Spring Mountain Capital President Greg Ho

Gregory Ho is president and founding partner of Spring Mountain Capital and head of its social impact group. He founded and manages the West Harlem Innovation Network, a strategy within Spring Mountain Capital’s social impact group that began in 2021. With the goal of launching scalable businesses and creating high-paying jobs in Harlem, WHIN offers opportunity zone tax benefits to investors and aims to provide venture-like returns.

Ho directs the team through investment decisions, deploys capital, mentors portfolio companies through a venture studio model and advances them to the next stage. Prior to founding SMC in 2001, Greg was a Principal and Chief Financial Officer of McKinsey, where he led the financial and tax planning for the firm and led McKinsey’s expansion into over 30 new countries during his 16 year tenure. Greg also was a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and a Trustee of McKinsey’s Profit-Sharing Retirement Plan. In these capacities, he oversaw the identification, evaluation, and selection of traditional and alternative asset managers and investments for over $1 billion of partner and employee assets and, with several other McKinsey partners, co-founded the McKinsey Investment Office.

After leaving McKinsey in 1998 and prior to joining SMC, Greg was a private investor and consultant to several prominent NYC financial services companies and technology start-ups. He volunteers with The Doe Fund and sits on the board of the Museum of Chinese in America.