Karina Funk, Large-Cap Sustainable Growth Co-Portfolio Manager, Brown Advisory

Karina Funk, CFA, is co-Portfolio Manager of the Brown Advisory Large- Cap Sustainable Growth strategy.  Karina joined Brown Advisory in 2009.  Karina has over 10 years of environmentally oriented investing experience spanning early-stage ventures to debt and public equities.  She was previously an equity research analyst for Winslow Management Co, a principal at Charles River Ventures, and an investment manager at the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust.  She serves on the MIT Ignite Clean Energy Business Plan Competition as a Founding Mentor and Judge, the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center Investor Advisory Board, and is an International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation Fellow. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, an M.S in Technology and Policy and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT, and a Post-Graduate diploma from École Polytechnique.