Erica MacKey

Erica Mackey is the co-founder and CEO of MyVillage, which is reimagining America’s broken childcare system. MyVillage helps people, mostly moms, open high quality, home-based child care programs for kids ages zero to five. Previously, Mackey co-founded and served as COO of Off Grid Electric (now Zola Electric), the world’s first massively scalable off-grid electric company, connecting over 1 million Africans to affordable solar energy. Her ventures have raised more than $250 million from world-class investors including Tesla, Paul Allen, and others. She was a fellow at the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship, and she has been recognized among Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs (2012). She was a delegate for the Academy of Achievement (2014) and was awarded the Zayed Future Energy Prize (2015).