Our Team
Jane Siebels
Before co-founding MSM Change Partners, Jane had a long career as a philanthropist, helping to form philanthropic and family structures and serving as director/trustee of many foundations, non-profits and for-profit companies. She has also founded successful companies in investment management and technology.
Jane was a hedge fund/investment manager for Sir John Templeton, Julian Robertson and Dr. William Sharpe. She has served as a trustee of all the Templeton Foundations, The Legatum Institute, St Paul and St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and the Global Innovation Fund. She currently serves as a director of Blackstone funds, Scotia Bank entities and the Templeton bank in the Bahamas along with various family companies. Jane was a board director of Accion and Opportunity International (both leading micro-finance non-profits). She was also on the board of the National Foundation for Teaching and Entrepreneurship.
Jane grew up in Iowa and attended the University of Iowa, Thunderbird and studied at St Gallen Switzerland and Vienna under a Rotary Doctoral scholarship. She speaks Norwegian, German and Spanish.
Dr Barnaby Marsh
Before co-cofounding MSM Change Partners, Barnaby held a range of private-sector positions in management consulting, financial innovation (derivatives), and the nonprofit sector. He was a senior executive at the $2 billion John Templeton Foundation, where he oversaw and led the Foundation's grantmaking, communications, planning and evaluation, and philanthropic partnerships areas.
In his advisory role over the last 20 years, Barnaby has guided more than $3 billion in various non-profit activities and currently specializes in helping philanthropists with capstone benefactions and setting up new private foundations.
Barnaby is also the co-author of the popular book “How Luck Happens” (Dutton/Penguin) and is currently working on a book on effective risk-taking in the context of philanthropy.
Barnaby grew up in Alaska, and studied at Harvard and NYU. He is a Summa cum Laude graduate of Cornell University and attended Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. His doctoral work focused on risk taking in economic, psychological, and biological contexts.
Richard Meredith
Before co-founding MSM Change Partners, Richard has worked with some of the world’s most generous philanthropists, including Larry Ellison, Michael Milken and others, defining their philanthropic mission and advising on their communications and public affairs. He continues to advise clients around the world on crisis management, on generational planning, on advocacy, branding, and digital outreach.
Richard spent 27 years in the British Diplomatic Service, serving in the United States, Central America, Africa, Germany and the Middle East. He was Director of Communications for the UK National Security Council. For 7 years he was a senior partner at Brunswick Group, leading their corporate crisis practice team and founding the philanthropy and family business practices.
Richard read History at Trinity College, Cambridge University where he was a Choral Scholar, and at Rice University, Houston, Texas.