Mario Morino

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Mario Morino is chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and chairman of the Morino Institute.

Before retiring from private industry in 1992, Mario 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 Mario has focused his efforts on philanthropic innovation to benefit children and families of working poor or poverty backgrounds.

In his philanthropic work, Mario has sought to leverage his experience as an entrepreneur, businessperson, and investor to support nonprofit leaders in ways that help them grow and scale their impact for the children and families they serve. In 2000, Mario co-founded Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), a nonprofit philanthropic investment organization that provides growth capital and strategic assistance to build, strengthen, and scale community-based organizations serving children of low-income families in the National Capital Region. Mario believes that VPP’s work will ultimately help increase access to capital, talent, and other resources for nonprofit organizations demonstrating the greatest potential for improving the lives of children. VPP was incubated by the Morino Institute, a nonprofit organization that Mario founded in 1994, and whose current focus is on advancing VPP’s efforts.

Today, Mario’s private sector work is exclusively through his affiliation with General Atlantic LLC, a global private equity firm focused on investing in companies providing information technology or using information technology to drive growth. Mario 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.

In addition, he serves as a trustee of Case Western Reserve University (his alma mater) and as an honorary trustee of The Brookings Institution. He is also a member of the Heart Center Leadership Board of The Cleveland Clinic, the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Management-The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, and the Board of Governors of the Partnership for Public Service.

Mario lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three children and frequently commutes to the Washington, DC, area.