Mark Beam

Overview

Senior Advisor to Halloran Philanthropies a U.S. based organization that invests internationally in micro-finance, sustainable energy, business impact, social innovation and community empowerment projects; Directs impact investments for Halloran while deeply involved in two projects - The Oaxaca Hub - a space and network in Oaxaca, Mexico supporting individual’s social initiatives that seek to improve well-being from the ground up; the World We All Want Project that develops positive scenarios and comprehensive worldviews based on real global data measuring human well-being; Together with Calvert Founder Wayne Silby, initiated a proposal to the Obama Administration to create the Enterprise Innovation Fund within the U.S. Government designed to foster social enterprise development through investment partnerships with private sector initiative and risk capital participation. Its influence helped lead the Small Business Administration to form a new $1 billion Impact Investment Fund. Co-Founder of SOCAP the Social Capital Markets Conference on money and meaning in San Francisco and a member of the Board of Directors of theBuckminster Fuller Institute that awards $100k annually to designerscientists solving humanities most pressing problems. Before turning my attention to the development of the social capital markets and impact investing I was a senior executive for several major Wall Street banks in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, and a new media entrepreneur in San Francisco. I'm also raising two boys from Oaxaca Mexico - the center of the universe - mine anyway :-)