Duke alumni are building impact investing field, all over the world
Many Fuqua and Duke alumni have created satisfying careers in social entrepreneurship, social innovation, sustainability, and impact investing. Those that are interested in impact investing face an expanding set of options, and can work 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.
“Not sure what you’re putting in the water down there, but keep it up! Cheers to you and your fantastic students!”
–Eric Letsinger, CEO, Quantified Ventures, at the completion of a 2018 CASE i3 Consulting Project. The project was managed inside Quantified Ventures by Seth Brown, Fuqua MBA 2017, and completed by a team of students led by Katherine McNeil, Fuqua MBA 2018.
Impact Investing Alumni include:
(If you are a Fuqua or Duke grad and are working in the impact investing field, please let us know! We regularly invite alumni back to campus to share lessons and advice with our community.)
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
Past Student Leaders
CASE i3 launched in Fall 2011. Beth Bafford, MBA 2012, helped co-found CASE i3. Co-chairs Scott Kleiman and David Nicola, MBAs 2013, helped build it. Since then, over 300 students have been part of the program.
Alumni Chats
We’ve been inviting alumni to visit with our CASE i3 students virtually on skype. This is a convenient way to have a quick talk about your work and help students learn about career paths in the field. If you are an alum interested in chatting with students, let us know!
Recent Alumni Chats:
Mike MacHarg, Simpa Networks and MercyCorps, December 2013
Megan Walsh Thompson, Ford Foundation, February 2014
Nina Gene, Jasmine Investments, March 2014
Scott Kleiman, Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab, April 2014
Beth Bafford, Calvert Foundation, February 2015
Adelina Dasso Arana, Accion Gateway Fund, February 2017
Maria Pia Morante, Acumen, February 2018
Seth Brown, Quantified Ventures, March 2018
Megan Thompson, Ford Foundation, November 2018
Beth Bafford, Calvert Impact Capital, November 2018
Justin Desrosiers, SustainVC, February 2019, 2021
Sarah Edwards, Cambridge Associates, October 2022
