Sean Penn is a two-time Academy Award®-winning actor, filmmaker, author and has become an American icon in a career spanning over four decades.

First established in January 2010 by Penn as J/P HRO in the immediate aftermath of the catastrophic Haiti earthquake, the emergency relief nonprofit renamed CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), continues to bring immediate aid to underserved communities across the globe. 

Having traveled to Ukraine numerous times over the last two years, Penn co-directed SUPERPOWER, a documentary capturing the “David and Goliath” struggle between President Zelensky’s Ukraine and Putin. As a filmmaker, Penn’s esteemed work includes the Academy Award® nominated INTO THE WILD, FLAG DAY, THE PLEDGE and his debut film THE INDIAN RUNNER.

As an actor, Penn has been nominated five times for the Academy Award® as Best Actor winning twice for MYSTIC RIVER and MILK. Upcoming, Penn is starring in two independent features: Christy Hall’s DADDIO, and Jean-Stephane Sauvaire’s BLACK FLIES.

Jessie Inchauspé is a French biochemist and author. She is on a mission to translate cutting-edge science into easy tips to help people improve their physical and mental health. In her first book, Glucose Revolution, a #1 international bestseller translated into 40 languages, she shared her startling discovery about the essential role of blood sugar in every aspect of our lives, and the surprising hacks to optimise it. Jessie is the founder of the wildly popular Instagram account @GlucoseGoddess, where she teaches over one million people about transformative food habits. She holds a BSc in mathematics from King’s College, London, and an MSc in biochemistry from Georgetown University.

Carolina Dybeck Happe serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GE. In this role, she is responsible for leading GE’s overall financial activities and global finance organization, and has been a driving force behind the company’s transformation into three industry-leading, global investment-grade public companies, in the critical sectors of healthcare, energy, and aerospace. Her efforts were critical to the Company’s successful spin off of GE Healthcare and $100 billion debt reduction. She also leads the company’s core Digital Technology function and serves as an executive sponsor of GE’s women’s network. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Ericsson and previously served as a director of Schneider Electric and E.on.

Prior to joining GE, Carolina served as the Chief Financial Officer at Maersk, where she executed a substantial deleveraging plan and reshaped the company’s portfolio to deliver more profitable growth. She also spent 16 years at Assa Abloy, including seven as Chief Financial Officer, during which she helped the company deliver total shareholder return of 170 percent and played a key role in transforming the company into a global, digitally enabled leader across multiple domains.

Trevor Noah is the most successful comedian in Africa and was host of the Emmy® Award-winning “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central for seven years. “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” broke free from the restraints of a 30-minute linear show, producing engaging social content, award-winning digital series, podcasts and more for its global audience.

Trevor served as the Grammy Awards host for three consecutive years, with the 2023 show garnering the highest viewership since 2020. A 2020 Grammy nominee himself, his stand-up special “Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia” was nominated for best comedy album. He has written, produced, and starred in 12 comedy specials, including 2022’s “I Wish You Would,” and has sold out stand-up comedy shows, including his current “Off The Record” World Tour.

Trevor is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. The book received the Thurber Prize for American Humor and two NAACP Image Awards. Trevor is writing a new untitled book scheduled for Fall 2023. Trevor’s new book is a gorgeously illustrated and moving modern fable for readers of all ages about forgiveness, acceptance, and the secret to solidarity.

He is now developing and producing diverse, high-quality creative content with Day Zero Productions, Trevor’s joint venture with Paramount Global. Noah also launched the Trevor Noah Foundation to improve equitable access to quality education for underserved youth in South Africa.

Draymond Jamal Green Sr. (born March 4, 1990)[1] is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Green, who plays primarily at the power forward position, is a four-time NBA champion, a four-time NBA All-Star, a two-time member of the All-NBA Team, a seven-time member of the All-Defensive Team and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. In 2017, he won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award and led the league in steals.

Green grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, and he played college basketball for Michigan State, where he helped the Spartans earn two Final Four appearances and a Big Ten tournament championship in 2012. Throughout his four-year college career, Green earned conference and national honors, including Big Ten Conference Sixth Man of the Year as a sophomore and consensus All-American and NABC National Player of the Year honors as a senior. He was drafted 35th overall in the 2012 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors and later played a key role on the Warriors’ 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022 championship teams.

As an organizational psychologist, Adam Grant rethinks how we lead, work and live. He has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years, and his pioneering research has inspired people to question assumptions about motivation, generosity and creativity. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of five books that have sold millions of copies, most recently Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. His TED talks have more than 30 million views and his viral op-ed on languishing was the most-saved article of 2021. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune’s 40 Under 40. Adam received his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Michigan, and he is a former magician and junior Olympic springboard diver. He hosts the TED podcast Re:Thinking with Adam Grant.

Rupi Kaur is a #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Poet, and Performer

A breakout literary phenomenon, Kaur wrote, illustrated, and self-published her #1 New York Times bestseller book, ‘milk and honey’ at 21-years-old. Since then, she has published another three bestsellers that have sold 11+ million copies in 43+ languages. She was regarded ‘Writer of the Decade’ by The New Republic and recognized on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list. Beyond the page, Kaur self-produced ‘Rupi Kaur Live’, the first poetry special of its kind, on Amazon Prime. She also served as executive producer on the feature film ‘This Place’, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022.

Most recently, she narrated an original poem for the short film ‘Rise’ with Reese Witherspoon’s HelloSunshine, which will premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky was born and raised in Brooklyn. Aronofsky heads Protozoa Pictures based in Chinatown NYC. His credits include π, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, THE FOUNTAIN, THE WRESTLER, BLACK SWAN, NOAH, mother! and THE WHALE. As a producer he is responsible for JACKIE, ONE STRANGE ROCK, SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, PACIFIED, CATCH THE FAIR ONE, ONE STRANGE ROCK, WELCOME TO EARTH, THE GOOD NURSE, KINDRED, LIMITLESS WITH CHRIS HEMSWORTH, and THE TERRITORY. He released a middle school book MONSTER CLUB last fall, the sequel is coming out in 2024.

Molecular Attraction – new method of mosquito population control which is controlling mosquito behavior with smell molecules- feeding and sex pheromones.

Lech Ignatowicz, PhD: CEO

Founder, investor and father – in chronological order.

Lech is a scientist turned entrepreneur with over 15 years in infectious disease prevention, global health and biotech.

Lech is focusing his efforts on early stage ventures where he’s aiming to bring cutting edge academic discoveries to the “real world”. Co-founded Biopromic – a point of care diagnostics for TB and Malaria, Moligo Technologies – single stranded DNA manufacturer and in 2017 together with Noushin Emami and Johan Paleovrachas he co-founded Molecular Attraction to develop, implement and scale new mosquito-specific population control methods discovered by Noushin during her academic career.