Ken is Co-Chair of Project Redwood, a social philanthropy fund financed and managed by alumni from the Stanford Business School that supports social entrepreneurs addressing extreme global poverty.  Since inception in 2005, Project Redwood has allocated unrestricted grants to support over 70 social purpose projects, primarily across the Global South, that deliver innovative approaches to help the impoverished.  Ken is also the founding chair of YANA, the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance, a nonprofit organization that leverages the power of Yale’s mission-driven community for the greater social good.

He entered the nonprofit world in 2008 after three decades in the private sector, and recently stepped down after serving seven years as the Executive Director of the New York Mortgage Coalition, a nonprofit housing intermediary that generates first-time homeownership opportunities for working class families in New York.  Ken is also the majority owner of CIS, one of the largest independent credit reporting agencies
in the nation. He received his BA from Yale, MBA from Stanford, and an executive degree in Nonprofit Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School.