Robin Peterson Gibbs

Chief Philanthropy Officer

2024

Climate, Children & Families, Education, Health, Homelessness & Housing, Workforce & Economic Mobility

Robin is the Chief Philanthropy Officer at Social Finance. She leads the organization’s philanthropy and investor relations efforts, building partnerships with individual philanthropists, intergenerational families, foundations, and advisors to mobilize capital toward greater social impact. She works closely with funders to move from intention to action through outcomes-driven philanthropy, impact-first investing, and innovative financing models designed to expand economic opportunity and scale solutions that work.

Over the course of her career, Robin has advised institutional investors, foundations, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and families on investments, and philanthropic commitments totaling more than $1 billion. Before joining Social Finance, she served as Executive Director of Family Philanthropy at Brown University, where she was a lead fundraiser for the $4 billion BrownTogether campaign, including a $220 million effort for Brown to become need-blind for international students, a landmark $50 million gift for financial aid, and a naming gift for the Saxena Center for South Asia.

Earlier in her career, Robin was an Executive Director in the Equities Division at Goldman Sachs, where she managed relationships with several of the firm’s top global institutional asset management clients. She began her career in International Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch.

Robin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Columbia Business School.