Donald Smith, OD is the Director of Professional Relations at National Vision Inc.

Nicola Chevis is the Chief Executive Officer of Vision Aid Overseas (VAO).  Nicola has a significant career with International Non-Governmental Organisations starting with Oxfam GB, GOAL Ireland as Country Director in Sierra Leone and with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) first as a Country Director in Vanuatu and then as their London-based global head of programming planning and monitoring and evaluation. Before joining VAO, Nicola worked for Save the Children International on their Global Campaign to reduce maternal and child mortality and as their Deputy Director. Since 1985, Vision Aid Overseas has been helping some of the world’s poorest people to access affordable eye care services.

Pelin Munis, PhD is the Executive Director of Restoring Vision.  Pelin is an accomplished professional, applied Psychologist and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of executive planning, administration, communications and marketing experience in for- and non-profit sectors.  Prior to joining RestoringVision, Pelin founded and operated a successful distribution company importing goods from Europe to the U.S. She has also worked as a consultant to non-profit organizations and government funded programs including for the Department of Justice and Florida Departments of Health and Human Services.

Elizabeth Smith is the co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of EYElliance. Elizabeth has been working in international development with a focus on inclusive business and increasing access to global markets. Before joining EYElliance, Elizabeth worked as a consultant for the UN Office of South-South Cooperation forwarding the work of the Creative Economy for Development Agenda. In 2011 she joined VisionSpring as Director of Business Development. Liz graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Environmental Studies.

Daniel Twelker, OD, PhD.  Since 2002 Dr. Twelker works at the University of Arizona at the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science as Associate Clinical Professor.   He was the Site Principal Investigator for the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive Error from 2002 through 2012, which looked at the effect of ethnicity on eye growth and the need for spectacle correction. Since 2015 he is the President of VOSH-Arizona. In the fall of 2015, Dr. Twelker took leave of his position in Arizona to teach optometry at the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Western Kenya. As a Board member of VOSH International, his main emphasis is to support and sustain optometry education efforts in developing countries such as Malawi, Kenya, and Mexico. Dr Twelker received his Doctor of Optometry and his Ph.D. in Vision Science from the University of California at Berkeley.