Mario Morino  
Chairman, Venture Philanthropy Partners

Mario Morino is co-founder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and chairman of the Morino Institute. His career spans more than 40 years as entrepreneur, technologist, and civic and business leader. He also has a long history of civic engagement and philanthropy in the National Capital Region.

In the early 1970s, Mario co-founded and helped build the Legent Corporation, a software and services firm that became a market leader and one of the industry’s 10 largest firms by the early 1990s. He retired from the private sector in 1992 and, since then, his focus has been almost exclusively in the nonprofit sector.

Mario founded the Morino Institute in 1994 to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, advance a more effective philanthropy, close social divides, and understand the relationship and impact of the Internet on our society. In 2000, Mario co-founded Venture Philanthropy Partners as a philanthropic investment organization that concentrates investments of money, expertise, and contacts to improve the lives and boost the opportunities of children of low-income families in the National Capital Region.

In addition to his roles with Venture Philanthropy Partners and the Morino Institute, he serves on a number of nonprofit and for-profit boards. He is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of General Atlantic Partners LLC, a private equity firm with which he has been affiliated for more than 20 years.

He lives in greater Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three children.

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