Bud Colligan
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Colligan in 2014
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| Born |
August 14, 1954 (age 62) Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
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Georgetown University Stanford University |
John C. “Bud” Colligan (born August 14, 1954) is a community activist, social entrepreneur, investor and company builder. He is Co-Chairman of the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, a non-profit community-development organization, founder and CEO of South Swell Ventures, a private investment firm, former partner at Accel Partners, a global venture capital firm, and former Chairman and CEO of Macromedia, a multimedia software company.
Colligan was born in Los Angeles, CA and raised in Glendale, CA. One of six siblings, he graduated in 1972 from Loyola High School.
He attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. While there, he led Students of Georgetown, Inc (known as “The Corp”), an organization offering Georgetown students hands-on experience running businesses, while concurrently funding philanthropic causes throughout the campus community. During his tenure at the Corp, Colligan founded Vital Vittles, which is today one of the nation’s largest, student-owned and operated businesses. In 1976, Colligan graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown with a BSFS in International Economics.
In 1983, Colligan earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Colligan has been a community builder for more than 30 years focusing on economic development and education.
Colligan co-founded, served as Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2010, and is currently Chairman Emeritus of Pacific Community Ventures.
PCV pioneered a new kind of venture-philanthropy, integrating traditional investment, active support and impact measurement into its funding equation. From 1998 to 2015, PCV raised and deployed more than $100 million in philanthropic and community-focused capital. These investments helped 3,000 California businesses to create or retain more than 30,000 jobs. PCV was recognized as one of the “25 brilliant California ideas of the last quarter century,” by both University of California at Los Angeles and University of California at Berkeley.
Colligan sits on the Leadership Council of Opportunity Fund, the nation's leading, not-for-profit, microfinance provider. From 1995 to 2015, the fund invested over $300 million into California-based communities.
Colligan is spearheading the expansion of both Opportunity Fund and PCV into Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Community Foundation for Monterey County and the Community Foundation for Santa Cruz County announced support for Opportunity Fund's micro lending efforts in 2014.
Colligan is a founding board member of Santa Cruz Works, a non-profit organization focused on developing jobs and a thriving eco-system for science and technology companies in the Monterey Bay region. He is also Co-Chairman of the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, whose mission is to foster regional economic development that works for all stakeholders.
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