Investing as Impact - Speaker & Moderator Bios
Elizabeth Glenshaw is Clean Yield Asset Management's portfolio manager and managing director. She started her career crafting a community-banking program for a Vermont bank that focused on ensuring access to credit for low-wealth communities. Subsequently, she worked for two SRI asset-management companies, managing portfolios for clients who wished to integrate their social values with their financial objectives. Elizabeth's last position was with the Calvert Foundation, which assists non-profits in low-wealth and impoverished communities. She was instrumental in growing the organization from six to 38 employees, with a loan portfolio of $200 million. In 1993, Elizabeth was first elected to the board of the Social Investment Forum, the industry's trade association. She served for 14 years, several as VP. Currently, she is president of the board of the Vermont Community Loan Fund, serves as an advisor to Vermont's largest bank, the Chittenden Bank, and is VP of the board of the Upper Valley Rowing Foundation. She also has an advisory seat with the Upper Valley Region of New Hampshire Charitable Trust. Elizabeth received a BA from Marlboro College and is a graduate of the National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern University. She also has a degree in financial planning from Boston University. Elizabeth loves most sports and competes nationally in rowing.
Shuaib Siddiqui is a portfolio manager for Acumen Fund. He joined Acumen Fund Pakistan as a Portfolio Associate in September of 2007. He focuses primary on the housing and renewable energy sectors. Prior to Acumen Fund, Shuaib worked for two years in the Quantitative Alpha Generation Group at Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund based in Chicago, where he focused on developing trading strategies utilizing fundamental company data. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch working on The Global Analytic and Thematic Research team. He holds a BA in Economics from New York University.
John Vogel (Moderator) is an associate faculty director for the Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship and an adjunct professor at Tuck. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship in the social sector, nonprofit management, and real estate at Tuck since 1992. The “Business Week Guide” to Business Schools named him one of Tuck’s “Outstanding Faculty” members. In addition to academia, he has extensive experience working in the nonprofit and private sector including six years as the Executive Director of the Neighborhood Development Corporation of Jamaica Plain. His areas of research include: affordable housing, B Corporations, sustainable buildings and the real estate capital markets. His recent publications include “Laws, Not Lawyers: How States Can Protect Nonprofit Leaders and Infuse More Money into the Sector”, published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He has written more than 100 case studies which are used around the world. He serves on the boards of directors of the HOPE Foundation and Housing Vermont, and on the advisory board for Dartmouth's Tucker Foundation. He earned his BA from Carleton College, an MA in English from the University of Virginia and his MBA from Harvard.
Shuaib Siddiqui is a portfolio manager for Acumen Fund. He joined Acumen Fund Pakistan as a Portfolio Associate in September of 2007. He focuses primary on the housing and renewable energy sectors. Prior to Acumen Fund, Shuaib worked for two years in the Quantitative Alpha Generation Group at Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund based in Chicago, where he focused on developing trading strategies utilizing fundamental company data. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch working on The Global Analytic and Thematic Research team. He holds a BA in Economics from New York University.
John Vogel (Moderator) is an associate faculty director for the Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship and an adjunct professor at Tuck. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship in the social sector, nonprofit management, and real estate at Tuck since 1992. The “Business Week Guide” to Business Schools named him one of Tuck’s “Outstanding Faculty” members. In addition to academia, he has extensive experience working in the nonprofit and private sector including six years as the Executive Director of the Neighborhood Development Corporation of Jamaica Plain. His areas of research include: affordable housing, B Corporations, sustainable buildings and the real estate capital markets. His recent publications include “Laws, Not Lawyers: How States Can Protect Nonprofit Leaders and Infuse More Money into the Sector”, published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He has written more than 100 case studies which are used around the world. He serves on the boards of directors of the HOPE Foundation and Housing Vermont, and on the advisory board for Dartmouth's Tucker Foundation. He earned his BA from Carleton College, an MA in English from the University of Virginia and his MBA from Harvard.