Managing Partner, ICAP Partners
Ben Thornley is the founder of ICAP Partners, a strategic advisor on the business of impact investing. Ben started out as a financial journalist before moving first into government, working with the Australian Consultate-General, New York, and then the non-profit community finance sector, as an MD with Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) in San Francisco. Ben led PCV’s global research and consulting practice, working with partners at Duke, Harvard, and the World Economic Forum. He was tasked by the White House with making the first expert presentation to the Social Impact Investment Taskforce, convened under the UK’s 2013 Presidency of the G8. His clients and funders have included CalPERS, Citi, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Omidyar Network, and the UK Cabinet Office. Ben is the co-author of The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism (Jossey-Bass, 2015). He holds a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley, where he also taught leadership and political economy with former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich.