Tracy Palandjian

Overview

Tracy Palandjian is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Social Finance, a nonprofit organization which is leading the development of Pay for Success projects and Social Impact Bonds, an innovative public private partnership. Previously, she was a Managing Director for 11 years at The Parthenon Group where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice and worked with foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions in the US and globally. Prior to Parthenon, Tracy worked at Wellington Management Co. and McKinsey & Co. For more than a decade, Tracy has dedicated herself to building a more impactful nonprofit sector by re-imagining the role of the capital markets in enabling social progress. She is co-author of Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes. Tracy is a frequent speaker and writer on impact investing and social innovation, having been covered in The Atlantic, The Economist, Forbes, and The New York Times.