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Ben Afleck

 

Ben Affleck received the 2007 best directorial debut award from the National Board of Review for his film, Gone Baby Gone.  Ben is a longtime political activist and strong supporter of many charitable organizations including ONEXONE, A-T Children's Project, Feeding America, the Jimmy Fund, and the ONE Campaign.  He is a passionate advocate who travels the world to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of issues facing Africa today.  

In the last year, he has made four trips to numerous countries on the African continent.  Ben has focused on understanding the causes and consequences of conflict in Africa, along with learning specifically about African solutions to the problems affecting the Great Lakes Region and Horn of Africa.  Most recently, Ben traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he directed the short film and public service announcement, Gimme Shelter, which focuses on the humanitarian crisis in the DR Congo.


 

Aaron Huntsberger was born and raised in Austin, Texas where he is currently a junior at St. Andrew’s Episcopal High School.  He is thoroughly involved in the performing arts department both on and off stage.  Aaron has worked with shows including Rumors, True West, Reckless, Les Misèrables, The Fantasticks, Fiddler on the Roof, and more. Though Aaron is passionate about theater, he does not plan on pursuing a career in this field.

Aaron is also involved with community service through his school. He served on the Harvest Bowl committee, which, along with another Austin school, collected rice and beans to feed 4,000 underprivileged families for one year.  Academically, Aaron most enjoys his English and Spanish courses. In his search for colleges and universities, Aaron hopes that he will be drawn to southern California. 


Marc Joubert

 

Marc Joubert officially joined the ONEXONE team as President of the foundation, with the launch of U.S. operations and the opening of the Los Angeles office in March 2008.

Previously, Marc was the Senior Vice President of LivePlanet, the production hub for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. There, he served as Producer on the Emmy-nominated series Project Greenlight for HBO and Bravo; Producer on the feature film Running the Sahara; Executive Producer on the multiplatform Race to E3 for MTV and XBOX Live; Co-Producer on the feature films First Descent for Universal and Feast for Dimension; and Associate Producer on The Battle of Shaker Heights for Miramax Films.

In addition to his position at ONEXONE, Marc is heavily involved with several charity organizations.  He is co-founder and an Executive Board member of H2O Africa, and is also on the Board of Directors of the Sean McDonough Children's Foundation. He has worked closely for over 10 years as an advisor to Team 25 Foundation.


Danica Krislovich

 

Award-winning Executive Producer, Danica Krislovich, has extensive experience in television with major networks and studios, regularly incorporating brands and sponsorships into her programs.  Danica created and is producing Unsung Heroes, a digital micro-series and special for TNT, sponsored by Target.  She has an eclectic slate of television movies, documentaries and digital series in development or production, including a PSA video campaign for the ENOUGH Project on conflict minerals and war crimes in Africa.

Under a consulting deal with Participant Media, Danica is creating and developing socially relevant programs with social action components.  From 2004-2007, Danica was the Senior Vice-President, Programming at Madison Road Entertainment and launched original programming at the start-up while creating financial models to subsidize content with branded integration dollars.  As Senior Vice-President, Development for Fremantle Media, Danica developed and packaged international reality television, including international formats for domestic distribution.  She was at Fremantle when launching the first year of American Idol.  Previously, she was an executive at MTV where she won an Emmy and cable ACE award.  She began her career in concert promotions in NYC.

Born in Croatia and raised in New York and Europe, Danica has a B.S. in Finance and is a scholar with a degree in English Literature and Theater from Oxford University.  She is a board member of Women in Film; a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; and a board member of the National Breast Cancer Coalition Group.


 

Kim Langbecker is a music industry executive with 20 years experience in marketing and promotion. Having worked for labels until 2003, at that time Kim co-founded her own company, The Contraband Company. Today she works with independent artists, major and indie labels as well as management companies developing strategies and campaigns. Kim founded or co-founded three not-for-profit organizations primarily working as an advocate and activist on behalf of indigenous communities, leaders and traditional medicine people around the world and in partnership to develop sustainable social ventures. She was part of an international campaign on behalf of the Bushmen of Botswana who brought the longest running and most expensive court case against their government to allow them to return to the ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. They eventually won, but the court's decision has never been honored by the government. Her diverse background led her to Participant Media, where she was a social action campaign consultant for such films as The Kite Runner and Darfur Now. Kim also does event planning and organizes a global conference called The Gathering, bringing indigenous communities around the world together for ceremony, teachings, consultations, music and conversation.   


Rose Mapendo

 

Rose Mapendo grew up in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.  When war broke out in 1998, Rose and her family were forced into a death camp.  Rose's husband was tortured and executed within earshot of a pregnant Rose and her seven children.  Weeks later, Rose gave birth to twin boys on the concrete floor of her cell.  She used a stick to the cut the umbilical cord, and a piece of hair to tie it off.  In an act of forgiveness and an appeal to the humanity of the men who ran the prison, she named the twins after them - the very same men who killed her husband. Eighteen months after being imprisoned, Rose and her children were rescued as part of an emergency evacuation organized by the U.S. government. They arrived in the U.S. in 2000.

Rose is an active advocate for peace, forgiveness and refugees. She serves as an ambassador for Mapendo International, the humanitarian organization named in her honor and founded by an aid worker who rescued her.  Mapendo International identifies and resettles the most at-risk refugees to safety.  As Ambassador, Rose has spoken to governments and the U.N. in Geneva, at the White House, and to rapt audiences across the U.S. and Canada.  In 2008, Rose returned to Congo to take part in ongoing peace talks. In 2009 for World Refugee Day, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is awarding Rose the UNHCR’s Humanitarian of the Year award.


John G. Martin

 

John G. Martin is the Chief Risk Officer for GE Capital’s Cash Flow Finance business, which provides acquisition financing to the Private Equity Sponsor community. Among other responsibilities, this role entails oversight of a $20 billion portfolio of acquisition loans and investments.
 
In 1996, John was a co-Founder of Antares Capital Corporation, a Chicago-based provider of acquisition financing.  He became Chief Operating Officer of Antares in 2000.  Prior to forming Antares, John was a senior executive with Heller Financial, a Chicago-based commercial finance company.  He began his career with Continental Illinois National Bank.  He earned his BBA-Finance from the University of Notre Dame in 1982.  
 
John is on the Business Advisory Council for the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, is a Board member of the Colbeth Clinic at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Juvenile Research, and on the Board of Midtown Educational Foundation, an organization that serves at-risk youth in the inner city of Chicago.


Ryan Nord

 

Ryan Nord received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2001 and a Bachelor of Arts from The University of California at Berkeley in 1998.  

From 2001 through 2004, Ryan was an associate in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, where his practice spanned a wide variety of subject matter, including private and public company securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture transactions, project finance and litigation.  

After two years as counsel in NBC Universal’s television business and legal affairs department from 2004 through 2006, Ryan joined his current firm of Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman where he currently represents some of Hollywood’s most widely recognized actors, directors, writers and producers in film and television.


Dr. Charlotte Reznick PH.D

 

Charlotte Reznick Ph.D., author of The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success (Perigee/Penguin NY, August 2009) specializes in helping children and adolescents develop the emotional skills necessary for a happy and successful life. She is a licensed educational psychologist and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at UCLA.

Dr. Charlotte is the creator of Imagery For Kids: Breakthrough for Learning, Creativity, and Empowerment and is the author/producer of the therapeutic CDs Discovering Your Special Place and Creating a Magical Garden and Healing Pond. An international workshop leader on the healing power of children's imagination, she maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California.  


Keri Selig

 

Keri Selig is the founder and President of Intuition Productions, an independent feature film and television production company.  Prior to founding Intuition, Selig served 12 years as an executive for various production companies at Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount and The Walt Disney Company.  

She has produced such films as The Stepford Wives for Paramount; Three to Tango for Warner Bros.; Point Of Origin for HBO; It Must Be Love for CBS; Harlan County War for Showtime; and In the Company of Spies for Showtime and Paramount. Presently, Keri and Intuition Productions are working on several feature film and television productions.

Keri works with a myriad of philanthropic organizations including The Humane Society, Oceana, The Stuart House, New Directions, and Hollywood Hill.


Keri Selig

 

Peter Strople is the founder and CEO of Zero2 Holdings, a strategic advisory and private investment firm focusing on creating world class businesses for profit and non-profit.  In addition, Peter is the co-founder of Seres Partners, an internationally focused strategy and structured finance firm.
 
A recognized business strategist dealing with Instant Change, working with Boards and Corporate Executive Teams, Peter has developed methodologies and strategies to focus on what is critical to sustain a business and focus a company’s vision and mission. Peter mission is to create world-class companies that not only make a difference to the employees and shareholders, but also to the communities where the businesses are based.  A former Director of Dell Computer Corp. and a former Executive with Grid Systems Corporation, Peter advises and mentors executives from Fortune 100 to early stage companies.   He is a frequent keynote speaker at business conferences and at business school worldwide.
 
Peter is an active venture philanthropist and social entrepreneur. He is committed to helping non-profit organizations develop long-term development strategies that allow their passion and heart to be a lasting legacy.  He sits on the Boards of Texas Casa, Refuge House Foster Care & Adoption Agency, The Texas School for the Deaf Foundation, and is on the Chairman’s Advisory Board of Lift up America and involved with the Luis Palau Evangelical Association.


 

Jeff Vespa is an artist, celebrity photographer, co-Founder and Executive Vice-President of the global digital photographic agency, WireImage.  Vespa has been the West Coast Special Projects Manager for Los Angeles Confidential Magazine since 2003.  In April 2009, he was named the Editor-at-Large of the new incarnation of LIFE Magazine, LIFE.com.  He is also responsible for the creation of the WireImage portrait studio that has become an integral part of independent film festivals worldwide and is the official photographer for the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals, where he captures the portraits of all attending stars.

Vespa’s photos appear regularly in numerous publications including LIFE, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time, Newsweek, People, US Weekly, Glamour, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, Rolling Stone, GQ, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Vespa attended the School of the Visual Arts in New York and while there worked at MTV. Vespa received his BFA in Film at the San Francisco Art Institute, after which he attended the Masters Program for Producing at the American Film Institute. 


 

Ryan Williams is a graduate of UCLA with a degree in English.  While at UCLA, Ryan held various roles in the athletic department.  From Head Student Equipment Manager to intern for Adidas America, Ryan accumulated a firm grasp on the inner workings of the sports industry through his close relationships with vendors, coaches and athletes. 

In 2003, Ryan joined Athlete’s First, a management company representing players and coaches in professional baseball, football, basketball and soccer, as an Associate whose primary responsibility was Marketing. Ryan establishes players’ marketing strategies by finding, negotiating and securing endorsement opportunities.  He is responsible for creating innovative marketing partnerships while managing existing corporate and client relationships.  Ryan has worked on campaigns with companies such as Campbell’s Soup, Qwest Communications, and Visa on behalf of clients John Lynch, Drew Bledsoe, Matt Hasselbeck, Jake Plummer and Joey Harrington, among others.  With a national network of contacts, Ryan coordinates player appearances, foundation sponsorships and barter agreements for the company’s star athletes.

Ryan is the Athlete’s First liaison for legendary basketball coach John Wooden and his family, responsible for all matters relating to Wooden’s marketing, licenses, and associations.  He is actively involved in recruiting new football and baseball clients.  He assists in developing clients’ charitable events, and is active in the company’s annual Athlete’s First Classic that benefits Orangewood, a home for abused and disadvantaged children in Orange County, California.


     

 

 

 

 

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