Microsoft: Lindsay-Rae McIntyre

Intel: Barbara Whye

Barbara H. Whye is Intel's Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and VP of Human Resources for the Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group (TSCG), the company's largest business group. This group is responsible for aligning technology, engineering, product design and business direction to extend Intel's strategy and speed execution across the client device and IoT segments — all core to growth in the smart and connected compute era. She also leads Intel's Diversity in Technology $300M initiative which resulted in reaching full representation in Intel's U.S. workforce in October 2018. The company's workforce now reflects the percent of women and underrepresented minorities available in the U.S. skilled labor market. A champion of Intel's culture of inclusion, with 21 years of experience, she develops strategies that accelerate progress and integrate diversity and inclusion across the ecosystem to enhance innovation and drive business results. Barbara joined Intel in 1995 as an engineer and held a number of leadership roles driving large scale and enterprise-wide change. Prior to joining HR and Global Diversity and Inclusion in 2015, she spent 15 years in key leadership and project engineering roles responsible for acquiring and starting up new facilities for Intel Corporation worldwide, including Talent Management as an expatriate in San José, Costa Rica. Barbara also led the investment strategy for Intel's global (STEM) education portfolio, with an emphasis on girls and underserved populations, and was a strategist on Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls' education and empowerment. Barbara earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina and her MBA from the University's Darla Moore School of Business. Recognized as a force for positive social change, she has been awarded with the 2014 National Society of Black Engineers Career Excellence Award, a 2015 Society of Women Engineers Spark Award, a 2016 Inspiring Women of South Carolina Award, and 2019 BLACK ENTERPRISE Most Powerful Women in Corporate Diversity Award.

Microsoft: Lindsay-Rae McIntyre

As Chief Diversity Officer at Microsoft, Lindsay-Rae leads the organization's diversity and inclusion commitments at the center of the company's cultural transformation. It is critical to her mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With more than 20 years' experience as a human resources executive for the technology sector, she is passionate about driving business growth through innovative and inclusive people strategies.

Automattic: Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg is the Founder and CEO of Automattic as well as the Founding Developer of Wordpress. He also advises and invests in startups through his company, Audrey Capital. Matt is a pioneer of distributed work - seeking to change the way we work. Automattic is an entirely distributed company — with more than 800 employees working from more than 62 countries and no physical headquarters. Matt has been featured on Forbes, Inc, WSJ, Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Fortune's 40 Under 40 List, The Tim Ferriss Show, This Week In Startups, and more.

barre3: Sadie Lincoln

Sadie Lincoln is the co-founder and CEO of barre3, a fitness company focused on teaching people to be balanced in body and empowered from within. Starting in 2008 with the flagship studio in Portland, Oregon, barre3 has grown to include more than 140 franchise studios powered by female entrepreneurs, plus an online-workout streaming-subscriber base in 98+ countries. What started as a workout has blossomed into a full-blown movement made up of millions of people focused on body positivity, being empowered, and redefining what success in fitness means. Sadie is on Inc.'s Female Founders 100 list, has been featured on NPR's How I Built This, and speaks regularly on the topics of mindful leadership, the power of body wisdom, and the movement to redefine what success in fitness means. Beyond running her company and being a global spokesperson, Sadie still enjoys teaching barre3 classes to many of her founding clients in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Bio from barre3's website [https://barre3.com/sadie].

CNN: Van Jones

Van Jones is a U.S. media personality, the founder of multiple social enterprises and a world-class change maker. MEDIA: A three-time NY Times bestselling author [https://vanjones.net/books/], Van hosts two shows on CNN: "The Van Jones Show" and "The Redemption Project." [https://vanjones.net/cnn/] He is the host of CNN's "Incarceration, Inc." podcast series. In 2013-2014, Van was a co-host of CNN CROSSFIRE, along with Newt Gingrich; he later hosted a special event series on CNN called "The Messy Truth." He is the co-founder of Magic Labs Media LLC, a producer of the WEBBY Award-winning Messy Truth digital series. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR: Van's life mission is to close prison doors and open doors of opportunity. He has been a leader in the fight for criminal justice reform for more than 25 years. To achieve his goals, Van co-founded a series of social enterprises, including: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, ColorOfChange.org, GreenForAll.org, Rebuild The Dream and the Dream Corps. The Dream Corps houses three social impact initiatives: #YesWeCode, Green For All and #cut50. Today, Van is the CEO of the REFORM Alliance, an initiative founded by Jay-Z, Meek Mill and six billionaires to transform the criminal justice system. SOCIAL IMPACT: In 2018, Van and #cut50 led the winning campaign to pass the FIRST STEP Act — a bipartisan federal bill that the New York Times called the most substantial breakthrough in criminal justice in a generation. This was not Van's first history-making legislative victory: a decade earlier, Van was the primary champion of the Green Jobs Act of 2007. In 2009, he worked as the green jobs advisor to the Obama White House. Van has won numerous awards, including: the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leader" designation; Rolling Stone's 2012 "12 Leaders Who Get Things Done"; TIME's 2009 "100 Most Influential People in The World"; the 2010 NAACP Image Award and; a 2017 WEBBY special achievement award. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, Van lives in New York City and Los Angeles. He is a proud father of two sons. In 2017, Van signed a management deal with Roc Nation, becoming the first political commentator in their family. In 1990, he earned a B.S. in communication and political science from the University of Tennessee at Martin. In 1993, Van earned a degree from Yale Law School. *Bio from Van's website [https://vanjones.net/about/].