Travel Matters Advisors

Andrew Beath
Andrew Beath, President
Founder and President of EarthWays Foundation
Malibu, CA

Andrew Beath is the founder of SEE, EarthWays Foundation, along with a few other non-profit social justice and environmental organizations. He completed a graduate degree in International Finance from Wharton University, and then began working as a corporate-based real estate developer in Southern California.
While walking a mountain site that was slated for a high-end housing development, Andrew overheard a group of trespassing hippies discuss the greed of those who would despoil such beauty. This triggered a ten-year odyssey of global and self-exploration that awakened his spirituality and aligned him with progressive ideals. He put his shoulder to the wheel of social change in the eighties. Since then, his foundation has initiated projects to protect wilderness and assist threatened indigenous communities in South, Central and North America. Andrew has recently started several centers for conscious activism to teach environmental education and techniques that facilitate social change. He is the author of the book, Consciousness In Action.

Buket Grau
President and Founder, Kalypto

Buket E. Grau is the founder of Kalypto, a consulting firm specialized in business strategy and organizational design. Ms. Grau has over a decade of experience in launching and maximizing global brands, including Crest, Allways, Scope, Celebrex, Bextra, and Citicard, and in creating and optimizing marketing and sales organizations in the consumer goods, financial services, not-for-profit and biopharmaceutical sectors.
Ms. Grau has also worked closely with international not-for profit organizations, such as World Wildlife Fund, Birdlife International, Nature Protection Agency, the Foundation for Civic Leadership, and The Environmental Protection Trust, with specific program focus areas in the healthcare, educational and environmental issues. She created several best-in-class educational initiatives and has led conference training programs and seminars in leadership, environmental protection, and global understanding. Her not-for-profit expertise includes strategic planning, branding and communications, board development, and program launch.
Ms. Grau is a member of the Board of Directors at the Healthcare Business Association. She is the Founder and Director of the Women in Science Initiative. She is an adviser to the United Nations organizations through the United Nations Volunteer program. She is fluent in English and Turkish. Ms. Grau earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences & Molecular Biology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara (Turkey’s leading science and engineering university).

Nathan Gray
Director, Earth Train
Co-Founder, Oxfam America

Nathan Gray is the founder and CEO of Earth Train, an international organization enabling youth to develop the skills, practical experience, and global network necessary to become effective leaders for environmental stewardship and positive social change. Earth Train’s international center for sustainable development in Panama is managing and restoring 8.000 acres of pasture and forest land.
Nathan Gray has over 35 years of experience in the fields of education and international development. He is one of the founders of Oxfam America, the international assistance organization based in Boston.

Geoffrey Kirkman
Director and Watson Fellow
Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University

Geoffrey Kirkman is associate director and a Watson fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He was previously managing director of the International Technologies Group at Harvard Law School 's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He teaches a course on social entrepreneurship at Brown.
Kirkman has professional experience in more than 30 countries worldwide, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. He previously also was a researcher on the role of technology in international devleopment at Harvard's Center for International Development and the MIT Media Lab, and has worked forthe World Bank in Mexico City and Washington, D.C., as well as forthe United States Information Agency in Spain. He is the founder and president of the Sports for Development Foundation, which works with professional Latin American baseball players on children's issues in their countries of origin.He received his MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and his AB, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in international relations and Hispanic studies from Brown University .

Richard Locke
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science, MIT
Co-Founder, The Global Entrepreneurship Lab
Sloan School of Management, MIT

Richard Locke’s research focuses on economic development, comparative labor relations, and political economy. Locke is director of the MIT Italy Program, an innovative collaboration with Italian private and public partners to advance education and research in areas of common interest to the United States and Italy. In addition to MIT, Locke has taught at the Universita Degli Studi Ca’Foscari in Venice; the Georg-August Universitat in Göttingen, Oxford University, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. At MIT, Locke teaches both in the Sloan School of Management and in the Department of Political Science. At Sloan, Locke and his colleague Simon Johnson have pioneered the popular Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a course that teaches students about entrepreneurship in developing countries by placing them in internships with start-ups in an array of companies in various emerging markets.