Debbie Santos

Debbie Santos is the Vice President of Finance at the Skoll Foundation, the Palo Alto–based philanthropic organization founded by eBay's first president, Jeff Skoll, to advance social entrepreneurship. She joined the Foundation in October 2016 (initially in a Director/Managing Director-level finance role, later elevated to Vice President) and now holds primary responsibility for the Foundation's financial matters, overseeing its grants management, legal, accounting, and finance functions.

Before Skoll, Santos spent much of her career as a finance leader across the nonprofit and private sectors. She served as Chief Financial Officer of Carondelet High School (a Catholic girls' school in Concord, CA) from September 2010 to September 2016, and as CFO of Lafayette Capital Group Inc. from June 2009 to September 2010. She began her career at the accounting and consulting firm Armanino LLP, where she worked from May 2003 to June 2009, rising from Supervising Senior Auditor to Finance Manager.

Santos holds a Bachelor of Science in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA from California State University, East Bay. She has also completed executive coursework through Harvard Business School Online. Her professional self-description emphasizes helping organizations "optimize across finance and operations to advance their mission."

Beyond her operating role at Skoll, Santos serves as a Board Member at Rhia Ventures, a nonprofit that works to build a more inclusive women's reproductive and maternal health market and that owns RH Capital, an impact-investing fund. In this capacity she contributes financial and governance expertise rather than acting as a check-writing angel investor.

• Santos's investment involvement is institutional and governance-based, not personal angel investing. There is no public record of her writing individual seed checks under her own name.
• Through her Skoll Foundation role, she stewards capital deployed toward social entrepreneurs driving large-scale systems change — Skoll backs proven social innovators through grants and mission investments rather than traditional venture equity.
• Through her Rhia Ventures board seat, she is connected to RH Capital, which invests in and incubates early-stage companies developing products and solutions that expand maternal health care, contraception availability, and abortion access. RH Capital's second fund is oversubscribed, bringing total assets under management to over $40 million.
• Consistent theme across her affiliations: mission-aligned, impact-first capital in health equity, social entrepreneurship, and women's economic well-being.