Catherine “Cat” Berman is an impact investing leader with extensive experience building and scaling profitable businesses through a transformative social lens.Cat is the CEO and Co-founder of CNote, an award winning investment platform with 100% positive social impact. She is passionate about the intersection of money and meaning and believes finance can and should be an instrument for positive change. As a leader in impact investing, Cat has been recognized as a Worthy 100 entrepreneur, an SF Business Times’ Most Influential Woman, Real Leaders’ 100 Women Impact Leaders You Should Know and in 2022 was named Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 100 Women of Influence. The CNote platform has been featured in Forbes, The Economist, US News, and industry publications including Sustainable Brands and Green Money.Prior to CNote, Catherine served as Managing Director at Charles Schwab and Senior Vice President at venture capital firm, Astia. Her last startup, Global Brigades, grew to a multi-million dollar in a few short years and is now the global category leader. Catherine has worked with impact investments for over a decade, speaking at Google, Stanford University, Oxford University, SoCap, Coinbase and others about the importance of values-aligned investing.