Speakers

Drianne Benner, CFA,

Senior Managing Director
Appomattox

Drianne Benner, CFA, Senior Managing Director, serves on the Appomattox investment committee and is responsible for the firm’s business development and client service. She has over 30 years’ experience in investment and business management, marketing, and client communications.

Prior to joining Appomattox in 2010, she was Global Marketing Director at Cadogan Management, overseeing firm-wide marketing and client communications for institutional and family office clients. Prior to joining Cadogan, she spent ten years as a Managing Director at U.S. Trust Company, focused on investment communications. Drianne previously served in institutional and consultant relations roles at Paribas Asset Management, for some of the largest U.S. pension funds, and she managed portfolios in an enhanced quantitative strategy.

Drianne is Treasurer of the New York City Audubon Society, serves on the board of the Climate Positive Investing firm Etho Capital. Previously, Drianne was chair of the American Friends Service Committee’s Investment Committee, held a leadership role at High Water Women’s Investing with Impact symposium for 10 years, and was a board and executive committee member of the CFA Society New York. Drianne earned a BA from Pennsylvania State University and attended graduate studies in regional planning for international development at Cornell University.

Courtney Birnbaum

Director of Sustainability
Corbin Capital Partners

Courtney serves as the Director of Sustainability at Corbin Capital Partners, a New York-based majority women-owned independent alternative asset management firm that specializes in multi-strategy and opportunistic credit investing. Corbin has experience creating and managing differentiated commingled and bespoke portfolios for investors globally. As of July 1, 2025, Corbin has $9.6 billion in assets under management. Courtney leads Corbin’s sustainability integration and investing programs. She is a member of Corbin’s Multi-Strategy Investment Committee and the Credit Investment Committee. Previously, Courtney was a senior advisor and portfolio manager at several family offices and the Director of Marketable Investments for the Bowdoin College endowment. Before joining Bowdoin, Courtney worked at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President in the Alternative Investments and Manager Selection group (AIMS) where she was responsible for manager selection and seeding within hedge funds. Prior to Goldman, she was a director at Sterling Stamos, a multi-family office. Courtney began her career in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch and Rothschild. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Chris Creed

Managing Partner and Chair of the investment Committee
Galvanize

Chris has over two decades of experience in investment management, public-private partnerships, and innovative financing solutions for high-impact energy and infrastructure projects. Most recently, Chris served as the Chief Investment Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO), with over $300 billion in lending authority. He led efforts in financing emerging, first-of-a-kind energy technologies, companies, and projects to support America’s transition to a sustainable energy future. Prior to the DOE, Chris spent over 20 years at Goldman Sachs, as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, overseeing more than $75 billion in credit assets across mutual funds and separate accounts at GSAM. His leadership in the financial markets has positioned him as a recognized expert in managing complex portfolios and innovative financing strategies. Chris graduated from Brown University with an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics – Economics.

Stacey Faella

Board Member
Sierra Club Foundation

Stacey Faella works to advance a more just and sustainable world through leadership in philanthropy and impact investing. With over 15 years of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, she has created and contributed to initiatives spanning gender and racial equity, food systems transformation, inclusive economic development, biodiversity and climate change, and democracy. Stacey is the Executive Director of the Woodcock Foundation, where she leads the foundation’s commitment to aligning its endowment with its mission, and oversees its catalytic capital asset allocation focused on impact-first investments. She serves on the boards of the Sierra Club Foundation, Spark Microgrants, and the National Center for Family Philanthropy. Stacey holds a BA from Wake Forest University and an MPA from New York University.

Caroline Gillespie Greer

Managing Director
Commonfund OCIO

Caroline Greer is a member of the Commonfund OCIO Investment team and is primarily responsible for diverse and impact manager investments across asset classes. Caroline currently serves as a member of the Commonfund Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office and Commonfund OCIO’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining Commonfund, she served as a Partner and Principal for Contego Capital Management, LLC, specializing in customized funds of hedge funds. She was responsible for sourcing, evaluating and monitoring hedge fund managers across a full range of strategies. Prior to joining Contego, Caroline was a Senior Vice President for Oppenheimer and Co. where she co-managed their funds of hedge funds program and monitored Oppenheimer’s private equity fund. Caroline began her career at Montrose Advisors, a boutique financial advisor specializing in managing customized funds of hedge funds and private equity and venture capital portfolios. In 2015, Caroline was named one of the 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds globally by The Hedge Fund Journal. Caroline received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. and M.Phil. from Columbia University of New York.

Mikayla Hart

Partner, Chief Sustainability Officer
Congruence Capital

Mikayla Hart launched Congruence Capital in Oct 2023 with an aim to redefine impact investing in public markets through an influence investing approach, collaboratively partnering with management teams of small-cap public companies to create shareholder value via operational and strategic improvements designed to simultaneously improve profitability and deliver measurable social and environmental impact. Through this process, the fund aims to demonstrate the congruence between sustainability and financial returns.

Mikayla’s career has focused at the intersection of corporate sustainability consulting and finance. Prior to Congruence, Mikayla was a Managing Director in Accenture’s Strategy Consulting group, where she led the Sustainability Strategy practice in North America, spearheading numerous projects that improve a company’s sustainability strategy while simultaneously optimizing long-term profitability. Mikayla has published various reports on sustainability and value creation in partnership with organizations such as the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, and was recognized as a top global female executive by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Mikayla began her career with foundations in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. She has executive certificates from Yale University and INSEAD, an MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School, and a BBA from the University of Hawaii in Finance and International Business. Originally from Hawai’i, Mikayla is an outdoor enthusiast and a mother.

Jason Lamin

Founder & CEO
Lenox Park Solutions, Inc.

Jason is Founder and CEO of Lenox Park Solutions, Inc. (“Lenox Park”). He started the company as a Consulting and Advisory company in 2009, and has overseen its transition into a leading Financial Technology firm that provides collaborative software, data aggregation tools and analytics geared toward fair and democratized access to opportunities. The firm’s clients include some of the largest institutions in the world, with some of the largest and most notable Pension Funds, Foundations and Endowments. In the Asset Management industry and Corporate America, Jason has been a champion for greater inclusion and intentionality in creating visibility for women, people of color and other underrepresented groups. Before co-founding Lenox Park, Jason launched his career in Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking division, focusing on Financial Institutions M&A transactions. Jason spent his career at Merrill Lynch working in their New York and London offices covering some of the firm’s most valuable institutional client relationships across product areas.

Jason serves as Independent Director on U.S.-based Harding Loevner Funds’ Board, an Advisory Board member of Tikehau Capital basedin Paris, France, a Board and Investment Committee member of the Josiah Macey Jr. Foundation and on the Investment Committees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Venture Capital firm, Alpha Impact 8.

Jason graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Economics in 1998. He remains active at his alma mater, where he has served on the Boards for the Department of Economics, and the Department of Black Studies, African & African Diaspora Studies. In 2017, Jason had the honor of delivering the Commencement Address to College of Liberal Arts graduates, where he spoke about the importance of inclusive and diverse cultures. In 2020, Jason was honored to receive the College of Liberal Arts’ highest award given to University of Texas Alumni, Pro Bene Meritis Distinguished Alumni Award.

Jason has been an active Private Sector Delegate of the United Nations, working with various groups within the Global Compact since 2009, including Co-Chair of SDG Antibribery & Anticorruption Working Group, Office of Special Advisors on Africa & Office of the President of the U.N. General Assembly. Among many speaking engagements at the U.N., Jason has had the privilege of addressing the General Assembly, Diplomats and Heads of State on innovative technologies that reduce bias and have potential to increase flows of investment capital into Africa, and how to move the needle on the SDGs with greater Stakeholder collaboration. In 2008, Jason founded Nyawa Funding Group, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve living standards in Sierra Leone, the country where Jason was born and lived until the age of 13.

Julia Mattox

Director
Capricorn Investment Group

Julia Mattox is a Director at Capricorn. She joined the firm in 2020. Prior to Capricorn, Julia worked in portfolio management and client solutions for PAAMCO Prisma, an alternative investment management firm, where she worked on custom hedge fund portfolios for institutional clients. Julia received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.

Laura McGee

CEO & Co-founder
Diversio

Laura McGee is the founder and CEO of Diversio, a Toronto-based technology company that uses AI to enhance organizational culture. She holds degrees from Western University and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Before founding Diversio in 2018, Laura worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She serves on several boards, including ArcTern Ventures and Global Citizen, and is a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Trilateral Commission. Diversio’s innovative platform uses AI and data analytics to enhance workplace well-being and support employee mental health. Diversio has been distinguished as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025, building upon its previous accolades, which include being a finalist in the World Changing Ideas in AI and Data for both 2021 and 2022, as well as a recipient of the 2020 World Summit Award.

Isabelle Myers

Carbon Product Specialist
Kepos Capital

Jennifer Pryce

CEO
Calvert Impact

Jennifer Pryce, President and CEO, Calvert Impact Jennifer Pryce is President and CEO of Calvert Impact, a global impact investment firm that works to create, expand and transform markets to create a more equitable and sustainable world. Over the past decade, Jenn has shaped the strategic direction of Calvert Impact to focus on innovation, sustainability, and scale. Under her leadership the organization has launched several new products and programs, tripled the size of its flagship product, and expanded focus on climate solutions.

Jenn began her career in the Peace Corps before working for NeubergerBerman, the investment banking team in Morgan Stanley’s London office, and Nonprofit Finance Fund, a Community Development Financial Institution. Jenn studied engineering at Union College and holds an MBA from Columbia University. She is a board member of UNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children and a member of the Advisory Board of Greenwheel and the Operating Principles for Impact Management. She also serves as a lecturer at Oxford Saïd School of Business and was named to the 2024 Forbes 50 over 50 list.

Keren G. Raz

Head of Impact and ESG – Global PE
APG

Keren G. Raz is a Senior RI Manager-Global Lead of ESG and Impact in the Global Private Equity Group at APG Asset Management.

Prior to APG, Keren helped develop and implement Apollo Global Management’s ESG program and advised other private equity firms on ESG as a Senior ESG Advisor at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. She has also served as Global Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management at Morgan Stanley, overseeing the Firm’s management of environmental and social risks including climate change and human rights.

Ms. Raz received her J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law and a certificate through Columbia University’s inaugural Sustainable Investing Certificate program. Ms. Raz graduated summa cum laude with honors from the University of Arizona, with a B.A. in English and Political Science and minors in Chinese and Spanish.

Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

Deputy Chief Investment Officer – Responsible Investing
NYC Comptroller’s Office Bureau of Asset Management

As the Deputy Chief Investment Officer for Responsible Investing and Head of the Economically Targeted Investments Portfolio, Valerie Red-Horse Mohl oversees investments for the five New York City retirement systems. In this role she focuses on diverse managers, emerging managers, ESG, climate and place based economically targeted investing programs.

Valerie is of Native American Cherokee heritage and has over 40 years of experience in financial services, having started her career working for Michael Milken and John Kissick in the High Yield Bond and Corporate Finance Departments at Drexel Burnham Lambert. She then founded the first Native American owned investment bank and RIA on Wall Street where she raised, structured, and managed billions of dollars of capital for tribal nations. In asset management she focuses on financial returns alongside positive impactful outcomes.

She holds ten FINRA registrations and recently served via appointment by Secretary Janet Yellen on the U.S. Treasury Advisory Committee for Racial Equity. As an entrepreneur she founded both Red-Horse Financial Group and Red-Horse Native Productions. She is a part-time department Board Member and Lecturer at Stanford University. Previously she was a Co-Founder/Partner of Known Holdings, Executive Director of Social Venture Network and the CFO/CIO of the East Bay Community Foundation. She is active in her church and has been married to her college sweetheart for 43 years; they have three children and two grandchildren.

Imogen Rose-Smith

Partner
Confluence Partners

Imogen Rose-Smith is a Partmer at Confluence Partners, a communications and strategic consulting firm which advises businesses at the intersection of impact and finance. She is also the Research Director for AIF Global, an alternative investment think tank for institutional asset owners. Imogen writes a regular column on institutional asset management for Impact Alpha, the leading impact investment industry publication, and serves as an impact investment consultant to a family foundation.

An award-winning journalist, Imogen has over 20 years’ experience covering institutional asset management mostly as a Senior Writer with Institutional Investor magazine. Imogen was a 2017 – 2019 fellow of the Office of the Chief Investment Officer, University of California Regents, where she oversaw ESG and sustainable investing for the $160 billion investment office. Imogen has been named a Global Impact Leader by the Sorenson Impact Institute.

Imogen served on the inaugural Advisory Board of Girls Who Invest, a not-for-profit focused on increasing the number of women in investment management roles. She was co-chair of the content planning committee for High Water Women’s annual Impact Investment Symposium. She is a co-founder of the Maui ESG Investment Project, an initiative to bring sustainable investment capital into Maui and diversify the Hawaii economy. From 2012 to 2014 Imogen worked as a consultant to the Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights on its Compass conference program, a high-level conference aimed at engaging asset owners in issues relating to ESG.

Imogen has an MA in American Studies from Columbia University and a BA from the University of East Anglia, England. She lives in Orient, NY.

Deborah Spalding, CFA

Global Head of Nature Finance
Conservation International

Deborah Spalding is the Global Head of Nature Finance for Conservation International where she oversees a 50 person team that mobilizes investment for nature, encompassing carbon finance, sovereign debt for nature swaps, impact advisory services, financing of nature positive economies through loans, equity and flexible financing, and other innovative financial structures.

Previously, she served as Chief Investment Officer of Commonfund OCIO. Prior to that, Spalding was the Chief Investment Officer of the State of Connecticut. In 2007, Spalding co-founded Working Lands Investment Partners, LLC, an independent investment management firm that invests in market for wetlands mitigation credits, water quality and quantity instruments, and habitat banking. She has held a number of executive-level positions including Head of International Investments for Schroders Investment Management N.A. and Managing Director International Investments at Scudder Kemper Investments. She began her career as an equity analyst at SKB & Associates.

Deborah received a B.A. in International Relations and Asian Studies from Tufts University and holds graduate degrees from Harvard University, University of California Berkeley and Yale University. She currently serves on the board of the US Endowment for Forestry and Communities and is an advisory board member for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. She is also a Lecturer in Forest Finance at Yale.

Anna K. Snider, CAIA®

Head of Investment Manger Selection (Due Diligence)
Chief Investment Office (CIO), Bank of America Corporation

Anna Snider is a Managing Director and Head of Investment Manger Selection (Due Diligence) for the Chief Investment Office (CIO) within Bank of America Corporation. In this role, she leads the Due Diligence team and is responsible for manager research and implementation guidance for both traditional and alternative asset classes supporting Bank of America Private Bank, Merrill and Bank of America Retirement & Personal Wealth Solutions. She is a voting member of the Global Wealth & Investment Management Investment Strategy Committee (GWIM ISC), which sets asset allocation guidance. Anna also co-leads the Sustainable and Impact investing initiative for the wealth management businesses, focusing on investment solutions research and development, thought leadership, and measurement.

Previously, Anna was part of the Alternative Investments group where she advised on hedge fund and private assets portfolio construction and led research for multi-manager alternatives solutions. She was also a senior analyst in the risk management division at Bank of America Private Bank. Anna offers many years of investment and risk analysis experience, having held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, JP Morgan and UBS focusing on market, credit, and operational risk management.

She graduated from Connecticut College and holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst(CAIA®) designation. Anna serves on a number of non-profit advisory boards focused on inclusion in the financial industry, is an Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization.

Anju Suresh, CFA

Vice President, Sustainable & Impact Investing
Glenmede

Anju Suresh, CFA, is a Vice President and Investment Specialist on Glenmede’s Sustainable & Impact Investing team, where she partners with foundations to advance mission-aligned portfolios with a particular focus on catalytic capital investment opportunities. Her prior experience includes investment underwriting at a nonprofit CDFI expanding access to affordable healthcare for low-income communities and sustainable investing roles at an asset management firm. She serves on the Investment Committees of the Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation and the Homeless Assistance Fund.

Sarah Wilson

Managing Director, Head of Climate Center of Excellence
Nuveen

Sarah Wilson is the head of the Climate Center of Excellence on the Responsible Investing team at Nuveen, the investment management business of TIAA. Sarah leads a team that sets firm-level climate vision and accelerates alignment of brand, investment process, and products with the market’s rising climate expectations for the financial sector. Her team also advises on Net Zero implementation for the TIAA General Account. Throughout her career at Nuveen, Sarah has also led ESG integration across asset classes and, prior to that, within fixed income. Prior to joining TIAA, Nuveen’s parent company, in 2015, Sarah managed corporate sustainability reporting and renewable energy credit portfolios for Green Mountain Energy, a subsidiary of NRG, and helped structure debt financing for renewable energy projects as a summer associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She holds an M.B.A. and Master of Environmental Management from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. Sarah sits on the advisory board of the Yale Initiative for Sustainable Finance.