Our Board of Directors

Thomas Bird

Tom Bird is founder and president of the venture partnership Farm Capital Services, LLC. He was CEO of Farm, Inc. from 1988 until 1999, operating a venture-backed Silicon Valley information management firm that eventually provided data storage and retrieval services for more than one thousand clients. Tom is a trustee of the American University in Bulgaria, and also serves on the board of Microfinance International Corp and B Lab. Tom did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth College, and then went on to earn an MBA from Stanford University and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University. He frequently teaches a workshop at the Stanford Graduate School of Business that captures the essence of the Divinity School experience for interested MBA students and alumni.

Debra Dunn

Debra is currently working as an Advisor to Social Ventures around the world and an Associate Consulting Professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University. Debra Dunn left HP in June of 2005 after 22 years. For the last 3 years of her career at HP, Debra was Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Global Citizenship, a role in which she had leadership responsibility for HP's global citizenship efforts. Through the efforts of her team, HP received widespread recognition and numerous awards globally for leadership in Global Corporate Citizenship. Debra holds a bachelor's degree in comparative economics from Brown University and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation and B Lab and the Faculty of Sustainability.

Dennis Whittle

Dennis Whittle is the co-founder of GlobalGiving. Before joining the World Bank in 1986, Dennis worked in the Philippines with the Asian Development Bank and with USAID. Until October 2000, Dennis was part of a troika that led the World Bank's Corporate Strategy and Innovation units. From 1992-1997, he led a variety of initiatives in the Bank's Russia program, including housing reform and energy efficiency projects. From 1987-1992, Dennis was an economist in the World Bank's Jakarta office advising the Indonesian Ministries of Finance and National Development, and managing projects in the agriculture and forestry sectors. Dennis graduated with honors in religious studies from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and did his graduate work in development studies and economics at Princeton University. Dennis also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Chris Wolz

Chris is President and CEO of Forum One Communications, overseeing overall business strategy and operations and advising clients in implementing innovative online services to accelerate their impact on important global problems. Chris is a regular speaker and trainer on online strategic communications for policy-focused organizations, web 2.0 for issue impact, the use of blogs and online collaborative tools, and building organizational structures to run successful web operations. Chris has worked in international development in rural Nepal, and as an environmental policy analyst in the Executive Office of the President/Office of Management and Budget. He has a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.