The core team of Criterion Ventures is responsible for moving forward projects, and engaging the breadth of our network, its creative resources and reach.

 

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Joy Anderson is a prominent national leader at the intersection of business and social change. She began as a high school teacher in New York City Public Schools. She went to New York to understand how power works in big systems and stayed for eight years because she fell in love with the students. Joy played leadership roles in the teachers union and managed federally funded programs for the school and the district.

Jackie VanderBrug is an entrepreneur with experience in all three sectors of our economy and a passion for business models that blur the lines and create real social change.  As Managing Director of Criterion Ventures she leads major initiatives and is responsible for the quality and impact of the firm’s work.  Current initiatives include field building around a gender lens in impact investing, research on investments that shape the educational market and placed based work combining community development and urban education.

At CSC Index, a global strategy firm, Jackie led consulting teams, delivering strategic marketing, process and organizational planning counsel to Fortune 500 companies.   She also worked with the Chicago Public Schools for nine months, redesigning their recruiting and hiring processes.  Jackie left CSC Index to join the start-up team of iBasis, now a $1 billion Internet telecommunications firm.  As vice president of business development, she forged early relationships with Cisco, HP and other technology leaders.  Subsequently, she cofounded WORK IN PROGRESS, a non-profit social enterprise enabling underprivileged youth to develop the social networking skills required for finding internships and developing careers.  This effort launched her into a series of consulting assignments, where she met Joy Anderson and joined Criterion Ventures.  

She holds a degree in mathematics from Calvin College and an MBA from the University of Michigan (Ross), where she was at the founding meeting of Students for Responsible Business (now Net Impact).  Jackie served as Member of the Board of Trustees for Calvin College for nine years and is currently on the vestry at Trinity Church, Copley Square and the Advisory Board for the Social Venture Fund at the University of Michigan.   She lives with her husband and two kids under five in Somerville MA, only a short T ride from some of the best hot chocolate in the world.

Kirsten Bunch is Director of Development and Engagement at Criterion Ventures where she is leading the effort to engage a set of forward-thinking individuals to support Criterion’s market-shaping initiatives under the philosophy that it is both a responsibility and a source of pride for individuals to play a part in changing markets to create positive environmental and social change.  

Marcella Martinez holds a political science degree from Wesleyan University. Always fascinated with systems and power, she started off her career in New York City at a corporate law firm. She has worked with Students International for three months supporting work sites in the Dominican Republic. She also volunteer staffed and eventually directed an internship program with Intervarsity that connected college students to inner city agencies through summer immersion programs. Through work at a non-profit called CouldYou? she helped individuals find their own unique contribution to impacting poverty that led immersion trips to Mozambique, Africa. During this time, she traveled extensively in Mozambique and South Africa doing project development and thoroughly enjoyed the privilege of learning and exploring the many aspects of African culture. During her international travels, she met her husband and has since relocated to England, where she continues her work with Criterion in seeking social change through shaping markets. 

Anna works at Criterion Ventures across projects, with a specific programmatic focus on the Women Effect Investments initiative. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Anna was initially interested in public sector approaches to social change and often spent her days knocking on doors for political campaigns. After service trips to Puerto Rico and Honduras in high school, she began to think more about how often people cannot rely on their governments alone to provide for them and became increasingly interested in innovative systems change that combines private sector, public sector, and third sector approaches. 

As an investment professional with a focus on impact and women-led business investments, Amy has spent most of her career working at private credit and equity funds. As an original investment team member at PennantPark Investment Advisers, Amy focused on providing debt and equity financing to middle market companies. She previously worked at DLJ Investment Partners (Credit Suisse's mezzanine fund) and Jefferies (investment banking).

Liz is in transition to more fully focus her business activity on social enterprises. A former big 4 consultant and senior executive in financial services, Liz has broad exposure to the investment management industry. She has been consulting with various for-profit and non-profit organizations while studying to complete her MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School. Liz began her interest in supporting women in leadership during her days studying Political and Economic Development at Wellesley College, where she got her B.A. Having worked on executive teams with varying levels of gender diversity, Liz understands the difference that can make to the enterprise and women in it.

 

Patrick is a native New Yorker, the son of a Jamaican cabinet maker and a New York attorney.  A graduate of New York City schools, he attended Harvard University earning the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980.  He earned his Master of Divinity degree from the New York Theological Seminary in 1993.  Currently, Rev. Duggan is on pace to earn the Doctor of Ministry degree from NYTS in May of 2013.