Amy Domini
Founder and CEO

Amy Domini is Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments. She is widely recognized as the leading voice for socially responsible investing. In 2005, Time magazine named her to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.In 2006, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree from Northeastern University College of Law. Yale University’s Berkeley Divinity School presented Ms. Domini with an honorary doctorate in 2007. In 2008, Ms. Domini was named to Directorship magazine’s Directorship 100, the magazine’s listing of the most influential people on corporate governance and in the boardroom.

Ms. Domini is the author of Socially Responsible Investing: Making a Difference and Making Money (Dearborn Trade, 2001) and The Challenges of Wealth (Dow Jones Irwin, 1988), and a coauthor of Investing for Good (Harper Collins, 1993),The Social Investment Almanac  (Henry Holt, 1992), and Ethical Investing  (Addison-Wesley, 1984). She is a frequent guest commentator on CNBC’s Talking Stocks and various other radio and television shows.

Ms. Domini is a past board member of the Church Pension Fund of the Episcopal Church in America; the National Association of Community Development Loan Funds, an organization whose members work to create funds for grassroots economic development loans; and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the major sponsor of shareholder actions. She is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Ms. Domini holds a B.A. in international and comparative studies from Boston University, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Carole M. Laible
President

Carole M. Laible is President of Domini Social Investments LLC. She joined the company at its inception in November 1997, after more than ten years of experience in the mutual fund industry. After serving for several years as Domini’s Director of Finance and Compliance, Ms. Laible became Chief Operating Officer and then President.

In her current role, she serves on the Domini Standards Committee, which defines, clarifies, and implements Domini’s Global Investment Standards, and she regularly attends investment committee meetings. She plans, organizes, and is responsible for the implementation of all the day-to-day activities of Domini, and collaborates with Amy Domini, Chief Executive Officer, in the development of overall business strategy and business plan implementation. Ms. Laible played a key role in the launch of the Domini European Social Equity Trust, Domini PacAsia Social Equity Trust, and Domini European PacAsia Social Equity Trust.

Ms. Laible holds a B.S. in accountancy from St. John’s University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Steven D. Lydenberg
Partner, Strategic Vision

Steve Lydenberg is Partner, Strategic Vision, for Domini Social Investments.

Mr. Lydenberg provides strategic vision and direction to guide the firm’s policies, procedures, and daily practices. He exercises oversight of the integration of Domini’s social and environmental standards into its research processes and into its communications with shareholders in the Domini Funds, the corporations these Funds invest in, and the public. Mr. Lydenberg previously served as the firm’s Chief Investment Officer and was a founder of the Domini 400 Social Index, the first index to utilize social and environmental standards, and of the Domini Social Equity Fund in 1991.

Mr. Lydenberg has been active in corporate social research since 1975. Mr. Lydenberg was a founder of KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. and served as its research director from 1990 to 2001. From 1987 to 1989, he was an associate with Franklin Research and Development Corporation (now known as Trillium Asset Management). For 12 years he worked with the Council on Economic Priorities, ultimately as director of corporate accountability research.

Mr. Lydenberg has written numerous publications on issues of corporate social responsibility. He is the coauthor of Dilemmas in Responsible Investment (Greenleaf, 2011), author of Corporations and the Public Interest (Berrett-Koehler, 2005), coauthor of Investing for Good (Harper Collins, 1993), coeditor of The Social Investment Almanac (Henry Holt, 1992), and coauthor of Rating America’s Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley, 1986) and has published a variety of papers on the philosophy and practice of sustainable investing. Mr Lydenberg is a fellow with the Initiative for Responsible Investment, based at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, an organization he helped to found. He serves on the board of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Mr. Lydenberg holds a B.A. in English from Columbia College and an M.F.A. in theater arts from Cornell University, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Maurice Tallini 
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer

Maurizio Tallini has been Chief Compliance Officer of Domini Social Investments and the Domini Funds since 2005. In his capacity as CCO, Mr. Tallini is an active member of senior management and is responsible for developing and administering Domini’s and the Domini Funds’ compliance policies and procedures and overall compliance program. Mr. Tallini was appointed as Domini's Chief Operating Officer in August 2011, where he is responsible for contributing to the implementation of Domini's strategic initiatives.  As COO, he is also responsible for overseeing Domini's key operational components including Information Technology, Human Resources, Office Management, and Domini's social and environmental research department.

Before joining Domini, he was venture capital controller at Rho Capital Partners, where he was responsible for the overall accounting and administration of various venture capital and private equity limited partnerships. Prior to that, he was a manager in the investment management group of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he managed the completion of audits of major mutual fund complexes, private equity funds, and SEC-regulated investment advisors.

Mr. Tallini graduated Summa cum Laude with a B.B.A. in accounting from Hofstra University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Adam M. Kanzer
Managing Director and General Counsel

Adam Kanzer is Managing Director and General Counsel of Domini Social Investments and Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the Domini Funds. His responsibilities include directing Domini’s shareholder advocacy department, where for more than ten years he has led numerous dialogues with corporations on a wide range of social and environmental issues.  

Mr. Kanzer is a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, created by the Dodd-Frank Act, and served on the SEC’s inaugural Investor Advisory Committee (June 2009-November 2010).  He is a founding member and serves on the board of the Global Network Initiative, an organization addressing threats to freedom of expression and privacy rights on the Internet and other communication technologies, and serves on the public policy committee of US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment and the advisory council of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). He co-chaired the Contract Supplier Working Group at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility for two years, focusing on improving working conditions in corporate global supply chains. In 2008, he was named to Directorship magazine’s Directorship 100, the magazine’s listing of the most influential people on corporate governance and in the boardroom. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on socially responsible investing and corporate accountability.

Prior to joining Domini in 1998, Mr. Kanzer was a litigator for four and a half years with the firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. In October 1997, Mr. Kanzer volunteered as an international observer of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  

He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Christina M. Povall
Director of Finance

Christina Povall is Director of Finance of Domini Social Investments. Prior to joining Domini, Ms. Povall worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as audit senior manager in the Investment Management practice, where she managed the completion of audits of major mutual fund complexes, private equity funds, hedge funds, and SEC-regulated investment advisors.

Ms. Povall holds a B.B.A. in accountancy from Pace University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Shin Furuya
Vice President, Responsible Investment Research | Engagement Specialist

Shin Furuya is the lead research analyst responsible for the application of the Funds’ social and environmental standards to international equities. Mr. Furuya was previously a research analyst from 2004 to 2006 for the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now a division of Institutional Shareholder Services), where he was a lead researcher for custom Japanese SRI projects. From 1999 to 2002, he was the national coordinator for the Economic Relations and Human Rights Program and the Refugee Program at Amnesty International Japan. He also participated in various consultation processes for the United Nations and the World Bank Group. Mr. Furuya is a member of the Social Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN) and of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), and a member of the advisory board of the Conflict Risk Network.

Mr. Furuya holds a B.A. in political science and international studies from the University of Oregon, an M.A. in international relations,and a certificate of advanced studies in environmental dispute resolution from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Tessie Petion
Vice President, Responsible Investment Research & MIS

Tessie Petion is the lead research analyst responsible for the application of the Funds’ social and environmental standards to North American equities. Ms. Petion worked as an analyst and associate in Deutsche Bank’s Global Institutional Services department from 2000 to 2002, and in international sales for the New York Stock Exchange from 2003 to 2004. In 2006, she worked in the Dominican Republic as a consultant for the Consejo Nacional de Competitividad and in India as a consultant for the microfinance institution Basix.

Ms. Petion holds a B.S. in business administration and management information systems from the University at Albany, SUNY; an M.A. in psychology from Tufts University; and an M.A. in international business and development from the Fletcher School of Tufts University.