SEATTLE, September 30, 2020 — Upaya Social Ventures welcomed two new members to its board of directors: Brian Boland, Co-Founder of the Delta Fund and former Vice President at Facebook, and Caroline Vance, former Director, Sustainable Investments at DWS.

Brian Boland is the co-founder of the Delta Fund, along with his wife, Katie. The Delta Fund invests time and energy into organizations that demonstrate measurably successful and scalable programs focused on poverty alleviation and justice reform.

Brian was also a Vice President at Facebook, where he oversaw strategy, operations, and engineering teams, working on a broad array of Facebook products and services. He worked there for 11 years.

Prior to joining Facebook, Brian spent time as an entrepreneur, working at an agency and in product roles at Microsoft. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy.

Caroline Vance returns to Upaya’s board after having been a founding board member of Upaya in 2011. She has spent most of her career managing impact investment funds focused on improving access to basic services to low income communities in the developing world.  Twelve years of that time was spent at Deutsche Bank and DWS, the bank’s asset management firm, where she was most recently a Director on the Sustainable Investments team, which was mandated to create and manage private debt and equity funds with social and environmental outcomes associated with them.  

Caroline started her career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers.  She received her BA from Williams College and an MA in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and she is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

"The Upaya board has always been a crucial source of advice, perspective, and support for our work,” said Kate Cochran, CEO of Upaya Social Ventures. “We are very fortunate to have Brian join us and Caroline rejoin us. They bring unique areas of expertise along with a passion for this work."