Eric Adler
Co-Founder and Managing Director
For eight years Eric taught high school physics at St. Paul's School in Baltimore, where he also served as dean of students. More recently, he worked as a management consultant, the principal of an investment advisory firm and an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University Graduate Division of Business and Management. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School and earned degrees in engineering and economics from Swarthmore College. He received an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Eric is an Echoing Green fellow and was named a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine. He has received the Manhattan Institute's Outstanding Social Entrepreneurship Award, an Oprah Winfrey "Use Your Life" Award, and a Fast Company/Monitor Group's Social Capitalist award for his work at The SEED Foundation.

Rajiv Vinnakota
Co-Founder and Managing Director

Prior to founding SEED, Rajiv was an associate at Mercer Management Consulting, where he worked on strategic and financial projects in a variety of industries. He has also been involved with programs for inner-city and adjudicated children and served on the board of The Empower Program, which works with youth to end the culture of violence. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in molecular biology and a certificate of studies from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy. Rajiv is an Echoing Green fellow and an Ashoka fellow. For his work at The SEED Foundation he was named a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine and has received the Manhattan Institute's Outstanding Social Entrepreneurship Award, an Oprah Winfrey "Use Your Life" Award, and a Fast Company/Monitor Group's Social Capitalist Award. Rajiv is a trustee of Princeton University.