Bruce Boyd joined Arabella Advisors as a principal and managing director in 2007 after spending 20 years building and leading for-profit and nonprofit ventures. Bruce oversees the work in the firm’s Chicago office and has led a range of engagements for Arabella’s foundation, individual and family, and corporate clients. Those engagements have focused on strategic planning, due diligence, program implementation, and evaluation of impact, and they have stretched across a range of issue areas including community development, human rights, education, and the environment. In addition to his work at Arabella, Bruce serves as an advisor to the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) grant-making intermediary often used by Arabella clients, and on the boards of the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the Morrison Family Foundation, Donors Forum, and his own family’s foundation. He also writes and speaks widely about philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining Arabella, Bruce served for 13 years as a senior manager at the Nature Conservancy, where he led the Illinois Program, the Upper Mississippi River Project, and the four-continent Great Rivers Partnership. He is also a former member of the board of governors of Opportunity International, a leading micro-finance nonprofit, and a former trustee of the Merit School of Music in Chicago. Bruce started his career in law but left legal practice to buy a manufacturing company out of bankruptcy, which he ran and later sold to a Fortune 500 company. He graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College, earned his law degree from the University of Chicago, and studied business at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
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