Lindsey Spindle

Biography

Lindsey Spindle is President of The Jeff Skoll Group. Working for renown entrepreneur Jeff Skoll, Lindsey helps oversee and connect Mr. Skoll’s network of philanthropic, commercial, and personal interests including Participant, Capricorn Investment Group, The Rise Fund, and the Skoll Foundation where she also serves as a Board director.

Lindsey has dedicated her career to shaping progressive organizations that improve people’s lives, particularly women and children. She was Chief Communications and Brand Officer of Share Our Strength, a nonprofit focused on ending childhood hunger in America through its groundbreaking No Kid Hungry campaign. Under her leadership, the campaign won PR Week’s prestigious Non-Profit Campaign of the Year in 2015.

Before focusing on hunger alleviation, Lindsey spent nearly 20 years in healthcare communications, policy, and government relations. She has directed daring national campaigns that curbed youth smoking by 30% in one year, increased patient safety through reduced medical errors, defended vaccine safety, and secured bipartisan Congressional funding for improving healthcare quality.

Lindsey was a pioneer member of the first class of girls to attend the Lawrenceville School and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She is on the Board of Trustees at the Viewpoint School in Calabasas, California; advises the Rise Fund; and serves on the Next Generation Council of the Shoah Foundation.

Lindsey and her husband David are proud parents to two children ages 19 and almost 12. She is a book-a-week reader (recommendations all available on Instagram!), avid hiker, and adventurous cook. Lindsey mentors mothers in the workplace, particularly in their first year returning to work when the concept of work/life balance seems particularly difficult.