Roger Frank works at the intersection of capital markets and social enterprise and is one of the pioneers in using capital markets funding for positive social change. He has spent his career in emerging & international markets and has worked extensively in agriculture, microfinance and technology. He won an inaugural, 2009 Fast Company Award for his innovative financial models and is an industry expert, consultant and frequent lecturer on impact investing. He founded Innovare Advisors, a boutique advisory firm with a focus on climate-smart agriculture, AgTech and AgFinTech. Previously, he was a partner at Developing World Markets (DWM) and part of the team that structured and placed the first, cross-border, commercial capital raise for microfinance. Prior to DWM, he worked on Wall Street at several bulge bracket investment banks where is focus was international and emerging markets. He has an MBA in International Finance from NYU Stern School of Business and a BFA, cum laude, from the University of Delaware. He is on the Advisory Board, University of Delaware Graduate Program in Fashion and Sustainability and the Board of Trustees, University of the West, where he is also the CIO of their endowment. He has traveled to and worked in over 100 countries, speaks conversational Portuguese, German and Spanish and is a self-published, Baseball Haiku poet.