[5][12] The two youths' entrepreneurial spirit caught the attention of Rupert Murdoch, and they were accepted for internships at Fox News; while there they created and submitted a course for entrepreneurs at Salisbury School.

[11][13] Swift and Logothetis subsequently worked at British Sky Broadcasting in London, where they helped the media company reach out to Millennials.

[11][13] Swift and Logothetis also worked at News Corporation; while there they created a two-year entrepreneurship education program for inner-city high school students in the South Bronx called Entrepreneur 360 (E360).

[18][3] In 2011, he co-founded with Scott Caputo the political action committee Concord 51, aimed at bringing young professionals into the Republican party by encouraging politicians to focus exclusively on fiscal conservatism, energy advancement, and national defense rather than social issues which young voters found divisive.

[24][25] Noting the effectiveness of the formats of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council and the Clinton Global Initiative,[21][26][27] they founded Concordia as a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that helps develop cross-sector collaboration[28] and public-private partnerships (P3s), in the belief that the most effective and sustainable way to find solutions to pressing global issues is through cooperation between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

[2] The duo's mentors Kwasniewski and Aznar became members of Concordia's Leadership Council,[31][2] and helped attract former and current world leaders as speakers.

[34][21][35] Subsequent annual Concordia Summits addressed diverse global topics, and speakers have included Bill Clinton,[20] John McCain,[27] Joe Biden,[36] Warren Buffett,[20] and a variety of current and former international heads of state and business leaders.

[20][34][23][22] The organization and the annual summit had also gained significant recognition, especially in light of the discontinuation of the Clinton Global Initiative after 2016.