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Steve Kaufer cofounded TripAdvisor in 2000 with the mission to help travelers around the world plan and book the perfect trip. Under his leadership, TripAdvisor has grown into the largest travel site in the world. As CEO, Kaufer has led the growth of TripAdvisor, Inc., which includes 24 other travel media brands that operate in 48 markets worldwide. Prior to cofounding TripAdvisor, he was president of CDS, Inc., an independent software vendor, and prior to that, was cofounder and vice president of engineering of CenterLine Software. Kaufer holds several software patents and has won a number of awards for his entrepreneurship and leadership in the travel industry, including being inducted into the 2015 British Travel and Hospitality Hall of Fame and receiving the 2015 Pioneer Award by the International Society of Hospitality Consultants and 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Nancy McFadden has served as executive secretary for Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. since 2011—the title in law for the chief of staff position. Throughout her career, McFadden has served as a key legal, political, and policy official at both the federal and state levels, as well as in the private sector. McFadden was a senior vice president for Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation. A high-ranking member of the Clinton Administration for eight years, McFadden served as deputy chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore, general counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation, and deputy associate attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Bob Dunn, previous president and CEO of BSR, has served in leadership positions in the private, public, and independent sectors, most recently as president and CEO of the Synergos Institute. Dunn has also worked as a corporate vice president at Levi Strauss & Co., a senior aide to U.S. President Carter in the White House, an advisor to the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, and as chief of staff and budget director for a Wisconsin governor. He has been a lecturer in the M.B.A. program at Stanford University and a dean and lecturer in political science at Wesleyan University and is currently a guest lecturer in the Master's program at Glasgow Calidonian University. He is also an executive coach and mentor for executives, social entrepreneurs, and philanthropists.

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Former Vice President Al Gore is a co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. He is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple, Inc.’s board of directors. Gore is also chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit organization devoted to solving the climate crisis. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and he served eight years. He is the author of the best-sellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and, most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and a new film premiering in July 2017, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Gore is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”