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CECP Leadership & Advisors

Advisory Council

  • Ann Tracy
    Chief Sustainability Officer Colgate-Palmolive
  • Balaji Ganapathy
    Former Chief Social Responsibility Officer, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS); Founder & CEO, Social Positive
  • David Etzwiler
    CEO, Siemens Foundation
  • Donna Epps
    Senior Vice President & Chief Responsible Business Officer, Verizon
  • Gina Tesla
    Former Vice President, Sustainability & Social Impact, Coupa Software
  • Heather Malkin Nesle
    President, New York Life Foundation; Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, New York Life
  • Joan Steinberg
    Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; President, Morgan Stanley Foundation; CEO, Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Advisory Boar
  • Justina Nixon-Saintil
    Vice President & Chief Impact Officer, IBM
  • Olivia Jefferson
    Vice President, Social Impact & Executive Director, Best Buy Foundation
  • Rasheed Merritt
    HR&D Executive - Corporate Responsibility, State Farm
  • Sandy Nessing
    Founder & CEO, PurposePower, LLC; Senior Advisor—Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability, TRC Companies, Inc.; Former Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, American Electric Power (AEP)
  • Scott Heimlich
    President, Amgen Foundation; Executive Director, Philanthropy, Amgen
  • Tia Hodges
    President & Chief Executive Officer, MetLife Foundation

Board of Directors

Co-Founders

  • Paul Newman
    Actor and Philanthropist
    (Jan. 26, 1925 - Sept. 26, 2008)
  • Peter L. Malkin
    Chairman Emeritus, Empire State Realty Trust

Ambassadors

  • David Kenny
    Former CEO, Nielsen Holdings
  • Deanna Mulligan
    CEO, Ceres Life Insurance Company
  • Duncan L. Niederauer
    Former CEO, NYSE Euronext
  • Fran Horowitz
    Fran Horowitz
    CEO, Abercrombie & Fitch
  • Hubert Joly
    Former Chair & CEO, Best Buy
  • Jennifer Smith Turner
    CEO, Smith & Associates LLC
  • John Veihmeyer
    Former Chairman and CEO, KPMG
  • Lynne Doughtie
    Former Chairman and CEO, KPMG
  • Mark Weinberger
    Former Chairman and CEO, EY
  • Mitch Barns
    Former CEO, Nielsen Holdings
  • Penny Pennington
    Managing Partner, Edward Jones
  • Philippe Krakowsky
    CEO, Interpublic Group
  • Ralph Izzo
    Chairman of the Board, PSEG
  • Robert Wolf
    Former CEO, UBS
  • Stuart Parker
    Former CEO, USAA
  • Thomas J. DeRosa
    Former CEO and Director, Welltower Inc.
  • Tony Earley
    Executive Chairman, PG&E
  • Vince Forlenza
    Former Chairman, President and CEO, BD

Directors Emeriti

  • Alan G. Hassenfeld
    Former Chairman, Executive Committee Hasbro, Inc., in memoriam
  • Harold McGraw III
    Chairman Emeritus, McGraw-Hill Financial
  • Henrietta Holsman Fore
    Chairman and CEO, Holsman International
  • Marilyn Carlson Nelson
    Former Chairman and CEO, Carlson
  • Michael I. Roth
    Former Executive Chairman and CEO Interpublic Group
  • Mr. Kenneth T. Derr
    Former Chairman and CEO, Chevron Corp., in memoriam
  • Sanford I. Weill
    CEO, Casa Rosa Ventures, LLC
  • Surya Kant
    Senior Advisor, Tata Sons; Former Chairman North America, Tata Consultancy Services