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Social Enterprise Expansion Fund LP
- Regina Connell
- Jed Emerson
- Bart Houlahan
- R. Todd Johnson
- Legacy Venture
- Kim Smith
- Douglas S. Solomon, Ph.D.
- Mark Van Ness
- Huoy-Ming Yeh
Gary is President of Microcast Communications, a strategy consulting and integrated media company. He is the former Chief Operating Officer for Evolve Software, and VP Marketing for Network Products Corp. He was the editorial director of Interactive Week, Yahoo! Internet Life, Network Computing, and Smart Partner, and was the on-screen host of TechTV’s "Working the Web." He was general manager of Ziff Davis’ online group, and editorial director of its custom events group. Gary has also done strategy consulting for organizations such as Silicon Valley Bank, Goldman Sachs, Intel, and McKinsey.
Regina is the founder of Saltcellar Productions, a strategy and brand consultancy firm providing advice to corporations, professional services organizations, non-profits and social enterprises. Most of her career has been spent in consulting, including tenures at Proxicom, Landor Associates, Fantus (now part of Deloitte & Touche) and Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Regina holds a JD from Hastings and a BA from Stanford. Regina was a founding partner and board member of Social Venture Partners – Bay Area, and works in an advisory capacity with numerous non-profits on strategic messaging and initiatives, and network development.
Jed serves as Senior Fellow for Research and Evaluation for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; Strategic Advisor to Sun Ranch (Montana); and Senior Fellow with the Generation Foundation (London). He also serves as an Expert Advisor to the Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University and as a Visiting Fellow with the Skoll Center on Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School (Oxford University). He was Founding Director of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund and the Larkin Street Youth Center (San Francisco). His work focuses upon how capital and organizations may maximize their full value potential, including economic performance and environmental/social impacts. His papers/articles are posted at www.blendedvalue.org.
Bart is a founder of B Lab, which is pioneering new corporate standards for social and environmental performance (www.bcorporation.net). Prior to B Lab, Bart served as CFO, COO and President of AND 1, a $250M basketball footwear, apparel and entertainment company. As the principal operator of the business, Bart joined AND 1 in its second year, when revenues totaled just $4M. Over the next 11 years, Bart helped finance, operate and scale the business to $250M in brand revenues with distribution in 85 countries world wide. AND 1 undertook a leveraged recapitalization in 1999 with TA Associates, and eventually was sold in May 2005 to American Sporting Goods. Before AND 1, Bart was an investment banker with Stonebridge Associates, BNY Associates, and Prudential-Bache Securities, specifically focused on providing corporate finance and merger and acquisition services to small-capital businesses ranging in size from $20M to $500M. Bart graduated from Stanford University.
Todd is a partner with the law firm Jones Day. Todd now heads the Firm's corporate practice in Northern California. During his 18 years at Jones Day, Todd has represented public and private corporations in a variety of major negotiated transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, private and public offerings of debt and equity securities, and special structured financing transactions designed to leverage intangible assets that are most often transnational and are sometimes structured to gain additional tax or accounting benefits), venture capital funds and private companies in venture capital investments, and directors or special committees of large public companies. In the past year, Todd has represented Goldman Sachs in Solectron's sale of Klavico, Houlihan Lokey as investment advisor in Ashland, Inc.'s $2.9 billion sale of certain businesses to Marathon Oil, IBM in its acquisition of CrossAccess, Bank of America in $1.2 billion of financings, Isuzu Motors of America in its North American restructuring with General Motors, SunPlus in its acquisition of the optical storage division of Oak Technology, and Metering Technology in its sale to Echelon. Todd received his BA from Miami University (Ohio) and his J.D in 1988 from The Catholic University of America (Note and Comment Editor, Law Review). Admitted Maryland, District of Columbia, and California.
Legacy Venture, Chris Eyre and Russ Hall. Legacy is a unique investment group dedicated to philanthropy and founded in 1999. Legacy invests in premier venture funds on behalf of families and foundations that will target all returns to the non profits of their choice. Legacy currently has $450 million under management, and its investors have already benefited from investments in YouTube, NetFlix, PayPal, Seagate, and many other companies from the funds Legacy has invested in. Legacy investors also participate in regular events to spur sharing of philanthropic information, passions, and best practices among investors. Chris and Russ are the managing directors of Legacy. Chris is a graduate of Harvard Business School and a founder of the venture firm Merrill Pickard Anderson & Eyre. Russ is a graduate of Stanford Business School and a founder of Legacy. Chris and Russ are sharing an advisory position to Good Capital.
Kim co-founded NewSchools Venture Fund in 1998 to transform public education by supporting education entrepreneurs. In NewSchools, Kim created a new "hybrid" approach to investing in social entrepreneurs. NewSchools uses grants, loans and equity investments to support a portfolio that includes nonprofit and for-profit entrepreneurs who are building sustainable, scalable education ventures. Kim served as CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund from 1998 until the fall of 2005, and currently serves on NewSchools’ Board of Directors. Kim began her career as a consultant specializing in business-education partnerships. In 1989, she became a founding team member of Teach For America (TFA). She then put her TFA experience to work in the post of founding director of BAYAC AmeriCorps, a consortium of nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area working to develop young leaders in education. Kim's background includes marketing experience with Silicon Graphics' Education Industry Group, where she focused on the online learning industry, and her role as the founding director of a trade show venture. Kim holds a bachelor's degree in political science and psychology from Columbia College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2001, Kim was featured in Newsweek's report on the "Women of the 21st Century" as "the kind of woman who will shape America's new century." She is a member of the 2002 Class of Henry Crown Fellows of the Aspen Institute. Kim has also served on many education venture and advisory boards; these currently include EdVoice, the National Council on Teacher Quality, and the Stanford University School of Education.
Douglas brings over 25 years of leadership experience in the information technology industry and a passion for applying business concepts and practices far beyond the business world itself. Most recently, Doug was Vice President of Investments for Omidyar Network. He established a unique $400 million investment fund created by Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay. The fund combines investments in both for-profit as well as not-for-profit organizations, all focused on significant social impact. It has created a new cross-sector approach to investing for social impact as well as an extensive portfolio of nearly 70 organizations in technology, new media, microfinance and other sectors. Doug also had responsibility for Omidyar Network’s online collaborative community and its strategy functions. Prior to that, Doug was Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Palm Inc. He led the separation of Palm into two public companies. Before joining Palm, Doug was co-president of Interval Research Corporation, a company within Paul Allen's portfolio. At the beginning of his career, Doug was a forerunner in a field then known as public sector marketing. He worked extensively on applying commercial concepts to a wide variety of health and other social programs in both the U.S. and Asia. He was research director of a major multi-center disease prevention program at Stanford University and a faculty member at Stanford Medical School.
Mark is Chief Executive Officer of Sperry Van Ness which he co-founded in 1987. Sperry Van Ness is one of the leading and fastest growing brands in commercial real estate, with offices in 40 states. Van Ness has been recognized as an innovative leader by Ernst and Young as a finalist in their Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mark is very active with mission-based organizations as a leader in Social Enterprise locally and microfinance internationally. He is a Founding Member of the Center for Social Enterprise Advisory Board, the Founder of the Social Enterprise Loan Fund (SELFund), providing loans and venture capital to nonprofit organizations in order to advance their mission-based earned income strategies and the Founder of the Social Enterprise Institute. As part of the Institute he leads the Social Enterprise Institute Leadership Forum, a peer group learning environment comprised of Executive Directors committed to creating a legacy of self-sufficiency. Van Ness is a member of the international YPO Microfinance Action Forum and the Presidents Action Network.
Ming is Partner of SmartForest Ventures and Director of PacRim Venture Partners, a venture capital firm she co-founded in 1999. PacRim Venture Partners, which has investors from the U.S. and strategic partners and investors from Greater China, specializes in early stage information technology investments located in Silicon Valley. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Ming worked as investment consultant at Technology Funding, where she focused on deal sourcing, due diligence and deal management. Prior to joining Technology Funding in 1998, Ming spent two years at Lehman Brothers as an associate in the Global Technology Investment Banking and Advisory group where she and completed M&A and public offerings for venture stage companies. Previously, Ming worked for seven years as a microprocessor design engineer for Sun Microsystems, Amdahl and Prime Computer. During her years at Sun, Ming was a key design engineer and the co-architect of the multiple instruction dispatch unit on the UltraSPARC I processor, and earned three patents for her work. Ming holds a B.A. in Physics from Wellesley College, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California and an MBA from MIT.
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