An inconvenient truth started all of this for me. Or should I say watching An Inconvenient Truth started all of this for me. As they say ‘there are none so enthusiastic as the newly converted’ or something like that. And I was no different. It was 2007 and I had my own investment management firm that dealt in private investment counsel and private equity portfolio management. After watching the movie I dug into Carbon Finance and I was going to help save the world. Overnight my practice focused on socially responsible investing, carbon credits, renewable energy, and anything to do with carbon finance. We joined the UN Principles for Responsible Investing, I knew the Kyoto Protocol and the CER / […]

Life is interesting in the detours and roads you may take to get where you are at any moment in your life. It is easy to look back and say ‘I should have done this or that…’ in the hopes of rewriting your history. I have done this myself and I am sure many of you reading this have as well. But I now see it as the fabric of my life that I have woven and that it all contributes to where I am now and where I am going. Over my career journey there have been some interesting stops. Some great, some good, and some strange and unsettling. However they have all contributed to an interesting experiential base […]