Steve Hardgrave

Current

Senior Managing Director at Gray Ghost Ventures
Board Member at Partners In Hope

Past

Manager, Investments at Omidyar Network
Market Research Intern at HP
Director of Microfinance at Mexican Association for Rural and Urban Transformation

Economic Development Coordinator at Mexican Association for Rural and Urban Transformation

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Education

University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
UCLA

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Connections

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Steve Hardgrave’s Experience

Senior Managing Director

Gray Ghost Ventures

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Gray Ghost Ventures (GGV) invests in innovative, sustainable, scalable and replicable enterprises that provide greater access to financial services, information and markets. GGV’s management works with a cadre of highly-skilled and seasoned professionals, an extensive network of allies and flexible investment capital to co-create measurable social and financial value. Through its investments, GGV seeks to expand opportunities available to underserved populations in emerging markets.
Board Member

Partners In Hope

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )
Manager, Investments

Omidyar Network

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

June 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 7 months)

Omidyar Network is a mission-based organization established by eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, and his wife, Pam, which makes both for-profit and nonprofit investments to advance its mission of helping individuals discover and act on their potential to improve the quality of their lives.

My role included: working with a team to develop an investment strategy focused on enterprises that expand access to financial services, discovering new investment opportunities, carrying out due diligence, pre-investment analysis and recommendations on investment opportunities, providing post-investment management oversight for portfolio companies.
Market Research Intern

HP

(Public Company; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )
Director of Microfinance

Mexican Association for Rural and Urban Transformation

(Program Development industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years )

Designed, started and managed a profitable, savings-led microfinance institution.
Economic Development Coordinator

Mexican Association for Rural and Urban Transformation

(Program Development industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )

Steve Hardgrave’s Education

University of California, Berkeley

MBA , Business , 2003 — 2005
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

MBA , Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Business Development , 2003 — 2005

Activities and Societies:

Co-Chair Global Social Venture Competition, Net Impact, Haas Christian Fellowship.
Awarded the Gloria W. Appel Award for Outstanding Leadership in Entrepreneurship
UCLA

B.A. , Economics/International Area Studies , September 1989 — June 1994