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Claire Smith

Claire Smith is a climate fund manager, fintech entrepreneur and impact investor with 40 years’ experience in finance and investment. She founded Beyond Investing, a humane investment platform creating cruelty-free public equity strategies, and Beyond Impact, its venture capital arm, which has invested in over 30 scalable B2B biosolutions across nutrition, ingredients, pharmaceuticals and materials.

Beyond Investing created the US, Europe, Global and International Vegan Climate Indexes, screening out animal exploitation and fossil fuels from market benchmarks. Its US Vegan Climate ETF, ticker VEGN, listed on the NYSE in 2019.

Claire was named Investment Leader of the Year by Environmental Finance in 2022 for her pioneering work in vegan investing. 

Earlier in her career, she held roles at UBS, Chase Manhattan Bank and Albourne Partners, and published over 100 articles in the financial press. She also founded 100 Women in Finance in Geneva.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-smith-beyond/

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