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Paul Kedrosky is a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, specializing in
entrepreneurship, innovation and capital markets. He is also a venture partner with Ventures West, focusing on consumer
technologies, media, semiconductors and life sciences. Previously, he was executive director of the William J. von Liebig
Center, which helps commercialize technologies from the University of California, San Diego. He founded the technology
equity research practice at HSBC James Capel and in 1999 financed and launched one of the first hosted blogging
services, GrokSoup. An analyst for CNBC, columnist for TheStreet.com’s RealMoney site and editor of the blog “Infectious
Greed,” he also serves on the board of Marqui Corp. and Dabble DB. Kedrosky has a bachelor’s degree in engineering
from Carleton University, an M.B.A. from Queen’s University and a doctorate from the University of Western Ontario.
Robert Kelly is Chairman and CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. The company is a worldwide leader in
asset management and securities servicing, operating in 34 countries and serving institutions and high-net-worth
individuals in more than 100 markets. Kelly is a member of the Federal Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board
and sits on the board of directors of the Financial Services Roundtable, where he is vice chairman of the Roundtable’s
CEO Regulatory Restructuring Advisory Council. Kelly previously served as chairman, president and CEO of Mellon
Financial after five years as chief financial officer of Wachovia. He was named a top 10 bank CEO in 2006 and 2007 by
U.S. Banker magazine and one of America’s best CFOs by the readers of Institutional Investor magazine in 2004, 2005
and 2006.
Cinny Kennard is a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Communication
Leadership and Policy, where she is working to launch a Center of Women in Communication Leadership. She was
previously the managing director and editor of National Public Radio’s West Coast Production Center. Winner of the
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award for coverage of the Persian Gulf War, she spent several years as a CBS News
television correspondent. In that role she reported on the uprising in Moscow, the ongoing conflict in Northern Ireland
and the former Yugoslavia. Kennard has co-authored “Characteristics of War Coverage by Female Correspondents,”
which was published in the book Media and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. She co-founded and serves on the
board of The Carole Kneeland Project for Responsible Journalism and the USC Health and Journalism project. She is a
graduate of Northeastern University.
Liam Kennedy is Editor of Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) magazine, the leading European institutional
investment journal. He has 10 years’ experience as a financial journalist and editor, specializing in the field of institutional
investment and pension funds. He has met, interviewed and profiled countless senior executives at European pension
plans, asset-management companies and consultancies. Prior to joining IPE in February 2007, Kennedy spent nearly
seven years at the Financial Times Group in London, where he worked as a specialist editor and writer in the Financial
Times Business division and launched four specialist European pension and investment publications. He received a
master’s degree in German language and literature from the University of Glasgow.
Vinod Khosla is the Founder of Khosla Ventures, which focuses on traditional venture capital technology
investments, clean technology ventures and social ventures, such as affordable housing and microfinance. He was
a co-founder of Daisy Systems, which created the first computer-aided design system for electrical engineers, and
went on to become the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial
RISC processors. In 1986, Khosla joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), which had funded Sun. He received a
bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a master’s degree in
biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Thomas Kinton Jr., is CEO and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the public
authority that operates Boston Logan International Airport; Hanscom Field; Worcester Regional Airport; the Tobin
Memorial Bridge; the public cruise, cargo and container terminals of the Port of Boston; and waterfront development
in Boston. Culminating a 32-year career at Massport with his appointment as CEO in 2002, Kinton has maintained the
authority’s standing as a national leader in transportation security while implementing customer service improvements.
As the “Gateway to New England,” Massport, under Kinton’s leadership, has expanded air and sea service. Its facilities
directly provide more than 18,000 jobs and generate nearly $9 billion a year in economic activity. Serving as Massport’s
aviation director from 1993 to 2002, Kinton was nationally recognized for instituting Logan’s Family Assistance Program
for Aviation Disasters. He received a bachelor’s degree and an honorary doctorate from Merrimack College.
Mary Kissel is Editorial Page Editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia, based in Hong Kong. Her journalism career began
at the Journal as an intern reporting from Paris, Brussels and Washington, D.C. She joined the Journal in Hong Kong in
2004 to write the “Heard in Asia” column, the paper’s premier commentary on the financial markets. Her work has also
been published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, The Australian and the South China Morning Post. A regular guest
on U.S. radio and TV, Kissel is a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and an Edwards Media Fellow at Stanford
University’s Hoover Institution. She began her career at Goldman Sachs as a fixed-income research and capital markets
specialist in New York and London. Kissel received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree
from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Matt Kistler is the Senior Vice President of Sustainability for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Kistler integrates sustainability
into Wal-Mart’s global business strategy, engaging the company’s 61,000 suppliers and the more than 2 million store
associates in this goal. Before joining Wal-Mart, Kistler worked at Sam’s Club as senior vice president of marketing,
research and insights; vice president of product and packaging innovation; and vice president of product development,
private brands, packaging and quality testing. He previously held management positions at General Foods, Oscar
Mayer and Kraft Foods. Kistler has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Boris Klebensberger is Manager of Operative Business and Chief Operating Officer of SolarWorld AG. The
company is involved at all levels of the solar value chain and combines all activities of the solar industry from silicon as
the raw material to turn-key solar power system. SolarWorld AG is represented in all the world’s solar growth markets.
Glenn Kleiman is Executive Director of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, based at North Carolina
State University, where he is also a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the
College of Education. A cognitive psychologist by background, he focuses on basic and applied research, curriculum
development, software development, professional development for teachers and administrators, and policy analysis.
Before joining N.C. State in 2007, he was vice president and senior research scientist at the Education Development
Center Inc. in Massachusetts, where he most recently directed the Center for Online Professional Education. He was
on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1995 to 2007, and has also taught at the University
of Illinois, the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He received a Ph.D. from
Stanford University.
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