Meesha Brown
Executive Director, PCI Media
Ms. Brown serves as Executive Director of PCI Media Impact, an international NGO that specializes in storytelling and strategic communication to inspire change for a healthier, more sustainable, and just world. Through her work with PCI Media, she has the opportunity to produce award winning education and social and behavior change campaigns, including the #ISurvivedEbola campaign – a multi-media education effort to share life-saving health knowledge and encourage reintegration of survivors during the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
In addition to experience in the international development sector, she has spent considerable time in pk-12 public education including a tenure as Director of Literacy for New York City Public Schools.
Ms. Brown grew up in West Texas, with nine siblings. In all of her work, she aspires to employ a pedagogy of love.
David Skinner
Executive Producer
Led by David Skinner, ShadowCatcher Entertainment has been developing, producing and investing in Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions since 2002. Broadway credits include this season’s The Ferryman, The Cher Show, Ain’t Too Proud, and Moulin Rouge!, as well as Tony-winners Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Memphis, Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, and Gentleman’s Guide. Off-Broadway: Satchmo at the Waldorf, Buyer and Cellar, My Name is Asher Lev, and The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Film: Smoke Signals, winner of 1998 Sundance Film Festival (Executive Producer), Outsourced (Executive Producer). Television: The Hive (Co-Creator).
George Northcroft
Obama Appointee
George has executive experience in business management & operations, economic development and public administration. His prior experience includes his appointment by President Barack Obama in 2010 to serve as the Regional Administrator of GSA Northwest/Arctic Region where he oversaw the management of Federal real estate, acquisition, and information technology in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. He has also held the positions of Director-Business Relations & Economic Development for King County Government, and Director-Treasury & Cash Management for Nordstrom. He serves on the Advisory Board-University of Washington-Bothell; Board-Lenny Wilkens Foundation; Board-Seattle Theatre Group; Advisory Board-University of Washington-Consulting & Business Development Center.
Brent G. Reys
Chief Investment Officer, and Lead Goal 17 Foundation Advisor
Mr. Reys is the CIO for a Forbes-400 single family office located in Bellevue, Washington. As CIO and also chair of the investment committee, he is responsible for ensuring that there is a disciplined investment and governance process in place for the assets under his care to achieve the family’s long-term investment strategy.
During his 25+ year career in finance and investments, Reys has served as an investment manager, commercial and private banker, investment banker, CFO/controller, strategic planner and executive advisor. All combined, he’s developed a depth of expertise and unique perspective that have helped him to positively impact the goals and objectives of the families and companies that he has served.
He was appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire to the Washington Technology Center’s Board of Directors and served as Vice Chair of Finance. He has also served full terms on several non-profits boards and is a founding member of the Gage Academy, formerly Seattle Academy of Fine Art.
Dan Barry
Founder & CEO, Peak Carbon
Mr. Barry is a leading expert in the clean energy and environmental commodities sector. From April 2012 until April 2018, he was Global Commodity Head at British Petroleum (“BP”), where he conceived, implemented and managed the creation of the Global Environmental Products division with offices in Chicago, Houston, Irvine, Calgary, London, Singapore and Shanghai. In 2017, his team was independently benchmarked by management consultancy Oliver Wyman as the leader in their sector and the Energy Risk trade organization named his team ‘Carbon Trading Bench of the Year’. Mr. Barry and his team also became market leaders in the development of forest carbon projects – identifying, sourcing and structuring more than half of all U.S. forest carbon transactions from 2015-2017.
Prior to BP, Mr. Barry worked at the Russian gas major Gazprom, as Global Head of Clean Energy acquiring Carbon Rights from a portfolio of more than 110 clean energy projects from around the world. At Gazprom he supported the development of the Rimba Raya forest conservation project, the first of its kind in Indonesia formally permitted with a conservation license in that country, and the first forest conservation project to be rated as triple gold by the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard.
He began his career at Goldman Sachs in their Equity Research group in London before moving to China to pursue Mandarin language studies at Beijing University and working as Director of International Finance at Arreon Carbon throughout Asia.
Mr. Barry graduated from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University in 2003 with an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences (MA 2007), an MPhil in Biological Sciences from Cambridge University in 2004 and an MA in Management Studies from the Judge Business School, Cambridge University in 2005. He has been an elected board member of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) since 2015.
Sam Eaton
Journalist/Filmmaker
Sam is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in New York. His reporting and films on environmental conflict, climate change and international development have brought him from the front lines of the 1999 WTO riots in Seattle to more than two dozen countries around the world. He was the founding Senior Reporter for sustainability coverage at public radio’s flagship business program, Marketplace, where he covered everything from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
More recently Sam’s work has been featured on PBS NewsHour, The Nation magazine, AJ Plus and PRI’s The World, as well as in middle and high school classrooms around the country via Pulitzer Center lesson plans created around his coverage of climate change and tropical deforestation.
As a Director/Producer, Sam has worked on more than a dozen impact documentary and animated shorts for clients including the United Nations, The Rockefeller Foundation, Acumen, and BioLite. His short films have screened at Washington DC’s Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, DOC NYC, The World Economic Forum, and the United Nations Secretariat. Sam also serves on the judging panel for the prestigious Overseas Press Club awards and is himself a three-time winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists Awards for Outstanding Beat Reporting and Outstanding Investigative Reporting in a large market.
Joel Behr
Behr Abramson Levy, LLP
Joel has been a leading entertainment attorney in Los Angeles for over 30 years. He represents many of the highest profile actors, directors, writers and media companies in the entertainment industry.
Olivia Johnston
Olivia not only champions for equality inside one of the world’s largest technology companies but also advises to start ups in impact and sustainable industries in her spare time. She is an intrapreneur inside Apple where she developed into the business leader she is today. In her most recent role she leads teams who create materials that teach developers how to build great software for Apple’s platforms. During her career she managed the launch of new global partnerships to propel Apple’s Enterprise growth, led the design of channel sales growth initiatives across Australia, New Zealand and South Asia, while learning what software means during her time at Microsoft and CA.com. Before she became a teenager, Olivia started working towards independence the moment she was allowed to work at the local kindergarten. Motivated by solving problems, she helped move a high-growth retail business from paper to an integrated POS system while studying Commerce full-time at the University of Sydney. Olivia is often described as an all-round Aussie legend living in California.
