Alex Lamb is the lead Managing Partner of New Summit and member of the Fund’s Investment Committee. Alex co-founded New Summit in 2016. Throughout his professional career, Alex has focused on the integration of sustainability and impact into business value creation and risk mitigation. At Ernst & Young LLP (and previously as Vice President for North America at Trucost), Alex worked with corporations and investors on the integration of sustainability factors into core strategy across their operations, value chain and portfolios through sustainability benchmarking, materiality assessment, reporting and engagement, as well as the integration of these factors into private equity strategies and due diligence.
Alex began his career as a corporate sustainability analyst at KLD Research & Analytics, where he assessed the sustainability performance of corporations for institutional investors. While at KLD, Alex partnered with Newsweek magazine on the design, methodology and management of the inaugural Newsweek Green Rankings, the first quantitative environmental index by a mainstream media organization. Alex is the Co-Founder and prior President of the Boston Area Sustainable Investment Consortium. He holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio Graduate School.