Mary Bright, Cleveland SVP

Mary Bright is an attorney with 25 years of experience as a business lawyer (mergers/acquisitions/joint ventures, health care policy and health care law, employment law, compensation and benefits, securities and finance).   A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Mary spent most of her career with a Fortune-100 company, followed by three years with a large nonprofit healthcare system. She left the practice of law in late 2001 to focus on volunteer and community activity. Mary serves on the Cleveland SVP board as Vice President and has led two investee projects.  Mary is the President of Social Venture Partners International and has been involved in network-wide initiatives such as the affiliate health data project and the restructuring of the network’s governance. She is also on the boards of the Centers for Dialysis Care (serving on both its Administration and its Strategic Planning Committees) and of New Life Community, a transitional housing program. In mid-2003, she founded BrightPath Industies, a micro-enterprise which employed homeless individuals in the program at New Life Community. Mary is also a small-group ministry leader in her church.  She lives in Shaker Heights with her husband, Jim, and has two adult children.