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How We Started

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Hub Bay Area is part of a family of social enterprises focused on supporting innovative ideas for a radically better world. Three years ago, Kevin Jones and Tim Freundlich founded Good Capital – a Bay Area investment firm that increases the flow of capital to social ventures that address inequality and poverty. A community of passionate entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, funders, activists, and community leaders emerged around Good Capital. This momentum soon translated into the creation of the Social Capital Markets Conference . SoCap brings together the broad ecosystem of funders, foundations, and individual investors/donors with for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurs who use business to make change.

The Hub was a contributor to the first SoCap Conference in 2008 and there was an instant alignment of ideas. In December 2008, a partnership was created and Hub Bay Area was born. Our intention is to create a series of Hubs over the next few years throughout the Bay Area to support local social innovators build and scale their solutions for change.

Together, the emerging communities surrounding Good Capital, SoCap, and The Hub are building the social economy one brick at a time. Come visit us at our first location at the David Brower Center in Berkeley to see what we’re creating!

If you're interested in interning or working for Hub Bay Area, please email your cover letter and resume to bayarea.hosts@the-hub.net.

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Who We Are

Executive Board:

Tim Freundlich is the Senior Vice President of Calvert Social Investment Foundation – a 501(c)3 non-profit finance company managing a range of products that bring together the philanthropy and social investment spaces. Tim also spends his time as the Co-Founding and Managing Partner of Good Capital (www.goodcap.net), a boutique social investment R+D lab and the General Partner of its first venture fund offering, the Social Enterprise Expansion Fund LP. Good Capital is a strategic partner of Calvert Foundation. Finally, Tim is a Senior Advisor to Hub Bay Area and to SoCap. He received a BA in Film from Wesleyan University (CT) and an Executive MBA from the University of San Francisco.

The convener of SoCap, Kevin Jones creates information businesses inside emerging markets. Besides Socap, Kevin is founder of Good Capital and a special advisor to Hub Bay Area. He also also successfully built and sold six different enterprises. As a journalist, he has been a columnist for Forbes and Business 2.0 magazines. Kevin also led a malaria project in Zwaziland and Mozambique, working with Jeff Sachs of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Finally, during his 20 year business career in Mississippi he was heavily involved in public school advocacy.

Rosa Lee Harden is the Co-Producer of SoCap and a special advisor to Hub Bay Area. For 25 years she was an owner and publisher of newspapers, magazines and trade journals, accomplishing turnarounds and launching successful startups that became the major publications in their markets before she sold them. She led the Habitat for Humanity affiliate in Jackson, MS., to become the largest per capita in the U.S., building more than 300 houses and transforming entire neighborhoods. A community builder in all of her activities, Rosa Lee has led a thriving and welcoming local Episcopal Church in San Francisco for eight years.


Staff:

Alex Michel is the Managing Director of Hub Bay Area. Before The Hub, Alex was the Director of Communications and Organizational Development at the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD). At FSD, Alex developed new grassroots development programs in Africa and Asia, directed outreach and operations, and built a spectrum of earned revenue programs. He has also been on the founding team of six social enterprises over the last 11 years and continues to support the work of many Bay Area organizations. He holds a business degree from the University of Washington and a master's degree in psychology and philosophy from John F. Kennedy University. In his spare time, Alex has traveled, studied, and volunteered extensively in the developing world. Email Alex at alex.michel@the-hub.net .

Eugene Chan is Hub's Operations Director. He has a background in nonprofit technology and community development serving as director of technology and grantmaker at ZeroDivide, a technology and media foundation.  He is the cofounder of two community technology initiatives: GrantsFire, a web-aggregator of grant information and EdText, text messaging updates for school families.  He lives in Berkeley where he loves to take photos of his family and the world around him. eugene.chan@the-hub.net

Calgary Brown is Hub's Event Director.  Prior to joining The Hub, she was living in the Big Apple where she recently served as President of the NYC Professional Chapter of Net Impact; an international non-profit organization that mobilizes individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. Calgary was active with the chapter for over 3 years, producing high impact events and programs, working with many of New York's leading social innovators and organizations.  As a result of her leadership, she was recognized as a 2009 Net Impact Distinguished Member and also selected as a 2010 StartingBloc Fellow.  While involved with Net Impact, Calgary worked in the financial services industry at Moody's focusing on marketing, product strategy, and strategic communications for the company's research and financial data products.  Prior to that, she worked overseas in higher education in Dublin, Ireland and at an Internet start up company in Leipzig, Germany.   Calgary earned her bachelor's degree from the University of San Francisco in Business Administration.  Email Calgary at calgary.brown@the-hub.net

Meredith Walters is the Head Host at Hub Berkeley. She has over nine years experience working as a community organizer, program director, volunteer consultant, and intern at mission-driven organizations in the U.S. and Mexico. She is currently a member of the board of directors of Natural Home Cleaning, a cooperative green housecleaning business in Oakland and partner of WAGES. Meredith received her BA from UC Berkeley and her MBA from the University of San Francisco’s Masagung School of Business where she was a McClaren Fellow with an emphasis in entrepreneurship. Meredith can be reached at meredith.walters@the-hub.net .







Tim Nichols is the Head Host at Hub SoMa. He is too lazy for bios. Email Tim at tim.nichols@the-hub.net .

Amy Benziger is an Associate Producer for SOCAP and a regular conspirator with Hub. Prior to SoCap, Amy was the youngest sales specialist for Diageo North America, managing San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. Amy is a graduate of Dartmouth College with a B.A. in History with an emphasis on social activism. A lifelong traveler, she has lived and worked in Mexico, Spain, Argentina and Thailand. Email Amy at amy.benziger@the-hub.net .

Jon Axtell is also an Associate Producer for SOCAP and a regular conspirator with Hub. Prior, Jon worked for two years helping start-up a social enterprise based in Zambia.  He speaks Mandarin Chinese and has lived in and visited China numerous times.  Jon received his MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.  Email Jon at Jon.Axtell@the-hub.net .

Wes Selke is the Investment Manager at Good Capital.  He leads investment management for the Social Enterprise Expansion Fund, which includes deal sourcing, due diligence, and transaction execution.  He is also actively engaged with portfolio companies and is a Board Observer for Better World Books and Adina for Life.  Wes has eight years of investment management and transaction experience in the financial services industry and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.  Prior to Good Capital, he spent two years as an Equity Research Associate at William Blair & Company where he authored proprietary research on public equities in the Advertising, Digital Media, and Marketing industries and provided assistance on public capital market transactions.  Before William Blair, Wes spent four years with Ernst & Young Corporate Finance where he advised privately held middle-market companies on mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring transactions.  Wes earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a BBA from the University of Michigan with an emphasis in Finance and Accounting.  Wes is passionate about international development and worked with a variety of organizations that are seeking to alleviate poverty in the developing world including Foundation for His Ministry, which operates three orphanages in Mexico, and the Wildlife Conservation Society in Zambia. He is also a Board Advisor for NamasteDirect, a non-profit organization that supports microfinance in Central America.  Wes can be reached at wes@goodcap.net .

Jennifer Nice is Vice President, Business Development at Good Capital.  Jennifer has worked to advance the socially responsible investment category for the past seven years.  She worked to develop new distribution channels for The Women's Equity Mutual Fund and during her tenure also pursued the launch of a new institutional fund targeting Community Development investments.  Jennifer has worked on development private placements that have targeted a variety of categories including solar energy and microcredit and has also been active in the creation of Donor Advised Fund Programs with Foundations that highlight socially responsible investing.  Previously she served as the COO of a global consulting firm that focused on the high tech and marketing industries.  Jennifer received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently sits on the Board of the Bootstrap Fund.  Jennifer can be reached at jennifer.nice@goodcap.net .

Santiago Halty is Hub Berkeley's community attractor.  He has a B.A in Economics from UC San Diego, where he specialized in international development. He is too busy getting change makers in the East Bay (organizations and individuals) into Hub Berkeley and using the power of sports to transform the lives of young people.  Santiago can be reached at santiago.halty@the-hub.net .