PACS Advisory Board Member
Russ Hall
Russ Hall co-founded Legacy Venture in 1999 with Jim Anderson, served as the Chief Executive for the first fund, and now co-manages the firm as Managing Director. Russ is Chairman of Legacy Works. Prior to founding Legacy he was a vice president at R. Eliot King & Associates, a boutique money management firm. He worked in two technology start-ups as Vice President of Marketing for Logic Modeling, and Director of Sales and Marketing at Silicon Solutions. He was an associate at the venture capital firm Merrill Pickard Anderson & Eyre. He was also a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers.
Russ is an alumnus of The Philanthropic Workshop West (TPW), and currently serves on its management advisory committee. He also attended Stanford's High Impact Philanthropy Program. He is also active in non-profits, an elder at his church, and on the board of the national ministry TimeOut. Russ is on the advisory board for Full Circle Fund, Good Capital and the Global Philanthropy Forum. Russ is also a current Fellow at the American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley. Russ holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an MS from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BS from the United States Military Academy.
Russ is an alumnus of The Philanthropic Workshop West (TPW), and currently serves on its management advisory committee. He also attended Stanford's High Impact Philanthropy Program. He is also active in non-profits, an elder at his church, and on the board of the national ministry TimeOut. Russ is on the advisory board for Full Circle Fund, Good Capital and the Global Philanthropy Forum. Russ is also a current Fellow at the American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley. Russ holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an MS from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BS from the United States Military Academy.
Student Testimonial
PACS Undergraduate Lauren Finzer '09 speaks about the influential role PACS had on her Stanford academic career and how PACS is creating the next generation of philanthropic change agents.
PIPE Conference
PACS recently hosted a research conference to launch the project on Private Initiatives in Public Education (PIPE) that brought together leading scholars and practitioners who are working on projects related to emerging trends and cross-sector innovations in public education. Specifically, the conference explored the following themes:
1) The influence of philanthropic and private intermediary organizations in education;
2) Models of organizing diverse providers (charters and district schools) of public education;
3) Innovations in the development of human capital for education;
4) Entrepreneurship in the era of Obama.
The conference also set out to establish an agenda for future research in these areas.
