DeAnna Poling is a financial services leader with over 20 years experience spanning from securities sales to credit relationship and team management. She is currently the Regional President at Shorebank Pacific, a unique bank with a mission to profitably assist businesses - and through them their communities - to be sustainable in economic, social, and environmental practices. DeAnna also served on the board of Habitat for Humanity from 1998 to 2008, where she focused on structuring and unifying Habitat's boards across King County.

Kwame Amoateng immigrated to the United States in 1995 after working as a correspondent and columnist for The Independent, a widely circulated Ghanaian newspaper. As a journalist, Kwame frequently traveled to some of the most destitute rural areas in Ghana and highlighted the socio-economic and health-related concerns facing residents in those communities. After meeting Lumana founders in 2010, Kwame actively took a role in local fundraising and community outreach for the organization. As a part of the board, Kwame continues to focus on expanding Lumana’s Seattle and Ghana-based networks. Kwame is an attorney with the U.S. Government.

For most of his career Dick was a Professor of International Business at the University of Washington, and was the founder of the university's Global Business Center. He has taught at MBA and executive development programs in Asia, Europe and Latin America. He holds degrees in engineering and business administration from Stanford and Harvard, and he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia from 1964 to 1967.

After retiring from the academic world, Dick worked from 2001 to 2010 as part of the Latin American Programs team at Global Partnerships, a Seattle-based non-profit organization that provides financing to microfinance institutions in Latin America. He worked with staff members in Latin America to select microfinance institutions for investment, based on their financial and social performance. He was involved in the creation of the first four microfinance investment funds created by Global Partnerships, and is now a member of the organization’s investment committee.

Dean Decrease is a naturalist who loves finding unexpected answers to business and community problems in the designs of nature, including human nature. Serving as Vice President at Weyerhaeuser Company until 2007, Dean has run a growing $300 million packaging business, built a global sustainability office, and has served as director of technology, customer service and product development. Dean participated in the "Group of '95" in London, which laid the foundation for the Forest Stewardship Council [FSC], and studied with The Natural Step in Sweden.

Co-founder of Friends of Seattle and Social Business Journal, Dean serves on advisory boards of Bainbridge Graduate Institute and The University of Washington Foster School of Business, and was a past-Chair of The World Affairs Council. He is engaged with BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), The Chefs Collaborative, and Slow Food.

Brett Horvath is a designer, an instigator, and an entrepreneur. He is a founding partner at Re-Vision Labs, a Seattle-based company that designs and implements online and offline community-building strategies for world-changing projects, products, and services. Brett is also the Director of Your Revolution, a non-profit that created innovative engagement strategies for young voters in 2008, and has helped more than a dozen community and national non-profits with their social media and organizing strategies. Brett is also the director of Komunikado, an organization that helps both for-profit and non-profit entities evolve by leveraging networked communication, advanced customer interaction, and social media.