As CEO, Melanie leads Luminate's team to implement the organisation’s strategy. She brings over 20 years of leadership experience to the role, with a career focused on advancing the rights and well-being of people around the world.Melanie has been with Luminate for five years leading the organisation’s work in Asia and most recently implementing a global strategy review. She was previously Vice President of the Chandler Foundation, where she played a pivotal role in launching the organisation, designing its grant-making strategy, identifying high-impact development grantees, and leading strategic engagements with other funders and partners. Prior to this, Melanie was Vice President at the Clermont Group, managing corporate communications for the multibillion-dollar investment firm dedicated to building companies that harness the goodness of business to create a better world. Earlier in her career, she launched and led the CleanWater Foundation, a safe water micro-franchise serving rural communities in Bangladesh. She also worked in external affairs at the World Bank and served as the Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of the Asian University for Women.
Why we need to reform the startup business model | Melanie Rieback | TEDxBerlin
Team — GitLab Foundation
Ellie is President and CEO of the GitLab Foundation, with the mission of improving lifetime earnings and economic mobility of workers worldwide. With a background in the nonprofit, public and private sectors, she brings a shared value, cross-sectoral approach to drive sustainable impact.
Conversations for Action | and Collected Essays
Conversations For Action and Collected Essays is a compilation of the seminal works by Dr. Fernando Flores during his tenure as CEO and President of Logonet Inc., an educational and coaching organization, and Business Design Associates, the pioneer management consulting firm in implementing large scale innovation processes and programs. The book is a response to the requests from many former students and clients over the years for the “papers” with Flores’ distinct framework for building teams, leaders, and organizations.
Who Is Joel Kaplan, Meta’s New Global Policy Chief? (Published 2025)
The longtime Republican lobbyist for Meta was named to the company’s top policy role last week.
Meet the Team — Freedom Dreams Co-operative Education
Christine Clarke (she/her) is a co-op developer, educator and advocate for co-ops and the solidarity economy. She believes that co-operative approaches can build the foundation for just and equitable workplaces and transformative community projects. She is a Co-founder of Freedom Dreams Co-operative Education and a Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives for the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet), leading its climate action initiative STARCAP. Christine is a graduate of CoopZone’s Co-op Development Training Program and an instructor, designing and delivering the course, “Introduction to Co-operative Development: Principles, Practices and a Movement toward Transformative Change.”
Gal Shir | Visual identity design for early-stage startups
Gal Shir is a brand design specialist based in Tel Aviv, helping early-stage startups define their visual identity and set their unique footprint.
Broad Beach Ventures investment portfolio | PitchBook
Founded in 2010, Broad Beach Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Can Puck reinvent the news business for the influencer age?
CEO Sarah Personette’s risky bet on journalists as influencers
Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business
A couple of weeks ago I dropped into a thread by Mosh Lee, about how ATproto has too many projects and too few businesses. Yes! A few months ago I volunteered to help teams with ops or strategy, and k
Purpose Ventures - Purpose
Conventional VC is often at odds with the ambitions of purpose-driven entrepreneurs and their founding values and missions. These founders are interested in more than growth for growth’s sake. They want to build lasting, impactful businesses and preserve their mission in the future.
Five ways to build a $100 million business
Some time ago my friend (and co-investor in Clio , Jobber and Unbounce ) Boris Wertz wrote a great blog post about "the only 2 ways to bui...
There’s some conversation in the Atmosphere right now about how we turn @atproto.com projects into sustainable businesses. One of the biggest opportunities is sitting right in front of us: give publishers back the audience development business they spent the last 20 years outsourcing to platforms.
