Michael M. Weinstein, (Co-Founder), is Executive Director of Impact Matters. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and was chairman of the economics department at Haverford College. He provided economics analysis and commentaries for National Public Radio, served on The New York Timeʼs editorial board, and was the paperʼs economics columnist in the 1990s. In 2001, he became Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, also holding the Paul A. Volcker Chair at the council. Mr. Weinstein directs the Institute for Journalists at The New York Times Company Foundation and is President and Founder of W.A.D. Financial Counseling, a nonprofit foundation that provides poor families with free financial counseling. He is the editor of Globalization: Whatʼs New, co-author of The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace, author of Recovery and Redistribution Under the N.I.R.A., and has written extensively about welfare, inequality, poverty, health care, energy, social security, tax, budget, trade, environment, regulation, antitrust, telecommunications, education, banking, and many other public policy issues.

Marco is a software executive with over 40 years of experience helping clients adopt and actualize value in their information systems investments.  He has led all aspects of customer enablement within the software industry and has supported a multitude of client across multiple industries and the public sector.  He currently is an executive advisor for several quantum and AI startups.  He has previously held senior roles at major technology firms including: Oracle, SAP, and AWS.  He has also built customer enablement functions from scratch at several start-ups including: USWeb/CKS, Context Integration, Delphix, and Sandbox AQ.

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Kwaku Driskell is the program director at the Thompson Family Foundation (T.F.F.), where he oversees the agency’s grant-making in criminal justice, workforce development, college access, arts and culture. He oversees about $25 million in grant making annually. Kwaku works to identify agencies for funding and collaborates with the agency leadership to ensure their success. He performs programmatic and fiscal analysis of the agency’s health and develops and applies metrics that estimate the long-term economic impact of an agency’s efforts on the individuals served.

Prior to joining T.F.F. Kwaku served as a senior program officer on the Youth team at Robin Hood, a nonprofit charity serving New York City. In this role, Kwaku invested over $8 million annually in nonprofits dedicated to improving outcomes for young people across New York City.

A skilled fundraiser, he also worked closely with Robin Hood’s development team to provide sector-specific content knowledge when meeting with potential donors.

Prior to joining Robin Hood, Kwaku served as the program manager for Young Audiences New York, an arts-in-education provider to the New York City public school system. In this role, he worked closely with the leadership of partner schools to integrate the arts into the classroom to enhance the school’s curriculum.

In addition to his nonprofit work, Kwaku is a classically trained actor with over 20 years’ experience onstage and in voiceovers. Kwaku is a board member at the Levitt Foundation, an organization dedicated to empowering youth to address food inequities in their communities. He is also on the board of the Y.M.C.A.’s Camp Jewell in Colebrook, CT.

Kwaku is a proud graduate of Northwestern University where he graduated with a degree in Communications and Theater and a minor in Spanish. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three daughters.

Dr. Jennifer Scott provides reputation management expertise to corporations, governments and NGOs. She uses data-driven insights to strengthen organizational reputation, build brands, craft public policy initiatives, and inspire behavior change inside and outside organizations.

Jennifer is managing director at The Reputations Agency. Prior to that, she led her own consultancy and served as the full-time professor of PR and Corporate Communication at New York University, which won the PRWeek Award for Most Outstanding Educational Program in 2021.

Prior to joining NYU, Jennifer served as the managing director for thought leadership at Ogilvy US, where she developed several award-winning campaigns, including a Cannes Lions. Previously, she led the NewYork Office of Ogilvy Public Relations and was also the agency’s global lead for strategy and planning. Prior to joining Ogilvy, she was president of Edelman Intelligence.

Her clients have included Citizen’s Bank, American Express,Pfizer, Merck, Corteva Agriscience, Unilever, Lenovo, The American Red Cross,UN Women, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the CDC and the NIH, the government ofMexico, the Association of American Railroads, Amazon, Southern Company, Scholastic and the Jim Henson Company.

Jennifer received her B.A. (Hons) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. A recipient of the Patrick and Margaret FlanaganScholarship, she earned a Doctorate in Politics from the University of Oxford,United Kingdom.

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David Saltzman is a co-founder of Atria and the President of the Atria Research and Global Health Institute. David comes to Atria from the Robin Hood Foundation where he served as the Executive Director for 27 years, helping develop and grow many of New York Cityʼs most successful poverty-fighting efforts. He serves on several for-profit and not-for-profit boards of directors. David earned an M.P.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Brown University. He also received an honorary doctorate from Brown University.

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