Effective Ventures Foundation USA, Inc.
Effective Ventures Foundation USA, Inc.
Effective Ventures Foundation USA, Inc. is a section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in the USA (EIN 47-1988398).
Our Board
The EV US Board is responsible for overall management and oversight of EV US.
Zach Robinson
Zach is the CEO of EV US. Previously, he was Chief of Staff at Open Philanthropy, where he managed communications and grantmaking teams, helped set org-wide policies, and worked to identify new Global Health and Wellbeing cause areas for Open Philanthropy, among other things. Prior to his work at Open Philanthropy, he was the director of product and strategy for startup Ivy Research Council and worked as a consultant at Bain and Company.
Anna Weldon
Anna is the Chief Operating Officer at the Centre for Effective Altruism. She previously served as the Director of Internal Operations at Open Philanthropy, where she built and led teams focused on People Operations, Immigration, Business Operations, and IT. Before joining Open Philanthropy, she was a senior leader at Buffalo Exchange, guiding the organisation on manager development, change management, and organisational restructuring. She serves as an executive coach to high-impact leaders.
Johnstuart Winchell
Johnstuart is the founder of Good Impressions, which provides free marketing services to effective nonprofits. Previously, he worked in strategy and operations at Google, in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group, and as a professional ballet dancer in Texas and Colorado.
Lincoln Quirk
Lincoln dropped out of a Harvard Ph.D program and founded Sendwave in 2014 to lower the cost of international remittances, saving migrant workers and their families over $1B to date. In 2021 he and his co-founder sold that business and spun off a new company, Wave, to build mobile money: low-cost digital financial infrastructure in Africa. Lincoln has pledged to give 10% of his personal proceeds from his companies to charity.
Our CEO
Zachary Robinson
CEO of EV US
Zach was Chief of Staff at Open Philanthropy, where he managed communications and grantmaking teams, helped set org-wide policies, and worked to identify new Global Health and Wellbeing cause areas for Open Philanthropy, among other things. Prior to his work at Open Philanthropy, he was the director of product and strategy for startup Ivy Research Council and worked as a consultant at Bain and Company.