About John Wood

John Wood is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Room to Read. At age 35, John left an executive career track at Microsoft Corporation to form Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that “combines the heart of Mother Theresa with the scalability of Starbucks” to help empower children across the developing world to break the cycle of poverty through the power of education. In his award-winning memoir, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children, John shares the compelling story of how Room to Read developed from a singular idea and a donkey-load of donated books into a global education movement. In the last nine years under John’s leadership, Room to Read become one of the fastest-growing nonprofits, impacting over 3 million children across Africa and Asia.

John Wood supports the following educational non-profits:

• Room to Read

Posted Sept. 11, 2009