Tim Koogle Former Board Member & CEO Yahoo! Co-Chairman Room to Read
Moderator: Eric Nee Managing Editor Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Social Innovation Summit brings together top executives and thought
leaders from around the globe to discuss opportunities for leveraging
technology & innovation to affect social change. Attendees will
discuss philanthropic trends, analyze innovative approaches for problem
solving and build lasting partnerships that enable them and their
organizations to discover new means of engaging with social challenges.
Bio
Tim Koogle
Tim Koogle's (“TK”) well-established career in the technology business spans more than 25 years and includes serving as the founding CEO and chairman of the board of directors at Yahoo! Inc. from 1995 to 2001, where he helped build the business into a leading Internet media company with annual net revenues of over one billion dollars. During his tenure, BusinessWeek named him one of “The Top 25 Executives of the Year” in 1999 and 2000. Prior to Yahoo!, Koogle was president of Intermec Corporation, and served as Corporate Vice President of Intermec’s parent company, Western Atlas Inc. Previous to that, Koogle spent nine years with Motorola where he held a number of executive management positions in operations and corporate venture capital early-stage technology and consumer product companies. TK joined Room to Read as a board member after having been a supporter of the organization’s work since 2008, and following his participation in the “Trek to 10,000” expedition to celebrate Room to Read’s 10 year anniversary and inaugurate its 10,000th library in Nepal. TK is also founder and CEO of Serendipity Land Holdings, LLC, a private land development company and the managing director of The Koogle Foundation, a private philanthropic organization focused on the education of underprivileged youth. Additionally he serves as chairman of the board of directors for Method, Inc., the environmentally-sensitive cleaning products company. TK holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia and M.S. and doctorate degrees in engineering from Stanford University.
Eric Nee
Eric Nee is the managing editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review, published by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. He is also co-host of the Social Innovation Conversations podcast channel, and serves as a judge for the Social Venture Network’s Innovation Awards. Eric has close to 30 years experience in the publishing industry. Before joining Stanford University, he was a senior writer for Fortune. While there, Eric helped Time Inc. launch Business 2.0, where he served as executive editor. Before joining Fortune, Eric launched Forbes’s Silicon Valley bureau, where he was bureau manager. He also served as editor-in-chief of Upside magazine for close to five years. Eric has won numerous awards, including being named one of the most influential technology journalists by Technology Marketing in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. Eric earned a B.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a M.S.J. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with his wife Tekla, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, and their three children.
John Wood
John Wood is the Founder and Board Co-Chair of Room to Read. He started Room to Read after a fast-paced and distinguished career with Microsoft from 1991 to 1999. He was in charge of marketing and business development teams throughout Asia, including serving as Director of Business Development for the Greater China region and as Director of Marketing for the Asia-Pacific region. John brings to Room to Read a vision for a scalable solution to developing global educational problems, an intense focus on results, and an ability to attract a world-class group of employees, volunteers, and funders. John focuses on long-term strategy, capital acquisition, public speaking, and media. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He was the first Microsoft Alumni of the Year, awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates. John also serves on the Advisory Board of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and is a three-time CGI speaker. John holds a bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Colorado, a master's degree from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. He teaches at both the Harvard Graduate School of Education and NYU's Stern School of Business.
Industrial region, west-central California. Roughly bounded by San Francisco Bay on the north, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Diablo Range on the east, it takes its (unofficial) name from the extensive use of silicon in the region's electronics industries. The U.S. government invested heavily in the region's industry following World War II. A second economic surge occurred with the proliferation of personal computers in the 1980s, and a third surge followed the growth of the Internet in the 1990s.
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