Dan Crisafulli created Potrero Impact Advisors in October 2010, building on a long career as an early stage investor focused on emerging markets. Previously, he served as director of investments at the Skoll Foundation, which he joined in 2007. A leader in “new philanthropy” and social investing, the Skoll Foundation was created by eBay founding president Jeff Skoll with the goal of driving large-scale change through entrepreneurial approaches. Dan led Skoll’s work in impact investing, including direct and fund investments, and he played a key role in creating partnerships to advance the field of social entrepreneurship.

David Sawyer is President of Context, a consulting firm with practice areas in strategy, leadership, and culture. Active across sectors, David has played key roles in a variety of fields: sustainable agriculture, education reform, national service, social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, and the emerging green economy.

For a decade David directed leadership and service-learning programs at Berea College, receiving the nation’s highest award for voluntary service from the White House and The Servant Leader Award from the National Youth Leadership Council. He was an advisor to Honda’s innovative Eagle Rock School, designed Save the Children’s Appalachian Teen Leadership Program, and traveled to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to help design a Tibetan refugee education program. David worked with the Clinton administration to help launch the nation’s AmeriCorps program, facilitated The New Generation Training Program and other national leadership programs, and in 1997 led a delegation to the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future.

David spent four years working with energy company BP, coaching senior leaders, designing the cultural integration of the BP/ARCO merger, and facilitating a conference on global climate change in Washington. He helped develop the Denali Initiative, a national fellowship program for social entrepreneurs, and served as executive-in-residence for the Kauffman Foundation, promoting citizen engagement and civic innovation. David served as the first Executive Director of Social Venture Partners Portland and is Chief Culture Officer for gDiapers, the green business making the world’s first flushable/compostable diaper. He is a Senior Network Practitioner with the Monitor Institute and is based in Portland, Oregon.

His role at the company is to take the big ideas that are important to Autodesk and make them more valuable inside and outside the company. This involves tracking and analyzing trends in design, technology, business, and society, and applying those trends to Autodesk and its customers.

Bill also runs The Innovation Genome Project, where he and his team are in the process of researching the top 1,000 innovations in world history, looking for practical patterns and insights that people can apply to their day-to-day work. Bill has presented findings from this project to internal Autodesk teams, Autodesk customers, international trade delegations, and business schools such as the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley and the Hult Business School in San Francisco.

Bill has 25 years of experience working on projects at the intersection of content, business, technology, design, and culture, and has lived and worked in New York, London, Boston, and San Francisco.

After earning a degree in literature from Franklin & Marshall College, Bill worked in publishing at Houghton Mifflin Company, then became Creative Director at a leading Boston multimedia firm called Interactive Factory. Moving to San Francisco, he worked as Marketing Producer and Columnist at CNET’s News.Com (where he accepted a Webby Award for the team), Managing Editor at Ninth House Network (a VC-backed online business learning network), and Executive Director at the San Francisco EpiCenter (a short-lived but very exciting dotcom incubator).

Bill has written and presented widely on all things Internet, including a piece called “Create or Be Created: The Internet Renaissance” on the peer-reviewed journal First Monday.Org, as well as appearances on CNN and at Yale University. He currently serves on the advisory boards of two Bay Area technology startups. He is a long-time student of creativity and innovation, and has been a guitarist, singer, and songwriter since he was 15.

Bill can be reached at bill.oconnor@autodesk.com.

Caprice has served on numerous boards, including the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District, on which she presided as President, as well as the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Education Excellence (California), the Fordham Foundation, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and Apple Academy Charter Public Schools, among others. She is a recipient of the Coro Foundation Crystal Eagle Award for Achievement in Public Service.
Caprice holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and a Doctorate of Education from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Interested in innovative solutions to leverage resources for social change, Kristin entered the space of impact investing while serving as a board member for various not-for-profit organizations and foundations. She serves on the board of  directors for the Mosaic Project, the Nicholson Foundation, Playworks and CAFWA.

Later, when her family sold their investing business, and started a foundation, she helped move the foundation assets to being 100% mission aligned. Since then, Kristin started the Nia Community Fund concentrating on conscious investing in Oakland. She is also a co-founder of Hub Oakland and serves as a peer coach urging friends and colleagues to investigate their holdings to ensure their investments are aligned with their personal and organizational values.

Kristin attended Tufts University where she earned her BA and teaching credentials. She holds an MA in Research in Bilingual Education from Stanford University and a PhD in Urban Education from UC Berkeley. She lives in Piedmont with her 2 boys and 4 chickens.

Bridging the gaps between funding and the services provided in low-income communities, Center for the Greater Good has revolutionized funding community development by providing a measurable positive impact on society. Socially responsible, financially viable and able to break the binds of poverty in our communities; our funding speaks to our nation’s need to build stronger communities, by working with the people who live in them and funding the services necessary for personal growth. 

In 2006, the U.S. Patent Office awarded Liu a patent on the breakthrough technology invention known as the Wildflowers Model-building process. The Wildflowers Model-building process invites individuals and groups to construct three-dimensional models of their community, which in turn uncover their universe, relationships, and what is important to them. He has used this methodology in communities around the world. In addition to fifteen communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stockton, Los Angeles, Olympia, Albuquerque, and Boston, Liu and his staff have conducted training at the Governor’s Office of Ningbo in the People’s Republic of China, the Salzburg Global Seminar, the San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs, The San Francisco Foundation, The Russell Family Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and the W. K. Kellogg Institute for Food and Nutrition Research.

Liu offers new tools to help people strengthen the infrastructures of their community. One tool is the making of an illustrated map that shows the social and cultural order. These maps identify activities that develop values and maintain the culture of community. Another tool is a social investment fund that deploy resources simply and effectively. The fund leverages informal capital and invests in sustainable community solutions. Initially, the fund provides low-interest loans to support the vertical integration of food providers, from farmers to restaurant owners. Over half of the profits from the fund will be reinvested to strengthen the social fabric of the community. A third tool is a leadership program in partnership with the Aspen Institute to help individuals from different communities uncover their internal compass of values to guide them in leading their own community and an external compass to know what is good for society.

Liu was elected to the board of trustees of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in 1996 and continues to serve on the board today. He was its chairman from 2003 to 2005. His experiences at the Kellogg Foundation have exposed him to communities around the world and have helped him think more deeply about change theories, tools for philanthropy, and social impact.

Liu is a 2009 Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Clinton School of Public Service, Center on Community Philanthropy, University of Arkansas; a 2006 Purpose Prize Fellow; and a Gerbode Fellow. He has given presentations about informal capital at The Atlantic Philanthropies; the Clinton School Speakers Series: Inspiring Ideas and Action, at the University of Arkansas; the Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp; the Loeb Fellows at Harvard University; the Kalliopeia Conference; and the Sierra Health Foundation.
 

Katherine also spent two years at the Fidelity Foundations acting as Program Officer for these large philanthropic organizations. She has traveled the world as an active volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and has held numerous volunteer positions with Wellesley College and its Business Leadership Council (currently serving on the board of the Alumnae Association). Katherine is Co-Chair of the board of Common Impact, a nonprofit that facilitates collaborations between global companies and local nonprofits, and serves as an advisor to Ethical Markets Media. She is an alumna of Wellesley College, holds a CFA designation, and has recently completed an MTS degree at Harvard Divinity School. 

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Previously, Stephen was Investment Director at Omidyar Network, the mission-based investment firm started by eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam. Before that Stephen was a Senior Manager of Business Development at Interval Research, the research lab established by Microsoft Co-Founder, Paul Allen.

Stephen is a Trustee and Member of the Investment Committee at The California Endowment. He is the Chairman of Friends of New Orleans and also serves on the boards of The Association of Marshall Scholars and The Dalai Lama Foundation. Stephen earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology with highest honors from UCLA as well as a Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology and a Master of Business Administration Degree from Oxford University. He is a Marshall Scholar and a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

An established leader within the health care industry, Kathlyn has also served as vice president of the CalPERS sector for Blue Shield of California and as CEO for Sharp Health Plan from 1996 to 2005. While at Sharp Health Plan she developed and implemented the highly successful FOCUS program, a subsidized premium insurance product designed to expand access to affordable, quality health coverage for employees of small businesses. She was also Vice President of Managed Care at Children’s Hospital San Diego, where she was responsible for the day-to-day management of contracting, marketing and physician relations. In addition, Kathlyn has served as the director of Operations for MetLife Healthcare Network, and manager of Provider Networks for Blue Cross of California.

Her outstanding commitment to community service has been recognized by San Diego’s KGTV-10 News which awarded her the Organizational Leadership Award. Kathlyn is also the recipient of the Twin Award from the YWCA of San Diego. She currently serves as a board member of the Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) and on the Board of Trustees for the Alliance Healthcare Foundation in San Diego.

Before joining the Board, David was a Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Grassroots Enterprise, an online communications technology company. Prior to Grassroots, he worked as a Criminal Prosecutor at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and as a civil rights attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. In the mid-1990s, David served as Democratic Counsel to the U.S. Senate Constitution Subcommittee and as Senator Paul Simon’s aide to the Senate Budget Committee. The eldest child of immigrant parents, David grew up in Boston and received his Undergraduate Degree, Law Degree, and Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard University.

David has lived in District 3 for over a dozen years, in the Russian Hill and Polk Street neighborhoods. Before taking office, David was a hands-on leader in San Francisco and in District 3, as a Small Business Commissioner, Chair of Lower Polk Neighbors, Board President of the Youth Leadership Institute, Board Chair of the Chinatown Community Development Center, Judge-Arbitrator for the Polk Street Community Court, and President of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. David was previously elected to the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee and chaired California’s 13th Assembly District Democratic Committee.

Gloria’s background includes significant expertise in the creation, management and distribution of investment products for institutional, HNW and retail investors, including the support and development of an early Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) product for HNW investors at Scudder Investments and multiple programs for Deutsche Bank’s HNW investors to participate in the development of the microcredit industry.

Gloria currently serves as an independent trustee on the board of the RS Investments’ a $22 billion mutual fund complex, and on several not-for-profit boards and actively supports entrepreneurship research and education. She is an active speaker, and guest lecturer on Impact Investing at conferences and several top business schools, including Columbia, Wheaton, Kellogg and MIT.

In 2003 Jean was joint CEO of Virgin Mobile in Australia when she went to work with Richard Branson and the Virgin staff around the world to create Virgin Unite. The team works with Virgin’s two hundred businesses worldwide and other entrepreneurs to help put driving positive change at their core. Virgin Unite also works with partners to create new approaches to social and environmental issues such as a school of entrepreneurship for young people in Johannesburg and an entrepreneurial approach to rural health transport in Kenya.

Jean and Virgin Unite have also helped to incubate a number of global leadership initiatives such as the Elders, the Disease Control Hub in sub- Saharan Africa and the Carbon War Room. Jean sits on the Advisory Board of the Elders, the Board of the Carbon War Room and on the Board of the Bushbuckridge Health and Wellness Trust.

Lee Condon is the producer of the California Charter Schools Conference, an annual gathering of the state’s charter school movement. The mission of the conference is to inspire academic excellence, operational integrity and unity among charter schools throughout California. For six years Lee also directed and produced videos that recognized excellent teaching, achievement and leadership in charter schools. He was also a founding staff member at the California Charter Schools Association in 2004. The California charter school movement has grown since then from 475 to nearly 1,000 schools. Lee served as chief of staff to Caprice Young, president of the Los Angeles school board, managing a political strategy that led to major reforms at the Los Angeles Unified School District. Their student-focused political agenda inspired dramatic increases in elementary school test scores, the building of more than 100 new school campuses, increased funding for arts programs and the expansion of comprehensive after school programs. For 11 years, Lee was a staff general assignment newspaper reporter for major news organizations in Los Angeles, covering local and state politics, education, crime and environmental issues. He worked as staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, The Daily News of Los Angeles, City News Service of Los Angeles, the Glendale News-Press and the Los Angeles Independent. Lee graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1990. He lives in West Hollywood, CA.

Annie is an Associate at Draper Fisher Jurvetson where she focuses on clean tech, life sciences and emerging markets investments. She first joined in 2006 as part of the team that built the clean tech practice. Most recently, she worked with Mubadala Development Company on advancing initiatives in energy and technology development in Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining DFJ, she worked as an Investment Banking Analyst in Morgan Stanley’s Financial Sponsors Group in San Francisco where she focused on leveraged buyouts and initial public offerings. Previously, she conducted environmental field research in Zambia and taught English in parts of Southeast Asia. She is also a co-founder and chairperson of KnowledgeBeat, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating children in Zambia. She has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and is passionate about the environment, technology, education, and the developing world.

Annie is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Brown University where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology and completed a Hughes Fellowship that evaluated the development of tissue engineering and stem cell technologies. Her work was published in the scientific journal Tissue Engineering. She received a Master’s degree in Environment and Resources from Stanford University where she focused on materials science and engineering for energy related technologies. She continues to serve as a mentor to the Stanford iGEM team. She has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Luther M. Ragin, Jr. is Vice President for Investments at The F.B. Heron Foundation, a national foundation with assets of $300 million located in New York City. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Luther was the Chief Financial Officer of the National Community Capital Association, a trade association of community development financial institutions that provide access to capital in low-income communities. Other significant experience includes eight years as Chief Financial Officer of Earl G. Graves, Ltd., and seven years with Chase Manhattan Bank, including three years as Vice President of Syndications/Assets Sales for the North American Corporate Finance Sector. He holds a BA and Master of Public Policy from Harvard, and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Executive Program in Business Administration. He is a member of the Board of Directors of ShoreBank Corporation, the nation’s largest community development bank holding company, and The Threshold Group, an independent wealth advisor for high net worth families. Luther is the William R. Bloomberg Lecturer in Public Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, both at Harvard University.

Michael is a founding principal and the Chief Investment Officer of Veris Wealth Partners. Veris is a wealth management firm that specializes in sustainable investing for high net worth individuals, foundations, and endowments. Michael has been recognized by the Calvert Foundation for his advocacy of blended value community investing and has been cited regarding sustainable investing by major media outlets, including AP and Reuters. Prior to Veris, Michael was the Manager of the New York office of Progressive Asset Management.

Michael is currently the Treasurer and a Trustee of The Edward W. Hazen Foundation. The Foundation was established in 1925 and is committed to building leadership and organizing capacity among young people in communities of color, empowering them to dismantle structural inequity based on race and class. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Social Investment Forum, an association for professionals, firms, institutions, and organizations engaged in socially responsible and sustainable investing. Michael is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and a member of the Investment Management Consultant Association.

In his professional carrer, Alois Flatz has focused exclusively on the interface of investing and sustainable development including the establishment of private equity and financial advisory businesses.

Alois is a managing partner of zouk ventures http://www.zouk.com an independent London-based private equity firm focused on cleantechnology investing. Zouk manages over €200m in three funds.

He was a managing partner with BTS Investment Advisors, a specialised boutique focused on financial consultancy and private equity investments in India. The company currently advises assets in excess of U$3bn (http://www.btsadvisors.com). He now serves as a board member to BTS IA.

Before working in above mentioned positions he served as partner of SAM Group Ltd., an asset management company focused on sustainability investments (http://www.sam-group.com). As head of research, he was responsible for all research activities of the group – which was independently rated No #1 in the World – as well as for the product development and SAM Indexes.

Alois is the co-founder of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) (http://www.sustainability-indexes.com), the world’s first and most recognized financial sustainability index. He also developed the SAM Sustainable Water Fund with now more than € 1.2 bn under management.

Alois serves as a board member of SiC Processing AG a global leader in the management and recycling of used slurry from the solar and semiconductor wafer in-dustry (http://www.sic-processing.com), Germany and of Forma Futura (http://www.formafutura.com), an independent Zurich based asset management company taking a sustainability approach to financial investments focused on private clients.

Alois is a published author and speaker on sustainable investing and climate change. He has a PhD from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He also studied International Management at Haute École de Commerce (HEC), Paris and has an MBA from Vienna University of Economics.

David Sawyer is President of Context, a consulting firm with practice areas in strategy, leadership, and culture. Active across sectors, David has played key roles in a variety of fields: sustainable agriculture, education reform, national service, social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, and the emerging green economy.

For a decade David directed leadership and service-learning programs at Berea College, receiving the nation’s highest award for voluntary service from the White House and The Servant Leader Award from the National Youth Leadership Council. He was an advisor to Honda’s innovative Eagle Rock School, designed Save the Children’s Appalachian Teen Leadership Program, and traveled to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to help design a Tibetan refugee education program. David worked with the Clinton administration to help launch the nation’s AmeriCorps program, facilitated The New Generation Training Program and other national leadership programs, and in 1997 led a delegation to the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future.

David spent four years working with energy company BP, coaching senior leaders, designing the cultural integration of the BP/ARCO merger, and facilitating a conference on global climate change in Washington. He helped develop the Denali Initiative, a national fellowship program for social entrepreneurs, and served as executive-in-residence for the Kauffman Foundation, promoting citizen engagement and civic innovation. David served as the first Executive Director of Social Venture Partners Portland and is Chief Culture Officer for gDiapers, the green business making the world’s first flushable/compostable diaper. He is a Senior Network Practitioner with the Monitor Institute and is based in Portland, Oregon.

On November 7, 2006 Californians elected Bill Lockyer as the 32nd State Treasurer. The State Treasurer’s Office will play a prominent role as California meets the challenge of building the future for a growing and increasingly diverse population. As State Treasurer, Lockyer is committed to using the tools of the Office to help provide residents what they need to create a stronger California – more jobs, superior education, improved transportation, quality health care, more affordable housing and a cleaner environment.

Lockyer’s priorities will be to wisely and prudently invest taxpayers’ money, to ensure the public gets the accountability and oversight it deserves on infrastructure projects funded by voter-approved bonds, and to work with the Governor and Legislature to put California back on sound fiscal footing. To achieve those goals, Lockyer will draw on leadership, management and policymaking skills developed over a public service career spanning more than three decades.

From 1999-2006, Lockyer served as California Attorney General and left a lasting legacy at the Department of Justice. In his eight years, he helped revolutionize crime fighting in California by creating and maintaining the nation’s most sophisticated DNA forensic crime laboratory. He also cracked down on Medi-Cal fraud, securing hundreds of millions of dollars in court-ordered restitution and penalties, established the Megan’s Law website to locate and identify registered sex offenders, and recovered billions of dollars for defrauded energy ratepayers, consumers and taxpayers.

Prior to his election as Attorney General in 1998, Lockyer served for 25 years in the California Legislature, culminating his Capitol career with a stint as Senate President pro Tempore. In that leadership position, Lockyer crafted agreements to balance the state budget and reform government programs to make them run more efficiently and effectively for taxpayers.

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Lockyer earned his law degree from McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento while serving in the State Senate. He also received a teaching credential from California State University, Hayward. He is married to Nadia Maria Lockyer and has a daughter, Lisa, and son, Diego.

Jason is responsible for the development and marketing of all products relating to the US Community Investing Index. His focus is on delivering solutions by helping clients create actionable investment policy from their mission statements. He earned his MBA from Yale University where he studied endowment and non-profit management.

David is the chairman and founder of the Underdog Foundation, an innovator in community investing, social venture and leveraged philanthropy. David is also the managing member and founder of Underdog Ventures, LLC, a company which creates and manages customized community venture capital funds, integrating socially responsible investment, community development finance and philanthropic components. Through its last fund, each company receiving an investment by Underdog Foundation has donated part of its company for philanthropic purposes. Underdog Ventures was recognized as one of ten U.S. financial institutions providing especially strong benefits to the environment. Through his previous retainer-based consulting firm, David advised high net worth in individuals and social venture institutions, while providing one third of his work on a pro bono basis for community development organizations. Previously, David was the Director of Vermont National Bank’s Socially Responsible Banking Fund, which he grew from $38 million to $208 million U.S. in targeted deposits, creating flexible loans in the areas of sustainable agriculture, conservation and the environment, affordable housing, education, and socially responsible businesses. David also worked as the Senior Loan Officer at the Institute for Community Economics, a community loan fund providing financial and technical assistance to community land trusts, limited equity cooperatives and other grassroots organizations around the United States.

David speaks frequently around the United States and Canada on issues of social venture investing, unique deal structures, and community investment. His work has been highlighted on NPR’s Marketplace, CBS and NBC news, Entrepreneur Magazine, Nations Business, Fast Company, the book, “Aiming Higher”, by David Bolier and a book titled, “Making a Life, Making a Living”, by Mark Albion.

Originally from Austin, Minnesota, David currently resides in Warrens Gore, Vermont. David graduated with a B.A. from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota and an M.A. from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Christy Chin joined TPW West in October 2006 and leads the Alumni Network. The mission of the Network is to foster the philanthropic leadership, engagement and results of TPW West graduates, thereby creating a trusted community of thoughtful, strategic givers. Ms. Chin is actively involved with strategic planning, operations, and partnership opportunities.

Previously, Ms. Chin was a senior program officer at the Skoll Foundation. She joined the foundation in 2002 for what was then a very nascent effort. Over the years she helped significantly develop and evolve the foundation’s programs toward the goal of playing a preeminent role in the field of social entrepreneurship. Her portfolio of grantees included nonprofit and hybrid organizations focused on education, environment and philanthropy, nationally and internationally.

Ms. Chin has over ten years experience in venture capital. She was a principal with Bedrock Capital Partners, a $130 million venture capital firm, was director of business development for The Frontier Group, a health care firm, and an investment analyst with Norwest Venture Capital, based in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She also worked as a research associate at the Harvard Business School, in social entrepreneurship with Greg Dees and venture capital with Jeffrey A. Timmons. Ms. Chin earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history from Colgate University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. She serves as an advisor to Citizen Schools’ California Chapter, is a judge for the Faculty Pioneer Award in Social Entrepreneurship, given by Ashoka and the Aspen Institute, and she reviews candidates for Echoing Green and Stanford’s BASE Business Plan Competition.

David Crane is Special Advisor to the Governor for Jobs and Economic Growth. Before joining the Schwarzenegger Administration, Crane was a partner for 25 years with Babcock & Brown, an investment/merchant bank that grew from one office with five employees when he joined in 1979 to a multi-national enterprise with hundreds of employees by the time he retired in 2003. Crane lives with his wife and two children in San Francisco.

Richard Fahey is the chief operating officer of the Skoll Foundation, located in Palo Alto, California. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2004, Fahey was with Hewlett-Packard in financial and operations management. He earned a BA in Economics and History from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Katherine Fulton is a partner in the global professional services firm, Monitor Group, and President of Monitor Institute, the firm’s unit focused on social change. Her work in recent years has focused on how private resources can be used more effectively to create public good, and she consults and speaks on the future of philanthropy and social investing.

John Gioia serves on the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors and the county’s pension board. He has a B.A. in Political Science and J.D. from U.C. Berkeley and previously practiced law. He is also on the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and Bay Area Air Quality Management District and Association of Bay Area Governments Boards

Ms. Khor joined Imprint Capital Advisors in June 2008. Previously, Ms. Khor was an Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation where she co-led the Impact Investing program, a Foundation effort to extend loan guarantees and make program-related and private equity investments to attract private sector capital into underserved sectors and geographies that are aligned with the Foundation’s grant-making activities. Ms. Khor has led the evolving work in impact investing for the past ten years, which has included over $20 million in 15 investments across the Foundation’s primary grant-making sectors in the U.S. and east Africa. Ms. Khor has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management.

Susan Leal, currently, runs an environmental and infrastructure consulting firm, Leal Advisors, LLC. Prior to April 2008, she was the General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), overseeing the regional utility that delivers reliable, high quality drinking water to more than 2.4 million Bay Area customers. From 1997 – 2004, Leal was elected to serve as Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, the City’s banker and chief investment officer. Leal currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for UC Berkeley; and on the Board of the Family Violence Prevention fund. Leal earned a B.A. in Economics and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the District of Columbia bar.

Mindy S. Lubber is the president of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change. Ms. Lubber has held leadership positions in government as the regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the financial services sector as founder, president and CEO of Green Century Capital Management; in the private sector as the president of an environmental law and policy consulting group; and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations. Ms. Lubber received the prestigious Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award in 2006.

Since April 1997, Dr. Marduel has been a managing director of Alta Partners, a venture capital firm investing in information technology and life science companies. Prior to joining Alta Partners, she was a partner at Soffinnova, Inc., which she joined in 1990. Dr. Marduel has conducted post-doctoral research in immunology at the University of California at San Francisco and at Stanford University. Prior to moving to the United States in 1986, she was employed by ICI-Pharma, where she organized clinical trials in England and France. She holds a medical doctorate from the University of Paris.

Chris is a principal of State Street Global Advisors. He is a product engineer for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Strategies and works across asset classes and investment teams to champion sustainable investment on behalf of SSgA and its clients. Chris is responsible for ESG vendor selection, integrating ESG issues and product development and product maintenance.

Prior to joining SSgA, Chris headed business development for KLD Indexes, a unit of KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., a leading ESG research and index provider. At KLD Chris was also the Product Manager for the KLD Global Climate 100 Index, focused on identifying leaders along the climate solutions value chain globally. Chris was hired into KLD as a research analyst covering the Financial Services sector. Before KLD, Chris was a Registered Representative for American Century Investments. Chris began working in the investment management industry in1999.

Chris received his BSBA from the University of Connecticut and his MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.