I am dedicated to helping to solve the climate crisis using my climate finance and investment decarbonization expertise with a deep focus on climate tech and nature-based solutions to achieve climate mitigation and adaptation, including resilience. Expertise in blended finance.Impact investing pioneer and senior expert spanning private equity, venture capital, private credit, venture debt, and guarantee asset classes and funds. Expertise in origination, structuring, and execution of purpose-built tech-enabled innovative, scalable, and complex transformative impact investing transactions and funds, due diligence, and impact measurement and management in US, and emerging and frontier markets. Financial inclusion and microfinance expert. Gender-smart investment focus. Have worked with multiple verticals and sectors. My career is dedicated to scaling and mainstreaming impact investing in capital markets. I combine out-of-the-box entrepreneurial thinking with analytic rigor and discipline for addressing the hardest and not yet solved impact investing challenges that have not been done before. Special interest in creation of new impact investing asset classes. Deep understanding of risk management.20+years Board and investment committee experience. Currently serve on Boards and Investment Committees for Montgomery County Green Bank, PLACE (Board Chair), and MicroBuild Fund; Advisor for ESG and impact investments for Black Lab Venture Studio. Previously: Apollo Global Management, Calvert Impact Capital investment committee, and UNOPS Advisory Group on Investments. Wharton MBA, U of Pennsylvania MA, Fellow, Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies. Certified Expert in Climate & Renewable Energy Finance and Certified Expert in Risk Management, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Listed skills include Microfinance, Emerging Markets, Finance, Risk Management, and 34 others.