it is in that setting that it's my distinct honor to introduce a friend of mine, paul poleman.ust this evening, more than 900 million people around our planet will go to bed hungry. and it's unfortunate that more than 500 million of them are young children. and many of them because of their chronic hunger will not have the stroept fight the next illness and will succumb when they should persevere. many will not have the strength for their brains to develop so can grow and contribute to make their world more productive. it's in that world where we're able to honor tonight a business leader, paul poleman, who runs a massive consumer goods company and has a very impressive background at nestle and other firms. and he brings an absolute and unique commitment to ensuring that business leaders around our world commit themselves to literally ending hunger, ending preventable child death, and making sure that the reach of modern capitalism touches even those families that sometimes are forgotten. and it's with his perspective that corporate ceos and corporate entities have both the res