Ms. Baker is a Vice President and member of Trillium Asset Management’s Shareholder Advocacy team where she leads and participates in numerous advocacy initiatives on a wide range of issues including sustainable sourcing, environmental health, labor & human rights, and board diversity. She began her investment career at Harvard Management Company where she supervised the portfolio control team. She joined Trillium in 1986 as a portfolio associate and was later promoted to portfolio manager and research analyst. In 2000, Ms. Baker left Trillium to become the religious education director of a faith-based organization, and rejoined the firm and its advocacy department in 2006. She currently serves on the Boards of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, The Thirty Percent Coalition, and is Treasurer for Pesticide Action Network, North America. Susan earned a B.A. from Middlebury College, and Ed.M. from Harvard University.

Mr. Bonte is a Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Specialist. He interfaces with the Investment, Client Service, Marketing and Sales teams to ensure clients and prospects are presented with, and take full advantage of, the depth and breadth of expertise available at Standish. He is the Product Specialist for ESG at Standish and helped to integrate ESG factors into the Investment Process. Previously, he served as a Portfolio Manager and Quantitative Analyst in Short Duration Strategies, at both BNY Mellon Cash Investment Strategies and at Standish. Mr. Bonte has an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. in Optical Engineering from the French Institute of Optics. He holds the CFA® designation and has 10 years of investment experience.

Mr. Canty is the Lead Coffee Buyer at Keurig Green Mountain, where he has worked for the last 19 years. He is a Q certified coffee taster and a member of the Board of Directors for the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI). Over the last 14 years, Mr. Canty’s work has focused on cultivating long term relationships with coffee producer organizations, improving supply chain transparency, and negotiating contracts that bring benefit to both buyer and seller.

Mr. Coffin joined Breckinridge's Consultant Relations team in May 2012 and is currently Senior Vice President, Consultant Relations. With over 20 years of experience in the fixed income markets, Mr. Coffin was most recently a Vice President at Fidelity Investments where he launched and managed the firm's Municipal Finance Group within Fidelity Capital Markets. In that capacity, his group was responsible for average annual underwriting engagements in excess of $30 billion. Prior to Fidelity, he spent over 10 years with Corby Capital Markets where he managed sales and marketing and served his last three years as the firm's president. Additionally, Mr. Coffin was an institutional salesman with both Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and RBC Dain Rauscher, has served as Governor of the Municipal Bond Club of Boston, and has held FINRA licenses; Series 7, 63, 24 & 53. He currently holds his Series 65 and received his B.A. from Hobart College.

Dr. Gifford was the founder and first Executive Director of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, leading the initiative from its inception in 2003 until November 2013. As Senior Research Fellow at the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School, he is researching and writing on sustainable private equity in developing countries and delivering positive impact within mainstream pension and foundation investment strategies. He is a Senior Strategic Advisor to Tau Investment Management. He is also a guest lecturer at Imperial College London, a visiting fellow at the University of St Andrews and has published numerous articles and book chapters on responsible investment. Dr. Gifford has a PhD from the University of Sydney on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate environmental, social and governance performance, degrees in Commerce and Law, and a Masters in Environment Management. He was named by the World Economic Forum in 2010 as one of 200 Young Global Leaders.

Mr. Kim serves Chief Financial Officer for DC Water.  He joined the Authority in March 2013 from the Office of the New York City Comptroller, where he served as NYC’s Deputy Comptroller for Economic Development and Assistant Comptroller for Public Finance, and previously as an investment banker at several global financial institutions. Over his career, Mr. Kim has raised in excess of $50 billion in the capital markets. Currently, he sits on the Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Committee on Governmental Debt Management of the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), and he is a member of the Bars of the State of New York and the District of Columbia. Mr. Kim holds a B.A. from Northwestern University; J.D. from Cornell Law School; and Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.

Ms. Kowal is Zevin Asset Management's President. She is a member of the firm's investment committee where she incorporates sustainability issues into investment decision making. Previously, Ms. Kowal headed Ethical Investment Research Services' (EIRIS) US office and was a Portfolio Manager and Investment Research Analyst at Baillie Gifford in Scotland. Sonia holds a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Edinburgh and an M.S. in Investment Analysis from the University of Stirling, Scotland.

Ms. Laing is a Senior Investment Director in the Mission-Related Investing (“MRI”) Group in Cambridge Associates’ Arlington office. She identifies and researches MRI managers across asset classes and serves as a resource to generalist investment directors in the firm by monitoring managers in clients’ MRI programs. She also serves as a portfolio advisor to clients that have a particular focus on social or mission-related investments. She currently works with private clients and foundations. Prior to rejoining the firm in 2010, Ms. Laing was a senior investment advisor at the IAM National Pension Fund, where she focused on alternative assets, including portable alpha, hedge funds, natural resources, infrastructure, opportunistic debt, and private equity. She also worked as a public markets investment analyst for the American Red Cross, where she conducted asset allocation analysis and manager due diligence for the public market portfolios of the endowment, pension, corporate accounts, and 401K program. Ms. Laing began her career at Cambridge Associates as a consulting associate in 2003. During her time at the firm, she was promoted to senior consulting associate and team leader responsible for overseeing consulting associates and liaising with firm wide management. In addition, she was involved in the firm’s consulting associate recruiting initiatives. Ms. Laing is a CFA Charterholder and earned a BS in Mathematics at St. Lawrence University.

Ms. Reichelt is Head of Investor Relations and New Products at the World Bank. The World Bank borrows around USD 40 billion annually in the international capital markets. Her team’s responsibilities include managing relationships with bond investors and rating agencies, and developing new debt products for investors – such as for climate change mitigation and adaptation through products like World Bank Green Bonds. Her team performs similar functions for the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), for which the World Bank acts as treasury manager. Ms. Reichelt plays a key role in the World Bank’s outreach to the sustainable and impact investing community in Europe and the US. She has also been a part of the World Bank Treasury's Sovereign Investments Partnerships Program for central banks and has 20 years of experience in finance – including the areas of export finance and capital markets. Before joining the World Bank in 2000, she held various positions in the German development agency Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW), and worked at European commercial banks.

Mr. Sedlacek joined Commonfund in 2002 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and was appointed President and CEO July 1, 2003. In addition, he serves as a member of the Commonfund Group Investment Policy Committee. Prior to Commonfund, Mr. Sedlacek was President and COO of John W. Henry & Company, Inc. Previously he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Harvard Management Company, where he was responsible for managing the areas of personnel, budgets, systems, performance, analysis, contract, credit, compliance, custody, operations, cash management, securities lending, and market risk evaluation for the then approximately $14 billion University Fund. He also has served on many not-for-profit and for-profit boards. Mr. Sedlacek currently serves on the boards of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, the NYSE Pension Managers Advisory Board and is a member of the Samsung Global Investment Advisory Council (SGIAC). In 2013, National Association of College and University Business Officers awarded Verne the Rodney H. Adams Endowment award for his outstanding individual contributions to professional development activities in the area of university endowment and investment management. He earned an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and was certified as a CPA by the State of New York in 1978.

Katie Schindall leads EMC’s Supply Chain Social & Environmental Responsibility (SER) and eWaste programs, developing and implementing strategies for sustainable sourcing and recycling of EMC’s hardware products. Her past experience includes developing corporate engagement strategy at The Nature Conservancy; a Climate Corps Fellowship at Sodexo; research analysis and consulting with McKinsey’s Social Sector Practice; and on-the-ground work for TechnoServe Ghana and for a collaborative Australian land conservation project called Gondwana Link. She has an MBA and a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University.

Mr. Smith is the director of ESG shareowner engagement and leads Walden’s ongoing shareholder engagement program to promote greater corporate leadership on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. This includes company dialogues, shareholder proposals, proxy voting, and public policy advocacy. Mr. Smith has been named one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics” by Ethisphere Institute and of one of the most influential people in corporate governance by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Mr. Veksler is the CEO and Portfolio Manager at Beyond Borders Investment Strategies. He manages portfolios built from single-country equity ETFs of emerging, frontier and developed countries. Prior to founding the firm, he analyzed macroeconomic and investment trends affecting equities at BNY Mellon, Fidelity Investments, and State Street Research. Mr. Veksler holds an M.B.A. from The MIT Sloan School of Management and an M.A. in international finance from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Mr. von Rekowsky is Fidelity’s Emerging Markets Strategist. A 25-year veteran of the firm, Mr. von Rekowsky was portfolio manager of the Emerging Markets Equity Funds from 2004 to 2012 and held positions in fixed income, high income and equities as an Analyst in previous roles. He was based in Fidelity’s London office from 1996 to 2003, focused on European and EMEA equities. Mr. von Rekowsky holds an M.S. in finance from Brandeis University and an M.A. in international relations from Northeastern University.

Mr. Wilson is an investment officer and institutional portfolio analyst at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). His role involves working with the firm's analysts and portfolio managers to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into the investment decision-making process. He is also responsible for developing thought leadership regarding the role that ESG integration should play in a long-term investment process. Mr. Wilson joined MFS in 2013 after six years with American Century, where he most recently served as a senior equity analyst. Previously, he spent five years at Bain & Company, working as a manager in the Financial Planning & Analysis group. Mr. Wilson earned a bachelor of science in business administration from Boston University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago. He is also a member of the leadership team of the Boston Area Sustainable Investment Consortium (BASIC).

Ms. Winkler is vice president, corporate sustainability and chief sustainability officer for EMC Corporation. She provides the vision, strategy and leadership for the company’s global sustainability initiatives. As CSO, her mission is to integrate sustainability principles into the corporate culture, the business strategy and day-to-day operations.

Mr. Young is Mariner’s Chief Executive Officer, a Partner and is a member of Mariner’s Investment and Management Committees. He is also a General Securities Principal for Mariner Group Capital Markets, Inc. (Mariner’s limited-purpose affiliated broker-dealer “MGCM”). He joined Mariner directly from Goldman Sachs, where he retired as a Partner, head of European Debt Capital Markets. Mr. Young also headed fixed income and foreign exchange sales in London beginning in 1992. In 1989, Mr. Young moved to Tokyo to run all of the firm’s fixed income activity in Japan. Mr. Young first became a Partner at Goldman Sachs in New York City in 1988 where he was the Co-Head of the Money Market Sales and Trading Department in 1988. He was the Head Trader for institutional money market funds from 1983 to 1988 and started at Goldman Sachs on the Commercial Paper trading desk in 1980. Mr. Young received a Bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in 1977 and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of New York University in 1983. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a coeducational day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Young is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Social Finance, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing investment capital to drive social change and bringing Social Impact Bonds to the US Market.

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