VIRGINIA THOMSON

Virginia Thomson is a social entrepreneur and consultant. As a consultant she has extensive experience in cross-sector corporate management and governance, fund raising, grant making, finance, strategic planning and new business development.  As a social entrepreneur she has launched and developed companies in new media and technology and has scaled nonprofit ventures in youth development and conservation. Virginia is currently working with Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy where her focus is on strategic development, scale and fund raising. With an MBA and BA from Harvard University, Virginia has worked in finance (Credit Suisse-First Boston), launched an Internet company in the Internet’s infancy (DoughNET), managed a cause related social media site for youth (YouthNoise)  and built the world’s first debit-card based financial affinity toolset.