Innovative Impact: Fireside Chat with Mark Watson, MBA

Join Net Impact, FAB, and the Impact Investing Club for the second day of Social Impact Week for a fireside chat with Mark Watson, Co-founder and President of Potlikker Capital. Mark will be discussing how he has leaned on lessons learned in traditional finance to have a social impact through his model of reparative capital at Potlikker, balancing impact and financial goals, and more!
*Lunch will be served - please register early and commit to attending if you register so we have enough food and can prevent food waste*
About Mark:
Mark Watson is Co-founder and President of Potlikker Capital, a farm community governed charitable integrated capital fund dedicated to supporting BIPOC farmers at the intersection of racial and climate justice. He is also the founder of Keel Asset Management LLC, a financial advisory firm that provides socially responsible financial planning and investment advisory services to nonprofits, public and corporation pension plans. Mr. Watson started his career as a banker at the First National Bank of Chicago, now JP Morgan in commercial banking, corporate and public finance. He had a 35-year career which included managing investment portfolios for foundations, endowments, private and public pensions funds. Mr. Watson also co-designed and helped to launch and manage an integrated racial justice capital fund which deployed capital to BIPOC entrepreneurs, The Boston Impact Initiative Fund. He serves as an advisory board Member of MIT/Health Innovation Systems Inc.; a Steering Committee member of Transformative Investors in Food Systems (TIFS); a Director of Winrock International; Director of Hyams Foundation and Good Food Purchasing Program and Board Chair of Possibility Labs. Mr. Watson holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance, University of Illinois Champaign -Urbana and a Master’s in Business Administration, The Booth School, University of Chicago.

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Co-hosted with: Food, Agribusiness, and Beverage Club, Impact Investing Club

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