PrincipalMercy Corps
Amanda brings her experience in social entrepreneurship to the impact investing initiatives of Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV). She currently leads MCV’s Impact & Insights unit that focuses on the fund’s and portfolio companies’ impact management and key learnings. She also led the daily management of the Innovation Investment Alliance, a funding and learning partnership between the Skoll Foundation and USAID, supported by Mercy Corps Ventures, that invested $60M in proven, transformative social enterprises to scale their impact--catalyzing an additional $160M in investment--and is publishing a series on how to scale social impact (Scaling Pathways) in collaboration with the CASE at Duke University. Prior to Mercy Corps, Amanda was Co-Founder of EcoZoom, a social enterprise and Certified B Corp in the clean energy sector (cookstoves and solar lights for developing countries). In less than five years EcoZoom’s founding team grew the company from $40,000 in initial funding to $10.5M in annual revenue (making the company #768 on the 2015 Inc. 5000 List) and opened offices in Mexico and Kenya. She holds a Master in Public Administration from the University of Oregon.
