Nick
Cain
Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Nick has 15 years of experience working at the intersection of technology, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector. As Vice President of Strategy & Innovation at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Nick oversees all of the Foundation’s programmatic efforts to advance a human-centered technological future. He leads a team of grantmakers, technologists, and program leads who advance AI- and data-driven solutions to global challenges through a $60M hypothesis-driven grants portfolio, AI product development, nonprofit capacity building, and storytelling. Before he joined PJMF, Nick was a Principal and Climate Lead at Google.org, and helped build and scale a tech nonprofit that provided innovative education finance solutions for students in low- and middle-income countries.
Nick earned a bachelor's from Columbia University and an MBA with honors from the Berkeley-Haas School of Business.
