Inspire Team
Inspire USA Foundation Board of Directors
Paul Daitz
Interim Chairman
Paul B. Daitz is a Senior Managing Director at Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and the head of the Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment & Technology Group for North America, responsible for Macquarie’s advisory and principal investing activities across these industries. In addition, Mr. Daitz is Chairman of the US-based Advisory Committee of the Macquarie Group Foundation.
Prior to joining Macquarie, Mr. Daitz worked for seventeen years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Most recently, he was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division and a senior member of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Daitz joined Goldman Sachs in 1988 in the Mergers & Acquisitions department in New York. In addition, he worked in the Sydney office of Goldman Sachs, where he assisted in the expansion of the firm’s Asia-Pacific business, and in the London office, where he served as Chief Operating Officer of the Investment Banking Division in Europe.
Jack Heath
Founder, President and CEO
Jack Heath is the Founder, President and CEO of the Inspire USA Foundation. From 1997 to 2009 Jack was the Executive Director and Founder of the Sydney-based Inspire (Australia) Foundation which was established following on from the suicide of Jack’s 21 year old cousin on the family farm. Jack continues to serve as a director of the Inspire (Australia) Foundation and is a Director of the Inspire Ireland Foundation and CEO of Inspire.org (which coordinates Inspire’s international activities) both of which were established in 2008.
Jack is a Law and Honors Arts graduate from the University of Melbourne and has undertaken Nonprofit Executive courses at both Harvard (2001) and Stanford (2006) Universities.
Prior to founding Inspire, Jack worked in Government service including as a diplomat in Thailand where he was the catalyst for the Australian Government’s decision to build the Friendship Bridge linking Thailand and Laos by land for the first time. He was a member of the first Western delegation to meet with Cambodian President Hun Sen in 1989 while working closely with the Personal Advisers to Thai Prime Minister Chatichai. Jack served as the speechwriter to the Australian Trade and Foreign Affairs Ministers in 1993 and was a Senior Advisor and Speechwriter to Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1994. He was a Torchbearer for the Sydney 2000 Olympics and a national organizer for the Dalai Lama’s 2002 Australian tour. In 2003, Jack was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to the community and he received the Equity Trustees National Non Profit CEO Award for Innovation in 2004. In 2005 he was a NSW Finalist in the Australian of the Year Awards and in 2007 was the Ernst & Young Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2009 he was a TED Global Ambassador for the Charter for Compassion.
Jack and his family moved to San Francisco in early 2010 and love living in the Bay Area. Jack is husband to Catherine Milne and father to Lucy and Jamie. A follower of Tibetan Buddhism for over 13 years, he has spent far too much of his life doing overly serious things.
Annalisa Jenkins, M.D
Secretary, Treasurer and Director
Annalisa Jenkins, a cardiologist, has had a distinguished medical career in the British Royal Navy, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Over the last 10 years, she rapidly advanced to a senior executive position in a leading global pharmaceutical company, where she specializes in global drug development and global organizational leadership. More recently, Dr. Jenkins has applied her extensive experience in the corporate setting to building opportunities for young people and women through her leadership roles in the nonprofit sector. Dr. Jenkins is on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Suicidology, the Corporate Circle of the National Council for Research on Women, and was recently elected to the New York Women’s Forum.
Inspire USA Foundation Team
Our team is small, productive, and diverse in experience. Here’s who we are, and what we do.
Jack Heath
Founder, President and CEO
Susan Keys, Ph.D.
Special Advisor on Mental Health
Over the course of her career, Susan Keys has led, developed, monitored and evaluated school-based mental health and youth violence prevention programs and policies in collaboration with national centers, federal and state agencies, local school systems, and advocacy and consumer groups.
Most recently, Dr. Keys served as Chief of the Prevention Initiatives and Priority Programs Development Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) – a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There she oversaw SAMHSA’s youth violence prevention and suicide prevention initiatives, including the Safe Schools/Healthy Students and the Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention grant programs. Dr. Keys also provided leadership for Project Launch, an interagency national initiative focused on young child wellness.
Before joining SAMHSA in 2004, Dr. Keys was an Associate Professor and former Chair of the Counseling and Human Services Department at Johns Hopkins University, and also held a joint appointment in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also served as the Associate Director of Education for the John Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence.
Anastasia Goodstein
Director of Digital Programs
Anastasia is the founder of Ypulse, an award-winning blogger and often-quoted expert on American tweens, teens and early twentysomethings. She has worked in media for the past 15+ years and helped launch youth oriented web and television properties for brands like Oxygen, AOL and Current TV. She will never forget her roots having begun her career in the non-profit youth media space at Teen Voices. Anastasia was one of the first graduates of the Medill School of Journalism’s new media program at Northwestern University, where she earned an MSJ in 1999. Her first book about teens and technology called Totally Wired: What Teens & Tweens Are Really Doing Online was published by St. Martin’s Press. She currently works as the Director of Digital Programs for the Inspire USA Foundation. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter and 6-year-old Boxer.
Michelle Maynard
Director of Operations
Bio to be provided
Alexander De Raadt St James
Program Associate
Alexander de Raadt St. James is a program associate for ReachOut.com. With a background in non-profit content creation, web, music and media technology, Alex will be developing Inspire’s online content dissemination and its US Youth Outreach program. Alex has previously been a board member of the Althea Foundation and has contributed to programs at UCSF, the Bridgerail Foundation and kidscoop.com.
