Technology Sector Advisors
Eugene Kim
Eugene Kim serves as an advisor for Dreamfish strategy. Eugene is the founder and Executive Director of Blue Oxen Associates, a think tank devoted to improving collaboration and knowledge management in society. He has written for a number of publications, including Scientific American, Price Waterhouse Coopers' Technology Forecast and the Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History (Fitzroy Dearborn 2001) and is working on his second book, Software, Money, and Liberty: How Source Code Became Free. Eugene received an AB in History and Science from Harvard University in 1996, and has worked closely with Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse and the first hypertext system.
Eugene Levy, Clarkston Consulting, New York.
Eugene Levy is a technology consultant. His expertise is in the areas of transaction-processing systems, development tools and Internet commerce His clients have included over 50 venture-backed technology companies, including Patricof Ventures, Fore Systems, AOL, Bluestone, MeshNetworks, Princeton Softech, UPOC, Planview, RealPage, and Wider Than. among others. Gene Levy was a partner in Apax Partners Tech & Telecom Group; was vice president of systems at GTE Information Systems; was a principal of Lambda Technology, Inc., a nationwide software consulting company, that was purchased by GE.
Education Sector Advisors
Don Bushnell, PhD, Founding Chair of the School of Human and Organization Development at Fielding Graduate University.
Don Bushnell has been a major investor in Dreamfish and has given significant support and leadership to the startup. Dr. Bushnell is both an international management consultant with NGOs in Central Europe and in Africa, and an educator who has pioneered distance learning practices in professional education for the past 35 years in the U.S. and abroad. Don co-founded the Institute for Social Innovation. Building on twelve years of training and consulting programs in the nonprofit sector in Tanzania, the Czech Republic, and in Hungary, the Institute is dedicated to working with nonprofit executive, boards, and the world of philanthropy to develop and evaluate innovative global practices in the nonprofit sector.
Charlie Seashore, PhD
Charlie is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by OD Network. Charlie is a professor in the School of Human and Organization Development, Fielding Graduate University, Faculty member of American University/National Training Laboratories Master’s Degree Program in Human Resources Development and Faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University Program in Applied Behavioral Science. Charlie is the Board President of the Lewin Center in Bethel, Maine. Consulting social psychologist to government agencies and health care organizations, Charlie served as Board President of National Training Laboratories (NTL) from 1988-1990. Selected Publications: "The white male category at the intersection of race and gender (coauthor), The Promise of Diversity, New York, 1994; What Did You Say? The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback (coauthor), Douglas Charles Press, 1992.
Urusa Fahim, PhD
Dr. Fahim is an Associate Professor in the Transformative Studies Program at CIIS. Her areas of expertise include intercultural communication, group process, transformative leadership and research methodologies. She is known for her work internationally as an organization development consultant. She is a T-Group facilitator for the Interpersonal Dynamics course at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. She has worked with a diverse array of groups and non-governmental organizations in Asia and the U.S.. Dr. Fahim holds a Ph.D. in Transformative Learning and Change from California Institute of Integral Studies and an MA in Psychology. She relocated to San Francisco from Pakistan in 1995.
Environmental Business Sector Advisors
Kathia Laszlo, PhD, Faculty, Presidio School of Management, San Francisco.
Dr. Laszlo has published on knowledge management, future trends in education, learning technologies, and systems thinking and its application to social and environmental concerns. She writes regularly as a guest editor for El Norte, a large Mexican publication. Kathia was a Fulbright scholar from Mexico.
Alexander Laszlo, PhD, EGADE-ITSEM, Monterrey, Mexico.
Dr. Laszlo is a Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Administration & Leadership. He is on the Editorial Boards of World Futures, Systems Research & Behavioral Science, Organizational Transformation & Social Change and Latin American Business Review, recipient of the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award, and author of over thirty journal, book, and encyclopedia publications.
Thierry Pauchant
Thierry Pauchant is the Holder of the Chair in Ethical Management at HEC Montreal School of Business and faculty at Fielding Graduate University. Thierry is the HEC Director of the Research Group on Ethics and Social Responsibility in Organizations and Assistant Director of the Group for Education and Research on Management Ecology (GERME). Thierry has published 130 publications, including 9 books. His research areas are Ethical Management of Risks and Crises; Financial, Social and Ecological Responsibilities of Managers; Complex Systems Learning and Transformation; Decision Making and Integral Leadership; Development of the Level of Consciousness at Work.
Camille Harris
Camille is a marketing consultant, a community activist and a philanthropist. Camille’s expertise is in creating networks. She founded the award-winning nonprofit, L.A. Fit for Kids, for which she received numerous awards for nonprofit leadership. Camille is currently working on sustainable urban planning in Ventura, California. In business, Camille pioneered a new category for the advertising industry as founder and President of National Business Network, a 3M new media company. Camille networked over 100 regional business publications into one advertising network to leverage the strength of grassroots. As the publisher of CitySports Magazine, she turned a magazine into a networked fitness community. She was the Vice President fo Sales and Marketing for California Business Magazine, where she established new national records.
Matthew Heim, PhD
Matthew C. Heim, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Visionary Partnership International, and is known world-wide as a top-ranked advisor in the fields of strategic visioning, organization-wide transformation and organization development. With over 25 years’ experience, he continues to serve as a strategic advisor to many organizations across various industries. Most recently, he served in the executive management and partnership ranks of such firms as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Clarkston Consulting. Matthew’s hobbies include sailing, martial arts and the study of indigenous spiritual practices. Matthew lives in Sonoma, California with his wife Kristina and their two children, Alexandra and Jonathan.
Arts Sector Advisors
Sam Bower
Sam Bower is the Executive Director, Greenmuseum.org, an online museum of environmental art. Sam has served on the board of Dreamfish and made significant contributions in the design process of the Platform in order that Dreamfish meet the needs of nonprofits and artists. Sam created environmental art for 8 years as part of a Bay Area collaborative art group known as Meadowsweet Dairy. He was a founding member of Cellspace, a non-profit community art space in San Francisco, and Co-Directed Crucible Steel Gallery. He has worked as a solo artist and web designer, in event production and the environmental non-profit sector in the United States and in Ecuador.
Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin is a pioneer of post-modern dance who has inspired generations of artists in many countries to use arts for social and environmental change. For three decades, she has choreographed pubic projects in which thousands of people have participated. In 2005, Anna collaborated with Tiffany von Emmel and Dietmar Brinkmann in the production of Seniors Rocking.
Pam McDonald
Pam McDonald is the Principal of Cultural Cross Currents. Pam serves the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, leading a team of consultants in planning process for a new Museum of Performance and Design. Formerly, Pam served as Director of Audience Development and Civic Affairs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Pam directed an institutional audience development strategic plan to increase the museums' attendance by attracting and serving a larger and more diverse audience and membership, and managed community involvement opportunities. Pam is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department of the University of San Francisco. Pam is the recipient of numerous awards for her work, including a Fulbright Fellowship; a National Science Foundation Fellowship; the KQED/Union Bank "Citizen of the Year" award; the Smithsonian Institution Award for Museum Excellence; the Links, Inc. National Award for Community Service; the Bernard Osher Cultural Award for an "unsung hero" in culture and the arts.
Religions Sector Advisor
Jack Petranker, BA (Stanford), MA (Univ. California, Berkeley), JD (Yale)
Jack Petranker has been a faculty member at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, CA since 1978 and served as dean of the Institute from 1988-1991. An active member of the California Bar, he is founder and Director of the Center for Creative Inquiry, Associate Director of the Light of Buddhadharma Foundation International and a director of the Tibetan Aid Project and Dharma Publishing. From 1988-92 he served as the North American Vice-President of the World Fellowship of Buddhists.
