Susan Huber is President, Ascension Global Mission, and Senior Vice President, Ascension, a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care.

Ascension Global Mission engages in international efforts to improve health and living status for poor and vulnerable populations in low resource countries through collaborating with local and global communities, including sponsoring congregations, to foster long-term, sustainable change. Ascension Global Mission seeks to develop new models of partnership with other organizations and collaborate with local communities. In addition to her work with the Global Solidarity Fund, other international efforts include:
• Collaborating with a hospital in Haiti to enable quality healthcare through nursing education; developing a supply chain initiative to create a more reliable and sustainable source of supplies and equipment; and mentoring leadership, beginning with Human Resources, to ensure a qualified staff is recruited and retained.
• Creating systemic change in Guatemala through working with local communities to develop a “Model of Collaborative Governance,” a groundbreaking concept that works alongside community leaders to amplify their voice and empower them to create sustainable change in their communities.
• Leading efforts, consistent with Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’, to collaborate with accredited Medical Surplus Recovery Organizations to provide refurbished equipment and supplies to low resource countries, ensuring that donated equipment is in good working condition and consumable supplies are of good quality and not expired.

As a Private Wealth Advisor with Liberty Point Advisors, Patrick McGrory specializes in investment management, retirement planning, estate planning and charitable giving. Having been in the industry for over twenty years, he has been awarded the designation of Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor.

In addition to his work as an advisor, Patrick has played a significant role for over 25 years in his family’s foundation, the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities, where he currently serves as the Chairman. Patrick is a member of various councils for the Diocese of Camden, including the Bishop’s Finance Council where he currently serves as the Vice Chair as well as the Chair of the Catholic Schools Oversite Committee. His charitable work continues in his roles as a Board Member and Treasurer of the Foundation and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities and as a Board Member of The Saint John Vianney Center.

Patrick received his undergraduate degree from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, where he served as the Hawk mascot, and continues to be deeply involved with the university and its alumni activities. He received his Master of Science in Financial Services and is now a PhD Candidate in Financial and Retirement Planning at The American College in King of Prussia, PA.

Patrick was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware and now resides in Vineland, New Jersey with his wife, son and daughter.

Joanne Driels is Advisor to the Managing Director, Global Policy & Advocacy for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
She serves on the Europe, Middle East, and East Asia (EMEEA) team for the foundation, based in its London office. The EMEEA team seeks to increase engagement in the foundation’s global health and development priorities with governments and partners. Joanne has been with the foundation for 17 years, during half of which she was responsible for organizing and leading trips for the Co-chairs and CEO, while the more recent half has involved grant management for advocacy partners, external relations, and leading global events.  She also oversees the foundation’s engagement with the Vatican. Joanne received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Tim Welsh is Vice Chair, Consumer and Business Banking (CBB) at U.S. Bank–the fifth-largest bank in the country. In this role, he works with colleagues to achieve their collective purpose, which is to power the potential of consumers and businesses. Collectively the CBB group includes consumer products, branches, small businesses, mortgages, auto, and many elements of digital. CBB accounts for nearly half of U.S. Bank’s loans and deposits.

Previously, Tim was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, based in Minneapolis. In his nearly 27 years at McKinsey, he served clients throughout the financial services and consumer industries. In particular, he served some of the nation’s leading insurers, banks, investment firms, consumer packaged goods, retailers, and health care companies. Within McKinsey, he played several leadership roles. He was one of 30 elected Senior Partners who serve on the McKinsey’s Shareholders Council (i.e., the Firm’s Board of Directors), and led the global Learning and Development area. Tim served for six years on the global Senior Partner Committee that evaluates other Senior Partners. In addition, he served as a co-leader of McKinsey’s global strategy/corporate finance practice, co-leader of the North American Life Insurance and Wealth Management practice, leader of the Midwest Financial Services practice, and Managing Partner of the Minneapolis office.

Tim also cares passionately about helping the Minneapolis-St. Paul community thrive. He is one of the founders of the Itasca Project, which has received detailed coverage in the NY Times, McKinsey Quarterly and Tom Friedman’s book “Thank You for Being Late.” He serves on the Boards of many non-profit organizations in the community and nationally.

Rebecca Marmot is the Chief Sustainability Officer of Unilever.

She is responsible for driving through advocacy and partnerships, transformational change on priority areas of Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan: climate change and eliminating deforestation; sustainable agriculture & smallholder farmers; water, sanitation and hygiene; and opportunities for women.

Rebecca is a Non-Executive Director at WSUP – Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor.

Johannes serves as the Executive Director of Good Energies Foundation, based in Zug (Switzerland). The mission of Good Energies is to prevent and mitigate future poverty caused by climate change, supporting interventions in two areas: energy (access to clean, renewable energy) and forestry (halting tropical deforestation and increasing landscape restoration and reforestation). In prior incarnations, Johannes was the Managing Director of Porticus Latin America, based in São Paulo (Brazil); and Vice-President at the global investment banking, securities and investment management firm Bozano, Simonsen, based in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and New York (United States).

In addition, Johannes currently serves as a Board member of World Resources Institute Brazil, a research organization promoting environmental sustainability, economic opportunity, human health and well-being. WRI’s activities are focused on seven areas: food, forests, water, energy, cities, climate and ocean. He also serves on the Board of Instituto Arapyaú, a non-profit organization committed to supporting sustainable development and the construction of a low-carbon economy in Brazil. Moreover, he serves on the Advisory Board of SELCO Solar Light Pvt. Ltd., a for-profit social enterprise based in Bangalore. SELCO plays an instrumental role in improving living standards of poor households in India. He also serves on the Investor Collaborative of the Global Commons Alliance, a partnership of more than 50 global organizations in philanthropy, science, business and advocacy, with a mission to create the most powerful network to scale science-based action to protect people and planet.

Johannes studied moral theology, business ethics and development economics, with graduate studies at the PUC-Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and holding a Ph.D. from Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).

Sister Jane Wakahiu, LSOSF, Ph.D., is a member of the institute of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis, Kenya. Wakahiu oversees, the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Catholic Sisters Initiative and its Catholic Education Programs. Her responsibilities are to advance the vitality of congregations of women religious globally, enabling sisters to contribute more profoundly to sustainable human development, as well as to enhance the effectiveness of Catholic schools. She also contributes to the Foundation’s strategic planning.

Prior to joining Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, she was the Executive Director of the African Sisters Education Collaborative (ASEC) where she implemented the Collaborative’s many programs by working closely with conferences of major superiors, religious congregations and institutes, twenty-three partner colleges and universities in the United States and Africa, and major foundations. Wakahiu has extensively taught at the undergraduate and graduate level at Marywood University and has a breadth of teaching and administrative experience from leading a high school in Kenya and as a leader of women organizations. An accomplished author and editor, Wakahiu’s peer reviewed articles are published in national and international journals and a contributing writer for the Global Sisters Report.

Wakahiu earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya, a Master of Arts Degree from Saint Bonaventure University, Olean, New York, and Ph.D. in Human Development/Higher Education Administration from Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Mike Hoffman is the Chairman of Changing Our World, which he co-founded over two decades ago. Changing Our World was the first philanthropic services firm to provide fundraising, management and corporate social engagement strategy to nonprofits and corporations alike, and the first fundraising consultancy to become part of Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC). He is also the co-founder of Impact 360, a social impact technology company, and chairs its nonprofit division, SoulfulImpact.org. In addition, Mike is president and CEO of The Hoffman Brothers Foundation and is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mike and his wife Maggie have 3 children, Siobhan, Michael and Shannon.