PII Executive Board
2025-2026
Louisa Stuhec
Co-President
Destiny Uviles
VP of Corporate Outreach
Sandhya Mahesh
VP of Projects
Tomás Barros-Pamponet
Co-President
Mariana Lanuza
VP of Finance
Prisha Vithalani
VP of Projects
Eva Jia
Executive VP
Peter Feng
VP of Projects
Terer Sharon
VP Projects
Our Mission
1. Bring Industry Insights onto the Penn Radar.
Through our speaker engagements and educational events on campus, we work to bring this nuanced area of the finance industry on the radar among students who care about the world’s most complex challenges — and seek to tackle them through disciplined, metrics-based financial innovation.
While there are many evolving interpretations and frameworks underlying impact investing, at its core lies a simple but transformative realization: that market-rate — and often superior — returns can go hand in hand with measurable social or environmental impact. In fact, the pursuit of impact frequently creates a strategic advantage, unlocking new markets, driving innovation, and strengthening long-term value creation. Rather than representing a trade-off, impact has become a source of competitive differentiation — where solving global challenges and generating financial performance reinforce one another.
2. Support Funds and Develop Future Professionals.
We provide hands-on, finance-grounded learning experiences to equip students with the skills, network, and exposure needed to pursue careers across the impact investing spectrum — across venture capital, private equity, wealth management, and more. Through our projects, we bring high-caliber young talent into the impact investing space — equipped with business, tech, and economic rigor.
More than a learning platform, we are a collaborative community that values diversity of majors, backgrounds, and experiences. This blend of perspectives — grounded in business, finance, and analytical training — allows us to support impact-focused funds with fresh thinking, data-driven insights, and creative approaches to niche areas of exploration and opportunity.
What is Impact Investing?
The term “impact investing” was coined in 2007 at a meeting convened by the Rockefeller Foundation at its Bellagio Center in Italy, where investors, philanthropists, and development practitioners recognized the growing need for investment strategies that could deliver both social good and financial performance. From those early days, when Rockefeller helped define the field and seed foundational infrastructure such as the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), impact investing has evolved from a niche experiment into a mainstream force reshaping how markets approach value creation. With the emergence of standardized frameworks like IRIS+ and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the field has become increasingly rigorous and data-driven — a far cry from its early conceptual roots.
Trillions of dollars are now managed with explicit impact objectives across leading institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Apollo, and BlackRock, as impact investing cements itself as a strategic lever in global finance. It channels private capital and innovation toward solving pressing challenges — from clean energy and health to inclusive technology and education — on a scale and with an efficiency that outmatch what public or philanthropic avenues alone can achieve.
Today, impact investing represents a major market opportunity for two key reasons.
First, private capital markets have proven more effective than traditional philanthropic or policy-driven avenues at driving scalable, durable solutions to global challenges. By harnessing entrepreneurial innovation and market discipline, impact-oriented investment achieves meaningful outcomes with the speed and efficiency that other mechanisms struggle to match.
Second, impact is fast becoming one of the most dynamic frontiers for growth and value creation. Innovation is increasingly concentrated in impact-linked sectors such as clean energy, resource efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and health. Consumer demand is reinforcing this momentum as markets shift toward products and services that reflect values and purpose. At the same time, investors — from funds to private wealth — are seeking to build legacies aligned with these trends. As capital, innovation, and demand converge, impact investing stands out as a defining market opportunity — one that rewards those who recognize that solving global challenges is now integral to generating competitive returns.