ICM ANNUAL IMPACT AWARDS
2024 Awardees
IMPACT AWARD Nancy Pfund, DBL Partners
Nancy Pfund is Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners, a pioneer and leading player in impact investing that has helped reveal the power of venture capital to promote social change and environmental improvement.
Nancy sponsors or sits on the board of directors of several companies, including: Zola Electric, Bellwether Coffee, Spatial, Rain, Mast Reforestation, Farmers Business Network, and, prior to their public offerings, Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and Pandora. She also serves on the board of the National Geographic Society. Prior to founding DBL, Nancy was a Managing Director in Venture Capital at JPMorgan, having started her investment career at Hambrecht & Quist. Nancy was recognized by Forbes 50 Over 50 and the San Francisco Business Times as a Bay Area 100 Most Influential Business Leader in 2023, and as the Financial Woman of the Year by Financial Women of San Francisco in 2022.
LP LEADER Mark Berryman, Caprock
Mark Berryman is a Managing Director at Caprock. Mark leads Caprock’s impact and sustainable investment business and supports the management of impact-focused family and foundation clients. Mark has over 20 years of experience in impact investing and emerging markets finance; he is a member of the Impact Assets 50 Investment Committee and is the inaugural chair of the ICM LP Advisory Council.
He is also a current Adjunct Professor for impact investing at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Caprock, Mark spent over 10 years as a Lead Investment Officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group where he focused on investing in financial institutions and funds (private equity, venture capital, and private debt) mainly operating in emerging markets.
Mark began his career over two decades ago as a three-year Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa, and has held other positions at eBay, the Multi-lateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the Microfinance Information Exchange.
EMERGING LEADER Adrianna Alterman, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund
Adrianna Alterman is a Principal on the Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund. Salesforce Ventures, the venture capital arm of Salesforce, invests in the next generation of enterprise cloud companies. With over 400 investments into companies like Zoom, Stripe, and Snowflake, Salesforce Ventures helps companies scale their B2B platforms. The Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund is a portfolio fund within Salesforce Ventures that focuses on climate tech, edtech, workforce development, and digital health.
Adrianna was previously a Senior Associate at Amplify Capital, an early-stage impact VC fund, and was on the impact investing team at MaRS, Canada’s largest entrepreneurship center.
She started her career in politics at an economic think tank, in the US Senate, and for President Obama’s campaign. Adrianna has a Bachelor’s degree from McGill University and an MBA from Yale.