Eliza is a partner and head of Impact Investing & Advice for the firm’s Private Client, Endowment & Foundations business. Eliza joins Brown Advisory after an extensive investing career with 20 years’ experience across a range of asset classes and industries. Her investing background spans both private and public, debt and equity, in the areas of education and edtech, financial services and fintech, housing, renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. Eliza was formerly the managing director and member of the investment leadership team of a large multi-generational family office where she focused on impact investing and led a team and platform operating across asset classes, strategies and portfolios.

Previously, Eliza was an investment partner at Omidyar Network, the impact investing vehicle of eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, where she led the firm’s global strategy and investments in education technology and served on the firm’s investment committee and boards of portfolio companies LearnZillion, Geekie, VidaTec, and Blended. Prior to Omidyar, Eliza was the chief lending and investment officer at Calvert Impact, where she was responsible for the management and growth of the fund and its subsidiaries’ more than $300 million in assets under management. Earlier in her career, Eliza worked with the Corporation for Enterprise Development and the U.S. Agency for International Development, providing management consulting and investment services to development finance institutions in the United States, Latin America, South Asia, and North Africa. 

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