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.

Sylvia Keita

Sylvia Has a B.A. in Political Science from Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia and a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law.  She has a certificate in Mediation & Negotiation from Harvard School of Law.  For the past 20 years, she has maintained a legal civil practice, engaging primarily in mediation, legal analysis, client representation and preparation, document and contract review,  negotiations, drafting of agreements, with court appearances/litigation. She is fluent in French and English and understands Spanish and Russian. Born in France she also lived in the Republic of Guinea, the Soviet Union, and the United States.

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.

Kirk Smith, MPH, Ph.D.

Kirk is Professor of Global Environmental Health in the School of Public Health and director of the cross-campus Global Health and Environment Program at UC Berkeley.  Previously, Dr. Smith was founder and head of the Energy Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu. He is also Visiting Professor at the Post-Graduate Institute of medical Research in Chandigarh, India and holds an Honorary Professorship at Sichuan University. He sits on a number of journal editorial boards and has published seven books and more than 220 scientific articles. For this work, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1997 and awarded the Heinz Prize in Environment in 2009. He has worked in developing countries on energy/environment/health issues since 1978 and has extensive experience related to energy, air pollution monitoring, co-benefits of energy projects for health and climate protection, health effects of indoor and outdoor pollution, and risk assessment, mostly focusing on household energies. He earned his MPH and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.