Management
Woody Tasch, Chairman and President, pioneered the integration of asset management and philanthropic purpose in the 1990s as treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. For ten years, through 2008, Tasch was chairman of Investors' Circle, a network of angel investors, family offices, and social purpose funds and foundations that has invested $133 million in 200 early stage sustainability-promoting ventures and venture funds, since 1992. Woody is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green).
Cathy Berry, Director, is managing director and one of the founders of Baldwin Investment Group, LLC, a small boutique investment management firm with approximately $300 million under management. Since 1997, she has been the financial advisor and active participant of The Sandy River Charitable Foundation, a family foundation with assets of about $40 million.
Tom Miller, Director, is the former head of Program Related Investing at the Ford Foundation. In 1973 he became the president of the London, Kentucky based Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation (KHIC), where Tom established a development venture capital strategy to achieve economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction in Appalachian Kentucky. KHIC is considered one of the most successful development venture capital groups in the United States.
Michael Bartner, Vice President, was the associate director of Investors' Circle from 2002 to 2008. Michael previously worked with the Carter Center's Global Development Initiative, SustainAbility in London, and Park Pride in Atlanta, where he taught environmental science to underprivileged children. Michael has a BA in Environmental Science and Political Science from Emory University and the London School of Economics. He is currently taking courses towards his MBA at Northeastern University.