Michael Kieschnick is CEO of CREDO Mobile, a progressive mobile phone and activist company, representing an online activity community of over three million members. He also serves on the board of the League of Conservation Voters, the Beatitudes Society, and One Pacific Coast Foundation. He also is a co-founder of the CREDO SuperPac, which defeated five Tea Party House members in 2012. In addition to his business and political commitments, he is a long time teacher of development finance and social innovation at Stanford University. He earned a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard and undergraduate degrees in biology and economics from Stanford.