Cathy Clark, Managing Director, Flatiron Future Fund

Cathy joined Flatiron in April 2000 to create and manage two new philanthropic funds - the Flatiron Future Fund and the Flatiron Foundation - which share the mission of encouraging social entrepreneurship in the new economy. She works to build organizations and companies that demonstrate their social impact while achieving sustainability in the evolving digital economy.

Prior to joining Flatiron., she developed programs and managed media and internet grants and investments as Vice President of the Markle Foundation. Over seven years, she worked closely with hundreds of nonprofits, companies, universities and government agencies, exploring the impact of computing and new media on children, politics, civic engagement, communications policy, adult learning, journalism, and the digital divide. She has helped build many successful technology initiatives, nonprofits and companies, including Public Agenda Online, DemocracyNet, SeniorNet/Third Age Media and the 1998 Web White & Blue online democracy campaign. From 1990-1992, she worked to create telecommunications policies around the then-emerging Internet in Washington, DC as part of the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society program, working closely with the National Science Foundation and the Federal Communications Commission.

Cathy holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Virginia. She currently serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including MOUSE, a Silicon Alley initiative that works to bridge the digital divide through technology training and access for low-income children in New York.