Global Advisory Council
As an organization that is built on partnerships, mPedigree Network relishes its diverse and multi-talented Global Advisory Council. In an increasingly interdependent world, insight is frequently multi-disciplinary.
The Council is made up of men and women who support our cause for its creative use of social technologies, marketing and research to tackle what is probably the greatest systemic threat facing public health systems in the world today: the counterfeiting and illicit distribution of medicines across the developing world.
William A. Haseltine (Chairman of Global Advisory Council) has an active career in both science and business. He was a professor at Harvard Medical School from 1976-1993 where he was Founder and the Chair of two academic research departments.
He is well known for his pioneering work on cancer, HIV/AIDS and genomics. He has authored more than 200 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals and is the author of several books. He is the Founder of Human Genome Sciences, Inc and served as the Chairman and CEO of the Company until 2004. He is also the Founder of eight other successful biotechnology companies. He serves as an advisor to CMEA, a venture capital company, the reliance Innovation Council, India and to several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
William A. Haseltine is currently the President is of the Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts, a foundation that supports access to high quality health for the poor and middle class of developing countries, primarily India, the foundation also fosters a dialog between sciences and the arts.
He is the Chairman of Haseltine Global Health, LLC, a company dedicated to creating new and more efficient means to develop new life saving drugs and medical devices. He is an Adjunct Professor at The Scripps Institute for Medical Research and the Institute of Chemical Engineering the University of Mumbai, India He is also active in the field of renewable energy. He is Chairman of the Board of the Berkeley Center for Synthetic Biology.
Dr. Haseltine is active in public service. He is Co-Chair of the President’s Council of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Coalition on HIV/AIDS, a member of the Koch Institute Leadership Council, and he is a governor of the New York Academy of Science.
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brookings Institution, a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, and a member of the Chairman’s Circle of the Asia Society. He is a Founder of the American Freedom Campaign. He resides in Washington DC and New York City.
Roger S. Payne is the Founder and President of Ocean Alliance, dedicated to the conservation of whales and their ocean environment through research and education. He is best known for his discovery (with Scott McVay) that humpback whales sing songs, and for his theory that the sounds of fin and blue whales can be heard across oceans.
He has studied the behavior of whales since 1967 and has led over 100 expeditions to all oceans and studied every species of large whale in the wild. He pioneered many of the benign research techniques now used throughout the world to study free-swimming whales, and has trained many of the current leaders in whale research, both in America and abroad.
Payne publishes technical articles and writes for general audiences. He published the book “Among Whales” and three recordings, including “Songs of the Humpback Whale”, the best selling natural history recording ever released. Payne has lectured at most major universities in the U.S. and England, and has appeared on most major TV and radio talk shows.
He is a writer and presenter for television documentaries, and co-writer and co-director of the IMAX film “Whales”. Much of the material in this film is based on Payne’s research. His honors and awards include a knighthood in the Netherlands and a MacArthur Fellowship. His films have received seven awards, including two Emmy nominations and an Emmy for best interview.
Kojo Chinery-Hesse has been nicknamed the “Bill Gates of Africa”, an accolade he has earned by virtue of his close to two decades at the helm of Ghana’s, and possibly West Africa’s largest, indigenous, technology company.
The company, Softribe, now employs around 70 people and has a client base of more than 250 organisations, including major multinationals such as the Ford Foundation, Nestlé, and Unilever; it is also a Microsoft development partner in the region.
SOFTtribe has won a number of awards including the Millennium Excellence Awards for IT in 2005. The company has also been featured on BBC, CNN and the IEEE magazine in the USA, amongst others.
Mr. Kojo Chinery-Hesse is a manufacturing engineer by education but a software engineer by profession having graduated in industrial technology from Texas University, San Marcos. He holds a number of directorships and is an Assessor of the Commercial Court, Ghana. He has also won a number of personal awards including being the only African recipient of the “Distinguished Alumnus Award” from the Texas State Alumni Association and Texas State University-San Marcos, USA.
In addition to being Chairman of the Softribe, Mr. Chinery-Hesse is also the CEO of BSL, operators of the MX, carrier-agnostic, mobile-based payment platform designed to draw in poor, and/or rural, traders and producers in Africa into the global economy by bridging their cash-based commerce activities to the international electronic system using cell phones.
David Kirkpatrick is senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. Consistently rated one of the most influential tech journalists in the U.S., he has written cover stories on Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Sun, as well major features on blogging, open source software, 64-bit computing and numerous other topics.
His weekly column appears on Fortune.com, CNNMoney.com and by free email subscription.
He is also the organizer and moderator of the annual Brainstorm conference, co-hosted by Fortune and the Aspen Institute, which for the past five years has brought together a diverse group of global leaders from business and other fields to better understand the future.
After growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, as well as a year and a half in Nigeria, Kirkpatrick attended Amherst College. He also spent two years at art school in New York. His video art has been shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Alex Dodoo is a pharmacist, trained at the university of Kumasi (Ghana) and King’s College London (UK). He is currently acting Director of the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of Ghana Medical School. Early in his career, he worked with Roche as a senior research scientist, before returning to Ghana full time to work for the Medical School.
Dr Dodoo has a special interest in the issues of pharmacovigilence, and was previously the coordinator of the national centre for pharmacovigilence in Ghana.
Among his many international roles, he is a member of a number of Boards and advisory committees on the theme of pharmacovigilience, participating actively in the WHO advisory committee on the safety of medicinal products, the WHO expert panel on drug evaluation, an executive committee member of the International Society of Pharmacovigilence, as well as a member of the safety monitoring board for HIA/AIDS trials in Africa of the USA National Institutes of Health.
Dr Dodoo has also taken a keen interest in malaria, as part of the global consortium safety panel for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi).
Seeking to promote the role of pharmacists and good pharmacological practice in Ghana, Dr Dodoo is currently President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana and Co-Chair of the Medicines Transparency Alliance in Ghana.
Mark Anderson is the CEO of the Strategic News Service® (SNS), www.stratnews.com. SNS was the first subscription-based newsletter on the Internet, and is read by Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Mark Hurd, and industry leaders and investors in computing and communications worldwide.
Mark is the founding chair of the Future in Review® (FiRe) Conference, which the Economist has labeled “the best technology conference in the world,” as well as of SNS Project Inkwell, the first global consortium to address technology design changes for one-to-one computing in classrooms. He is the founder of two software companies, a hedge fund, and the Washington Technology Industry Association “Fast Pitch” investment forum, Washington’s premier technology investment conference.
Best known for his accurate forecasts of important technology market shifts, Mark was the first to predict the global liquidity collapse, or “credit crunch,” on TV on CNBC Europe and CNN World News, in February 2007, in London. He is also the original designer of the CarryAlongPC format, now called the Netbook, which is projected to be the best-selling computer of all time. He also correctly predicted Steve Jobs’ return to Apple.
Mark’s 10-year, publicly graded accuracy rate is over 90%. His Congressional testimony on revising U.S. broadband policy helped unlock the “River of Money” now fueling startups and media transitions in the U.S., and his well-known term “AORTA” (Always On RealTime Access) became the name of Europe’s first broadband network.
On the morning of 9.11, Mark was in a meeting with 30 senators. By October 2001, he had assembled an SNS “Project Intelligent Response” booklet and hand-delivered it to key members of the Senate and Administration in the face of the anthrax attacks, providing the first structured effort by the technology community to fight terrorism. His interest in theoretical physics led to a paper on Resonance Theory, submitted in 1979, which was the first to describe a version of String Theory as a Theory of Everything.
Mark is a member of the advisory boards for: Merrill Lynch TechBrains, CalIT2, OVP Venture Partners, and Crowd Trust. He is a contributing editor to The Industry Standard and was selected by Fortune as one of the “100 Smartest People We Know.” When Michael Dell resumed control of his company, he hired Mark to review Dell operations and prospects and to suggest future actions to the management team. Mark provided the same service for HP’s largest division when Mark Hurd became CEO.
Mark regularly appears on CNN-TV, CNBC, National Public Radio, and “Wall Street Review,” and in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He recently spoke throughout China as a guest of the U.S. Embassy. In Addition, Mark is the founder and chair of two nonprofit 501(c)3 corporations: the Foresight Foundation, dedicated to harnessing existing technology to create dramatic improvement in the human condition; and Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance, created to reduce resident killer-whale mortality rates in the Puget Sound.
Mark is a frequently sought speaker at corporate meetings and conferences around the world, and he provides top-level strategic reviews for management teams. Clients include the world’s top software, computer, and telecoms companies: Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Symantec, Nokia, T-Mobile, Warburg Pincus, and SVB Financial Group, among others.
Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur. A former professional futures and options trader and an aficionado of objectivist philosophy, Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, a wiki-based online encyclopedia derived from the open source model.
Wales is currently the director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that encompasses Wikipedia and its younger sister projects, such as Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikiquotes. He is also the Founder of Wikia, a for-profit software and internet business.
James Toole is President of Compass Institute and Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota in the School of Social Work and College of Education and Human Development. His professional passions include leadership development, organizational change, spirituality and service, global health, and service-learning. James has worked nationally in 45 states with schools, non-profits, foundations, correctional facilities, and state departments of education and has taught at every level from pre-school and kindergarten through graduate school. His main mentor is his four-year-old daughter Christiana who teaches him daily about joy, engagement, patience, and fun.
