Who we are

We’re a passionate and driven group of operations specialists who want to use our skills to do the most good in the world. 

We strive for excellence and get things done for our customers so that they can focus on the strategic work. By providing the operational support and infrastructure, our organisations can maximise their impact in the world.

Learn more about Effective Ventures (EV).

Who we are

Our activities

EV Operations provides world-class operational support and infrastructure that allows effective organisations to thrive.

Our activities include providing:

  • Fiscal sponsorship
  • Governance, risk, and compliance 
  • Finance including accounting and budgeting
  • HR including hiring, visas, and payroll
  • Grantmaking
  • Fundraising
  • Office management
  • Data protection and cybersecurity support

We’ve supported and helped grow some of the most impactful organisations in the effective altruism and longtermism communities.

Organisations

Our activities

Teams

Executive

Executive

Our Executive team brings a laser-sharp focus to the operational and infrastructure needs of our organisations. We guide EV Operations to deliver on the details and support our organisations in achieving the most impact possible. We manage capacity, set the direction of our staff, take care of the legal and governance issues, and support the EV board.

Finance

Finance

Our Finance team tracks all the financial activity across the organisations we support, ensuring they have a clear and accurate picture of their budgets and runway. We love data analysis and providing useful business insights to organisational decision makers. The Finance team also maintains our expense and payments infrastructure.

Staff Support

Staff Support

Our Staff Support team supercharges staff across all organisations — by giving them access to the benefits and resources they need to do impactful work. We craft seamless onboarding experiences (including visas, contracts, and payroll) and benefits packages (including healthcare, pensions, and equipment) so that staff feel supported and empowered to do world-changing work.

Systems

Systems

Our Systems team manages grantmaking and develops CRM systems for our organisations. We aim to automate tasks and unlock valuable data that will allow organisations to track key metrics and increase the effectiveness of their programmes. The Systems team also mitigates cybersecurity risk and provides support on donor relations.

Property

Property

Our Property team manages all of the offices, EA hubs and properties to ensure that all staff and work guests have an outstanding place to work. We ensure that our workspaces boost productivity, enable new ideas and collaborations to arise, support people’s long-term wellbeing, and are welcoming and safe environments for all.

Join our mission Join our mission

Join our mission

We’re committed to making a positive difference by providing world-class support to some of the most impactful organisations in the effective altruism and longtermism communities.

We’re hiring

CEOs

Rob Gledhill

CEO of EV UK

Before becoming EV UK’s CEO, Rob was the Head of Groups at the Centre for Effective Altruism — one of EV UK’s joint projects with EV US. There, he supported university groups, city groups, and CEA’s virtual programs. Prior to that, Rob worked at McKinsey in their London and Santiago offices. Rob was an early Giving What We Can member and volunteer, and was a participant in the vote to select the name “effective altruism.”

Zach Robinson

CEO of EV US

Zach was Chief of Staff at Open Philanthropy, where he managed comms 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.

Trustees

UK Board

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.

Eli Rose

Eli is a Program Officer at Open Philanthropy, focusing on capacity-building for global catastrophic risks. Previously, he was Director of Engineering at Mentor Collective, a Boston educational technology company. He graduated in 2015 from Oberlin College, where he studied computer science and creative writing.

Patrick Gruban

Patrick has been Co-Director of EA Germany since 2022, and is Managing Director of a textile company he co-founded in 2012. He’s been an entrepreneur since the mid-1990s, starting his first company for online community software after finishing school. Later, he started a company that developed software for banks.

US Board

Zach Robinson

Zach is the CEO of EV US. Previously, he was Chief of Staff at Open Philanthropy, where he managed comms 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.

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.

Anna Weldon

Anna is the Director of Internal Operations at Open Philanthropy, where she leads teams that focus on Business Operations, People Operations, IT, Immigration, and Recruiting. Previously, she served as Director of HR at Buffalo Exchange, guiding the organization on manager development, change management, and organizational restructuring. Throughout her career, she has served as a leader of teams and a mentor to managers. Anna holds certifications from the Society for Human Resource Management and Project Management Institute and graduated from Shimer College in 2006 with a BA in Philosophy.

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.

Contact EV

For enquiries and feedback contact EV Operations.