mary galeti

Mary is a Principal at Shiplake Partners. Shiplake Partners is a consulting firm that helps institutions create and nurture relationships that offer upside and mitigate risk with the communities that exist both internally and externally. We work with our clients to determine what non-institutional relationships their strategy requires. Then, we work with the senior executive team and staff to forge those relationships, sustainably and authentically.

She also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Tecovas Foundation. The Tecovas Foundation funds social innovation and entrepreneurship by focusing on leveraging new service models and sustainable economic development both locally and internationally. A member of the board of trustees since 2000, Mary has led Tecovas to develop a concrete vision to increase the foundation’s capacity and effectiveness. Recently the foundation has added impact investing and PRI work to their portfolio.

Mary serves as the Chair of the Family Philanthropy Committee at the Council on Foundations. She also serves as the Vice-Chair of the StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellowship Program. She serves on the board of Directors of the Global Shapers, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. She has spoken on the issues of generational transition and leadership cultivation in philanthropy and the nonprofit space at many venues, including the Council on Foundations, Advisors in Philanthropy, and The Youth Summit on Social Innovation and Philanthropy at the United Nations. She has also been a frequent contributor to WNYC’s The Takeaway on supporting military families during deployment. She is a 2008 Startingbloc Social Innovation Fellow. She was a participant in the Next Generation Leaders summit at the White House in 2010, and the NEXUS Youth Summit in 2011. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Washington, D.C. Hub. She and her husband currently live in Washington, D.C.