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Drew Tulchin

UpSpring
Managing Partner

Drew Tulchin, Managing Partner, defines his career making new ideas reality. Drew brings more than 15 years experience overcoming “The Doubting Thomases” to achieve successful results and build lasting organizations in the US and abroad.

His professional experience spans the for-profit, non-profit, public & philanthropic sectors. He has helped launch more than 15 start-ups embracing numerous legal structures. His work has generated more than $100 million for triple bottom line efforts. Consulting has taken him across the U.S., to numerous Native American nations, and to more than 40 countries.
He has contributed to more than 100 socially entrepreneurial business plans. Prisma Microfinance’s co-written plan was a Global Social Venture Competitionaward winner, published, and used to raise $1.2 million in private equity capital.

He was Director of a U.S. microfinance organization, the CDFI calledECDC/Enterprise Development Group, which helped immigrants and low-income people in Greater Washington, DC. He served as Program Officer for Grameen Foundation as the founding staff person of the Capital Markets Group.

Previous experience includes a Bluetooth wireless firm, socially responsible businesses, and an environmental NGO. He began his career in National Community Service, as a VISTA (US domestic equivalent of the Peace Corps) and an AmeriCorps Team Leader in Oakland, California.

Drew completed his MBA from the University of Washington in Seattle. He finished his BA, Cum Laude, in History and International Relations from Washington University in St. Louis. His studies included a year abroad at Sussex University, UK.

In his free time, Drew plays ultimate Frisbee anywhere he can, hikes to get lost, eats food he doesn’t recognize, and enjoys bad puns more than he should.

My Speakers Sessions

Friday, April 24
 

10:30am EDT