Steve Goldberg is an American independent social investment advisor, consultant, author, and speaker at Caffeinated Capital, LLC, based in Boston, Massachusetts.  His practice focuses on developing "scale finance" transactions to bring evidence-based social innovations to at least 20% of the eligible population within a decade.  In 2011-2012, he was Managing Director and General Counsel at Social Finance US, where he led government relations and nonprofit partnership efforts for the development of Social Impact Bonds. 

Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, the authors of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World, described Steve as "probably the most ambitious man in American philanthropy," which he ardently hopes was a compliment.  Steve is the author of Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn’t Advance Social Progress (Wiley, 2009), publishes The Social Impact Bond Tribune (the “SIB Trib”), blogs at billionsofdrops.blogspot.com, and tweets as @steve_goldberg.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and a member of the Alliance for Effective Social Investing, and he was selected by the White House's Corporation for National and Community Service as one of 50 nationally-recognized expert reviewers for the first Social Innovation Fund.  

Prior to working in the social sector, Steve spent 30 years in government, law, and business. He received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School, an M.A. in economics from Northwestern University, and a B.A. magna cum laude in ecoomics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.