Impact or Investing: Is there a choice to make?
Date and time
Location
Mugar Hall, Room 200
160 Packard Ave Medford, MA 02155Description
The Institute for Business in the Global Context Speaker Series presents:
“Impact or Investing:
Is there a choice to make?"
with Greg Neichin
Director
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Monday, March 7th, 2016
Mugar 200
The Fletcher School
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Business casual
Registration is required; committed sign-ups only please.
For more information, contact Katherine Round (katherine.round@tufts.edu)
BACKGROUND
Greg Neichin
Director, Ceniarth
Greg is the Director of Ceniarth, a single-family office focused on funding market-based solutions to development challenges. Ceniarth aims to provide capital to accelerate the deployment of products and services that directly impact underserved communities. The firm’s investing activities are oriented toward the challenges of effectively scaling the adoption of appropriate solutions in ways that are commercially sustainable. Ceniarth’s primary sectors of interest are energy access, agriculture, and financial inclusion with a geographic emphasis on emerging and frontier markets.
Prior to Ceniarth, Greg served as Executive Vice President of Cleantech Group where he led the firm’s global advisory business helping investors identify and evaluate opportunities in energy and resource markets. He spent four years on the management team of GetActive Software, one of the earliest, online fundraising platforms for charities and political advocacy groups and co-founded PlaceVine, an online marketplace to fund independent film & media. Greg began his career as a consultant with Oliver Wyman.
Greg has a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a recipient of the Price Fellowship for studies in Entrepreneurial Management.