Mario Morino
Mario Morino is Co-Founder and Chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and Chairman of the Morino Institute. In the early 1970s, Mario co-founded and helped build the Legent Corporation, a software and services firm that became a market leader and one of the industry's 10 largest firms by the early 1990s. He retired from the private sector in 1992 and, since then, his focus has been almost exclusively in the nonprofit sector. Mario founded the Morino Institute in 1994 to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, advance a more effective philanthropy, close social divides, and understand the relationship and impact of the Internet on our society. In 2000, Mario co-founded Venture Philanthropy Partners as a philanthropic investment organization that concentrates investments of money, expertise, and contacts to improve the lives and boost the opportunities of children of low-income families in the National Capital Region. Mr. Morino is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of General Atlantic Partners LLC, and on the board of ObjectVideo. He serves on the board of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, is honorary Trustee of The Brookings Institute, and Emeritus Trustee of Case Western Reserve University. He is a special advisor to Echoing Green, a member of the PEACE X PEACE advisory council; a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.