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  2. 924.79. -18.80. APPLE INC. 189.87. +0.03. US TREASURY N/B. 99.64. -0.36. Valerie Rockefeller Wayne. Chairman, Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Valerie Rockefeller Wayne is Chairman at...

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    AREA OF IMPACT: Environment A serial entrepreneur and early investor in Tesla, AlHusseini runs investment firm FullCycle, which has $50 million in assets and is in the process of raising another $250 million fund. FullCycle targets investments in companies that reduce carbon emissions and focuses on larger companies, rather than startups, in order ...

    AREA OF IMPACT: International, Environment This grandson of the Oracle of Omaha created the Impact Rate of Return, a tool to measure the rate of impact for every dollar a person invests. It’s now used by more than 75 impact investors or funds. Buffett is an investor in Inari, a seed-tech company aiming to increase genetic diversity in seeds to help...

    AREA OF IMPACT: Diversified The former vice president cofounded Generation Investment Management in 2004 to invest in sustainable, low-carbon companies. In March, the firm, which manages $24 billion in assets, vowed to eliminate its own gender pay gap within the next five years. Also that month, Generation led an $80 million funding round in Nature...

    AREA OF IMPACT: Environment The Qualcomm cofounder and former billionaire has made a series of bets on early-stage startups seeking to combat climate change. Last November, he led a $4 million funding round in water-purification startup Cyclopure, his second investment in the Encinitas, California-based company; in 2018, he invested in Tour Engine,...

    AREA OF IMPACT: Agriculture, Infrastructure Kamine, named to Forbes’ 2018 30 Under 30 list, has built KDC Ag, a platform that turns food waste from supermarkets into pet food and animal feed. The business, based in New Jersey, was founded in 2015. Kamine works with his father and brother at investment firm Kamine Development Corp., which develops i...

    AREA OF IMPACT: Aquaculture Through investing firm Aqua Spark, Novogratz and her husband, Mike Velings, have minority stakes in 20 companies, many of which are sustainable farms. Their Utrecht-based Aqua Spark has $177 million in assets, 190 investors from 29 countries and a net internal rate of return last year of 21.75%. Read More

    AREA OF IMPACT: Agriculture O’Brien cofounded rePlant Capital with Don Shaffer and David Haynes, after a career in hedge funds, to use creative financing, like loans to farmers with terms based on soil-health metrics, to solve climate change. In January, rePlant committed as much as $20 million of its impact investing fund to make low-cost loans to...

    AREA OF IMPACT: Environment, Poverty/Inequality Their Rockefeller Brothers Fund has committed $203 million to impact investments in areas like climate change and sustainable agriculture. In April, they invested $12 million in fellow Impact 50 list member Jenny Abramson’s Rethink Impact, backing female-driven technology funds. Five years ago, the fa...

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    AREA OF IMPACT: Environment The former Google CEO (net worth: $15.1 billion) and his wife have invested nearly $40 million in companies through their Schmidt Family Foundation, with the goals of bringing clean energy and running water to underserved communities and advancing marine technologies that improve ocean health. One recent investment: Navajo Power, a public benefit corporation that develops solar energy projects for tribal lands.

    FORBES 400 RANK: 115

    AREA OF IMPACT: Environment Capricorn Investment Group, which manages investments of the early eBay employee (net worth: $5.5 billion), backs outfits working on clean energy, including solid-state battery maker QuantumScape, which has a joint venture with Volkswagen to produce its batteries for automobiles. Capricorn, which has $5.2 billion in assets, has also backed Earth-imaging satellite company Planet, which supplies monitoring images taken by its satellites for use in agriculture, energy...

  3. Nov 3, 2022 · The cousins barely knew each other growing up. Valerie, the daughter of former U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, grew up in West Virginia, and Joseph, the grandson of former vice president and longtime New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, spent a lot of time on the family’s Pocantico estate.

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  4. Aug 22, 2013 · The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has elected Valerie Rockefeller Wayne to chair the RBF Board of Trustees and also elected new trustee Daniel Levy. Ms. Wayne is a middle school special education teacher specializing in adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities.

  5. Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, Chair Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Board Member of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Valerie Rockefeller Wayne's professional background is as a middle school special education teacher for adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. She began her teaching career at Central Park East Secondary ...

  6. Jul 29, 2013 · Last month, the Fund elected Valerie Rockefeller Wayne to chair the Rockefeller Brothers Fund board of trustees. Ms. Wayne is a middle school special education teacher specializing in adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. She first joined the RBF board in 2003. Ms. Wayne succeeds Richard Rockefeller, who had led the Fund since 2006.

  7. Sep 23, 2014 · As of 31 July 2014, the fund's investment assets were worth $860m. "There is a moral imperative to preserve a healthy planet," Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, a great-great-granddaughter of Mr...

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