Salon time!

16Jan09

Wow, we’re so excited about being in Washington DC on Monday. AND Tuesday. Our final line-up for The Inaugural Salon on January 19 has really come together in a beautiful kind of way. There’s still room, so please bring your friends and colleagues. You can still register at www.salon2009.com, but walk-in registration ($100) will also be welcomed.

12:45pm-1:15pm
Arrival and check-in at the House of Sweden (Google map).

Paul Soulellis/Soulellis Studio
Carrie Heinonen/Art Institute of Chicago
Kristen Shepherd Denner/Whitney Museum of American Art
Kwanza Hall/Atlanta City Council District 2

3pm
Break: coffee, networking, food

Amale Andraos and Dan Wood/Work Architecture Company
Michelle Moore/U.S. Green Building Council
Randall Kempner/The Aspen Institute
Steve Clemons/The New America Foundation
Jean-Phillipe Touffut/Centre Cournot, Paris
Jeff Franco/City Year DC

6pm
Cocktails!

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Guy Kawasaki, Apple evangelist, twittering about The Inagural Salon

03Jan09

Check out: http://twitter.com/guykawasaki … for Guy’s note on the Salon, as well his other fantastic notes and Alltop venture …

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We Love DC blogging about The Inaugural Salon

29Dec08

A nice mention of The Inaugural Salon in We Love DC’s “Inauguration Bits” … please keep spreading the word about the Salon. We want a full house!

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Salon participant: Randall Kempner

23Dec08

Randall Kempner serves as the Executive Director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Mr. Kempner brings fifteen years of work in the field of national and international development to the Aspen Institute. Most recently, Randall served as Vice President for Regional Innovation at the Council on Competitiveness, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington. In leading the Council on Competitiveness regional innovation program, Mr. Kempner directed economic development initiatives in nearly a dozen American regions and provided policy guidance and training to the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Labor.

Prior to accepting his role at the Council in 2003, Randall served as Vice President of OTF Group, an international consulting firm that advises regions and nations on how to create competitive advantage. Randall was a co-founder of OTF, and played a lead role in its spin-out from Monitor Group, the international consultancy. With Monitor and OTF, Randall led comprehensive competitiveness projects in Bermuda, Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru. He has worked in a wide variety of industry clusters including agro-industry, apparel, biotechnology and tourism.

Randall graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a M.B.A and an M.P.Aff. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Government from Harvard University. In 2004, he was a German Marshall Fund-American Memorial Marshall Fellow. 

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Salon participant: Carrie Heinonen

22Dec08

Carrie Heinonen is the Vice President for Marketing and Public Affairs at the Art Institute of Chicago, which opens its Renzo Piano designed Modern Wing in May of 2009. Prior to re-entering the cultural realm, she was the Senior Marketing Manager for the Kids and Seasonal businesses for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co, where she re-launched Hubba Bubba in the United States. Carrie also spent 5 years with Quaker Oats/PepsiCo where she was fortunate enough to work on such classic brands as Cap’n Crunch and Quaker Oatmeal. She holds an Art History AB from Dartmouth College and an MPPM from Yale School of Management.

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Salon participant: Kwanza Hall

19Dec08

Kwanza Hall, Atlanta City Councilman, District 2

The Honorable Kwanza Hall was elected to the Atlanta City Council in November 2005. He represents District 2, Atlanta’s most socio-economically and culturally diverse district. Rich in history and culture, the district includes Downtown Atlanta, Sweet Auburn and the Martin Luther King Historic District, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University.

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Salon participant: Kristen Shepherd Denner

19Dec08

Kristen Shepherd Denner, Director of Membership and the Annual Fund, Whitney Museum Museum of American Art

Kristen Shepherd Denner is an arts professional whose background in finance and fine arts informs her interest in personal philanthropy and civic engagement in the arts.  She led Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects at Sotheby’s auction house in New York from 1999-2008, most recently developing a loyalty program that enabled clients to make philanthropic contributions to museums and cultural institutions all over the United States — all fully funded by Sotheby’s based on the clients’ purchasing activity.

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Salon participant: Michelle Moore

19Dec08

Michelle Moore

 is Senior Vice-President, Policy & Public Affairs at the U.S. Green Building Council.

Michelle hails from a small town in South Georgia that has the distinction of being the carpet tile capital of the world. Growing up, it was her worst nightmare to end up back in LaGrange working for a textile mill, so of course that’s what happened. But it wasn’t just any textile company, it was Interface, and they had a great vision for becoming the world’s first sustainable enterprise. Michelle’s experience as Interface’s Director of eBusiness taught her how to marry environmental performance with bottom line results.

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Salon participant: Work Architecture Company (WORKac)

19Dec08

WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) was founded in 2002 by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. Based in New York City, the firm believes in giving shape to ideas and the exploration of form through program. Since its inception, the firm has designed over a hundred projects ranging from a condo building in Panama to a 100 acre “new city“ in Las Vegas. WORKac strives to develop architectural and urban planning projects that engage culture and consciousness, nature and artificiality, surrealism and pragmatism.

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We’re live.

16Dec08

The Inaugural Salon is officially live and open for registration.

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