NewImpact pioneers and promotes tri-sector innovation with a passionate team of tri-sector champions. These champions are a dynamic mix employees, consultants, and volunteers.
Key Tri-Sector Champions include:
Founder
Jens is the founder and former CEO of Coinstar, where he learned of the potential of tri-sector solutions. His board work includes of numerous organizations, including Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington and the National Nordic Museum.
Jens has degrees from Yale University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He began his career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley. Jens began dedicated work with a tri-sector mindset in 2015 with the majority of his time dedicated to training doers and bolstering ecosystems.
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Senior Product Manager
Beth Roberts leads the planning and development of the NewImpact Tri-Sector Innovation Tools & Platform and brings experience leading ‘tech for good’ projects in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Previous to joining NewImpact, she led design and development of scientific data visualization tools at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and software/digital transformation projects for PATH, a global innovator in health equity. Beth began her tech career as a Program Manager at Microsoft, launching and growing MSNBC. Beth joined NewImpact in April 2019.
Lori Belknap
Lori has twenty plus years of experience supporting C-Suite Executives, in multiple industries. Lori’s effective team and client interactions, leads to a high level of performance and care to her team. Lori is a member of National Association of Professional Women, Executive Assistant Peer Group and International Association Administrative Professionals. Outside of work she enjoys traveling, hiking, outdoor sports, and spending time with her husband, adult children and grand-children.
Lori has been with NewImpact since 2015, and has assisted Jens since 2013
Bob McNamara
Bob brings decades of extensive experience in finance, accounting, and administration to New Impact. Prior to joining New Impact, Bob was the Controller and CFO for 19 years at Molbak’s Garden and Home, a premier independent garden center, located in Woodinville, WA. Bob graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Business Administration and obtained his CPA certificate shortly thereafter. Outside of work, Bob enjoys fly fishing, gardening, traveling, and volunteering at a local food bank.
Kimberly Davies Lohman
Kim has 15 years of experience identifying market-based solutions for social and environmental challenges. Before NewImpact she was a sustainability consultant with Resonance and Accenture. Kim began her career in international development with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Grameen Foundation. She earned her MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and BA from The University of California, Davis.
Kim spends her free time in nature enjoying the wonders of the Puget Sound.
Kim was NewImpact’s full-time Impact Innovation Strategist and Chief of Staff for two years, leading the food utility concept project, standing up a workshop service offering, and overseeing communications.
She is currently an advisor NewImpact.