Dan Crisafulli, Managing Director
Founded Potrero Impact Advisors in 2010, building on an extensive career in global emerging markets and U.S. impact investing. Dan brings his own experience to bear and collaborates with other thought leaders on specific assignments
Served as investment director at the Skoll Foundation from 2007-2010, where Dan built the impact investing program and executed direct and fund investments. While at Skoll, he played a key role in creating leading impact investing organizations including the Global Impact Investing Network and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
Cofounded the technology venture capital group at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, where he invested in emerging markets technology companies with social impact. Led investments including the pioneering Indian digital animation company DQ Entertainment which had a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange, Indian semiconductor design company NewPath, and TRG, a leading Pakistani technology service company. He also served on the boards of investees in Russia, Mexico, and Vietnam
Managed the Development Marketplace (DM), the World Bank’s innovation fund. Led expansion of the DM from a $3.5 million to a $10 million annual program by mobilizing 80 percent of the funding from external investors. The DM was designated a “best practice” in corporate innovation by the Harvard Business Review. Earlier work at the World Bank focused on technology development and financial sector reform in Latin America
A.B. summa cum laude from Dartmouth College; inducted into Phi Beta Kappa during junior year. Master’s of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Kennedy Scholar. Worked and traveled in 70 countries
Served as advisor to the Presidents’ Council on Impact Investing and as member of the Board of Directors and Credit Risk Committee of Root Capital, a social investment fund based in Cambridge, MA