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KLD's Board of Directors |
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Tim Brennan
Chief Operating Officer, KLD Research &
Analytics, Inc.
Tim Brennan is KLD's Chief Operating Officer.
As such, he oversees and directs KLD's overall
management activities and is primarily responsible
for ensuring the organization's continuing
growth and profitability. He is a seasoned
financial and operations executive with
over thirty years of experience in both
for-profit and not-for-profit settings and
a background in developing financial and
operating systems for growing organizations.
Prior to joining KLD's management team,
he served for seven years as Founder and
President of Brennan & Fournier, Inc.,
a Boston-based consulting practice that
provides nonprofit and cause-driven organizations
with interim and part time financial and
operations management. He held earlier positions
as Chief Financial Officer for the International
Fund for Animal Welfare and Vice President
and Financial Controller for the European
operations of C.R. Bard, a Fortune 500 medical
products developer and manufacturer.
Tim received his B.A. from the University
of Notre Dame and an M.B.A from Boston College.
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Peter Kinder
President, KLD Research & Analytics, Inc.
Peter D. Kinder is President of KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., (KLD) in Boston,
Massachusetts, which he co-founded in 1988.
KLD’s mission is to remove barriers to socially responsible investing by providing institutional
investors with social research, compliance services, benchmarks, performance analytics and
consulting. The firm is best known for the Domini 400 Social Index, the first for socially screened
US equity portfolios which it created in 1990. For more information on KLD, see http://www.kld.com
His articles on socially responsible investing and fiduciary duties have appeared in publications
in the US, Canada, the UK and India. His most recent think piece “Socially Responsible
Investing: An Evolving Concept in a Changing World” is available on KLD’s website, together with
a number of his essays.
Mr. Kinder, Steven Lydenberg and Amy Domini are the authors of The Social Investment
Almanac (Henry Holt, 1992) and Investing for Good (HarperBusiness, 1993). He collaborated with Amy
Domini on Ethical Investing (Addison-Wesley, 1984). He also co-authored Law and Business (McGraw-
Hill, 1982/94). With Steven Lydenberg, he wrote “Mission-Based Investing” (1999) which is about
to appear in a revised edition.
Mr. Kinder was a co-founder and principal (1997-2000) of Domini Social Investments, LLC.
KLD is a co-founder of the Sustainable Investment Research International Group (SiRi) and he has
served on its board. Mr. Kinder has served two terms on the board of the U.S. Social Investment
Forum, the SRI trade organization, one as vice chair.
From 1973 to 1988, Mr. Kinder practiced law, first as an assistant attorney general in Ohio,
then in Boston as a staff lawyer for a foundation and finally in private practice. He specialized in
administrative law and corporate regulation.
Mr. Kinder received an A.B. in History from Princeton University in 1970 and was awarded a
J.D. from Ohio State University in 1973, both with honors. He was admitted to the bar in Ohio
(1973), the District of Columbia (1977), Massachusetts (1978) and the Supreme Court of the United
States (1978).
Mr. Kinder has two sons, one at the University of London and the other at the University of
Wisconsin. His spare time is spent waiting for the New England weather to accommodate his
passions for biking and cross-country skiing.
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Charles F. Kireker
Co-founder and Managing Director of FreshTracks Capital, L.P
Charlie is a co-founder and managing director of FreshTracks Capital, L.P., based in Middlebury, Vermont, which manages $11 million in Limited Partner capital. FreshTracks co-invests in early stage companies, primarily in New England, with Village Ventures, a national fund development group that serves a network of fourteen similar regionally or sector-based venture funds.
Before launching FreshTracks in 2000, Kireker co-founded in 1993 Green Mountain Capital, L.P., a mezzanine Small Business Investment Company that invested in more than 30 companies in northern New England. Earlier, Charlie launched Twin Birches, Ltd. in Middlebury in 1986 to specialize in downtown commercial revitalization and neighborhood development projects. Kireker also co-founded North Country Angels in 1999, which convenes regularly to source and diligence investments in companies throughout northern New England. He is an experienced angel investor, Board member and consultant to emerging growth companies in Vermont, including VEMAS, Vermont Teddy Bear, EatingWell: The Magazine of Food and Health, Autumn Harp, and eesa.
Active with numerous Boards, Kireker serves on the Investment Committees of the Vermont Community Foundation, Vermont Public Radio and Shelburne Farms, which collectively have almost $150 million under management. Charlie served ten years on Governor Dean’s Council of Economic Advisors and also Environmental Advisors; he continues to serve for Governor Douglas on the Council of Environmental Advisors, and is a Director of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, the Vermont Technology Council and Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce. Kireker has worked closely with the Orton Family Foundation, and was a founding Board member of the VT Forum on Sprawl. He has been active in Addison County as a founding member of the Revolving Loan Fund and former Board member of the Middlebury Business Association.
Charlie formerly chaired the Board of the Vermont Land Trust, and recently co-chaired their successful $25 million capital campaign. He also was vice chair of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board during its first five years of operation.
During the early and mid-80's, Kireker was CEO of the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency in Boston, and before that served as the Executive Director of the Program in State and Local Government at Harvard’s JFK School. Kireker graduated from Princeton University (BA,1972) and Harvard University (MPP, 1981). He resides in Weybridge, VT, having moved to Vermont with his wife and twin sons in 1986.
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Robert Lamb, III
Managing Director, Carret Asset Management LLC
Mr. Lamb is a business development executive with over 18 years experience in the financial services industry. He is a Managing Director of Carret Asset Management LLC, a New York-based investment advisor. Previously, Rob was a co-founder and President of Highland Investment Group, advisor to the Highland Growth Fund. He also worked in the capital markets groups of Dillon, Read & Co.; and S. G. Warburg & Co.
Rob received his B.A. from Pomona College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Patricia M. Reinhardt
Patricia Reinhardt is a senior executive specializing in strategic management of companies with high-growth potential. She has more than 20 years of experience guiding financial turnarounds, joint venture negotiations, mergers/acquisitions and commercial real estate financing. She has a proven track record in a range of industries, including education, travel, government consulting and real estate. Her business insight and extensive operating experience have proven invaluable to setting her client companies on a profitable course.
Reinhardt is Principal of Independent Consulting Group (ICG), where she assists in redefining and strengthening the financial base of small to mid-size companies facing financial and operating issues due to either rapid growth or an unanticipated decline in revenues. Most recently, she facilitated an acquisition that added $10M in revenue and $1M in profit to the client company’s bottom line. Immediately prior to that, she turned around a mid-size firm, restructuring the entity and positioning it successfully for sale to a Fortune 1000 company
From 1998-2001, Reinhardt served as CEO of Digi-Block, Inc., an educational products company. She negotiated critical joint ventures, developed strategic marketing initiatives, forged solid manufacturing and fulfillment relationships, built a core team of dedicated employees and secured $5 million of private equity financing to bring the product to market. Digi-Block now has products in more than 7,000 classrooms nationwide.
Between 1995 and 1998, Reinhardt was President of BOTEC Analysis Corporation. While there, she jump-started previously stagnant revenues to an annual growth rate of 20 percent in less than eight months. She also restructured the company’s capital structure to create employee ownership incentives, and doubled the company’s sales footprint.
Reinhardt began her career in commercial real estate finance. As Director of Development at Trowbridge Associates, she honed her project management and negotiation skills on multi-million dollar real estate projects. She then leveraged those skills to foster the development of a new model of supportive housing for homeless men, women and children. During a three-year period, Reinhardt oversaw the development and establishment of two comprehensive communities that provided life and job skill training and counseling for drug and alcohol addiction. In addition, she was instrumental in developing the infrastructure for homeless families in Cambridge and transitional families in Detroit.
Reinhardt holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Mary Washington. In addition to her position on KLD’s Board of Directors, she is on the Board of Advisors for REACH, a nonprofit organization that works with victims of domestic violence. She is also an active member of The Boston Club, where she sits on its Corporate Board Resource Committee.
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