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December 15, 2010 3:27PM
Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO
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Neal Keny-Guyer (right), Mercy Corps CEO arrives during a visit in the Jakarta slums. Photo: Edy Purnomo for Mercy Corps
Neal Keny-Guyer is a social entrepreneur committed to creating a more just and peaceful world. A native of Tennessee, Keny-Guyer holds a B.A. in Public Policy and Religion from Duke University, an M.A. in Public and Private Management from Yale University, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Portland State University, Oregon.
Keny-Guyer joined Mercy Corps in 1994 as Chief Executive Officer. Under his aegis, Mercy Corps has emerged as a leading international humanitarian and development organization with ongoing operations in nearly 40 countries, a staff of 3,700, and an annual operating budget of $308 million. Keny-Guyer has forged new directions at Mercy Corps, most notably implementing global mergers and strategic alliances, placing human rights, civil society and social entrepreneurship at the forefront of Mercy Corps’ humanitarian mission, and building an organizational reputation for groundbreaking, innovative programming in the world’s toughest environments.
Keny-Guyer began his career with Communities In Schools in 1976 working with at-risk youth in the inner cities of Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia. Keny-Guyer then moved to Thailand in 1980 to focus on Cambodia’s refugees and war victims for CARE/UNICEF. In 1982, he began his tenure with Save the Children.
As Save the Children’s Director of Middle East, North Africa and Europe, Keny-Guyer managed a $44 million budget and supervised 900 staff in 10 countries. He designed and implemented high-impact relief and development programs in some of the most war-torn and politically sensitive regions on earth – including Lebanon, West Bank/Gaza and Sudan.
In 1990, Keny-Guyer undertook his toughest assignment – as a stay-at-home Dad for his first child, while launching strategic planning and organizational development consulting to businesses, foundations and non-profit agencies.
Neal Keny-Guyer is on the Board of Trustees of the Yale Corporation and also serves on the Yale President’s Council on International Affairs and the Board of Advisors of the Yale School of Management (SOM). In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of ImagineNations and the Nike Foundation’s Advisory Board. Neal Keny-Guyer lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Alissa, and their three children.
December 15, 2010 3:23PM
Linda Mason, Chair
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Mercy Corps Chair Linda Mason. Photo: Mercy Corps
Linda Mason is chairman and co-founder of Bright Horizons, the largest world-wide provider of worksite child care and early education. Bright Horizons operates more than 650 high quality child development centers for employers in 40 states and Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. Clients include the US General Services Administration, United Nations, European Commission, Time Warner, Cisco Systems, IBM, Yale University, MIT, Universal Studios, and Paramount Pictures, among others. Bright Horizons also operates eight elementary schools, private and charter. The company employs 20,000 people and serves more than 80,000 families.
Bright Horizons was selected by Fortune magazine in January 2010 for the 11th time as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For in America.” Ms. Mason was one of five corporate recipients of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership presented by President Bill Clinton. She was the 1996 recipient of the Ernst & Young/USA Today "National Entrepreneur of the Year", one of Business Week's 1997 "Best Entrepreneurs" and one of Working Mother Magazine’s 1998 “25 most influential working mothers in America.”
Ms. Mason is the author of The Working Mother’s Guide to Life, published in November 2002 by Random House. She has written and spoken broadly on early education and the issues of corporate work/life policies and challenges, including participating on White House work/life panels and initiatives during the Clinton administration.
Ms. Mason also co-founded Horizons for Homeless Children (HHC), a Boston-based organization that serves the needs of homeless children throughout New England. HHC has trained over 9,500 volunteers to work in 150 playspaces established by HHC in homeless shelters. In addition, HHC operates three full-service childcare centers for homeless children, also providing assistance to mothers to reach self-sufficiency. HHC is a national model for the care and early education of homeless children.
Linda Mason served as a founding member of the board of directors for the new Massachusetts State Department of Early Education and Care. She was also a member of the Governor’s Education Transition team in 2003.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Mason managed large-scale refugee relief operations overseas. She served as Co-Country Director of Save the Children's emergency program in Sudan during the African famine of 1984-85, creating a national program that served 400,000 Sudanese famine victims. She also was responsible for the operation of emergency services for two refugee camps serving over 40,000 Eritrean refugees. Ms. Mason also directed a large feeding program for malnourished children in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thai border after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia of 1979. She co-authored the book Rice, Rivalry, and Politics (University of Notre Dame Press, 1983), which looked at the politics and the challenges of the Cambodian relief operation.
Ms. Mason has a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. In addition to serving as Mercy Corps' Chair, she has held leadership positions on the boards of several important non-profit institutions, serving as: Co-Founder of Horizons for Homeless Children; Trustee of Yale University; Chair of the Yale School of Management Advisory Board, and trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
December 15, 2010 2:32PM
Dan O'Neill, Founder
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Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Dan O'Neill has committed his life to international service since 1972.
As a volunteer for a faith-based NGO in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, he encountered oppression, extreme poverty, famine and wars which he documented in photos, articles and journals.
In 1979, Dan co-founded Save the Refugees Fund, an emergency relief task force assisting Cambodian refugees following the infamous "Killing Fields" catastrophe. In 1980, he attended White House Cambodia Crisis Committee events at the request of then-First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who has continued to lend her support and encouragement over three decades. In 1981, Dan incorporated Mercy Corps with a mission to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people to build just, secure and productive communities.
Since then, the global aid agency has generated billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance in more than 100 countries, assisting children and families with cost-efficient, high-impact relief and development programs through a broad range of services and innovative strategies.
Dan has traveled the world meeting many political and religious leaders, observing Mercy Corps programs and witnessing natural disasters, political upheaval, war, famine and other humanitarian crises. He has been a White House guest during the Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, and has appeared on CNN, the BBC and many other national and local TV and radio networks. O'Neill has authored numerous books, articles and opinion pieces.
Dan was born in Olympia, Washington, in 1948. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington and in 2008 was named among its top 100 graduates. He has received honorary doctorates from Warner Pacific College (2004), Willamette University (2007) and the University of Portland (2009).
In 2006, he received the Mother Teresa Award. Dan and his wife, Cherry, have five grown children: Brittany, Brendan, Casey, Kevyn and Kylie.
