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BLUE EARTH

FOUNDATION

Blue Earth Foundation supports initiatives and business ventures which drive the transition to an inclusive and carbon neutral society.

We are the sole
OWNER of BLUE EARTH CAPITAL

The Foundation has full control over any change to the investment firm’s mission and its commitment to only raise funds with both financial and social/environmental benefits.

Re-investing

100% of operating profits

Blue Earth Foundation supports initiatives and business ventures which drive the transition to an inclusive and carbon neutral society.

We are the sole
OWNER of BLUE EARTH CAPITAL

All operating profits from Blue Earth Capital are transferred to the Foundation to support its philanthropic activities.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Urs Wietlisbach

Co-Founder Partners Group

Peter Wuffli

Founder and Chairman of elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization

Phyllis Kurlander Costanza

Co-Founder and President of OutcomesX

Urs Wietlisbach

Co-founder & Chairman Blue Earth Capital AG / Co-Founder Partners Group AG

Urs Wietlisbach co-founded Partners Group in 1996 and Blue Earth Capital in 2015. He is a member of Partners Group Holding AG’s board of directors and chairman of the markets committee, based in Zug. He has 30 years of industry experience and is an active impact investor since 2014. Prior to founding Partners Group, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. and Credit Suisse. He holds a Masters of Arts from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.

Peter Wuffli

Founder and Chairman of elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization.

In 2006, Peter Wuffli founded elea, a philanthropic impact investment organization with the purpose to fight absolute poverty with entrepreneurial means. In addition, he is Honorary Chairman of IMD (a global top ranked business school in Lausanne, Switzerland). He also serves on the boards of Sygnum Bank, Zürich, as well as the Zurich Opera company. Previously, Peter Wuffli was the CEO of UBS Group, the Chairman of Partners Group, and the Chairman of IMD. Earlier in his career, Peter Wuffli was a Partner at McKinsey & Company. Peter Wuffli studied economics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he also gained his PhD. He regularly publishes articles and books on themes of globalization, ethics, impact investing and leadership (most recently: Inclusive Leadership – A Framework for the Global Era, Springer 2016).

Phyllis Kurlander Costanza

Co-Founder and President of OutcomesX

Phyllis has been delivering positive commercial impact and driving measurable change in society and the environment throughout her career.

She is the Co-Founder and President of OutcomesX which is creating a marketplace for social outcomes. This new company builds on her work at UBS, where she worked for 11 years as the CEO of UBS Optimus Foundation and more recently as Global Head of Social Impact. In her role as CEO of the UBS Optimus Foundation, she overhauled the strategy to deliver greater commercial and social impact. This repositioning resulted in a 20x growth (from $10m to >$200m). She also created an innovative finance group, focused on introducing new social finance mechanisms such as the first Development Impact Bond in education.

Prior to UBS, she was Executive Director and Board Member of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), a UK-based philanthropic organization focused on health, education and climate, linked to the hedge fund TCI. For more than a decade, she also worked as a management consultant, focused primarily on health care, and served in the public sector advising New York State Governor Mario Cuomo on policy and politics in New York City.

She also serves as a Board Chair of Educate Girls USA, and Board Member of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the UBS Optimus Foundation UK. She is a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations and Senior Advisor to the Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East.