Marieke Spence

Marieke Spence is Executive Director of Impact Capital Managers (ICM) and the affiliated ICM Institute, with the joint mission of advancing member performance and scaling the impact investing marketplace with integrity and authenticity. Under her leadership ICM has grown its membership of leading private capital impact funds from 20 to over 140 members, and from $5B to over $60B in collective AUM; established network standards on impact measurement and management; published field-building reports on legal innovation in impact investing, and financial returns and impact on exit; and launched the Mosaic Fellowship, which to date has placed 90 top graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds at ICM member funds as summer associates. ICM is supported by membership dues and the ICM Institute by leading philanthropic institutions including the Surdna, MacArthur, Ford, W.K. Kellogg, and Annie E. Casey Foundations; Builders Vision; and the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing.

Prior to joining ICM, Marieke was a Director of the Global Philanthropists Circle at Synergos, a peer learning community of 400+ philanthropists and social investors. Before Synergos, Marieke was a Senior Consultant at TCC Group, a social impact consulting firm. During an impact investing fellowship at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation she co-authored with Jacob Harold, Joshua Spitzer, and Jed Emerson,  “Environmental Impact Investing: Co-Managing the Ecological and Economic Household,” published in Social Finance (Oxford University Press, 2016). Marieke was formerly Director of Corporate Communication and Strategy at The Kessler Group; producer of On Point, a nationally-syndicated news program on National Public Radio; and Assistant Director of Communications at the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a MALD in International Business and Communication from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BA from Brown University, and is an alumna of the inaugural Impact Investing Programme at Oxford University’s Said Business School