Fern Impact Partners LLC

Sandra Myburgh is managing member, CEO and founding partner of Fern Impact Partners LLC, an alternative investment manager specializing in impact investing. She also holds the position of managing member of FERN Impact Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisory business. She has been actively and continuously involved in alternative investing for more than 20 years, particularly in the area of hedge fund advisory, portfolio management and derivatives trading.

Her experience covers management and supervisory roles with several global financial institutions with postings in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg. Most recently, she served as director and head of hedge fund investment due diligence for the Barclays Private Wealth and Investment Management Division in New York where she was also a member of the Investment Strategy Committee. Before that, she was Principal for the Fund Management Group at Barclays Global Investors. She was director at ABN AMRO Bank and before that Senior Portfolio Trader and Derivatives Structurer at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore and New York, where she focused on trading and structuring interest rate, currency and credit derivatives in emerging markets. She began her career as a currency options trader at Rand Merchant Bank in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sandra holds a Bachelors of Commerce Degree in Information Technology, a Honors Degree in Economics and a Masters Degree in Economics (cum laude) from the University of Johannesburg. She served as a Board Director for Ubuntu Pathways (www.ubuntu pathways.org) and as an Advisory Board Member for an African clean tech company.

She is focused full time on triple bottom line impact investments (making a financial, social and environmental impact).

Kristin Carlin is managing member, CIO and founding partner of Fern Impact Partners LLC. She also holds the position of managing member of FERN Impact Advisors LLC. She has been actively and continuously involved in alternative investing for more than 25 years, particularly in the area of portfolio management and hedge fund research and trading, with a deep knowledge of fundamentals, technical analysis, option trading strategies, and public and private equity portfolio selection and management.

Kristin Carlin, CIO, FERN Impact Partners LLC, previously was Portfolio Manager and Head Trader at Bedford Oak Partners, a hedge fund founded by Harvey Eisen, a highly respected and successful money manager. During her 12-year tenure at Bedford Oak Partners, she was involved in the launch of Bedford Oak Partners as well as all aspects of portfolio selection & management while maintaining the firm’s most important client relationships. She also managed the research/analyst team, all broker/dealer relationships and the trading operation. As well she was involved in the private equity investment process. Kristin began her career as a Block Trader on the Institutional Equity Desk at Prudential Securities in 1995, where she was responsible for execution for institutional clients worldwide. During her tenure at Prudential she also served as an assistant to the Head of Equity, Capital Commitment.

Kristin received a BS degree In Psychology from Alfred University. She continued her education with financial technical analysis training at the NYIF under the guidance of Ralph Acampora, a universally respected technical analyst. Since 2006, Kristin is a member of 100WF, a global network of professionals in finance and alternative investing. She was an initial member of the 100WF Portfolio Manager/Head Trader Peer Advisory Council and is currently a member of 100WF Female Fund Manager visibility campaign.

Kristin Carlin focuses on triple bottom line impact investments.