Panelist & Speaking Engagements:

  • Collaboration for Frontier Finance (S. Africa) (2023 webinar)

  • Master Class on Social Franchising (Costa Rica) (2022 webinar)

  • International Franchise Association / University of New Hampshire webinar “Realizing The Promise Of Social Franchising” (2021)

  • University of New Hampshire, Social Sector Franchise Innovations Roundtable (SSFIR) (2017)

  • World Malaria Day, UC Berkeley (2014)

  • University of Michigan Ross Business School (2013: http://www.nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3200 )

  • Stanford Medical School, Global Health Interest Group (2013)

  • UCSF Social Franchising Conference in Mombasa, Kenya (2011)

  • Guest Lecturer, Oregon Extension (2009-2010)

  • MIT Sloan School of Management (2009)

  • Eleos-Foundation-sponsored event on market-based solutions to global poverty (2009)

  • Duke University conference on Africa healthcare worker shortage (2007)

  • Participated in peer-reviewed malaria drug quality study with Africa Fighting Malaria, published in PLoS ONE (2008)

  • Juror at World Bank Development Marketplace (2007)

Awards & Recognition: 

  • Greg co-authored feature article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, “The Promise of Social Sector Franchising” (2021)

  • Starbird Consulting’s Sensitivity Analysis Tool was selected and used in an Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs training of impact investors in Mexico City (2017)

  • Under Greg's guidance as CEO, CFW clinics received a quality assurance award for "excellence in quality assurance standards, systems and documentation” (2011)

  • Cornell University Scholar-Athlete Award (1996)

  • National Science Foundation Young Scholar Award (Mathematics) (1994)