Scott Harrison, Founder / President
Harrison graduated from New York University in 1998 with a B.A. in Communications. After a 10-year foray into special event planning and promotions, he began a small upscale event planning and nightclub consultancy. His clients included MTV, VH1, ABC, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Xbox (Microsoft), Universal Records, RCA, Island Records, Dunkin Donuts, Bacardi USA, Nike, Anheuser-Busch and more. In August 2004, he left the event business to serve for a year as a volunteer photojournalist onboard the Mercy Ship Anastasis in impoverished Liberia, West Africa. In September 2005, returning home to NYC, he tested the idea behind charity: by producing a large exhibition of his photographs and videos called mercy. Despite opening in the midst of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Harrison’s mercy. show was a success. Visitors contributed more than $96,000 towards providing medical procedures and freshwater wells in West Africa. Harrison returned to West Africa for another 6 month journey in October 2005, before returning to Manhattan in the spring of 2006 to found charity:.

Gian-Carlo Ochoa Ph.D., Treasurer
Ochoa is a consultant for Andre Meyer Ventures (AMV) a venture capital group. Prior to working with Andre Meyer Ventures he was a senior healthcare analyst at P.S.D Capital Advisors and an analyst at S.A.C. Capital. He received a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Yale University, a MS in biochemistry from University California at San Francisco and his B.A. in Psychobiology from New York University. His scientific findings are published in a number of top healthcare journals including twice in the prestigious Science Magazine. He is also a board member of the Non-Profit Exchange a small New York based non-profit advisory group and is on the senior leadership team of his church Christian City Church Manhattan where he met his wife Grazia Sorice Ochoa.

Daniel J. Kinder
Kinder is a principal at Park Avenue Equity Partners, a New York based middle market leveraged buyout investment fund. He has been integrally involved in the running of Park Avenue Equity since 2002 and serves on the board of directors of each of the Fund’s control investments. His principal portfolio company responsibilities include Meyer Material, Impact Products and Liberty Tire Services. Kinder conducts all business on behalf of Park Avenue Equity with these companies, executed the investments, oversees the companies performance and undertakes all further acquisition activity relating to these companies. He sources new investment opportunities and executing investments in those opportunities in an ongoing basis. Prior to joining Park Avenue Equity, Kinder spent several years with Credit Suisse First Boston’s Financial Institutions Group (Investment Banking). He executed eight buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, one hostile defense, one private equity infusion and three public market debt transactions. Prior to joining Credit Suisse First Boston, Kinder worked on the 1996 Nicholson for US Senate (MI) campaign and the 1997 British general election campaign. Kinder received his BA, with Honors, from The School of Politics at the University of Liverpool in 1999.