2022 Eileen D. Foley Award Recipient

Under Joe’s leadership as President, Impax has become a leading specialist asset manager investing in the opportunities arising from the transition to a more sustainable economy. He is a passionate advocate for investing in women and the critical role that gender diversity plays in business success. Joe led the firm to offer the first-ever mutual fund to invest in women’s equality. Today, that fund — the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund – is the oldest and largest fund in the gender lens investing space.

Investment News included Joe in its 2019 list of “10 leaders of ESG and Impact Investing,” calling him a “longtime giant” in gender lens investing. Barron’s named Joe one of the “20 Most Influential People in Sustainable Investing” in 2018 for his work to advance gender equality.

Joe co-founded the Thirty Percent Coalition, whose work has led to women joining more than 100 previously non-diverse boards. He is former co-chair of the leadership group for the Women’s Empowerment Principles, a joint program of the United Nations Global Compact and UN Women and is also the former Chair of the Board of Women Thrive Worldwide, a Washington, DC-based non-profit advancing the interests of women and girls globally who live on less than $2 per day. Ethisphere magazine named Joe one of the “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics” five times, Women’s eNews recognized him as one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” in 2012 — where he was the sole male honoree — and Financial Times named Joe one of its 10 “top feminist men” of 2015 for his work to help women succeed in business and beyond.  In 2016, Joe was named the University of New Hampshire’s “Social Innovator of the Year,” and he received the Global Leadership Award from the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire the same year.

Joe currently serves on the board of New Hampshire Public Radio, and is a former board member of CASA of NH, Odyssey House and On Belay.  He is the former Co-Chair of The Carbon Coalition and the NH One Campaign and a past board member of Americans for Campaign Reform.  He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of US SIF (2000-2006), the trade association representing asset managers and investors engaged in sustainable investing throughout the United States.

Joe is also a former Chair of the NH Democratic Party and was the Democratic Party nominee for US Congress in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District in 1988, 1990, and 1996.   

Prior to joining Impax in 2005, Joe was President of NewCircle Communications, a strategic consulting and communications firm specializing in corporate social responsibility and public policy-oriented communications. He served as Senior Adviser for Strategic Social Policy at Calvert Group from 2003-2005 and as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Citizens Advisers from 1997-2000. Prior to entering the investment field, he practiced law for 16 years.     

He received a BA in Philosophy from The College of the Holy Cross and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.