Join a panel of top New Hampshire financial leaders, including Steve Saltzman (NH Community Loan Fund), Michael Waters (Dartmouth Health), Lisa Sebesta (Prime Buchholz LLC), and Michael Wilson (NH Charitable Foundation), as they explore how impact investing can address our state’s pressing housing and workforce issues. Learn how your investment can yield both financial and social returns while supporting first-time homebuyers, small businesses and clean energy initiatives and shape a stronger, more sustainable future for New Hampshire.
Steve SaltzmanSteve Saltzman joined the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund as President and CEO in April 2021. An 18-year veteran of the Community Development Financial Institution industry, he is passionate about connecting underserved people with equitable financing and protecting them from predatory lending.
Under his leadership, the Community Loan Fund has grown both its balance sheet and scope, experiencing the highest impact and strongest financial sustainability of its 40-year history. Since June 2021, the organization has grown assets by 18 percent to more than $200 million, improved impact and visibility throughout New England, become an administrator of $190 million in USDA grants to help strengthen sustainable food systems, strengthened its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, and become a significant player in the clean energy space.
Saltzman serves on several national and regional boards, including the national CDFI Coalition, the Foundation for Healthy Communities, and the Center for Impact Advisory Board at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy. He is also an expert panel member for the board of America’s Healthy Food Finance Initiative. He served for six years as an advisory board member for the Kresge Foundation’s innovative racial-equity focused FreshLo (Fresh, Local and Equitable) program, and was board treasurer for Fresh Future Farm, a nationally acclaimed urban farm and grocery in Charleston, S.C.
Michael WatersMichael Waters is the Treasurer of Dartmouth Health and has led their Treasury and Investments Department since the formation of the department in 2010. As Treasurer, Waters is directly responsible for the oversight and analysis of all investment, debt financing, and cash management functions. In addition, Waters provides financial strategic planning support to several critical areas, such as long-term defined benefit pension planning, the development of multi-year capital plans, evaluating financial risk and the development of various Treasury related contingency plans. Since his arrival, Waters has staffed and managed the Dartmouth Health Investment Committee which oversees over $4.0 billion of invested assets.
Waters has spent over 25 years in various and wide-ranging Treasury positions, with extensive experience in institutional investing, debt financing, retirement plan management including both defined benefit and defined contribution plans, cash management, cash forecasting, financial analysis, and strategic planning. Prior to working at Dartmouth Health, Waters was Manager of Treasury Services at Baystate Health in Springfield MA for four years. Prior to that, he was at C&S Wholesale Grocers in Keene, NH for 7 years, serving in a variety of Treasury functions until ultimately becoming Manager of Treasury. Waters began his career working in New York City at Colson Services for 6 years, a firm that was responsible for the oversight of the Small Business Administration’s secondary market loan program.
Waters has a B.S. in Economics from Hofstra University and an MBA from Plymouth State University. He has lived in West Chesterfield, N.H. for the last 22 years, with his wife and two daughters. Waters is also a member of the Cheshire Medical Center Board of Trustees.
Lisa SebestaLisa joined Prime Buchholz in 2024 and has more than 25 years of investment industry experience, She advises clients in all aspects of their investment program, from the development of the investment policy statement through structural implementation and ongoing manager evaluation. Lisa is a member of the Fixed Income Asset Class and Mission-Aligned Investment Committees. Her previous roles were as the founder of Sitari Capital, where she consulted to funds and other investors on impact investment strategies. Lisa was a managing partner at Fresh Source Capital, focused on private investments in the food and agriculture sector. At Boston Advisors, LLC, she was senior Vice President and lead portfolio manager of a domestic small cap equities product. Prior, Lisa was a portfolio manager at Batterymarch Financial Management responsible for managing a $4.0 B small cap product and a $1.0 B global equity product. Lisa earned a M.A. from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.S. in Economics from Holy Cross. She is a member of CFA Institute/CFA Society Boston.
Michael WilsonMichael Wilson leads the Foundation’s investment and finance departments. As CFO, he manages more than $1 billion in investments across the full range of asset classes.
He has been with the Foundation since 2005 and has held senior finance and operations positions in the business and nonprofit sectors in the U.S. and in England.
Wilson leads the Foundation’s Impact Investing program (the practice of investing for social and environmental criteria as well as financial return) and speaks frequently on the topic at national nonprofit conferences.
He has served on the board of New Hampshire Public Radio and the Capitol Center for the Arts. Wilson was named by NH Business Review as one of New Hampshire’s 200 most influential business leaders in 2021 and Financial Executive of the Year in 2013. Wilson was born in Pakistan and has lived and traveled all over the world, from the United Kingdom to Asia to South America. He is a graduate of Bates College and has a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.
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