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 12 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.

Before Start Co. Fowlkes spent a decade in the capital markets, previously serving in roles as an Investment Counselor 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. 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 great commitment to service and the community, Fowlkes is Chairman of the Board for Orion Federal Credit Union and serves on the Advisory Boards for Southern Sun Asset Management and Heartland Forward (think and do tank created by the Walton Family) 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 the City of Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s Transition Team. Fowlkes is a founding member of The 800 Initiative and the South City Digital Advancement Initiative where he also serves on these advisory boards.

Fowlkes served on the State of Tennessee Workforce Development Board appointed by Governor Bill Haslam, and Memphis’ Workforce Investment Network appointed by City of Memphis Mayor AC Wharton.

Recognized as a leader in social innovation, Fowlkes is an approved instructor on the book and curriculum, “The Power of Social Innovation” as designated by Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Fowlkes also provided thought leadership as a front-page business columnist for the Commercial Appeal, Memphis’ leading media outlet from 2011-2013.

Having worked in startups and new technology, capital markets, smart cities, corporate and government innovation, and economic development has allowed Fowlkes to accumulate a unique set of skills to build social, political, and financial capital for leading innovation-driven economic development centered around regional industry technology clusters.

Harry is a founder and partner of several businesses including Ivita, Kinrise, Fodis & Alvarium. Ivita is a NY headquartered impact-driven investment group and since 2018 has founded, capitalized, and launched three companies focused on digital healthcare and reimagining the food system – Atida Health, Spring Foods, and Circle Health. Kinrise, which invests in commercial real estate across the UK, is backed by a small group of private families and institutions.

Harry is also a Principal at FODIS LLC, with a 38yr track record and over $15bn of direct investments, a US-based firm delivering a comprehensive suite of direct investment services for family offices, family business holding companies, and business-owning families.

Harry co-founded LJ Partnership (rebranded Alvarium Investments or ALTI), an investment group with over $60bn of assets, serving families and institutions from 18 offices across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Harry is a non-executive Director of Aeon Investments, specializing in alternative investments in the transportation, infrastructure, and real estate sectors. 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, on the Advisory Board of Earth Cubs, providing environmental learning tools to 3-7 yr olds and a strategic advisor to sustainable textile and dye house, Cloth Collective. He is based between Oxfordshire and Uruguay with his wife, two daughters, two dogs and his chickens.

Philippa Stroud is CEO of The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). Previously, she was CEO of the Legatum Institute and 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 to 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.