Fay Hanleybrown

Managing Director

Fay is responsible for FSG's west coast presence. She has worked with private foundations, community foundations, and corporate clients across a range of issues, including strategy development, organizational alignment, and evaluation at both the organization and program-area levels. As part of this work, Fay has led a number of engagements focused on developing innovative management-focused evaluation systems that allow organizations to assess performance and to increase impact over time. She has also been closely involved in FSG's research and client work with community foundations, including economic sustainability and donor behavior, and has spoken on these topics at a number of venues.

Having helped to establish FSG in Boston, Fay subsequently worked for McKinsey & Company in San Francisco, where she served both nonprofit and corporate clients before returning to FSG in 2002. Her work in the McKinsey nonprofit practice included strategy development, communications, and evaluation.

Fay also worked with Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter and Allen Grossman on a research study, entitled "Optimizing the Value of Philanthropy" that examined ways to increase foundation impact. Fay began her career at UBS Warburg in Hong Kong, where she was a Director and Co-Head of Regional Bank Research, leading an equity research team across nine Asian countries. Responsible for UBS Warburg's investment strategy for Asian banks, she was ranked by Institutional Investor as one of the best equity research analysts in Asia. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A., cum laude, from Princeton University in Economics and Politics.

She can be reached at fay.hanleybrown@fsg-impact.org.