NUImpact

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NUImpact is a student-led impact investing initiative at Northeastern University. We serve as a resource for the entire Northeastern community to understand purposeful capital. We offer thought-exchanges in the form of speaker events, interactive workshops, lecture series and community conversations. Engage with us to get involved in sustainable and responsible finance that builds a better future.

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In this joint event with the Entrepreneurs Club, come to practice your problem-solving and pitching skills. Using the UN...
11/07/2022

In this joint event with the Entrepreneurs Club, come to practice your problem-solving and pitching skills. Using the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals as pain points, teams will create a solution and test it out in the real-life market. At the end of the event, everyone will have the chance to pitch their problem, company, and market validation. Will you come up with your company's next big idea?

As a part of our individual impact event series, we are hosting a roundtable discussion focused on diversity and represe...
11/01/2022

As a part of our individual impact event series, we are hosting a roundtable discussion focused on diversity and representation within impact investing. All are welcome and encouraged to share experiences and learn from others. This event will be hosted Thursday at 7:05PM in Behrakis 750.

As part of Lynn’s weeklong series with the Social Impact Lab, we are doing a collaboration event! Lynn Zovighian is a ch...
10/03/2022

As part of Lynn’s weeklong series with the Social Impact Lab, we are doing a collaboration event! Lynn Zovighian is a champion and expert in impact investing. She has spent years building the ZP Partnership to draw from multiple sources of capital further to advance social change for women in the middle east. For this workshop, we will creatively solve her real-life cases of conflict and impact and discuss how we can implement these creative methods of change in our investments in the Boston community. The event will be hosted at 440 Eagan Research Center at 7:00PM.

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-to-achieve-impact-ethical-effective-social-change-funding-tickets-418089054617

Join Cynthia Figge, founder of CSRHub, to learn about a new CSR metric used to evaluate companies based on global ESG da...
09/27/2022

Join Cynthia Figge, founder of CSRHub, to learn about a new CSR metric used to evaluate companies based on global ESG data. Find out if your portfolio is socially responsible based on this metric!

Join us for our first event of the semester this Thursday at 7pm in Dodge 150! Whether you’re new to impact investing or...
09/12/2022

Join us for our first event of the semester this Thursday at 7pm in Dodge 150! Whether you’re new to impact investing or want to learn from a respected angel investor, this event is for you!

Check out our amazing keynote speakers for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing Summit panel. George Overholser will be our...
03/31/2021

Check out our amazing keynote speakers for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing Summit panel. George Overholser will be our opening keynote speaker and Michelle Wu will be our closing keynote speaker.

Register to attend the event today at bit.ly/NUSIS21:

George Overholser: George is an angel investor and social entrepreneur. He is the current vice chancellor at Northeastern University. He is also a board member for ideas42, which is an organization working to use the power of behavioral science to design scalable solutions to some of society’s most difficult problems. He has previously founded NFF Capital partners, which is a non profit finance fund and worked at other financial firms such as Third Sector Capital Partners.

Michelle Wu: Michelle Wu is a candidate for the 2021 Boston Mayoral Election. She has previously worked at City Hall under mayor Tom Menino and on Senator Elizabeth Warren’s campaign. She works to expand the ranks of women, people of color, and young people in positions of leadership.

Check out our amazing speakers for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing Summit panel: A Conversation with NUImpact Alumni.R...
03/30/2021

Check out our amazing speakers for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing Summit panel: A Conversation with NUImpact Alumni.

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Tess Alonge: Tess currently works at Hercules Capital, Inc. as an analyst in technology. She recently graduated from Northeastern University in 2020. She has previously worked at firms such as GE Aviation and Jeffries in financial management and trading.

Ryan Lee: Ryan is a senior analyst at Advantage Capital where he works to source, fundraise, perform due diligence, and assist in the underwriting for Advantage Capital, a multi-strategy impact investment fund. He has previously worked at MFS Investment Management and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

Aarambh Pradhan: Aarambh is currently a business analyst at Thumbtack, where he works to connect millions of people with local professionals for their projects. He has previously worked in core assurance at PwC and in prime brokerage at Morgan Stanley.

Katrina Haase: Katrina is a Starlink Market Access analyst at SpaceX. She has previously worked as a research fellow at the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation and as part of the State and Local government team at McKinsey & Company.

Joanna Zanghi: Joanna is currently an analyst at Sozo Ventures. She has previously worked in institutional sales and sales trading at Mizuho Securities and in Digital Transformation at Salesforce.

Check out our amazing speakers for our second panel in collaboration with Northeastern University Women in Finance as pa...
03/28/2021

Check out our amazing speakers for our second panel in collaboration with Northeastern University Women in Finance as part of Industry Series B for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing Summit: Women in Impact Investing.

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Lily Trager: Lily is the current Director of Investing with Impact and Head of Impact Solutions for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. She is responsible for developing investment portfolios, analysis, client & Financial Advisor education and tools such as impact reporting to help those she works with meet long-term financial objectives while generating positive environmental and social impact. She has also founded the Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy (WISE) initiative which works to connect and share the purpose of sustainable impact investing and women’s leadership globally.

Navjeet Bal: Navjeet is currently the Managing Director and General Counsel at Social Finance, Inc. where she works to develop and implement pay-for-success contracts or social impact bonds in areas across the United States. She has previous experience as a public finance lawyer in Massachusetts and was previously part of the Commissioner of Revenue in Governor Patrick’s administration, which has given her great insight into the financial resource and Social Finance challenges facing governments.

Lara Metcalf: Lara is currently the CFO/COO at The Engine, which is an organization investing in long-term capital in tech startups that have the potential to impact climate change, human health and advanced systems. She has had previous experience on Wall Street at firms like Goldman Sachs where she worked extensively on fixed income deals.

Marjorie Winfrey: Marjorie is currently a Research Analyst at Wellington Management where she works to build sustainability into investment processes, improve impact measurement and management and provide company research with a sustainability lens.

Check out our amazing speakers for our first panel in collaboration with Vital as part of Industry Series B for our 2021...
03/27/2021

Check out our amazing speakers for our first panel in collaboration with Vital as part of Industry Series B for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing Summit: Healthcare Innovation.

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Theresa Tribble: Theresa is currently an Operating Partner at The Engine. She is a leader with a passion for science and solving big problems that drive societal impact who creates credibility for companies in the medical and scientific community. She has previously worked at companies such as BigHat Bioscience, a biotechnology company looking to unlock the value of artificial intelligence in drug discovery, and EverlyWell, a direct-to-consumer health testing company.

Arianne Graham: Arianne is the current Director of Innovation, Healthworx, at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, where she helps lead the studio that works to solve strategic problems to CareFirst. She has had previous experience at companies such as Peer Health Exchange, where she worked to empower young people with the knowledge to make healthy decisions.

Sumit Nagpal: Sumit is currently the founder and CEO at Cherish Health, which is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that he cofounded. Cherish Health develops advanced sensors and AI combined with medical evidence and human touch, focusing on the elderly, the frail, and those living with chronic conditions to improve their lives and proactively enable supported self-care.

Check out our amazing speakers for our second panel as part of Industry Series A for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing S...
03/25/2021

Check out our amazing speakers for our second panel as part of Industry Series A for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing Summit: Creating Opportunity Through Microfinance.

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David Gough: David is currently the Senior Vice President and CFO at Grameen America, Inc. which is an organization dedicated to helping women who live in poverty build small businesses by offering micro loans, training and support to fight poverty in the United States.

Sarah Adeel: Sarah is currently the Strategic Partnerships and Business Development Lead at Kiva where she helps to manage an on-line crowdfunding platform for startups and small businesses. She also works to spearhead cross-functional teams, product, legal, finance, and marketing to drive sales. She has extensive experience regarding building communities and managing cross-functional teams to encourage social impact.

Check out our amazing speakers for our first panel (in collaboration with Student Value Fund) as part of Industry Series...
03/25/2021

Check out our amazing speakers for our first panel (in collaboration with Student Value Fund) as part of Industry Series A for our 2021 NU Sustainable Investing Summit: The Future of ESG Investing.

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Andrew Droste: Andrew currently acts as Board Advisory Specialist in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) at Russell Reynolds Associates. He is also a graduate of the Northeastern University School of Law. He works to advise public and private companies on strategy and risk oversight regarding ESG issues including reporting and engagement priorities. He is an expert in corporate governance and sustainability with expertise in board oversight alignment with stakeholders and ESG risks, proxy voting policies and procedures, and more. He has previously worked at firms like Nuveen and BNY Mellon, focusing on corporate stewardship and governance policy regarding ESG issues.

Mitali Prasad: Mitali currently is an ESG portfolio manager and equity analyst at Trillium Asset Management. She has extensive experience and a proven record in managing equity portfolios, including sector allocation, stock selection, and risk management as well as client reviews and business development. She has experience in Fundamental and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) analysis across multiple industry sectors. She has previously worked at firms like Babson Capital Management and OFI Institutional Asset Management performing fundamental research across multiple industry sectors.

Nelson Chu: Nelson is the founder and CEO of Cadence, a platform for digital securitization and an investment platform for private credit. Cadence works to streamline the securitization process for specialty finance originators at every stage of growth. He has several years of experience at investment management firms, including Bank of America and BlackRock where he has worked in Business Management & Analysis, as well as in fixed income portfolio management. He is a three-time company founder, having founded Lumenary, MySupport and now Cadence.

Check out our amazing speakers for our Roundtable Discussion on Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure for our NUSIS 2021 c...
03/24/2021

Check out our amazing speakers for our Roundtable Discussion on Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure for our NUSIS 2021 conference.

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Trenton Allen: Trenton is currently the Managing Director and CEO at Sustainable Capital Advisors. He founded SCA to be a consulting and financial advisory firm that provides a comprehensive suite of services dedicated to supporting the successful deployment of capital for sustainable energy projects both domestically and internationally. He has had previous experience as a consultant and as a financial strategist.

Jamie Goh: Jamie is currently a Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank where she works to arrange, underwrite and finance energy transactions. Her previous experience includes wealth management and financial analysis at firms like Merrill Lynch and BlackRock.

Adam Nicolopoulos: Adam is the current founder and CEO at ADN Capital Ventures, Inc. ADN works to provide financial consultancy and corporate finance services in transport infrastructure, sustainability, impact-investment and energy sectors. He has also previously worked at firms like Southern California Edison, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS in areas such as project advisory and transportation infrastructure analysis.

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NUImpact is a student-led impact investing initiative at Northeastern University. We serve as a resource for the entire Northeastern community to understand purposeful capital. We offer thought-exchanges in the form of speaker events, interactive workshops, lecture series and community conversations. Engage with us to get involved in sustainable and responsible finance that builds a better future. To receive event updates and recruitment info, subscribe to our mailing list at tiny.cc/nuimpactsubscribe