Michelle Collier is PCV's Office and Accounting Manager. In addition to managing general office operations, Michelle assists the CFO with maintaining accounting practices for PCV and its active Funds and provides support to the Business Advisory Services and Investment teams. In addition to these responsibilities, Michelle also assists with internal projects; conducts financial analysis; and provides support for corporate governance, portfolio management, and PCV's Employee Onramp initiatives.
Prior to PCV, Michelle worked at the multinational agriculture firm C.H. Robinson's Monterey location as an Account Manager. Michelle was also previously employed as the Executive Director of the Marina Chamber of Commerce. As the first African American Director of the Chamber, Michelle increased annual membership by 5%. She successfully executed two large annual city-wide networking events and became the youngest member of the community-oriented policing and problem solving task force. A former EXPLORER volunteer, Michelle currently volunteers at the OMEGA boys club San Francisco location and is an avid tennis player.
Michelle has a BS in Business Administration, with honors, from Pepperdine University and enthusiastically looks forward to continuing her education.
Penelope Douglas is Co-Founder of Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), a hybrid organization that stimulates economic development in California’s low-income communities. Pacific Community Ventures manages three socially-responsible investment funds and provides innovative resources to emerging businesses and their low-income workers. In addition Penelope Douglas is also a Partner in Pacific Community Ventures, LLC.
Douglas has significant experience in business, as well as a track record of leadership in community-based organizations. Douglas has a strong reputation for leadership that is focused on creativity and human resources in conjunction with bottom line results. As co-founder of the first west coast community venture fund, Douglas is a pioneer and thought leader in the area of community development investment. She has served on the board of directors of the Community Development Venture Capital Association (CDVCA) and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences. Currently, Douglas serves on the boards of New Mexico Community Capital (NMCC), New Vine Logistics, and Evergreen Lodge.
Before founding PCV, Douglas was Senior Vice President at Odwalla, Inc., Chief Administrative Officer at Morrison &; Foerster, and chair of the Morrison &; Foerster Foundation. Douglas has also held senior management positions at Ernst &; Young and Wells Fargo Bank. Douglas has been involved with community-based non-profit organizations throughout her career, serving as chair of Larkin Street Youth Center, chair of the Children’s Television Education and Resource Center, chair of San Francisco Friends of the Urban Forest and founding chair of Juma Ventures.
Douglas is a California native and her education includes a B.A. from Smith College. She is also an artist and an athlete who has competed in four Ironman distance triathlons and numerous long distance races.
Allison Kelly joined PCV in 2008 and is the Director of PCV’s efforts to work with small business owners to help them access and deploy capital to grow their businesses. In this role, Allison is responsible for designing and implementing programs, engaging businesses and volunteers, and building and maintaining infrastructure to support entrepreneurs in growing their businesses. Allison is responsible for increasing the impact, scale and breadth of entrepreneurial engagement at Pacific Community Ventures. In Allison’s previous role at PCV, she launched and ran the organizations’ VidaCard product and directed a healthcare policy initiative engaging the voices of small businesses in the healthcare debates.
Prior to joining PCV, Allison worked in the private sector in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries directing strategy and product management for over four years. Allison also worked in the public sector doing social marketing of public health products in developing countries and serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer and trainer in Mauritania, West Africa. Allison is a contributing author to Dr. Steven Stralser’s book MBA in a Day. Allison holds a BA with honors in Psychology and English from the University of Oregon and an MBA in international management from Thunderbird, School of Global Management.
Kendra Ott is PCV's Business Advising Program Manager.
Kendra is responsible for connecting small business owners with the resources
they need to help them grow and create more jobs for California's lower income
communities. To this end, Kendra works with volunteer business advisors,
entrepreneurs, and partner community and economic development organizations. In
addition to developing and managing relationships with a diverse community of
stakeholders, Kendra supports the Business Advising Program through program
administration, marketing and communications, events and research and
evaluation.
Prior to joining PCV, Kendra completed her Masters Degree in International
Development in London, as well as a Fellowship with the Consultative Group to
Assist the Poor at the World Bank in Washington, DC, where she worked with the
Microfinance Gateway team. Her passion for community development and
microfinance has also led to her involvement on projects working with the
municipal governments in Tanzania and East London, as well as spending time
with BRAC in Bangladesh. She currently volunteers for the Silicon Valley
Microfinance Network.
Before going back to school, Kendra worked in marketing for two Silicon Valley
start-ups and managed fundraising campaigns and events for The Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society in San Francisco. Kendra holds a BA in International Relations
from Boston University and a MS in International Social Development from
University College London.
David Rosen is the Chief Financial Officer at Pacific Community Ventures. David is responsible for directing the organization's accounting, financial reporting and analysis, organizational administrative services and corporate governance functions for PCV and its affiliates, and its three related venture capital funds: PCV Investment Partners I, II and III.
Prior to joining PCV David served as the chief financial officer for companies in the manufacturing, retail, consumer product, software, construction and professional services industries. His experience includes strategic business planning, mergers and acquisitions, and structuring public and private equity and debt financings for startups, growth companies and corporate reorganizations.
He serves as the chairman of the audit committees for two large Bay-area non-profits. David has also served as an adjunct professor in the business schools at both Golden Gate University and the University of Phoenix, where he taught economics and corporate finance.
David received an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BS, Environmental Sciences, Land Use Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Over the past fifteen years, Beth has also been involved as a volunteer in a number of nonprofit organizations, including serving as Board Chair for the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay. Beth earned a B.A in political science at Brandeis University, an MBA at Boston University and a Masters of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ben Thornley is the Director of
Insight – Pacific Community Ventures’ thought leadership practice in
high-impact investing. Ben is responsible for PCV’s policy research and social
performance measurement initiatives, advising some of the country’s most prominent
institutional investors and philanthropic foundations.
Prior to joining
Insight, Ben worked for over a decade in
the public, for-profit, and non-profit sectors – always with a focus on the
critical role of the financial services sector in economic development. This
included as editorial director and New York correspondent for Australia’s
leading investment industry publisher, as a policy associate with the United
Nations Association of the U.S.A., responsible for coordinating Wall Street’s
formal participation in the UN’s Financing for Development conference, and as
an investment director in the Australian Consulate-General, New York, charged
with positioning the country as a regional financial services center.
Ben is the Board President of Centerforce, the 501(c)(3)
based in San Rafael, CA, providing health and education services to
individuals, families, and communities impacted by incarceration. Ben has also
provided independent consulting services to the Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco and to Bay Area non-profits including REDF, SF Works, and ICLEI –
Local Governments for Sustainability. Ben received a Masters of Public Policy
from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in Communications
from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Tom Woelfel is the Analyst for
Insight – Pacific Community Ventures’ thought leadership practice in
high-impact investing. In this role, he supports the evaluation and consulting
practice in managing consulting relationships, providing social performance
measurement initiatives providing social return on investment research and
analytical services to PCV and external institutional investors. In
addition to his analytical duties Tom also assists with policy research in
impact investing and other issue areas affecting small businesses.
Prior to joining Insight, Tom served as an
Associate at Development Planning and Financing Group, where he advised clients
on development projects and worked with developers and municipalities on a
wide-range of development issues. While at DPFG, Tom conducted a variety
of financial analyses for clients, including economic benefit analyses, fiscal
impact analyses, and development fee credit and reimbursement analyses.
Prior to his work at DPFG, Tom worked for the Federal Office of the California
Governor where he attended congressional hearings and policy briefings on
issues of importance to the State of California and conducted federal policy
research. Tom holds a BS with honors in Managerial Economics from the
University of California, Davis.
