Hewson Baltzell

Hewson Baltzell is President, COO, and initial investor in Helios Exchange, a SaaS business focused on energy efficiency in commercial buildings that has significant potential for reducing carbon emissions. He is also on the planning team of OS-Climate, an initiative under the Linux Foundation to create an open-source data and application development community to bring more and better climate data and analytics to institutional investors, regulators, and the public at large. Previously, as co-founder of MSCI ESG Research, Hewson spent 17 years building the dominant firm in the environmental, social, and governance research field, from a 2-person start-up in 1998. Hewson was on the Board and Audit Committee of the Global Impact Investing Network for 7 years, on the Standards Advisory Council (the rating committee) of B-Lab for 10 years, and was the CEO of the Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business.