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JOANNA REES

entrepreneur, advisor, investor


JOANNA REES AIMS TO DRIVE CHANGE ON A GLOBAL SCALE VIA COLLECTIVE CIVIC AND
BUSINESS EFFORTS.

San Francisco Bay Area. Managing Partner at West, a Market Accelerator

In addition to her board memberships on various venture-backed startups, Joanna
is highly active in the nonprofit community.



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Joanna Rees is Senior Partner at The B Team, where she actively works to propel
the initiative’s mission within the entrepreneurial community. She has also
served on the board of Endeavor.org for 10+ years and had the privilege of
raising a fund at the intersection of global entrepreneurship and social impact
for Endeavor.org. Appropriately named Endeavor Catalyst, this fund has now
invested in more than 40 companies in 15 countries around the world.


Joanna is also a board member of Build.org and of The Representation Project.
While each initiative is unique, they all play their part in a common goal: to
ignite the potential of individuals and groups who can tackle global challenges
in strategic and sustainable ways. Build.org is dedicated to providing
experimental educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths, providing
programs and courses to help achieve success.

Joanna’s strong belief in education, especially for the most disadvantaged kids,
led to the Board of the New Schools Venture Fund, Network for Teaching
Entrepreneurship (“NFTE”) and now Build.org.

Over the course of her career, Joanna Rees has come to know the power of
community, thought leadership, and reflection. Over a decade ago, she was
selected by The World Economic Forum as a Global Leader for Tomorrow. The Aspen
Institute Save & Exit also named her a Henry Crown Fellow. She credits these two
achievements for opening up new channels for her to connect with
highly-accomplished leaders around the world. Joanna is now a Senior Moderator
at the Aspen Institute. 





AN ALL-HANDS APPROACH TO CHANGE





Joanna firmly believes we need to take an “all-hands” approach to change. It’s
not enough to leave our most entrenched societal problems to government and
nonprofit work — business can and should be used as a tool for social impact.
For 20+ years this belief has been at the forefront of her own work advising and
investing in early-stage entrepreneurs. Similarly, it’s inspired Joanna to
advocate (both personally and professionally) for diversity in business and
community work, as shown through her work with the B Team.

Diversity of perspective is key not just for finding the best solutions, but for
asking the right questions in the first place. It’s one of the reasons Joanna
Rees chose to call the city of San Francisco home and eventually even run for
mayor. She started the campaign doing what she always does: she went out and
listened to the market. In the end she didn’t win, but she changed the dialogue,
challenged the field to focus on issues that were not part of their platforms,
and this has now resulted in new policies and programs.

From reforming public education to empowering high-power entrepreneurs, Joanna
is all about strengthening communities and building a better, fairer future. It
all starts with deliberate and impactful work around the world.



CAREER AND BACKGROUND





Joanna Rees is an entrepreneur who has raised several venture capital funds and
has served on the boards of 25+ venture-backed startups. Joanna also brings deep
expertise in marketing and strategy, and earlier in her career held several
increasingly executive marketing management positions with Groupe Danone, a $20+
billion global consumer products firm and the advertising agency DMB&B. Joanna
also brings strong financial expertise having worked at BA Securities.

In 1996 Joanna formed a strategic consulting firm, Venture Strategy Group. Their
fund, VSP Capital, raised millions in capital. She’s been Managing Partner at
West since 2016.

This blog will focus on Joanna’s interests in non-profit work and recap news
from some of the organizations in which she is currently involved. Visit her
business leadership blog here!

JOANNA REES ONLINE

 * Dailymotion
 * Medium
 * Professional Overview
 * Quora

LINKS

 * Endeavor
 * The B Team
 * The Huffington Post

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 * LinkedIn
 * YouTube
 * Pinterest
 * Flickr

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