fighting for transparency
in democracy
TERRY GODDARD
Terry Goddard has spent his career fighting to expand citizen involvement in their government. As the ‘father’ of the district system in Phoenix, as a Mayor dedicated to opening the planning process to citizen input with the Phoenix Futures Forum and empowering Village Planning Committees, and as the Arizona Attorney General promoting consumer and civil rights and broad-based participation programs like Senior Sleuths and AG advisory groups, Terry kept working to increase opportunities for citizens to shape their community’s future. Today, Terry is fighting to get the Stop Dark Money initiative on the ballot and approved by Arizona voters. He believes secret, dark money in politics is a potent threat to our democracy. Terry needs your help to stop powerful people and corporations from secretly controlling our elections.
DAVID TEDESCO
David Tedesco is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the CEO and Founder of Outlier, a Phoenix based business that employs over 12,000 people across dozens of businesses worldwide.
David spent his career trying to find creative ways to make a difference. He’s had the opportunity to see the impact of Dark Money up close and how it corrupts the election process, at times leaving candidates feeling like spectators of their own campaigns. David realized that while stopping Dark Money in politics is an important idea that polls incredibly well, there was simply no natural solution for funding and organizing an effort to address the issue.
Convinced of the importance of this initiative, David decided to kickstart Stop Dark Money by providing foundational funding as well as office, personnel and technical resources to get off the ground early in this voting cycle. He continues to work to ensure that Stop Dark Money is successful, while remaining a truly non-partisan, non-party effort to simply make Arizona a better place to live, work and vote.
Robert Bertrand
Robert W. Bertrand is the founder of Concord Servicing Corporation and Concord Software Leasing Corporation, a technology-enabled loan servicing company headquartered in Scottsdale, servicing over 2 million accounts and employing approximately 300 employees in Scottsdale, AZ; Mexico City; Manila, Philippines; Sao Palo, Brazil; and Costa Rica . Prior to starting Concord, Bob served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Finalco Group, Inc., and before that served Greyhound Leasing & Financial Corp. in several executive roles, including President and Chief Executive Officer.
Bob started his professional career with Citibank after earning his Bachelor’s Degree in economics from Georgetown University, also studying economics at the University of Munich and Free University in Berlin, Germany, and earning his Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Over the years he has devoted himself to numerous other organizations, including the boards of advisors of both the University of Arizona and Arizona State University business schools; the board of directors of the Association of Equipment Lessors; the board of directors and Treasurer of Young Presidents Organization, Arizona Chapter; the board of directors and treasurer of the Harvard Business School Club of Arizona; the board of directors of U-Haul International; co-chairman of the committee “Outlaw Dirty Money 2020”; and trustee of Fordham Prep, Bronx, NY; among others.