Marieke Beeuwkes Spence, Executive Director

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 115 members, and from $5B to over $80B 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; launched the Mosaic Fellowship, which to date has placed 65 high performing graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds at ICM member funds as summer associates; and with Daniel Pianko, launched the Better Money, Better World podcast. This summer, with Mark Berryman of Caprock, she created ICM’s LP Advisory Council. ICM is supported by membership dues; the ICM Institute, by leading philanthropic institutions including the Surdna, MacArthur, Ford, W.K. Kellogg, and Annie E. Casey Foundations, 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, and launched affinity groups focused on impact investing and sustainable food systems. Before Synergos, Marieke was a Senior Consultant at TCC Group, a social impact consulting firm. She has studied impact investing as a Summer Fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and her thought leadership has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Foundation Review, and GrantCraft. She is co-author with Jacob Harold, Joshua Spitzer, and Jed Emerson of “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.