Matt Forti


Founder and Board Chair
One Acre Fund

Matt Forti is the Board Chair of One Acre Fund, a nonprofit assisting 12,000 East African smallholder farm families to triple their crop yields and halve their child mortality rates.  Matt helped start One Acre Fund while a student at the Kellogg School of Management, where he received an MBA with distinction in 2006.  Since that time, Matt has also worked at the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm that advises philanthropic, nonprofit, corporate, and government leaders on initiatives for social impact. At Bridgespan, Matt has focused on global development, performance measurement, and organizational effectiveness.