Rob Hanna

Director of Operations

Email: rhanna@austin.utexas.edu

Rob Hanna’s passion is accelerating the use of innovation skills and the spread of social entrepreneurship into all domains. Rob’s social innovation work has earned three separate governors’ awards for statewide project innovations and the Austin mayor’s civic award for community service. His interdisciplinary expertise includes having been the youngest corporate president of wealth investment management companies for Dominick & Dominick Inc., (the nation’s oldest merchant bank and brokerage), a Director of The Rensselaerville Institute (an internationally renowned, charitable educational think tank), a founding board member of Social Venture Partners International (an international network of highly-engaged philanthropists supporting local social entrepreneurs) and Community Development Commissioner for the city of Austin, TX. Rob also serves as senior consultant for Social Wealth Partners (a philanthropy impact consultancy) and managing director of Social Wealth Investment Management, Inc. (SWIM), a private venture fund that invests in large scale social impact and financial return opportunities. 

Rob is a graduate of Political Science at the University of Florida and has earned a post graduate certificate in financial markets from New York University.