Sean C. Rush

President and Chief Executive Officer -- JA Worldwide^®

Sean C. Rush is President and CEO of JA Worldwide, the world's largest and fastest-growing NGO providing economic development support through work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy education to young people throughout the world. The organization reaches nearly ten million students in 122 countries annually.

Prior to joining JA Worldwide, Sean was General Manager of IBM's Global Education Industry until 2006 when he retired after 12 years with the company to pursue a Masters in Public Administration degree at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to joining IBM in 1994, he had a 14-year career with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) as a consultant, partner and chairman of the firm's education and non-profit practice.

Sean has been engaged with education for the past 30 years as an executive, consultant, board member and author. He has authored, edited or co-edited some 20 books or articles including Managing the Facilities Portfolio, The Learning Revolution, and The Future Compatible Campus and Reinventing Higher Education. He has also been a frequent speaker at conferences and professional seminars on a variety of education topics over the past 25 years.

He serves or has served as a director or trustee of a number of organizations and was a member of the Massachusetts Public Health Council for 14 years between 1982 and 1996.

In 2004, Sean was awarded the Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award by Boston College's Carroll Graduate School of Management. He was the year 2000 honoree of the Boston College Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma (the national honor society for students of management). Sean was also awarded an honorary doctorate by Dowling College in New York as well as a University Excellence Award by Boston College for his work with the university's Irish Institute.

Sean holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Boston College and an M.S. from Boston University.

Chinwe Effiong

President -- Junior Achievement of Africa

Chinwe Effiong joined JA Worldwide in 2011 from the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership (DCGEP). Dr. Effiong was part of DCGEP’s senior management team responsible for strategic planning, and project design and development. She also managed donor and government relations as well as program implementation and expansion in North and West Africa.

Prior to Discovery, Effiong was the East/West Africa regional director for Africare, an international non-profit organization that specializes in a range of development initiatives, including agriculture and food security, water and sanitation, treatment of childhood diseases, adult education and youth economic and social empowerment.

Prior to Africare, Effiong was Acting Chair and Asst. Professor of Political Science at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. She holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Political Science/International Relations from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor’s degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar, Nigeria.

Caroline Jenner

Senior Vice President -- Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise Europe

Caroline Jenner began her career as an entrepreneur—running her own private language school in Bratislava, Slovakia in the early 1990’s. She took an interest in business education since many of her younger students were prospective entrants to economics programs. In an effort to provide them with appropriate materials, she began to work with economics curricula developed by Junior Achievement.

Jenner set up JA in Slovakia and later became the regional director for JA operations in Central and Eastern Europe.

In 1997, she left the former Czechoslovakia for Italy and a job in the private sector with Bata Shoes International. Her work involved business development strategies.

After three years, she returned to the not-for-profit sector, as director for Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise Europe, the Regional Operating Centre for JA Worldwide® in Europe.

Jenner has a Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours, in French Language and Literature and also graduated from the Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music. She is Canadian and in addition to English speaks French, Italian, and Slovak. She is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Jack E. Kosakowski

President and Chief Executive Officer -- Junior Achievement USA

Jack E. Kosakowski is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement USA. Junior Achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices.

Today, JA reaches four million students per year in 122 markets across the United States, with an additional 5.8 million students served by operations in 119 other countries worldwide. Kosakowski has total oversight of Junior Achievement in the United States.

Starting as a student in the Junior Achievement program in Toledo, Ohio, he attended the University of Toledo on a Junior Achievement scholarship and has since served in a variety of staff positions with increasing levels of responsibility over the past thirty-seven years. He was named President and CEO of Junior Achievement USA in 2007.

Kosakowski was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve a two-year term on the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy in January 2008. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Achievement Foundation, is a member of the United States Commission for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), and serves on the Council on Competitiveness’ Learn to Compete Commission. Kosakowski was also recently named a Trustee of America’s Promise Alliance.

Linda Rimer

Senior Vice President -- Junior Achievement Asia Pacific and Junior Achievement the Americas

Linda Rimer has been SVP of the Asia/Pacific and Americas regions since July of 2005. Linda has served in a variety of positions since joining Junior Achievement in 1989. As president and CEO of Junior Achievement of South Texas (San Antonio) from 1991 to 2000 the organization increased in revenues and students ten-fold. In 1994, Rimer received the Karl Flemke Pioneer Achievement Award and in 2000 she was awarded the prestigious Charles R. Hook Award in recognition of her achievements. Most recently, Rimer has served as president of Junior Achievement of the Bay Area (San Francisco) where she has increased revenues and decreased operating expenses by over $1 million without decrease in productivity. She holds a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies, an MBA with a marketing focus, a BA in Education and a BRE in Theology. Prior careers were missions work in Mexico with the Tarahumara Indians and marketing with AT&T.

Soraya Salti

Senior Vice President -- Junior Achievement of Middle East-North Africa

As Senior Vice President of MENA for Junior Achievement Worldwide, INJAZ al Arab, Soraya has the mandate to mobilize private sectors and ministries of education across the Arab World to join forces to create a new generation of business-oriented youth who will become entrepreneurs and employees of choice of corporations. Her efforts have led to the expansion of INJAZ into 11 Arab Countries reaching more than 100,000 youth.