Senior Lecturer of Business AdministrationHarvard Business School
Brian Trelstad is the William Henry Bloomberg Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, the Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He is also a partner and board member of Bridges Fund Management, a global impact investment firm. Prior to HBS and Bridges, Brian was the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen, a pioneering impact investment firm that identifies market-based solutions to solving the problems of poverty, and he taught at the School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Brian is a founding co-chair of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, and a founding co-chair of Impact Capital Managers. He is a board member of Candid, the Global Development Incubator, and VisionSpring. Brian holds an MBA from Stanford, a MA in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley, and a BA from Harvard. He is a Kauffman Fellow and a Henry Crown Fellow.
