MILLER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS PRESENTS
The Bryan Dean Forum
Guest Lecturer: Jens Molbak
Entrepreneur and founder of NewImpact and CoinStar; tri-sector innovation champion and expert
3:00-4:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 7
Whitinger Building Room 144
A reception will be held immediately after the presentation and discussion.
RSVP online before February 5.
Uniting Profit and Purpose: An Introduction to Tri-Sector Business Models
Join us for a talk that has the potential to reshape your worldview with Coinstar founder Jens Molbak as we explore how cross-sector business models create thriving businesses and improve people’s lives.
Jens is the founder and CEO of NewImpact, a Seattle-based humanity-benefit nonprofit dedicated to changing the way the world finds opportunities and solves problems. Advocating a holistic “all of society” approach, NewImpact promotes creating business models that embed impact and tap into vital resources and insights from the public, private, and social sectors -- harnessing the untapped potential that often goes overlooked or underutilized.
Jens first learned of the potential of tri-sector solutions as founder and CEO of Coinstar. Jens began his career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley. His board work includes numerous organizations, including the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington and the National Nordic Museum. Jens is a graduate of Yale University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
About Jens Molbak
Molbak has a passion for entrepreneurship, innovation-investing, and a world where social and economic progress is available to all. He founded NewImpact, a humanity-benefit non-profit that seeks to utilize a data-driven “tri-sector” approach to align the resources available in the private, social, and public sectors to generate superior societal and financial outcomes.
He founded CoinStar in 1990 with the goal of creating a company that could simultaneously benefit the private, public, and non-profit sectors. CoinStar today has processed over $60 billion, raised $100 million for non-profits, and saved the U.S. government billions in reduced costs.
The Bryan Dean Forum
The 2023-24 Bryan Dean Forum lecture, a three-part speaker series focusing on reimagining business education this year, brings prominent thought leaders to campus to convey leading-edge insights—and stimulate conversation about the role of business in addressing the world’s grand challenges and the role of business education as a force for good. The series will clarify the challenges ahead and provide inspiration and guidance for our journey of change.
Reception immediately following lecture and discussion.
Open to the public. RSVP by Feb. 5 to attend.