Kristian has worked with investors since 1986. He has worked independently as a consultant for the past 15 years across many sectors including finance, the arts, and public land stewardship. His consulting practice Nordic Reach is focused on educating various interested parties about the dynamics of capital allocation from Nordic investors. Kristian earned a BA from the University of Virginia and was a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University. He later took classes at City and Guilds Art College in London and the Edinburgh College of Art as part of an “adult gap year.” He has served as a trustee for a number of institutions including Berea College, The Queens Museum, and The Hetrick Martin Institute.

Elizabeth Beauvais is a sustainability & impact investing consultant with over 20 years’ experience in environmental and social impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, strategic growth and partnership planning, and program design, implementation and reporting. She served as the chief sustainability officer at ExxonMobil, where she built the company’s first stakeholder engagement platform and sustainability report, after serving as the research manager for the U.S. Impact Investing trade association (US-SIF). As a consultant, she is a bridge builder and problem solver, whose clients have included Fortune 100 companies, such as Lockheed Martin and Phillips 66, multilateral organizations like the InterAmerican Development Bank, private equity investment houses such as ACON, as well as smaller environmental and community-building nonprofits.  Elizabeth’s most recent projects have focused using sustainability, social enterprise, and impact investing strategies as drivers for innovation and resiliency, particularly in the Gulf Coast. Elizabeth graduated from the University of Virginia in 1998 with a double major in Foreign Affairs and Women's Studies, and holds a master’s degree in Development Economics and International Environmental Policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston.

A UVA graduate with a B.A. in Global Sustainability and Foreign Affairs interested in environmental policy, communications, clean energy, and marketing.