PBLN 4th Annual Massachusetts CEO Summit on Business Leadership and Public Policy Inventing of a More Sustainable, Competitive Economy: The Products, Practices and Public Policy of Urgent Innovation October 8, 2010 | Bentley University, Waltham, MA

Speakers
Charlie Baker, Republican Candidate for Governor*
Martha Bebinger, Journalist, WBUR Radio and WBUR.org
David Belluck, Managing Director, Riverside Partners
Mark Benjamin, CEO Galenea*
Greg Bialecki, Massachusetts Secretary of Housing & Economic Development
Barry Bluestone, Dean, Northeastern School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy
Ian Bowles, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy & Environmental Affairs
Tina Brooks, Undersecretary, Economic Development, Massachusetts
Jeff Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
Massachusetts Treasurer Tim Cahill, Independent Candidate for Governor
Jon Carson, CEO cMarket/BiddingforGood
Donna Cupelo, Regional President, Verizon*
Thomas D Dretler, President & CEO, Eduventures & PBLN President
Edward Dugger III, President & CEO, UNC Partners*
Valerie Fleishman, Executive Director, New England Healthcare Institute
Roger Freeman, Managing Director, Solventerra
Tim Healy, CEO EnerNoc
Winston Henderson, SVP/General Counsel, Surface Logix,
Diane Hessan, CEO Communispace
Gary Hirshberg, CEO, Stonyfield Farm
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard Business School
Trish Karter, former CEO Dancing Deer Baking Co.
Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe Innovation Economy Journalist
Gloria Larson, Bentley University President & PBLN Board Member
Geoff Mackay, CEO, Organogenesis
George Matouk, CEO Matouk and Co.
Jeffrey Mullan, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation
David Morales, Massachusetts Commissioner of Healthcare Finance and Public Policy
Michael Muldowney, CFO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Democratic Candidate for Governor
Marcy Reed, Senior Vice President, National Grid, Inc.*
Mari Ryan, CEO Advancing Wellness
Paul Sagan, CEO Akamai Technologies
Andrea Silbert, President, Eos Foundation
Raj Sisodia, Bentley University Professor of Marketing & Chairman, Conscious Capitalism Institute
Marie St. Fleur, Chief of Advocacy & Strategic Investment, Office of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino*
Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow Party Candidate for Governor*
David Szymanski, Assistant Professor of Natural & Applied Science, Bentley University
Andrew H. Tarsy, PBLN Executive Director
MA State Rep. Marty Walz, Co-Chair, MA Joint Education Committee*

* invited

Member Spotlight

Diane Hessan, President & CEO - Communispace
According to Advertising Age Communispace is one of the fastest growing marketing and technology companies in the country, with a Blue Chip client list that would make a Madison Avenue giant jealous. A pioneer in creating online communities to help marketers deeply engage customers, Diane helped found Communispace in 1999 and hasn't looked back.