Apps for Healthy Kids

Judges

Michael J. Barber

Vice President, healthymagination
General Electric Company

Michael J. Barber is a GE Officer and the VP of GE's healthymagination business strategy on global health. The healthymagination charter is (by 2015) to improve the quality of care by 15% or more, reduce the cost of procedures and processes through the appropriate use of GE technologies and... [read more]

Prior to this position Barber, a 25+-year GE veteran, was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for GE Healthcare, leading a technology team of more than 7,000 engineers, technologists and scientists working in diverse fields such as MRI, CT, ultrasound, patient monitoring, anesthesia, life sciences, imaging contrast agents and health-related R&D at GE Healthcare. Healthcare's revenue totals over $17B and the company spends over $1B annually for R&D.

Barber started with GE in 1982 and has had a variety of roles in engineering, operations and product management. As the Manager of the Digital X-ray Detector Platform, Barber led a team that eliminated the need for film in X-ray procedures. Barber holds patents for novel X-ray system designs and has been directly involved with many product advances in the field of diagnostic imaging.

When Barber was selected to lead healthymagination in June 2009, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt remarked "Over the last four years, Mike has led all aspects of product development for advanced healthcare technologies, Mike knows how our technology can help patients, he knows what doctors, clinics and hospitals need to improve care and cut costs and he knows how to lead teams. With his deep experience in engineering and technology and his strong operations and process-driven expertise, Mike is the right leader to lead healthymagination and to grow our healthcare partnerships globally."

Barber is also an active champion of GE's African American Forum, GE's premier affinity group addressing professional development for the company's African-American employees. He is executive sponsor for the sustainability portion of GE's $30+ million philanthropic commitment to improve healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa. He has also served as chair of the Milwaukee Chapter of the Elfun Society (a volunteer organization of GE employees).

Barber was named as a "Top 40 under 40" in 1997 by the Milwaukee Business Journal, named in Black Enterprise's 'Master of Innovation' in 2009, serves as a Regent at his alma mater (Milwaukee School of Engineering) and serves on the board of National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME).

Barber is a member and former Treasurer of Sweet Communion Baptist Church, is married to Jacqueline Herd-Barber and has 2 children; Lauren (19 studying Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard) and Justin (17).

Aneesh Chopra

Chief Technology Officer & Associate Director for Technology
Office of Science & Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President

Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the President's technology agenda by fostering new ideas and... [read more]

Pat Christen

President and CEO
HopeLab

Pat Christen is President and CEO of HopeLab, where she engages a multidisciplinary team developing products and practices that improve the lives of young people with chronic illness. HopeLab's nonprofit work combines research, iterative product development and values-based management to... [read more]

Tiffany Cooper Gueye

Chief Executive Officer
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)

Tiffany Cooper Gueye, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, brings much expertise and internal perspective to BELL, Building Educated Leaders for Life. BELL is a national non-profit organization that partners with schools and school districts to deliver high quality out-of-school time programs to... [read more]

Mark DeLoura

Developer Advocate, Games
Google Inc.

Mark coordinates game strategy and outreach efforts as a developer advocate for the videogame industry at Google. He is also the creator of the Game Programming Gems series of books. As a passionate proponent for making videogame development simpler and less expensive, Mark has worked in... [read more]

Michael (Mike) D. Gallagher

President and CEO
Entertainment Software Association

Mike Gallagher has a deep background in technology policy. Mr. Gallagher was the Department of Commerce's Assistant Secretary for Communications & Information, serving as chief telecommunications and Internet policy advisor to the George W. Bush Administration. During his over four-year tenure at the Department of Commerce, he led successful efforts to pave the way for a number of new technologies and services, such as ultrawideband, broadband over powerlines, advanced wireless services, and millimeter wavelength networks. In addition, Mr. Gallagher developed and successfully advocated the U.S. Government's policies on international Internet governance.

Mr. Gallagher was most recently Communications Practice chair at Perkins Coie, a leading international law firm offering a broad spectrum of legal services. Mr. Gallagher holds degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Professional Recognition

Inaugural recipient of "Spirit of Innovation" award by Telecommunications Industry Association, March 2005
Recipient of "Leadership in Government" award by Wireless Communications Association, January 2006
Recipient of "Redfield Award" for distinguished leadership in government service by Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, January 2006

Professional Leadership

Chair, Board of Advisors for Shared Spectrum Company, Shared Spectrum
Member, Advisory Committee to Secretary General of the United Nations for the Internet Governance Forum
Member, US State Department Advisory Committee on Information and Communication Policy
Co-author, "21st Century Communications Systems for First Responders: The Right Call" with Larry Irving (NTIA Administrator under President Bill Clinton)
Adjunct Fellow, Progress & Freedom Foundation

Previous Positions

Perkins Coie, Communications Practice Chair, February 2006-May 2007
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communication & Information, Director National Telecommunications & Information Administration, August 2003-February 2006
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy & Counselor to Secretary Donald L. Evans, May 2003-November 2003
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications & Information, Deputy Director National Telecommunications & Information Administration, 2001-May 2003
Verizon Wireless Bellevue, Wa., Staff Vice-President State Public Policy, 2000-2001
CIA Intelligence Fellow, August 2003

Robin Hunicke

Game Designer & Producer
thatgamecompany

Robin Hunicke is game designer & producer whose credits include Sims2, MySims and Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox franchise. Having spent over fours at Electronic Arts, she recently joined thatgamecompany ("TGC"), which aims to create inspiring, meaningful game experiences that enrich players... [read more]

Eric Johnston ("EJ")

Principal Engineer
LucasArts

Software engineer Eric Johnston has been writing computer and video games professionally since 1989. He first started working as a game programmer for Lucasfilm Games (which would later become LucasArts) while attending U. C. Berkeley College of Engineering, studying EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). That first project was a puzzle game called Pipe Dream. Afterward, he continued working for Lucasfilm, on the Macintosh versions of their now-classic SCUMM adventure game series.

A year before graduating from Berkeley, EJ also worked part-time as a software engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, on magnetic tracking systems. After college, he went to work for a computer game company called Spectrum HoloByte in the emerging field of real-time 3D graphics, while still writing games for LucasArts on the side. EJ eventually joined LucasArts full-time to start up their first hardware-accelerated 3D game project, Shadows of the Empire.

In 2004, EJ worked with Make-A-Wish and Ben Duskin (an 8-year-old Leukemia patient) to create Ben's Game, a free video game about fighting cancer. This game has been translated into nine languages, and reached more than 250,000 people. EJ and Ben were honored by the Dalai Lama in 2005 for their project.

EJ and his wife Sue live in San Francisco. Aside from programming, EJ has also worked as a stunt man, flying trapeze instructor, and windsurfing instructor. While at work, he spends his time on core engine programming, optimization, and training other engineers. Away from work, he's usually doing random acrobatics, astronomy, electronics tinkering, or trying to make sense of quantum computation papers.

EJ's game credits span more than 20 years, and include Pipe Dream (1989), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Loom, The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Falcon MC, Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, Star Wars: Rebel Assault, The Dig, Shadows of the Empire, Wars: Episode I - Racer, Escape from Monkey Island, Starfighter, Jedi Starfighter, Bounty Hunter, RTX: Red Rock, Ben's Game, Battlefront II, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and The Secret of Monkey Island, Special Edition (2009).

Max Finberg

Director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Max Finberg has dedicated his career to serving others, especially hungry people. He has a wide range of experience in the government, non-profit, and political arenas. In May 2009, Mr. Finberg was appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to direct USDA's Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Contained in the Office of the Secretary, the Center's mission is to build partnerships between USDA and faith-based and neighborhood organizations to better serve individuals, families and communities. The USDA Center works closely with the President Obama's White House Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. USDA administers programs that benefit one in five Americans with nutrition assistance, contribute to rural development, promote environmental stewardship and feed hungry people around the world.

Previously, Mr. Finberg was the first director of the Alliance to End Hunger, a non-profit organization that engages diverse institutions in building the public will to end hunger, both in the United States and worldwide. The Alliance connects U.S. businesses, religious bodies, charities, foundations and individual donors to change the politics of hunger.

Mr. Finberg also previously worked with Ambassador and former Representative Tony Hall (D-OH) for 12 years in a variety of capacities. He was special assistant to the ambassador at the U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome, Italy, where he lived for almost three years. The U.S. Mission relates to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Program (WFP) and the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). Mr. Finberg was also senior legislative assistant covering domestic hunger and poverty issues for Representative Hall. He worked on the successful passage of The Hunger Relief Act and the Community Solutions Act with a variety of anti-poverty and faith-based organizations.

Mr. Finberg was the founding director of the Mickey Leland Hunger Fellows Program at the Congressional Hunger Center. He helped to start this unique fellowship program that fights hunger by developing leaders through a combination of direct service and public policy experience. The Program is now in its 16th year.

Michael Levine

Executive Director
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

Michael Levine is the founding director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, an action research and innovation institute devoted to harnessing the potential of digital media to advance young children's learning and development. Prior to joining the Center, Dr. Levine served as... [read more]

Mark Pincus

Founder and CEO
Zynga

Mark Pincus is a leading Internet entrepreneur, having founded and established four successful companies. In January 2007, Mark founded Zynga and has grown the company to become the leading social games provider with over 235 million monthly active users playing its games. Mark has... [read more]

Dora Rivas

President
School Nutrition Association

Dora Rivas, MS, RD, SNS has been in food service for 34 years. In January 2005, Dora took the role of Food & Child Nutrition Services (FCNS) Executive Director for Dallas ISD. Dora worked for 27 years with the Brownsville ISD school food service department and for 19 years served as... [read more]

Shale L. Wong

Pediatrician
Advisor to Let's Move!

Shale L. Wong, M.D., M.S.P.H., is a pediatrician and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine. She is the Director of Medical Student Education and Director of Mentored Scholarship for students and residents in pediatrics. She also co-directs CU LEADS-an innovative... [read more]

Steve Wozniak
aka "The Woz"

Co-founder, Apple Computer Inc.
Co-Author, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon
Chief Scientist, Fusion-io

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry.

In 1981, he went back to UC Berkeley and finished his degree in electrical engineering/computer science. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America's leading innovators.

In 2000, he was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for "single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers."

After leaving Apple in 1985, Wozniak was involved in various business and philanthropic ventures, focusing primarily on computer capabilities in schools and stressing hands-on learning and encouraging creativity for students. Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, he "adopted" the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. He founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

Wozniak currently serves as Chief Scientist for Fusion-io and is a published author with the release of his New York Times Best Selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, in September 2006 by Norton Publishing. His television appearances include reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List and season eight of ABC's Dancing with the Stars.