Shally Shanker

Founder and Managing Partner, AiiM Partners

Shally Shanker is the founder and managing partner of AiiM Partners, which invests in businesses leveraging technology to address climate change and generate measurable social, environmental, and financial returns. The AiiM team, comprising investors, entrepreneurs, operators, and researchers, has invested in companies that have benefitted 3 million people worldwide with 50 percent of the assets invested in women founders and CEOs.

A Chartered Financial Analyst®, Shally has over 22 years of investment management experience structuring and stewarding global portfolios. She has been involved with the boards of 16 portfolio investments, actively engaged in supporting emerging solutions ranging from using data for advocacy to using technology to scale innovations, and, over the last decade, mentoring women entrepreneurs in more than half of her portfolio. She was the Director of Mission Investing and, prior to that, Investment Officer at The Schmidt Family Foundation. She has also served as Vice President of Investments at Hillspire, LLC. In addition to her investment experience, she has worked at the Solutions Science Lab at the Stanford School of Medicine, building a community-based intervention program for childhood obesity prevention among low income, at-risk communities. She was invited to join the advisory board of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, a charity in England and Wales, and is part of the working group for GenderSmart Investing, focusing on gender and climate investing.