Speaker Bio

Martin Smith, CEO and Founder, JustMeans

Martin Smith is the CEO and Founder of JustMeans, an online platform that helps companies utilize social media to calculate the return on investment (ROI) of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Prior to JustMeans, Mr. Smith founded and grew StartingBloc to an international social enterprise, establishing partnerships with Goldman Sachs, General Electric, Starbucks, the World Bank and most of the top business schools in the world. Mr. Smith was also the youngest person in North America to be invested in by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.

Prior to StartingBloc, Mr. Smith worked in the Neuroscience department of the University of Chicago Hospitals. He is a member of the selection committee for the Reynolds Graduate Fellowship in Social Enterprise at NYU Wagner and an advisory board member of the International Youth Foundation and ImmediacyNow.

Martin Smith holds a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.


The Social Enterprise Conference 2008 is presented by the Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Club and the International Development Club with the support of the Social Enterprise Program, Energy Club, Microlumbia Fund, Healthcare Industry Association and Green Business Club, and our generous sponsors.

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