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Date:
Saturday March 6, 2010

Location:
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163

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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

The following are the panelists:

Nathan Sigworth
Co-founder of PharmaSecure

Nathan Sigworth was born in Germany and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. Before college, he took a year off school to travel throughout South Africa and Botswana working as a photographer for a tour company and study the history of the world with a few friends. He began his college studies in Physics, but a guest lecture by an Indian doctor persuaded him to pursue research on health access in rural India. Nathan graduated from Dartmouth College in 2007 with a degree in Economics.

While a student, Nathan became an accidental entrepreneur when an engineering class invention he helped develop became the Gyrowheel.

This gyroscopic replacement for training wheels won a Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award and is now being released on the US market.

After graduating, Nathan joined his college roommate Taylor Thompson in launching PharmaSecure, Inc. to combat counterfeit drugs in emerging markets. After three years of extensive consumer research in India, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda, PharmaSecure closed on a round of venture capital. The company is now in the process of launching an authentication system in India that allows consumers to verify their medicines, and pharmaceutical companies to conduct market research and targeted consumer awareness campaigns.

When not at his office or the local dhaba in Bhikaji Cama Place, Nathan enjoys skiing in the Himalayas. Nathan and his family are involved in the disability community in India, and Nathan advised the production of the 2008 documentary More than Walking, about the first quadriplegic rugby players in India. Nathan is also an advisor to Global Access Doctors, a team working to develop a common platform for international telemedicine.

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Anup Akkihal
Founder of Logistics For Global Good

Anup Akkihal is a systems engineer with over a decade of experience designing and implementing supply chain systems across a range of industries – including heavy manufacturing, consumer goods, defense, retail and global health.

Seeking to improve the global condition, he has driven organizational learning at the intersection of technology, operations science and public goods delivery. In 2008 he founded Logistics for Global Good Incorporated, an NGO experimenting with cheap technology applications in developing-world villages. He first conceived of mobile-phone-mediated inventory control systems when building analogous technologies for low-resource settings with the United States Department of Defense.

Anup earned degrees in Biophysics at the Johns Hopkins University, and Logistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Shalaka Joshi
Vice President, CSO partners

Shalaka Joshi began her career in social enterprise with the United Nations Children's Fund where she worked on micro-planning and building public-private-non profit alliances. She later worked with GiveIndia Foundation where she advised business leaders on innovative strategic philanthropy models, and Ashoka, a global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.

Her private sector experience includes ICICI Bank -India's largest private sector bank- where she led the process of integrating private sector partners into the Bank's initiatives in health, education and micro finance. Shalaka also served as Vice President of the IFMR Trust, a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to ensuring complete access to financial services for rural India. She was part of setting up their Network Enterprises Fund(tm) - India's first equity fund focused on fixing rural supply chains across 14 sectors.

Shalaka is currently Vice President, Global Strategy for CSO partners- a non-profit collaborative focused on increasing the scale and effectiveness of Indian civil society.

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Kash Rangan - Moderator
Professor at Harvard Business School

Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Until recently the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA courses, including the core First-Year Marketing course (was its head across multiple sections from 1993-1996), and the second-year electives, Business Marketing and Channels-to-Market. He has also taught marketing in the Advanced Management Program for senior managers. Currently Rangan teaches the elective courses, Customers, Commerce and Society: Business Value and the Private Creation of Social Value, and Business at the Base of the Pyramid. In addition, he teaches in a number of focused executive education programs: Business-to-Business Marketing Strategy, Strategic Perspectives on Nonprofit Management, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Professor Rangan's business marketing and channels research has appeared in management journals such as Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Retailing, Management Science, Marketing Science and Organization Science. Rangan has authored several books, which include: 1) Going to Market, which deals with distribution systems for industrial products (co-authored with E. Raymond Corey and Frank V. Cespedes), and 2) Business Marketing Strategy, which presents approaches for managing industrial products and markets over their life cycle (co-authored with Benson P. Shapiro and Rowland T. Moriarty). Rangan's latest book, Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy, presents a unique framework on how to evolve a firm's go-to-market strategy with the changing needs of customers, and other opportunities in the environment. Rangan currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Retailing and Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing. He has also served on the editorial board of Journal of Marketing.

Rangan has a Bachelor of Technology from I.I.T. (Madras), 1971; an MBA from I.I.M. (Ahmedabad), 1973; and a Ph.D. in marketing from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), 1983. From 1973 to 1979, Rangan held several sales and marketing positions for a large multinational company in India. Rangan has engaged in a variety of executive education programs, consultancies, and advisory activities for numerous commercial and nonprofit enterprises.

Rangan has been on the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1983.

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