Cofounder, AssembleRGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service
Mark Clayton Hand is Senior Consultant at MPA Advisors, which helps early stage companies and investment funds more effectively build and manage high-caliber teams. He is also a PhD Candidate at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, where he researches effective team-building in political campaigns and entrepreneurship in the rural U.S. He has taught at Oxford University, where he redesigned the core MBA entrepreneurship course; and at UT-Austin’s RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, where he designed and taught a course on social entrepreneurship.
Prior to his academic career Mark made, managed and supported investments in over 40 ventures through UnLtd USA (which became Techstars Impact), Gray Ghost Ventures, the Oxford Seed Fund, and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. He has taught entrepreneurship at Oxford's Saïd Business School and social entrepreneurship at the University of Texas. He spent his early career in community development, including founding Manna Project International's site in Ecuador.