Letter From The Lab - October 2023
To our community members,
I have had the pleasure of meeting so many of VertueLab’s stalwart supporters and friends since I took over in May as the new President and Executive Director. Some of you attended our September events in Portland and Seattle, where I shared our evolving vision. Since then, we’ve encountered some setbacks with our longstanding state funder, but are undaunted in our quest towards our vision of a just climate transition.
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Introducing Aina Abiodun, VertueLab's New President & Executive Director
On behalf of the VertueLab Board of Directors, it is my great pleasure to introduce Aina Abiodun, VertueLab's new President and Executive Director. When we kicked off the search process last fall, we pursued an equitable process through our partners at Good Citizen, to find a candidate who could lead at the intersection of climate, technology, entrepreneurship, and impact investing.
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