025 Javier Saade| hosting the host

This is our 25th show and on this one, we flip the tables on Javier. Why is he doing this and what has he learned? Lori Sunn guest-hosts and asks him similar questions to the ones he asks guests of Top Of The Game. This episode is a few minutes longer than usual--> ‘Top of The Game (in) Overtime’ shows are released occasionally.

JAVIER'S BIO

Javier Saade is Founder & Managing Partner of Impact Master Holdings, Venture Partner at Fenway Summer, and Operating Partner at Presidio Investors. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of GP Funding, Inc. (a private equity-owned company), Member of the Board of Directors of two (NYSE: TWOA), Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, and CNBC Contributor.

Until recently he served as Audit Committee Chair of the Board of SoftBank Vision Fund Investment Corp. (NASDAQ: SVFA), Lead Independent Director of the Board of Porch Group, Inc.(NASDAQ: PRCH), and held leadership roles on the Boards of Trustees of Pan American Development Foundation and The Nature Conservancy. He also held seats on the Global Board of Advisors of Docusign, Inc. (NASDAQ: DOCU) and Board of Advisors of Univision Communications, Inc., and is on the Board of Harvard's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and is a Member Candidate of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Board Advisory Council.

In 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to serve as Associate Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and was the agency’s Chief of Investment and Innovation. He led programs that have invested over $120 billion in 300,000+ companies and technologies. Javier concurrently held a seat on the Committee for Small & Emerging Companies at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), subsequently served on the Presidential Transition Team focused on the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy & Negotiation at the White House.

Prior to public service, Javier spent 20 years in investing, operating and leadership roles at McKinsey & Company, Bridgewater Associates, Booz Allen & Hamilton (NYSE:BAH), GEM Group, Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) and Air America, a company he co-founded. He is a Founding Member of Fast Company’s Impact Council, Member of Aspen Institute’s Latinos & Society and served as mentor at Techstars, Kauffman Fellows and Stanford’s Latino Leadership Program, as Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Beeck Center, and as Executive in Residence at Columbia Technology Ventures. He frequently writes & speaks about the economy, technology, digital finance, venture capital, sustainability, entrepreneurship, innovation, governance, stewardship, leadership, economic policy and capital markets. Articles, interviews, media appearances, congressional testimony and some additional endeavors can be found here.

Javier holds an MBA from Harvard, MS in Operations & Technology from Illinois Institute of Technology and BS in Industrial Management from Purdue University.

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