Mary Galeti

Biography

Mary Galeti serves as the Executive Director & Vice-Chair of the Tecovas Foundation. The Tecovas Foundation funds social innovation & entrepreneurship by focusing on building community, leveraging new service models and sustainable economic development. Since 2009, Mary has led Tecovas to develop a concrete vision to increase the foundation’s capacity and effectiveness.
Galeti also serves as a Principal at Shiplake Partners, a boutique consultancy which helps institutions create and nurture relationships with the communities that exist both internally and externally. As a facilitator, she has helped organizations find consensus around values, mission, and strategy. She has worked with many organizations including the World Economic Forum, The White House, The Open Society Foundations, Independent Sector, the Council on Foundations, and NEXUS.
Mary served as a Global Board member of the Global Shapers Foundation, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. She was the Vice-Chair of the StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellowship Program. She served on the Board of the Council on Foundations, & chaired the Family Philanthropy Committee. In 2014, she was named a Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at the Lewis Institute at Babson College. She is a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Values. She is a Startingbloc Fellow and a member of the Global Shapers’ Washington, D.C. Hub. She has an Mst in Social Innovation from the University of Cambridge.
She has spoken on the issues of values based leadership and generational transition in philanthropy and the nonprofit space at many venues, including the White House, the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Council on Foundations, the Global Economic Symposium, the Smithsonian, and The Nexus Global Youth Summit at the United Nations.