Duke alumni are building impact investing field, all over the world
Many Fuqua and Duke alumni have created satisfying careers in impact investing. For those interested in pursing careers in the field, there is an expanding set of options, including working as investment managers in funds, foundations, and government agencies, as field-builders in the many nonprofit intermediaries in the field, as consultants, and as financial asset advisors or managers.
Impact Investing Alumni include:
- Tuokpe Ajuyah, Crewcial Partners
- Beth Bafford, Calvert Impact Capital (Read Beth’s Agent of Impact profile here!)
- Seth Brown, Quantified Ventures
- Juan Canal, North Carolina Rural Center
- Manuel Costa, Cogent Consulting, PBC
- Will Creighton, The Investment Integration Project
- Adelina Dasso Arana, Accion Gateway Fund
- Daryn Dodson, Illumen Capital
- Miguel Duhalt, Adobe Capital
- Justin Desrosiers, SustainVC
- Holly Fulp, William Blair and Company
- Nina Gene, Jasmine Social Investments
- Anne-Christin Grimme, Living Cities
- Bahari Harris, Truist
- Patrick Heinemann, Ignia Partners, LLC
- Nathan Hixson, PNC
- Jana Holt, SEI
- Sarah Hoyt Edwards, Cambridge Associates
- Alan Kelley, SJF Ventures
- Scott Kleiman, Government Performance Lab at Harvard Kennedy School
- Christie Lange, Big Path Capital
- Ayush Mansingh, Social Finance
- Aaron Mbati, Schmidt Family Foundation
- Sidney McLaurin, Material Impact Fund
- Heather McPherson, SJF Ventures
- Sandra Mikush, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
- Tom Mitchell, Cambridge Associates
- Laura Mixter, LISC
- Saya Mizuno, Government of Japan
- Maria Pia Morante Perez-Reyes, Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures (ALIVE)
- Brendan Mullen, Secha Capital
- Clare Murray, LeapFrog Investments
- Ineza Mutimura, Mulago Foundation
- Hilary Nichols, Global Banking Alliance for Women
- David Nicola, Blackdirt Capital and Gratitude Farmland Fund
- Anne Njuki, DOB Equity
- Michael Noel, Acorn Innovestments
- Bob O’Reilly, Acorn Innovestments
- Meg Rudy, DRK Foundation
- Kathleen O’Shea, Social Finance
- Scott Onder, Mercy Corps Ventures
- Ulili Onovakpuri, Kapor Capital
- Josep Oriol, Okavango Capital Partners
- Hardik Parikh, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Diane Pham, PayPal
- Brooke Pierce, Drawdown Fund
- Christina Rausch, New York City Economic Development Corporation
- Christine Kenna Ravenet, Ignia Partners, LLC
- James Ruggiero, Self-Help Credit Union
- Eric Savage, Unitus Capital
- Alicia Seiger, Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy & Finance
- Ishita Shah, Align Impact
- Becca Shepherd, Tides
- Lowell Simpson, Blue Meridian Partners
- Eric Smith, Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
- Douglas Smooke, Renaissance Wealth Management
- Lee Summerell, Known
- Megan Walsh Thompson, Ford Foundation
- Catherine Toner, Gary Community Investments
- Joe Watt, ECMC Group
- Jacqueline Westley, NatureVest at The Nature Conservancy
- Max Zamor, BlackRock
If you are a Fuqua or Duke grad working in impact investing, let us know! We regularly invite alumni back to campus to share lessons and advice with our community.