Robin Peterson Gibbs

In this newly created role, Robin leads the organization’s philanthropy efforts and coordinates enterprise-wide initiatives to enable Social Finance to achieve a new level of impact, broaden its reach, and raise awareness of its mission. Robin oversees our partnerships with foundations and individuals, with a special focus on individuals and families who are excited about new models to achieve impact.

Over the course of her career, Robin has advised institutional investors, corporate foundations, ultra-high net worth individuals, and families on investments, grants, and philanthropic gifts totaling more than $1 billion. Prior to Social Finance, she was the Executive Director of Family Philanthropy at Brown University. A top fundraiser for the $4 billion BrownTogether Campaign, Robin led a $220 million fundraising effort for Brown to become need-blind for international students, secured a landmark $50 million gift in support of financial aid, a naming gift for the Center for South Asia, a suite of professorships in brain science, as well as endowments for scholarships, deanships, athletics, and research funding.

Earlier in her career, Robin was an Executive Director in the Equities Division of Goldman Sachs and the relationship manager for several of the firm’s top global institutional asset management accounts. Robin started her career in International Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch.

Robin has lived and worked extensively in the U.S., the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Africa. She is a corporation member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the world’s leading independent organization dedicated to ocean research, and a trustee of Lighthouse Works, an artist residency program on Fishers Island, NY.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance, cum laude, from Columbia Business School.