Yale School of Management - Jon Carson '84

"Yale SOM was a unique growth period for me intellectually. The peer group was strong, the teaching rigorous and stimulating. Overall I would say it was transformative."

For over 8 years, BiddingForGood has been a fixture in fundraising programs across the country. Biddingforgood has now raised almost $125 million for schools and nonprofits.

Jon is a nationally recognized entrepreneur with a passion for social entrepreneurship having funded and endowed social entrepreneurship lectures at both Yale and Babson College. He is a serial entrepreneur who, other than brief stints at Boeing and McKinsey & Company, has always worked on new ventures. in 2009, Jon was a finalist in the New England region for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

He has started and profitably sold three companies, the most recent being FamilyEducation Network (Fen.com) which used a unique public/private partnership model to become the largest education portal on the Internet. In total he has returned in excess of $175 million to investors and has never lost investor money.

He is currently on the board of Taunton Press, the Lewis Institute of Social Entrepreneurship at Babson College, and Net-Impact, a national organization of college and MBA chapters promoting social entrepreneurship. He has previously served on the boards of the National PTA, National School Boards Foundation, and the Small Business Association of New England (SBANE). In 2008, Jon was inducted into the Babson College Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.

Jon lives in Boston with his wife and has recently discovered the wonders of fatherhood.