Shally Shanker

Shally Shanker, CFA, is the founder and Managing Partner of AiiM Partners, which invests in technology-enabled companies addressing climate change and equity/access, targeting the $10 trillion industries in oceans/water, air/energy and land/agriculture. AiiM Partners’ team has a combined 160 years of investment, operating, and industry experience in building global, successful businesses. Women founders and CEOs form half of the AiiM Partners Fund assets while over half of the assets are with people of color.

Shanker has over 20 years of investment management experience structuring and stewarding global portfolios.

Shanker has been involved with the boards of 16 portfolio investments. She is actively engaged in supporting emerging solutions ranging from using data for advocacy to using technology to scale innovations. She is a mentor to women entrepreneurs as over half of her portfolio has been comprised of women entrepreneurs and founders.

Shanker was the Director of Mission Investing at the Schmidt Family Foundation and six years prior to that, she was the Investment Officer at The Schmidt Family Foundation, and Vice President of Investments at Hillspire, LLC. In addition to her investment experience, she has also worked at the Stanford Solutions Science Lab at the Stanford School of Medicine building a community based intervention program for childhood obesity prevention among low income, at-risk communities. She was invited to join the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust Advisory Board.