Christopher Meyer
Previously, he founded ProImpact Group, a social impact company which delivers online college mentoring to 1st gen students. Prior to that he founded SecurityWorks, Inc. and advised Bretford Manufacturing for six years, helping to avert the closing of a US factory and growing annual revenue from $50M to over $150M. SecurityWorks went on to design several patented edtech products which were successfully marketed under the brand GORILLAdigital to secondary & post-secondary schools. He founded AsiaGlobal, a business development consulting firm, and conducted trade & investment promotion for Micronesia on behalf of the US government. He also held senior positions for a computer security company in California, and the site selection arm of PPH Corp for whom he established a practice area in China. He served as senior associate for Asia at the Overseas Private Investment Corp (now DFC) during the George H.W. Bush Administration and was recognized for excellence in orchestrating high profile bi-lateral missions to Indonesia and eastern Germany (during Unification). He was Market Development Manager, Asia-Pacific for a US Fortune 500 consumer products company, establishing revenue records for the company’s international SBUs. Chris graduated from George Washington University in 1985 with a BA in East Asian Studies and from the University of Southern California in 1994 with an iMBA. His wife, Rebecca, is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology who specializes in neuropsych testing. They have three adult children. Chris is attempting to start a backyard orchard of avocado and lemon tress grown from seed, it’s a long-term project.
Kevin Conboy
Kevin Conboy continues three decades representing global providers and brand leaders in the enterprise software technology space, serving the world’s largest enterprises across private and public sectors, NGOs, and national defense in North America and beyond. He is committed to the thoughtful application of technology to empower stakeholders to change lives and alter failing trajectories by quickly solving rudimentary problems and pivot renewed focus to achieving high-value empirical outcomes. He promotes location-independent, gender-blind early STEM education coupled with career training for empowering the next generation of technologists, as these roles will end generational poverty inside this decade and geometrically expand the “range of what’s possible” anywhere in the newly connected, socially mobile world.
Kevin remains a long-time board member of Chicago’s Little City Foundation, a vibrant and thriving 56-acre campus community offering a needs-blind, comprehensive scope of services and family support to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. He believes accountable, transparent government at local and national levels coupled with a socially responsible private sector that performs well are together the institutional conduits to systematically do good for many by templating, replicating, and celebrating joint success.
A three-time graduate of GWU, Kevin holds an M.S. from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, as well as an MBA and BBA. After numerous career relocations, he and his wife Nancy and three grown sons currently call Minneapolis home, where singles tennis, reformer Pilates, mountain biking, and a small but demanding West Highland Terrier round out the workweek.
