Jill Finlayson

As Marketing Manager for Social Edge, Jill Finlayson is responsible for increasing the online community's visibility on the Internet to provide better access to tools that help social entrepreneurs launch and scale social benefit ventures.

Before joining the Social Edge team, Jill worked for a number of Internet startups, including eBay, where she ran the Toys Category for nearly five years.  Jill was a member of the first governance committee for the eBay Foundation.  She has developed online and offline educational materials for small business owners and is the coauthor of two books for McGraw Hill: ­ Fundraising on eBay and How to Make Money Online with eBay, Yahoo! and Google

Jill previously worked for the Learning Company, a premier educational software company, where she developed programs to help children achieve and learn at their own pace.  Jill began her marketing career at the University of California at Berkeley, where she held several positions including Campus Emergency Preparedness Officer, Program Marketing Manager for the International House and Project Liaison for the University Research Expeditions Program (UREP).
 
She has traveled around the world and participated in an archaeological dig in Tanzania and a cultural project in Ecuador.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy of industrialized societies from the University of California at Berkeley.