After a 30 year business career, Randy created RandomGood with the vision of improving quality of life and environmental conservation around the world, sparked by his passion as a wildlife photographer. Before launching RandomGood, Randy was an entrepreneur and consumer behavior expert. He co-founded Quantum Health, a Coordinated Health/Care company that uses behavioral science to help patients navigate the healthcare system. Randy spent 18 years as an international business strategy consultant and has co-authored two university textbooks on consumer behavior and marketing.

Christopher Gebhardt is a pioneer in harnessing storytelling to drive social impact. He developed his strategic framework at Stir, his impact consultancy, and as EVP at Participant Media, where he built digital communities and launched the agency Tag—serving clients including Disney, Intel, American Express, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Gates Foundation. Before Participant, Christopher helped shape the early field of branded entertainment at Pepsi, Ogilvy (as head of emerging technology and innovation), and as co-founder of Integrated Entertainment Partners. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School. An Edmund Hillary Fellow and Fellow of the RSA, Christopher teaches at UCLA’s Anderson School and has chaired the Ad Council’s Issue Advisory Board. His career sits at the intersection of media, strategy, and mission—where powerful stories become levers for lasting change.

Peter is the Former Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and Willaman Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University. He is an internationally recognized research biologist, Fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Peter’s love of biology, wildlife, and wildlife photography started at a young age. His research focuses on the ecology of wildlife diseases, especially those transmissible to humans. His research group uses a mixture of fieldwork, laboratory studies, and mathematical modeling to explore disease dynamics. Peter’s work has implications for the control of wildlife diseases and emerging zoonotic spillovers into the human population.

Angus is an ecologist with over 20 years of international experience leading and delivering multidisciplinary environmental management projects across culturally and ecologically diverse landscapes. Originally from Papua New Guinea, Angus has worked in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australasia. He is passionate about environmental stewardship and the complexities associated with achieving conservation outcomes through the lenses of traditional owners, environmental managers, project sponsors, regulatory agencies, and other key stakeholders. As a photographer, Angus strives to capture the mood and character of people, habitats, and wildlife by exploring their relationships through imagery.

Dr. Paula Kahumbu, CEO of WildlifeDirect, is a Kenyan ecologist committed to transforming conservation results in Africa and the world through storytelling, science, advocacy and education. She is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife conservationists and uses film for nature campaigns to educate mass audiences and motivate Africans to take conservation actions. Paula produces and presents Africa’s first wildlife documentary series made by Africans, Wildlife Warriors, highlighting the continent’s conservationists on free channels and in schools across Kenya, and Africa’s first children’s nature series presented by African children, Team Sayari. She holds several awards and honors, was listed among the 25 most influential women of 2022 by the Financial Times, and is a presenter for National Geographic documentary series Secrets of the Elephants.

Kartiki Gonsalves is an Indian director, documentary filmmaker. She is the first Indian Film Director to have ever won an Academy Award in the history of India, A historic milestone in Indian cinema. Elizabeth Olsen and Pedro Pascal presented The Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film to ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ at THE 95TH ACADEMY AWARDS | Sunday, March 12, 2023, held at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Alongside that she received the prestigious The Paul Harris Award from Rotary International at a ceremony in India in December, 2023. Kartiki Gonsalves, the debut Oscar Winning director of the acclaimed documentary 'The Elephant Whisperers,' was presented with the prestigious Tara Award by their Majesties, King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the Lancaster House, London in June of 2023. She was honoured by the Royals for making significant contribution to human-wildlife co-existence. The Tara Award, inspired by the sacred bond between elephants and humans, recognises extraordinary achievements in storytelling and advocacy for coexistence. She is also one of the first women chosen as a Sony Alpha Artisan of Imagery in India. An associate fellow at the iLCP (International League of Conservation Photographers). Kartiki Gonsalves was honoured one of GQ India’s Most Influential Young Indians of 2023. She is also associated with brands like Peak Design, Swarovski Optik Nature Explorer 2021, and photojournalist currently based out of the Nilgiri mountains in the Western Ghats of Southern India. Kartiki infuses her passion for adventure to bring new perspectives and a deeper public understanding to the environmental and humanitarian issues that define our times. She strives to document our natural world and to help others better understand the profound connection that we share with it. On the cultural side, she focuses on capturing the diversity of cultures and tribes across the world where she seeks to give a platform to women and indigenous tribes, especially those working to conserve nature. Kartiki focuses on solutions and highlight projects that show success stories where conservation is working to give hope.