Driven by Impact
Strategic counsel for people with ambitious ideas and complex challenges that will accelerate knowledge creation to solve world problems. Thought partnership that will strengthen research and education funding models.
Guidance for Family Offices
Trusted counsel for executives, founders, philanthropists, and family offices navigating consequential decisions, competing priorities, and significant philanthropic investments.
CLIENT EXAMPLE: UHNWI seeks to retain counsel to establish their foundation with second-generation concerns. The family unifies with a strategy to achieve impact on a particular world problem.
Venture Philanthropy Expertise
Guidance for establishing venture philanthropy funds and aligned programs. Developing new models in philanthropy and philanthro-capitalism.
CLIENT EXAMPLE: A healthcare hedge fund with a non-profit foundation is looking to bring together top researchers and disease advocacy groups to align capital and accelerate the development of cures for a rare disease.
Connection for Sectors
Connecting people and start-ups pursuing solutions that require collaboration across sectors, disciplines, organizational and international boundaries.
CLIENT EXAMPLE: A pre-cloud software-defined infrastructure company- key to precision medicine- is looking to connect with an R1 university to establish scale.
Advisor to Academic Research
Guidance for global academic research community, non-profits, industry and government officials. Develop solutions for hastening timeline of discovery to impact with a cross sector approach
CLIENT EXAMPLE: An international biodiversity non-profit- key to natural product drug discovery- is looking to expand its revenue streams with both capital investment and philanthropy and avoid financial insolvency. The pipeline is critical to ensure NIH-funded research can be conducted by R1 university academics.
Philanthropic Campaign Strategy
Advise US based non-profits and research universities and institutions with expertise on interdisciplinary research thematics and student support campaigns. Develop global strategies for international organizations seeking to replicate US based fundraising models.
CLIENT EXAMPLE: A domestic non-profit supporting a global research institute aims to unify for a global fundraising campaign.