Mario Morino is co-founder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and chairman of the Morino Institute. His career spans more than 40 years as entrepreneur, technologist, and civic and business leader. In the early 1970s, Mario co-founded and helped build Legent Corporation, a software and services firm that became a market leader and one of the industry's 10 largest firms by the early 1990s. Mario lives in greater Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three children.