Jeff Jonas, Ph.D. | Board of Directors
Jeff Jonas, Ph.D.
Jeff is an eight-time Emmy award winner and an influential leader in the sports media industry for the past 25 years. Currently, the managing director of global business development for Intel Sports. In his position, he has led partnerships with the NBA, the NFL, the PGA Tour, MLB, Turner Sports, and more.
Sarah England, Ph.D. | Board of Directors
Sarah England, Ph.D.
Sarah K. England, Ph.D. is the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University. Dr. England has authored many research and review articles and has reviewed for multiple journals and serves on review committees for multiple funding agencies including the NIH, March of Dimes, American Heart Association, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was a 2005-06 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and worked in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Jacob Miller | Senior VP of Finance
Jacob Miller
Jacob provides an eclectic skill set and a diverse array of finance, economics, leadership, research, and service experience to CoPeace. He has used data and modeling techniques to drive strategic planning insights, and build, revise, and optimize CoPeace’s systems. Jacob played a key role in the development of CoPeace’s . VIBE™ (Valuation of Impact Brand Equity) model, a proprietary tool designed to place a relative-value score on an athlete’s positive impact on society.
What’s your ikigai?
“To help create sustainable financial systems that emphasize people and planet on the same level as profit."
Jacob had four articles published in peer-reviewed research journals while at Colorado College. His research interests are economics, data science and public health. He served as a research and learning assistant for Colorado College’s Economics and Business Department.
Jacob graduated from Colorado College, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics. While at Colorado College, Jacob served as president of the Colorado College Student Alumni Association. He also dedicated time to community service, working as a peer tutor and volunteering with the Disabilities Awareness Group. As a member of the men’s basketball team, he served as chair of the community outreach committee on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He also represented the greater student body on the college’s President’s Council.
When he’s not crunching numbers, Jacob can likely be found debating Lord of the Rings, playing Rocket League, or baking bread and pastries.
What is your personal motto?
“Can’t never done nothing.” (Gifted to me from my assistant high school basketball coach)
Brad Tompkins | Board of Directors
Brad Tompkins
Brad is the CFO for a Boulder-based company called, Furniture For Life. He is also an entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in distribution, manufacturing, and technology. In addition to being a business owner, Brad is a managing partner with small enterprise and board of directors experience. Brad has strong business development skills including accounting, analytics, systems development, customer service, strategic planning, and finance.
Hanan Levin | Senior Investment Advisor
Hanan Levin
Hanan Levin is an experienced finance professional, equipped with in‐depth knowledge of global capital markets. He has brought an innovative and proactive mindset to CoPeace. Hanan consistently delivers strategic insights, which have enhanced CoPeace finance and investment projects.
While at CoPeace, Hanan has created a flexible investment strategy which tackles real world issues in a sustainable way. He constantly promotes a “get the job done” mentality.
What’s your ikigai?
“Sharing the message that you don’t have to sacrifice return to make a positive impact on society."
Hanan has served as a director of capital markets at Bank of the West, overseeing and managing the business development of capital markets and fixed income investment throughout the Rocky Mountain and Midwest regions. Earlier in his career, he provided investment advice to institutional clients, municipalities, and corporations utilizing his extensive fixed income market knowledge and experience.
Hanan received his master’s degree from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. He earned an undergraduate degree in economics from Yale University. An avid swimmer, Hanan competed on the Yale swim team and also competed internationally for the Israeli National Swimming Team. He resides with his family in Denver, Colo.
What is your personal motto?
“Ask for money and get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice.” (Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull)
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Meg Masten | Advisory Council
Meg Masten
Meg brings a diverse background to the CoPeace leadership team, centered around serving people, solving problems, managing multi-disciplinary teams, and "gluing" all the pieces together.
Meg has been with CoPeace from Day One, helping chief executive officer Craig Jonas, successfully launch CoPeace. She was the point person in helping CoPeace achieve Certified B Corp. and Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) status.
What’s your ikigai?
“To leave the world in better shape than when I entered it, in whatever way I can.”
Prior to CoPeace, Meg served in a variety of leadership roles in the sports and healthcare industries. During this time, she became an expert on equity, socioeconomic factors, costs, and public policy within the public healthcare system. She also founded Daisy Power, LLC, which provided workshops for moms and their young daughters, promoting self-esteem and positive body image, in addition to nutrition and fitness education. As a volunteer, she spends a lot of her time informing, engaging and organizing the community on public education issues.
Meg completed her undergraduate studies at Marquette University. She currently lives in Colorado with her husband and golden retriever and is the proud mother of two.
What are you happiest doing when not working?
"Anything outdoors in the beautiful Colorado mountains!"
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Craig Jonas, Ph.D. | Founder & CEO
Craig Jonas, Ph.D.
Craig is a lifelong entrepreneur with a history of success across the fields of business, academics, and athletics. He has over 30 years of experience in management with a passion for team-building and drawing individuals with big ideas together.
Craig founded CoPeace in 2018, put together a highly-talented team and board, and quickly helped CoPeace achieve Certified B Corp. and Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) status. He launched CoPeace’s holding company with strong initial investments in sustainable infrastructure and impact-related services. In order to democratize access to the equity game, Craig spurred the creation of a successful crowdfunding investment vehicle. He has been featured in Forbes, Worth, Triple Pundit and numerous other publications and outlets and is a frequent guest on investing-related podcasts.
What’s your ikigai?
"To focus on the long-term future of the world and how I can actively be part of solutions to make it a better place for all inhabitants."
Prior to CoPeace, Craig served as COO of Basketball Travelers and BTI Events, an elite sports event management and media conglomerate. In this role, he supervised international sporting events and tours worldwide. He served as the head or deputy head of the American delegation for the Summer and Winter World University Games from 2007-17.
Previously, Craig served as vice president for business development for the broadcast media technology firm, Sportvision, best known for bringing revolutionary visual enhancements to live sports broadcasts, including American football’s yellow first-down line and baseball’s strike zone. Prior to Sportvision, Craig served as the executive vice president of Coach’s Edge and helped initiate its $100-million merger with Sportvision.
Craig earned his doctorate in conflict management from the University of Kansas, where he also taught leadership, marketing, and management courses. Craig earned a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College in Minnesota, and completed a masters degree at Colorado State University. He is the father of two sons and lives with his wife, Seanna, and dog, Fergus, in Colorado.
What do you want to do before you die?
"I’m doing it! It took me until I was in my 50’s to figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up."
What’s the Fuss about Impact Investing
If you happened to catch any financial news lately – or your private plane made a quick stop in Davos, Switzerland last week for a ski getaway with a side of economic banter among the world elite during the World Economic Forum – you couldn’t avoid wondering if suddenly everyone woke up one day and said, “Hold up, we should actually care about this planet.” What happened?
When the “old guard” suddenly changes its tune, I like to play the game: Follow the Money.
Altruism aside, what could make a multibillion-dollar money manager wake up one day and choose to drive a Tesla instead of a Rolls Royce? Invest in renewable energy instead of “old faithful” – fossil fuel?
The answer, of course, is money. An investor’s job is to try and see the future, forecast trends and move in before the market has shifted. The trend is clear: impact is no longer a subsection of the economy, it is a theme that will be prevalent in every company in the future and will influence winners and losers in the market.
At CoPeace, we acknowledge that impact investing is no longer a trend. It’s a constant. Instead of focusing on companies that do “less bad” and are trying to squeeze into the impact space, we look for the impact disruptors – the winners of tomorrow in the fight for our planet and the fight for success. Companies founded with the sole purpose of positive impact and sustainable profit.
There are many possibilities. If done thoughtfully, we can have a positive impact with consumer packaging on our precious planet. So let’s consciously decide together to work towards the change.
Hanan Levin is a Senior Investment Advisor at CoPeace. As a forward-thinking holding company, CoPeace is building a portfolio of carefully selected for-profit companies with measurable social and environmental impact. To learn more about impact investing, check out CoPeace’s Intro to Impact Investing.
New Year, New Perspective
It’s hard to believe that 2020 has arrived, and we’ve entered a new decade. As I reflect back on the past year, I am extremely grateful for many things: family, health, friends, coworkers, and countless people in the world working toward a greater good, just to name a few.
I recently stumbled across my “Vision for 2019,” written last January, specific to my goals for CoPeace. My ambitions were lofty and optimistic, my timelines aggressive. I was confident in my vision. As I read through the summary, I was a bit stunned, somewhat frustrated, even slightly disappointed, that only half of my goals were actually achieved.
Then I paused. I reflected back on all the obstacles we had overcome as a team, forging a unique path in the impact investing world. CoPeace is truly a “first-of-its-kind” company, doing something that no one has done before. I reminded myself to truly appreciate what comes along with such an ambitious, pioneering venture – unexpected challenges, difficult decisions, surprise expenses, just to name a few – all of which we tackled with integrity and fortitude.
My perspective is now significantly different: reaching even half of my vision over the past year was a truly remarkable feat. What we’ve accomplished so far is exponentially greater than what I could’ve ever imagined when we founded CoPeace just two short years ago. It’s proven to me that we can all make a positive difference in the world. We can be successful in breaking new ground. We can even “Grow Your Money for Good.”
From our team at CoPeace: We wish everyone a very happy, impactful new year, keeping things in perspective along the way.
Meg Masten is the Chief Relationship Officer at CoPeace. As a forward-thinking holding company, CoPeace is building a portfolio of carefully selected for-profit companies with measurable social and environmental impact. To learn more about impact investing, check out CoPeace’s Intro to Impact Investing.
Regulating the Future
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Regulating the Future
By Jim Crawford
With 50 days remaining in the current decade, I wanted to reflect on the massive shift humanity has undergone in just 10 years. We’ve witnessed the proliferation of technology. Handheld and pocket-sized electronics are now the norm, communication has digitized, and mass-automation is on the horizon.
The third decade of this century presents an opportunity for our society to take a step towards the protection and continued wellbeing of the everyday citizen. Regulation needs to catch up. Corporations are proven to have the financing and structures to create mass automation, communication, and navigation. All moving society and industries forward with neck-breaking momentum.
So as capitalism continues to flourish, government entities of the world must become more nimble and technologically savvy. The responsibility of the sovereign nation is to its citizens first-and-foremost, without whom a sovereign nation would cease to exist. In this whirlwind of technology, our governments need to address the regulation of the industry with the intention of protecting privacy, human rights, and promoting equality.
Up until this point, I would argue that government regulation has been weak regarding technology, data, and consumer privacy. We are beginning to see positive steps, with the development of GDPR in Europe. However, these mega-corporations are still fined pennies on the dollar for negligence surrounding customer data.
It’s time we harness technology for the greater good and betterment of society. Instead of using technology to generate only quarterly profits, what if technology was also harnessed to properly address environmental and social problems of the world today?
Jim Crawford formerly worked with CoPeace in business communications. As a forward-thinking holding company, CoPeace is building a portfolio of carefully selected for-profit companies with measurable social and environmental impact. To learn more about impact investing, check out CoPeace’s Intro to Impact Investing.