Meet Our 2022 Speakers

Keynote Addresses

Jim Yong Kim ‘82 - Vice Chairman and Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners

Ethan Jim Yong Kim (@JimYongKim), M.D., PhD, is Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners, a fund that invests in infrastructure projects across several sectors around the world.

From July 2012 to February 2019, Kim served as the 12th President of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed that position, the organization established two goals to guide its work: to end extreme poverty by 2030; and to boost shared prosperity, focusing on the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries.

During Kim’s tenure, the World Bank Group supported the development priorities of countries at levels never seen outside of a financial crisis. Along with partners, the World Bank achieved two successive, record replenishments of the International Development Association (IDA), the institution’s fund for the poorest countries, which has enabled the Bank to greatly increase its work in areas suffering from fragility, conflict, and violence.

A physician and anthropologist, Kim’s career has revolved around health, education, and improving the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable. He was born in South Korea to parents who had fled the violence of the Korean War and grew up in Iowa, where his father was a practicing dentist and his mother was a philosopher and theologian. Kim graduated from Brown University, then became one of the first students to study jointly for a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in anthropology at Harvard University.

While at Harvard, Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a non-profit medical organization that provides healthcare to poor communities on four continents. With Partners In Health, Kim developed treatment programs for complex, deadly diseases such as multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis and AIDS in the poorest areas of Haiti, Peru, and several other countries. From 2003 to 2005, Kim served as Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. He led WHO’s “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which greatly expanded access to antiretroviral medication in developing countries.

Following his service at WHO, Kim was Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health. In 2009, he was named the 17th President of Dartmouth College, where he served until he was nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the World Bank Group. Kim was the first leader of the Bank Group who did not come from the financial or political sectors and the first who had personal experience tackling development issues in poor countries.

Kim holds a B.A. from Brown University, and an M.D. and PhD in medical anthropology from Harvard University. He received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, was recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” byU.S. News & World Report, and was named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Allison Binns - Managing Director and Head of ESG & Sustainable Investing Strategy, Angelo Gordon

Allison Binns joined Angelo Gordon in 2021 as the Head of ESG & Sustainable Investing for the firm. She focuses on ESG integration and sustainable investing approaches across investment verticals, and is responsible for sustainability reporting. Prior to joining the firm, Allison was an Executive Director for Global Sustainability Research at Morgan Stanley, where she headed ESG research across fixed income asset classes and led global corporate governance research for equities. Previously, Allison worked for Chevron where she held a number of senior advisory roles in ESG and geopolitical risk. Prior to Chevron, Allison worked for the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and the Boston Red Sox, where she focused on salary arbitration and international baseball concerns. She holds FINRA licenses SIE, 63, 86 and 87 as well as the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) credential from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. Allison received her A.B. in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Princeton University, and holds an A.M. and PhD. from Harvard University.

Panel Sessions

Uplifting Underrepresented Voices

investing in Equity

Stanley Toussaint is the Director of Municipal Engagements at MoCaFi, where he oversees MoCaFi’s national municipal strategy, and spearheads the Angeleno Connect Bank Account initiative, which is a private-public partnership between the City of Los Angeles and MoCaFi to bring a mobile banking platform to financially empower all Los Angeles residents (Angelenos). Moreover, Stanley oversees one of the most innovative economic insecurity initiatives in the US: Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI). Under Stanley’s leadership, MoCaFi’s GBI portfolio has grown to be the largest in the US, with programs in Los Angeles, CA; Newark, NJ; San Francisco, CA; Columbia, SC; Atlanta; GA; Birmingham, AL; and New Orleans, LA.
Stanley and his team’s work are guided by community fidelity to ensure that community trust, faith, and input are at the forefront of the strategies and products developed and introduced into the communities we serve. At MoCaFi, Stanley is responsible for strategy, partnerships, community outreach, and business development for government, not-for-profit, and corporate clients.
Prior to joining MoCaFi in 2017, Stanley held several operational and project management roles in the consumer product goods and petrochemicals industries. In his previous role, Stanley served as a Process Project Engineer at Kimberly-Clark Corp., where he was the lead Process Project Engineer for the firm’s largest North American manufacturing assets. During his time there, Stanley provided engineering, operations, and project management support, helping the assets be recognized as the North American top performers for three consecutive years while simultaneously leading several multi-million-dollar operations modernization projects.
Stanley holds a BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from New York University and currently serves as a board member of Transportation Alternatives.
Stanley is a native New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Stanley Toussaint - Director, Mobility Capital Finance (“MoCaFi”)

Rev. Dr. M. Keith Daniel is the Co-Founder and Managing Director for Resilient Ventures, LLC a committed capital fund investing in African American-led high-growth companies. He is also the owner of Madison Consulting Group, LLC (MCG), a company committed to serving individuals and institutions striving for the greatest good where all may enjoy flourishing work and life outcomes.
As an executive leader, Dr. Daniel served as the Executive Director of Operations and Strategic Partnerships for StepUp North Carolina, the Executive Director of DurhamCares, Inc, and served as a minister on the Duke University Chapel staff and Director of the Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation known as PathWays. He led the multi-million-dollar initiative funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. to what is now the Chapel’s core student ministry. In 2011, he was promoted to the post of Director of Community and Campus Engagement.
Additionally, Dr. Daniel has served as the Interim Director of the Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School as well as Program Director for Duke’s 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Integration of Black Students.
Dr. Daniel served as the program director for the Duke LEAD Summer Business Institute hosted by the Fuqua School of Business (1994-97, 2002-2020). In 2011, he helped launch the first annual Summer Youth Business and Entrepreneurship Academy inspired by LEAD at the North Carolina Central University School of Business. He is a Duke Divinity School Spiritual Formation Leader/Instructor, Special Projects. Keith’s career in higher education spanning three decades includes practitioner and director-level positions in the Duke Career Center, the Fuqua School of Business, and Duke Human Resources.
Daniel earned his B.A. degree at Duke in Comparative Area Studies with a focus on Latin America. He also holds a Master of Higher Education Administration, North Carolina State University, the Master of Divinity, and the Doctor of Ministry from Duke Divinity School.

Keith Daniel - Managing Partner, Resilient Ventures

Tracy Gray is the Founder and Managing Partner of The 22 Fund (The 22), an impact, early growth firm with a mission of creating the clean, quality jobs of the future by increasing the international sales of manufacturing companies, intentionally targeting women- and BIPOC-owned businesses. She is a Board Director for Applife Digital Solutions, Inc (ALDS), and the California State University Dominguez Hills Philanthropic Foundation Endowment.

Ms. Gray serves on Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Venture’s Women of Color Advisory Council, PGIM Real Estate’s Impact Advisory Council and the Fearless Fund’s Investment Committee. Ms. Gray is the first Social Impact Fellow at UC Berkeley Haas Business School’s Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership. She is Lead Partner for the Porfolia Green & Sustainability Fund and was formerly an Executive-in-Residence at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator.

After giving a TEDx Talk entitled “Why It's Time for Women to Be Sexist with Investment Capital,” Ms. Gray founded the non-profit We Are Enough. WAE’s mission is to educate ALL women on how and why to invest in women-owned, for-profit businesses or with a “gender lens.” Ms. Gray is featured in the recently released book “200 Hundred Women: Who Will Change the Way You See the World” and received the Bad Ass Woman in Green award from the California League of Conservation Voters.

Tracy Gray - Founder & Managing Partner, The 22 Fund

women in leadership

Maria Velissaris is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. She is the Founding Partner of SteelSky Ventures LLC, an early-stage venture fund that invests in women’s health tech solutions. Current fund investments include: 23andMe, Zipline, Lark, Motivo, Origin, Twentyeight Health, Cayaba Care, Mae, Proov and Ruby Love.
Maria founded her first business, Wakeboxes, which became Collegeboxes, and was later acquired by U-haul. She started her career as a technology strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and was awarded the National Women of Color in Technology Rising Star Award. Throughout her 19-year career, Maria has been at the forefront of marketing, strategy, and technology solutions. Maria developed a passion for healthcare while working as Head of Marketing and Product Development at Schweiger Dermatology Group, which she helped scale to become the largest dermatology chain in the Northeast.
Maria is extremely passionate about developing a funding pipeline for femaleis a member of Pipeline Angels and a charter member of the NJ Golden Seeds Chapter. She is personally invested in 9 female- led companies. Maria is also a mentor for international entrepreneurs at Entrepreneurship Roundtable Accelerator (ERA Global) and 500 Start Ups. She speaks regularly on investing and entrepreneurship panels including Amazon, LinkedIn, Google for Startups, NYU Stern, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, and Samsung and judges pitch competitions nationally. She’s been featured as a top VC to watch by Forbes, profiled on ABC News and has recently been honored with the 2020 NYU Stern Alumni Changemaker award and named to Business Insiders’ List of Rising Stars in Venture Capital.
Maria obtained a B.S. in Information Systems from Wake Forest University, an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a certificate from the Venture Capital Unlocked Program at Stanford University, an invite-only investor training program for emerging leaders who want to shape the future of the venture capital industry. She also serves on the Yale School of Medicine Center for Health and Innovation Advisory Board, The Executive Board of The National Patient Advocate Foundation, Advisory Board of MassChallenge and the Urban League of Greater Atlanta Board of Directors.
Maria holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Maria Velissaris - Founding Partner, SteelSky Ventures

Lisette Cooper, PhD, Vice Chair of Fiduciary Trust International and former CEO of Athena Capital Advisors, has over 30 years of investment management experience. She is a member of Fiduciary Trust’s Board of Directors and a member of Franklin Templeton’s Management Committee. Dr. Cooper founded Athena Capital Advisors, an award-winning OCIO (outsourced Chief Investment Officer) and wealth management firm, which was sold to Fiduciary Trust International in March 2020. At Fiduciary Trust, Dr. Cooper leads the firms sustainable and impact investing practice as well as its investment risk management initiative. Dr. Cooper is a board member of the Boston Youth Sanctuary, the Mind and Life Institute, and the Center for Heathy Minds Innovations, as well as serving on several advisory boards for social justice and environmental organizations. She is a trustee emerita of The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as well as a Mind and Life Fellow and has served as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab. Dr. Cooper received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and a PhD from Harvard University. She holds the CFA designation as well as several patents.

Lisette Cooper - Vice Chair, Fiduciary Trust International

Deepali is an advisor to female founders and an angel investor with a keen interest in digital health, femtech, and sustainability. Deepali invests in female founders/mixed teams, and some of her investments include LiveBetterWith, PensionBee, Polipop, Parla, Planera, Kama Labs, Sano Genetics, Shell Works, SideQuest, Juno Bio, Flown, Okko and Yhangry. Deepali is also a co-founder at Alma Angels (www.alma-angels.com), set-up to democratize and demystify angel investing and create more female angel investors that invest in female founders. She is also an Atomico Angel and a Venture Partner at Speedinvest (where she focuses on female founders). Deepali is co-founder of Alma Angel & UKBAA's Angel Investor of the Year for 2021.

Deepali Nangia - Partner, Speedinvest

Sarah Zapp - Founder & CEO, Beyond Board

Activist governance and proxy voting

Michael is the founder and CEO of Proxy Impact, which provides environmental, social and sustainable governance (ESG) shareholder engagement and proxy voting services. Michael has over 25 years of experience in corporate social responsibility, shareholder advocacy, and philanthropy. Michael has led or participated in more than 400 shareholder dialogues and resolutions on issues ranging from climate change, gender and racial diversity, and human rights. For more than a decade Michael served as a Senior Program Director for the As You Sow Foundation’s Corporate Responsibility Program. Michael is the founder and co-author of the annual Proxy Preview, the most comprehensive publication on ESG shareholder resolutions. He also co-authors an annual Racial and Gender Pay Scorecard ranking corporate disclosure and practices on pay equity. His shareholder advocacy work led him to be named as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics” by Ethisphere Magazine. Michael also received the Climate Change Business Journal award for his climate-related shareholder campaigns.

Michael Passoff - CEO, Proxy Impact

Yusuf manages Engine No. 1’s active ownership and proxy-voting strategies for the firm’s fund portfolio companies.
Prior to joining Engine No. 1, Yusuf worked at JUST Capital, where he developed and led the firm’s corporate engagement strategy, oversaw the racial equity portfolio, and assisted with investor-related engagement. He began his career in the global capital markets division at Barclays Capital.
Yusuf received a BS in Computer Science from Trinity College.

Yusuf George - Managing Director, Engine No. 1

Donna F. Anderson is Vice President and Head of Corporate Governance for T. Rowe Price. In this role, Ms. Anderson co-chairs the firm’s ESG Committee and leads the firm’s engagement efforts with portfolio companies. She is also a Director on the T. Rowe Price Trust Company board.
Before joining T. Rowe Price in 2007, Ms. Anderson was Director of Equity Research for Invesco Funds in Houston.
Ms. Anderson is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, and she is Chair of the Investor Stewardship Group. She earned a B.A. at Trinity University and an M.B.A. at The University of Texas at Austin.

Donna Anderson - Vice President & Head of Global Corporate Governance, T. Rowe Price

Technology & Data

Crypto & blockchain: Environmental and social impacts

Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Previously, he led an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data at OpenPlans, with a focus on cultivating open source communities, building open data platforms, and supporting open standards efforts. Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children.

Nick Grossman - Partner, Union Square Ventures

Darren has almost 20 years of institutional finance experience and has served in management capacities. Darren is a registered representative in the US and a holder of FINRA Series 7, 63, 55 and 24 designations. His previous roles included Head of US Cash Equities, Program and Electronic Trading and Futures Execution for BNP Paribas, nearly 10 years at Morgan Stanley and 5 more at BTIG & Bay Crest Partners.
Darren has start up experience founding Broadform, a cloud-technology company, FlyClip LLC, a technology wearables company, Housetab, a payment processing company, and DLCC, a securities lending platform for digital assets. He has served on the Board of Directors for Redi, a Goldman Sachs spin-off company that was sold to Thompson Reuters in 2017, and AiX, a Fintech company based in London, sold to Blockchain.com in 2021. Darren is currently Chairman of Blockchain Triangle Systems.
Darren has a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Darren Wolfberg - Co-Founder & CEO, Blockchain Triangle

Stefan leads investments across infrastructure software, security, and crypto infrastructure (decentralized and centralized). He focuses on partnering with exceptional founders, as early as possible (from Seed onwards), who are building infrastructure for the modern internet.
Prior to joining BCV in 2016, Stefan scaled Turbonomic from Series A through Series D, and the company went on to be acquired by IBM for $2 billion. At Turbonomic, Stefan held a variety of strategy and operational leadership roles across finance, operations and sales. Through this experience, he developed a deep understanding of internet infrastructure and the IT and security rails that enterprises need in order to conduct business.
Stefan studied economics as an undergraduate but is a technologist at heart, coding for personal projects and often found tinkering with crypto protocols. When Stefan isn’t near his computer he is usually spending time in nature either cycling, skiing, or kiteboarding.

Stefan Cohen - Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Nic is a general partner at Castle Island Ventures, a Cambridge, MA based venture firm focused on public blockchain startups, and the cofounder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup. He is an advisor to the Bitcoin Clean Energy Initiative. Previously, he served as Fidelity’s first dedicated cryptoasset analyst.

Nic Carter - General Partner, Castle Island Ventures

climate tech

Helen Bertelli is a 25-year PR and Marketing veteran, founder of Benecomms and co-founder of Women in Climate Tech. She has held leadership and marketing director positions in several firms throughout her career, and her work has won accolades including PR News’ Platinum PR Awards, PR Daily’s National Awards, MarComm, and the RPRSA awards. She is passionate about the role of communicators in helping to fight climate change, and she speaks and writes frequently on this topic.

Helen Bertelli - Founder & President, Benecomms.io

Mike Delucia is a sector lead focused on energy, buildings, and cities in Wellington Climate Innovation. He will focus on managing the firm’s private-company investment activity in companies developing climate solutions within energy, buildings, and cities, working closely with portfolio managers, global industry analysts, and other global research resources within the firm to identify and pursue investments. As the climate innovation effort continues to grow, he will help build the team, develop investment talent, and further integrate Wellington’s research capabilities into this emerging business.
Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2021, Mike was a founding partner at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (“SIP”, 2019 – 2021), where he led all aspects of the investment process for companies and projects in the infrastructure technology space, with a focus on investments in the energy transition and the built environment. SIP is a spin-off of Alphabet’s cities-of-the-future arm, Sidewalk Labs, where he worked (2017 – 2019) as associate director, investments. In this role, he led venture investments and incubations in the energy, water, waste, and mobility sectors. He was also previously a vice president in the Energy Markets Division of Macquarie Group (2014 – 2017), investing directly in the energy and power sectors.
Mike began financing energy companies as a project finance analyst at HSH Nordbank (2008 – 2009), then as an investment associate at Nereus Capital (2009 – 2013). He began his career as an analyst at J.P. Morgan Investment Bank (2007 – 2008).
Mike holds a B.A. in philosophy and economics from Brown University (2007).

Mike DeLucia ‘07 - Vice President and Sector Lead, Climate Innovation, Wellington Management

Amy is co-founder and Managing General Partner of Buoyant Ventures, a new venture fund in Chicago that invests in digital climate solutions for energy, transportation, agriculture, and the built environment. Her career spans over 20 years of high technology entrepreneurship, private equity, and research. Amy previously founded and led Energize Ventures, a $165mm venture fund that invests in digital energy technologies. She also co-founded and served as CEO of technology accelerator Clean Energy Trust, which has invested in dozens of early-stage clean energy companies across the Midwestern US. She now serves as Chair of its Board of Directors. Amy also held roles at private equity firm MVC Capital, and at Stanford Research Institute where she worked on an early version of the voice recognition technology that became Siri. Earlier in her career, she was co-founder and CEO of a consumer technology company that was funded by Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, and that she sold to the Danish toy company, Lego Systems. Amy also helped fundraise for mobile gaming company, GluMobile, on whose board she served until it went public on the NASDAQ.
In addition to the Clean Energy Trust board, Amy serves on the board of First Reserve Sustainable Growth Corp (NASDAG:FRSG) and the Advisory Board for the WISER Institute at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2020 Crain’s recognized her for the third time as one of Chicago’s Top 50 Technology Leaders. In 2019 she was honored by Streetwise as one of the “20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans.” In 2015 she was an Emerging Leader at the Chicago Council for Global Affairs. In 2014 she was awarded the Corporate Citizen of the Year Award from the Executives’ Club of Chicago, and Leading Woman in Technology from the Illinois Technology Association. Amy is a regular lecturer in energy and entrepreneurship at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago’s Law School. She has a BA from Stanford University.
Amy lives in Lake Forest, IL with her husband and two teenage daughters.

Amy Francetic - Managing Director, Buoyant Ventures

quantification & data

Peter is a principal in Bridgespan’s New York office, where he focuses on connecting organizations to innovative and large-scale capital providers, primarily through impact investing platforms and global philanthropic funding collaboratives. Peter’s impact investing clients have included a wide range of leading private equity investors and family offices as well as CDFIs like the Low Income Investment Fund. His philanthropic clients have included the Audacious Project, Co-Impact, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation among others.
Prior to joining Bridgespan, Peter spent four years with Citi in its capital markets group in New York and London. He also spent a year in the Pacific Northwest working on housing issues for Catholic Charities as an AmeriCorps member.
Peter earned his MBA from the Yale School of Management and his bachelor's degree from Loyola University Maryland, where he was a member of the Honors Program and a Presidential Scholar. He also attended the Institute for Design and Public Policy, a joint initiative of the Rhode Island School of Design and the US Department of State. Peter passed all three Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams on the first attempt.

Peter Grunert - Principal, The Bridgespan Group

Todd is Partner and Global Head of Sustainable Investing & ESG Research with Arabesque whose expertise lies at the intersection of sustainable finance, climate finance, ESG data (unstructured/structured), and technology. His responsibility is building a world class ESG research and product team with 60+ global members, and building + designing an innovative product portfolio – data, research, and technology solutions. His approach to building products and solutions is theoretically motivated by academic and industry research but commercially pragmatic to ensure relevancy for investment professionals, consultants, and companies. Todd has worked with global institutional investors and executives across central banks, sovereign wealth funds, state pensions, corporate pensions, foundations, endowments, family offices, and Fortune 500 companies, etc.
Todd attended formal training at Brown University, Harvard University, University of Chicago, and Cornell University, and secured research fellowships at National Science Foundation, Oxford University, and Max Planck Society. He holds a B.Sc. in Finance, Economics, and Philosophy, and MA and Ph.D. in Socioeconomics, Organizational Behavior, and Research Methods. He sits on advisory committees at Harvard Business School, Yale University School of Management, and NYU Stern.

Todd Bridges Sc.M ‘06, Ph.D ‘12 - Partner & Global Head of Sustainable Investing and ESG Research, Arabesque

**Juan Lois,** *Executive Director,* is the Strategist on the Sustainable Investing team responsible for implementing the firm's sustainable investment strategy, solutions and product innovation in the Americas. In partnership with our distribution and product teams, he leverages our extensive data and research capabilities, proprietary technology and ESG expertise to deliver sustainable solutions to our clients. Prior to joining the firm in May 2020, he was at Wespath Benefits and Investments, where he lead the organization’s sustainable investing activities, including overseeing ESG integration, as well as research and product design for Wespath’s impact investment program. Juan obtained an M.A. in Latin American and Hemispheric Studies from the George Washington University and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Tufts University.

Juan Lois - Lead Sustainable Investing Strategist, JP Morgan Asset Management

Heather McPherson is an Impact Fellow with SJF Ventures, a venture capital firm that has been at the forefront of impact investing since 1999. Heather focuses on impact measurement, management, and acceleration across SJF’s portfolio. Prior to SJF, Heather helped launch the Harvard Global Institute, a University-wide initiative to promote interdisciplinary scholarship on climate change, education, health, and public policy. Her previous work involved nonprofit management and international development, including one year with a maternal and child health project in Timor-Leste, and extensive engagement with public health projects in Africa and Eastern Europe.

Heather earned her MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College with a BA in English Literature.

Heather McPherson - Impact Fellow, SJF Ventures

Policy In Practice

Clean development vs. dirty growth

Keith has over twenty years of experience in banking and business environments around the globe including Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and USA.

Keith joined FINCA in 2007. He served as the Chief Operations Officer and Chief Executive Officer for FINCA Zambia for five and a half years where he managed the transformation of FINCA from a non-governmental organization to a regulated, commercial deposit-taking microfinance institution. In February 2012, Keith was appointed CEO of FINCA Kosovo and led the operation until July 2013 when he joined the team overseeing FINCA’s Latin America and Caribbean region. In January 2022 Keith was asked to lead the global operations for the FINCA Impact Finance network.

Prior to joining FINCA, Keith specialized in serving small and medium sized (SME) business clients and non-profit institutions while working for Citibank in multiple international assignments and SunTrust Bank in Washington, DC.

Keith holds an MBA from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and a bachelor’s degree in business administration (accounting) from California State University.

Keith Sandbloom - VP of Operations, FINCA Microfinance

Duanne has over 20 years of international experience in strategic management, micro-finance start-up operations, sustainability, and clean energy finance. She helped SELF increase the investor pool from 1 to 25 current investors and she developed SELF’s proprietary underwriting methods for unsecured lending low-credit score clients, that resulted in 98.5% repayment rate.
Andrade provides strategic financial and operational direction to SELF. She has a Bachelor’s degree from NYU and an MBA from the Harvard Institute of International Development, in cooperation with the Bolivian Catholic University.

Duanne Andrade - Chief Strategic and Financial Officer, Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF)

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Chair of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, Co-Chair of the UN Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development at Sunway University. Sachs has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General António Guterres. Sachs was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders, and has received 38 honorary doctorates. He received the Legion of Honor from France in 2021 and the Order of the Cross from Estonia in 2019.

Jeffrey D. Sachs - Professor & Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Jeff D. Colgan is the Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University. His research focuses on international order and security, especially as related to energy and the environment.
He is also Director of the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown University.
His new book, *Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order*, draws lessons from oil history about how states and other actors create and maintain international governance arrangements (Oxford University Press, Oct 2021). The book then applies those lessons to other problems like climate change, peacekeeping, finance, and nuclear politics.
His previous book, *Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War*, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He has published work in *International Organization, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, International Security* and elsewhere. He also occasionally blogs at the Monkey Cage and Foreign Affairs. On Twitter, he is @JeffDColgan
Professor Colgan previously taught at the School of International Service of American University 2010-2014, and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 2012-13. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University, and was a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley, where he earned a Master’s in Public Policy. Dr. Colgan has worked with the World Bank, McKinsey & Company, and The Brattle Group.

Jeff Colgan - Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor, Brown University

Regulatory Frameworks

Michael S. Piwowar is the executive director of the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets. He is also a distinguished policy fellow at the Center for Financial Markets Policy at Georgetown University’s Center for Financial Markets and Policy. Dr. Piwowar was previously appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and was designated Acting Chairman of the Commission by President Donald Trump. Prior to that, he was the Republican chief economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. During the financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, Dr. Piwowar served at the White House as a senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Before joining the White House, Dr. Piwowar worked as a principal at the Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, as a visiting academic scholar and senior financial economist at the SEC, and as an assistant professor of finance at Iowa State University. He received a B.A. in Foreign Service and International Politics from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the Pennsylvania State University.

Michael Piwowar - Executive Director, Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets

Marnie Seif is an accomplished technology business executive who has held a variety of C Suite roles, including Chief People Officer, Chief Legal Officer, and SVP of Communications and ESG at Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI), a leading semiconductor company with more than $10 Billion in revenue, operations in more than 40 countries, and 24,000 employees worldwide. Marnie is a graduate of Brown University (AB 1983) and she received her JD degree from University of Michigan Law School.

Marnie Seif - SVP and Chief People Officer, Analog Devices

Juan Dumas is Co-Founder and Partner at Meliquina Ltd, a company that structures business partnerships between developers, communities and investors to share ownership of renewable energy projects in emerging markets.

Juan has over twenty years of experience in environmental and social conflict prevention and resolution. He was part of the UN team that brokered an agreement that ended violence and protests in Ecuador in late 2019. He has worked extensively as a mediator in processes convened under the auspices of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank Group and has provided similar services for other Development Finance Institutions, such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the Dutch Development Bank (FMO), the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation (FINNFUND), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. He has also been involved in the reform and update of ESG policies, safeguards and performance standards of the IADB and the IFC.
Earlier in his career, he also held leadership roles in Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (Ecuador) and Fundación Cambio Democrático (Argentina), two civil society organizations devoted to promoting dialogue to address conflict and build public policy.

Juan Dumas - Co-Founder & Partner, Meliquina Ltd

Carbon markets

Kent is a founder and Managing Member of Conservation Resource Partners, LLC, a private equity firm with $1.2 billion in real asset investments in timberland, regenerative agriculture, and mitigation. Before joining Conservation Resources, Kent led forestland conservation efforts at The Nature Conservancy and was responsible for conserving over 21 million acres of sustainably managed forests.

Kent has served on the boards of the Forest Stewardship Council, the U.S. Endowment for Forests and Communities, Wood Library, and the Forest History Society, where he was the vice-chair and co-led capital campaign efforts to build a new library at Duke University. He currently serves on the board of the Greater Canandaigua Civic Center. Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy, Kent was the European editor for McGraw-Hill’s trade magazines based in Frankfurt, Germany.

Kent has degrees from Cornell and Oxford Universities. He lives in the Finger Lakes of New York where he and his wife raised six children, two of whom currently serve in the U.S. armed forces.

Kent Gilges - Managing Director, Conservation Resource Partners

John Larsen is a Partner at Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s US energy system and climate policy research.
John specializes in the analysis of national and state energy and climate policy, market trends, and emerging clean technologies. He manages a multi-disciplinary team of energy modelers, policy specialists, and systems analysts focused on accelerating America’s transition to a net-zero economy. Previously, John worked for the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, where he served as an electric power policy advisor. Before working in government, John led federal and congressional policy analysis in the World Resources Institute’s Climate and Energy Program.
John is a non-resident Senior Associate in the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has lectured at several academic institutions, including Johns Hopkins University and Amherst College. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Master’s degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.

John Larsen - Partner, Rhodium Group

Rajinder Sahota is the Deputy Executive Officer for Climate Change and Research at the California Air Resources Board. This agency is the state’s leading authority to track and regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Her portfolio includes the AB 32 Climate Change Scoping Plan, Cap-and-Trade Program, Low Carbon Fuels Standard, and several other state level fuels and energy programs.

Rajinder Sahota - Deputy Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board