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Jan 28, 2010

Stanford’s Deiglmeier, Utah State’s Torrens Join innovation@cfed as Strategic Advisors

Stanford’s Deiglmeier, Utah State’s Torrens Join innovation@cfed as Strategic Advisors

Washington. D.C. — innovation@cfed, an initiative of the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) to champion innovative ideas that expand economic opportunity for all Americans, announced the appointment of Kriss Deiglmeier and Michael Torrens as the initiative’s newest Strategic Advisors. Deiglmeier and Torrens join a distinguished group that serves as a sounding board for ideas and new directions, provides guidance and lends their highly sought-after expertise in social innovation. innovation@cfed was launched to unearth Innovative Ideas, nurture Innovators-in-Residence and convene leaders in innovation.

Kriss Deiglmeier is Executive Director for the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and brings over 20 years of management experience spanning the business, social enterprise, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, an innovation@cfed media partner. Prior to Stanford, Deiglmeier served as Chief Strategy and Financial Officer for Juma Ventures, San Francisco’s premier nonprofit dedicated to ending cycles of poverty by ensuring youth access to higher education. Deiglmeier has also co-authored several works, including Leading the Social Purpose Business: An Examination of Organizational Culture and Managing the Social Enterprise. Her most recent work, published in Fall 2008, is titled Rediscovering Social Innovation.

Michael Torrens is Director of Analysis, Assessment and Accreditation at Utah State University in Logan, UT. Prior to joining Utah State, Torrens was CFED’s Director of Development Finance and served as a key member of the innovation@cfed team. Earlier, Torrens served as the executive director of New Jersey Community Capital, New Jersey’s first state-wide Community Development Finance Institution. Torrens began his career in community development finance at EDCS in Harare, Zimbabwe. His international work includes two years assisting local development and peer lending programs throughout the Caribbean coast of Colombia, and program evaluation work in Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.

Strategic Advisors also include Deepak Bhargava, Angela Glover Blackwell, William J. (Bill) Bynum, Denise E. Cavanaugh, John Cleveland, Sara K. Gould, Luis Granados, Langdon Morris, Dana Pancrazi, Pete Plastrik, Geeta Rao Gupta, Doug Rosen, and Jennifer Tescher. To read more about our Strategic Advisors, please visit www.cfed.org/programs/innovation/strategic_advisors/.

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CFED expands economic opportunity by helping Americans start and grow businesses, go to college, own a home and save for their children’s and own economic futures. We identify promising ideas, test and refine them in communities to find out what works, craft policies and products to help good ideas reach scale, and develop partnerships to promote lasting change. We bring together community practice, public policy and private markets in new and effective ways to achieve greater economic impact.

Established in 1979 as the Corporation for Enterprise Development, CFED works nationally and internationally through its offices in Washington, DC; Durham, North Carolina; and San Francisco, California.