Ron Boehm

He has been married to his wife Marlys for 32 years, and they have three grown children. He and Marlys live in Santa Barbara, California.

Ron is the founder with Marlys of BOMA. Ron works primarily with the investment and financial advisory aspects of the organization, sharing with both social entrepreneurs and fellow impact investors what he learns from his failures and successes. He was a catalyst for development of a revenue sharing approach for compensating impact investors for longer term, high risk investments, as an alternative to equity. 

Ron has been at the center of bringing complementary organizations together for mutual benefit, including Young Presidents Organization, Ashoka, World Merit, Synergos, and Nexus. He is comfortable working internationally, having co-founded companies in Haiti and India, and through BOMA has provided strategic advisory services and financing to over 50 social and environmental impact companies on five continents.

Before starting BOMA, Ron ran ABC-CLIO, an international publishing company founded by his parents, for 27 years.

Ron studied law at Hastings (University of California San Francisco), is a member of California Bar and has MBA from University of California Berkeley.

Ron loves being on the ocean, having raced his International 14 in over 8 countries at 17 World Championships. He also enjoys cruising catamarans in the Atlantic and the Caribbean.