Gerald Chertavian
Founder and CEO, Year Up
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Year Up provides a one year intensive job training and internship program to young urban adults, 18-24 years old. Year Up enrolls close to 2,000 students per year, and roughly 400 organizations have hired Year Up students as interns or permanent employees. Prior to launching Year Up in 2000, Gerald was an internet entrepreneur.
Gerald speaks with Jessica Harris about how he is helping to narrow the Opportunity Divide in the United States, from scratch.
Kevin is an internet entrepreneur who has led innovation in the online advertising and e-commerce space since the late 1990s. Kevin was the CEO of DoubleClick, the advertising serving company that was eventually sold to Google for $3.5 Billion. Kevin has since founded a number of internet companies including 
Connie Duckworth is the founder and President of Arzu, an organization that promotes economic independence among women in Afghanistan through the sale of rugs. Arzu sources rugs from weavers in Afghanistan, sells them in the United States, and compensates these women at above market rates.
Maurice’s creations include the D-Fuzz-It sweater comb, which removes lint from sweaters, the Safety Glide Hypodermic Needle Protector, a LED traffic Light, and SKYY Vodka, which was sold to Campari International for over $400 Million. Maurice founded the QUAD Cinemas in New York City in 1972, the first multiplex theater on the East Coast.
Interfaith Youth Core is an organization that promotes service and religious pluralism among youth on college campuses.
Albert cofounded Maysles Films with his brother David in the 1960s. Together they pioneered the documentary film genre cinema verite, which captures reality spontaneously as it unfolds in front of the camera. Albert has made more than three dozen films featuring the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Truman Capote. Other films include Salesman and Grey Gardens, which became a Broadway show and fiction feature film decades later. 
Paul has been committed to disease and poverty reduction since his early twenties. 
Uber is a re-imagined car service that consumers access via apps on their smart phones or SMS. Travis started Uber in 2010 in San Francisco, and the service is now available in cities ranging from New York City to Washington DC and Paris, among others.
SecondMarket is a private market place for buying and selling alternative assets including private company stock, bankruptcy claims, and restricted public stock. If you are an investor in a startup or an employee who wants to sell your company’s stock before the IPO, SecondMarket facilities this transaction. Companies trading on the SecondMarket exchange have included Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In.
Stephen Hannock is a contemporary painter whose works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, The National Gallery in Washington DC and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others. He is known mostly for his landscape paintings, and his collectors include the singer Sting and Tom Brokaw. Fortune Magazine called Stephen “probably the most accomplished and well connected painter you’ve never heard of.”
