Alex Vesey is the Venture Manager for Ashoka US. She graduated Sarah Lawrence College with a double major in Creative Writing and Latin. At SLC, she founded her campus's Disability Alliance, which grew into a social and activist group for students with disabilities. After graduation, she spent time at a variety of health and disability organizations. One of her favorite things about her work with Ashoka is the opportunity to learn broadly about the exciting work changemakers are doing in so many sectors, from immigration to civic participation to gun violence prevention and beyond. She lives in DC with a sweet little cat and is currently attending graduate school. In her other life, she writes fiction about vampires, robots, and mermaids.
Our Newest Member of the Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur Network: Wayne Silby
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Ashoka is excited to announce the induction of another new, high-impact entrepreneur into the Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur (E2) Network: Wayne Silby.
Wayne Silby is a pioneering impact investor who has transformed the way people think about the potential of investing, beyond purely financial returns. In the 1980s, Wayne converted his successful investing firm, Calvert Capital, into one of the first impact investing firms, screening the businesses it invested in for socially responsible and environmentally friendly behavior. He also devoted 1% of his firm’s assets under management to investing at below-market rate in companies that furthered social justice.
Wayne went on to found Calvert Impact, a nonprofit investing firm that supports environmental and social justice globally, and Social Venture Circle, a peer-to-peer network for socially responsible founders and CEOs. As a founder, investor, and convener, Wayne’s leading role has been instrumental for the development and maturity of the impact investment field as we know it today.
Each member of the E2 Network is a highly successful business entrepreneur committed to promoting social good with the same skills, foresight, and inventiveness that made them successful in the business world. We are so glad that Wayne is joining Ashoka and the other E2 members to catalyze social change and bring about an Everyone a Changemaker world.
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