Isaac is an editor, producer and composer. He produces ImpactAlpha's podcasts and Agents of Impact calls, and works with the editorial team to publish The Brief, Impact Voice and sponsored content. He attended Wesleyan University where he received the Leavell Memorial Prize for undergraduate scholarship in their highly regarded music department, where he studied ethnomusicology, sound design, and composition. He has produced radio pieces for KQED and KALW in the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives in Hartford, CT with his wife and their cattle dog/chihuahua mix.
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The private equity buzz at SuperReturn in Berlin + Sharing AI power along with wealth
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO ...
Archipelago Ventures brings a collective approach to backing circular materials
Plastics are so 1950s. “Everyone’s coming to the idea that we need to rethink the traditional polymer and plastic economy, which developed in ...
Battery storage makes Europe’s cheap renewable power more valuable + The growth opportunity behind S2G’s $1 billion raise
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why battery makers and investors are pivoting from ...
Taking stock of Alterra’s impact on emerging market climate finance + Going down-market to uplift women
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance ...
Galvanize backs Highland Electric Fleets with $75 million for electric school buses
As billionaire Tom Steyer waited for the results of yesterday’s California gubernatorial primary, Galvanize, the investment firm he co-founded, committed to helping to ...
A $1,300 Harlem apartment led this fund manager to a $20 billion NOAH opportunity
Ty Thomas spent time at an institutional real estate developer watching billions of dollars flow to either luxury developments on the one hand, ...
Two impact approaches to addressing the AI data center buildout + Private equity firms eye retirement account trillions
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: Two different approaches that impact investors are taking ...
In the name of ‘democratization,’ private equity firms eye US retirement savings
Private equity giants have long sought access to Americans’ retirement accounts. The White House is no longer standing in their way. In August ...
Asia’s Moment: The ‘now generation’ shaping the future of impact investing (podcast)
The term impact investing may have been coined in the West. The practice’s future is being shaped in the East. From Singapore to ...