Delilah Rothenberg is a Co-Founding Partner and the Executive Director of the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), a multi-stakeholder non-profit organization designed to support investors in aligning their investment governance, financial analysis, and asset allocation practices with the principles of system-level investing and systematic stewardship.

Delilah brings nearly two decades of experience in finance across asset classes – particularly private capital markets – having worked with private equity investors, lenders, and project developers on growth financing, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) integration, and impact strategy for over 12 years. Prior to private capital markets, Delilah worked in sell side equities with Bear Stearns and investment research with Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG).

Delilah serves on the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) Markets Advisory Group; is on the Advisory Panel for the Capitals Coalition; is an Advisor to For the Long Term (public treasurers focused on ESG); is an Executive Fellow at the Rutgers SMLR Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing; was an advisor to New York City Comptroller-elect Brad Lander’s campaign; and, is a former Open Society Foundations Fellow. She has served on various committees, advisory groups, and working groups for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD); among others.

Ellen has over 18 years of experience working with corporates, asset managers, and asset owners, helping them integrate social and environmental considerations into decision-making. Ellen has also directly contributed to the development of several impact management standards, including UNDP’s SDG Impact Standards, IFC’s Operating Principles for Impact Management, Gold Standard’s GS4GG Fund Requirements, and IRIS+, the impact measurement standard developed by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). She is passionate about helping investors address systemic risks, like inequality, and we are thrilled for her to be joining the team.

Juan is a trained economist and has a background in public policy, investment banking, and impact investing. He previously worked as an Investment Officer at Deetken Impact, analyzing investment opportunities with an impact and gender lens in the Latin American region. He also served as a Research Assistant for the Impact Finance Innovations Programme at the University of Oxford, where he had the opportunity to contribute to a research project on impact-linked compensation in partnership with The ImPact. Before transitioning to the impact investing and sustainable finance sectors, he worked as an Investment Banker at Evercore Partners and as an economic adviser for the Mexican Ministry of Finance and the Mexican Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade.

Shannon Mullins brings almost 20 years of experience in corporate sustainability, societal impact and responsible business practices. Prior to PDI, she spent two years focused on advancing ESG integration throughout the investment lifecycle via private equity firm and portfolio company engagement and collaboration. Shannon was a practitioner with Deloitte’s sustainability and climate change team for seven years and held progressive internal responsibilities centered on the firm’s annual global impact reporting process during this time. Earlier in her career, Shannon provided client services related to human capital total rewards communications. Other relevant roles have included internal ESG-related advisory for business teams at Export Development Canada; philanthropic consulting services; and (actuarial) pension funding valuation activities for large, corporate clients.

Amanda is the Impact & ESG Advisor and a Co-Founding Partner at PDI. She brings experience from the 2021 G7 impact Investing Taskforce, UNDP’s SDG Impact, the Impact Management Project, Bridges Fund Management and Volans.

She serves as an Impact Advisor at MAZE, a member of the Independent Panel for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and a mentor for entrepreneurs at Bethnal Green Ventures, MAZE and BMW Foundations’s RESPOND Accelerator. Amanda holds a B.A. in English and Spanish literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics.

Raphaële is the Chief Economist and a Co-Founding Partner at PDI. Raphaële brings over 20 years of experience in law, economics and finance. Her research interests include monetary policy, the shadow-banking system, and more generally the link between financial markets and wealth inequality.

She was most recently Assistant Professor of Economics at Drew University, where she taught students about the political economy, monetary policy and different investment strategies (e.g. private equity, hedge funds). She has also taught at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and was an Open Society Foundations Research Fellow. Earlier in her career, she worked with Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young, and KPMG, where she specialized in tax structures for investment banks and private equity deals. Raphaële holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The New School for Social Research, and an LL.M from New York University School of Law.