LARA JEREMKO
Chief Executive Officer




Lara Jeremko is a senior strategist with over 20 years experience in impact investment & philanthropy strategy, nstitutional investment management and social entrepreneurship. As Founder & CEO of Beyond Ventures, Lara advises investment and philanthropy portfolios for Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company advancing social progress in the United States. Previously, Lara designed and led the XR Education Prize Challenge, an innovation competition funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the next generation of immersive education applications. 

Previously, Lara was an institutional investment officer managing a $1.5 billion venture capital and growth equity fund portfolio at UTIMCO, the investment firm overseeing $35 billion of University of Texas System endowment assets. She was also a co-founder of re:3D Inc., an industrial 3D printing manufacturing and R&D company focused on the circular economy. Lara was also a private equity analyst at Credit Suisse in New York, NY. Lara graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. from Syracuse University.

When she’s not making big ideas become big realities, you’ll find Lara cultivating her passions for fashion design, Argentine tango, and classical piano.