Christina LeijonhufvudFounder

United States - New York, New York

With expertise in impact investing, impact management, and impact verification and a track record of senior management roles on Wall Street, I am an entrepreneur committed to leveraging capital markets for positive societal and environmental impact. Among my proudest career accomplishments are launching a boutique consultancy specializing in impact investing (Tideline), introducing a first-of-its-kind impact verification business (BlueMark), and pioneering a social finance investment banking business (at JPMorgan) that helped place impact investing on the map for institutional investors. Each of these efforts has helped bring the impact investing industry one step closer to scaling with integrity and rising to the challenge of addressing our most urgent social, environmental, and economic challenges.

In January 2020, I became CEO of Tideline’s new verification business, BlueMark, with responsibility for leading all aspects of the business strategy, new product development, and external relations. I directly supervise the BlueMark team and have directly led over 20 verification assignments across an array of investor types and asset classes.

As a Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Tideline, I also oversee the firm’s strategy and operations and have led many of the firm’s consulting engagements with major foundations, some of the world’s largest financial intermediaries, and select ultra-high-net-worth family offices and non-profits.

Before co-founding Tideline in 2014 with my two partners, Ben Thornley and Kim Wright-Violich, I was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan where I worked for over 15 years, leading a ratings business and several risk management groups, including for the credit portfolio and emerging markets trading businesses. I also created an innovative methodology for measuring and managing country risk and advised numerous sovereign governments on their public credit ratings. In 2007, I created and launched J.P. Morgan’s Social Finance business, a novel investment banking unit that published seminal research on impact investing, made proprietary investments in impact funds, and structured and distributed innovative impact products to clients, such as the Global Health Investment Fund, a $100+ million impact investment fund backed by the Gates Foundation. During my time at J.P. Morgan, I grew the Social Finance team to eight full-time employees and also managed an internal volunteer corps of more than 2,000 engaged employees.

I currently sit on the CASE i3 and BRAC USA Advisory Boards and have served on several other non-profit boards.