Founding & Management team
Danielle Capalino
Danielle Capalino has spent the last decade working on early stage commercialization of companies through her family foundation, the J. Gurwin Foundation. She also started and ran a group of investors called I-Lab Angels who have invested in 12 early stage companies coming out of Israeli Universities over the last 2 years. Danielle holds a BS from MIT in Brain and Cognitive Science and a Masters in Public Health Nutrition from Johns Hopkins. She is an adjunct faculty member at the George Washington University School of Medical and Health Sciences. She is on the Board of Advisors at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition, the MIT Corporation Development Committee and the MIT Visiting Committee for Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Alon Lederman
Alon Lederman has 30 years of experience in the financial markets, and has been an investor in (and advisor to) early stage technology companies for 20 years. He has vast experience in identifying successful companies, structuring investments, and helping companies and founders navigate their early stages from a strategic and financial perspective. He has BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, and an MBA from MIT Sloan (where he interned at the Entrepreneurship Center, was a teaching assistant for entrepreneurship courses, and helped run the then $50k Business Plan Competition), and is on the board of two other non-profit organizations.
Board of Directors
An amazing group steering us to do good
Bar Pereg
Bar is the founder&CEO of PollyLabs, a nonprofit repurposing tech for good. She is a venture-building veteran, impact innovation expert, and former founder and CEO of an early-stage startup. She has over 15 years of experience at the intersection of technology, innovation, and social impact, including collaborations with Fortune 500 companies and organizations like the UN, The White House, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Katie Lesser
Katie, a born and raised New Yorker, is a lawyer. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Katie worked in production at CNN and MSNBC as well as in non-profit fundraising. She currently sits on the boards of American Friends of Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Selfhelp NextGen and UJA Professional Woman. Katie is an avid tennis player, puzzle aficionado and loves to travel. She has visited all seven continents.
Greg Levin
Greg is a partner at New Leaf Climate, a strategic asset management and advisory firm channeling capital into nature-based solutions to climate change. Greg spent the last decade working to leverage mission first capital, deploying it at foundations and utilizing innovative structures for it at social enterprises, previously as a VP at Pursuit, and before that as a Director and founding member of the Social Impact team at BlackRock, and Chief of Staff to the President of The Robin Hood Foundation. Greg has a Masters from Columbia University and a BS from the University of Oregon.
Perry Teicher
Perry leads Orrick's global Impact Finance & Investment practice, advising impact-oriented clients globally, and serves as a leader of Orrick's ESG initiatives. Perry serves as co-chair of the NYU Law Grunin Center/Impact Investing Legal Working Group’s annual conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing, and is involved in other sector building initiatives. Perry is an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow and member of the ROI Community and Nexus. He is a native of the Detroit area and a University of Michigan graduate.
Advisory Board
Outstanding professionals that are fully aligned with our mission
Terri Alpert
Terri began her career at Morgan Stanley, and then built her first direct-to-consumer startup, growing it purely from internally generated revenue and, over time, building multiple direct to consumer brands from one common infrastructure, up to a successful exit. She served as a mentor to other entrepreneurs in a variety of industries, as a board member of Brown University’s entrepreneurship program, as a senior advisor to a private equity firm and to a mid-market investment bank. She currently serves as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Ben Gurion University, is a member of the University’s board of governors and Vice Chair of Americans for Ben Gurion University. Terri holds a Physics degree from Brown University.
Molly Tilton
Molly currently works with Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, managing his global philanthropic investments of nearly $1 billion. Prior to joining the Schwarzman Foundation, she worked in the Executive Office at Goldman Sachs, focusing on two of the firm's flagship philanthropic initiatives - 10,000 Women (the first finance facility dedicated to women entrepreneurs in emerging markets) and Goldman Sachs Gives (a donor-advised fund for partners of Goldman Sachs). Molly graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2013 with a BA in Advertising.