Jenn Goldstone is the Deputy CEO at UpStart, where she leads organizational strategy, internal operations, and team development to strengthen infrastructure, culture, and execution in service of UpStart’s mission to advance bold Jewish social innovation. With more than 20 years of experience across philanthropy, nonprofit leadership, and venture strategy, she previously served as a Jewish Life Venture Fellow at the William Davidson Foundation and as Chief Operating Officer of the Birthright Israel Foundation. Earlier, as Co-Executive Partner at SeaChange Capital Partners, a philanthropic intermediary founded by Goldman Sachs, she supported high-impact collaborations and system-level solutions focused on education and youth development. After this initial focus, SeaChange expanded into grantmaking to support mergers and sustained collaboration, and she launched the New York Mergers and Collaborations Fund. She started her nonprofit career at Outward Bound USA.
Jenn is the founder of Xukuma, LLC, a strategy and governance consultancy, and began her career as a producer at ABC News. A BoardSource-trained governance consultant, she holds certifications in Change Leadership from Cornell, Agile Leadership, and executive coaching. Jenn lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
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