At Root Capital, Kate is responsible for developing Root Capital’s multi-year innovation strategy, stewarding the organizational innovation agenda, establishing best-in-class innovation processes across departments, ensuring organizational innovation-based learning, and providing leadership or support of specific priority innovations. She works with colleagues around the world to ensure Root Capital’s services respond to the ever-changing needs of our clients – agricultural…

I’m responsible for Root Capital’s global accounting, which includes managing the global annual audit, filing tax returns and conducting technical oversight. I have over 25 years’ experience in international finance and accounting with a diverse industry base including pharma, software, life sciences and most recently another nonprofit organization. I hold a B.S. from Bentley University.

I direct Root Capital’s financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis functions. Prior to joining Root Capital, I was a banking and financial services analyst at Putnam Investments, and before that a scientist and site manager with a global environmental engineering and consulting firm. I hold an M.S. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University and a B.A. in Geological Sciences from…

After spending years working for various organizations in the microfinance sector, I eventually came back to the area I cared about the most: rural finance. I felt strongly that if we could find and promote lending models that had a big impact for families in rural areas we could have a very big effect on reaching and transforming the…

At Root Capital, Lindsay manages the systems and tools used by the lending team, oversees our credit training program, and manages projects that improve our credit processes to ensure Root Capital is managing risk while always meeting the needs of our customers. She loves finding solutions to problems and seeing these solutions through to implementation, and loves…

Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit impact investor that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Root Capital provides these businesses with the capital, training, and access to markets they need...

Bryan has worked at Root Capital since 2010 and currently serves as Chief Financial Officer, where he oversees Root Capital’s finance functions, including accounting, financial planning & analysis, treasury, and investor relations. He also leads Root Capital’s global information technology operations, ensuring Root Capital’s global staff have the right systems and tools to efficiently and effectively execute on Root…

Darcy joined Root Capital in 2011 as Chief Credit Officer. She leads Root Capital’s credit risk management function, which includes credit policy and procedures, underwriting standards and tools, credit administration, portfolio risk management, and collections and workout. Her previous experience combines eleven years in commercial banking and fourteen years in microfinance. As a commercial banker, she worked for TD…

As Chief Operating Officer of Root Capital, Frances oversees the day-to-day management of the organization and ensures that all staff and systems are operating effectively in support of our mission. Her objective is to help support all of the staff who are taking Root Capital to the next level of success and impact. Frances joined Root Capital from British…

In this article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Root Capital and Acumen Fund partner to propose a system for program evaluation akin to GPS. By combining information from various sources, we can triangulate more accurate estimates of our impact as a whole. View Article (subscription required)

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