Susan McPherson is a serial connector, passionate cause marketer, angel investor and corporate responsibility expert. She’s a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Triple Pundit and Forbes and has 20+ years experience in marketing, public relations, sustainability communications. She is a featured speaker at industry events including Net Impact, Center for Corporate Citizenship's Annual Summit, Sustainable Brands and Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy's Summit. McPherson founded and hosts the bi-weekly CSRChat on Twitter.

Currently, McPherson invests in and advises technology start-ups including ZADY, TheLi.st, Positive Luxury, Lover.ly and The Daily Muse. She serves on the boards of 10×10, a social action campaign/platform funded by Intel to expand girls’ education in the developing world; Bpeace, a nonprofit dedicated to assisting women in regions of conflict and post-conflict start businesses; and Earth 2 Hub, a London-based innovative media platform for science and technology. She is also a member of Echoing Green’s Vanguard Council and Social Media Week’s New York Advisory Council. Additionally, she serves as an adviser to several non-profits, including Girls Who Code, Plant A Fish, She’s The First, The Adventure Project and The OpEd Project. Recently, McPherson was selected as a Vital Voices global corporate ambassador and was named as one of 40 Women to Watch Over 40 and Fast Company's 25 Smartest Women of Twitter.

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