Join us to explore the power of place-based investing through a gender lens.

Learn how localized capital allocation can drive meaningful economic and social change for women and marginalized communities with insights from Artha Networks and NorthStar Asset Managers. This conversation will explore how investors can integrate gender equity into regional investment strategies to unlock opportunities and foster sustainable impact.

Speakers

Nimrit Kang

Chief Investment Officer, NorthStar Asset Management, Inc.

Nimrit serves as Chief Investment Officer at NorthStar to provide for high net-worth clients and non-profit organizations via integrative and effective portfolio management by connecting social concerns to security selection, asset allocation, and activism. Nimrit works closely with the equity research, portfolio management, and client service teams to deliver highly personalized portfolios that integrate financial goals while upholding a commitment to social change and environmental sustainability. Before joining NorthStar, Nimrit was a primary leader with Coho Partners, MissionSquare Retirement, and DuPont Capital Management.

Over the years, Nimrit has been involved with and served on the boards of various nonprofit organizations in the greater Philadelphia area. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Health Partnership and Samuel S. Fels Foundation. She is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia and the CFA Institute and served as a board member for the CFA Society of Philadelphia from 2013-2016

Nimrit graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering and received a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Audrey Selian

Director of Artha Impact

Audrey Selian serves as Director of Artha Impact (Rianta Capital Zurich), a dedicated advisory to the Singh Family Trust and is co-founder of Artha Networks Inc. (ANI), a SaaS platform that has been licensed to various ecosystem-building organizations working to support investment discovery and collaboration across various sectors and geographies. Audrey’s focus within the Artha portfolio has been on the deployment of private capital to high impact businesses serving the underserved in India. Audrey has served as advisor to Halloran, is co-founder of ImpactforBreakfast.com, a network of nearly 4,500 people across 36+ cities, and is co-founder of Impact Hub Yerevan and Baraka Impact. Audrey holds degrees from the Fletcher School at Tufts University (PhD, MALD), the L.S.E. (MSc) and Wellesley College (BA). In 2003-4 she was a doctoral fellow at Harvard in 2004-5. In 2022, she co-edited a book called “The Business of Building a Better World" with Berrett Koehler Publishers in 2022.

Moderator

Sana Kapadia

Chief Catalyst, Heading for Change

Sana is a seasoned finance and investment professional, gender-smart investing specialist and global changemaker. She was previously Director of Strategy at 2X Global, where she led co-creation and implementation of the strategic plan across the organization's three core pillars, and drove collaboration and connectivity across the field.

Her career has spanned gender finance, mission venture capital, development finance, impact investing and equity research. She is focused on leveraging capital as a tool for social change and to support deep and intersectional systemic shifts.

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