Eric Letsinger
Eric is the founder of Quantified Ventures, an outcomes-based firm that helps clients develop and finance initiatives that deliver measurable health, social, and environmental impact. He served as QV’s CEO from 2014-23 and now serves as the CEO of Quantified Ventures Holdings where he supports the multiple impact companies launched over the first 10 years. Eric is a “tri-sector” executive, bringing 25+ years of leadership experience in government, nonprofit, and private sector organizations operating in healthcare, environment, education, and housing. He has led transformative, public-private initiatives to drive social impact in complex, cross-sector business environments including IBM, Baltimore Public Schools, Baltimore Housing Department, Cyveillance Software, PWC, and Samaritan Inns Homeless Services. Eric married way over his head and has two daughters who keep him humble.
Impact Investing and Sustainable Finance (FINC-946-5)
This class uses a blend of lectures, guest speakers, group-work, and case studies to expose students to the asset classes that today’s impact investing field has most successfully leveraged. By understanding the evolution of impact investing from niche field to mainstream, students will be in a better position to craft careers that continue the growth and maturation of this important field. Each week, senior investment managers of leading sustainable and impact investment firms will illustrate how their strategies generate and deliver impact. The backbone of the class is an experiential team project that will invite students to create a financial vehicle (e.g. investment firm, fund or instrument) capable of fitting within an asset allocation of institutional investor portfolios (public equities, fixed income, hard assets, private equities, alternative assets, etc.) while delivering social and environmental impact. In some cases, these class projects have wound up coming to fruition and are in the market today. FINC-431 or FINC-440 may be taken concurrently to satisfy this prerequisite.
