Garrett P. Ashley, Vice Chancellor, University Relations and Advancement, The California State University
Garrett P. Ashley is vice chancellor of University Relations and Advancement for the California State University, providing oversight for systemwide fundraising, governmental affairs, community relations, alumni relations, communications and public affairs since November 2008. His division highlights the system’s positive role in California while advocating for public higher education interests. Read more.
John Chaimanis, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure
Mr. Chaimanis is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure (KSI), a private equity firm that makes direct investments in clean-energy projects. In 2005, Mr. Chaimanis began working in clean energy finance as it formed the perfect match between his business interests with his passion for making a positive impact. After working with regional project developers in the New England area, he joined a subsidiary of Edison International in California to acquire and develop 250MW of wind energy projects, investing over $500 million dollars. Read more.
Felicia Davis, Managing Director, Building Green Campuses, Clark Atlanta University
Felicia M. Davis, directs the Building Green Initiative housed at Clark Atlanta University within the Atlanta University Center-the largest consortium of historically black colleges and universities in the nation. Created by UNCF, the program advances green building and other sustainability efforts at historically black, Hispanic-serving and tribal colleges and universities. Davis is committed to helping Black colleges and other special mission institutions make the transition to a more environmentally and economically sustainable future. Read more.
Alice DonnaSelva, Consultant, Prime Buchholz
Alice DonnaSelva joined Prime Buchholz in 2005 and has 13 years of industry experience. Prior to becoming a Consultant, she served as a Consulting Analyst and an Investment Analyst for seven years. Alice serves as Chair of the Firm’s Sustainable Investment Committee and is a member of the Fixed Income and Defined Benefit Committees. Read more.
David Dinnerman, Trustee, Hampshire College
David Dinerman is the Chief Financial Officer of ZoMazz, Inc., a technology and manufacturing company located in Monterey, California. Previously, he spent six years as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Probitas Partners, a leading international firm that raises money for private equity funds. Read more.
Patrick Drum, Portfolio Manager, Saturna Sustainable Bond Fund
Patrick T. Drum, Research Analyst and Portfolio Manager, joined Saturna Capital in October 2014. He is the portfolio manager for the firm’s institutional subsidiary, Saturna Sdn Bhd in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, directing the sharia compliant fixed income investments. He is a select member of the United Nation’s Principles for Investment (UNPRI) Fixed Income Outreach Subcommittee and an adjunct professor of finance at Pinchot University, formerly known as Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI). Mr. Drum has nearly ten years of experience integrating ESG considerations into fixed income portfolio management. Read more.
Bennett Freeman, Senior Vice President, Sustainability Research and Policy, Calvert Investments
Mr. Freeman leads Calvert’s environmental, social and governance analysis, shareholder advocacy and public policy initiatives and its team of sustainability research analysts. He has developed the investment themes for new Calvert funds. Read more.
Susan Gary, Professor, University of Oregon School of Law
Susan Gary’s teaching and research interests include nonprofit organizations, trusts and estates, and estate planning. She has written and spoken about the regulation of charities, the definition of family for inheritance purposes, and the use of mediation to resolve disputes in probate and during the estate planning process. Read more.
Amy Myers Jaffe, Executive Director, Energy and Sustainability, University of California, Davis
Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on global energy policy, geopolitical risk, and energy and sustainability. Jaffe serves as senior advisor, energy and sustainability to the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the Regents, University of California, and as executive director for Energy and Sustainability at University of California, Davis. She is associate editor (North America) for the academic journal Energy Strategy Reviews and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Economics and Energy and Environmental Policy. Jaffe’s research focuses on sustainable investment, corporate investment strategies in the energy sector, and oil and gas geopolitics. Read more.
Keith Johnson, Chairman, Reinhart Boarner Van Deauren
Keith L. Johnson chairs the Institutional Investor Services Group at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. He represents pension funds, foundations and other institutional investors globally on fiduciary, investment, governance and litigation matters. Read more.
Phillip King Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, SF State
Philip King is a professor of economics at SF State. King's tenure at the University began in 1987 after a nearly two-year professorship at State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland. In 1978, King earned a B.A. in philosophy and economics from Washington University, where he was nominated to Omicron Delta Epsilon, an economics honor society. King received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in 1987. Read more.
Dr. Dinah A. Koehler, Equity Strategist and Director, UBS Global Asset Management
Dr. Dinah A. Koehler joined UBS Global Asset Management in February 2015 and is a member of the Sustainable Equities team. Dinah has primary responsibility for the overall product positioning and development of Sustainable Equity Strategies, as well as marketing and communication to existing and prospective clients globally. Read more.
Jonas Kron, Senior Vice President and Director of Shareholder Advocacy, Trillium Asset Management
Jonas Kron is a senior vice president and Trillium’s Director of Shareholder Advocacy. With over fifteen years of experience in shareholder advocacy, Jonas is responsible for leading and coordinating Trillium’s extensive advocacy program, which works to engage companies on their environmental and social performance. His advocacy work includes direct communications with company leadership, investor education and awareness, shareholder proposals, and public policy advocacy at the municipal, state and federal levels. Read more.
Tom Kuh, Executive Director, MSCI
Thomas Kuh is the Executive Director for ESG Indices at MSCI, Inc., and a leading global provider of investment decision support tools, including indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics. Prior his current role at MSCI Inc., he was Head of ESG Indices at RiskMetrics Group, which was acquired by MSCI Inc. in June 2010. Dr. Kuh joined RiskMetrics in November 2009 through the acquisition of KLD Research & Analytics. During his 17-year career at KLD, Dr. Kuh held a number of positions, progressing from Research Analyst to Business Development Director and finally Managing Director of KLD Indexes. Read more.
Kevin Lehman, ESG Analyst, Breckinridge Capital Advisors
Kevin joined Breckinridge in January 2013. Prior to joining the firm, he was an Investment Banking Intern at Sustainable Development Capital where he helped financial institutions, corporations and developers structure and raise capital for large-scale renewable energy and sustainable development projects. Read more.
Bob Litterman, Chairman, Risk Committee and Academic Advisory Board at Kepos Capital LP
Robert Litterman is the chairman of the Risk Committee and Academic Advisory Board at Kepos Capital LP. Prior to joining Kepos Capital in 2010, Litterman enjoyed a 23-year career at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he served in research, risk management, investments, and thought leadership roles. Read more.
Ken Locklin, Managing Director, Impax Asset Management
Mr. Locklin currently serves as the North American Managing Director for Impax Asset Management LLC. Impax manages $3.6 billion of public and private equity investments for major institutional clients around the world. With more than a decade of experience, it is the global investment leader in the FTSE-tracked environmental sector, investing in clean energy, resource recovery/waste management, and water processing/distribution. Read more.
Sonal Mahida, US Network Manager, Principles for Responsible Investment
Sonal Mahida is the US Network Manager for the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative. She is responsible for engaging with and supporting US signatories in the practice and implementation of their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk management. Read more.
David Miller, PhD - Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Clean Energy Venture Fund
David Miller is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Clean Energy Venture Fund (CEVF), an early stage venture fund in formation focused on maximizing returns by investing in seed stage companies commercializing scalable, disruptive clean energy technologies and business model innovations which provide solutions to global climate disruption. Read more.
Robert J. Nava, President, San Francisco State Foundation
Vice President University Advancement, San Francisco State University
Robert Nava is vice president for university advancement at SF State and is president of the San Francisco State University Foundation. Prior to coming to SF State, Nava held various senior leadership positions at the University of California, Riverside and served as the university's lobbyist in Sacramento and Washington D.C. During much of his 19-year UC Riverside career, Nava also taught as an adjunct faculty member in CSU Fullerton's Chicano Studies program and worked in advocacy for the Orange County Human Relations Commission. Read more.
Chris O'Brien, Director of Higher Education Programs, Altenex
Chris came to Altenex from American University where he was Director of Sustainability from 2009 to 2015. He was responsible for all sustainability functions, including the university's commitment to achieving climate-neutrality by the year 2020. Chris continues to teach about energy, climate, carbon markets and sustainable purchasing in the Sustainability Management program at AU's Kogod School of Business. While heading AU's sustainability office, Chris executed three power purchase agreements (PPAs), including a megawatt of onsite solar PV and solar thermal, and a 52 megawatt offsite solar PV project, which was the largest non-utility PPA in higher education at the time. Read more.
Mark Orlowski, Founder and Executive Director, Sustainable Endowments Institute
Mark Orlowski is the founder and executive director of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a Cambridge-based special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Mark leads the Institute's research and outreach efforts on college sustainability initiatives including the Billion Dollar Green Challenge. Mark has worked with students, faculty, administrators, and trustees at more than 100 schools. Read more.
Michael Pearce, Managing Director, Cambridge Associates
Michael is a Managing Director in Cambridge Associates’ Menlo Park office, advising clients on investment issues such as asset allocation strategy, manager selection, and investment program evaluation. Michael works with a number of foundation, college/university, and private clients in the US ranging in size from $30 million to $2.2 billion. Michael also serves as a member of Cambridge Associates’ Mission Related Investing Group, researching and meeting with institutional quality managers focused on mission-related investing. Read more.
Tanvi Pradhan, Research Assistant, SF State University Foundation
Tanvi joined the SRI Wealth Management Group in 2015 as a Client Associate, and is responsible for the ESG screening analysis for the Group’s clients. She completed her second MBA from San Francisco State University, where she graduated Beta Gamma Sigma. Read more.
Charles Sandmel, Portfolio Manager, Shelton Capital Management
Charles Sandmel joined Shelton Capital in 2015 as Portfolio Manager for the Fixed Income Separately Managed Account strategy. Charles, formerly an Investment Advisor Representative with First Affirmative Financial Network, is a 25-year veteran municipal analyst and portfolio manager specializing in the integration of bond investing with responsible, green investment principles. Read more.
Robert Schultz, Founding Partner and Chief Operating Officer, Greentech Capital Advisors
Greentech Capital Advisors (“GCA”) is an investment bank and asset manager focused exclusively on the Sustainable Infrastructure sector. GCA was founded in 2008 and since inception it has completed over $8B of M&A transactions and has raised over $3B of equity and debt for its clients. GCA’s asset management business offers two public equity products (a long/short fund and a long only fund) otherwise known as the GCA Sustainable Growth Funds. Read more.
Stephen Scofield, Director Financial Industry Solutions, South Pole Group
Stephen is a senior consultant to South Pole Group’s institutional investor clients. In this capacity, he advises asset owners, managers, consultants, and other intermediaries on their approach to carbon accounting and risk management practices. Stephen is responsible for leading South Pole Group’s business development and marketing initiatives within North America financial markets. Read more.
Wes Selke, Managing Director and Founder, Better Ventures
Wes is Managing Director and Founder of Better Ventures, a venture firm that backs early-stage technology companies pursuing social and environmental impact with business models that scale. He's the resident "numbers guy" and enjoys helping startups figure out how they're going to make and raise money. Wes has 15 years of venture capital and financial advisory experience with Good Capital’s Social Enterprise Expansion Fund, William Blair, and Ernst & Young's Mergers & Acquisitions group. Read more.
Samuel Sussman, Partner and Head of Investment Strategy, Alternative Investment Group
Samuel Sussman is a Partner and Head of Investment Strategy for Alternative Investment Group. He is responsible for directing the firm’s top-down research, identifying investment opportunities across strategies, industry sectors, and geographies. He leads Alternative Investment Group's sustainability initiative and is the Portfolio Manager of the firm's Alternative Investments Sustainability fund. He joined the firm in January 2012. Prior to joining Alternative Investment Group, Sam was a Partner at Cadogan Management, where he was the head of research and responsible for sourcing and monitoring credit and event-driven equity managers. Read more.
Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University
Wim Wiewel assumed the presidency of Portland State University in August 2008. Under his leadership, the university has developed five guiding themes: provide civic leadership through partnerships, improve student success, achieve global excellence, enhance educational opportunity, and expand resources and improve effectiveness. Read more.
Glen K. Yelton, VP and Head of Impact Research, SNW Asset Management
Glen K. Yelton joined SNW Asset Management in 2015 as the Head of Impact Research. Over the past decade and a half Glen has been heavily involved in the ESG/Impact investing industry, spending the last 10 years managing the ESG research program at IW Financial. Read more.