Leanna Roberts
Vice President of Business Development
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Leanna has been involved with OrphanAct
since nearly its inception in 2004 and has served on its Board of Directors for the past seven years. She currently serves as the Executive Director of OrphanAct.
Leanna’s professional experience includes the general management of hotel and resort properties. She also owned her own hospitality recruiting company for several years.
In 2009, she resigned a resort management position in order to devote herself full time to OrphanAct.
In 2011, she returned to the field of hospitality as the General Manager of a boutique hotel. At the same time OrphanAct joined forces with iOrphan.org, an organization providing basic necessities to orphans and homeless children living in the former Soviet Bloc countries. She currently serves as the organization’s Vice President of Development while continuing her responsibilities with OrphanAct.
Leanna’s true passion has long been trying to help provide assistance for children in need. That enthusiasm began in the 1980’s with a position with the Girls Club of America. Her passion accelerated in earnest with her involvement with OrphanAct and Rotary International. She currently serves on the Board of the Vail Colorado Rotary Chapter. Leanna is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Craig Walker
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Craig founded GrandCentral in November 2005 to solve the problem of having too many different phone numbers and voicemail systems. Getting off a plane and having to check three different voicemail boxes, each with different key prompts, made him realize that this was a growing problem that needed to be solved. Craig had been Senior Director of VoIP at Yahoo! after selling his prior company, Dialpad Communications, to Yahoo! in June 2005.
Craig was a founding investor in Dialpad in 1999 and was recruited by the Board to join the company as CEO in November 2001 to turn around the failing effort. When he joined, Dialpad was losing $4 million per month and had burned through $80+ million in little over 18 months. Craig successfully reorganized the company and changed the business model from a free service with advertising revenue to a pay service. On less than $4 million of total investment in the new company, Dialpad was transformed into the most profitable VoIP company in the industry and was acquired by Yahoo! four years later.
Prior to Dialpad, Craig was a venture investor at Sterling Payot Capital, where he focused on consumer Internet service opportunities. Prior to Sterling, Craig was both General Counsel and Associate at TeleSoft Partners, an early stage telecom focused VC fund, where he was the 4th member of what is now a $500 million global fund. Craig began his career as a corporate and securities attorney in the Silicon Valley at the firms of Gunderson Dettmer, and at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, where he represented companies ranging from early stage start-ups to tier one venture capitalist to Cisco Systems.
Craig received his B.A. from UC Berkeley, his M.B.A. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. |
