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Neil Smith Newport, RI 02840 617 233-6388 (mobile) neil@smithobrien.com smithobrien.com im21stcentury.com Background Since 1992, Neil Smith had been co-founder and managing partner of SmithOBrien, a management consulting firm, whose pioneering work in corporate responsibility/sustainability strategy, risk assessment, measurement and values-based systemic change has transformed the behavior, practices and financial performance of some of the country’s largest and oldest companies. Neil led the firm’s corporate responsibility strategy development and measurement services and Social Network Analysis practice before retiring in 2016. He was a founding partner of innovation, measurement 21st century (im21), which specializes in the use of Social Network Analysis and mapping and on-line facilitation to produce inclusive stakeholder collaboration and communication in order to accelerate innovation, problem-solving, and corporate responsibility/sustainability. SmithOBrien clients have included Calvert, Chiquita, Gillette, Starbucks, Symantec, Aon Hewitt, Covidien, Duke Energy, among others. In collaboration with experts in place-based social impact investing, Neil is developing a new measurement framework to assess short- to medium-term employee outcomes and longer-term neighborhood impacts of a cross sector of local privately-owned social enterprises collaborating to close the racial and gender income and wealth gaps and reverse systemic inequities in poor urban and rural communities. Neil also spends 10-20 hrs/month coaching social entrepreneurs on doing the right thing in how they manage a company’s growth, and in effectively leveraging its social mission as a key differentiator from competitors who don’t have similar social/environmental goals and transparent accountability standards. Neil is a former adjunct professor at Boston College and The New School University in New York City. He is a fellow at the Lewis Institute at Babson College.