Steven Godeke, Principal, Godeke Consulting. Steven is an independent investment advisor who works with foundations, corporations, and
non-profit organizations to integrate their financial and philanthropic goals. Steven advises his clients on the creation and execution of mission-related
investment strategies across asset classes and program areas. His services include due diligence, negotiation, and documentation of program-related investments,
mission-related investment manager searches, and portfolio performance measurement. Steven is an adjunct professor at New York University's Center for Global
Affairs where he currently teaches a course in Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to establishing his own firm, Steven worked for twelve years in
corporate and project finance with Deutsche Bank where he structured debt and equity products and advised corporate clients in the telecommunications, media,
real estate and natural resources industries. Steven grew up on a family farm in Southern Indiana, and attended Purdue University where he received a B.S. in
Management and a B.A. in German. He studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cologne and earned an M.P.A. from Harvard University.
Dominic Careri Kulik s founding Principal of Dakai Enterprises, an investment and management firm historically focused on early-stage sustainability markets,
including media & education, consumer products, healthcare, and clean-tech segments. After 21 years in this market area,
he currently divides his time between a portfolio of industrial ecology service ventures in the water and wastewater segments, and larger-scale private
equity investment management. He was a Senior Associate of the Blue Dot Venture Fund in 1999, and has been a Director of Investors' Circle since that time.
He also served from 1992 - 1997 as Director of Business for Social Responsibility, helping grow that trade group from its inception. He holds a BA from
Williams College and a MBA from Columbia University.
Jason Scott is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of EKO Asset Management Partners. Jason has more than a decade of experience developing and managing
firms seeking to sustainably manage and invest capital. He was most recently an investment analyst at Generation Investment Management, co-founded by David Blood
and former Vice President Al Gore, Jr. Jason was a founding Director of Generation and as its first employee helped build the firm, and its first and second products.
Generation's global equity and climate solutions funds seek to maximize financial returns by integrating sustainability analysis into traditional investment management
processes. From 1999 to 2004, Jason worked as an executive and advisor with Acumen Fund, a global social investing project incubated by the Rockefeller Foundation,
the Blue Ridge Foundation, an affiliate of hedge fund Blue Ridge Capital, and the Flatiron Future Fund and the Flatiron Foundation in New York City. From 1996 to 1999,
Jason was the President and COO of Togglethis, software company based in New York City. From 1991 to 1996, Jason helped found and build Public Allies, a community
leadership program for young adults. Prior to Public Allies, Jason worked in organizing positions for several political campaigns. In 1998, the Rockefeller Foundation
selected Jason as a fellow in its Next Generation Leadership Program. Jason served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy in 2000.
He serves on the board of youth development programs Groundwork, Inc., in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Public Allies. Jason received a BA cum laude from Duke University with honors
in History in 1990. He received an MBA with Distinction though a joint Global Executive Program of Columbia and London Business Schools in 2004.
Ana Paula Tavares is the Deputy Director and Director of Development at the Rainforest Alliance, an international conservation organization with headquarters in
New York and work in over 50 countries. As Deputy Director, she represents the Rainforest Alliance at international conferences and meetings, collaborates with government
and intergovernmental agencies in the development of sustainable development projects, helps Rainforest Alliance division directors define projects and shares
cross-organizational responsibilities with the executive director and other deputy directors. Ana Paula has been involved in initiatives to increase production of
sustainable products and services in Latin America and promote greater linkages with mainstream global markets. She has been leading the organization's development
department for six years. Prior to joining the Rainforest Alliance, Ana Paula was a founding partner at New Frontiers Group, a financial services group in S�o Paulo,
Brazil that promoted investment funds for biodiversity, sustainable forestry, carbon sequestration and renewable energy. Tavares has also worked as the Director of Science
Development at the New York Botanical Garden, and in Membership, Development and Licensing at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. She is from Belo Horizonte,
Brazil and holds a BA from Marymount Manhattan College.
