Meet the team

Author, film producer, and serial pro-social entrepreneur. Co-founded the Starlight Children's Foundation (1982), Starbright World with Steven Spielberg (1990), First Star (1999), EDAR – Everyone Deserves a Roof (2005), and ASPIRE (2013). Producer of 26 films. Educated at Cambridge and UCLA Anderson; lives in Los Angeles with his wife Saryl.

Kevin Smith has been recognized by Barron's, Forbes, and the Financial Times as among the world's premier wealth advisors. His conviction that “the meaning of life is to live it in a way to make a meaningful difference” has guided his life and career choices. A wish to thank a Good Samaritan in a more meaningful way and pay her kindness forward inspired him to form the global nonprofit Kindness Worldwide with a vision “to create a culture of kindness in communities throughout the world.” The origin story of Kindness Worldwide and the global movement it became is the subject of the powerful award-winning film For Such a Time as This. In October 2024, Kevin delivered the keynote address at the 11th General Assembly of The World Kindness Movement in Palermo, Italy, calling on leaders at all levels — including every member of the United Nations — to elevate kindness to the global shared value that represents all of humanity. ROK is the platform to support the Kindness Worldwide global movement that a single act of kindness inspired. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Gettysburg College, Kevin and his wife Anne of 32 years live in York, PA and are the proud pet parents of their 12-year-old Bichon Frise Bella, an adorable lapful of charm in puffy white clouds of cotton-ball hair.

Michael Binko — aka ⟨ b|nko ⟩ — sees innovation and entrepreneurship as the launchfuel for healthy ecosystems and is passionate about celebrating those with the courage to STRT1UP®. binko is a serial entrepreneur, Innovation Ecosystem Builder, venture funder (angel+seed+VC), data scientist and brand-hound ideator having raised more than $2 billion in equity funding via global capital markets. binko's sweet-spot venture life cycle stages are late Bootstrap to Rampup/Scaleup when founders+teams are evaluated under the scrutiny lens of “Prove It at Scale.” binko has been a Venture Mentor | Sherpa to thousands of entrepreneurs and founding teams — keeping a warm spot for first-time founders.