Investing in Our Shared Future: A Conversation with Prince Harry
Prince Harry is a humanitarian, mental health advocate, environmentalist, and military combat veteran. His work is dedicated to creating positive and lasting change for communities and the planet, particularly in advancing conversations around resilience and healing.
He is the co-founder of the Archewell Foundation, whose mission is to show up and do good. The Foundation focuses on social impact initiatives, including digital safety and education, all under the umbrella of protecting our collective mental health. Prince Harry is also the founder of the Invictus Games, an international adaptive sporting event that celebrates wounded service members and veterans from 25 nations.
Since 2021, he has served as Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp, the largest mental health and coaching startup in the world, and alongside his wife became investors in Ethic, a sustainable investing platform. In that same year, he was asked to join a panel of experts at the Aspen Institute's Commission for Information Disorder. In 2023, he was named a New York Times best-selling author for his memoir, Spare.
Having left the UK in 2020, Prince Harry resides in California with his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and their two children, Archie and Lili. Together, they remain dedicated to building a more compassionate, equitable world for future generations.
Mark Suster has been a Managing Partner at Upfront since 2007, where has led notable investments in companies including Invoca, Density, Nanit, and Maker Studios (acquired by Disney). He previously was the founder & CEO of two successful enterprise software companies, the most recent of which was sold to Salesforce.com where Mark became VP, Products. Prior to being a founder, Mark was a software developer at Accenture where he lived and worked in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Mark is a graduate of UCSD and has an MBA from the University of Chicago.