This year’s PCV Annual Luncheon will focus on the exciting field of impact investing. The idea of investing capital and resources for social benefits in addition to financial returns is changing the way that we do business…for the better!
Not familiar with impact investing? Not to worry – our Annual Luncheon will feature an all-star panel of experts that will explain what it is and point to real life success stories. Check out the panelists below and be sure to register today before this event sells out!
Julie Hanna, Kiva
Harnessing the democratizing impact of technology to create a more just world is Julie Hanna’s life work. She is an entrepreneur, technologist & CEO turned board director, advisor and investor to a numerous companies, including Lending Club, Bonobos, SYPartners and Idealab.
As Chair of the Board at Kiva, the world’s largest crowdfunding marketplace for small business entrepreneurs, Hanna is helping lead the movement of tech-enabled, mission-driven companies that are changing the world at scale. Under her leadership, Kiva has democratized access to half a billion dollars in capital for over 1 million entrepreneurs in 68 countries.
Hanna helped spark the internet revolution starting in 1994; she has been founder and founding executive of several silicon valley startups that have gone on to become public companies. Among them the world’s largest healthcare portal, Healtheon (now WebMD), the company that became Netscape Mail and the fastest growing dot com era internet communications company, onebox.com (now OpenWave) which provided free voice and data communication to millions across the globe.
Susan Mac Cormac, Morrison & Foerster
Susan Mac Cormac is a partner in the Corporate Department of Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office. She serves as co-chair of the Clean Technology Group and Private Equity and Venture Investment Practice.
Ms. Mac Cormac has extensive experience representing start-up to late-stage private companies primarily in the clean technology or sustainable space. She provides corporate and finance advice in connection with equity and debt financings, mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, reorganizations and joint ventures. She regularly advises boards of private and public companies, special committees, and CEOs on corporate governance as it relates to sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) issues and has joined the faculty (teaching on issues of sustainability and corporate governance) at both the Stanford Director’s College and the Northwestern Corporate Counsel Institute. In addition to her representation of nonprofit corporations involved with Sustainability and CSR, providing advice to their boards on fiduciary issues, conflicts of interest, and other corporate matters, she has deep experience and expertise in structure for nonprofit/for-profit “Hybrids” and new corporate forms.
Kathlyn Mead, The California Endowment
Kathlyn Mead, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, joined The California Endowment in May 2007. She is responsible for business operations, program related investments, and strategic corporate partnerships.
An established leader within diverse health related sectors, Mead previously served as President and CEO, San Diego Council of Community Clinics. As Vice President, CalPERS Sector for Blue Shield of California, she developed cost effective, quality health care networks and products for California’s largest purchaser of health benefits. Mead also served as President and CEO for Sharp Health Plan, a health maintenance organization affiliated with the Sharp HealthCare integrated delivery system. While at Sharp, Mead developed and implemented the award winning public/private, 3-share insurance product (FOCUS) especially designed to offer access to affordable, quality health coverage for small business employees. Mead was Vice President, Managed Care, at Children’s Hospital San Diego, and earlier in her career affiliated with MetLife Healthcare Networks of Colorado and Blue Cross of California.
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Heidi Krauel Patel, New Island Capital
Heidi Krauel Patel is the President of New Island Capital, an institutional scale and 100% mission-focused investment advisor. New Island oversees a multi-asset class strategy that strives to achieve risk-adjusted returns while creating positive impact within four thematic areas: Sustainable Agriculture, Communities, Alternative Energy and Environment. Previously, Heidi was an Acumen Fund Fellow working with D.light Design India as Head of Business Development and Marketing. D.light is a social enterprise operating in India, China, and Tanzania to eradicate kerosene through the design, manufacturing and distribution of solar-powered LED lights. Before Acumen Fund, Heidi was a Director at Pacific Community Ventures, a founding member of AOL Time Warner Ventures, and an Investment Banking Analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston. Heidi earned an AB from Princeton and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
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Moderator: Dr. Kellie McElhaney, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
This panel will be moderated by Dr. Kellie McElhaney. Dr. Kellie McElhaney is the Whitehead Faculty Fellow in Corporate Sustainability and founding Faculty Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She is the author of a book entitled Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand.
Her Corporate Responsibility work focuses on: Analyzing and developing companies’ CSR strategy and its alignment with corporate strategy, business objectives, core competencies, and business value; Exploring the linkage between women, business leadership, and corporate sustainability; and The business value and opportunities in branding, communication and CSR.
Kellie also focuses on Women and Business Leadership, as well as connections between women as corporate leaders and the firm’s sustainability performance. She has written various case studies of companies who are doing this, including the GSMA, Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola.