Dune Thorne
Partner, Head of the Boston Office, Multi-Strategy Portfolio Manager & Strategic Advisor, Brown Advisory
Dune Thorne is a Partner at Brown Advisory where she heads the Boston office, serves on the Executive and Operating Committees for the firm and leads some of the firm’s largest and most complex investment advisory and consulting relationships. Brown Advisory manages over $55B for institutions and families from eight offices globally, focusing on being a thoughtful investment partner by leading asset allocation, investment research and manager search and selection.
Community Involvement: Ms. Thorne chairs the Investment Committee for the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum as well as serves on the Board and Executive Committee. She is a Trustee and member of the Investment Committee for Milton Academy and serves on the Investment Committee for the Lincoln Nursery School. She is the founder and Chair of the Board of Invest in Girls and a member of the Golden Seeds LP Advisory Committee, Women Moving Millions, Plum Alley and Tiger 21.
Ms. Thorne has published articles in Financial Planning and Forbes.com and has been quoted in the Financial Times, American Banker, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Family Wealth Report, Investment News, Bloomberg, Private Asset Management and in the book “Women and Philanthropy.” She was honored as one of the 2013 World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, one of the Top 50 Women in Wealth by AdvisorOne and was a recipient of Boston Business Journal's Emerging Leader Award in 2011. 
Ms. Thorne earned her BA at Dartmouth and her MBA from Harvard Business School where she completed independent studies on women and investing. She is a Certified Wealth Strategist® (CWS®) professional and a Certified Trust and Financial Advisor (CTFA). She is also a graduate of the Boston Center for Community & Justice Lead Boston Program and the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Adam Rein
Managing Director, Mission Point Partners
Adam Rein helps lead MissionPoint's direct investment origination, portfolio management, and broader impact investment strategy. In 2010, Adam co-founded Altaeros Energies, a startup launched out of MIT to bring low cost wind energy and telecommunications to the developing world. Adam is also a co-founder of Greentown Labs, the country's largest clean technology incubator. Previously Adam worked as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company. Adam has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a BA from Yale University.

Shu Dar Yao
Director of Capital Formation, Social Finance
Shu Dar is the Director of Capital Formation and Investor Relations at Social Finance, a nonprofit organization leading the development of Pay for Success (PFS) financing and Social Impact Bonds, an innovative public-private partnership that mobilizes capital to drive social progress. At Social Finance, Shu Dar partners with the Social Investments team to design the financial structures of PFS transactions, with a focus on representing a wide range of investor interests. She leads investor relation efforts and the firm’s growing portfolio of international engagements.Before joining Social Finance, Shu Dar was a VP at Citigroup, focusing on social enterprise investing, thematic fixed-income issuances including Green Bonds, development bank financing, and financial inclusion throughdigital acceleration. In this role, she was responsible for advising clients in the design and execution of innovative market-based and poverty-alleviating funding strategies.
She has also worked at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector financing arm of The World Bank Group. There she focused on global infrastructure PPP project financing, with a specialization on large transportation deals. During the financial crisis, she took a leadership role in structuring, fundraising, and executing the Infrastructure Crisis Facility, a global $4 billion infrastructure investment fund designed and jointly funded by leading development banks, with IFC acting as an anchor LP. Prior to IFC, Shu Dar also was an investment banker at JPMorgan, working in global M&A and Syndicated Leveraged Finance with a focus on private equity client LBOs.
Shu Dar received an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management as a Forte Fellow and graduated magna cum laude from NYU’s Stern School of Business with a BS in Finance and International Business.

Andrew Leventhal
Head of Operations, Tau Investment Managment
Andrew Leventhal brings over 10 years of experience in consulting, finance, and operations in early and growth stage companies. In his role as TAU’s Head of Operations, he oversees a number of internal and external initiatives and manages the firm’s day to day operations.
Previously Andrew served as the Vice President of Operations for Oak Street Health. Oak Street Health owns and operates primary care clinics for seniors throughout the Midwest. At various points during his tenure, Andrew led marketing, IT, Infrastructure, and Growth for Oak Street Health. He played a pivotal leadership role in helping the company grow from 4 to over 600 employees, build 15 clinics, and raise several rounds of capital from angel and institutional investors.
Prior to Oak Street Health, Andrew completed his MBA with honors at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. While pursuing his MBA, Andrew co-chaired the Emerging Markets and the Chicago African Business Groups. He also co-founded the Emerging Markets Summit, an annual event that brings together professionals, investors, entrepreneurs, and students from six different continents.During this period, Andrew worked with private equity funds based in Chicago and Nairobi, Kenya, assisting with portfolio strategy and operations. He also co-founded g.Maarifa, a Kenya-based interactive mobile education technology platform.
Before business school, Andrew spent three years as a management consultant overseeing projects in the energy, telecom, industrial construction, and healthcare industries, including multiple projects in South Africa and Australia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Davidson College, an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Gita Rao
Senior Lecturer, Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  She has over two decades of experience in global investing, asset allocation, risk management, and client service.  In addition, she has managed socially responsible portfolios and teaches a course on social impact investing at MIT Sloan.  Dr. Rao is the founder and president of Aspari Capital, a consultancy focused on quantitative research and portfolio strategies for institutional investors.  Her previous roles include: portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management, managing global long-short portfolios and co-director of quantitative equity research; associate partner and director of quantitative equity research at Wellington Management Company, managing over $4 billion in global equity portfolios on a team responsible for $15 billion in client assets; senior vice president at Liberty Financial Companies, managing over $1 billion in global and international equity/balanced mutual funds and serving on the firm’s investment policy committee; senior research analyst at Fidelity Management & Research Company and vice president at Kidder, Peabody & Co. in New York.
Dr. Rao has served as a president of the Society of Quantitative Analysts, on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal, on the board of trustees of the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, and as Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Rochester, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a BA in Economics from Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College in India.

Ben Stone
Associate, Mintz Levin
Ben is a corporate attorney at Mintz Levin in Boston, where he counsels early-stage and emerging companies across a range of industries. Ben previously served as Managing Director & General Counsel of MCE Social Capital, an impact investment firm that finances businesses concentrating on clean energy, sustainable agriculture, and financial inclusion in more than 35 countries. Prior to MCE Social Capital, Ben served as Director of Start-Up Development at American Express, where he spearheaded initiatives to fuel high-growth entrepreneurship in U.S. cities. Prior to American Express, Ben started and led Indego Africa, a lifestyle brand and social enterprise that provides more than 1,500 female entrepreneurs in Rwanda and Ghana with access to global markets and business education. Ben launched his career as a litigation attorney at an international law firm in NYC. Ben received a B.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship. Ben is a regular public speaker and writer on law, entrepreneurship, impact investing, and innovation; serves as a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations; and in 2016 was recognized by the Association of Corporate Counsel as a “Top Ten 30-Something.”