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Jon Batiste

American Singer, Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist, Bandleader, Composer, and Television Personality

Jon Batiste is one of history’s most brilliant, prolific, and accomplished musicians.

Batiste studied and received both a B.A. and M.F.A. at the world-renowned Juilliard School in New York City. From 2015 until 2022, Batiste served as the bandleader and musical director of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. Most recently, Jon was awarded a Sports Emmy in the category of “Outstanding Open/Tease” for his 2022 NCAA March Madness piece. In 2018, he received a Grammy nomination for Best American Roots, and in 2020, he received two Grammy nods for the albums: CHRONOLOGY OF A DREAM: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD and MEDITATIONS (with Cory Wong).

In 2020, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the Disney/Pixar film SOUL, an honor he shared with fellow composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Jon’s work on SOUL also earned him a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a NAACP Image Award and a Critic’s Choice Award. He is the second black composer in history, after legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock, to win an Academy Award for composition.

Batiste’s album, WE ARE, was released in March 2021 to overwhelming critical acclaim. Subsequently, he was nominated for eleven GRAMMYs across seven different categories, a first in GRAMMY history. He went on to win five of those GRAMMYs, including Album of the Year. The Matthew Heineman-directed Netflix documentary ‘American Symphony’ - released in partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company - chronicles this meteoric rise in Batiste’s career, all while composing a symphony for Carnegie Hall as his wife, bestselling writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment. Batiste also performs the powerful song from the film, “It Never Went Away,” which he co-wrote with Grammy winner Dan Wilson.

Batiste’s latest studio album, World Music Radio, draws inspiration from his mission to create community and expand culture with the power of music. His most ambitious work yet, World Music Radio sees Batiste break down the musical barriers of “genre” and collaborate with global superstars Lana Del Rey, Lil Wayne, NewJeans and more. Following its release, Batiste was nominated for another six GRAMMYs, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year (“Worship”), and Song of the Year (“Butterfly”). He is currently on his first-ever tour of North America.

Diana Ross

Grammy Award Winning Singer and Academy Award Nominated Actress

“Singing is my beautiful delicious obsession” - Diana Ross

Diana Ross defines an icon. A national treasure with a magnificent legacy that has changed the course of music history and popular culture. Ms. Ross is a creator of life, an alchemist of an unprecedented career that has made her the most successful recording artist and entertainer of all time.

In 2021, Diana Ross did it again, bringing the world together with the release of a new Grammy nominated album titled Thank You. “This collection of songs is my gift to you with appreciation and love. I am eternally grateful that I had the opportunity to record this glorious music at this time. As I walk my path, you are in front of me, we are one. These songs are from my heart and it brings me such joy to share them from me to you. I would like to thank everyone who participated in the making of these recordings and those that inspired me to create ‘Beautiful Love’ memories.”

Ms. Ross co-wrote, produced and masterfully curated the album with songs of collective sprite and togetherness.

Ms. Ross headlined the world’s biggest music festival, Glastonbury in 2022 drawing a crowd that becoming the most viewed performance ever at the festival and set the record for the largest TV audience in the history of the music event with over 3.1 million viewers in the UK.

Her dream began as a young girl in the North End section of Detroit. In a city where she would help to create a national cultural movement and become the premiere artist at the renown Motown Records. Her extraordinary journey from the leader of The Supremes to her solo career has inspired and empowered countless musicians, artists, celebrities, and young dreamers.

The Diana Ross magic has touched music, fashion, stage, film, and TV. Ms. Ross’ international achievements were acknowledged by the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in Washington D.C. (2007). The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences bestowed its highest honor, The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2012.

Her portrayal of Billie Holiday in the classic film Lady Sings the Blues produced an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Starring as an aspiring designer in the 1975 romantic comedy Mahogany, the role was a perfect opportunity to personally sketch and design all the fashion in the timeless film.

As a stage actress, she won Broadway’s top honor with a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross. The same show was later broadcast as an award-winning network television special.

In 2017, the American Music Awards presented Ms. Ross with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1993, she earned a Guinness World Record for her success in the United States and United Kingdom by having more hits than any other female artist on the charts with a career total of over 75 hit singles.

Additional career milestones include: Induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Songwriters Hall of Fame, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Hero Award, NAACP Entertainer Award, Billboard’s Female Entertainer of the Century Award, and The Soul Train Legend Award. Ms. Ross is also one of the few celebrities to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Her voice, described as “honey” and “angelic,” has produced 14 Top ten albums, 18 #1 songs and over 100 million streams, downloads and sales around the world.

In what has been described as one of the greatest live concert performances, Diana Ross drew a crowd of over 800,000 people to New York’s Central Park on July 21 & 22, 1983. Soon after the show began on July 21, pouring rain and heavy wind threatened to put an end to the show, but she pushed on for much of the set, urging the drenched crowd to remain calm and stay with her. Eventually the storm put an end to the performance, but not before she promised her fans that she would return the next day. True to her word, she performed the entire concert again on July 22nd for the people of New York City.

Always in pursuit of new levels of excellence and becoming the best of the best, no one has done it better than Diana Ross.

“As you hear my voice, you hear my heart. ‘Let Love Lead the Way.’ I am so happy to have music as a part of my life. For the many moments of traveling and singing songs to you and loving you, these new songs came from all our years together. I am so, so grateful. Thank You for all the blessings in my life that you have given me. I have always felt your beautiful love. Thank you to my children and all my family. Thank you to all those that have made this incredible journey possible.” – Diana Ross

Jim Gray

American Sportscaster, Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, Reporter and Executive Producer

Jim Gray is a sportscaster for Fox, Sirius XM, and Amazon Prime Video. He has been a network television and national cable sportscaster since 1983. His career highlights include live TV or radio broadcasts of 10 Olympic Games, 28 NFL Super Bowls, 9 World Series, 24 NBA Finals, 25 NCAA Final Fours, and has covered 39 Masters golf tournaments, and hundreds of championship boxing matches. Gray has reported on thousands of games and events in his career and has hosted a number of high-profile prime-time specials. He has won numerous awards, including 12 national Emmys for journalism and reporting. He has been named by USA Today as "Sports Reporter of the Year" 12 times and is the host of "Let's Go!" radio show and podcast. The podcast has gone to number one on the charts. Gray has conducted thousands of interviews, including the last 10 Presidents of the United States. He has also had interview sessions with South African President Nelson Mandela, Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev, and the first man on the moon Neil Armstrong, and the last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan. He has been inducted into 5 hall of fames including the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Class of 2018, and with the Class of 2020, was honored by The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Gray is married to wife Frann.

Jim Yong Kim, M.D., PhD

Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners

Jim Yong Kim (@JimYongKim), M.D., PhD, is Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners, a fund that invests in infrastructure projects across several sectors around the world.

From July 2012 to February 2019, Kim served as the 12th President of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed that position, the organization established two goals to guide its work: to end extreme poverty by 2030; and to boost shared prosperity, focusing on the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries.

During Kim’s tenure, the World Bank Group supported the development priorities of countries at levels never seen outside of a financial crisis. Along with partners, the World Bank achieved two successive, record replenishments of the International Development Association (IDA), the institution’s fund for the poorest countries, which has enabled the Bank to greatly increase its work in areas suffering from fragility, conflict, and violence.

In 2018, the World Bank Group’s shareholders approved a historic capital increase for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), which offers sovereign loans to middle-income countries, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Bank Group’s private sector arm. The capital increase will allow the Bank Group to help countries reach their development goals while responding to crises such as climate change, pandemics, fragility, and underinvestment in human capital around the world.

The World Bank Group also launched several innovative financial instruments, including facilities to address infrastructure needs, prevent pandemics, and help the millions of people forcibly displaced from their homes by climate shocks, conflict, and violence. The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) made its first cash grant in 2018 to support frontline Ebola response efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of January 2019, the Bank Group is working with the United Nations and leading technology companies to implement the Famine Action Mechanism, which uses technology such as artificial intelligence to detect warning signs earlier and prevent famines before they begin.

A physician and anthropologist, Kim’s career has revolved around health, education, and improving the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable. He was born in South Korea to parents who had fled the violence of the Korean War and grew up in Iowa, where his father was a practicing dentist and his mother was a philosopher and theologian. Kim graduated from Brown University, then became one of the first students to study jointly for a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in anthropology at Harvard University.

While at Harvard, Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a non-profit medical organization that provides healthcare to poor communities on four continents. With Partners In Health, Kim developed treatment programs for complex, deadly diseases such as multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis and AIDS in the poorest areas of Haiti, Peru, and several other countries. From 2003 to 2005, Kim served as Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. He led WHO’s “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which greatly expanded access to antiretroviral medication in developing countries.

Following his service at WHO, Kim was Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health. In 2009, he was named the 17th President of Dartmouth College, where he served until he was nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the World Bank Group. Kim was the first leader of the Bank Group who did not come from the financial or political sectors and the first who had personal experience tackling development issues in poor countries.

Kim holds a B.A. from Brown University, and an M.D. and PhD in medical anthropology from Harvard University. He received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, was recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” byU.S. News & World Report, and was named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Egon Durban

Managing Partner and Co-CEOof Silver Lake

Egon Durban joined Silver Lake in 1999 as a founding principal and is a Managing Partner and Co-CEO. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Endeavor Group Holdings. He also serves on the board of directors of portfolio companies City Football Group, Dell Technologies, G42, Qualtrics, Unity Software, Verily, and Waymo, as well as on the board of Motorola Solutions. Previously, he served on the board of MultiPlan, Pivotal Software, SecureWorks, Twitter, UFC, VMware, and Skype, where he was Chairman of the operating committee, and served on the supervisory board and operating committee of NXP. Egon currently serves on the Business Council and Business Roundtable. Prior to Silver Lake, he worked in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division. Egon graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S.B.A. in Finance.

Earvin "Magic" Johnson

2X NBA Hall of Famer,
Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

Having left the basketball court for the boardroom, Earvin “Magic” Johnson has successfully parlayed his skills and tenacity from the court into the business world as Chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE). MJE provides high-quality products and services that focus primarily on ethnically diverse and underserved urban communities.

With a commanding presence in popular culture, Johnson recently made history in 2023 when he became co-owner of the National Football League’s Washington Commanders. He also co-owns MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Club, and eSports franchise Team Liquid. He continues to support community initiatives and expand his influence through many of his businesses including EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, SodexoMAGIC, a food service and facilities management company, and JLC Infrastructure, that invests in billion-dollar infrastructure improvements across the United States.

With his unique positioning as a businessman spanning multiple industries and generations, he aims to help companies expand and foster a positive impact domestically and globally.

Nick Tzitzon

Chief Strategy and Corporate Affairs Officer, ServiceNow

Nick Tzitzon has been a leader at the highest levels of global business and government for more than two decades. He is currently Chief Strategy and Corporate Affairs Officer of ServiceNow. As group leader, he oversees ServiceNow’s strategy, corporate business development, innovation, marketing, communications functions as well as the Office of the CEO. Nick’s personal passions are promoting a culture of respect, destigmatizing mental health at work, and unlocking new channels of communication between stakeholders.

Before joining ServiceNow, he served in executive roles for business software market leader SAP SE, Europe’s most valuable technology company with 100,000 employees and 440,000 customers worldwide. Most recently as Executive Vice President, he was a member of the company’s Global Leadership Team and senior counsel to CEO Bill McDermott.

Before joining SAP, Nick was a management consultant in the areas of strategy, transformation and public affairs. He has advised businesses in the healthcare, energy and public services industries. He spent ten years serving in local, state and federal government agencies, including the programs division of the U.S. Department of Justice, a $3 billion agency focused on public safety, research and juvenile justice. He served on the staffs of two Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson and Michael O. Leavitt. HHS is the largest U.S. civilian agency, overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, the Centers for Disease Control and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Before moving to Washington, D.C., Nick served on the staffs of former Massachusetts Governors Mitt Romney and Paul Cellucci. An honors graduate of Suffolk University in Boston, Nick was a United States Senate Youth Scholar. He is active in a variety of causes, including the Alzheimer’s Association and the We Are Family Foundation. He is a below-average tennis player and an above-average food lover. He claims to have a good sense of humor, but there is little evidence from others to validate this credential.

Jean-Yves Fillion

Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, BNP Paribas USA

Jean-Yves Fillion is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas USA. He serves as executive sponsor to many of the bank’s strategic US clients and represents BNP Paribas to the US official sector, US trade organizations and the media.

Mr. Fillion has been with BNP Paribas for four decades, 3 of which he has spent in the United States between Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. In addition to his role on the Board of BNPP USA, he is also a Director and member of the Executive Committee of the French American Foundation and the International Advisory Board of Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), his alma mater. In line with the Bank’s worldwide commitment to tennis, Mr. Fillion is a member of the Board of Governors for the International Tennis Hall of Fame and CityParks Foundation. A former member of the French National Sailing Team, he is an active member of the New York Yacht Club and American Yacht Club. Mr Fillion is a Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honour.

Since joining the bank in 1984, Mr. Fillion has served the bank in a succession of executive positions. Previous to his current role, he served as CEO BNP Paribas USA and Chairman of CIB Americas, CEO of CIB Americas, COO of BNP Paribas Fortis and Co-Head of BNP Paribas’ CIB European Platform. Previous to those roles, he spent the bulk of his career in the US as Head of Client Coverage in North America, Head of Structured Finance Americas, Head of Acquisition Finance and Head of Media & Telecom Finance.

Mr. Fillion received a Master’s degree from Dauphine University and his MBA from HEC in Paris. He also studied at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University in Chicago.

David Letterman

Comedian & Television Host

David Letterman was the longest-running late-night broadcaster in American history with over 33 years on late-night television. As a writer, performer, and producer, Letterman is one of the most-nominated individuals in Emmy Award^® history, with 52 nominations, resulting in 10 wins. Letterman is also a two-time Peabody-Award winner and a Kennedy Center Honoree. Letterman produced the Disney+ docu-special, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman (2023). Letterman can currently be seen hosting My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, a five-time Emmy-nominated interview show streaming on Netflix, featuring guests including former President Barack Obama, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Tina Fey, Jay-Z, Malala, Melinda Gates and Billie Eilish.

Bill McDermott

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ServiceNow

Bill McDermott is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ServiceNow – the company with the fastest organic growth in the history of enterprise software. Since Bill joined in late 2019, ServiceNow has more than doubled full-year revenues, while landing for the first time on the Fortune 500 list.

Before ServiceNow, he was CEO of SAP, the largest European software company. During his tenure, SAP's market value increased from $39 billion to $163 billion. Author of the National Bestseller, Winners Dream, Bill is known for his relentless focus on customer relationships. He is one of the most admired leaders in business, with a successful career spanning iconic brands such as Xerox, Gartner, and Siebel Systems. Currently, Bill serves on the boards of directors of Zoom and Fisker Inc.

Having led through multiple phases of AI innovation, Bill has inspired ServiceNow to embed intelligence across every workflow, while partnering with industry visionaries to accelerate their path towards digital business. Under his leadership, ServiceNow has become the intelligent platform for end-to-end digital transformation – connecting people, process, data, and devices into one platform, with one architecture, and one data model.

Bill also united all 21,000+ ServiceNow employees under one aspiration: to become the Defining Enterprise Software Company of the 21st century. The company’s hungry and humble culture has been recognized on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For, Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work lists.

Idris Elba

Award-Winning Actor, Producer, Director, and Musician

Idris Elba is an award-winning actor, producer, director, and musician continually securing his place as one of the most versatile performers in Hollywood. In 2016, he became the first male actor to receive dual SAG awards in one evening - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and Outstanding Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries.

Most recently, Idris could be seen starring as Knuckles in the KNUCKLES animated television series, which was released in April 2024 by Paramount + and set the record as the most watched Paramount + original series of all time. In Summer 2023, Elba starred in the hit Apple TV+ thriller HIJACK where he also served as executive producer. HIJACK is currently in production for Season 2. Next up, Idris will be seen in Amazon’s action-comedy HEADS OF STATE where he will star opposite John Cena and Priyanka Chopra. He will also be seen starring in the survival thriller ABOVE THE BELOW, which he also directed with Martin Owen.

Elba’s career skyrocketed on the small screen in some of the U.K.’s top-rated shows. Soon after, Elba landed the role of Stringer Bell in HBO’s critically acclaimed series THE WIRE which garnered an NAACP Image Award nomination. In 2010, Elba landed the title role on the BBC mini-series LUTHER, earning him a Golden Globe Award, SAG Award, and four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. The series returned in 2019 for its fifth season.

In 2005, Elba began his film career with the Golden Globe-nominated projects AMERICAN GANGSTER, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, and BEASTS OF NO NATION which also received a SAG Award. He also starred in THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US, AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON and AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, and the Oscar^®-nominated film MOLLY’S GAME. Elba has also loaned his voice in such projects as THE JUNGLE BOOK, FINDING DORY, ZOOTOPIA, which grossed over $600 million worldwide and the Oscar winning short THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE. In 2019, he starred opposite Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in the hit action film FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW. Other credits include Netflix’s CONCRETE COWBOY, Warner Bros.’ THE SUICIDE SQUAD where he starred opposite Margot Robbie and John Cena, Netflix’s THE HARDER THEY FALL opposite Regina King, the George Miller directed THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING opposite Tilda Swinton, Universal's thriller BEAST and starring opposite Cynthia Erivo and Andy Serkis in the feature film installment of LUTHER: THE FALLEN SUN.

In 2024, Elba launched 22Summers, a full service production company. Its first project out the gate was the four-part docuseries Erased: WWII Heroes of Color for National Geographic.

In 2018, Elba was named People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. In July of the same year, Elba launched his record label, 7Wallace Music.

Larry Bird

Former Professional Basketball Player, Coach, and Executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA)

Larry is one of the very few athletes who turned away the riches of the NBA and completed his senior year at Indiana State University out of loyalty to his college teammates and to fulfill a promise he had made to his grandmother to earn and receive a college degree.

However, once Larry did arrive in Boston, his enormous impact was immediately felt by all. Every home game that Larry played in was a sell-out throughout his career and in his rookie year he sparked the Celtics to a 32 wins improvement from the previous season, the greatest one-season turnaround in league history at that point.  Larry has, by far, one of the most impressive resumes in professional basketball and sports annals: Rookie of the Year in 79-80; Twelve All-Star Game selections (including MVP once); Ten All-NBA Teams; Three All-Defensive Teams; Three Regular Season MVP’s (only other two NBA players to do this in the history of the sport were Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain); and two playoff MVP’s. He was the primary component in the Boston Celtics’ NBA World Championship titles in 1981, 1984, and 1986.

Larry received the highest honor possible in his profession when he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on October 2, 1998 and he also received the very special honor of being enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for a second time on August 15, 2010 as Co-Captain of the 1992 Gold Medal winning US Olympic Basketball Team (The Dream Team).

In the Spring of 1997, Larry accepted the position of Head Coach of the Indiana Pacers Basketball Club and he successfully utilized his leadership qualities and many areas of expertise once again to lead the Pacers to their best regular season record in the history of the NBA franchise and pushing the world champion Chicago Bulls to their most difficult 7 game series in the 1997 Eastern Conference Finals, once again, demonstrating his champion instincts and performing at a high level on television, radio and print media outlets. He earned not only the NBA Eastern Conference All-Star Team Coach honors, but also the NBA’s highest coaching honor, the NBA Coach of the Year in his Rookie season as the Pacers’ Head Coach.

On July 11, 2003, the Indiana Pacers and Larry Bird joined forces once again with the goal to bring a Championship to the franchise, when the Pacers named Larry Bird as their President of Basketball Operations. The Indiana Pacers earned the best winning regular season record in the NBA in Larry’s first year in his new position, and he and the Pacers continue in their quest for a Championship. Larry presented a three year rebuilding plan to the team owner and promised his owner, the Indiana Pacers fans and the whole State of Indiana that he would get the Indiana Pacers back into the playoffs in the third season of his rebuilding efforts, drafting many fine young players with great potential in doing so.  And, sure enough, in the third season of his efforts, the Indiana Pacers made it back into the playoffs, going on to reach the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals where they challenged the reigning NBA Champions Miami Heat to a final seventh game, much to the great joy and excitement of all of the basketball fans in Indiana, while earning Larry the 2012 NBA Executive of the Year Award.

In 2017, Larry stepped away from his Indiana Pacers’ President role to become a Special Consultant to the Pacers which encompasses scouting and working closely with his successor as President of the Pacers, Kevin Pritchard. The Larry Bird Museum opened in May of 2024 in the Terre Haute, Indiana Convention Center.

In 2022, the NBA honored Larry’s contributions by creating the Larry Bird Eastern Conference Finals MVP Trophy Award.

Andre Agassi

Former World #1 Tennis Player, Philanthropist and Entrepreneur

After turning pro at the age of 16, tennis prodigy Andre Agassi rose to international fame, earning 60 men’s singles titles, including eight Grand Slam singles championships, over a 20-year career. A former World No. 1 player, Agassi is the only male player ever to win all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal. He was also a member of three winning Davis Cup teams (1990, 1992 and 1995). On July 9, 2011, Andre was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame for the Class of 2011.

While his tennis career took him all over the world, Agassi always stayed connected to his hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1994, at the age of 24, he created the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education. Early activities included building a shelter in Las Vegas for abused and neglected children, creating the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club, and developing Team Agassi, a tennis program that nurtures professional players and puts college within reach.

For over 25 years, the Foundation has honed its mission to focus on transforming public education. In 2001, the Foundation opened the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a tuition free K -12 public charter school, in historical West Las Vegas with approximately 1,200 students. Recognized as a model charter school, Agassi Prep graduated its first senior class in June 2009 with a 100 percent college acceptance rate.

After successfully graduating 9 senior classes, Agassi Prep made the decision to turn over operations to Democracy Prep, a high achieving charter management organization with 17 high performing charter schools in the nation. Agassi Prep is now referred to as Democracy Prep at the Agassi Campus.

Since the inception of the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, $185 million dollars has been raised to benefit the mission of the Foundation, including $118 million from the Grand Slam for Children fundraising event. The Grand Slam for Children served as the Foundation’s primary fundraising vehicle and brought together international stars to raise awareness and money.

After retiring in 2006, Andre Agassi increased his focus on his foundation and on promoting education reform. He is also building a lifestyle business through endorsement relationships, joint venture investments and real estate development. In November 2009, he released his autobiography Open, which reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and continues to hit record sales internationally.

In June 2011, as part of an effort to expand his impact on education, Andre partnered with Turner Impact Capital on an innovative new real estate fund – the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund – to promote the success and growth of best-in-class charter schools in urban communities across the United States. As of 2022, the fund has opened 120 schools, serving over 100,000 students in some of the most economically challenged neighborhoods in America.

Most recently, Andre launched Square Panda, an award-winning educational technology learning system utilizing phonics with multi-sensory play. Designed for kids two and older, the playset blends physical and digital learning as it keeps kids entertained through age-appropriate learning games grounded in research-based curriculum. Early readers play their way to reading fluency as they engage with physical smart letters that connect them to a library of learning games. Square Panda’s mission is to give children the tools to become fluent, confident readers, and empower them to love reading.

He is married to tennis superstar, philanthropist and businesswoman Stefanie Graf. The family resides in Las Vegas.

Stefanie Graf

Tennis Superstar, Philanthropist and Businesswoman

Tennis champion Stefanie Graf, winner of 22 Grand Slam singles titles, remains the only player to win Wimbledon, the French Open, the US Open and the Australian Open at least four times.

In a career spanning 17 years, Graf won 107 singles titles and is the first—and still only— woman player to achieve the "Golden Slam" by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same year.

Graf was ranked No. 1 for a WTA-record 377 weeks, the longest of any player, male or female, since rankings began

With the same purposeful strength she brought to professional tennis, Stefanie turned her attention to aid suffering children. In 1998, she founded Children for Tomorrow, a charity focused on providing psychological help for children and families who have suffered the trauma of war, violence, abuse, exile or loss of the family. She established the organization in conjunction with Outpatient Clinic for Refugee Children and their Families at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf.

The special outpatient unit for children's psychiatry and psychotherapy treats refugee children from all over the world and their families. The majority of patients are from Afghanistan, southern Europe and West-African countries. In 2016, 543 children have received psychiatry and psychotherapy treatment. In addition to the current international projects in Uganda and Eritrea, the new Hamburg headquarters opened in April 2011. The Hamburg location is the foundation headquarters and will be an Outpatient Clinic for Regugee Children as well as a training center for therapists and crisis area workers.

At the beginning of 2017, in order to reach more of the younger refugee children, the foundation started a psychosocial project for the therapeutic care of refugee children in primary schools in Hamburg. Not only do the children receive art, music, exercise and play therapy in groups and individual settings, but the teachers also receive special support. At the beginning, the project was expected to reach 60 children in groups and 25 children in individual therapy. The goal is to extend this service to other primary schools in Hamburg.

In 1999, Graf retired from the women's professional tennis tour. She considers herself fortunate to be able to balance her family time with her foundation and working with her numerous, long-standing partners.

She is married to former tennis superstar Andre Agassi. The couple resides in Las Vegas with their children, Jaden Gil and Jaz Elle.

Sara Eisen

“Squawk on the Street” & “Money Movers” Co-Anchor

Sara Eisen is co-anchor of the 10AM hour of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” (M-F, 9AM-11AM ET) and co-anchor of “Money Movers” (M-F, 11AM-12PM ET), which both broadcast from Post 9 at the New York Stock Exchange. She is known for her deep expertise in financial markets and the global economy as well as regular news making interviews with some of the most prominent names in the financial world, including Phil Knight, Janet Yellen and Christine Lagarde, among others.

Previously, Eisen anchored CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” “Squawk on the Street,” “Power Lunch” and “Worldwide Exchange.” She also reported on the one-hour documentary, “Inside Track: The Business of Formula 1,” that explores the world’s most prestigious racing series, what is fueling its popularity and who is profiting. Eisen joined CNBC in December 2013 as a correspondent, focusing on the global consumer.

Prior to CNBC, Eisen was co-anchor of “Bloomberg Surveillance” as well as a correspondent for Bloomberg Television, where she covered global macroeconomics, policy and business. During that time, she covered the European debt crisis, the tsunami aftermath and Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan. Eisen also hosted the Bloomberg Radio program, “On the Economy.”

She is the editor of “Currencies After the Crash: The Uncertain Future of the Global Paper-Based Currency System” published by McGraw-Hill in Jan. 2013.

Eisen holds a master’s degree in broadcast journalism with a concentration in business reporting from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.