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Catherine
Clark, Director
Catherine Clark
is an experienced social investor, foundation executive, consultant and
educator. In
2001, she joined the faculty of Columbia
Business School
to shape social venture and social entrepreneurship activities for Columbia’s Eugene M. Lang Center
for Entrepreneurship and the Social
Enterprise Program. She teaches the
school’s flagship course on social entrepreneurship, and founded
and directs Columbia’s
Research Initiative on Social
Entrepreneurship. Clark
also serves as Faculty Advisor at Columbia
for the Global Social Venture
Competition, a project which identifies and rewards exemplary
nonprofit and for-profit social ventures with involvement by MBA
students across the US
and abroad. In
addition to her work at Columbia,
she acts as a consultant to foundations, investment firms and social
entrepreneurs.
Previously,
Ms. Clark was founder and Managing Director of the Flatiron Future
Fund, a social venture fund, and President of the Flatiron Foundation,
both incubated by Flatiron
Partners, a JP Morgan Partners affiliate. Before that, she managed grants and program-related
investments as Vice President of the Markle Foundation in New York. She
began her career in Washington, DC, where she worked as part of The Aspen
Institute’s Communications and Society Program and on development
in Pakistan
for the US Agency for International Development.
Ms.
Clark is Acting Chair of Investors’
Circle, a national membership organization of social investors,
and Advisory Board Chair of Commons
Capital, LP, a venture fund investing in health, clean energy,
the environment and education. Ms. Clark holds a BA from the University of Virginia
and an MBA from Columbia
Business School.
Contact: cathy@cathyhc.com
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