arrival” in 2017, but has also produced for The Hipnotics', Michelle Coltrane, The Jane Carrey Band and emerg-ing artists My Serenity and Chris Monaghan. He has performed at several festivals, including three times at the Panama Jazz Festival and The Miami Beach Jazz Festival with Michelle Coltrane, to whom he is a co-writer, studio musician and musi-cal director for her touring band. As an educator, Shea runs The Shea Welsh Institute of Jazz at The Conservatory of Performing Arts and he is a USC Thornton School of Music Studio/Jazz Guitar faculty member. Shea is a concerned environmentalist and philanthropist, proven through his work with Geoversity since the early days of Earth Train in Panama.

Educational background: BA in Jazz and Commercial Music from Towson University, Baltimore; MA in Studio/Jazz Guitar from University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.

Tommy joined Ubisoft in 2006 after varied experiences within the entertainment industry, �rst working as a journalist for French cable TV Channel Canal+, then as a producer at Shiny and as an editorial manager for TV program Game One. He is in charge of developing new franchises at Ubisoft, supporting studios throughout the creative process and helping them achieve the best gameplay experience.

In early 2017, Tommy led a team of 19 creatives from Ubisoft studios in Paris and Sweden on a research mission to Panama that Geoversity help to organize and guide. Tommy returned in 2018 to participate in Geoversity’s The Nature of Business 2018 conference and to participate in a transcontinental journey from Centro Mamoní to the Atlantic coast of the Guna people focused on the e�ects of global climate change. Together with two colleagues and a renowned graphic novelist, he produced a �lm and a book about his “life changing experiences in Panama.” Tommy contributed to The Nature of Business conference in 2019 and subsequently joined the board of Geoversity Foundation.

Elisa Alvarez has worked in the �eld of education for 20 years as a teacher and administrator focusing on at-risk youth in the inner city. She has worked in San Diego, Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently the principal of Washington Elementary School in San Leandro where she founded the school district’s �rst Spanish/English Dual Language Immersion Program. Elisa was invited onto the board of Earth Train Foun-dation in 2005 in recognition of her leadership in the �eld of education on social justice standards and project based learn-ing.

Educational background: BA in Liberal Studies from San Diego State University; a Master of Education in Risk and Prevention from Harvard University; a Master of Science in Urban Teaching from Wheelock College; and Administrative Services Credential from California State University at Hayward.