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Dominic Kalms

Founder/CEO, B Generous
Dominic Kalms is a 3X venture backed entrepreneur and philanthropist with an expertise in FinTech, nonprofits, and charitable fundraising. He has raised over $120M in venture and philanthropic capital during his career and has been featured in an array of media publications (e.g. NBC, Forbes, CBS, Entrepreneur, BBC, Yahoo etc) where he discusses philanthropy and impact. He was most recently profiled on the front page of Entrepreneur.com, as well as in the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy web series, and he recently guest lectured a class on Philanthropy at MIT. His latest opinion piece on corporate giving can be found on Forbes.com.

Dominic is also a well known public speaker and has spoken at many global forums on philanthropy & technology (e.g. United Nations Summit, Nexus Summit, Global Citizen Forum, AVG Summit, Social Enterprise Summit, TechCrunch’s Ventures Summit, Capital One Stories of Impact, TEDx, Paradigm Talks etc).

Today, Dominic is CEO of a new venture backed FinTech company B Generous, which is revolutionizing how people donate to nonprofits through the advent of the first ever philanthropic credit product. B Generous is backed by some of the top VCs, Banks, & institutional investors in the US.

Before his current company, Dominic was CEO of GVNG which Forbes called "One of the most revolutionary platforms in the social impact space today." GVNG is a venture backed technology company that facilitates the creation of instant charitable giving accounts. Many of the world’s leading public figures & corporations have used GVNG to start and run their philanthropic projects. Dominic is the President of the company today.

Previously Dominic managed Foundations at Global Philanthropy Group, a private strategy consultancy which advises high net worth individuals, celebrities, & corporations on impact work. At GPG Dominic advised and ran the foundations for many of the world’s top philanthropists. GPG was acquired by Charity Network in 2017.
Dominic is also on the Fundraising Board of Forest Whitaker's Foundation & Val Kilmer's Foundation. Dominic is also member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council, NEXUS, SUMMIT Impact, and is an Ambassador for the Global Citizen Forum. He is also a contributing writer for Forbes and a Mentor at the Global Good Fund.

In 2020 Dominic started the nonprofit EndCovid-19 which has donated hundreds of thousands of masks/faceshields to hospitals, schools, & Native American reservations across the US. Dominic was born in Hong Kong, raised in London and now lives in LA/NYC. He holds a BA from NYU + MA from Columbia University.
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