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Annalisa Adams-Qualtiere

Chief People Officer

Annalisa is the Chief People Officer at the Skoll Foundation, where she focuses on managing the strategy and processes related to building, supporting, and retaining the exceptional talent of the Foundation’s team members.

Annalisa believes deeply in Skoll’s vision and works to ensure that the Foundation’s values are reinforced through every initiative, communication, and talent system. Annalisa has a passion for coaching and developing people. Partnering with leaders to design the human experience—employee engagement—so that people thrive at work, is her "thing." For Annalisa, that means "We strive to create a welcoming, empowering, and rewarding place to work, infused with joy and a real sense of belonging."

Before joining Skoll, Annalisa held Human Resources leadership roles with the American Automobile Association (AAA), Hewlett-Packard (HP), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), REDF, and various other organizations. You can check LinkedIn for her professional wanderings.

Annalisa is perhaps best known for her love of roller skating, quads-only. As she puts it, "I'm kinda awesome."

Shellie Barber

Program Coordinator – Portfolio & Investments

Marla Blow

President and Chief Operating Officer

Marla Blow is the President and COO of the Skoll Foundation. Previously, she was North America lead at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and was Founder and CEO of FS Card Inc., a subprime credit card venture (sold to strategic acquirer).

Ms. Blow won the EY Mid Atlantic Emerging Company Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2018, and has been listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. Marla was featured in the April 2018 Vanity Fair “26 Women of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship” photo shoot, and she is a Henry Crown Fellow as part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Previously, she was part of the Implementation Team to stand up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and ultimately served as the Assistant Director for Card and Payment Markets, where she shaped the CFPB’s regulatory priorities in these markets.

Prior to joining the CFPB, Marla spent seven years in a variety of functions at Capital One in the credit card business. Ms. Blow is a member of the US Capital Chapter of YPO, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Care.com (NYSE: CRCM, sold to IAC), and on the Board of Directors of Factor Trust (sold to TransUnion). Marla holds an MBA from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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