Bill Brownell

Bill is an accomplished business leader with a strong track record in driving growth and transforming organizations. He is also a community leader with a passion for unleashing philanthropy and impact capital to solve social problems. Bill is currently on the Board of Schwab Charitable, which manages $30B in charitable assets and facilitates $6B in giving per year. He is also a Partner and Investment Committee Member at SV2, which invests in San Francisco Bay Area-based non-profits and social enterprises. In addition, he is on the Advisory Board of the Stanford GSB ACT Program. He previously served on Boards at Social Venture Partners International, Pasturemap Inc., and the Nature Conservancy. In his business career, Bill was Chief Strategy Officer at Hewlett Packard and Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems, where he led strategy, marketing and business development functions over time on a global basis. He was also a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco. Bill holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a BA with Honors from Stanford University.