Endeavor Announces Launch of Global Ambassadors Program

Yearly Cohort of Business Leaders Will Strengthen Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Around the World Through Sustaining Support and Mentoring Top Founders

Endeavor is pleased to announce the launch of the Endeavor Global Ambassadors program, an annual cohort of leading entrepreneurs and executives who recognize the importance of supporting the next generation of successful entrepreneurs and want to pay it forward by promoting Endeavor’s mission. 

In their year in this position, Endeavor Ambassadors help sustain Endeavor’s long-term mission through financial contribution; share their knowledge and expertise through mentoring top founders around the world to help them achieve their full potential; and help select and coach new Endeavor Entrepreneurs as panelists at our International Selection Panels. Endeavor Ambassadors serve as global role models and are critical to strengthening our entrepreneurial ecosystem around the world. Endeavor Global Ambassadors are the personification of our values — they dream big, have achieved immense success themselves, and pay it forward generously with their time and connections, reinvesting in the next generation.

The inaugural Endeavor Global Ambassadors include: Anderson Thees, Managing Partner and Co-founder, Redpoint eventures; Bill Lautman, CEO, Nexus Health Capital; Chris Misner, Advisor and Former President of International, Roblox; Diego Piacentini, Board Member and Advisor, Former Commissioner for  Digital Transformation Italian Government and Former SVP of International Consumer Business, Amazon; Francisco Alvarez-Demalde, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital Partners; Geoff “Chester” Woolley, Partner, Patamar Capital; Jeff Brody, Partner and Co-founder Redpoint Ventures; Joanna Rees, Managing Partner, West.Ventures; Josh Silverman, CEO, Etsy; Kevin Ryan, Founder and CEO, AlleyCorp; Martín Escobari, Co-President, Managing Director, and Head of Latin America, General Atlantic;  Nicolas Aguzin, CEO of International Private Bank, JP Morgan; Roshini Bakshi, Managing Director, Everstone Capital Asia; and Scott Sobel, Co-founder and Managing Director, Valor Capital Group.

In addition to their extraordinary contributions to Endeavor, Endeavor Global Ambassadors also receive the benefit of unmatched access to the most innovative entrepreneurs around the world in Endeavor’s pipeline and network, and join a diverse peer network of business leaders who share the common goal of supporting our network of high-impact entrepreneurs.