Tracey Turner

Tracey is a renowned entrepreneur and seasoned business executive who has been involved in leading social businesses, social investing and international development for more than 30 years. She is passionate about using the best of capitalism to end global poverty, especially in Africa. A this stage of her career, she enjoys founding and serving as a deeply engaged board member of companies with social purpose. Currently Tracey serves as a Cofounder and the Chair of Stahili, empowering the African mass market with ecommerce opportunities. She is also a Cofounder and Board Chair of Olverra, an AI ecommerce platform connecting African artisans with global markets. She serves on numerous other boards as well. Earlier in her career, she founded and served as CEO of MicroPlace, a web-based brokerage service for everyday people to make social investments around the world. MicroPlace was acquired by eBay. In 1998, she founded her first company, 4charity, an ecommerce platform for charitable giving, where she served as CEO. Back in the stone ages, Tracey held a variety of positions with international social enterprises including the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Calvert Ventures in Washington, DC, KickStart International and the World Bank in Kenya. Tracey is a regular speaker at conferences and in the media. Her numerous leadership awards include Top 25 Women of the Web Award, San Francisco Business Times Leadership Award and a Working Woman Magazine Entrepreneurship Award. Her philanthropic activities have included serving on the Board of the Dartmouth Engineering school, advising the Dartmouth Social Entrepreneurship Program and supporting Refugee Action UK. In the past, she founded and lead the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network, a 1,700 member organization that engaged Bay-Area people in the field of microfinance and served as President of the Foundation for Reed Schools where her kids attended. She is highly involved in supporting democratic causes in the US. (Tracey was one of Hillary's top fundraisers in the 2016 presidential election.) Her most important role is Mom to three teens and one ball-obsessed lab. She also loves to squeeze in an Ironman (x11) or marathon (x12) when she can. Tracey holds a degree in engineering and economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford Business School.