Munira Nomanbhoy is the visionary founder of the International College of American Nursing (ICAN). A SriLankan native residing in the United States of America for the past 29 years, it has been her dream for many years to empower the women of her country and give them the opportunity to better themselves. She has successfully created and run several small companies in different fields in the past.

Shabbir Nomanbhoy is an American citizen educated at MIT (BS), Stanford (MS) and UC Berkeley (MBA). He was one of the founders of Dyna Care Home Health, Inc., and its CEO for the past 20 years. Dyna Care’s primary business was providing nursing care at home. The company was recently sold to Amedysis, a publicly-traded, multi-billion dollar corporation. Shabbir’s vision is to help young women enter a field with a decent wage, while lessening the immense and growing global nursing shortage.

Theresa has been a nurse for over 30 years in varied settings including homecare where she worked with Shabbir's earlier venture as Director of Quality Assurance, hospitals, clinics, psychiatric nursing, pain management and teaching at BSN and advanced levels. Theresa is passionate about best practices for adult learning.

Sarrah is a junior at Stanford, studying International Relations. Sarrah worked at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford and serves as Co-President of the Future Social Innovators Network (FUSION). Sarrah interned with Professor Muhammad Yunus, father of microfinance, at the Grameen Bank, Bangladesh. Passionate about women’s empowerment, Sarrah co-chaired the 2009 Stanford Women’s Leadership Conference. She was the recipient of the 2009 Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Award.

Born and raised in Sri Lanka, Indu Premakumar graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Bio-mechanical engineering and a passion to make a difference through the field of affordable medical devices for undeserved communities. She is currently completing her Masters in Mechanical Engineering and is very excited to be a part of the ICAN team.

Kumi Harischandra is a Master's student in International Policy Studies at Stanford University, focusing on energy, natural resources and development. She also has a Master's degree in Economics and previously worked as a Research Economist at the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank based in Vancouver.

Tom is a graduate student and Rotary ambassadorial scholar in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is interested in international affairs, social entrepreneurship, and development studies. He graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 2009, summa cum laude. He was a founding board member and served as president for his university's student-run MicroCredit Program. He is also co-founder of The Paideia Institute, a Houston-based non-profit dedicated to helping promising students grow into excellent academic and social leaders. Read more about Tom, his projects, and adventures at www.thomasmendez.com

Sunthar Premakumar completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering, and continued his higher education in the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Master's degree in Robotics. Currently Sunthar is working in Maryland for W.L Gore, a medical device company that is pioneering innovation in the area of minimally invasive medical therapies. He will be the Maryland embassador for ICAN and looks forward to promoting ICAN's work in the east coast.

Jazib is an alum of Stanford Engineering and the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. He has been involved in setting up Tintash, a studio that develops software for mobile and social platforms in Pakistan. He also has experience in social enterprises such as Bags for Bliss and the Association for the Development of Pakistan. He is excited to join the ICAN team spread across multiple states and countries over 3 continents.

Insiyah studied International Development at UCLA, and is pursuing medicine at Rush University to study pediatrics and help poor children. Insiyah was the first in the family to foray into social work, and inspired her parents to work on ICAN. Insiyah worked with Save The Children to build a school with a well in Ethiopia, enabling young girls to attend school and still fulfill their responsibility of collecting water.

Rekha, a California native, is facing the bittersweet realization that her time as a student of International Relations, Economics and French at NYU is coming to an end. During the past three years, her diverse internship experience includes positions in the marketing department of Vormetric (data encryption), in the US-UN Relations Department of the Humpty Dumpty Institute, and in the Social Entrepreneurship Department of DoSomething.org. Given her Sri Lankan heritage and interest in women's empowerment, working for ICAN is a perfect fit for Rekha.

Hakim is a Manufacturing Engineer at Intuitive Surgical working on robotic systems for conducting minimally invasive surgery. He graduated from Stanford University, where he studied Electrical Engineering with a focus on Hardware Systems.

Malika is the CEO/Managing Director of International Scholar Professional Services (pvt) Ltd. She is an experienced executive currently running a Kaplan approved training program for physicians and registered nurses to pass comprehensive professional and English tests.

Sinan Onais is an architect that trained under Sri Lanka’s eminent and well known architect Jeffrey Bawa.

Mohammed Ashfaq is a 3rd year nursing student in Sri Jayawardene University.

Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa is the 1st Lady of Sri Lanka.

Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage is the former Secretary of Healthcare and Nutrition, Sri Lanka. He is now with the World Health Organization (WHO) based in New Delhi and works on healthcare policy issues for South and Southeast Asia.

Dr. Judith McFarlane is the Parry Chair in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at Texas Woman’s University in Houston, TX, and Professor of Nursing at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. Her research findings have been presented to congressional committees, included in national health objectives, cited on CNN, and used by clinicians globally and she is the author of six clinical textbooks and 150 peer reviewed journal articles. Dr. McFarlane works on international programs to prevent violence against women.

Kavita N. Ramdas serves as president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, the world's largest foundation solely committed to advancing women's rights internationally. She has dedicated herself to supporting women’s empowerment by providing financial resources to advance women's political participation and leadership, defend women's right to health and reproductive rights, prevent violence against women and increase girls' access to education. Kavita earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations and political science from Mount Holyoke College, followed by a Master of Public Affairs in International Development Studies from Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Dr. Charly Kleissner is a philanthropic entrepreneur utilizing his high technology background in venture philanthropy. He is the co-founder of KL Felicitas Foundation and is also the co-founder of the Social-Impact initiative helping social entrepreneurs worldwide to accelerate and increase their social impact. Dr. Kleissner serves on the Advisory Board of multiple not-for-profit companies like Acumen Fund, Global Social Benefit Incubator, Alliance for a New Humanity, and Global Philanthropy Forum. He also has over 20 years of experience as a senior technology executive in Silicon Valley.

Dr. Nancy Yonge has over 40years of experience as an economist and international investment advisor. She has advised governments in developing countries on tax structure and administration. She has expertise in marketing communication of financial products within innovative, emerging, and complex environments, and also with real estate and energy markets. Ms. Yonge is advising ICAN through the MIT Venture Mentoring Service.

Daniel J. Riskin , MD is a practicing surgeon and entrepreneur. and was named one of the top 35 innovators under 35 by Technology Review in 2005. Dr. Riskin is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures and a Consulting Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stanford University. Dr. Riskin is advising ICAN through the MIT Venture Mentoring Service.

Nelson Lin is a Senior Manager of Commercial Strategy at Gilead Sciences, Inc. where he works to develop strategy for expansion into new therapeutic areas, such as oncology and immunology as well as partner with corporate development on identifying and assessing in-licensing and acquisition opportunities. Mr. Lin is advising ICAN through the MIT Venture Mentoring Service of which he is an executive committee member.

Theresa Joyce Lee is the director of the MIT Annual Fund. Prior to that, she has taken up responsibilities as the capital gifts officer at College of the Holy Cross and as the annual fund director at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Sara Abbasi serves on the boards of Developments in Literacy (DIL), Relief International, The American Pakistan Foundation, One Nation, The World Affairs Council of Northern California, Stanford University Islamic Studies Program, and Menlo School. With her board affiliations, Sara has been actively involved in several initiatives with a particular focus on education and cross cultural understanding. Sara holds a BA in Business Administration from Santa Clara University and a MA in International Relations from Golden Gate University.

Dr. Lakshmi Karan is Director of Impact Assessment and Learning at the Skoll Foundation. Prior to Skoll, Lakshmi was a consultant to Fortune 500 companies,specialising in systems design and knowledge management. Lakshmi has master’s degrees in both systems management and international relations, and a Ph.D. in nonprofit effectiveness and organisational learning

Honorable Jaliya Wickramasuriya is the ambassador of Sri Lanka to USA.

Dr. Kohona is the Sri Lankan Permanent Representative to the UN in New York. He has led official level delegations to a range of countries on bilateral matters and participated in two rounds of peace negotiations with the LTTE in Geneva and led the delegation to a round organised in Oslo. Dr. Kohona is an attorney and holds a doctorate from the U.K.'s Cambridge University.

Rev. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero is the President of the Public Service United Nurses Union in SriLanka which has 22,000 nurses or 95 per cent of the state sector nursing cadre as its members.

Mrs G. Samaranayake is the Head of all Nursing Schools in Sri Lanka.

Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana is currently the Minister of Economic Affairs for the Sri Lankan Embassy to the United States. He has been politically active since 1988, and was Member of Parliament from August 19, 1994 to December 05, 2001, and from April 09, 2004 to June 23, 2004, under the label of the United National Party. He is most noted for his extensive contribution to the peace process of Sri Lanka, especially in the Eastern region of the island nation.

Jeptha Evans is the Partner and Co-Founder of McCown & Evans LLP. He has practiced business immigration law since 1994 and specializes on employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa applications. In addition, Mr. Evans has practiced extensively in the area of healthcare-based immigration. Mr. Evans is a frequent author and lecturer on immigration law topics.

John is an attorney with over 15 years experience in corporate and personal income, estate and gift taxation with emphasis on wealth transfer and charitable planning strategies as well as advising private charitable foundations. John is advising ICAN on not-for-profit structuring and other matters.

Jeremy Mosier is the CEO of Health One Staffing, Inc. and was previously the Vice President of Operations at Health One Staffing, LLC. He has been the General Manager at Exwire, Inc. and the Director of Marketing at Rubicon Technology, Inc. Jeremy graduated from Willamette University.

Prof Azhar teaches marketing at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. His experience includes starting and scaling up the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) where he was the Executive Head for 12 years. During this time LUMS grew from 36 students to 3000, and from a single MBA degree to multiple departments with undergraduate and graduate programs in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics and Social Sciences as well as Executive programs in Management. LUMS also collabored with leading universities of the world including Stanford, Harvard and McGill.

Nishanta "Nishi" Rajakaruna is a professor of botany at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine. Nishi, originally from Sri Lanka, fell in love with plants at a young age, during a visit to Sinharaja, Sri Lanka's only remaining rainforest. His current research focuses on the ecology and evolution of plants found on extreme soil conditions. Nishi is deeply committed to furthering relations between his country of birth and residency and is excited about helping ICAN train college-educated Sri Lankan women to find employment as nurses in the US.

Nandini Gunewardena PhD, Professor of International Development studies at UCLA. An economic anthropologist, Gunewardena has accumulated nearly 10 years of research and project implementation experience integrating gender concerns in international development.

Lisa Kleissner is the Co-founder of KLFelicitas Foundation, which focuses on enabling social entrepreneurs, empowering rural communities, and advocating a sustainability, mission, and social investment strategy. Her career has been as an Architect and an Entrepreneur.

Andrew Horowitz is a Angel and Social Enterprise Investor. Andy is also member of Investors Circle, Chairman of the the advisory board of the Venture Finance Institute of the Claremont Graduate University, a founding partner of the Los Angeles chapter of Social Venture Partners, and board member of the Social Enterprise Institute.

Isabelle Ellis is Professor of Rural and Remote Health Education and is the Acting Director of Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health (CUCRH) in Western Australia. Her professional interests include organizational development with health services, rural and remote primary health care service development, eHealth, eLearning and telehealth applications.

Jamie O'Malley, RN, MS, vice president for nursing services and chief nursing officer at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Dr. Jayathilake is the Acting Secretary of the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition in Sri Lanka

Eran Wickramaratne, Chief Executive Officer of NDB Bank Limited, has responsibility for the NDB Group. He joined NDB in April 1999 and has been closely associated with the transformation of the bank from its project finance roots to building a commercial and retail business. He was previously Vice President and Corporate Bank Head, Citibank.

Ms. Cynthia Ringo is Managing Partner at DBL Investors. Prior to that, Ms. Ringo was a Managing Director of VantagePoint Venture Partners from 2002 to 2008. She was also the Co-Head of Communications, Systems, Internet and Media Practice at the firm. Ms. Ringo was the Chief Executive Officer at Coppercom, from 1998 to 2001 and was the Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2002.

Faruq Ahmad is the founding partner of Palo Alto Capital Advisors, a silicon-valley based firm which provides advisory services to companies and venture capital firms. He has over the years been founder of a venture-backed software company, a venture capitalist, and also an institutional investor in venture funds. Mr. Ahmad has a B.S. degree from the MIT, an M.S. in Computer Systems from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Stanford.

Anula Jayasuriya, MD, PhD, MBA is a life science venture capitalist. Anula was born in Sri Lanka and received a BA from Harvard summa cum laude, and an MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School. She received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. Anula also has a M. Phil. in pharmacology from the University of Cambridge, England.

Mafaz Ishaq has Masters Degree from the London School of Economics and from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a Bachelors Degree from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Mechanical Engineering. He has also attended IMD's program on Building a Smarter company. Mafaz is a senior Director at the Calamander Group which is rasing a fund for investment in natural resource companies in Sri Lanka.

Allison Duncan is the founding principal of Amplifier Strategies, Inc. She has earlier held executive positions at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. She was the Foundation’s program director for the Conservation International & Global Conservation Fund, operating in Brazil, Guiana, Madagascar, Andean countries and countries of Melanesia.

Dr. Pamela Ann Lawrence-Horowitz is an Internist and Andrew Horowitz’s partner in social enterprise investing.

Paul Masters is the MBA Program Manager of Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI

Prof Sheriff is the Professor of Medicine & Head, Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is the Chief Examiner, MD (Colombo), PGIM, and serves as an overseas examiner for MD for colleges in Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Walter Jayasinghe, M.D., M.P.H, a Sri Lankan by birth and a U.S. citizen by naturalization, has been a doctor since 1967. He was a winner of Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1992 sponsored by Ernst & Young, Inc. Magazine, Merrill LynchIn April of 2003 he incorporated the SRI LANKA FOUNDATION. Its primary mission is to promote Sri Lankan culture in the United States and globally.