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 will address three broad themes of impact investing today: 1) The evolution of impact investing from niche field to mainstream; 2) Exposure to a broad spectrum of impact investment strategies; 3) Learn the tools, models and frameworks behind impact investing. Each week, we bring into the classroom senior investment managers of leading sustainable and impact investment firms to 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 & environmental impact. In some cases, these class projects have wound up coming to fruition and are in the market today." FINC-431 or equivalent (FINC-435 or FINC-440) may be taken concurrently to satisfy this prerequisite.
