BlueMark today announced the appointment of Nick O’Donohoe to its Board of Directors
March 5, 2025 — BlueMark today announced the appointment of Nick O’Donohoe to its Board of Directors. As a prominent leader in the impact investing market, Nick’s guidance and support will be invaluable as BlueMark continues to scale its efforts to bring greater accountability and transparency to the impact investing industry. O’Donohoe brings a unique and diverse background, having led impact investing at J.P. Morgan, Better Society Capital (formerly known as Big Society Capital), and British International Investment (BII). His experience gives him a deep understanding of how BlueMark’s ratings and market intelligence can help meet the distinct data and information needs of various asset owners and allocators.
During his tenure at BII, the firm made more than $10 billion in investments, with a particular focus on lower and lower-middle-income countries that have historically struggled to attract capital. Today, the BII portfolio is the most highly concentrated in equities of any large DFI, reflecting its appetite for risk and its commitment to generating the greatest impact with the tools at its disposal. O’Donohoe’s appreciation of the practical realities of making impact investments in these markets will help ensure that BlueMark’s impact verification and benchmarking approaches remain both rigorous and responsive to the unique challenges and opportunities faced by emerging market managers.
Prior to joining BII, O’Donohoe was the CEO of Better Society Capital, one of the UK’s leading social impact investors. He also served as a Senior Adviser to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. O’Donohoe spent the first 30 years of his career in investment banking, starting at Goldman Sachs and then eventually joining J.P. Morgan where he became Global Head of Research and worked alongside current BlueMark CEO Christina Leijonhufvud for several years.
“I am delighted to join BlueMark’s Board at such a pivotal moment for the impact investing industry,” said O’Donohoe. “BlueMark has established itself as the benchmark for impact integrity, and I look forward to supporting the team as they continue to deliver investor-first solutions to the market.”
“Nick has been a continued source of inspiration and guidance for both myself and many of my peers across the impact investing industry,” said Leijonhufvud. “He brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to the BlueMark Board at what is a critical inflection point for this market.”
In a 2021 piece for Stanford Social Innovation Review co-authored by Leijonhufvud, O’Donohoe and his BII colleague, Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, the authors explored “The Next 10 Years of Impact Investment.” The piece is inspired by a seminal 2010 report, “Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class,” published by the same three authors when they worked together at J.P. Morgan, along with Margot Brandenburg and Antony Bugg-Levine who worked at the Rockefeller Foundation at the time.
About BlueMark
BlueMark is the leading provider of independent impact verification and intelligence for the impact and sustainable investing market. As a certified B Corp, BlueMark’s mission is to “strengthen trust in sustainable and impact investing” by providing investors with market-leading impact verification services, benchmarks, and analytics. BlueMark’s verification methodologies draw on a range of industry standards, frameworks, and regulations, including: the Impact Management Project (IMP), the Operating Principles for Impact Management (Impact Principles), the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), SDG Impact, Sustainable Disclosure Requirements (SDR), and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). Learn more about BlueMark and impact verification at www.bluemark.co.