Andy Huszar is a co-founder and CEO of Marchella, a transformative lifestyle brand that offers women’s designer fashion apparel staples within reach, while empowering women and girls globally.

Prior to launching Marchella in 2014, Andy built two major trading businesses in the world of global finance. At the U.S. Federal Reserve, he led the largest-ever U.S. economic recovery program (the $1.25 Trillion centerpiece of “QE1”) during the 2008 financial crisis. At Morgan Stanley, he was Managing Director and U.S. head of its largest post-2008 crisis start-up (OTC Derivatives Prime Brokerage). He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of the Global Alliance for Rabies Control.

A native of New Haven, CT, Andy received his B.S.F.S, magna cum laude, from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and his JD/MBA with honors from Columbia University. Andy lives in Northampton, MA with his wife, Siyana, the co-founder and Creative Director of Marchella, and their two children.

Ava Lim is the Director of Business Development & Client Relations at GlobalWonks. Ava’s background spans both the public and private sector to include international development and health policy, boutique consulting, as well as sales and marketing at a start-up. She holds a master’s degree in Health Policy and Global Health from Yale University and a bachelor’s in International Health from Georgetown University.

Shavini Fernando, founder of OxiWear, is a video game,VR & web designer and developer. She holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the UK, an MBA from Edith Cowan University in Australia, and an MA in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University. She is currently completing an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship through Stanford University.

Having been diagnosed with severe Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) due to Eisenmenger’s Syndrome, Shavini has experienced multiple situations in which her heart has stopped as a result of a sudden drop in oxygen levels, necessitating self-CPR to revive her heart. After several near-death experiences, she invented OxiWear as a tool for herself and the larger PH community. Her invention and new venture has received interest from elite athletes, military, medical facilities and pharmaceutical companies and has led her to win awards from Ted Leonsis, Citiventures, and Georgetown University, which awarded her the Exceptional Masters Student Award for 2019. She was also awarded the DC FemTech Award in 2019, recognizing her as one of 49 influential individuals in Code, Data and Design.

Ramya Possett is a co-founder and CETO (Chief Executive & Technology Officer) of BlueFoot. Ramya was most recently in house patent-counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Company. Prior to that, she was a patent attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. She also has experience from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and as a programmer for a defense contractor. Ramya has an MBA from Georgetown University, a J.D. from George Mason University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Cate Luzio is the Founder and CEO of Luminary, the premier collaboration hub for women who are passionate about professional development and expanding their networks. This 15,000 square foot meeting space in New York City includes a rooftop deck and two floors of open workspace, conference rooms and meeting space, a fitness studio, beauty bar, locker room, lactation room, prayer/meditation room and much more. Luminary is the ultimate career advocate offering members unparalleled programming from office hours with dynamic leaders to a pioneering speaker series. A long-time advocate for empowering women and girls, Cate serves on the National Board for Girls Inc.

Cate has over twenty years of leadership experience in financial services. Previously, she was the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Multinational Corporate Banking for HSBC managing roughly $2 billion in revenue and teams in 72 countries. Cate also served as a Managing Director and Head of Multinational Corporate Banking at J.P. Morgan. She has received numerous recognitions including being named to the Most Powerful Women in Banking List by American Banker multiple times as well as a two-time recipient of the Financial Times and Heroes Global Diversity Champion in 2017, 2018 as well as Yahoo Finance Heroes Role Model in 2019. Cate was named to Inc.'s 2019 Female Founders 100 List and has also been featured in the Financial Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fast Company, Bloomberg, USA Today, NowThis News, Cheddar, WWD, Robb Report, Women's Health and more. She is a Forbes and Fast Company contributor.

She holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Maryland. She’s a global traveller having visited more than 114 countries. Cate also sits on the Advisory Board of Girls Inc. NYC as well as the National Board of WaterAid.

Devon George advises, finances, builds & operates tech enabled companies. There are always opportunities and people available to work on them and Devon enjoys fine tuning and accelerating businesses to maximize impact and returns.

Fascination with technology’s impact on business and people started early for Devon, as one the final members of generation-X and coming from a family of entrepreneurs turned financiers, he grew up in a world quickly adopting more powerful informational tools. As far back as he can remember, he has been passionate about the opportunity and impact of fringe ideas, the edge of complexity, and biological metaphors in information technology.

He looks for under-appreciated or misunderstood tech-enabled companies across ecommerce, healthcare, logistics, media, Saas & services—purpose-driven companies that will transform massive industries.

Devon earned a BS degree in Marketing and Management from Georgetown University (Class of 2001) then went on to be an operational and strategic executive at small businesses helping them grow and develop paths to exit.

He is from Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY and lives in Bronxville, Westchester, NY with his wife and two young sons.

Neel Premkumar is the Founder and CEO of Dyla Brands – makers of FORTO Coffee, America’s #1 Organic Ready-to-Drink Coffee, and Stur Drinks, the #2 Drink Mix manufacturer in the United States. Dyla’s products are sold in over 50,000 retail stores and generate over $100 million in annual revenue. Neel is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year award winner.

Prior to starting Dyla Brands, Neel was a marketing executive at Nestle, and beforehand, founded a boutique marketing agency called CreativeHub, with clients that included Unilever, General Mills and Samsung. Neel holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a Graduate Marketing degree from The University of Chicago, and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. He resides with his wife and three daughters near New York City.

Reilly is the co-founder of PeopleGrove and has served as its CTO. He started his first business at the age of sixteen, selling dumpster-diving treasures on eBay. He previously worked at Google as an Operations Analyst from 2013 to 2014, performing data analysis and engineering work to help fight malware in Chrome. Prior to Google, he served as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Global Technology Group of Credit Suisse. He holds a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University.

The impetus for starting PeopleGrove came from a realization of how powerful mentors and his alumni network had been in helping Reilly to explore various career paths and access great opportunities. From there, underlying PeopleGrove’s work is a deep-seated belief that all students, regardless of their background or experience, deserve access to the network and support necessary to find opportunities and ultimately achieve their goals — professionally and beyond.

PeopleGrove’s goal is to take the invisible, yet powerful social capital networks that are often available to only a select few, and make them open and accessible to all students. Today, PeopleGrove is proud to be partnering with over 200 institutions, ranging from large public universities like Kansas State, Arizona State, and the University of Michigan, to smaller private institutions and liberal arts colleges like Georgetown University, Wellesley College, and Barnard, to online universities such as UMUC and Capella University.

Tom Raffa, formerly CEO of the Raffa, PC. and now Marcum’s National Director of Raffa - Marcum’s Nonprofit & Social Sector Group, remains the owner and shareholder in several other companies each of which work to catalyze positive systemic change throughout the country and beyond.

Organizations he’s created and incubated, the multiple levels of support he’s provided and channeled, have been instrumental in advancing the US nonprofit and emerging social sector. Tom’s brainchild for moving corporate philanthropy from good intentions to strategic impact, Companies for Causes, was awarded the Pearl Foundation Award for Innovation in Philanthropy and today, with consulting enterprise such as Vardaan which is in India, Tom seeks to drive effective philanthropy across a new landscape of mandated corporate responsibility opportunity. More than just an “early adopter”, Tom has been an industry pioneer since 1984, committed to using his business enterprise as a force for good. Building multiple companies over three decades, Raffa, PC – a certified B Corp and Top 100 nationally-ranked, woman-owned CPA and advisory firm, Raffa Financial Services, Inc., Raffa Wealth Management, Raffa Solutions (now t/a ThinkNimble), Raffa Social Capital Advisors and Raffa Risk Management with more than 300 professionals devoted to serving the social sector and with a deep bench of expertise and service lines to support almost every aspect of the nonprofit and social impact sectors from traditional audits, accounting and tax to niches in IT, HR, wealth management, governance, benefits and insurance, strategy, fund raising, Raffa “Do More” companies’ capacity to serve and strengthen nonprofits and social enterprise remains unparalleled.

Tom’s current Board roles include, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee and member of the Executive Committee), Social Impact 360 (Founding Member and Chair of the Board), the Mental Health Coalition (Founding Member) and the Park City Community Foundation (Chair of the Governance and Communication Committee and of the Audit Committee and member of the Executive Committee). He has served on the board of the United Way of the National Capital Area and spent over a decade serving the Catalogue for Philanthropy including being the Chair of the Board and he is also a founding member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.

A graduate of Georgetown University, Tom has been an active member of the Alumni Admissions Program and has served as a mentor at the McDonough School of Business for more than 20 years. He was named the Georgetown Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016.

Tom is a CPA, licensed in the District of Columbia and New York and an active member of AICPA.