Impact Investing Framework and Measurement with Brian Trelstad

Impact measurement is one of the essential aspects of impact investing. Done right, impact measurement can increase value both for the investor and the business. There is more and more pressure on quantifying the impact, from many different players in the market. The question remains on how to agree on impact measurement, although the trend is towards the standardization of the impact measurement process.

We have invited Brian Trelstad, Partner at Bridges Fund Management, to present on impact measurement frameworks and discuss how Bridges approaches impact investments. This is one of the most popular events we hosted last year with tremendously valuable perspective from an experienced impact investor.
Lunch will be provided.

Speaker Bio - Brian Trelstad
Brian is a partner at Bridges Fund Management. Brian has over 10 years of impact investing experience, having served until 2012 as the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen Fund, where he oversaw $55m of investments into companies that were delivering health, water, energy, and agriculture services to economic base of the pyramid in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. As CIO, he was a member of Acumen's management team and helped build out the network of country operations that worked closely with the entrepreneurs. Brian was also a co-founding board member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and was one of the principal architects of impact management software tool, Pulse, and the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS). Prior to Acumen Fund, Brian worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, was a lead environmental staff person at the Corporation for National Service, and was involved in a range of non-profit and for-profit start ups.

Brian has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, and an MA in City & Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. He also teaches social entrepreneurship to MA students at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. Brian was the first impact investor to go through the Kauffman Fellows Program of the Center for Venture Education, and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

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