Teresa Hoelle | Senior Vice President, Communications & Culture
(She/Her)

In her role as Senior Vice President, Philanthropic Services, Teresa leads a team of four individuals to support family foundations, corporate foundations, and philanthropists to meet their philanthropic and community grantmaking goals. Ranging in assets from $2 million to $60 million, Ignite’s clients collectively invest over $6 million in the community annually.

A Cincinnati Business Courier Forty Under 40 recipient, Teresa holds a Master of Business Administration with concentrations in marketing and global business from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, and a Bachelor of Science in Education from Miami University. Teresa previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at United Way of Greater Cincinnati and Vice President of Institutional Advancement at ArtWorks.

Teresa is a proud mother of two – an adopted son and recent graduate of University of Cincinnati’s College of Design Art Architecture and Planning (DAAP), and a 3-year preschool daughter who is a whiz at sign language and making everyone around her smile. Teresa loves visiting her family farm, and enjoys running, hiking, and listening to podcasts. Teresa is proud to serve on the Advisory Board of the DDX3X Foundation to promote research and awareness for children and families living with an extremely rare genetic disease.