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Panelist Bios

David Saltzman, Executive Director of the Robin Hood Foundation
David Saltzman has been the Executive Director of the Robin Hood Foundation since 1989. He was one of Robin Hood’s five founding board members in 1988.  Since then, Robin Hood has raised more than $1 billion to fight poverty in New York City.  Robin Hood has also solicited $125 million worth of donated goods and services for the organizations it supports.  In 2009, Robin Hood will distribute a record $150 million to meet the growing needs of New Yorkers living in poverty.  Robin Hood's Board of Directors underwrites all administrative and fundraising costs, ensuring that every penny donated goes directly to those in need.   

Robin Hood finds, funds and strengthens the most effective programs serving poor New Yorkers by applying investment principles to charitable giving.  It hires independent third party evaluators to measure the effectiveness of each program it supports; develops costs and benefits for every grant it makes; leverages and protects its financial support with in-depth management, legal, accounting and real estate assistance; and recruits board members for the institutions it funds.  

Robin Hood is the largest non-government funder of emergency food, housing for the homeless and charter schools in New York City. Robin Hood provides seed capital and funding to scale successes.  Some of the interventions supported by Robin Hood include: the KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools networks of charter schools; Single Stop, a low cost effort providing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of government benefits to poor households; Teacher U, a new graduate level teacher training program; the Nurse Family Partnership which teaches parenting skills; and the Carrera model, one of the nation’s most successful teen pregnancy prevention programs.  In addition, Mr. Saltzman has overseen hundreds of millions of dollars of public private partnerships.  In response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Robin Hood formed a relief fund that distributed more than $ 67 million to victims’ families and to services for low income families impacted by the attacks.   

Robin Hood’s benefits have included performances by Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Elton John, Billy Joel, Beyonce, Eric Clapton, Jay-Z, Aerosmith, Billy Crystal, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams and Jon Stewart.  Robin Hood’s 2007 benefit raised $70 million, the most successful fundraising event in United States history. 

Prior to joining Robin Hood, Mr. Saltzman served as the Special Assistant to the President of the Board of Education of the City of New York.  Before working at the Board of Education, he ran two AIDS education programs for the New York City Department of Health.  Mr. Saltzman began his career in public service working with homeless families for the Human Resources Administration of the City of New York, the city's Department of Social Services. 

Mr. Saltzman earned a Masters of Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelors degree from Brown University.   

Mr. Saltzman serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant and the Excellence Girls Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant.  New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein ranked Excellence Boys as the highest performing of New York City’s 700 public elementary schools this year.  Excellence Girls opens in August.   Mr. Saltzman also serves on the board of the the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's effort to improve the health care of children around the world; NPower, a joint effort of Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Accenture, Robin Hood and others to advance the effectiveness of non-profit organizations; and Teacher U., a new graduate level teacher training institute to improve the training of the nation’s public school teachers.  He also served as a member of Mayor Bloomberg’s Commission for Economic Opportunity, an effort to reduce poverty in New York City. 

Time magazine recently named Mr. Saltzman one of its 100 Innovators. Columbia University honored him with its Global Leadership Award at the 60th anniversary of its School of International and Public Affairs. Brown University presented him with its John Hope award for distinguished alumni.

Charlie MacCormack, President & CEO, Save the Children
Charlie MacCormack has served as President, CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors of Save the Children since 1993. From 1977-1992, he was president of World Learning, a nonprofit organization working to foster world peace through international education. MacCormack’s other prior posts include international research fellow at the Brookings Institution, assistant to the dean of the International Fellows Program at Columbia University, and lecturer at the University of New Hampshire. MacCormack received his doctorate and master's degree from Columbia University and was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and a Fulbright Fellow at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

S. Coppy Holzman, Boardmember, CEO and Co-Founder, Charity Buzz 
S. Coppy Holzman has over twenty-five years of experience as a senior level Internet and consumer products executive. He also is credited with developing the upscale cause marketing fundraising niche that is now gaining such momentum. Mr. Holzman was one of the founding members of webvan.com, where he defined the brand, helped raise capital and wrote and executed the business plan that ultimately resulted in the largest e-commerce launch in United States history. Under his leadership, following its initial IPO, webvan had a market cap exceeding 7 billion and had raised in excess of 750 million dollars to finance its expansion plans. Mr. Holzman's responsibilities included all merchandising, buying and marketing activities including supervision of content management and all website publishing. He also spent many years in senior level corporate retail positions serving as Senior Vice President for Federated Department Stores responsible for Global Sourcing and Production. Mr. Holzman has a B.S. in Economics and International Business from the Wharton School of Business.

Katie Hood, CEO, Michael J. Fox Foundation
Katie Hood was named Chief Executive Officer of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) in December 2007. She has played critical roles in shaping MJFF’s strategy of intervening aggressively to close critical gaps that slow potential treatments on their path from the laboratory to Parkinson’s patients, as well as in building a team of in-house research experts needed to implement that strategy.
Since its inception in November 2000 the Foundation has emerged as one of a handful of medical research foundations not only driving high-impact research in their respective disease fields, but launching initiatives that promote substantial change to the scientific enterprise as a whole, in pursuit of faster progress toward tangible therapeutic advances. Today the Foundation stands as the single largest Parkinson’s research funder in the world outside the U.S. government, having funded over $137 million in PD research to date.
Prior to joining the Foundation in September 2002, Ms. Hood was employed as a consultant at Bain & Company in New York City, doing work in the consumer products, financial services, and nonprofit sectors. She has also served as an analyst in the Credit Department of Goldman, Sachs & Co., and as a program coordinator with Duke University’s Hart Leadership Program.
In August 2008, Ms. Hood was named to the Advisory Council to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), an 18-member board that advises the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, the director of the National Institutes of Health, and the director of NINDS on research funding prioritization and related matters for neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s disease. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN).
She graduated from Harvard Business School and holds a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Moderator:

Laura U. Moon, Director, Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard Business School
Laura Moon joined Harvard Business School as Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative in 2005. She oversees the Initiative's strategic and operational goals, including MBA student programming, alumni outreach, executive education programming, and social enterprise faculty research and curriculum support. Laura received her BA from Harvard College and her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she served as student co-chair of the Public Management Program. Prior to joining HBS, she led a nonprofit pro bono management consulting organization, and worked as a marketing and strategy consultant serving medium and small-sized firms in the nonprofit, management consulting, and high-tech industries.