Mary Hart

Mary Hart was born in Chicago and raised in a northern suburb of the city. She relocated to Oregon to attend Willamette University and moved to Portland after graduating. Mary is the Village Organizational Officer at Village Family Capital, a Portland-based growth-equity firm that supports the region’s top early-stage, profit-generating companies by filling an undersupplied gap with growth equity capital and value-add resources. She has 15 years of driving business results as a highly adaptable, organized, and efficient operator with a strategic business sense. She can balance the needs of partners, investors, business associates, and community members in a highly adaptable, entrepreneurial, and creative way. She is a problem solver who thrives on challenges and the opportunity to make a difference. Before joining VFC she was the Chief Operating Officer at Meriwether Group, before that she held a position at Lewis & Clark Law School, and served as a paralegal assistant in the local law firm, Stoll Berne. Though she does not have a direct association with disability, she is a very active advocate for the inclusion of people and families in the community that experience disability.