ARCTARIS - Key Persons
Alan K Halfenger - Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Legal Officer
Job Titles:
- Chief Compliance Officer
- General Counsel
- Member of the Leadership Team
Previous Experience:
Global Chief Compliance Officer, Bain Capital LLC
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- Member of the CDE Board
- Director - Kaiser Permanente ( Retired )
- Health and Economic Opportunity and Impact Director
Alma Roberts serves as community health and economic opportunity and impact director for Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser Permanente believes "Inclusive economic growth is critical to both individual and community health. When there is a lack of economic opportunity in communities, the prospects for upward social mobility are diminished, often resulting in poorer health and higher mortality rates for people living in those communities. By contrast, economic growth and opportunity provides individuals with jobs, income, a sense of purpose, and opportunities to improve their economic circumstances over time."
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Andrew joined Arctaris in 2023 and serves as a Vice President on the Real Estate team. He is respons...
Andrew joined Arctaris in 2023 and serves as a Vice President on the Real Estate team. He is responsible for underwriting new acquisitions, evaluating development opportunities and managing existing real estate investments. Andrew has over 10-years of institutional real investment experience working as a GP and LP in the United States and EMEA.
Prior to joining Arctaris, Andrew was a Managing Partner at Greenbelt & Co, where he was responsible for all aspects of the firm's operations, including acquisitions, development and consulting activities. Prior to Greenbelt & Co, Andrew worked as a Director at Stoltz Real Estate Partners, responsible for acquisitions and overseeing $1.5 billion in portfolio management activities. During this period, Andrew was involved in over $1 billion of acquisition and disposition volume, with a focus on office, industrial, and multifamily properties across the East Coast and Mountain Region. Between 2011 and 2017, Andrew worked at Aberdeen Asset Management (ABDN:LN) in London and Philadelphia, where he was responsible for sourcing and underwriting indirect real estate investments across the Americas and EMEA. Andrew has been published or referenced in several institutional real estate journals including Pensions & Investments, NCREIF Property Index Quarterly Journal and ULI. Between 2020 and 2021 Andrew was a part-time researcher with the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies focused on the intersection between affordable housing policy and real estate capital markets.
Andrew is a CFA® Charterholder, holds a MA (honors) in International Relations from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and a Masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Andrew is passionate about finding creative solutions to solve affordable housing challenges. In his free time, he likes to golf and fly fish in New England and Northern Michigan.
Previous Experience:
Transaction Advisory at EY-Parthenon
Andrew Orgel joined Arctaris in 2022 and serves as an analyst. He is responsible for all phases of the deal process (origination, due diligence, structuring, execution), portfolio company management, and supports operations-related internal efforts.
Prior to Arctaris, Andrew was an associate with EY-Parthenon, the strategy consulting competency within Ernst & Young. Andrew focused on commercial due diligence across industries to support private equity and corporate M&A.
Andrew holds a B.A. in Mathematical Statistics and Economics from the University of Virginia. In his free time, he enjoys to ski, bike, and support Boston sports.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
Previous Experience:
Partner, Opportunity Capital Partners
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- Consultant - Investment Team
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Advising to Arctaris since 2020, Barnet Sherman currently works with the firm's Portfolio Company ...
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
Previous Experience:
Prospero Capital Management, President; Omega Advisors, partner with Leon Cooperman; Orbis Investment (London / Bermuda)
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
Beverly Norman-Cooper is the former Executive Director of National Supplier Diversity at Kaiser Permanente, where she oversaw increased spend with certified women- and minority-owned companies from approximately $1.3 billion when she took the role in 2015 to more than $2.3 billion when she retired from the health care company in 2018.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Co - Founder and of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab
- Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab
Bruce Katz is the Co-Founder and inaugural Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab. Katz regularly advises global, national, state, regional and municipal leaders on public reforms and private innovations that advance the well-being of metropolitan areas and their countries. Katz is the co-author of The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism (Brookings Institution Press, 2018) and The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (Brookings Institution Press, 2013). Both books focus on the rise of cities and city networks as the world's leading problem solvers.
Katz was the inaugural Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution from January 2016 to March 2018, where he focused on the challenges and opportunities of global urbanization. Prior to assuming this role, Bruce J. Katz was a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.
Before joining Brookings, Katz served as chief of staff to U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros and was the senior counsel and then staff director for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs. After the 2008 presidential election, Bruce co-led the housing and urban transition team for the Obama administration and served as a senior advisor to new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary Shaun Donovan, for the first 100 days of the Administration.
Katz is a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He gives dozens of lectures and presentations annually before public, corporate, civic and university audiences across the world. In 2006, he received the prestigious Heinz Award in Public Policy for his contributions to understanding the "function and values of cities and metropolitan areas and profoundly influencing their economic vitality, livability and sustainability." Katz is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.
Job Titles:
- Consultant - New Market Tax Credits
Previous Experience:
Brynn Sanders began her career in the legal department at Bank of America, but a passion for communi...
Previous Experience:
Financial and Operations Specialist, Reed Hilderbrand; Billing Operations Coordinator, Converse
Christian joined Arctaris in August 2022 and serves as an accountant for the firm. He is responsible for the accounts payable oversight for Arctaris. Prior to Arctaris, Christian was a Financial Operations Specialist at a landscape architecture firm known as Reed Hilderbrand and a Global Billing Coordinator for Converse. For both companies, Christian was responsible for taking charge and helping to innovate and streamline processes, including billing and accounts payable, bringing a unique perspective to those organizations.
Christian holds a BS in Global Business Management with a double minor in Accounting and International Relations. In his free time, he likes to shoot photos, travel the world and play sports.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Founder and CEO of IDEXX Laboratories ( IDXX )
- Founder and CEO of IDEXX Laboratories ( IDXX ) Founder and CEO of IDEXX Laboratories ( IDXX ) Founder of Covetrus ( CVET )
David Evans Shaw is prominent social and business entrepreneur, and currently serves as CEO of Black Point Group, with interests in public service and building sciencebased companies.
As a CEO and board member, Shaw has helped build more than a dozen successful technology companies in healthcare and other industries. Additionally, he is an experienced investor in science-based ventures via a career that has included partner and advisory roles with leading firms such as Venrock Associates, SVB Leerink, and Polaris Venture Partners. Shaw's career began in government, in the State of Maine Executive Department, followed by several years building a leading food and agribusiness consulting firm with professor Ray A Goldberg at Harvard Business School. The opportunity to harness transformational technology in healthcare caused Shaw to found IDEXX Laboratories in 1983 and to serve as CEO and board chair for nearly 20 years. IDEXX is a world leader in veterinary medicine with a staff of more than 6000 people worldwide. Shaw has since played leadership roles in building Ikaria, Covetrus, Ironwood, Modern Meadow, Ovation, Cyteir and other firms.
Shaw's career has included extensive public service in science, arts, conservation and public policy. He has served on the faculty of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the advisory board of the Center for Public Leadership with interests in leadership, corporate governance and business social responsibility. He is Chairemeritus of The Jackson Laboratory, and led a period of transformational growth for this leading global genetics research institute. Shaw is Treasurer emeritus, trustee and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) publisher of Science. He has been a global leader in science-based conservation of nature, both marine and terrestrial, as a trustee of the National Park Foundation during the US national park centennial, as founding chair of the Sargasso Sea Alliance and Aspen High Seas Initiative, as a Patron of Nature to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, as a member of Ocean Elders, and as founder of Second Century Stewardship for America's national parks. Shaw was appointed by President Clinton to the executive committee of the US-Israel Science and Technology Commission. He has served on the board of the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum, Maine Medical Center, Hurricane Island Outward Bound, the scientific advisory board of Discovery Communications, the advisory board of Just Capital, and a Fellow of The Explorers Club, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Leadership Council of the Service Year Alliance.
Shaw has been awarded honorary degrees by Colby College, Bates College, Maine College of Art, and the University of Southern Maine. He is a recipient of the Leslie Cheek Medal from the College of William & Mary. Other honors have included induction into the Teddy Roosevelt Society, International SeaKeeper of Year, Blue Ocean Festival Wavemaker, Life Science Foundation Biotech Hall of Fame, honoree New York Restoration Project, UNH Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, Maine Hall of Fame.
Beyond his leadership roles in business and public service, Shaw is active in supporting the arts including music, sculpture and film. He is founder of the Shaw public sculpture park at the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, and a founding Advisory Board member of Curiosity Stream, a leading documentary film streaming service. Shaw has produced more than 100 documentary films videos, often for advocacy purposes, including these:
50th anniversary of Earth Day: https://vimeo.com/408566180
Second Century Stewardship: https://vimeo.com/166811651
Sargasso Sea Declaration: https://vimeo.com/89868953
Sages and Scientists 2016: https://vimeo.com/193956813
JAX: century of mammalian genetics https://vimeo.com/345562129
Gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes https://vimeo.com/280430507
He has published articles in several journals including this piece in the AAAS journal Science Diplomacy: https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/letter-field/2014/protectingsargasso-sea. Additionally he has lectured widely around the world on social and business entrepreneurship.
Shaw is a survivor of viral encephalitis, an often-lethal brain injury, and this provided inspiration for a new institute for integrated brain health as Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital. He has since been a frequent speaker on neuroplasticity and contemplative science, at the Sages and Scientists Symposium, and other forums.
David Shaw is a father of 3 and grandfather of 11. He resides in Prouts neck, Maine and New York City.
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Eduardo Sánchez joined Arctaris in 2022 and serves as a Senior Analyst. He is responsible for assis...
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Frank joined Arctaris in 2023 as Co-Head of Sales. He has 25 years of experience in the asset manage...
Frank joined Arctaris in 2023 as Co-Head of Sales. He has 25 years of experience in the asset management industry as a business development professional and capital allocator to alternative investment strategies.
He was most recently a senior executive with two fintech startups. Prior to this, Frank was a Senior Investment Officer with the $250 billion New York City Retirement Systems pension plans, a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, a Principal and Investment Strategist at The Carlyle Group, and a Senior Research Consultant at NEPC.
Frank received an M.B.A with a concentration in Finance from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School and earned a B.A. with double majors in Economics and Music from Union College. He holds the CFA Certification in ESG Investing, is a SASB Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) credential holder, and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designee.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
- CEO Sorenson Impact Center
- CEO Sorenson Impact Center / CEO, Sorenson Impact Center / CEO, Unitus
- Social Entrepreneur and Impact Investor
Geoff Davis is an entrepreneur turned social entrepreneur and impact investor. He has founded, co-founded or advised more than 25 start-ups and investment funds, sat on 21 boards of directors and helped about 75 million people work their way out of poverty. He is currently CEO of the Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah, David Eccles Business School. Sorenson Impact combines impact investing, data science, policy and storytelling to drive impact around the world. In addition to his role at Sorenson Impact, he is currently a Senior Advisor at Cicero Group, Chairman of the board of Align17 (a UBS-sponsored impact investing platform for institutional and high net worth investors); an investment committee member of the MIT SOLVE fund; a board member of Summit Series Social Impact Fellows; and a board member at Arctaris Impact Capital. Prior to Sorenson Impact, he was the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Cicero Impact Capital, the private equity impact investing arm of Cicero Group, a top 15 global boutique consulting firm. Cicero Capital combines Cicero's management consulting expertise with innovative revenue-based financing structures to dramatically scale small and medium enterprises that provide essential services to low- and middle-income families in emerging markets. Geoff led the Cicero Capital team in pre-investment analysis, deal structuring, fund and impact strategy, and fundraising efforts. Previously, Geoff led the Perpetual Education Fund and helped build Self-Reliance Services for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where his team gave 20,000 higher education loans each year and started 50,000 small businesses per year in 100 countries. Prior to that he was CEO of Unitus, a global pioneer in microfinance, and a founding board member of Kiva.org, a pioneering p2p lending platform. Earlier in his career he worked with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and helped launch the Grameen Foundation. Geoff has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, an Entrepreneurial Thought Leader by Stanford University, among others. Geoff earned a master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School, a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and certificates from Harvard Business School, NYU Stern School of Business, John's Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the Center for Creative Leadership, among others. He speaks English, French and Spanish, is a surfer, artist, yogi and a creative chef. He is blissfully married and has three wonderful daughters.
Job Titles:
- Member of the CDE Board
- President of Trufund Financial
James Bason has been the President of Trufund Financial for over 10 years and has nearly 30 years of experience in financial services. Trufund is a CDFI (also has a CDE named Empowerment Reinvestment Fund, LLC) serving LICs and providing access to capital to LICs as its primary mission. Trufund's mission is to help historically disadvantaged individuals and communities create thriving and resilient small businesses and entrepreneurial ecosystems in order to close racial and economic disparities and ensure an inclusive and equitable society. Mr. Bason is the President of Trufund, overseeing investments across Trufund's service area.
Previous Experience:
James joined Arctaris in 2023 as the Compliance Manager. He is responsible for assisting in all matt...
James joined Arctaris in 2023 as the Compliance Manager. He is responsible for assisting in all matters pertaining to the firm's compliance, legal, and risk management functions. Prior to joining Arctaris, James was a Summer Associate at a major Venture Capital & Emerging Companies law firm. He supported aspects of venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and the organization and operation of venture capital funds.
James also served as a Legal Affairs Associate at Bain Capital, where he focusedon legal issues facing Bain Capital's holding company, investment advisors, and affiliated funds, as well as overseeing entity management and SEC filings.
James holds a BA in Political Science from The Pennsylvania State University. He is currently pursuing his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in their evening program. In his free time, he enjoys golfing, traveling, and spending time with his family and friends.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
Previous Experience:
Exec. VP, Broadband & Innovation, ESD, New York State
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Co - Founder SegTel
- Co - Founder SegTel / Co - Founder SegTEL ( Acq'Dby Riverside ) Co - Founder IRBNet ( Acq'Dby Arsenal )
Jeremy is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, funded, and advised more than 6 dozen startups over the past 20 years. He started his first company, SAETEC, Dartmouth College while still a student with $248 and went on to build the company in its first two years into a worldwide telecommunications firm serving Fortune 1000 clientele. Among his other major projects have been segTEL, a regional fiber optic telecommunications firm that pioneered the development and construction of 4G wireless systems for 4 out of the 5 largest national wireless companies. segTEL was bought by private equity firm Riverside Partners in 2011. He also founded Research Dataware in 2005, a SaaS company that specializes in providing hosted workflow solutions for compliance in pharmaceutical research. This company was bought by private equity firm Arsenal Capital in 2012.
Jeremy serves on the boards of multiple alternative assets funds, for profit companies and philanthropic organizations. Jeremy also co-founded TwinState MakerSpaces, a 501c3 charitable organization dedicated to building makerspaces in low-income communities of New Hampshire and Vermont.
Jeremy is a former member of the Alumni Council of Dartmouth College and presently serves as the treasurer on the board of directors of Dartmouth Hillel. Katz received an AB from Dartmouth in 1995.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Member of the Leadership Team
Previous Experience:
Co-founder of Arctaris and managed 4 predecessor Arctaris funds
Previous Experience:
Goldman Sachs; Capitol Hill
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- Community Leader
- Member of the CDE Board
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- Member of the CDE Board
- Chief Community Investment Officer for United Way of Greater Cleveland
Kenneth (Ken) Surratt is an experienced community leader who currently serves as Chief Community Inv...
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
Duggan runs a successful sustainability and strategy consulting firm with a special eye toward support for clean energy, climate resilience & environmental protection, as well as policy translation into actionable outcomes. She has explored ways to implement triple-bottom-line values in business as help cities accelerate the process of solving urban mobility, climate, and equity-related challenges. Duggan is also a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.
In 2020, Duggan was appointed by Vice President Biden along with Former Secretary of State John Kerry and Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to the Biden-Sanders Unity Climate Change Task Force to develop the most successful possible agenda for Democrats in advance of the Democratic National Convention.
Ms. Duggan previously served as Deputy Director for Policy in the Office of Vice President Joe Biden, providing direct advice to the Vice President on policy issues, including energy, the environment, climate, national security, infrastructure, clean technology, water, resilient cities, and urban revitalization, finance and R&D. Simultaneously, she served as President Barack Obama's Deputy Director of the White House Detroit Federal Working Group, to listen, provide capacity, technical assistance, and resources to support Detroit's revitalization. In Detroit, she was instrumental in providing technical expertise to support more cost and carbon efficient decisions, from installing LED Streetlights to their first urban solar park, as well as building a resiliency MOU for the City and its closest DOE national lab, Argonne National Lab outside of Chicago.
Prior to her time at the White House, Duggan served as Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz's Liaison to the City of Detroit and was embedded in Detroit's City Hall under Mayor Mike Duggan (no relation). Her previous DOE roles include Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Director of Legislative, Regulatory & Urban Affairs, and Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy.
Duggan previously led federal political and campaigns activities for the non-partisan national League of Conservation Voters, where she worked directly with hundreds of candidates and campaigns in support of a clean energy future at the local, state, and federal level, including direct interviews of major candidates for U.S. House, Senate, and Presidential races.
She serves on the external advisory board of the University of Michigan's Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise and the is a Trustee at the University Liggett School. She is on the corporate advisory boards of Walker-Miller Energy Services and Arctaris Impact Investors Opportunity Zone Fund. Duggan is a board member of the National Council of Science and the Environment and the Michigan League of Conservation Voters. She is a professional member of the International Women's Forum and the National Wildlife Federation's Wolfpack, as well as being a proud card-carrying member of the National Press Club.
Duggan earned her B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont and her M.S. in Natural Resource Policy & Behavior from the University of Michigan, where she framed the national Coping with Climate Change Summit, and co-authored "Downtown Detroit in Focus: A Profile of Market Opportunity" with The Brookings Institution.
Duggan lives in Detroit with her husband and two kids.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Co - Founder, Rockbridge Growth Equity
- Co - Founder, Rockbridge Growth Equity / Managing Partner, Rockbridge Growth Equity
- Vice Chairman of New Detroit
Kevin co-founded Rockbridge Growth Equity, LLC in 2007. Kevin sits on the Board of Directors of several Rockbridge portfolio companies including Northcentral University, Protect America, Connect America, ABUV Media, Kings III Emergency Communications and GSTV.
Kevin was Managing Director at Questor Partners Fund, a $1.1 billion private equity firm. Prior to Questor, Kevin was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Co.
Kevin is Vice Chairman of New Detroit and is actively involved in Detroit Renaissance's "Road to Renaissance" effort. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Citizens Research Council, a non-partisan public policy research organization. In 2007, Kevin was appointed by Michigan's State Legislature to be Co-Chairman of the State of Michigan's Commission on Governmental Efficiency, a private sector commission established to make recommendations to address the state's fiscal health.
Kevin received Buyouts magazine's "Turnaround of the Year" award in 2006, which is presented annually to the private equity sponsor who engineered the year's most dramatic turnaround. Kevin was also named to the "40 under 40" list in Crain's Detroit Business in 2006. Kevin is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on private equity and has spoken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He has also written numerous articles on business strategy, private equity and public policy issues and was recently published in The Journal of Private Equity and in a book edited by Harvard Business School's Robert Kaplan.
Kevin previously served on the Board of Directors of One Reverse Mortgage, Account Now, One on One Marketing, Purchasing Power and Triad Retail Media.
Kevin earned his Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, where he graduated summa cum laude and first in his class with a perfect grade point average. He also earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Georgetown University, where he graduated with distinction.
Job Titles:
- in 2023 As a Senior Associate
- Senior Associate, Investor Relations
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Lillian joined Arctaris in 2023 as a Senior Associate in Investor Relations. She has over seven year...
Lillian joined Arctaris in 2023 as a Senior Associate in Investor Relations. She has over seven years of experience in Investor Relations and five years of experience in alternatives.
Lillian was most recently an Investor Relations Senior Associate at Pomona Capital, a private equity firm specializing in secondary investments. Prior to that Lillian worked on the healthcare Investor Relations team at ICR, a strategic communications firm.
Lillian received a BA with double majors in Economics and Sociology from Washington and Lee University. In her free time she enjoys running, skiing and traveling with friends and family
Previous Experience:
Business Development; Shareholder Engagement; Analyst
Lily joined Arctaris in July 2022 and serves as the firm's marketing analyst. She works alongside fundraising and investor relations personnel to demonstrate Arctaris' values and mission to stakeholders.
Prior to Arctaris, Lily was a Business Development analyst at an early-stage fintech company, Civex, where she built out a personalized shareholder engagement platform. Lily previously did equity research at Boston Common Asset management with a focus on ESG metrics. Additionally, she was involved in defining Boston Common's Global Impact strategy.
Lily holds a double major in Political Science and Human Rights from the University of Connecticut with a minor in Social Responsibility & Impact in Business. In her free time, Lily enjoys running Boston's waterfront and playing tennis.
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Lisa joined Arctaris in 2023 and serves as Treasury Manager. She is responsible for cash management ...
Lisa joined Arctaris in 2023 and serves as Treasury Manager. She is responsible for cash management activities. Her focus areas include managing the firm's and fund's cash deposits and managing the accounts payable process. Additionally, she will be responsible for overseeing vendor and banking relationships and ensuring the firm's cash management processes are able to support the firm's investment goals.
Prior to Arctaris, Lisa was a Treasury Manager of Bank Operations at Manulife and Senior Treasury Analyst at Raytheon Company. In her previous roles, Lisa focused on managing liquidity pools, system implementations, bank relationship management, governance controls, placement of investments and streamlining bank models.
Lisa holds a BA from Wheaton College in International Relations and Italian Studies and an MS in Multinational Commerce from Boston University. In her free time she likes to hike, travel and spend time with family and friends.
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Mason joined Arctaris in 2023 and serves as an Analyst on the deal team. Prior to Arctaris, Mason wa...
Job Titles:
- Mayor
- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President of Corporate Taxation at Erie Insurance Group
Michael Raftis is the Vice President of Corporate Taxation at Erie Insurance Group, where he oversees all aspects of the corporate tax life cycle, including tax accounting, compliance, policies, and tax credit investments. Mike joined Erie Insurance Group in 2020 after spending a decade in the Pittsburgh office of Ernst and Young LLP as a senior manager in the tax advisory group.
Mike is an active member of the Erie Insurance Derivative Risk Committee and the Tax Credit Investment Committee, a participating member of the Investment Committee and Audit Committee of the Board, and Board Director for several subsidiaries in the Erie Insurance Group structure. Mike is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting, both from Pennsylvania State University.
Mike is an active community member, serving as Board treasurer for several organizations, including the Erie Downtown Equity Fund, the investment arm of the Erie Downtown Development Corporation and Erie DAWN.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
Previous Experience:
Director at Apex Investments; Prestige Group; Sun Capital; Bear Stearns
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- Director of Strategic Capital Partnerships
Previous Experience:
Former Executive Director of Sorenson Impact Foundation
Patrick joined Arctaris in 2017 and currently serves as Director of Strategic Capital Partnerships. He advises on all phases of the execution and due diligence process, including deal origination, transaction due diligence, and post-execution growth strategy development and achievement.
Prior to joining Arctaris, Patrick was the former Executive Director of Impact Investing at Sorenson Impact, a University of Utah based institute that works with investors, entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders to marshal capital for social good. While there, he worked on over $250mm of private investments, was a part of launching several new business units which included the University Venture Fund II, the second iteration of the Nation's largest student-driven venture capital fund, and was part of the management team awarded a grant from President Obama's White House Office of Social Innovation.
Prior to Sorenson Impact, Patrick was a Senior Associate with the University Venture Fund (UVF) from 2007-2010. As Senior Associate, Patrick analyzed and conducted comprehensive due diligence while assisting in portfolio management and deal-sourcing for the fund.
Patrick started his career as an Analyst with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. working in their Global Securities Division. He has also held various board and advisory positions, including with The Iron Yard Coding Academy, Westminster College's Center for Entrepreneurship, Salt Lake County's Economic Development Division, and is an active fourth-generation shareholder in his family's Greenville, South Carolina-based businesses, Canal Insurance and Central Realty Holdings.
Patrick earned a BS in Finance fromWestminster College and was recognized with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2017.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Board of Advisors
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Broadband
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Peter joined Arctaris in 2023 and serves as a Vice President. He is responsible for all phases of th...
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- Member of the CDE Board
- Director of CDFI Investments - Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
Rebecca Davidson-Wagner has 19 years of experience and is the Director of CDFI Investments in the Commercial Lending Unit of the URA. The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) is the City of Pittsburgh's economic development agency. The goals are to:
create jobs,
increase the city's tax base,
improve the vitality of the city's businesses and neighborhoods, and
improve the City of Pittsburgh's livability as a whole.
Incorporated in 1946, the URA was one of the first redevelopment authorities in Pennsylvania. Organized by corporate and civic leaders, the URA undertook the first privately financed downtown redevelopment project in the United States - Gateway Center. URA also has a NMTC program run through its affiliate Pittsburgh Urban Initiatives, which Ms. Davidson-Wagner is responsible for.
Job Titles:
- Member of the CDE Board
- Principal - Bain Capital, Double Impact Private Equity
- Vice President at Bain Capital
Richard Waitumbi is a Vice President at Bain Capital, on the Double Impact Private Equity Team, wher...
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President and Corporate Treasurer at Erie Insurance Group
- Vice President and Corporate Treasurer at Erie Insurance Group Vice President and Corporate Treasurer at Erie Insurance Group Extensive Experience in Treasury and Finance
Robert W. McNutt is Vice President and Corporate Treasurer at Erie Insurance Group. Robert has been with Erie Insurance Group for over ten years and has over 34 years of Treasury and Finance experience. In his current role, Robert oversees Cash Management, Capital Management, Investor Relations, Bank Relations, Short-Term Investments, FHLBank and Credit Bank relations, Billing & Collections, Accounts Payable and Sourcing & Vendor Management. In addition, Robert is an active member of the Erie Insurance Derivative Risk Committee, a participating member of the Investment Committee and Risk Committee of the Board, and Board Director for several insurance entities in the Erie Insurance Group structure. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ball State University focused on Finance and Management, and an Executive MBA from Case Western Reserve University. Robert is a Certified Treasury Professional and a 30 plus year member of the Association of Financial Professionals. In his career, Robert has served on several bank treasury product advisory boards, including FISERV, JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, Wells Fargo and First Union National Bank. Robert is an active community member, including involvement with the Community Country Day School (educational institution focused on educating high risk students academically, physically, emotionally and socially) as Treasurer of the Board and Treasurer of the Board for the Erie Downtown Equity Fund, the investment arm of the Erie Downtown Development Corporation (entity focused on developing commercial and residential real estate, with the goal of attracting businesses, residents and additional investment into the downtown core of Erie, Pennsylvania).
Previous Experience:
Investment Banking Associate in Credit Suisse's Global Industrials Group
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Executive Business Partner
- in 2023 As an Executive Business Partner
Previous Experience:
Stephanie joined Arctaris in 2023 as an Executive Business Partner to the Founder and Managing Partn...
Stephanie joined Arctaris in 2023 as an Executive Business Partner to the Founder and Managing Partner, Jonathan Tower. In this role, Stephanie is responsible for providing support to Jonathan and leading a number of projects that are core to Arctaris Impact's firmwide priorities.
Previous Experience:
Founder, SGD Accounting LLC; Director Controller, TRG Management; KPMG
Stephen joined Arctaris in May 2022 and serves as the Vice President of Finance. He is responsible for the accounting and financial oversight of certain portfolio companies held by Arctaris funds.His focus areas include maintaining the books and records, cash management and supporting the Arctaris accounting and investment teams.
Prior to Arctaris, Stephen was the Controller at The Rohatyn Group (formerly GMO Renewable Resources) and a Senior Manager with KPMG. In his previous role with The Rohatyn Group, Stephen was responsible for managing the quarterly financial reporting, annual audits, tax filing and cash management for private equity funds. In addition, he has experience with internal control design and execution. With KPMG, Stephen was responsible for financial statement audits of financial services companies.
Stephen holds a MS in Accounting from Suffolk University, MS in Atmospheric Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA in History from Tufts University and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Co - Founder and Former CEO of the Economic Innovation Group
- Develop LLC, Co - Author of Opportunity Zone Legislation
- Develop LLC, Co - Author of Opportunity Zone Legislation / Co - Author of Opportunity Zone Legislation / Co - Founder of Economic Innovation
Steve Glickman is the Co-Founder and former CEO of the Economic Innovation Group (EIG), which co-authored the Opportunity Zone legislation. EIG is a bipartisan research and policy organization in Washington, D.C. focused on addressing economic inequality through the creation of a new marketplace for private equity investments in distressed communities.
Steve currently serves as CEO of Develop LLC, the first full service, independent advisory firm dedicated to building and supporting Opportunity Zone Funds, and he is one of the nation's top Opportunity Zones experts who is a sought after speaker at industry gatherings around the country.
Under Steve's leadership, EIG was the architect of the $6 trillion Qualified Opportunity Zones program, the largest community investment incentive in U.S. history. EIG conceptualized the program and drafted the underlying legislation - the "Investing in Opportunity Act" - championed by Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), which received nearly 100 bipartisan congressional cosponsors before being passed into law in 2017. Steve has worked with hundreds of investors and dozens of communities to help them take advantage of this new powerful tax incentive.
Steve is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches on economic diplomacy and international trade in the School of Foreign Service. He sits on Georgetown's Board of Governors and the Board of The NewDEAL.
Steve previously served in the Obama Administration from 2008-2013 - as a senior economic advisor at the White House, where he managed trade and investment issues, manufacturing, and small business issues for the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. Steve also held the position of Deputy Associate Counsel at the White House, as well as Chief of Staff for the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service at the Commerce Department.
Steve received his B.A. and M.A. from Georgetown University, J.D. from Columbia Law School, and LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Steve's work has been featured in the AP, Atlantic, Axios, Barron's, Bisnow, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, CNN, Crain's, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Impact Alpha, Inc., The Los Angeles Times, Marketplace, The New York Times, NPR, PBS, Politico, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Vox, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Steve lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, DC.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Massachusetts State Treasurer and CEO, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City ( ICIC )
As CEO of ICIC, Steve leads a dynamic and growing team of professionals dedicated to achieving economic prosperity in America's inner cities. Steve is focused on setting ICIC's strategic direction, leading the organization through a period of rapid growth and extending ICIC's national visibility and brand.
Prior to joining ICIC, Steve was elected Treasurer of Massachusetts in 2010 and served in that position from 2011 until 2015. One of his principal achievements in that office was the creation of the Small Business Banking Partnership, a pioneering initiative that was responsible for moving almost $400 million of state deposits into community banks that used these funds to make more than 10,000 loans with a value of over $1.6 billion, with a principal focus on businesses owned by women, minorities, immigrants and veterans.
Prior to taking office, Steve served for 35 years as President of Grossman Marketing Group, a fourth-generation marketing communications firm started by his grandfather. Steve has been an active leader in many civic, philanthropic and political organizations. These positions include former board chair of Brandeis University, former national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), founding board member of Mass Inc and life trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts. He currently chairs the advisory board of Cambridge College.
Steve graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He is married to Dr. Barbara Wallace Grossman, a theater historian and director, who is a professor in the Department of Drama & Dance at Tufts University and serves as vice-chair of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Steve and Barbara have three sons, David, Ben and Josh, and six grandchildren.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Founding Principal and Managing Director of Mabus Group
Tom Hicks is a founding principal and managing director of Mabus Group; a strategic advisory firm specializing supporting companies, both large and small, develop strategies to grow their business in the Defense and Federal markets. Tom Hicks performed the duties of the Under Secretary of the Navy from 2014 to 2016 and again in 2017 representing the Department on all policy, budget, and strategy matters and serving as the Chief Operating Officer/Chief Management Officer of the Navy. In this capacity, Tom led the day-to-day business operations of the Department and served as Department's senior official on Space, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Enterprise, Defense Business Council, Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness, Military Health, Military Professionalism, Sexual Assault, Force of the Future, Transgender Integration, Women in Service, Secretary of Defense Senior Leadership Council, and Department of Defense/Joint Staff executive leadership working groups. Concurrent with this role, Tom served as Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Management as the Secretary of the Navy's principal advisor on all business management functions including offices of the Chief Information Office, Strategy and Innovation, Business Operations, and Administration. In this capacity Tom was responsible for overseeing and executing the Secretary's Innovation Vision to improve use of information, accelerate new capabilities to the Fleet, build an innovation network, and develop advanced war fighting concepts. Prior to these roles, Tom served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy; the Secretary's senior official on all matters pertaining to energy sourcing, energy efficiency, and alternative fuels managing an energy investment portfolio of $1 billion annually. In concert with the Secretary's energy vision, Tom established the 1 Gigawatt renewable energy initiative announced by the President which resulted in the procurement of more than 1.2 Gigawatts of renewable energy and cost savings in excess of $100 million. Tom led the creation of the Department's $800 million public-private partnership accelerating the capacity of the advanced alternative fuels industry to provide hundreds of millions of gallons per year of military-compatible, low-emission alternative fuel price-competitive with conventional fuel. Prior to the Navy, Tom was Vice President of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) and International Programs with the U.S. Green Building Council. Tom oversaw the implementation and expansion from four to seven individual rating systems while increasing presence to more than 120 countries yielding nearly 70,000 building projects totalling over 12 billion square feet. Tom led the wholesale re-engineering of the certification processes and business model, development of the volume certification model, and both brand and reference guide fulfilment, driving ten-fold net revenue growth. Prior to the USGBC, Tom was a Senior Program Manager with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR® program. Tom created and managed the ENERGY STAR commercial building rating system enabling measurement and tracking of building energy performance on a 1 to 100 scale. To date, more than 400,000 commercial buildings totaling over 35 billion square feet of floor space have been benchmarked using the ENERGY STAR rating system and More than 25,000 buildings have been certified as ENERGY STAR with a cumulative cost savings of $3.4 billion and a cumulative greenhouse gas emissions savings of 17 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. Tom received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
Previous Experience:
19 years of relevant industry experience
Job Titles:
- Member of the CDE Board
- Executive Director of Healing Racism Institute
Vanessa Otero is currently the Executive Director of Healing Racism Institute and was the Director of Smith College's Urban Education Initiative prior to. Vanessa has over 10 years experience working with and advocating for LIPs and the Latino community.
Smith College educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. A college of and for the world, Smith links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, thereby developing engaged global citizens and leaders to address society's challenges. Ms. Otero is the first-ever Director of the Urban Education Initiative at Smith College, leading a portfolio of programs (followship, student mentorship, and scholarship fund) focused on driving education as a lever for social mobility and well-being.
Ms. Otero has deep roots in the community. She is also the interim Director of Healing Racism Institute of Pioneer Valley and serves on state and regional boards, including being appointed by the governor to the Governor's Latino Advisory Commission. She is the chair of the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission and most recently was asked to join the Department of Public Health's COVID-19 Health Equity Advisory Group. The purpose of this body is to advise Commissioner Monica Bharel and DPH on health equity issues related to, and exacerbated by, the COVID-19 pandemic and to provide suggestions on solutions to be implemented at all levels.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Advisors
- International Asset Manager and Merchant Banker
- International Asset Manager and Merchant Banker / Partner, Managing Director and COO of OFFITBANK
Wallace Mathai-Davis has more than 25 years of experience as an international asset manager and merchant banker. He was responsible for investment in China, South America , Eastern Europe and Europe and held C-suite senior management positions with leading U.S. financial institutions including 16 years as a Partner, Managing Director and COO with OFFITBANK . He is currently on the Board of Directors of private companies in China, Germany and the United States. Mathai-Davis has extensive experience investing in Greater China and the merchant bank he co-founded there has represented various Global 500 companies on a wide range of direct investments in China. Mathai-Davis is an economic sociologist and holds a doctorate and master's degree from Princeton University. He graduated summa cum laude, receiving a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Notre Dame, where he also held a National Defense Fellowship for Soviet Studies. Mathai-Davis was a member of the Graduate Research Faculty of Stony Brook University where he won multiple awards as a professor. He is published in academic journals and regularly speaks on investment markets.