Sasha Dichter
You could read my bio, but wouldn’t you be more interested in reading my manifesto? It’s the best summary of what this blog is really about.
OK, now that that’s done, here’s a bio:
Sasha Dichter is, among other things, the Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund, a global non-profit venture fund that invests in enterprises that fight poverty in the developing world.
Sasha began his career at Booz | Allen | Hamilton as a consultant in the Communications, Media and Telecom practice, spending most of his time in South America and Europe working on privatizations, acquisitions, market entry, and product development strategies for wireless companies — all this despite renting a lovely studio on the Upper West Side in NY. He received a dual degree from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School and spent his graduate school summers in Indonesia at the microfinance bank Bank Rakyat Indonesia and at a venture-backed startup called Navic Networks (which, amazingly, was recently acquired by Microsoft). After graduate school Sasha worked at IBM and GE Money in Corporate Citizenship. Sasha joined Acumen Fund in January of 2007.
Sasha has recently been featured/quoted in:
- 2010 Jury, Buckminster Fuller Challenge
- The Financial Times: Investors Boost the “Missing Middle”
- Families in Business: Philanthropy and Microfinance, July/Aug 2008
- Investors’ Dealers Digest: The Forgotten Squeeze
- Jetwork Magazine
Recent Speaking Engagements:
- 2009 Jewish Funders Network (video)
- 2009 Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
- 2008 SoCap Conference, Venture Philanthropy and International Government Investment panel
10 Comments
September 8, 2008 at 2:41 am
Sasha,
This is great. Thank you for sharing it and for this great and inspiring work. My best regards to your family. Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Ari
November 16, 2008 at 10:48 pm
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September 2, 2009 at 11:47 am
Sasha,
small suggestion — unless you have a reason not to, could I suggest that you have links in your blog entries open in a new tab — I clicked on a link and followed that trail to learn more about Acumen and then had a tough time getting back to your blog….many people just give up.
WordPress makes it easy — when you add the link, click on ‘target’ and then click on ‘open in a new window’ — that way you won’t lose people who want to read more about a linked topic, but then want to come back to your blog….
Rita
(I tried to send this to you in your email form and it failed…seems to be something wrong with that funcion.)
September 2, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Rita, this is a great idea. Absolutely I’ll do this – I didn’t know it was an option. Also I’ll check out the email form…thanks for the heads up!
October 14, 2009 at 11:09 am
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