Mark Muckerheide held various leadership roles at CARE International. His last role was AVP, Program, Strategy and Innovation, leading CARE’s $360 million per year program team which operated 1,000 programs in 110 countries reaching 166 million people annually. Before that, he created CARE’s Economic Growth unit, growing CARE’s Market Based programs from $2 million per year, to $105 million per year over the course of six years, which supported 10m farmers & entrepreneurs to gain access to $1 billion in economic gains.
Previous to that, Mark joined CARE as the founding CEO of CARE Social Ventures Corporation, creating CARE’s first for-profit arm, holding CARE’s impact investing, social ventures and Corporate Advisory Service business units.
Before joining CARE, Mark spent 20 years as a retail executive with Target Corporation. Mark’s first 15 years at Target were in brand management and merchandising, with his last role as Director of one of Target’s billion-dollar grocery business units. During Mark’s last five years at Target, he served as Director, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. In this role he was responsible for a $100 million philanthropic portfolio, as well as responsible for co-leading Target’s corporate wide effort to create a more business aligned CSR and Sustainability strategy.
Mark lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three daughters and enjoys running, hiking and traveling with his family.
