OUR TEAM
Newday Impact is a financial services company helping people invest in the positive change we need to see in the world — today.
We don’t just invest for impact, we create it.
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Since its inception in 2017, Newday has focused relentlessly on delivering the outcomes that are most important for impact investors. Newday is an impact-only asset manager. We leverage our strength to encourage portfolio companies to become more responsible stewards of environmental and social resources, and we partner with some of the leading organizations in conservation and development to deliver real impact outcomes.
Newday Impact portfolios address major ethical issues and are designed and constructed around a combination of UN Sustainable Development Goals and ESG principles using a rigorous, repeatable process. Insights from deep research into the behavior of the companies whose securities are in the portfolios helps Newday Impact deliver portfolios more aligned with the change responsible investors want in the world.
Our partnerships with leading organizations driving and championing positive change provide Newday Impact with unique access to guidance on achieving higher levels of impact.
Team
Doug Heske
Founder & CEO, Newday Financial Technologies
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Heske is a game changing and awards winning business leader with a consistent record of transforming new businesses for rapid expansion. He brings more than 25 years of investment management, Impact, and leadership experience to the industry and his individual accomplishments include building and leading several wealth management organizations in California.
Prior to joining Newday as CEO, he ran the Private Client business for Stone & Youngberg, LLC a leading responsible public finance organization which was acquired by Stifel Nicolaus & Company in 2010. Doug was previously President and CEO of Nollenberger Capital Partners, Inc. (NCPI), a San Francisco-based broker/dealer and registered investment advisor. He was instrumental in developing NCPI’s wealth management business and orchestrated the firm’s sale to Sterne Agee in 2011. Prior to NCPI, he was the California Regional Director of Piper Jaffray, and a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. During his thirteen years with Piper Jaffray, he launched the firm’s wealth management business in San Francisco, led significant growth for the business across California, and created the firms impact and responsible investment platform.
He has served on the Executive Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) Western District since 1996 and was acting chairman from 2002—2004. He is currently a member of SIFMA’s Regional Wealth Management Round Table and has served on FINRA’s District 1 Committee. In addition, he is a past board president of The Edgewood Center for Children and Families, where he was a board member for eight years. Currently, he serves as a Director for Safe and Sound, and a board trustee for the Oakland Museum of California.
David Hsu
Chief Compliance Officer
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As Newday’s Chief Compliance Officer Mr. Hsu is responsible for Firm’s overall risk management and regulatory compliance program. He brings over two decades of compliance experience in asset management, investment banking and capital markets. Prior to Newday he was a Public Finance banker with InspereX and 280 CapMarkets where he worked with municipal bond issuers structuring financing solutions for public infrastructure improvement such as schools, roads, sewers, and public transportation and CCO of Stone & Youngberg, the most active underwriter of California and Arizona Municipal Bonds. He has been an advisor to a number of startups in the Bay Area focusing on FinTech companies that seek to democratize investing and make traditionally institutional investments more accessible. He has bachelor degrees in Economics and Psychology from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Jason Britton
Chief Investment Officer
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Britton, a sustainable investing expert, is a former Bank of America Managing Director, impact investing professor, author, and Yale MBA, with decades of leadership experience.
Justin Snyder
Marketing & Design
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Having joined Newday Impact in January 2021, Mr. Snyder is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the firm’s efforts to increase brand awareness and its day-to-day social media efforts, particularly those related to Newday partnerships, its mission-driven investment strategies, and the firm’s responses to environmental, social, and governance events. Mr. Snyder ensures these efforts are conducted in alignment with investor ESG missions, highlight ESG causes, as well as communicate the Newday’s ESG value proposition. Mr. Snyder has held creative, marketing, and digital specialist roles at several investment-related and technology-related ventures, including ThreeFold Foundation, DecentraNet, and BlockStar. Mr. Snyder received a J.D. in International Law and Legal Studies from American University Washington and International Business, Trade, and Tax Law from Esade, a global academic institution driving meaningful change through social commitment and innovation. He received a B.A. in Economics from West Virginia University.
Board
Doug Heske
CEO, Newday
Mark Retzloff
Natural & Organic Food Industry Pioneer
Ankur Jain
Emergent Ventures
Advisory Board
John Brown
Managing Partner, Sands Point Consulting, LLC
Nathan Dungan
Share Save Spend
Erik Krieger
Founder and Managing Partner, Riverlake Partners
Nancy Heinan
Former General Counsel at Apple
Lindsay Lee
Authentic Ventures
Chid Liberty
CEO, Made In Africa™
Alex Meek
Moxion Power Co.
Rich Moran
Former Partner at Venrock Venture Capital
Suzanne Rotondo, MPA
Founding Principal, Redshift Leadership
Colbi Stahl
Casamigos, Wasserman
Gunther Stein
Former Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Symphony Asset Management
Steve Young
Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism
