Elliott Donnelley II is the Vice Chair of Synergos and a Founding General Partner of the White Sand Investor Group, LP, a fifth-generation investment partnership of the Chicago-based RR Donnelley family. He is also a founder of KD Venture Partners, a seed-stage Impact and InvestTech investment company based in Silicon Valley.

Elliott is a member of Synergos’ Global Philanthropist Circle, the advisory board of Stanford’s Long-Term Investment Initiative and a member of the board of trustees of the LGT Venture Philanthropy Foundation - the venture philanthropy platform of the Royal Family of Lichtenstein and the LGT Bank. Elliott also serves as Chairman of the board of the Philanthropy Workshop and as a trustee of the Global Sustainability Network and the Long-Term Investment Organization which is an affiliated entity of the Institutional Investor Round Table whose members include some of the world’s largest institutional investors. Elliott was a key advisor to the China Global Philanthropy Institute, which was founded by Ray Dalio, Bill Gates and three prominent Chinese Philanthropists in 2015 and he was also instrumental in helping to launch the China Philanthropy Forum, which was one of the highest-level convenings on Philanthropy in China from 2012-2015.

From 1989-1991 Mr. Donnelley lived and worked in Beijing teaching at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; he now travels internationally frequently and works globally to promote best practices in philanthropy and impact investing. Elliott graduated from Yale University in 1988 with a B.A. in history.