Our Team
Candide Group’s team brings a wide range of expertise from activism to finance to non-profits, with over 50 collective years in impact investing.
We firmly believe that social change work requires broad-ranging perspectives, and thus we actively seek to create a space that uplifts and celebrates our diversity across ethnicities, gender and sexual identity, neurodiversity, class, language and immigration experience.
Candide Group Staff
Christina Oakes, Client Services Manager
Emily Ziethen, Director of Operations
George Ashton III, CEO & Partner
Karla Magan Figueroa, Sr. Investment Manager
Neal Parikh, Co-Managing Director, Afterglow Climate Justice Fund
Olga Breyburg, Portfolio Operations Manager
James Pippim, Investment Manager
Kimberli Cavazos Haywood, Director of Investments
starkey baker, Communications Manager
Hope Newsome, Chief Compliance Officer
Morgan Simon, Founding Partner
Aner Ben-Ami, Founding Partner