Marisa de Belloy

Marisa is High Tide Foundation’s president and leads the foundation’s strategy and team. She oversees all grant making and works to promote collaboration in the field.

Marisa’s background includes investment banking, strategy consulting, and human rights work. Marisa was previously chief operating officer of Made in a Free World, a SaaS solution for human trafficking. Before that, she created and ran a highly successful media and technology practice at investment banking firm Michel Dyens and Co., based in Paris, and co-founded and ran Fotango, an online photo sharing site funded by leading European VCs that was later sold to Canon, Inc. She has worked at Goldman Sachs and the LEK Partnership and taught finance at a French university. Marisa speaks French and English and has spent more than 15 years working in Europe. She serves on several boards in the Bay Area, where she resides with her husband and four children.  Marisa received an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from Yale.