Justin Allen has worked in several startups including a medical device company, marketing agency, and is co-founder of an online magazine and an early stage event production company that is planning the first large scale light festival in the United States. He is interested in social enterprise and believes mission driven business practices are essential to starting and growing a sustainable business in the age of transparency.

Scott Burkholder

Scott came to Baltimore, MD in 1998 to attend Johns Hopkins University. He graduated in 2002 with a double degree in Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.

For a short time following graduation, he pursued a career in medicine/basic science doing small cell lung cancer research in the Oncology Department of Johns Hopkins under Dr. D. Neal Watkins.  During school and his tenure in the lab, he began showing symptoms of his entrepreneurial proclivities when he started a high-end residential paint company.

In 2004 his entrepreneurship bug was confirmed when he went full time into his contracting venture. In 2008 he was invited by Baltimore mural artist, Michael Owen, to oversee the business side of the Baltimore Love Project, the largest self-initiated public art project Baltimore has ever seen.

The combination of art and entrepreneurship has captured Scott's attention. He believes art is powerful with its ability to show the world as it is, and more importantly, as it can be. He promotes art full time in Baltimore and is working to create a Social Venture Capital Firm that serves Baltimore's creative community.

David Crouch, Jr.

David Crouch, Jr. MBA, MSITS, PMP, ITIL ExpertÂ

David Crouch graduated from The Johns Hopkins University School of Professional Studies in Business and Education in 2005 with an MBA (nonprofit management). In 2007, David earned the MSITS degree (competitive intelligence) from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Prior to graduate studies, David completed BA degrees in Russian and International Relations at Goucher College. Additionally, David is a certified project management professional and has earned ITIL expert certification.

David currently works at The Johns Hopkins University in the Information Technology Department as a member of the leadership team for the IT Solutions Center. At work, David serves as the chairman of the Employee Engagement Committee and as chair of the Strategy committee of the Johns Hopkins University Diversity Leadership Council. Since 2008, he has been teaching nonprofit management and organizational development as an adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore and University of Maryland. Outside of work, David serves as chair of the Networking and Career Services committee of the Dean's Alumni Advisory Board for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, president of the Baltimore Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, president of Learning is for Tomorrow, Inc. (an adult literacy program in Southeast Baltimore), and president of the Southeast Community Organization, Inc. David serves on the board of CristataCares, Inc. and board advisor to Allsonet Training Institute, a nonprofit that provides computer training skills. He is founder of Crouch Consulting of Baltimore, a boutique firm that specializes in nonprofit management. His hobbies include fiction writing, tennis, and Russian literature.

Sarah Hemminger

Sarah Hemminger co-founded the Incentive Mentoring Program with her husband Ryan Hemminger in 2004. She has ten years of experience in nonprofit management and expertise in the development, expansion, and replication of innovative, paradigm-shifting models of mentoring.

Sarah has a deep understanding of the challenges that face students in successfully completing high school and accessing higher education, as well as the potential for students and volunteers to change not only their own lives but also create a positive and lasting impact on those around them. Sarah was awarded fellowships from Ashoka, Echoing Green Foundation, Open Society Institute, and Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program, which support social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas. In 2010,

Sarah received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University for her work on the role of the cerebellum and the primary motor cortex on the time scales of consolidation of motor memory. She received the prestigious Siebel Scholars Award for outstanding work in the field of technology and engineering. Her research was published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, and Cerebral Cortex and she has lectured internationally on her work.

She received her undergraduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 2002 and prior to pursuing her PhD, she worked as an engineer for Medtronic XOMED. Sarah enjoys ice skating and teaching aerobics.

Olga Maltseva works with the men and women behind Baltimore's most innovative and impactful nonprofit organizations and start-ups, helping lead staff and Board members solve problems and grow. She is a graduate of Goucher College and the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School.

Meghan D. McGinty is a second year doctoral student in Health and Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Meghan has worked at all levels of government in environmental and public health practice. After earning her Master of Public Health and Master of Business Administration degrees from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg and Carey Schools, respectively in 2008, Meghan worked at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. As the Agency’s Director of Continuity of Operations Planning, she was responsible for efforts to sustain essential public health services in the event of any disaster. Simultaneously, Meghan oversaw the staffing of the Agency’s H1N1 citywide vaccination campaign. Meghan is currently a trainee on Occupational Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Training Program. Her research and practice interests include effective decision-making, risk sciences, and public policy, as well as improving the integration between academia and public health practice. Meghan is actively involved in graduate-level education serving as the teaching assistant for both in-person and distance courses at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as a guest lecturer in courses at the Carey Business School. Most recently, Meghan taught  Leadership Case Studies in Public Health, a course at the Johns Hopkins Fall Institute in Barcelona, Spain.

Mr. Proto has been an entrepreneur and executive serving the non-profit community for 20 years.  He is a thought leader for social enterprises in utilizing technology that delivers real business and community impact.  He specializes in startup and team building operations with a focus on the success of individuals. 

Bob is co-founder of System Source, a Hunt Valley based computer services firm. He has recently begun teaching programming to middle school students at the Kipp charter school in Baltimore. Bob serves on various non-profit and foundation boards.

David West is CommVault's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development since April 2011. Previously he also served as VP of Marketing and Business Development and VP of Business Development. Prior to joining CommVault, David held numerous positions at Legato Systems, Inc. and Intelliguard Software, Inc.; both were subsequently acquired by EMC Corporation. David obtained his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University