Alison Lingane

Co-founder & Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer of Project Equity

Alison Lingane’s passion for creating an economy that works for everyone was fueled in her early career by her role designing and leading micro-enterprise programs for urban youth. Prior to launching Project Equity, Alison held executive roles at mission-driven businesses that are designed to have human impact at scale. She brings those scaling lessons back full circle to her work at Project Equity, turning businesses into community change agents through employee ownership. Alison founded and co-manages the Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund and leads capital initiatives for Project Equity, having raised nearly $8M in capital to finance employee ownership transitions. She also launched Project Equity’s work partnering with over a dozen cities, counties and other government agencies throughout California and the U.S. Alison has her B.A. from Harvard University and her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where she co-founded what is now the Global Social Venture Competition, the largest international business plan competition for double or triple bottom line businesses. She has been selected as an Echoing Green Fellow, an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow.