Philanthropy Innovation Summit 2025 | Salon Sessions

John Danhakl is Managing Partner of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. (“LGP”). LGP is a leading private equity investment firm based in Los Angeles with over $40 billion of committed capital raised since inception. The firm partners with experienced management teams and often with founders to invest in market-leading companies. Mr. Danhakl joined LGP in 1995.

Previously, Mr. Danhakl was a Managing Director in the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”). Prior to DLJ, Mr. Danhakl was a Vice President in corporate finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. Mr. Danhakl presently serves on the Board of Directors of CNG (Charter Next Generation), Convergint, Eyemart Express, IQVIA Holdings Inc., Lakeshore Learning, Life Time Fitness, Inc., Mister Car Wash Holdings, Inc., Ownership Works, Parts Town, Pye-Barker, SRS Distribution, and WellSky.

He is a 1980 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received an M.B.A. in 1985 from Harvard Business School.

Anna-Lisa Miller joined Ownership Works in August 2021 and serves as its founding Executive Director. She is responsible for the organization’s strategy, key partnerships, growth, and overall impact.

Anna-Lisa’s career reflects a longstanding commitment to expanding shared ownership, advancing racial equity, and driving systemic change within business, government, and social structures. As an experienced nonprofit leader, she has a proven track record of developing organizations, programs, and partnerships that create social returns for stakeholders and communities.

Previously, Anna-Lisa served as the Development Director at Project Equity, a peer organization that helps local businesses and communities discover the power of employee ownership. Prior to this role, Anna-Lisa served as Chief Operating Officer of The Kohala Center, a Hawaii-based sustainable development organization, where she led teams to success across a diverse portfolio of programs spanning shared ownership to watershed restoration. In that role, she also served on the Executive Committee of the Hawaii Lieutenant Governor’s Farm to School Program, for which she received recognition from the Hawaii State Senate.

Anna-Lisa began her career as a corporate attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She practiced law for five years in New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. in the areas of corporate and public finance. In 2014, she transitioned to the nonprofit sector to pursue her passion for expanding economic opportunity.

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, the early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg that invests in startups making work better. It was the first venture fund to focus on investing in the future of work, and in artificial intelligence.

Bloomberg Beta connects the technology community to other walks of American life: Roy chairs the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, convening “labor open” business leaders to explore new ways of relating to organized labor and worker power. Following work he did with New America to understand the long-term effect of technology on work in America, Roy was a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission. He also created #thisisnotadvice, a community-edited guide on how to work, and hosts the [Going to Work] conference.

Roy organized the “Comeback Cities” tours, where he led groups of venture capitalists and members of Congress to cities around America to learn about startups outside the coasts. With Stanford PACS and Schmidt Futures, Roy organized First Principles, a community for people in technology to learn how to give, philanthropically and politically. He served on the board or as an advisor to several non-profits including the Abundance Network, Stanford PACS, the Economic Security Project, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Roy is also a senior fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution, where he writes about AI.

Before starting Bloomberg Beta, Roy co-founded a venture-backed company and worked at News Corporation. In addition to founding startups and working as a corporate executive in media, he has served in government (in the office of the New York City Mayor), academia (as a lecturer for a decade at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business), professional services (early in his career at McKinsey & Co.), and nonprofit (leading a student volunteer nonprofit, Phillips Brooks House Association).

Roy was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. He graduated from Harvard College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

Roy lives in San Francisco with his wife Sara, who is active at the intersection of political activism and the arts, and with their two kids and a cliché Golden Retriever.