Environmentally conscious entrepreneur, Mark Donohue, is committed to training the next generation of business leaders to be better stewards of the earth and its resources. He is a leader in both the for-profit world and the social entrepreneurship sector. As the founder of respected Cleantech venture capital firm, Expansion Capital Partners, Mark Donohue is also an active supporter of the environmental education and activist organizations Bioneers and Rainforest Action Network, as well as the Social Venture Network – a professional association for progressive CEOs (for which he Chaired the Membership Committee in the past), the Threshold Foundation (past service on four committees), and Babson College, where he currently teaches Clean Technology entrepreneurship.
Donohue founded Expansion Capital Partners, LLC in late 2001, and personally supplied the firm with its initial working capital and sweat equity. In the years following, Donohue collaborated with a talented and experienced team including Henry Corning, Expansion Capital’s first Founding Investor, and Diana Propper de Callejon and Bernardo Llovera, who both joined the firm as General Partners in January of 2004. Mr. Donohue’s management of Expansion Capital Partners made the venture capital firm a leading investor in the Clean Technology industry and helped catalyze a landmark transformation of the sector.
In his leadership capacity with Expansion Capital Partners, Mr. Donohue oversaw the growth of the firm’s assets to include investments from the founding families of ten Fortune 1000 companies, as well as industry-leading foundations, strategic corporate investors, and funds of funds in the green energy and Cleantech sectors. Due to Donohue’s vision for his venture capital firm, Expansion Capital Partners became a catalyst of the Cleantech sector, and in 2002, the firm became the only venture capital firm to be a Founding Investor of Cleantech Venture Network, the leading global provider of data and conferences to the Cleantech investment community.
A graduate of Babson College, Mark Donohue has served on the Board of Overseers of his Alma Mater since 2002, and formerly served as a Trustee for the Temple of Understanding – the United States’ oldest interfaith educational organization, which was co-founded by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Dalai Lama and Juliet Hollister. In keeping with his interest in spirituality and sociology, the eco-friendly advocate Mark Donohue cites his favorite author as Herman Hesse and lists such thought-provoking books as Siddhartha, Emotional Intelligence, The Necessary Revolution, The Tipping Point, and The Sacred Path of the Warrior among his favorite reads.
As Babson College’s Class of 1949 Scholarship recipient, Mark Donohue studied Investment Management at the premier business school for entrepreneurship. He graduated with Honors in December 1988. He has served on the college’s Board of Overseers since 2002 and recently joined the faculty of Babson’s F.W. Olin Graduate School and the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.
Currently an entrepreneur and educator, Mark Donohue is deeply interested in sustainable energy and concerned about the environment. As such, he is dedicated to inspiring future generations of business leaders to be environmentally conscious stewards of the planet. The ecologically and socially minded venture capitalist is an active mentor to students, whom he continually empowers with knowledge and opportunities for advancement.
