Nap Hosang, M.D. (President)

Nap is a founding member of the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD), now Impact Carbon. He is a faculty member at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, where is also on the steering committee of the campus-wide Center for Global Public Health, with a special interest in the management of maternal and child health outcomes in poor, rural communities. Dr. Hosang grew up in Jamaica and before coming to Berkeley was on the medical faculty at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Nap earned his medical degree in Jamaica, and his MPH and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a practicing obstetrician/gynecologist in Northern California (with Kaiser-Permanente).

Evan Haigler (Executive Director)

Evan leads the Impact Carbon team in developing carbon finance for projects in less-developed countries. He contributed to the Voluntary Gold Standard Methodology for Improved Cookstoves and Kitchen Regimes V.1, is the lead editor for Version 3, and worked as the lead project developer on the first Voluntary Gold Standard Cookstove Project. Evan’s research and publishing has focused on carbon methodology development and monitoring for improved stoves, and on assessing and valuing the associated social, health and environmental cobenefits.  He is Co-Chair of the Carbon Finance Working Group at the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, and in collaboration with Dr. Kirk Smith published “Cobenefits of Climate Mitigation and Health Protection in Energy Systems: Scoping Methods” in the Annual Review of Public Health. Evan holds an MS in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

JoAnn Dunaway (Secretary)

JoAnn Dunaway has an extensive background in management, management consulting, and development in a variety of industries including information systems, financial services, and manufacturing. Areas of expertise include strategic institutional partnerships, cross-cultural management, business development within emerging economies, coordinating complex fund-raising initiatives, and management of professionals. She holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Charron (Treasurer)

David Charron is Executive Director of the Berkeley Innovative Leader Development initiative andInterim Executive Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas Schoolof Business at UC Berkeley where he lectures on entrepreneurship. He has been working in the fieldentrepreneurship and innovation since 1987 having held positions involved with technologycommercialization with Xerox PARC, MIT and Stanford University. In 1995, he co-founded ScientificLearning Corporation, a publicly-traded neuroscience company based on innovations from UCSF. He hasalso started two other companies and advises inventors and entrepreneurs in the creation of new ventures.Mr. Charron has also worked with Technology Ventures Corporation, a non-profit organization thatfacilitates the commercialization of technologies emerging from the US national lab system. As part ofthe Lester Center, he runs the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a non-profit incubator that hassuccessfully spawned multiple companies from UC Berkeley. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Haas School.

Arno Hesse

Arno is the co-creator of Bernal Bucks, a local money pilot highlighting the economic livelihood of the Bernal Heights neighborhood in San Francisco. The initiative provides bonuses for residents who buy local, lowers transaction fees for businesses, and also helps fund community projects. Arno is also the Founder and Execution Strategist of ActEdge, where he formulates and executes marketing strategies and works on market entries, re-positioning, segmentation, launches, organic growth and mergers. His clients inclue Wells Fargo, Texas Instruments and Siemens. Previously, Arno worked as Executive Vice President of Retail Marketing and Segment Management for Union Bank. Arno holds an MBA from the Haas School.

Stephan Maxwell

Stephan Maxwell, M.D. was born in Kingston, Jamaica and has a BSc and a medical degree from the University of the West Indies.  He serves as director of the Pediatrix Medical Group, Neonatal intensive Care at Women and Children’s Hospital in Charleston, WV and also as clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at West Virginia University School of Medicine.