Pioneer in Social Finance for Tropical Conservation and Rural Livelihoods. Seasoned Manager, Passionate Pragmatist, Visionary Collaborator, Catalytic Communicator. Agriculture, Forestry and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Expert.

I am passionately focused on impact investing with Reinventure Capital that empowers investors to engage in catalytic change to build the new economy by fostering innovation through business for a prosperous and thriving world. Beginning in 2012, I partnered with Good Capital and other pioneering impact investors to establish Reinventure Capital to shift capital flows to investments promoting inter-generational well-being. We seek to

• Re-imagine — business innovations for the new economy in the world of 2030.
• Re-invent — our legacy economy with new rules driven by values that redefine economic models, rethinking industry sectors and investment portfolio construction.
• Regenerate — dynamic thriving living systems that increase social, economic, and ecological equity.

I come to this practice from 25 years of professional and highly entrepreneurial experience in private finance, philanthropy and international rural development. I have supported the creation and growth of dozens of for-profit and nonprofit companies. In 1992, I co-founded and led the EcoLogic Development Fund for nearly 20 years to empower rural and Indigenous Peoples to integrate community-led development and conservation. Beginning in 1999, I guided the launch and seven-year incubation of Root Capital, which has now provided more than $509 million in loans benefiting 428 small and growing businesses in Latin America and Africa. In 2006, I founded Pico Bonito Forests LLC to commercially restore habitat in Honduras through reforestation, agroforestry and the creation of carbon credits.

I also currently serve as a Research Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts Universityto deepen understanding of investment metrics driving transformational regenerative behavior. In addition, I am a board member of International Funders for Indigenous People and Accelerating Appalachia growing early-stage nature-based companies, as well as a nominator for the Goldman Environmental Prize.