Team Category: New York

Fabio has held multiple entrepreneurial executive positions in several companies, with a proven track-record in creating impact, delivering results and building strong teams and organizations. Since 2020, he is the COO at CB Insights, where he is responsible for the go-to-market activities and teams, Previously, he held multiple C-Level roles at Gympass, and he played a key role in helping the company in its accelerated growth process. This includes leading the expansion of the business to Europe and to the US, structuring global teams of strategy, operations, global sales and marketing to enable scalable growth, and opening and scaling up new business units. Before that, he was a Senior Management Associate at Bridgewater Associates for 3+ years, working in the space of management systemization and transformation. He also held the CFO position at TG Agroindustrial (portfolio company from Angra Partners where he also did private equity investing), and Investment Banking at Itau-Unibanco. He holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School (Class of 2013) and a Bachelor of Economics degree from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp).

What causes are you most passionate about?

While there are many causes that matter, I believe that improving the access to quality education is what probably can create the most leverage to solve all other causes and issues. I mean education in a broad sense, not only in academic terms. I see creating conditions for people to better understand how the world works and what they are like to be a critical step towards self-evolution. Also, it is a great way to have a critical approach to understand what the reality of each situation is, what are the gaps to what should/could be, and to find solutions to mitigate such gaps. Finally, I strongly believe in the transformational power of education to lift our emotional intelligence, sense of empathy and compassion in order to evolve as a society and to get to better ideas and solutions through constructive discussions

My ideal future world includes…

Quality access to food, housing, education and healthcare for all people

What do you think some of the most pressing problems we face are?

Lack of alignment on what is true (e.g. fake news, misinformation, excessive polarization of opinions), climate change, inequality in terms of opportunity, income, social rights, and access to basic conditions

Michael is a product executive focused on finding innovative solutions leveraging technology. He started his career in the entertainment industry focused on film and talent representation. Most recently he spent eight and a half years at Bridgewater Associates working on management systemization and human analytics. Throughout his tenure he was able to partner with some of the most innovative thought leaders in the technology, marketing, and design spaces to help commercialize an enterprise platform into a start-up called Principles. Michael also helps manage Root Society, one of the largest theme camps at Burning Man, focused on building a community around music, art, and inclusion.  In his free time, he enjoys travelling, exercise, cooking, and spending time with his family. He is a graduate of Jack Welch’s College of Business at Sacred Heart University.

An impact event/article I recommend is…

The Future of Work – AI/Jobs.

Who is a real life hero of yours?

My heroes are those who mentored me over the years. My first soccer coach had a huge impact on my character and helped shape me to be the person I am today. He built a well-known soccer academy over the years and then handed it down to his kids, who run it today. He taught me about the love of the game and instilled passion and teamwork in me. Through his soccer program, my teammates and I went on to play with some of the top soccer players in NY and some onto the national or international level. It takes a very special person to be able to influence and shape children, particularly teenagers, over ~5 years and not only push them to strive for the best, but also have those values carry over into their adulthood.

My ideal future world includes…

Basic needs (stable food supply, clean water, shelter, basic medicine) accessible to everyone. And the ability to access education via the Internet and computers.

Gregory is the Director of Investments for Peterson Management, the family office of Peter G. Peterson (co-founder of The Blackstone Group). He is a generalist, working on special situation investments in the public and private realms. Previously, he was a research analyst at Goldman Sachs, covering energy, industrial and services-based sectors. Prior to Goldman, he was the co-founder of Gradefund and CFO of DormAid, a national college-services business, where he helped lead the growth and eventual sale. In his spare time, he competes in long-distance triathlons and marathons.  Gregory graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics, where he was a Division I swimmer and co-founder of the Columbia Financial Investment Group.

What ideas or efforts do you think will or have changed the world the most?

As Jared Diamond has eloquently put it…”guns, germs and steel”.  Free speech, healthcare and technology have and will continue to push mankind and other species forward.

What do you think some of the most pressing problems we face are?

Misinformation and education; hunger and poverty; climate change and deforestation

If you could make one improvement in the world what would it be?

My goal is to create a forum for people to listen and hear each other, especially on pressing, long-term issues that will face us as a collective.  Data and statistically relevant information are powerful tools that should help inform and drive better policies.  My hope is that we can bring the best information and people to the discussion as well as the positives and negatives of different solutions.  There is never just one solution for all.  To solve some of our most fundamental problems, we should strive to be a part of a process that opens people’s minds to paths not previously seen or understood.  To me, Impact PSF brings us one step closer to this goal.

Rekia is a Senior Manager, Impact Investing at Stright Hamilton, a boutique consulting firm, specializing in using innovative approaches to measure the social performance of impact investments. Rekia started her career in the private sector, working in the financial services sector across 3 continents, Bloomberg in New York, Barclays in London and JP Morgan in Johannesburg, South Africa, before moving to the non-profit world. As head of project development for the Executive Office of the President of Niger, Rekia helped raise $437 million for two greenfield development and growth-focused projects, including a Climate Resilient Communities project, for the country of Niger. Rekia is an impact investor, climate activist and a passionate speaker on the future of Africa.

Rekia earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A in Political Science from Stony Brook University.

What causes are you most passionate about?

I am most passionate about the plight of the world’s most vulnerable communities. I believe we have an obligation and responsibility to look after one another and if blessed with talents, to put them in service of others who cannot help themselves. 

My ideal future world includes…

A world with more neurodiversity acceptance and activism. The neurodiversity movement is aligned with disability rights movements and is dedicated to eradicating stigmas associated with neurological differences. There has been genuine changes in the workplace over the past few years when it comes to racial and gender discrimination. I’d like to see the same for discrimination against intellectual differences, disabilities or challenges. It is about giving more people access to opportunities that didn’t exist previously.

An article or Impact event I would recommend is…

The Investing for Climate Change event.