economy, and that makes us all connected. The Distributed Capital framework enables us to design financial products and services that incentivize the considerate society, that activate the Globalization we would rather have. We design and create derivatives, an evil word in some circles because of their misuse, but the real power of derivatives is the opportunity to incorporate economic and social factors into scalable commercial product in such a way as to deliver the considered Society. Someone buys coffee, a tree is planted. A company transfers idiosyncratic risk off of an intended project in Laos, and 500 extra jobs are created, costs are reduced, productivity rises, the company invests again, and little girls go to school for the first time. Network economics is the fiber-optics down which we can focus a precision light and illuminate all corners of the world. There is an overwhelming reliance on linear explanation and treatment of compound issues when the reality is far more interdependent and complex; and where policy is created on the basis of overly-simplified models, the results are terrifically poor. There is a better way to serve all stakeholders, and it begins with fundamental, underlying financial capital flow. We believe poverty is a flaw of earlier attempts to harness the forces of globalization, and that with a bit of financial engineering we can help make permanent structural changes to this status quo. The Distributed Capital Framework enables us to do this work.

Describe the critical need your solution addresses.

We have been working on this for almost a decade. We have raised more than $1mm from very enlightened investors, who understand that making systemic change takes a contemplative detachment necessary to design and organize fully resolved systemic responses.

We have engaged a whole ecosystem of corporates and financial institutions and we are in the launch phase. We are finalizing a AAA-sovereign guarantee from the US Government, so that we can operate with any counterparty in the world, and this is one element that is catalyzing our ability to introduce our first commercial financial products. In the last few months, as the financial market crisis has deepened, more than $400mm worth of transaction volume has come to us for assistance. We are ramping up to deliver our solutions and methodology, to more than 50 countries.

Explain your initiative in more depth and its stage of development.

Financial flows are central to the occupation of at least three distinct sets of stakeholders: Private Sector actors, who care about financial risk, yield, correlations, and the time-value of money; Development Sector actors who care about economic progress, the provision and sustainability of basic human services like health care, education, food and clean water (among other things), and broadly doing what it takes to create the capital stock necessary to support a positive long-term trajectory; and Government Sector actors who care about national security, transparency, and accountability, as well as monetary stability,
inflation, and job creation. To date, few structured financial products or systems have ever been designed
to simultaneously serve all of these stakeholders at the same time, even though there is a growing need for such solutions. Distributed Capital makes Globalization work better for everyone by focusing on creating products and services that meet this need.

How does your strategy and approach respond creatively and comprehensively to key issues?

We are all engineers with significant conventional careers, who decided that we wanted to harness the power of finance, to deliver better results than bankers and conventional institutions were delivering to Society. Our primary qualifications are intense financial and engineering toolsets and capabilities, united with lofty vision and incredible depth of heart and collaborative synergy. I welcome the judges to come meet this team.