Brett Jenks
Chief Executive Officer @ Rare | Conservation, Impact Investing
- Role
- General Partner at The Meloy Fund
- Location
- Arlington, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brett Jenks
Social entrepreneur and conservationist specializing in program innovation, scaling impact, performance management, culture building, organizational change, board development and fundraising. Helped build Fish Forever, a global coastal fishery recovery program; Lands for Life, a smallholder advisory service for the Global South; The Entertainment Lab, an impact-as-a-service model for climate and nature narratives in Hollywood; the Center for Behavior and the Environment, a first-in-kind advisory service to bring behavioral science insights to conservation; Solution Search, a global innovation crowdsourcing platform; the Meloy Fund, the first impact investing fund for coastal fisheries. Co-founder, in 2020, of Carbon Counts Tech, a public benefit mobile game company empowering personal behavior change to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases. A Catto Fellow, Braddock Scholar, and McNulty Prize laureate at the Aspen Institute. Serve on the Global Future Council on Human Science of Environmental Action at the World Economic Forum, as well as the boards of Rare and the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust.
Experience
General Partner
Jan 2017 — Present · Arlington, VA, US
Meloy Fund is the world\'s first impact investment fund targeting small-scale fisheries in Indonesia and the Philippines. Rare created it with support from the GEF, Grantham Foundation, Builders Vision, and a suite of leading nature-focused impact investors.
Education
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
MBA
2003 — 2004
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Commonwealth Scholar, English Major
1986 — 1989
Skills
- Nonprofits
- Leadership
- Program Management
- Environmental Awareness
- Sustainability
- International Development
- Strategy
- Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Community Outreach
- Fundraising
- Public Speaking
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