Chad Spitler

Chad Spitler is the Founder and CEO of Third Economy, a sustainable investment research and
advisory firm, and Co-Founder of VIAlab, an AI company that optimizes financial return and
sustainability. With over 30+ years of experience building sustainable investment capabilities
and corporate governance strategies, Chad was recognized by the National Association of
Corporate Directors (NACD) as one of the 2020 Directorship 100 Governance Professionals.
Formerly a Partner at PJT CamberView, Chad and his team helped public companies develop
engagement strategies with their investors, particularly around complex or contested
shareholder matters. He is most widely known for his role helping to build what are now
BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship, Sustainable Investing and Corporate Sustainability teams.
As a Managing Director at the world’s largest asset manager, Chad led the team responsible for
analyzing how governance and sustainability factors may impact financial performance, and
integrated that analysis into product development, proxy voting and corporate engagement.
His work helped facilitate billions of dollars of capital into sustainable investments and
catalyzed public companies to integrate long-term thinking into their business strategies.

Chad speaks both publicly and privately with regulators, policymakers, non-profits, academics
and the largest global companies and investors, to further the field of sustainable investing and
transition the capital markets to a lower carbon economy. He is a member of the Finance
Working Group of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and the
Dean’s External Advisory Board of the University of Michigan’s School for the Environment and
Sustainability. He is an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University and Presidio
Graduate School, and holds an M.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a B.S. from
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.