Josie Taylor Gaillard,
Survey Manager
Josie Taylor Gaillard is an independent
business consultant to clients in the renewable energy and social
venture sectors. She has
spent nine years crisscrossing the private and non-profit sectors in a
variety of roles. Josie
began her career as a fixed income and equity analyst in Moscow,
Russia, where from 1994 to 1996 she provided western fund managers with
an insider’s view of Russia’s emerging capital markets and taught
Russian stock brokers how to trade derivatives.
Drawing on her finance experience, Josie
returned to the US and joined the start-up team at Fannie
Mae’s American Communities Fund. There she worked with fund
managers to structure equity investments in at-risk communities
throughout the US.
Seeking general management experience and an
opportunity to improve others’ lives, in 1997, Josie joined the Advisory Board Foundation, a
private family foundation in Washington, DC, where she managed a
program at the Hematology Unit of Russian Children's Hospital in Moscow
and helped launch ServiceCorps, an award-winning corporate volunteer
program that matches employees with outstanding local non-profits.
In 2000, Josie enrolled in the MBA program at
the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, where she took on several
leadership roles. As
Co-Chair of the National Social
Venture Competition, Josie helped define the competition’s
social return on investment (SROI) framework and led the competition
from a student-led effort to a $1.5 million national partnership of the
Haas School of Business, Columbia Business School and Goldman Sachs
Foundation. Josie was also
selected to participate in the Haas Leadership Forum, where she
delivered a speech on renewable energy, excerpts of which appear in the
most recent edition of Terry Pearce’s book, Leading Out Loud.
Josie’s background also includes serving as the
Director of Programs for the Women's
Technology Cluster, a San Francisco-based hi-tech
incubator. She currently
serves on the vestry at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley and
is the founder of the Renewable
Energy Business Network of California.
Josie
is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, and holds a bachelor’s degree
in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University and an
MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Contact:
josie_gaillard@mba.berkeley.edu
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