Brian Boland

Board member since 2020

Brian Boland

Board Member

Brian Boland is the co-founder of the Delta Fund, along with his wife, Katie. The Delta Fund invests time and energy into organizations that demonstrate measurably successful and scalable programs focused on poverty alleviation and justice reform.

Brian was also a Vice President at Facebook, where he oversaw strategy, operations and engineering teams working on a broad array of Facebook products and services. He worked there for 11 years.

Prior to joining Facebook, Brian spent time as an entrepreneur, working at an agency and in product roles at Microsoft. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy.

Caroline Bressan

Board member since 2019

Caroline Bressan

Board Member

Caroline Bressan is the Director of Social Investments at Open Road Alliance, which she joined in 2015. She leads Open Road’s Social Investment team where she manages both the grant and the Open Road Ventures loan portfolios, funding unexpected roadblocks for non-profits and social enterprises.

Prior to Open Road, Caroline was an Investment Principal at Dalberg Capital, the investment advisory wing of Dalberg. There she focused on D. Capital’s impact investment advisory offerings, building a pipeline of investment opportunities in Sub Saharan Africa, specifically in energy and agriculture. Caroline also worked on the design and structuring of innovative financing mechanisms, including impact bonds and social impact insurance.

Previously, Caroline was an Investment Officer at Calvert Impact Capital (formerly Calvert Foundation) where she managed its $20 million portfolio mainly focused on Latin America. At Calvert, she originated and managed a pipeline of lending and investment deals focused on the sustainable trade, social enterprise, and financial inclusion sectors. Caroline received her MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. She speaks English and Spanish. Caroline is also the chair of the board of the social enterprise, InspiraFarms.

Kumar Ganapathy

Board Member since 2022

Kumar Ganapathy

Board Member

Kumar Ganapathy believes in the power of entrepreneurship to positively impact the world. He has been a serial technology entrepreneur  and angel investor for over 25 years in Silicon Valley.  Recently, he is a founder and Managing Director of 3iPartners, an early stage impact fund that invests in promising social entrepreneurs in India in the areas of Agriculture, Livelihood, Education and Healthcare. 3iPartners’ mission is to enable societal change through entrepreneurship, and has invested in 10+ impact startups in India over the past 2 years. He is an investor and board advisor to Peopleshores (creating tech jobs to underprivileged communities in the US), has recently joined the board of Upaya Ventures, and is associated with other nonprofits in the Bay area and India.

Kumar has founded multiple successful start-ups over the past 25 years across Telecom and Enterprise IT infrastructure : (i) VxTel (acquired by Intel in 2001) for Voice-over-IP carrier technology, (ii) Virident (acquired by Western Digital in 2013) for high-performance flash storage technology, (iii) Enterprise labs, a “foundry” for Enterprise Cloud startups, where he helped launch multiple companies (Akridata, PrimaryIO, Ampool, DeepVision) over the past 5 years. He is currently Chairman of Akridata (Visual AI Platform) and board member at Position2 (Digital advertising), and angel investor in a number of tech startups. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Kumar was Principal Engineer and Fellow of Conexant and Rockwell Semiconductor.

Kumar has received his Ph.D from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), MS from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, Fellow of Conexant/Rockwell, and Siemens Gold medal winner at IIT. Kumar has over 75 patents and 12 technical publications.  He loves to ski with his wife and two children, as well as hike and travel with friends and family.

Bill Harrington

Board member since 2022

Bill Harrington

Board Member

Bill Harrington is the managing director of a non-profit investment vehicle, Vista Ventures Social Impact Fund, which mentors and provides initial investments to promising social impact start-ups in East Africa and India.  These companies are engaged in a wide variety of businesses from construction of fire-proof slum dwellings in Nairobi to cold storage facilities for smallholder farmers in rural India.  The goal is to provide the guidance and capital necessary for early-stage social entrepreneurs to qualify for their first round of commercial capital from angel and seed investors.  One of Vista Ventures’ social entrepreneurs was one of five winners of the 2022 Earthshot Prize which resulted in an award of £1 million.  

Bill’s prior experience includes over 20 social impact investments in the US, East Africa and  India.  He has been a consultant and investment advisor to early-stage companies which has included work with entrepreneurs in energy efficiency in the US as well as consulting with microfinance institutions, mostly on raising commercial capital.  The microfinance work included travel throughout Latin America, East and West Africa, Pakistan, India and the Philippines.  He sharpened his investing and portfolio management skills with advanced technology companies while serving as executive vice president of Ben Franklin Technology Partners.  

Bill has a master’s degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College.

Kusi Hornberger

Board member since 2019

Kusi Hornberger

Board Member

Kusi Hornberger is an Associate Partner in the Washington, DC office of Dalberg Advisors. Kusi co-leads Dalberg’s impact investing practice area and is particularly passionate about the use of innovative finance and technology to accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Kusi’s recent work includes various projects at the intersection of impact investing/blended finance and agriculture, global health and financial services sectors. For example, in the agriculture sector, Kusi led a financial benchmarking of social lenders providing loans to agricultural small and medium enterprises. In the health sector, Kusi created an estimate funding need for Community Health Workers globally. In the financial services sector, he developed case studies on how data analytics and partnerships can be used to improve the sustainability of financial services to smallholder farmers

Prior to joining Dalberg, Kusi was Vice-President of Investment Research at Global Partnerships, an impact-first investor with investments across Central/South America and East Africa. He also has experience working as a management consultant at Bain & Company in South America and as an Investment Officer with the International Finance Corporation.

Kusi holds a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD Business School in Singapore, a Master of Public Administration in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

Asawari Raorane Agrawal

Board member since 2017

Asawari Raorane Agrawal

Board Member

Asawari's passion for the fight against Global Poverty stems from her personal experiences growing up in Kenya, India and Oman.

She has worked at organizations like Kiva, where she was responsible for growing and managing Kiva's network of Microfinance partners in Asia, as well as Unitus, a Microfinance Accelerator. At Unitus she held a variety of roles including building a peer learning network between the various Unitus partner organizations, managing donor initiatives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and expanding Unitus' Indian portfolio.

Prior to Unitus, Asawari worked at McKinsey & Company in New York and San Francisco. Asawari holds a B.S. in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Caroline Vance

Board member since 2020

Caroline Vance

Board Member

Caroline Vance has spent most of her career managing impact investment funds focused on improving access to basic services to low income communities in the developing world.  Twelve years of that time was spent at Deutsche Bank and DWS, the bank’s asset management firm, where she was most recently a Director on the Sustainable Investments team, which was mandated to create and manage private debt and equity funds with social and environmental outcomes associated with them.   

As a portfolio and investment manager, she has originated and managed loans to microfinance institutions and social enterprises, particularly those operating in health, energy access, and alternative financial services, and she has structured and launched funds, with ongoing responsibility for the portfolios.  In addition, she has developed and implemented impact management frameworks to deliver on the funds’ impact theses. 

Caroline started her career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers.  She received her BA from Williams College and an MA in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and she is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

She is proud to have been a founding Board member of Upaya Social Ventures, and she was thrilled to return to the Board for a second run in 2020.