Bio

Jesse Fink is an impact investor who has dedicated the past two decades to working on solutions to climate change and other environmental issues. Jesse takes an integrated systems approach and believes that change comes from enabling entrepreneurial leaders. Technology innovation, business model innovation, human capital, and documentary films are all tools Jesse deploys in his pursuit of Impact. Jesse began his business career as a forest and land manager for Georgia-Pacific and later held marketing and operations management roles at Citicorp and CUC International. He then joined Jay Walker as Chief Operating Officer at Walker Digital where he co-created and became founding Chief Operating Officer of Priceline. Upon leaving Priceline in 1999, Jesse and Betsy became pioneers in the field of impact investing, providing funding and strategic advice to mission-driven entrepreneurs. In 2006, Jesse co-founded MissionPoint Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on financing the transition to a low-carbon economy. Subsequently, Jesse co-founded MissionPoint Partners in 2014 to guide other families and foundations in their pursuit of Impact. MissionPoint Partners incubated ReFED, a non-profit focused on accelerating solutions to food waste, where Jesse served as founder and inaugural board chair. With a goal to democratize Impact, MissionPoint Partners co-founded CapShift, a mission-driven platform to enable the trillion dollars of U.S. charitable assets to access a broad array of impact investment opportunities. Jesse contributed his writing to Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril and has been featured as a guest speaker on the Journey to Impact Podcast. Jesse is a graduate of the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY, where he received a BS in Environmental Resource Management. He also earned his MBA from Syracuse University's School of Management.