- Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Instead of sending bailout money to doomed old industries, why not use stimulus funds to bootstrap some new, socially responsible companies -- and make the world a little bit better?
Why are you so unhappy?
Because 99.9%
Of everything you think and
Of everything you do
Is for yourself
And there isn’t one
Daniel Tisch is President and CEO of Argyle Communications, one of Canada’s most respected public relations firms.
Dan’s clients include major consumer brands, financial services leaders, technology firms, public companies, all three orders of government in Canada, and several foreign governments. His public relations campaigns have earned him more than 40 awards from the International Association of Business Communicators and the Canadian Public Relations Society.
Before joining Argyle, Dan was vice president of Environics Communications, Canada’s largest management-owned public relations firm. Earlier, he held senior roles in the Canadian government, including serving as Executive Assistant and Senior Policy Advisor to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Born in Madrid, Spain, and raised in Toronto, Dan speaks English, French and Spanish. He holds two degrees from Queen’s University — a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and a Master of Business Administration. Dan has been a regular guest lecturer at Queen’s School of Business for 12 years. In 2007, Report on Business magazine named him one of 16 ‘star alumni’ from Canada’s leading executive MBA programs.
Dan is a member of the Queen’s University Council, a governor of Toronto’s North York General Hospital and a founding partner of Social Venture Partners Toronto.
Kathryn Wortsman has worked in the private equity industry for over 10 years with direct experience in both Canada and the US. She is currently Vice President and Principal with Succession Capital Corporation, a boutique private equity firm that focuses on acquiring 100% ownership of companies that are involved in retirement succession planning. She selects targets, analyzes financial opportunities and leads the post-transaction work. Prior to Succession, Kathryn held several senior positions at eVentures at MetLife Inc, where she led investments in technology companies, and at Constellation Ventures, a New York based $350MM venture fund that focused on early stage media technology investments.
Investing in the community is a big priority for Kathryn. In 2001, she became a founding partner of Social Venture Partners New York City. In this role, she not only contributed financially, but joined the grant-making committee and volunteered directly for the grantee agency. Kathryn continued to stay actively involved with SVP New York City until leaving the City in 2004. In 2004, Kathryn spent a number of months in Telluride, Colorado. While in Telluride, Kathryn consulted to the Telluride Foundation to improve the granting and reporting processes. Specifically, Kathryn assisted in creating and leading the marketing campaign for a new community Fund focused on investing in local programs for early childhood development. Kathryn also developed a new community philanthropic program which encouraged local businesses to be strategic in their giving.
Upon returning to Toronto, while volunteering for various charities, Kathryn searched for an opportunity that combined her desire to make an impact on the community and develop a network that could provide a platform for a new generation of philanthropists. As a result, she has recruited a team of young professionals to launch SVPT.
Kathryn holds a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from Columbia University in New York.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay not only coined this favorite tech-world adage, but has proven its truth several times. A true polymath, as well as inventor, he has combined engineering brilliance with knowledge of child development, epistemology, molecular biology and more.
In the 1960s, Kay joined the computer team at XeroxPARC, where he worked on world-changing inventions like the graphical interface, object-oriented programming, and the personal computer itself. Later, at Apple, Atari, HP, Disney, and now at his own nonprofits, he has helped refine the tools he anticipated long before they were realized.
As the industry has blossomed, however, Kay continues to grapple with the deeper purpose of computing, struggling to create the machine that won't only recapitulate patterns in the world as we know it but will teach both children and adults to think, to see what otherwise is beyond them.
"One of the computer industry's most prolific inventors."Electronic Engineering Times
The Young Foundation and Geoff Mulgan have published a number of reports and books on social innovation, public sector innovation and public strategy. They are also working actively on recession responses.