Wayne Silby

Wayne Silby founded Calvert, a $15 billion investment management group in Bethesda, Md., noted for their leadership in the area of socially responsible investment. Though he is no longer active in most of the day-to-day business of Calvert, he serves as president of Calvert Social Investment Fund and supervises its private equity activities. Wayne also co-founded Social Venture Network, a group of socially oriented entrepreneurs and investors, and Calvert Social Venture Partners, one of the first socially oriented venture capital funds. He helped start an Internet company focused on group collaboration, called GroupServe Foundation, which he now chairs. He also started the Emerging Europe Fund for Sustainable Investment, a $60 million Overseas Private Investment Organization (OPIC) private equity fund focused on Central Europe. Wayne chairs the board of the China Committee of Grameen Foundation USA. He also serves on the board of the Grameen Technology Council, which addresses issues of the "digital divide." He has a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.