Tarsha Calloway has extensive experience in leadership development and business strategy, in both the profit and non-profit sectors.

Ms. Calloway has held management positions in marketing and sales at Marriott International, US Airways and Porsche Cars North America, where she has been highly successful in developing and executing sales and marketing strategies, motivating teams, and leading internal organizational strategies designed to reduce costs, drive business growth, and respond to evolving customer and constituent needs.  Ms. Calloway has developed strategies at nonprofit organizations designed to generate revenue and create partnership synergies with a focus on corporate engagement, executive philanthropy, and community mobilization.  She has also trained and coached fundraising professionals on effective fundraising techniques, prospecting and closing deals.

Ms. Calloway is a feature writer in NonProfit PRO magazine and writes a monthly column, The Corner Office and has worked internationally helping executives and their teams develop the skills and strategies needed to compete in a global environment.  A highly effective workshop facilitator and moderator, her primary foci are developing effective communication skills, political savvy and executive presence.  Her international work has taken her to China, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and United Arab Emirates.

Ms. Calloway is very active in her community.  Some of her involvement include Board of Director, DeKalb Chamber of Commerce; Board of Trustees, Destination Imagination; Executive Committee, Leadership DeKalb ‘18; Board of Directors, National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Hall of Fame; and a graduate of Art Leaders of Metro Atlanta.  Ms. Calloway served as the first African-American Board Chair of the Atlanta Shakespeare Theater and was named the 2018 Nonprofit Professional of the Year; the Atlanta Journal Constitution 2018 Woman of the Year; and the 2019 Woman of Distinction for Community by the Atlanta Region March of Dimes.

Ms. Calloway currently works at Tessitura Network, a global technology mission-based organization as the Vice President of Philanthropy.     She has an M.B.A. in International Business from Mercer University Stetson School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Theater from Texas Southern University.   Ms. Calloway received her Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace certification from the University of South Florida University.

Ms. Calloway resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband and son.

For the past 10 years Andre Fowlkes has been working to grow the technology startup ecosystem in Memphis TN, through a venture development organization he co-founded called Start Co. As President of Start Co. Fowlkes oversees and manages sales and business development, corporate and government engagement, smart cities activity, civic innovation efforts, and resource cultivation. Under Fowlkes’ leadership Start Co. has seen exponential growth not just in startups supported and investment raised but in the expansion of its business model providing corporate and civic innovation solutions. As part of Start Co., Fowlkes is the Managing Partner of Wolf River Angels, a post accelerator validation fund and angel network in support of Start Co. deal flow. He directly supports Start Co. companies by serving as an Executive in Residence and deliverer of programming in areas of growth and operating modeling, business development and sales, business operations, financial forecasting, and corporate development.

With over a decade of portfolio management experience in the capital markets, Fowlkes previously served in roles at Fisher Investments in San Francisco and as a relationship manager through an agency of Guardian Life Insurance in New York City.

Today, Fowlkes brings extensive experience in building new and unconventional partnerships to assist in the brokering of technology, talent, and capital for economic growth. He leads the charge at Start Co. to build and operate new programs and resources for the inclusion of minorities and women, students, and social organizations. With great commitment to service and the community Fowlkes is Chairman of the Board for Orion Federal Credit Union and serves on the Board of Trustees for Christian Brothers University.

Fowlkes was a Mayoral appointment to the Memphis & Shelby County Metropolitan Charter Commission directed with researching, analyzing, writing a recommendation, and bringing to voters a new consolidated metropolitan Government. Fowlkes recently served on City of Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s Transition Team.

In acknowledgement of Fowlkes’ commitment to community and talent development, Governor Bill Haslam appointed him to the Tennessee Workforce Development Board of Directors and Mayor AC Wharton appointed Fowlkes to the Workforce Investment Network Board of Directors. Fowlkes also serves on numerous startup boards. Recognized as a leader in social innovation, Fowlkes is a trainer on the” Power of Social Innovation” as designated by Harvard University Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He is a co-teacher and creator of the University of Memphis’ Department of Journalism’s Entrepreneurial Journalism initiative and Certificate.

Fowlkes also provided thought leadership as a frontpage business columnist for the Commercial Appeal, Memphis’ leading media outlet from 2011-2013.

Having worked in startups, wealth and money management, small business & entrepreneurship, government, non-profit, and economic & community development has allowed Fowlkes to accumulate a unique set of skills to build social, political, and financial capital for growing entrepreneurial ecosystems and startups as a diversifier to traditional forms of economic growth.

Andre is a graduate of Iona College in Business Administration with minors in Finance and History. His passions are spending time with family, traveling, cooking, live music, and civic contributions to his community.

Harry is a co-founder of Kinrise. Kinrise invests in commercial real estate across the UK and the US with a vision of creating spaces where people can thrive. Kinrise is backed by a small group of private families and institutions.

Harry is also a Principal at FODIS LLC, a US based firm delivering a comprehensive suite of direct investment services for family offices, family business holding companies and business owning families.

He is a non-executive Director of Aeon Investments, specialising in alternative investments in the transportation, infrastructure and real estate sectors. Harry is also a director of ABS CapCo, a private family office and is an Industry Advisor to Time Partners, a Merchant Bank dedicated to families.

Previously, he was a Founding Partner of LJ Partnership (rebranded Alvarium Investments), an investment group with over $19bn of assets, serving families and institutions from 8 offices across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Harry was responsible for group-wide strategy. Prior to setting up LJ, he served as Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners where he helped build out their international investment advisory practice in Europe and the Americas.

Harry was educated in Oxford and received a BA from Durham University. Harry is a Trustee of CRT, the Church Revitalisation Trust with bold ambitions to plant over 100 new churches across the U.K. He is based between Oxfordshire and Uruguay with his wife, two daughters, two dogs and his chickens.

Philippa Stroud is CEO of the Legatum Institute. Previously, she was Chief Executive of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank that she co-founded in 2004. Philippa’s life and career to date have been strongly influenced by her passion to tackle poverty and social breakdown.

Prior to the CSJ, she was Special Adviser the Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith MP (then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) from 2010-15, and also to the Prime Minister from 2012. In these roles, she was responsible for the development of the Social Justice agenda, working on the Government’s key Welfare Reform programme, the introduction of Universal Credit, the creation of Social Investment and the new child poverty measures.

Her early career was spent in the voluntary sector including spending time in Hong Kong and Macau working with heroin addicts and ex-members of triad gangs who were undergoing rehabilitation. On her return to the UK she founded and directed a four-stage project that supported people off the streets and into independent living before moving to Birmingham in 2000 where she became Executive Director of the Bridge Project, a voluntary sector project that provided supported accommodation for homeless men and women.

Following the 2015 UK General Election, Philippa was ennobled and became Baroness Stroud of Fulham.