Advisory Board of Governors
Mario Morino
Chairman, Morino Institute
Mario Morino is chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and chairman of the Morino Institute.
Before retiring from private industry in 1992, Mr. Morino enjoyed a 30-year career in information technology, where he co-founded and helped build a corporation that became a market leader and one of the industry’s then 10 largest firms in software and services. Since 1992 Mr. Morino has focused his efforts on philanthropic innovation to benefit children and families of working poor or poverty backgrounds.
In his philanthropic work, Mr. Morino founded the Morino Institute in 1994 to advance the vision that all children have the opportunity to grow into adults leading healthy, productive lives. In 2000, Mr. Morino co-founded Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP) as an innovative investor in social change that concentrates investments of money, expertise, and contacts to improve the lives and boost the opportunities of children of low-income families in the National Capital Region.
Today, Mr. Morino’s private sector work is exclusively through his affiliation with General Atlantic LLC, one of the leading global private equity firms investing in companies that provide information technology or use information technology to help drive growth. Mr. Morino has been affiliated with the firm for more than 20 years, now serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Advisory Board and sits on the boards of two of the firm’s portfolio companies, Ai Metrix and ObjectVideo.
Mr. Morino serves as a trustee of Case Western Reserve University (his alma mater) and as an honorary trustee of The Brookings Institution. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Management-The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures.
Mario lives in greater Cleveland, OH, with his wife and three children and the primary focus of his work continues to be in the National Capital Region.
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