Charles EWALD

Charles Ewald is an Investment Committee Member and Investment Advisor at GenZero.

He is also a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he has taught “Investing for Good” and been an Investment Committee member of the GSB Impact Fund since 2015. From 2006 to 2014, Charles was the Founding CEO and CIO of New Island Capital, a San Francisco based investment company. One of the world’s first institutional scale impact investment companies, New Island Capital managed approximately US$2b and made approximately 130 investments, across all asset classes, in alternative energy, the environment and sustainable agriculture.

Prior to founding New Island Capital, Charles was a Managing Director of Terra Firma Capital Partners in London, Founder of Argus Capital LLC (a San Francisco based seed stage venture capital fund), Investment Committee Member of JP Morgan Capital Corporation, and Principal at Investcorp. Before entering the private equity field, Charles spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, last as the Head of the Real Estate Department’s Fixed Income Group.

Charles holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University of Oxford, and a BA in Economics from Harvard College.