PRINCIPALS

Amy Domini, Founder and CEO

Carole M. Laible, President and Chief Operating Officer

Steven D. Lydenberg, Chief Investment Officer

 

DIRECTORS

Adam M. Kanzer, Managing Director and General Counsel

Maurice Tallini, Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer

Christina M. Povall, Director of Finance

 

INVESTMENT RESEARCH and ADVOCACY TEAM

Shin Furuya, Lead Research Analyst | Asia Pacific

Tessie Petion, Lead Research Analyst | Europe

Karen Shapiro, Shareholder Advocacy Associate

 

 

Principals

 

Amy Domini
Founder and CEO

<Amy Domini is Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments. She is widely recognized as the leading voice for socially responsible investing. In 2005, Time magazine named her to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.In 2006, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree from Northeastern University College of Law. Yale University’s Berkeley Divinity School presented Ms. Domini with an honorary doctorate in 2007. In 2008, Ms. Domini was named to Directorship magazine’s Directorship 100, the magazine’s listing of the most influential people on corporate governance and in the boardroom.

 

Ms. Domini is the author of Socially Responsible Investing: Making a Difference and Making Money (Dearborn Trade, 2001) and The Challenges of Wealth (Dow Jones Irwin, 1988), and a coauthor of Investing for Good (Harper Collins, 1993),The Social Investment Almanac  (Henry Holt, 1992), and Ethical Investing  (Addison-Wesley, 1984). She is a frequent guest commentator on CNBC’s Talking Stocks and various other radio and television shows.

 

Ms. Domini is a past board member of the Church Pension Fund of the Episcopal Church in America; the National Association of Community Development Loan Funds, an organization whose members work to create funds for grassroots economic development loans; and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the major sponsor of shareholder actions. She is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

 

Ms. Domini holds a B.A. in international and comparative studies from Boston University, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

 

 

Carole M. Laible
President and Chief Operating Officer

 

Carole M. Laible is President and Chief Operating Officer of Domini Social Investments LLC. She joined the company at its inception in November 1997, after more than ten years of experience in the mutual fund industry. After serving for several years as Domini’s Director of Finance and Compliance, Ms. Laible became Chief Operating Officer and then President.

 

In her current role, she serves on the Domini Standards Committee, which defines, clarifies, and implements Domini’s Global Investment Standards, and she regularly attends investment committee meetings. She plans, organizes, and is responsible for the implementation of all the day-to-day activities of Domini, and collaborates with Amy Domini, Chief Executive Officer, in the development of overall business strategy and business plan implementation. Ms. Laible played a key role in the launch of the Domini European Social Equity Trust, Domini PacAsia Social Equity Trust, and Domini European PacAsia Social Equity Trust.

 

Ms. Laible holds a B.S. in accountancy from St. John’s University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

 

 

Steven D. Lydenberg

Chief Investment Officer

 

Steven D. Lydenberg is Chief Investment Officer of Domini Social Investments and Vice President of the Domini Funds. He has been active in social research since 1975. Mr. Lydenberg was a founder of KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. and served as its research director from 1990 to 2001. From 1987 to 1989, he was an associate with Franklin Research and Development Corporation (now known as Trillium Asset Management). For 12 years he worked with the Council on Economic Priorities, ultimately as director of corporate accountability research.

 

Mr. Lydenberg has written numerous publications on issues of corporate social responsibility. He is the author of Corporations and the Public Interest (Berrett-Koehler, 2005), coauthor of Investing for Good(Harper Collins, 1993), coeditor ofThe Social Investment Almanac(Henry Holt, 1992),  and coauthor of Rating America’s Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley, 1986). He has published articles including “Trust Building and Trust Busting: Corporations, Government and Responsibilities” (Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Autumn 2003) and “Envisioning Socially Responsible Investing: A Model for 2006” (Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Autumn 2002). Mr. Lydenberg is a fellow with the Institute for Responsible Investment and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

 

Mr. Lydenberg holds a B.A. in English from Columbia College and an M.F.A. in theater arts from Cornell University, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

 

 

 

 

Directors

 

Adam M. Kanzer
Managing Director and General Counsel

Adam Kanzer is Managing Director and General Counsel of Domini Social Investments and Chief Legal Officer of the Domini Funds. His responsibilities include directing Domini’s shareholder advocacy department, where for the past ten years he has led numerous dialogues with corporations on a wide range of social and environmental issues.

 

In June 2009, Mr. Kanzer was named to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee. In 2008, he was named to Directorship magazine’s Directorship 100, the magazine’s listing of the most influential people on corporate governance and in the boardroom. He served for two years as co-chair of the Contract Supplier Working Group at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, focusing on improving working conditions in corporate global supply chains. He currently serves on public policy committees of the Social Investment Forum and Eurosif, the European Sustainable Investment Forum. He is the author of “Putting Human Rights on the Agenda: The Use of Shareholder Proposals to Address Corporate Human Rights Performance” (see PDF), a chapter in Finance for a Better World: The Shift to Sustainability (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2009). 

 

Prior to joining Domini in 1998, Mr. Kanzer was a litigator for four and a half years with the firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. In October 1997, Mr. Kanzer volunteered as an international observer of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  

 

Mr. Kanzer holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

 

Maurice Tallini
Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer

 

Maurice Tallini is Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer of Domini Social Investments and the Domini Funds. Mr. Tallini is responsible for developing and administering Domini’s and the Domini Funds’ compliance policies and procedures. Before joining Domini, he was venture capital controller at Rho Capital Partners, where he was responsible for the overall accounting and administration of various venture capital and private equity limited partnerships. Prior to that, he was a manager in the investment management group of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he managed the completion of audits of major mutual fund complexes, private equity funds, and SEC-regulated investment advisors.

 

Mr. Tallini holds a B.B.A. in accounting from Hofstra University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

 

 

Christina M. Povall

Director of Finance

 

Christina Povall is Director of Finance of Domini Social Investments. Prior to joining Domini, Ms. Povall worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as audit senior manager in the Investment Management practice, where she managed the completion of audits of major mutual fund complexes, private equity funds, hedge funds, and SEC-regulated investment advisors.

 

Ms. Povall holds a B.B.A. in accountancy from Pace University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

 

 

 

 

Investment Research and Advocacy Team

 

 

 

Shin Furuya

Lead Research Analyst | Asia Pacific

 

Shin Furuya is the lead research analyst responsible for the application of the Funds’ social and environmental standards to Asia-Pacific equities. Mr. Furuya was previously a research analyst from 2004 to 2006 for the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now a division of Institutional Shareholder Services), where he was a lead researcher for custom Japanese SRI projects. From 1999 to 2002, he was the national coordinator for the Economic Relations and Human Rights Program and the Refugee Program at Amnesty International Japan. He also participated in various consultation processes for the United Nations and the World Bank Group. Mr. Furuya is a member of the Social Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN), and of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). 

 

Mr. Furuya holds a B.A. in political science and international studies from the University of Oregon, an M.A. in international relations, and a certificate of advanced studies in environmental dispute resolution from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

 

 

Tessie Petion

Lead Research Analyst | Europe

 

Tessie Petion is the lead research analyst responsible for the application of the Funds’ social and environmental standards to European equities. Ms. Petion worked as an analyst and associate in Deutsche Bank’s Global Institutional Services department from 2000 to 2002, and in international sales for the New York Stock Exchange from 2003 to 2004. In 2006, she worked in the Dominican Republic as a consultant for the Consejo Nacional de Competitividad and in India as a consultant for the microfinance institution Basix.

 

Ms. Petion holds a B.S. in business administration and management information systems from the University at Albany, SUNY; an M.A. in psychology from Tufts University; and an M.A. in international business and development from the Fletcher School of Tufts University.

 

 

Karen Shapiro  

Shareholder Advocacy Associate

 

Karen Shapiro is Shareholder Advocacy Associate of Domini Social Investments. She has led numerous dialogues with companies on a range of environmental issues including global warming, sustainable forestry, toxics, and sustainability reporting. Prior to joining Domini in 2005, Ms. Shapiro was deputy director of the Business & Sustainability Group at Tellus Institute, a nonprofit research and consulting organization. She previously worked as a research assistant at the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queens College, under the direction of Barry Commoner.

 

Ms. Shapiro holds a B.S. in environmental science from Cook College, Rutgers University, and an M.S. in environmental health management from the Harvard School of Public Health.