Woody Tasch

Woody Tasch is the dynamic and visionary founder and chairman of Slow Money, a nonprofit headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an alliance of national and international chapters. Slow Money took root in 2009 with Tasch’s ground-breaking book "Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered."

Tasch is widely regarded as a pioneer of the concepts of patient capital, mission-related investing and community development venture capital. For 10 years before founding Slow Money, he was the chairman of Investors’ Circle, an angel investor network that since 1992 has invested $172 million in sustain-ability-promoting startups. Tasch was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance and treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation during the ’90s, where as part of an innovative mission-related venture capital investing program a substantial investment was made in Stony-field Farm, now the world’s largest maker of organic yogurt.