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Austin, Texas, United States

ImpactAssets is an impact investing trailblazer, dedicated to changing the trajectory of our planet’s future and improving the lives of all people. We empower impact investors and philanthropists with access to investing opportunities and customized solutions that promote positive change. ImpactAssets has more than $2 billion in assets in 1,700 donor advised fund accounts, working with purpose-driven individuals and their wealth managers, family offices, foundations and corporations.Founded in 2010, ImpactAssets increases flows of money to impact investing in partnership with our clients through our impact investment platform and field-building initiatives, including the IA 50 database of private debt and equity impact fund managers.

Austin, Texas, United States

We introduce promising health solutions into communities with unmet needs. Innovation for All: We take the science and research addressing our communities’ most pressing needs and productize it to work with the business of healthcare – we call this approach Design Run.Design: We translate the latest medical research, in areas of pressing need, into desirable consumer experiences using a design approach that begins with the people we aim to serve.Run: We then build a sustainable business around our solutions to work within traditional, emerging, or informal health venues that serve our communities in need.Funding: We apply philanthropic missions and their sources of capital to the early stage development of health solutions for communities in need.Collaboration: We form strategic relationships between health pioneers and public health networks around real community needs.Capability: We bring together human-centered and multi-disciplinary teams to build radical new offers with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Austin, Texas, United States

Sedera is a Medical Cost Sharing Community inspired by the modern sharing economy.Who said insurance is the only way to deal with medical costs? Sedera is building a new kind of community, one centered on healthy living and sharing the cost of medical care. In doing so, we are able to provide a high-end healthcare experience, delivering tremendous value for members and their families.In the way that Uber changed transportation and Airbnb disrupted the hospitality industry, Sedera is turning the traditional health insurance model on its head with peer-to-peer medical sharing. With medical cost-sharing there isn’t a provider network. There isn’t an insurance company coming between you and your doctor. You share medical funds with like-minded people and receive premium care, through an organization run with compassion.

Austin, Texas, United States

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is dedicated to transforming the lives of children living in urban poverty through improving their education, health and family economic stability.We start by identifying the people and places most in need. We then work closely with our partners to find solutions that combine bold thinking with real-world experiences and hard data. We go directly into communities and learn about families’ struggles and aspirations, then pair those most in need with proven, practical solutions to help them move forward. Since our start, nearly 20 years ago, we have committed more than $1.748 billion to support families across the United States, India and South Africa.We firmly believe that true progress and transformative, sustainable change are the products of time, hard work, and a willingness to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who live and breathe the challenges we aim to overcome. We know we can’t solve every problem, but with collaboration and determination we can accelerate real progress for real people every day.

Austin, Texas Area

Cornerstone is an independent, lower middle market merger and acquisition advisory firm founded by a deep bench of experienced accountants, financial planners, and investment advisors with a strong network of relationships throughout Texas and beyond.We are not your typical wall street brokers, but instead, serve small business owners typically neglected by investment bankers and advisory firms. We add value by being a trusted advisor to businesses and their owners. We help business owners assess the strengths and weaknesses of their business, improve operational efficiency, strengthen accounting processes and systems, market their business to interested buyers, and handle every step of a wide variety of transactions. Cornerstone was started in 2019 and has strong roots in Texas with offices in Austin, Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio.

Austin, Texas Area

Stafford works with a wide range of institutions to deliver returns through active investing across the private markets. We work diligently and creatively to find the best investment opportunities across a range of market sectors. We access these opportunities through a sustainable blend of primary, secondary and co-investments. Stafford believes that environmental, social and governance ("ESG") factors are intrinsic to the investment environment in which Stafford operates. We recognize our responsibility as an investor to contribute to a more sustainable financial system by taking a long-term, responsible approach to investing across private market funds and assets. We recognise our special role as stewards of money entrusted to us by our institutional clients, who in turn manage money on behalf of their investors. As active investors, we play an important role in ensuring our investments uphold commonly accepted standards of environmental protection, human rights, and good governance in a way that will enhance and underpin the financial returns that our investors expect of us and add long term value to the community of which we are a part.

Austin, Tx

While at Dimensional, an investment manager with over $600B in assets under management, I created a role to become the firm’s first subject matter expert on environmental, social, governance/socially responsible investing. In this role I advised on the positioning and marketing of DFA’s over $60B in social and sustainable strategies. I created resources, conducted analyses of DFA's competitors, and provided internal training on socially responsible investing.Also in my role I managed, mentored, and trained interns and new employees.

Austin, Tx

As an Associate in the Consultant Relations/Institutional Services group I fostered DFA’s relationship with 40 institutional investment consultants which shared $50B in client assets with DFA. In this role I focused on educating investment consultants on DFA’s philosophy, process, and products to improve DFA’s ratings. I completed proposals, due diligence, and presentations for new business opportunities and client retention. I also tracked and analyzed new business opportunities in the customer relationship management tool.

Austin, Texas Area

The Dell Social Innovation Challenge identifies and supports promising young social innovators who dedicate themselves to solving the world's most pressing problems with their transformative ideas by providing undergraduate and graduate students across the world with world-class teaching and training, as well as with start-up capital and access to a network of mentors and advisors.

Bujumbura, Burundi

Recruited for 'Turame for Tomorrow' project, a HOPE International, World Relief, and World Relief Canada joint-initiative to overhaul Burundi’s largest microfinance institution serving over 20,000 Burundians with $1.5 Million in net portfolio. I collaborated with the Board of Directors, local staff, and project staff to reconcile, train local staff, and ultimately implement new systems and procedures of operations, accounting, finance, MIS, IT, and HR without slowing down day-to-day banking operations.Ultimate Objective: Create a strong institutional back bone to ensure the institution's sustainability and scalability for years to come and allow it to continue to provide one of world's poorest countries with world-class credit services and enable it to continue to address physical and spiritual poverty and enable clients to be their their own force of alleviating poverty in their households and communities.

Kiev, Ukraine

I worked at Nadiya (HOPE) Ukraine's headquarters in the country's capital, Kiev, while researching, analyzing, and consulting with local staff to recognize needs and effective uses of credit and operations policies. Working with a U.S.-based CFO we created the first credit policies for the bank's 14 branches and $1.2M net portfolio and created the initial framework of the institution's first operations manual.With the great effects the global financial crisis had on Ukraine and the Nadiya (HOPE) Ukraine program we sought to cut costs and mitigate credit risk while still providing the program's over 1,500 clients with small business loans and continue its Tomorrow Clubs impacting over 10,000 children every week across the country.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Area

I worked with a microfinance institution at its headquarters outside of Philadelphia with 14 programs across the Caribbean, South America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Pacific with its mission of 'investing in the dreams of the poor in the world's underserved communities so that they might be released from physical and spiritual poverty'.While working remotely with the David Weekley Family Foundation (below) I was able to work with and learn from HOPE's experienced and knowledgeable staff.For the institution's technical advisors: I researched efficient tools and best practices for internal sharing and revising of documents and provided initial research for audit and accreditation process for the HOPE Global Investment Fund. Coordinating with Spiritual Integration Director we developed metrics for monitoring and evaluating the programs spiritual impact on its clients and staff.Working with one of the senior accountants we assessed and found solutions to remedy accounting issues with HOPE’s branches in China.Collaborating with the Saving and Credit Association (SCA) Director I researched and assisted in creating a monitoring and evaluating system for the institution's SCAs.Also, during my time with HOPE International I worked with their international partners in Eastern Europe (above) and East Africa (above).

Houston, Texas Area

I supported the international giving of The David Weekley Family Foundation with foundation assets over $70 Million while identifying groups that use education, healthcare, and microenterprise development as innovative solutions to poverty around the globe.I analyzed, conducted due diligence, and made funding recommendations for organizations while also creating investment memos and SWOT analyses on organizations seeking funding.Also providing research for a magazine article on private education in developing nations and creating an internal website to present and share pertinent foundation information with the founder.

Tegucigalpa, Honduras & Norwalk, Connecticut

Active in various roles involved in starting and sustaining the operations of a start up social enterprise focused on creating high quality, stylish, and crazy fun magnet-infused wooden toys meant to last generations and unleash a child's creativity and mental development. Made of Honduras' fine hardwoods these toys are a means to not only generate profits, but provide employment, decrease environmental degradation, increase access to education, and decrease poverty in one of the Western Hemisphere's poorest countries.Working with the company's Co-Founder & CEO aka Chief Block Head at their US office I researched, established, and oversaw the company’s consumer product testing process and sales for various non-traditional marketing outlets.I also researched and established a database for public relations concerning the social impact of the company and was able to visit and support the company's Co-Founder & COO aka Head Elf at their Tegucigalpa, Honduras production plant before they launched.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Venture Capital/Private Equity, Finance, Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Venture Fellows, Net Impact, MBA Christian Fellowship, MBA Impact Investing Networking & Training (MIINT).

Political Science, Business, Religious Studies, Economics

Activities and Societies: Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, Greek Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Indiana University Dance Marathon, Exodus.

Academic Honors Diploma