About

About Oliver B. Libby

Investor. Civic Entrepreneur. Author.

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Oliver B. Libby is a civic entrepreneur, businessowner, investor, philanthropist, and policy advocate, committed to building solutions at the intersection of innovation and impact. He is co-founding Managing Partner of Hatzimemos / Libby Holdings (H/L Ventures) and of CityRock Venture Partners.

Based in New York City and founded in 2009, the H/L Ventures family of companies represents a new kind of venture firm. H/L Ventures is dedicated to building high-growth businesses founded by a diverse community of founders who add value to society and our country by protecting and promoting people and the planet. H/L Ventures' proprietary Active Engagement model blends the best of venture studio and investment firm on one platform to help grow companies from early stage to exit in a holistic approach to company building.

Mr. Libby also chairs the Board of The Resolution Project, Inc., a non-profit organization based in New York City which he co-founded in 2007 and which recently acquired global entrepreneurship powerhouse Enactus as well. Through its Social Venture Challenges, held at leading youth conferences around the world, Resolution identifies undergraduate students who wish to launch new social ventures. The resulting Resolution Fellowships provide dynamic, hands-on mentorship and grants to implement their social ventures — a full ecosystem of support that empowers the recipients to become socially-responsible leaders. To date, hundreds of Resolution Fellows are working on diverse ventures in high-impact fields and have benefitted more than 7 million people to-date in nearly 100 countries on all six inhabited continents, including all across the United States, as well as amassing over $10.5B in market capitalization in social ventures, and training about 50,000 students a year via Enactus as well.

Mr. Libby began his career in the U.S. Government and later at a global managing consulting firm. Mr. Libby is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a Board Member of Tech:NYC, among other organizations, and was previously also a Foundation Trustee of the Harvard Club of New York City and a member of the Advisory Council of the Clinton Global Initiative. A passionate advocate for bipartisan reform, Libby brings a unique blend of public, private, and nonprofit experience to the national conversation.

Mr. Libby is the author of Strong Floor, No Ceiling, a book about reigniting the American Dream from what he calls the Radical Center. Mr. Libby has been invited to speak around the world. His work has been covered in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Venture Capital Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and in television appearances including on CNN, CNBC, BloombergTV, C-SPAN, MSNOW, and NewsNation. Mr. Libby graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College.