Kevin Jones is one of the founders of Good Capital, a new merchant bank in the capital market for good.

He is also working with a team to create an open source online market formation platform to connect the dots in areas including microfinance, social enterprise, fair trade, low income housing and independent media at http://www.xigi.net. Xigi will consist of a group written blog, a database and taxonomy and geospatial and social network mapping, along with research, reporting and analysis.

Kevin is the U.S. coordinator for the Anglican Malaria Project. http://www.anglicanmalariaproject.org One of his most recent projects is described here: http://www.annotatedneighborhood.com/blogs/kevin/2005/05/making-peace.html#comments.

A serial entrepreneur, Kevin helped his wife, Rosa Lee, an Episcopal priest, create the successful Via Media social enterprise. The Via Media videos have been sold to more 900 churches nationwide. The values conference they are helped lead at the National Cathedrals is described here: Http://www.everyvoice.net/values. A co-founder of the technology startup Microcast Communications (http://www.microcast.biz he was the CEO of Net Market Makers, an $18 million (revenues) online community, research and events company he sold to Jupiter Media Metrix in early Spring of 2000.

He first got involved with mapping complex, multidimensional issues in doing projects with Broadview, then an independent a mergers and acquisitions firm, as he researched the landscape prior to selling Net Market Makers.

He has been a columnist for Forbes, wrote frequently for the New York Times and was a columnist for and on the advisory board of Business 2.0 during the dot.com era. He has been active in social enterprise and has been on the boards of the National Gathering of Social Entrepreneurs and Social Venture Partners International.

He and his wife started or bought and sold seven successful businesses including a business journal, trade journals and weekly newspapers and a trade show. He started the first web-based legislative and regulatory monitoring service in the U.S, which was profitable from its launch in the fall of 1994.

For three years he hosted a weekly business TV show on an NBC affiliate and had a radio new program syndicated on more than 35 stations. He has two children, Bradley, who recently complete a BA in sustainable construction, and B.J. who is helping lead Hampshire House, a vegan activist coop in San Francisco's Mission District as well as working on creating an ecovillage. Bradley is married to Nada Jones and B.J. is partnered with Aaron Maret. Bradley and Nada are the parents of Logan D. Jones, born January 1, 2005 http://flickr.com/groups/73919575@N00/

 With several post consumer young people in the San Francisco area, he is co-owner of a truck that runs on both biodiesel and vegetable oil. He is a member of a leadership training class run by the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy http://www.ecoleader.org .

Kevin@CollectiveIntelligence.net or 415.515.0426

About Mark Beam

As a co-founder of Collective Intelligence, Mark focuses on mapping complex ecosystems and problems in order to illuminate gaps and overlaps and to discover core patterns and inflection points where the flow of information and distribution of resources can be optimized.

Trained as a lawyer and investment banker, he quickly gravitated toward trading and the management of billion dollar securities portfolios on Wall Street. Initially attracted by the chaos of information streaming from stock tickers, news screens and the collision of humanity on trading floors, he began developing pattern recognition skills, often using charts and maps to navigate the chaotic stream of information. He later turned his attention directly toward the use of technology in human systems and took a leading role in promoting the value of interdisciplinary collaboration in their construction.

In combining his experience with the great technological, strategic and entrepreneurial skills of his partners, Mark seeks to build a “collective intelligence” that can help solve some of man’s greatest challenges.

Mark received a Bachelors Degree in Business, a JD and MBA from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. From 1983 to 1994, Mark was a financial securities executive, investment banker and portfolio manager for three of the largest banks in the world, working in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. His top institutional investment clients included Morgan Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Putnam Investments, Bill Gates Investments, Pacific Management Investment Company (PIMCO), Western Asset Management Company (WAMCO), Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance among others.

He founded beaming, llc. in 1995, a new media venture consulting firm in San Francisco, working with a diverse range of organizations including technology and communications companies, foundations, universities and cultural institutions. beaming also produced "New Minds” in 1997-98, a widely acclaimed lecture and performance series in San Francisco that focused on the social and cultural impact of new media.

With space scientist Roger Malina, Mark co-founded Creative Disturbance in 1999, a global research & development network dedicated to advances in human-computer interface. He works closely with artists who are fluent in the use of technology some of whom he represents through artbeam, an art dealer and producer. He is a contributing writer for SMAC a San Francisco MOMA art zine and the MIT Press published Leonardo Journal, where he sits as a member of the international advisory board.

He is an invited lecturer at universities, conferences, think tanks, governments and corporations. Currently he is an advisor and project member of the African Malaria Project that seeks to eradicate malaria in our lifetime, and is a consultant to the Canadian Heritage Information Network where he is literally mapping the landscape of Digital Culture in Canada and internationally.

Mark and his wife Lauren live in Oaxaca, Mexico with their two sons Weston and Prentiss Sky.

infinite@beaming.com

About Gary A. Bolles

Gary A. Bolles (gary@gbolles.com) is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. As a partner in Collective Intelligence, Bolles is responsible for helping to articulate the strategic vision of CI and its projects, devising technology solutions, coordinating project operations, and assisting with partner development and fund-raising.

Bolles is the former Chief Operating Officer of Evolve Software, Inc., helping to launch the company that pioneered the Professional Services Automation field, and was the VP of Marketing for Network Products Corporation, an early network communications vendor. He has served as an advisor to numerous hi-tech startups, including serving as a member of the Board for privacy software vendor MEconomy. He is the author of a recent article on startup management strategy for the Balanced Scorecard Newsletter for Harvard Business Press, and is the co-founder of Conferenza (www.conferenza.com), the premier newsletter for hi-tech events, which regularly informs readers about early-stage companies.

Bolles is a frequent speaker on the strategic uses of technology, and has recently moderated more than a hundred roundtables and conferences around North America for numerous hi-tech clients, on topics such as security, standardization & consolidation, grid computing, software development, and business continuity. He is the author of hundreds of articles and columns on subjects such as technology strategy, online marketing, and startup management. He has also consulted with a variety of corporations on a range of strategic business and technology issues for clients as diverse as Silicon Valley Bank and McKinsey.

Bolles also has an extensive background in the successful launches of award-winning publications, with more than a dozen years’ experience in print, online, and broadcast. He was the founding editor-in-chief or editorial director Interactive Week,Yahoo! Internet Life, and was the editor-in-chief of Network Computing magazine. For one year, he was the host of “Working the Web” for TechTV, and most recently was a contributing editor to CIO Insight magazine.

Bolles is also the co-founder of Microcast Communications (www.microcast.biz), a new marketing services firm that helps hi-tech companies build closer relationships with their customers through strategic events and online content.

gary@gbolles.com or 415.440.4602