WHO'S AT THE TABLE

Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso

CEO / Co-Founder

Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso is a Tony and Emmy Award winner with a long history in the entertainment industry. She is the Lead Producer of the Broadway-bound musical Beaches, based on Iris Rainer Dart’s best-selling novel, which became a blockbuster film with Bette Midler.

Jennifer’s Broadway producing credits include Spring Awakening (won Tony & Drama Desk Award), American Idiot (nominated for Tony & Drama Desk Award), Rock of Ages (Tony Award nomination), Legally Blonde (Drama Desk nomination). She also produced Broadway’s Superior Donuts, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life and the Off-Broadway hit, I Love You Because.

Jennifer was honored by the New York Musical Theatre Festival as one of three “Broadway producers under 40 making their mark on Broadway.” Jennifer received accolades for producing 110 Stories, a play featuring a star-studded cast (Samuel L. Jackson, Katie Holmes, Kathleen Turner, Cynthia Nixon and many others) to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Jennifer produced over 1,700 hours of television as the Coordinating Producer of As the World Turns. Jennifer’s producing team won the 2001 and 2003 Emmy Awards for Best Drama Series and they were nominated in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Jennifer produced and co-wrote the film See You in September directed by Tamara Tunie, starring Justin Kirk, Sandra Bernhard and Whoopi Goldberg.

Jennifer is directing and producing a documentary film, Class Dismissed 2020, which follows six resilient and remarkable 2020 high school seniors from the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown through their college journey.

Since her days at NYU, where she was the class Valedictorian, she has produced, written and directed theatre, film and television that touches worldwide audiences. Jennifer has a deep love and dedication to projects that enrich people of all ages.

Rachelle Fender

COO / Co-Founder

For the past decade, Rachelle Fender has worked as the Senior Strategic Partnership Manager with the Unstoppable Foundation, a humanitarian organization. In this position, she worked with high-net-worth individuals and business owners in raising seven-figure funding that aligned their philanthropic goals with the foundation’s programming.

As a professional speaker, Rachelle also raised additional six-figure funding for the foundation. Her tenure resulted in co-creating a direct impact for 1 million families in Kenya living in abject poverty with access to education and life-sustaining services. Additionally, Rachelle hosted donors on the ground in Africa, ensuring that girls and women’s stories were being told.

Before Rachelle’s non-profit experience, she helped non-fiction writers become best-selling authors through her work with a boutique marketing firm. She also successfully sold services and managed sales teams for NY Times and best-selling authors.

She held positions within the personal development industry, from Vice President of Sales and Acting Director of Operations to Business Development Partner and Sales Manager, managing multi-million-dollar budgets for best-selling author brands.

Rachelle has trained inside and outside sales representatives and companies at all levels of their business life, whether entrepreneurial start-ups or at a more mature stage in their growth. She coached, mentored, and led sales teams that have regularly exceeded revenue objectives and received recognition for consistently exceptional performance in the field of personal development. Her experience also includes supporting event productions, selling and contributing to brands through promotional marketing, branding, and co-creating intellectual property.

Rachelle is also highly experienced in business development and consultative sales. She has applied this knowledge and experience within the non-profit, corporate and small business communities. Rachelle has also served as a board member for Moving Forward Small Business.

TIM HOSLER

CFO

David “Tim” Hosler, a resident of St. Louis, MO, is a Financial and Capital Markets Consultant, acting as a Fractional CFO for emerging companies. Mr. Hosler is a forward thinking, intuitive professional with over 40 years experience creating value for organizations, primarily in service industries. Prior to his current activities, Mr. Hosler was the Chief Operating Officer of Stern Brothers & Co. Stern is a Woman-Owned boutique investment bank with concentration in the Public Finance Sector. Previously, Mr. Hosler was the President of GlobalStreams, a video over IP venture-backed start up, financially supported by two Venture Capital firms, Highland Capital Partners (Boston) and ComVentures (Palo Alto – no longer existing).

Much of his prior career has been as a principal officer with two FINRA licensed broker/dealers, both subsidiaries of Stifel Financial (SF-NYSE). Initially, with Stifel, Nicolaus, he was an investment banker in M&A before moving to management positions, first as Director of National Sales, and then as Director of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning, serving throughout on the firm’s Executive Committee. In his last few years at Stifel, he was President of Century Securities Associates, a start-up independent contractor brokerage firm that grew rapidly through broker recruitment.

Mr. Hosler has completed a number of consulting assignments, including as a Fractional CFO of SafeMed/Anvita, a healthcare informatics company that was sold to Humana and Fractional CFO of Interpreta, a healthcare informatics company sold to Centene.

He completed his undergraduate education at Hanover College, and earned his MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

WES HALL

Board of Directors Member

As the chairman and founder of WeShall Investments, a private equity firm with a diverse portfolio of companies predominantly supporting BIPOC entrepreneurs, Wes Hall comes from humble beginnings in rural Jamaica. He grew up in a plantation worker’s shack as one of several children supported by his grandmother. Despite these challenges, his grandmother instilled in him the value of hard work, ambition, and industriousness.

In 1985, Wes immigrated to Canada, where he set about to become the businessman you see today. Dressed daily in a suit, Wes started as a mail clerk at a leading law firm in Toronto. His curiosity, intelligence, and ability to spot opportunities allowed him to turn a $100K loan from the bank to start his first business, Kingsdale Advisors, into becoming Canada’s most preeminent shareholder advisory firm.

Wes’ expertise was invaluable on the complicated dispute between Toronto-based Goldcorp and Nevada-based Glamis Gold from 2004 to 2006, Xstrata PLC’s USD 18 billion takeover of Falconbridge in 2006, and the $19-billion merger between Suncor and Petro-Canada in 2009.

A staunch philanthropist, Wes is deeply committed to community upliftment. He founded the ambitious and highly successful BlackNorth Initiative to help end systemic anti-Black racism in Canada. He has instructed Black Entrepreneurship & Leadership at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, a first-of-its-kind course in North America. Wes is the vice-chair of the Board of Governors at Huron University College, a member of the Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce, and sits on the board of directors for SickKids Foundation and Pathways to Education Canada.

In 2024, Wes has been appointed as the 35th Chancellor of the University of Toronto. The same year, he was bestowed with the Knighthood of The Royal Order of Constantine the Great and Saint Helen for his outstanding contributions to business, philanthropy, and community development. The Globe and Mail also recognized him as one of Bay Street’s top 40 most influential figures of the past four decades and received the Nation Builder Award from the Empire Club. He was also honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce in 2021 and named the Canadian Business Leader of 2022 by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Wes has been granted 6 Honorary Doctorates from esteemed institutions of the University of West Indies, University of Ottawa, Toronto Metropolitan University, Queen’s University, University of Toronto, and York University. Wes received the Medal of Distinction from Huron University in 2022.

Wes’ other accomplishments include penning a bestselling memoir, “No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot,” a finalist for the 2023 National Business Book Awards. He launched a podcast in partnership with the Toronto Star, “Between Us with Wes Hall,” and is also a Dragon on the hit CBC series, “Dragons’ Den.” Wes is also an in-demand speaker invited to speak across Canada and a frequent guest on BNN Bloomberg.

Peter McCrea

Philanthropic Advisor

Peter McCrea is Founder and Chairman of SDG Global Investments, LLC. The company arranges loans of philanthropic capital for entrepreneurs with companies aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Peter also serves as President of American Impact Capital, which provides advisory services to philanthropists. Previously, he was President and Director of Cavendish Impact Foundation, with a mission to accelerate innovation in the health sciences, education, and global sustainability.

Peter was Senior Vice President of Development at the American Endowment Foundation, an independent donor-advised fund with $7.2 billion in assets and over 6,000 clients nationwide. He was also a Business Development Advisor for Foundation Source, which provides philanthropic services to over 2,000 foundations, with $14 billion in assets under administration. While at those organizations, Peter spoke with over 4,000 financial advisors, family offices and high net-worth individuals, and closed $528 million in philanthropic transactions.

Peter also was a member of the Board of Directors of the Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust, and Executive Vice President at the Institute for Nonprofit Excellence which designs Corporate Social Responsibility campaigns for Fortune 500 companies.

For twenty years, he was a Trustee of the Lemmon Foundation, founded by actor Jack Lemmon. For six years, he was a member and served as Chairman of the Livelihoods Council at Save the Children, which provides services to over two million women in the Developing World. Peter also provided pro bono advisory services to MIT Solve, TechSoup, and organizations that support women of color such as Black Women Talk Tech and Avant-Garde Network.

Originally from California, Peter was a founding member of the American Cinema Awards Foundation, honoring legendary performers such as Clint Eastwood, Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Cruise, and Elizabeth Taylor for the benefit of the Motion Picture and Television Fund. Working with the local Recreation and Parks District, he coordinated the donation of the Frances & Joel McCrea Ranch to the agency. The family’s ranch is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

After moving to the East Coast in 1995, Peter served as Director of Business Development at LHO Group for Leif H. Olsen, former Chief Economist of Citibank. Subsequently, he was a founding partner of 1031America, where he sold real estate securities to investors nationwide and taught continuing education courses to attorneys and CPAs in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Since 2009, he has been a business acquisitions advisor for the Hinduja Group, a $40 billion family-owned multinational corporation.

David Stillman

Advisor

David Stillman is not new to the generational conversation. For almost twenty years he has been called on by business executives, politicians and the media to share his expertise on how best to bridge generational gaps. David has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and the TODAY Show as well as NPR and in Fast Company, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.

His creative communications work have earned him numerous accolades including gold medals at the NY Film Festival, the much coveted CLIO Award, and most recently was named as one of 200 People to Watch by the Business Journal as well as one of the Power50. In addition to being an internationally acclaimed speaker on the generations, David is also the co-author of 3 best-selling books including When Generations Collide and The M-Factor: How the Millennial Generation Is Rocking the Workplace.

David’s latest book “Gen Z @ Work” published by HarperCollins describes the 7 key traits of Gen Z.