Paul Carttar brings more than thirty years of experience across sectors – public, private, and nonprofit – to his work, most recently as the initial director of the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), a priority program of the Obama Administration. Prior to the SIF, he served as an Executive Partner with New Profit, Inc. and Senior Advisor with the Monitor Group. Previously, he was Executive Vice Chancellor for External Affairs at the University of Kansas and Chief Operating Officer for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he oversaw all youth and entrepreneurship programs. In 1999, Carttar co-founded the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm. Carttar began his career as an analyst for the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and subsequently served as assistant to Amb. Arthur F. Burns, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, West Germany. He spent several years with Bain & Company, the international consulting firm, where he assisted clients in the health care, high tech and consumer products industries. He later held executive positions in two private, venture-capital funded companies in the healthcare industry. Carttar graduated with highest distinction from the University of Kansas with a B.A. in Economics and English and received his M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
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