Jessica Jackley

Jessica Jackley’s Bio

Jessica is a Cofounder of Kiva.org, and served as Kiva’s first Chief Marketing Officer. Kiva has to date disbursed over $598,295,725 in loans to entrepreneurs around the developing world with an over 98.78% repayment rate. Watch her TED Talk on Kiva here.

Jessica was also the Founder and CEO of ProFounder, a platform providing new ways for small business entrepreneurs in the U.S. to access start-up capital through crowdfunding and community involvement. Jessica has worked with the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation, World Vision, and others. Today Jessica is an investor and advisor to the Collaborative Fund. She holds an MBA from Standford, she actively teaches Global Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business at USC, and is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.