Kevin Lockett is a partner and chief financial officer at Fulcrum Global Capital, a venture capital fund focused on investments in the agriculture and animal health sectors. He is also a Kauffman Fellow and is responsible for the fund administration as well as identifying, evaluating, financing, and managing innovative food production, food safety, and food waste investment opportunities.While earning his bachelor’s degree in accounting from K-State University from 1993-1996, Kevin broke many school career records on the football field as the leading receiver for the Wildcats, as well as earning the distinction of two-time Academic All-American in 1995 & 1996. Kevin went on to play professional football for the Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, Jacksonville Jaguars, and New York Jets. In 1998, he and his family formed a nonprofit organization that encourages academic achievement in public schools.
Over the past 20 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario has worked regularly for the New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine covering every major conflict and humanitarian crisis, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Lebanon and South Sudan. She is the author of the book “It’s What I Do”, which chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world. Ms. Addario recently returned from being on assignment for the NY Times in Ukraine during the Russian invasion. Her photos were featured on the NY Times front page with their coverage of the events as they unfolded.
Ginger Kerrick has received many awards and honors in her career, but the most important to her was NASA’s prestigious Silver Snoopy award, which is given by NASA astronauts to employees and contractors for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success. In 2022, Kerrick was named Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Barrios Technology, a woman-owned and operated technology firm that supports NASA and industry partners with systems engineering, software engineering and integration, strategic planning, training, and other mission-critical technical services.
