Brandolon Barnett is an innovator, author, and entrepreneur, helping to build and lead products, initiatives, and partnerships that bring together tech and social impact to move resources to people who need them. His book, Dreams Deferred: Recession, Struggle, and the Quest for a Better World (https://amzn.to/3t0x1xD), chronicles his struggles through personal loss and hopelessness to build a career in social impact. He is currently the Founder of The Regular and Head of Innovation and Philanthropy for Giving Compass. He also serves on the board of Spur Local and World Learning. Prior to this Brandolon was Chief Product Officer for Humanitas.ai and Chief Product Officer for Y Combinator backed Deed. He also led Corporate Social Responsibility Industry Solutions within Salesforce.org Philanthropy Cloud and worked as Director of Product Management with Salesforce where he helped to build and design numerous solutions and partnerships for impact including Philanthropy Cloud, Work.com Wellbeing, and was a principal product design partner to a major Salesforce customer in design of the Shop Circulate platform supporting entrepreneurs of color. As an entrepreneur and investor Brandolon is Founder of DemocratizeVentures, a project supporting entrepreneurs of color in DC & New York through mentorship, product advice, & angel investments. He's also co-Founder of goARTful (goARTful.com) and The Regular tech startups. Brandolon is a Pragmatic Institute Certified Product Manager and graduate of the Black Venture Institute out of UC Berkeley. He holds an MA in International Studies with a specialization in International Economics from the University of London SOAS. Previous roles also include NGO and foundation work managing programs in the realm of environmental sustainability, cultural heritage, and economic development in major US markets and on the ground in 5 countries. He also worked as a Senior Director within Global Impact where he led the Growfund startup over its first two years. Previous to this he worked as manager of philanthropic research & internal CSR with FrontStream/TRUiST and as a researcher with the Council on Foundations. Brandolon has been invited to speak and Keynote at multiple venues including the 2014 Conference for Sustainable Heritage Management in Rome, the 2016 conference of the Association for Corporate Contributions Professionals, Blackbaud BBCon, Dreamforce, SOCAP, the Council on Foundations Conference, SXSW, & the Association of Fundraising Professionals.