Donald Katz is founder and CEO of Audible, Inc., the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment.

Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Newark, NJ since 2007, Audible serves millions of listeners and offers over 400,000 downloadable audiobooks, audio editions of periodicals, and other programs.  The company commercialized the first portable digital audio player in 1997.  Audible is the supplier of audiobooks to Apple’s iTunes store worldwide and operates eight dedicated digital storefronts including audible.com, audible.co.uk, audible.de, audible.fr, audible.com.au, audible.jp, audible.it and audible.ca.  Audible was publicly traded on NASDAQ until acquired by Amazon.com in 2008 and is now an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary.

Named one of NJ.com’s “25 Most Influential People in New Jersey” in 2016, Katz was also recognized as one of America’s Top 25 Disruptive Leaders by Living Cities for his work on behalf of urban transformation in Newark. Katz is the founder of Newark Venture Partners, a social impact early-stage investment fund and ultra-bandwidth accelerator that seeks to connect Newark to the early-stage technology start-up innovation economy. He also served as both a member and chairman of Newark’s economic development corporation. Katz served as a member of the public library board in Montclair, New Jersey for nine years, and has served on the board of Uncommon Schools, a nonprofit organization that manages several of the most outstanding urban college preparatory charter schools in the Northeast, since the organization was founded in 1997.

Prior to founding Audible, Katz was a journalist and author whose work won a National Magazine Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction.

Denis McDonough served as White House Chief of Staff for President Obama’s second term, managing the White House staff, Cabinet Secretaries, agency leaders and providing strategic advice to the President on the most significant domestic policy, national security and management issues of the day.

Prior to his role as Chief of Staff, he served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. McDonough’s distinguished career includes chairing the National Security Council’s Deputies Committee, working as a senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Tom Daschle and Obama for America, and he held senior leadership and policy-making positions in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate.

McDonough was appointed Senior Principal at the Markle Foundation in February 2017. In this role, he is working to address the skills gap in light of the looming AI revolution. As part of this, McDonough chairs the Rework America Task Force, which focuses on enabling Americans to develop skills they need to grow their careers and find a new place in the changing economy. Through the Task Force, McDonough aims to shape and lead a larger, long-term national conversation about how the technological revolution can serve all stakeholders in the new economy. McDonough also serves as an executive fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, teaching a global policy seminar for its inaugural cohort of graduate students.

McDonough received his B.A., summa cum laude, from St. John’s University (MN) and his M.S. from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.

David is president and chief executive office of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He is a member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee and chair of the Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee and Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee. David is also co-chair of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee. Previously, David was co-head of the Investment Banking Division from 2006 to 2016 and prior to that, he was the global head of the Financing Group, which includes all capital markets and derivative products for the firm’s corporate clients. He joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 1999. Prior to joining the firm, David worked in various capacities at Irving Trust Company, Drexel Burnham, and Bear Stearns. David is a member of the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College and serves on the board of The Robin Hood Foundation. David earned a BA in Political Science from Hamilton College.

Darnell Strom is an Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA).  Strom works in the Los Angeles office and he develops relationships with prospective clients for CAA and helps build their strategy for developing a vibrant platform across speaking, books, television, motion picture, technology, and digital. Strom also works closely with brands and other buyers to connect them with talent for personal appearances and marketing campaigns. Prior to this, Strom served as a strategic advisor to actors, writers, directors, music artists, athletes, executives, and corporations on their philanthropic and pro-social initiatives.

In 2005, Strom was named Deputy Director of Scheduling to President Bill Clinton, working in the former President’s Harlem offices.  He served in this role until 2006, when he was asked to create a program that reflected President Clinton’s vision of engaging the next generation of leaders, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs in the work of the William J. Clinton Foundation.  Strom formally launched this program in 2007 as the Clinton Foundation Millennium Network. The Millennium Network has been recognized by President Clinton as an essential fundraising component to the future of the Clinton Foundation.

Strom began his career in politics, non-profit work, and social entrepreneurship. He served as Director of the Chair’s office at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where he focused on political outreach to core Democratic constituency groups. At the conclusion of the Democratic Convention, Strom was named the Florida Director of Operations for John Kerry’s Presidential campaign, making him one of the youngest senior staff members of the campaign in a battleground state.

He joined CAA in 2010.

Strom graduated with honors from Florida A&M University with a B.S. in Political Science. Strom has been a presenter at a number of conferences, including: The Aspen Ideas Festival, Clinton Global Initiative, Sundance Film Festival, and the UN’s Nexus Global Youth Summit. Strom has served on President Obama’s White House Entertainment Council, as well as GQ’s Gentlemen’s Fund Advisory Committee. He hails from San Jose, California and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Daphne Oz is an Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times bestselling author, and chef. As co-host of ABC’s daily talk show The Chew for its first six seasons, Oz used her signature “happy and healthy” recipes to show viewers pleasurable ways to invest in wellness. She has been a featured lifestyle expert across all major television platforms including Good Morning America, The Today Show, Fox & Friends, Food Network, The Dr. Oz Show, Wendy Williams, and Rachael Ray. Oz is an investor and early stage collaborator in emerging consumer product companies, including her role as Chief Innovation Officer at Pure Spoon, the premiere organic, fresh baby food company in the US. A 2008 graduate of Princeton University, she also holds degrees from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and the Natural Gourmet Institute. Oz is at work on her third cookbook and recently launched www.daphneoz.com as a lifestyle site devoted to inspiration for a deliciously well-lived life. She and her husband John Jovanovic have three children.

Danny Shea is the Head of Global Expansion at Thrive Global, the behavior change media and technology company focused on ending stress and burnout around the world, where he oversees Thrive’s international business including active partnerships in India, Europe, the Middle East and East Africa.

He is a media and startup veteran who spent over ten years at The Huffington Post, where he helped build the company from a startup into the world’s leading online publication. As Editorial Director, he oversaw the site’s expansion into video and led high-impact editorial initiatives, including HuffPost Rise, the solutions journalism video series, HuffPost’s presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos and its WorldPost conference in London. In his time at HuffPost, he executed several high-profile launches including HuffPost Live, where he oversaw eight hours of daily live news programming, HuffPost France, the site’s first foreign-language edition, and the site’s presence on new platforms. He began his career there as Media Editor, covering the media industry.

He has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business Week and on NBC’s “Today” show and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

He graduated with honors from Princeton University, where he studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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Cindi Leive is a journalist, media leader and advocate for women. She is the former editor-in-chief of both Glamour and Self; a cultural critic who speaks frequently about women, media and the arts; and the co-producer of several New York Times bestsellers, including the 2018 book Together We Rise, about the making of the women’s march.

During Leive’s 16 years at Glamour, she grew the brand’s audience to a record 20 million across print and digital, and built barrier-breaking initiatives like Women of the Year (the country’s preeminent event showcasing women), #PoweredByWomen (a global movement supporting female photographers), #The51Million (about women and politics) and more. As a journalist, Leive has interviewed Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, First Ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Vice President Joe Biden, and personalities ranging from Jennifer Lawrence to Angelina Jolie. She also founded The Girl Project to support girls’ education, making Glamour the first women’s media brand with a nonprofit initiative.

A frequent TV contributor, Leive appears regularly on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, Today, CNN and many other outlets and live events, discussing everything from the wage gap to women in Hollywood. Leive has won many media awards—including five National Magazine Awards and an Emmy for Glamour under her tenure. She’s also received numerous awards for her work on behalf of women; among those honors are the Nat King Cole Award from the Entertainment Industry Foundation, the Matrix Award, the White House Project Award, and the Media Partner Award from the U.N. Fund to End Violence Against Women. Leive began her career at The Paris Review and The Saturday Review.

Leive is currently an active board member of Swarthmore College (her alma mater), as well as the Brooklyn Public Library and the International Women’s Media Foundation. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, film producer Howard Bernstein, and their two children.

Caroline Berg is the fifth generation Chair of the family company Axel Johnson. She is also the Chair of Martin & Servera and the Vice Chair of Nordstjernan. Caroline is a member of the Board of Axfood, Dustin, Axfast, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation and Stockholm School of Economics’ Advisory Board. Between 2006-2014 Caroline was the vice president of HR, Communications and Sustainability at Axel Johnson.

Barbara Bush is the Co-founder and Board Chair of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC was founded in 2009 by six twentysomethings who were challenged by Peter Piot at the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit to engage their generation in solving the world’s biggest health challenges. Barbara and her co-founders believe health is a human right and that their generation must build the world where this is realized. Since that time, GHC has placed almost 1,000 young leaders from more than 40 countries with non-profit and government health organizations like Partners In Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, and the United States, developing them as creative, effective, and compassionate leaders along the way.

Prior to GHC, Barbara worked in educational programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, where she supported design-thinking programs for high school students and faculty across the US. She has worked with Red Cross Children’s Hospital in South Africa and UNICEF in Botswana, and has traveled with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatment. Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and the UN Global Entrepreneurs Council. She sits on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International, PSI, Friends of the Global Fight for AIDS, TB, and Malaria. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. In 2011, Barbara was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year, in 2013 she was recognized as one of Newsweek’s Women of Impact, and in 2015 she was named to Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list. Barbara graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.