To improve public procurement – use the Trust Test
Public procurement is too often solely made on price, and not enough on true value and to account for areas...
Leslie Christian, a former investment banker who, she tells me, figured in Liar’s Poker (Michael Lewis’s classic expose of Wall Street in the late 80s).
Here are her more formal biographical details
President and Chief Investment Officer of Portfolio 21 Investments (www.portfolio21.com), a Northwest investment firm that specializes in socially and environmentally responsible investing. Ms. Christian has more than 30 years of experience in the investment field, including nine years in New York as a Director with Salomon Brothers Inc. In addition to her ongoing responsibilities as President of Portfolio 21 Investments, Ms. Christian was its co-founder. Portfolio 21 Investments is a global mutual fund committed to investing in companies that are incorporating environmental sustainability strategies into their businesses. Ms. Christian has also been instrumental in the startup of Upstream 21 (www.upstream21.com), a regional holding company dedicated to building local living economies, and serves as the Chair of its Board of Directors but who went on to set up
Benjamin Bingham
Ben Bingham is Managing Director of Benchmark Asset Managers, which was re-founded in January 2007 as a preeminent player in the management of 100% socially responsible or ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) screened and high impact global/public and local/private portfolios for High Net Worth and Institutional Investors. Educated at Yale and Emerson College in England, in other lives he has been a visionary artist, biodynamic farmer, founder of a Camphill Community and Waldorf teacher as well as an entrepreneur and social investor. Beginning his career in money management 8 years ago, his focus is to find and invest in undervalued, non-correlated global stocks of companies that contribute vital solutions for a sustainable world. With experienced colleagues, he builds portfolios that provide top decile performance in down markets and market returns in up markets through sophisticated asset allocation and hedging strategies (see www.benchmarkam.com).
Andrew Kassoy
Andrew Kassoy is a co-founder of B Lab, the non-profit organization that certifies and promotes B CorporationsTM, as well as capital markets and policy initiatives to accelerate growth of this emerging sector of the economy. B CorporationsTM are a new type of corporation which use the power of business to create public benefit, meeting comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards. Prior to co-founding B Lab, Mr. Kassoy spent 16 years in the private equity business: as a Partner at MSD Real Estate Capital, an affiliate of MSD Capital, the $12 billion investment vehicle for Michael Dell, and as Managing Director in Credit Suisse First Boston’s Private Equity Department, a founding partner of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, and President of its international business. He is a Board Member of the Freelancers Union and the Freelancers Union Insurance Company, a Board Member of Echoing Green, an Advisory Board member of Wall St. Without Walls, a member of the investment committee of the Patient Capital Collaborative, and an Advisor to the NYU Reynolds Fellows Program
Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith joined Walden Asset Management in October 2000, and is currently the Senior Vice President of its Environment, Social and Governance Group. His primary responsibilities include overseeing shareholder advocacy, public policy, assisting in client services and acting as the spokesperson for Walden on social issues. Walden Asset Management manages approximately $1.7 billion for individual and institutional clients. Walden Asset Management is the socially responsible investment division of Boston Trust & Investment Management, an employee owned firm based in Boston. Walden has been a national leader in responsible investing for over 35 years working on dozens of issues like the environment, sweatshops and climate change, Apartheid in South Africa, executive compensation, corporate governance and equal employment opportunity in the U.S. among others. Previously, Mr. Smith served as Executive Director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) for 24 years. Mr. Smith is immediate past Chair of the Board of Social Investment Forum, the industry association for socially concerned investors where he served for 5 years. He serves on the boards of Shared Interest, a South Africa Development Fund, World Neighbors, an international development organization, and is a member of the newly created Kimberly-Clark Sustainability Advisory Board. In December 2007, Mr. Smith was named by Ethisphere Institute as one of top 100 most influential people in Business Ethics.
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