Jessica Droste Yagan

Jessica Droste Yagan is the CEO of Impact Engine and serves as Managing Partner of Impact Engine Ventures. She is also extensively engaged personally in impact investing and evangelizing on behalf of the impact investing field.

Prior to Impact Engine, Jessica led the creation of McDonald’s Corporation’s global and U.S. sustainable sourcing strategies and worked in the field of urban economic development at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.

She is currently on the boards of Metropolitan Planning Council, The Honeycomb Project, the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at Chicago Booth, the City of Chicago’s Community Catalyst Fund, ReUp Education, and Fixer. Crain’s Chicago Business named her to its list of 40-Under-40 in 2013 and she served as a 2014 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow.

Jessica holds a BA from Haverford College, an MBA from Stanford University, and an MPA from Harvard University.