CBI Team
Peter Matthies, founder of the Conscious Business Institute, is an investor, business advisor and leadership coach. He is the author of 3 books and more than 100 articles on technology, investing and Conscious Business practices.
Prior to founding his own investment and leadership advisory business, Peter was a Principal at Apax Partners & Co., one of the world’s largest Venture Capital and Private Equity firms with more than US$ 20 billion under management. He also served as Investment Manager at b-business partners, a US$ 800 million technology venture capital firm backed by blue chip corporate investors (Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson, ABB, Astra Zeneca etc.).
Peter has worked in the IT and financial market for 16 years and started his career at Andersen Consulting in Germany. He co-founded a systems integration and IT-consulting company. After selling his share, Peter worked as an IT analyst and US-correspondent in California. He founded an accelerator in Silicon Valley, focusing on financing and growing German and American IT start-up businesses.
Tom Schulz worked for the Boston Consulting Group's High-Tech practice in Munich and San Francisco before he became an entrepreneur. In 1993 he founded Bay NetWorld to provide Internet e-commerce solutions to the local real estate market in the Silicon Valley.
In 1995, he co-founded Germany's first publicly traded Internet Service Provider, Cybernet AG (NASDAQ: ZNET), for which he successfully built the technical infrastructure and overall corporate marketing organization.
Since 1998 Tom serves on the advisory board of Earlybird Venture
Capital, Hamburg/Munich/Palo Alto. Tom invests as an angel investor in
Internet start-ups. Tom holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science from
the University of Karlsruhe and an MBA from Stanford University.
Gregory Mattie specialized in both international and domestic sales, marketing and manufacturing for the past 25 years. Greg provides extensive experience successfully penetrating new geographic regions and product markets, creating critical product recognition and building brands on a global basis. Having lived and worked worldwide in such places as Australia, Japan, Singapore Malaysia, England and France, Greg has had hands on experience in all aspects of new business development and has successfully helped numerous corporations achieve true global presence.
Greg worked with royalty, heads of state, business and government leaders, who have all benefited from Greg’s strict adherence to sound business ethics and confidentiality as well as his expertise.
Greg is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and received his post graduate training at the International Marketing Institute. He has also received significant corporate education in manufacturing, engineering and sales training.
Gary Tomchuk was the Executive in Charge of Production for Ethical Markets TV Show - Gary is a pioneer in the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) market, bringing together 22 years of experience in marketing, business development, technology and management.
Gary served as Director of CSRwire, a corporate social responsibility newswire service. Gary has helped launch several companies in the industry, and has served in interim executive roles including CEO, COO and VP.
Gary won two PC Magazine's Editors Choice Awards. His efforts contributed to the growth of Syncro Corp., to #173 on the Inc. 500. He has organized, produced, and promoted major health events, and worked with many notable leaders.
Gary graduated from Villanova University with a degree in Electrical Engineering, where he was a member of the 1978 NCAA Champion Indoor Track team.
Mariana Bozesan, author of the Diet for a New Life book and program, is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist. Mariana is co-founder and president of Sageera Institute LLC, a Silicon Valley based social conscious and philanthropy-driven electronic publishing company.
Mariana worked for Oracle Corporation as Director of Business Development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Based at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, Mariana also served as Global Alliance Marketing Director on the Hewlett-Packard account, developing and implementing Oracle's worldwide sales and marketing strategy for HP. Mariana also worked for Digital Equipment Corporation preceding its merger with Compaq.
Mariana holds a MS degree in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, a BS degree in Computer Science and Mathematics and a BA degree in European History from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
Mariana is a member of the Founders Counsel of The Chopra Foundation, an advisory board member of The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV) and the President and Founder of The Bozesan Foundation, a private philanthropic organization contributing to the education and transformation of young people worldwide but especially in former Eastern European countries.
Dr. Charly Kleissner is a philanthropic entrepreneur utilizing his high technology background in his venture philanthropy. He is co-founder of the KL Felicitas Foundation and the Social-Impact initiative, and serves on the Advisory Board of multiple not-for-profit companies like Acumen Fund, Global Social Benefit Incubator, Alliance for a New Humanity, and Global Philanthropy Forum.
Charly has over twenty years of experience as a senior technology executive in Silicon Valley. He held executive and senior engineering management positions at Ariba Inc., RightPoint, NeXT Software Inc., Digital Equipment Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Company. Charly serves on the Advisory Board of multiple for-profit start-up companies like Papilia and Rearden Commerce Inc.
Charly is now focusing on braking down the barrier between the for-profit sector and the not-for-profit sector by creating social enterprises as hybrid business structures, insisting that both vehicles can be effective for achieving social change. To that end, he has co-founded ‘Flowing Currents’, a for-profit entity in Sri Lanka as well as ‘Aspira’, a not-for-profit entity in Sri Lanka, both focused on providing biomass and other renewable energy solutions to the rural population.
Charly earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in distributed databases from the University of Technology, Vienna. He authored two software patents and published numerous articles. In 2004, Charly received the ‘Distinguished Alumnus’ award from the University of Technology, Vienna.
Beata C. Lewis is an Executive Coach and Change Consultant. Beata provides focused, pragmatic guidance to facilitate intentional transformation. Beata works with highly accomplished individuals and teams to achieve new levels of mastery for effective and wise leadership that promotes sustained, creative and energized collaboration.
Her coaching, consulting and seminar clients include High-Tech & Bio-Tech Companies, Boards of Directors, Individual Entrepreneurs, Professional Services Providers, Non-Profit & Arts Organizations, Educational Institutions, Municipalities, Federal and State Agencies. Some of her clients include leaders in organizations such as: Bayer Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, Cisco Systems, Aerovance, Entelos, Sandia National Laboratories, NSF, Kaiser Permanente, Calvert Foundation, Monitor Consulting, CalSTRS, Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Management Communication Program) and the Women’s Technology Cluster.
Beata is certified as a Master Somatic Coach™ by and is an Associate with the Strozzi Institute in Petaluma, CA. Beata is also an Associate of Executive Skillworks, a leadership development firm located in the Washington DC area.
Beata draws on cross-cultural experience, having lived and worked in several countries and being multi-lingual (native fluency in German and Swiss-German). She also draws from experience as a visual artist, musician, dancer, instructor of Hatha yoga and alpine skiing, and as a practitioner of healing arts (e.g. Reiki, Somatic Bodywork™, etc.). Beata graduated from Pomona College with a B.A., cum laude, in International Relations and earned her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
Dan Mapes is an inventor, an artist and an entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of new media content and technologies. His background includes designing image-rich rock tours with Peter Gabriel, creating the first music composing software for the Macintosh, producing The First Summit in Cyberspace between Nelson Mandela and Shimon Peres using advanced internet videoconferencing technology, designing a nationwide e-learning system for the Saudi Arabian school system, performing on the Tonight Show with his visual music ensemble
Dan is a co-founder, board member and co-patent holder of Deep Light Displays, a Los Angeles technology company currently producing computer monitors and televisions that deliver 3D content without the need for wearing special eyewear.
Prior to forming Deep Light, Dan was founder and CEO of ECity Studios, a Los Angeles 3D content and technology company specializing in animation and digital characters for film, television and computer games.
He was also the founder of Ditto.com, one of the first visual search engines (still in operation), co-creator of Music Publisher Software, the first music composition program on the Macintosh.
Dan has also been an advisor and consultant to various UN agencies including the General Assembly, UNDP, UNEP and UNESCO, and to the governments of China, Australia, England, Saudi Arabia and Brazil on technology development and implementation.
Dan studied Systems Design in the PhD program at University of California at Berkeley, has an M.B.A. from the American Graduate School of International Management, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Cincinnati.
Tim Murphy is the CEO of Alchemy Films International, a founding member of The Wisdom Circle Constituency (advisor to the Alliance for a New Humanity), advisor to the Conscious Capital Fund, managing partner of Integral Development, Strategy and Training, LLC, and consultant to executives and organizations building next paradigm social and business architectures.
Tim has worked as a fiber optics engineering and data communications instructor for Cisco Systems, Inc., New York University, and Global Knowledge, Inc., teaching data systems architects worldwide how to design and operate light communication systems.
He was President of Daat-Net.Net, Inc., a technology-consulting firm based in New York City, and Vice President of Ingress.Net, Inc., the first Internet Service Provider nationally to commercialize virtual web-hosting server technology.
Tim is co-author of Collective Intelligence; The Invisible Revolution. Tim received a BE. in Marine Engineering from Maritime College.
Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, LLC and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series - Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. Her editorials appear in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald (China), LeMonde Diplomatique (France) and Australian Financial Review. Her books are translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese, and Chinese.
Since becoming a TV producer, Hazel has stepped down from her many board memberships, including Worldwatch Institute (1975-2001), Calvert Social Investment Fund (1982-2005), and other associations, including the Social Investment Forum and the Social Venture Network. She remains on the International Council of the Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Hazel remains a Patron of the New Economics Foundation (London, UK) and a Fellow of the World Business Academy.
In addition, she has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara), held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley), and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980. She holds Honorary Dr. of Science degrees from the University of San Francisco, Soka University (Tokyo) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts (USA). She is an active member of the National Press Club (Washington DC), the World Future Society (USA), a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and a member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. Henderson has many awards and is listed in Who’s Who, USA 2005, Who’s Who in the World 2005, and Who’s Who in Business and Finance 2005. She shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina.
Bill Sechrest is a founder of Winstead Sechrest & Minick, a Texas based law firm of approximately 300 attorneys. Bill graduated from Stanford University in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and from Southern Methodist University Law School in 1967 with a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree.
Bill has close to 40 years of experience practicing law, counseling clients and serving as a legal and business consultant in a wide range of disciplines including corporate, banking and real estate concerns. Bill also founded Winco, Inc., the predecessor to Winstead Consulting, and in that role has advised financial institutions concerning a broad range of financial issues. Bill is a member of the Texas Bar Association, the Dallas Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He has served on the board of directors of Esalen Institute, The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, the Unity Church of Dallas and is a past chairman of The Real Estate Council (Dallas), The Real Estate Council Foundation and The First Tee Dallas. He is currently a member of the board of directors of The Men's Warehouse and the Ojai Community Bank, and for the latter he is a co-founder. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the World Business Academy.
Bill is an author of a number of books and articles including "Beneath Words", a book of photographs and poetry having as its focus the Monterey Peninsula and Big Sur. Throughout his business career, Bill has presented papers and been engaged in social concerns involving both law and economic issues.