Katherine Jollon Colsher is the president and CEO of Girls Who Invest, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing gender diversity and inclusion in investment management with a focus on growing the pipeline of women in frontline investing positions. 

Before joining Girls Who Invest, Jollon Colsher was a managing director at Goldman Sachs and the national director of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, the firm’s largest-ever philanthropic initiative to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunity by providing access to education, capital, and business support services. Prior, Jollon Colsher was the director of organizational development and effectiveness at ONE, an advocacy organization co-founded by Bono and other activists to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, and a manager in the government practice at Accenture. She currently serves on the board of the Center for American Entrepreneurship, the CFA Institute’s Inclusion and Diversity Steering Committee, and the Milken Institute’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asset Management Executive Council. 

Jollon Colsher earned a BA in English, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Richmond. She is also a graduate of the 2016 Presidential Leadership Scholars Program.