Committees
Our committees ensure that we fulfill specific parts of our mission. They manage Member selection, evaluate and recommend causes and strategic opportunities, and more. Commitment in time and energy is extraordinary.
Gen Equity
Gen Equity represents the Gen Next approach to building relationships with and engaging candidates and elected officials. As engaged citizens, we want to build real relationships with elected officials interested in looking at the issues with fresh eyes and forward thinking.
We address one of the founding principles of Gen Next, which is that elected officials should actively seek the wealth of knowledge available to them through entrepreneurs and innovators. Too often, the solutions being proposed in government do not reflect the most impactful and innovative possibilities.
Gen Equity conjoins this thinking to identify and build substantive partnerships with political leaders based on forward-thinking and long term solutions to today's challenges.
- DJ Burke
- Brian Calle
- Sara Catalan
- Steve Economos
- Darren Henderson
- David Latona
- Dave Luzuriaga
- Patrick Maciariello
- Todd Rustman
- Jason Talley
- Yuri Vanetik
Venture Philanthropy
The Outreach Committee identifies and evaluates causes that fashion innovative perspectives and solutions to old or latent challenges and makes recommendations the National Board on requests that will ensure maximum impact and brand value. We look for causes that are scalable, systemic and focus on long-term outcomes. We harness our resources to help our allies in achieving the philanthropic goals that align with our core issue areas.
Membership
Gen Next is nothing without our Members, and Membership is not for everyone. But our Membership committee, comprised of Members from all regions, works to ensure that we only invite the highest quality and best matched individuals and then that the membership experience is informative, engaging, meaningful and fun.
- DJ Burke
- Sam Chapin
- Dan Gray
- David Heil
- Chad Horning
- Todd Marker
- Noah McMahon
- Vik Nemeth
- Quy Nguyen
- Jared Pobre
- Travis Trask
Marketing and Communications
We have something to say. Our Marketing and Communications Committee Members are creative geniuses when it comes to conceptualizing and executing new ways to share our message and foster a dialogue with our target public.
