Strategic Advisors

Joseph Dufresne (New York)

Joe has spent eight years in investment banking with Deutsche Bank and 9 years with UOP in oil refining and petrochemical process technology. In these roles he has focused on the telecom sector where he executed over $30 billion in capital raising and M&A transactions in the US and Japan. Joe has lived in the UK, Russia, Japan, South America, Algeria and South Africa.

Sean Holt (California & UK)

Currently a Skoll Social Entrepreneur at Oxford, Sean has deep experience in the impact investment arena as both an investor and an entrepreneur, including working at the Cause and Effect Foundation and starting his own firm, Om Ventures.

Robert Lang (New York)

A visionary in the Social Finance space, Robert is known currently as the architect of the L3C, a novel legal structure that allows companies to earn a profit (provided their main mission is social or charitable) and still receive money from Foundations and other not-for-profit donors. The legal construct has been approved in ten US states to date.