Funlola is an investment professional with interests that lie at the intersection of technological innovation, climate change, and emerging markets. Funlola currently serves as Investment Manager at McKnight where he helps steward the foundation’s $3 billion endowment and $500+ million impact investing portfolio. Funlola also serves as Africa Advisor at Concordia, where he co-founded Concordia Africa, and focuses on implementing programs and social-impact driven public-private partnerships.
इससे पहले, फ़नलोला ने सीडीपी में इन्वेस्टर लीड के रूप में कार्य किया, जो वित्तीय बाजारों में पर्यावरण, सामाजिक और शासन (ईएसजी) एकीकरण पर केंद्रित एक संगठन है। निवेशक नेतृत्व के रूप में, उन्होंने वित्तीय संस्थानों और वित्तीय प्रायोजकों को स्थायी बुनियादी ढांचे के वित्तपोषण और निवेश जोखिमों, और जलवायु, पानी की कमी, और नरम-वस्तु वनों की कटाई से संबंधित अवसरों पर सलाह दी।
Funlola’s civic and nonprofit activities include board service at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Nexus Community Partners, the Land Institute, and the Advisory Board for Entrepreneurship at Cornell University. He was recognized as an Emerging Leader at the Atlantic Dialogues in Marrakech and has been as a Bush Leadership fellow from the Bush Foundation. Funlola earned a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
