Bobby Turner

Over the past two decades, Bobby Turner has established himself as a pioneer in the area of social impact investing. Since founding Turner Impact Capital in 2014, he has rapidly built one of the nation’s largest social impact investment firms, with over $5 billion in investment potential to help address some of the country’s most pervasive social issues with real estate solutions. As former Chairman, CEO and Co-Founding Partner of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors (CCRA), he oversaw a commercial real estate and mortgage asset portfolio totaling over $12 billion and was responsible for launching several groundbreaking funds that helped define the “triple bottom line” investment movement. In his years as a social impact innovator, Turner has dedicated himself to providing sound financial returns for investors while fostering opportunities for the communities in which his funds invest.

Turner is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S., Finance) where he serves on Wharton’s Board of Advisors and where he has endowed a number of initiatives focused on social impact and ESG investing. Today these programs have grown to include curriculum development in such areas as social impact investing and business ethics, summer internships for students who want to work in either the public or nonprofit sectors, financial scholarships for minority students, the Turner Social Impact Society, the Lauren and Bobby Turner Executive Speaker Series for ESG, the Turner MIINT which is an experiential lab designed to give students at business and graduate schools a hands-on education in impact investing, and the Turner Impact Portfolio Challenge which provides aspiring wealth managers with an impact lens across asset classes to address the world’s most critical challenges.