Protected: Anne Marie Burgoyne

Anne Marie Burgoyne has led Emerson Collective’s philanthropy since 2013. Under her leadership, Emerson has become a major funder that supports important work across an array of sectors, including education, immigration, environmental justice, and health equity, fostering community among important leaders and organizations across issues to achieve long-lasting impact. Burgoyne is a thought leader in the philanthropic space who has pioneered a model, frictionless philanthropy, that helps all grantee partners grow their impact through full access to a suite of opportunities for capacity building, convening, communications and narrative storytelling, and leveraging technology. She has served on the boards of directors of more than 35 nonprofits, including, currently, Hope Enterprise Corporation, The Management Center, Nia Tero, and Waverley Street Foundation. 

Prior to joining Emerson, Burgoyne served as portfolio director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, where she identified and funded early-stage, high-growth, high-impact nonprofits. She also built and nurtured the foundation’s Learning Community, which inspired the more expansive frictionless philanthropy approach she would take at Emerson. 

Burgoyne’s ability to foster community, connection, and personal growth among Emerson’s nonprofit partners is complemented by a long and distinguished track record as a decisive business leader. As executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of the Golden Gate, she undertook a financial turnaround that took the organization from a significant annual loss to break-even in one year. As director of business enterprises at Community Gatepath, a role she held as a Farber Fellow, she significantly grew sales of business units in her portfolio that employed people with disabilities. In her first role after business school, Burgoyne was an investment banker on more than one dozen transactions including IPOs, secondary offerings and private equity offerings. 

Burgoyne holds a BA in Shakespearian literature from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a BS in statistics from Penn’s Wharton School. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where her classmates honored her with the prestigious Ernest C. Arbuckle Award, and where she has also been a lecturer.