Managing DirectorI-DEV International
Jason Spindler leads I-DEV’s global team, vision and strategy. Jason has over a decade of experience in global finance, venture capital, business management and industry development in both developed and emerging markets. Jason is a former investment banker from Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup. He later joined the private equity arm of turnaround specialists AlixPartner. Jason then moved from New York to Peru where he served as a business and economic development volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps and later helped launch a farmer-owned agri-business that today is an industry leading, multi-million dollar enterprise.
Jason has advised Fortune 500 Companies and leading impact sector organizations including Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Grupo Bimbo, Ashoka, Acumen Fund, the Grassroots Business Fund, and the Inter-American Development Bank on emerging markets investment and business strategies. He has been recognized as a leader in the impact investing and social entrepreneurship sectors and is a recipient of the prestigious Reynolds Fellowship for Social Innovation and the Helton Global Human Rights Fellowship.
Jason has a Juris Doctorate from New York University, with a specialization in Fund Structuring and Social Entrepreneurship. He also studied South Asian social entrepreneurship & development policy at the National University of Singapore’s International Law Program and received his B.B.A. in International Finance and his B.A. in International Development Economics from University of Texas-Austin.