Tenke Zoltani
Tenke Zoltani
Founder
Tenke Zoltani is Founder of Better Finance and an expert in the field of impact investing, focusing on active ownership and stewardship through direct investments and portfolio integration of ESG principles. She has nearly fifteen years' experience in the field of sustainable finance across sectors. Tenke founded Better Finance, a boutique advisory company to work with families and institutional investors to identify, design, implement and manage solutions to investing with impact from origination to execution. Tenke was also Director, Impact Investing, at UBS where she built out the bank's impact advisory practice for UHNW individuals. Before joining UBS, Tenke was an Investment Manager at Islan Asset Management in Switzerland, advising global agribusiness Bunge on direct investments. She built her expertise in London, consulting to governments and utilities on climate finance and working alongside Lord Nicholas Stern.
She is currently on the advisory boards of TLG Capital and Impact Finance. She advised the world's first ever species-focused impact bond, conserving rhinoceros, and on the world's first global fund for coral reef conservation. Tenke was selected as a 2013 Global Economic Symposium Fellow. Tenke holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University and a M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and is a CAIA Charterholder for alternative finance. When not working, Tenke competes internationally in distance and mountain running, finishing 58th in the World Championships in 2014.
