Ethan Arrow

Ethan is a public policy specialist with over 12 years of experience as a financial controller and regulatory compliance specialist within the banking sector. He is currently a vice president at Goldman Sachs where his responsibilities include regulatory and financial policy for the firm. Prior to that he worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its regulatory policy and strategy function. Ethan has a Master’s in International Affairs with a concentration in financial and economic policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and received a teaching fellowship from Fulbright. When not at home in Brooklyn Ethan is an avid traveler and enjoys camping, hiking and trekking, especially with his dog Charlie.

Sean Howell

Sean is an activist turned entrepreneur as co-founder, he services as CEO at the LGBT Foundation, which works to leverage the LGBT Token and the benefits of blockchain technology for the empowerment of the LGBT community. Prior to the LGBT Foundation he served as President of Hornet ; where, he built a 25 million user gay social network and the largest LGBT newsroom in the world publishing daily in 7 languages on five continents. Previously, he was a fellow of the World Affairs Council, trustee, and President of the Young Professional International Network.

He helps many organizations leverage technology to expand their impact; serves on various nonprofit boards and committees: UNAIDS, E-CDC, PFLAG and co-chair at the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at John Hopkins; is a founding member of the UN Global Coalition for HIV Prevention and technical advisor to UNDPs and the World Bank LGBTI Index.

Matt Morden

Matt Morden leads travel partnerships at Grindr, the world’s largest LGBTQ+ platform, connecting its 15 million monthly users with leading global travel brands. Previously, he managed corporate partnership development at the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association (IGLTA), forming strategic partnerships with major airlines, tourism boards, and hotel groups. Matt is a graduate of the Ivey School of Business at Western University in Ontario, Canada. He now lives in California with his husband, Sam, and despite trading the snow for palm trees, he still finds time to lace up his hockey skates while in Los Angeles. 

Stephan Rabimov

Stephan Rabimov is a growth marketing and communications leader with more than 20 years of experience across technology, media, public policy, and global organizations. He currently leads global content at Tools for Humanity, the technology company founded by Sam Altman, and previously held roles with Houzz, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the United Nations.

A longtime Forbes contributor, Rabimov specializes in translating complex ideas into accessible narratives and scalable strategies at the intersection of technology, brand, and public engagement. Earlier in his career, he worked in economics, international policy, and public health, including supporting the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. His work has been featured or cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CNN.

Rabimov holds two master’s degrees from Columbia University, in International Affairs and Statistics, as well as a certificate from the Harriman Institute. He resides in San Francisco.

Johanan Rivera

Johanan has over 15 years of experience in international development working on poverty reduction projects in Latin America and South Asia. He is currently the COO of Imago Global Grassroots, a capacity-building organization that works with social enterprises, nonprofits and grassroots organizations to scale-up their impact. The challenges he faced from growing up in the closet in Mexico are at the core of his passion for improving access to resources for the for LGBTQ+ community in developing countries. He is an economist from the Harvard Kennedy School, a member of the LGBTQ Victory Campaign Board and currently lives in Washington DC.

Jorge Saavedra

Currently Executive Director of the AHF Global Public Health Institute at the University of Miami and Global Public Health Ambassador for AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Member of the Board of Trustees of IAPAC and is also a Member of the Strategy Committee of the Global Fund representing the Developing Country NGOs, Member of the Executive Committee GayLatino Network and of the MSMGF Steering Committee. Dr. Saavedra based in Mexico, is a Medical Doctor from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with two Master’s degrees— one in Public Health and another in Health Policy and Management both from Harvard University. He has been Director General of the National AIDS Program of Mexico (2003-2009), where he was the first openly gay person to achieve a high-level position inside Mexico’s federal government. He has also been Deputy Director General of Planning and Innovation at the Ministry of Health of Mexico (2001-2003). Since Jorge’s times as Head of the National AIDS Program in Mexico, where he arrived through an open merit-based contest, he was in charge of launching the universal access to ART program in 2003, the first time a developing country did it entirely with domestic resources. He has several publications mainly related with AIDS Economics and the latest ones on the global response to Ebola (Lancet Nov 23, 2015 and BMJ May 19, 2016). Dr. Saavedra’s permanent residency is in Mexico.

Sam Stryker

Sam is a creative director whose work sits at the intersection of media, entertainment, and tech. He lives in LA with his husband and has been a resident of the Golden State for more than 12 years. Throughout his career his work has championed queer stories, voices, and creatives. He previously served on the board of West Hollywood Aquatics, an LGBTQ+ swim team with a storied history. He enjoys going to the movies and reading in his spare time.

Don Baxter (Emeritus)

Don Baxter is a founding Co-Chair of the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) since its establishment in 2006. He served as the Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), the national federation for the HIV community response in Australia, for the period 2001-2011. During that decade and the years subsequently he has been involved in a range of board director positions with global and Asia Pacific HIV agencies, with a particular focus on MSM in the HIV pandemic.

In addition to the MSMGF (2006 – 2021) these include the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (2011-14) and its Communities, Rights & Gender Advisory Group (2014-2016) and on-going roles with the board of APCASO (2002 – ), ICASO (2005 – 2017) and AIDS Project Los Angeles (2015 – 2018).

Don’s early HIV involvement was in the initial grass-roots HIV community response in Sydney’s gay community from 1983 – from which he subsequently served in national leadership positions and as a member of key advisory and decision-making bodies in Australia’s national HIV response – in both elected positions and Ministerially-appointed ones.